What the hell is this? It’s redonkulous, that’s what. Not only do I do fan art of freaking pundits on the TV, now I’ve taken to doing fan art of podcast hosts! WTF!

In all seriousness, though, I like NSFW way, way too much, so this was going to happen eventually. :P Both hosts were greatly, GREATLY amused. :) I like these instances in which I get to blindside such awesome people with Instant Ramen as payback for providing all that win.

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In other news, commenting has now been enabled on the main Ayarane Project feed (as in, what you see when you go to layer-infinity.net). Trying to shunt all feedback into the LiveJournal feed is not proving effective, so may as well just open the gates on all sides henceforth. Just like on Facebook, you’ll always have the option to come to the core LJ version if you wish. So, pick your poison!

9 Years of Ayarane Project Nine years ago, Ayarane Project went live (though it was not always known as Ayarane Project!). True, I actually bought the domain in late April, but it took a little over a week for everything to get connected and set up. ANYWAY, AP once more hijacks Cinco de Mayo and shall continue to do so for all time. (Seriously. I should just… prepay for it as long as possible, and include its maintenance in my will.)

Tangentially-related, a three-way project of awesome I talked about in October/November (and kinda fell to the wayside due to weird circumstances) is in the works and I hope to go live with it at the end of the month. It’s taken a bit of a departure from my original vision but should be epic win. :D And yes, it will still involve the Governator transformed into a Prinny. (Dood.)

You know what 5/5 is also notable for? This guy. (note to self: post a Jade thread on the Ramen Kitchen) :D :D :D

Tele-vicious, Continued: Amazon is going to be getting quite a bit of coin from me soon-ish, blah. In addition to having to replace my TV (so, you know, I could finish Final Fantasy XIII and, oh, get Super Mario Galaxy 2 when it hits later this month), I may have to move up the replacement of my primary monitor. It’s not noticeable with darker colors, but I’m getting some noticeable ghosting in lighter spaces. This is VERY obvious in Painter, in a bad way. BOO THIS MONITOR, BOOOOOO.

But, there is somewhat of an upside. I’ve seen some two-in-one monitors floating around. HMMM. If those run off just a single display connection, I could actually go triple-display on Blastoise (2-in-one + secondary Samsung) and THAT would be awesome. :O Odds are it will probably require two monitor connections which would be a “NO” situation for me since I’m already using up both slots, but… huh. I’ll need to look into this.

Waiting until all this stuff goes on sale before I do anything, of course. Mmm, discounts… *Homer drool*

I did a little housekeeping on the Ayarane Project hub. (read: not LJ or Facebook versions)
All of my social networking stuff occupies the black bar header… thing rather than waaaay up top as text links. There is now a mail form and a permanent page about the details of Gourmet Ramen.

And… yeah. My brain is just kinda mush at the moment. I need to text my sister to wish her a happy birthday, for one thing.

Blah. BLAAAAH.

Perhaps some caffeine could jump-start things. Yoshi’s Imagination is mired in molasses today or SOMETHING.

Dear Internets, you know her from taking on the terrorists in Paragon City. Now she serves as Ayarane Project’s War Correspondent. Next on the parade of podcast personalities… Action Cat!

“Terrorists beware! Action Cat comes for YOU!”
Though her primary role is to report on the War on Terror, old habits die hard, and she still carries a (magically-concealed) assault rifle. You know, just in case.

Of course, she needs a cameraman, and who better to capture it all than Lakitu? He’s joined the HD age and traded in his old film camcorder for a high-definition DV model. And in a pinch, his cloud can expand to hold more passengers. Action Cat herself is packing a bluetooth earpiece… though despite what it looks like, the ear part of it is just for decoration, since they obviously haven’t made a version for catgirls yet. However, because the flapping became an issue with the sound recording, she decided to ditch the cape.

Action Cat makes a fairly disturbing discovery early into her assignment– those terrorists are, in fact, bulldogs! Rogue bulldogs pretending to be members of Al-Qaeda. Nobody suspects bulldogs, of course, because everyone is so entranced by their smooshed, vacant faces and such, but we at Ayarane Project know better.

Today just flew by really fast, as soon as I got here. I did more reading then drawing (and, if you’ve seen the twitter/twitpic feed on the AP hub, just looking out the window because it’s a really nice view from up here), but that’s okay. I’ma see if I can just do this every Tuesday.

One minor point of annoyance, though… I get that libraries and such would use filters. But why, WHY is Ayarane Project blocked and considered a Malicious Site? ;_; Even weirder is that this only affects the hub: the Ramen subdomain still works. WTF. This just means that I’ll have to, er, wait until I get home to reverse-tag any entries I make, blah. I wonder if there’s a way to petition Websense to get me unblocked, it’s just silly to tell my spaceship to GTFO. :( I have pictures of KITTIES, for smoo’s sake.

Anyway, time to pack up Dinah… once I get home, need to crack open Blastoise and put in his Blu-ray drive. About freaking time. :P