http://www.chimericfire.com Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:46:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en ...or rather, why am I getting religious-themed spam? Some one, or ones, are spreading blessings around the internet in the form of spam... and then (of course) linking to their crazy, random, and inappropriate websites. I'm fairly used to all the Viagra and Porn spam that comes through. That stuff is ... http://www.chimericfire.com/blog/god-bless-spam/ This will be the first post of it's kind here on CF. I recently recieved an email from someone seeking advice on how to cope with having ADD and being completely unmedicated, a task which is fairly difficult. The email I received read as follows: "Hello, Im a fourty year ... http://www.chimericfire.com/blog/unmedicated-add-advice/ I just got a facebook account. I've been meaning to get one for the longest time. All I knew about it before signing up was: You could upload photos, and a lot of people where on it. THAT'S IT! Wow, I was a little surprised to find that it has ... http://www.chimericfire.com/blog/facebook-art-exposure/ As we all know, the internet is a great place to expose your art to the global community. It's cheap and easy to set up a simple gallery of your work. In fact, it might only take a couple minutes to a few days at most. However, if even if ... http://www.chimericfire.com/free-traffic/attracting-eyeballs-to-your-art/ I know you can't really explode your eyeballs if you try to stop a sneeze but suppressing a sneeze is never a good idea. The fact of the matter is that a sneeze can leave your mouth and nose at speeds in excess of 200 miles per hour. Trying to ... http://www.chimericfire.com/blog/stop-sneezing-pressure-point/ www.trafficjam.com has just been launched and it is pouring in visitors to the most popular blog posts across the blogrush network. What is trafficjam? It's a content rating site much like Digg and Stumbleupon. However, the rankings are figured out by a combination of the click-through rate of posts in the ... http://www.chimericfire.com/internet-marketing/trafficjam/ Caffeine is a wonderful thing right? I know plenty of people who can't even start their day without a cup of coffee or a nice cold coke. That caffeine rush sure is invigorating isn't it? Heck, once you're hooked on the caffeine, water just doesn't compare to a cold bubbly ... http://www.chimericfire.com/blog/coke-caffeine-and-convulsions/ With the new AWSOM Pixgallery 4.5.0 release, visitors can finally comment on individual images in my gallery. Unfortunately, this also made all the previous comments that where made on the artwork page disappear. Even so, feel free to get in there, check out my artwork, and leave some comments to try ... http://www.chimericfire.com/announcement/gallery-comments/ I recently discovered an interesting strategy for bathroom etiquette that results in benefits for both myself and my wife that I thought so helpful that I simply had to share. Before you read on, I should mention that I do not have any shame… just something you should be aware ... http://www.chimericfire.com/blog/toilet-etiquette/ This was my final for Designing Interior Spaces and Worlds.It is the lab of a mage. Pretty much everything is super-optimized and low poly with very detailed textures. Most of the simple objects are just planes (like the trees and the windows). Everything else is simple geometry. It was a ton ... http://www.chimericfire.com/artwork/mages-lab/