shortbread cookie . . . sip of coffee . . . shortbread cookie . . . sip of coffee . . . shortbread cookie . . . sip of coffee . . .

[eyes roll into back of head, shudder]

life is good.

so i was digging thru some data backups for some old files and came across something that i remembered submitting as a deviation, but that wasn't in my gallery. and it made me remember that i used to have an account here with a different deviant name. well, DA never kills inactive accounts, so i started looking for the old account by putting names in front of *.deviantart.com. low and behold i found it.

is a deviant since Jan 29, 2001, 3:17 PM
has 112 pageviews
last visited 97w 1d 23h 6m 7s ago

ok, so 97 weeks is pretty funny. but the kicker is this: the number for the first deviation i submitted with that account was in the 13,000s. jeez, deviations now are in the 5 millions.

suddenly, i feel so old.

and, no, i'm not going to give out the name of that account. there are like 6 deviations. half are screenshots and the others are super lame.

all this week, i've been slowly working to rerender some of my more recent fractals. not because i don't like them, but because i've set up an account at zazzle.com. it took awhile because i've had to adjust some of the aspect ratios as well as render them at huge resolutions (7800 x 5200). some of them took more than an hour of dedicated processor time (2GHz too) to spit out tiff files in excess of 100Megs. whatever, they look amazing. and if you have an extra $130, you can have a 6.5 foot long poster of one of my fractals.

i might set up a deviantart prints account soon. the print DPI is higher than zazzle's and i'll certainly get more exposure there, but the $25 entrance fee is keeping me back right now.

so i guess i'm shilling my wares with this journal entry. ah, marketing.

apparently there was a president's day law & order marathon all day today?! if only i had known, i might have taken the day off. oh well. props anyway to tnt for taking up the law & order banner.

[second] best . . . show . . . ever.

for all the fractalers out there, google has commemorated gaston julia's birthday today with a special front page image that links to an image search of "julia fractals". i snagged a screenshot. if you don't get a chance to see it today, you can message me.