Friday in the Octave (part 2): Bacon-Treaded Angus!

As there are many new people who have become aware of my website lately, you probably didn't know, but I update my website by every Tuesday (I post Tuesdays to say what's been updated in the last week).  Normally, I have a post on my blog with the updates cued for 12am on Tuesday, but I'm running late today due to a failing computer.

BUT HERE IT IS!  ANOTHER BACON DAY VIDEO!

I never expected we'd make one so soon, but on the same day I posted the "Friday in the Octave" we were inspired to make sure we ate meat on Friday, and so we held another Bacon Day.

I finally finished the video and uploaded it to YouTube, so here it is!  We made bacon-wrapped grapes as an appetizer, then for the main course had bacon-threaded angus, some bacon-fried veggies, and rice.  .... regular rice.  Sorry.  Here it is!

Friday in the Octave

Here's a little Catholic joke I put together.  For all you hardcore Catholics out there, you know you've made this kind of mistake before and remembered half-way through the day!  Here's to making sure your Friday isn't baconless!

*edit*

Since this page is being revisited again this year (2013), I updated the photo because I had originally a slight part of the image missing and I'm a bit OCD that way.

also I wanted to add the watermark to linkback to Team Orthodoxy because that's where I'm doing most of my stuff now anyway.  Enjoy your meat-filled Friday everyone!
*end of edit*

Be Careful What You Ask For

I always find requests people make for website design (or any other programming/computer-related requests) to be somewhat amusing.

My friend James recently received such a request, and he was sharing with me what was asked of him: "Make the background kind of like the feeling of water being hit by moonlight while the night sky is still light, so not a dark, navy blue, but a light one".  The moment he told me this, I said, "I am going to make this background.  I know exactly what this guy wants.  So I drew this:

You're welcome.

You can also see this background applied to the website in question, because James actually humoured me enough to put it up.  Though it's up there secretly so the guy doesn't actually know, 'cause as it turns out, he doesn't like awesome things.  YOU on the other hand, know something awesome when you see it.

Bacon Day: Bacon-Crust Pizza

Had another bacon-tastic day with Chris & Julie, and this time I made a "Bacon-Crust Pizza".  Or at least that's the name I'm sticking with for now.  Man, I gotta tell ya, it was totally insane.  Just absolutely insane.  The thing weighed about 15 lbs, was packed with 4 lbs of bacon... so good though.  Sooooo.... so good.

I put together this video to mark the occasion, and there's only one thing I learned from making the video: I am a ridiculous human being.  Just watching the things that I did in a hurry that I thought were good ideas... yeah, I'm an odd man.  Though I guess you all knew that already.

Back From Retreat

So in case anyone missed what was going on last week, I was on retreat, which I posted last week, but it looks like nobody saw it without me posting it also to facebook and google+

Well I'm back, and it was a fantastic retreat, in case you were wondering.  It is good to be renewed!!!  And, as it so happens, on the last day of retreat I got the idea for this "Alter Christus" picture.  Yeah, totally unrelated I know, but it was funny to me, so I share it with you all now.

Oh, and no updates again this week because I was too busy being renewed on retreat n stuff.

I'm on Retreat!

What's that? No updates this week?  Are you super disappointed?

I hope not.

Thing is, this week I'm gone on retreat, and I haven't had time in getting all my work done prior to the retreat, nor do I have time while I'm actually on retreat.

Sorrys!  :(

In case you're wondering, "hey Steve, shouldn't you be not doing things like posting to your blog while on retreat?" you'd be right.  I shouldn't.  And I'm not!

:O

Prepare for your mind to be blown.

It's called "auto-scheduling", and I actually prepared this blog posting before I went on retreat.  In fact, I actually schedule my posts ahead of time every week.

You may now find a suitable receptacle in which you can tidy up the shattered remains of your mind.

So anyhow, please pray for me this week, and I'll be back with another post by next Tuesday, since I may have a little time post-retreat to actually prepare something special for you guys!  God bless!!!

I Thought We Went Digital to Make Things LESS Confusing

This Week's Tuesday Update:

Sketch Media Animation

• Bacon Man  

Regarding this week's update, Chris and Julie wanted to experience how I go about animating stuff, so I showed them a quick and dirty animation.  This was basically at their request, and based on a snippet of our audio recordings.  So... hardly a full animation, but it works for me as an update!!!!
:)

In other news... had an fun conversation with my sister about a crazy looking watch she found online at watchco, which looks to be about the most complicated way of trying to tell time.  Here's a piece of our convo:

Jen: it drives me crazy
Jen: good grief
Jen: so what time is it?
Steve: "what time is it?"
           "let me take a look"
           .....
           "well?"
           "just give me a minute.."
           .....
           ....
           ...
           "I think it's... no wait.."
Jen: hahah
Jen: it looks like many times to me
Steve: it is all of the times
Jen: hahaha
Jen: they broke the space time continuum
Steve: they MADE the space time continuum
Jen: ahahaha
Jen: the ones with the graph are crazy too
Steve: :S
Jen: did you notice you get a free knife with every $200 purchase?!
Steve: um, great?
Jen: 'cuz nothing goes better with a watch than a knife
Steve: well, you need to protect yourself while time traveling

Good times.