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| Friday, July 1st, 2011 | | 10:17 pm |
Yay, I gots a poster - International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics
Not yet sure if I or my scientific partner in crime on this project will be the one to actually get to go to the meeting and present our poster. But kinda cool. :) I'd tell folks the name and topic of the paper, but I'm not sure if we're allowed to do so till after the meeting (outside of the official listing of poster and talk topics they publish). Current Mood:  geeky | | Friday, June 17th, 2011 | | 7:10 pm |
So, the new Paizo AP: Skull and Bones...
This means one thing, and one thing only. There will be much crying and gnashing of teeth if the AP comes out and there isn't any of this most awesome of things. I think we all know what singular, vital thing this AP needs. Yes, that's right. Sahuagin booty. >:D | | Sunday, June 12th, 2011 | | 5:05 pm |
One project down, on to the next one
Done with my contribution to Dragon Empires. Now I need to finish my entry for the Pathfinder Chronicler fiction contest. The change in format this year messed me up, because I already had an idea for a longer story that now is going to have to stew to see if I get to the second round before it gets written. Having to fit the first round entry into 1500 words will be difficult since I normally, well, write way too much and have to spend as much time trimming things down to size as I took writing them. Ah well. The current entry actually started out as a plot nugget last year for a story that very much would not have met the acceptance guidelines for PF Chronicler, being "grimdark as fuck" in the mold of 'Cupcakes'. This will be using some of the concepts from that original idea, but changed so as to not be so incredibly explicit in nature, and the characters have evolved since then quite a bit in my head. Not saying anything in specific since the submissions have to be anonymous. But I'm pleased with the idea and hopefully it turns out well because I -really- want to write that second story if I hit the 2nd round. And I wanted to win last year. Very close to it. Except my girlfriend may or may not submit a story of her own this year. And if she does, I'm hosed, because she's a damn good writer and frankly better than I am at taking an idea and turning into a tight, polished product. Current Mood:  chipper | | Friday, June 10th, 2011 | | 11:15 pm |
Latest Project
Since it was announced on Paizo's product schedule recently, the one project I mentioned (but not by name) that I was working on recently was the Dragon Kingdoms Gazetteer. I'm doing a small portion of it, less than 4k words. But its been fun and I think folks will enjoy it greatly. :) I just appreciate being able to write something outside of what I'm usually known for doing (which generally boils down to 'anything grimdark as fuck'). *chuckle* | | Sunday, June 5th, 2011 | | 1:28 pm |
Peru's elections and the lesser of two evils
In this instance, when having to pick between a Chavista and a plutocrat, here's hoping for the lesser of two evils and that Peru votes for Keiko Fujimori today. Shall be interesting to see, with some fallout for S.American politics (and internation investment in Peru) depending on the result today. | | Friday, June 3rd, 2011 | | 7:07 pm |
Undead Revisited. I has it. *taunt taunt*
Obviously I can't say much till its formal release date, but I can mention a few things in passing. 1) My apparently sceaduinar fetish is unshared and they got scrubbed from one of my portions of the book. *frowny face* 2) Colin McComb is an evil man, and the lich section is awesome. Plus he mentions a lich I created, so extra points there. ;) 3) I want to use a graveknight now. 4) The sample mohrg = really, really cool. 5) I've noticed now that in every book I've worked on where there are opening section in-character quotations, Tegresin the Laughing Fiend has been featured as voicing one of those quotes. Apparently I like the imprisoned little soul-eating abomination from beyond reality. He's so cute. Current Mood: chipper | | Monday, May 30th, 2011 | | 6:17 pm |
New Paizo project and possibly mangled names
I want to apologize in advance for a slew of mangled names that are going to result from my butchered use (for inspiration) of languages outside of my own cultural and ethnic background. Not saying what the project is mind you, since it isn't on the product schedule yet. Current Mood: amused | | Thursday, May 19th, 2011 | | 12:57 am |
BotD III for Paizo - It's finished :)
Finished, edited, and submitted. Now to wait N months to see the final version before it hits the shelves. This was an absolute joy to work on, and I really think folks will like it. Current Mood:  accomplished | | Sunday, May 15th, 2011 | | 8:06 pm |
And it's done (pending revisions)
Book of the Damned III, manuscript finished. Oh I'm pleased as punch with this. Yummy, yummy, evil. >:D (yes I have to trim words from it, bah, you saw this coming. hehehe). Current Mood: creative | | Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 | | 11:24 pm |
| | Monday, March 21st, 2011 | | 10:26 pm |
Curse you word limits! *fist of fury*
New project. 1400 word limit in one of its sections. I finish the section, I feel really pleased with it. I look at the word count. 1788. F*&( *sigh* Though lets be honest, did we not see this coming? :P This time however it'll actually be turned in -below- the word count. I figure that I'll be taking a solid week to just edit and trim/reword material prior to submitting it, here in a little over a month and a half or so. This would also be easier if I wasn't getting absolutely hammered by my job right now, and I didn't have to deal with the stress of family/sick relatives which is an obligation that can't be ignored. Still, many many many good ideas. But the mechanics are going to be left till the end given the wretched pile of stuff swirling around me at the moment. At least I'm not by any means alone in dealing with it though. SOs are wonderful. Mine especially. Current Mood: creative | | Monday, February 28th, 2011 | | 11:55 pm |
My scientific publications vainly try to catch up with the fiction ones :P
Toxicol Appl Pharmacol. 2010 Dec 15;249(3):208-16. Epub 2010 Sep 24. Evaluation of an in vitro toxicogenetic mouse model for hepatotoxicity.Martinez SM, Bradford BU, Soldatow VY, Kosyk O, Sandot A, Witek R, Kaiser R, Stewart T, Amaral K, Freeman K, Black C, LeCluyse EL, Ferguson SS, Rusyn I. Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. AbstractNumerous studies support the fact that a genetically diverse mouse population may be useful as an animal model to understand and predict toxicity in humans. We hypothesized that cultures of hepatocytes obtained from a large panel of inbred mouse strains can produce data indicative of inter-individual differences in in vivo responses to hepato-toxicants. In order to test this hypothesis and establish whether in vitro studies using cultured hepatocytes from genetically distinct mouse strains are feasible, we aimed to determine whether viable cells may be isolated from different mouse inbred strains, evaluate the reproducibility of cell yield, viability and functionality over subsequent isolations, and assess the utility of the model for toxicity screening. Hepatocytes were isolated from 15 strains of mice (A/J, B6C3F1, BALB/cJ, C3H/HeJ, C57BL/6J, CAST/EiJ, DBA/2J, FVB/NJ, BALB/cByJ, AKR/J, MRL/MpJ, NOD/LtJ, NZW/LacJ, PWD/PhJ and WSB/EiJ males) and cultured for up to 7 days in traditional 2-dimensional culture. Cells from B6C3F1, C57BL/6J, and NOD/LtJ strains were treated with acetaminophen, WY-14,643 or rifampin and concentration-response effects on viability and function were established. Our data suggest that high yield and viability can be achieved across a panel of strains. Cell function and expression of key liver-specific genes of hepatocytes isolated from different strains and cultured under standardized conditions are comparable. Strain-specific responses to toxicant exposure have been observed in cultured hepatocytes and these experiments open new opportunities for further developments of in vitro models of hepatotoxicity in a genetically diverse population. In other news, new project for Paizo in the works I got assigned the other day. This is a fun one. But they always are. :D Current Mood: accomplished | | Sunday, January 16th, 2011 | | 7:46 pm |
One of my favorite bands getting back together.
So apparently the Guano Apes got back together. Please please please a new studio album? :D Good luck me getting to see them in concert anytime soon though, since they've never really been huge in the US, but mostly in Germany. I <3 Sandra Nasic's voice. Makes my toes curl. | | Sunday, December 19th, 2010 | | 3:22 am |
I've been retconned! Boo hiss!
Curse you James Jacobs! *fist of rage that will last a minute or two* ;) But more seriously, I need a plush trilloch or a plush xeg-yi. They would be awesome. And they're sooooo much cooler as Neutral beings of negative energy than evil beings of negative energy like the sceaduinar, even if I created the sceaduinar. :P *hugs imaginary plush trilloch* Current Mood: silly | | Thursday, November 4th, 2010 | | 9:20 pm |
This is my cake. It is made of awesome with a side of petty schadenfreude. This is yummy cake!
I'm close to finishing up on a seriously fun project, and oh I've had fun on this. Sorta planes related, tangentially. Names for authors on the book not announced yet, so no details from me. Got an email yesterday dangling a project I'm utterly and completely excited about working on. It will be made of awesome. Of course the book isn't even announced on any product schedules, so again no details even on topic or company. Hehe. Gavin.Collins the wikipedia grand-master douchebag who tried to all but delete every single D&D article on wikipedia a year or two ago, well, he finally got perma site banned. This is me dancing on his e-grave. *dance dance dance* Current Mood: giddy | | Sunday, October 3rd, 2010 | | 2:14 am |
This is so freaking cool :D
 Reaper is making a keketar protean miniature. They're making a mini for a creature that I created. :D *glee* http://www.reapermini.com/Miniatures/previews/latest/60055I will buy a half dozen of them, paint them with what little skill I have (since I don't use minis...) and I'll set them up on my monitor, or on top of the computer tower to make mayhem. They shall be The Chorus of Late Night Writing and 1,3,7-trimethyl-1 H-purine-2,6(3 H,7 H)-dione (aka Caffeine). Muahaha! Current Mood: happy | | Monday, August 30th, 2010 | | 7:02 pm |
I'm alive, and feeling creative
Working on a pair of projects for Paizo right now. And polishing up a bit of fiction for the Pathfinder fiction contest. Slaughtered a gigantic pig on Saturday, and a giant steer the week before that. I am awash in meat. And I have literally bathed in the blood of my enemies, if my hands and feet count as bathing and a pig counts as my enemy. :D And I am now in possession of a 21 year old bottle of scotch. So smooth. Mmmm. Current Mood: creative | | Sunday, August 8th, 2010 | | 1:09 am |
And this update by Glenfidditch 15...
One shot savored over 4 hours at least. Yummy yummy stuff. So Jeff Laubenstein is an awesome, awesome man. I bought the painting he did for my article on the Gatetown of Ecstasy (my first published piece), and chatted him up about one of the pictures that he did in the 3rd ed Shadowrun core book. I'd always wondered what it actually was and what critter it represented, and the mystery is solved since it was literally something cool looking that he made up on the spot. Nothing specific in SR, but damn did it look cool (piece was titled 'The Grim Weaver'). I've got a picture of him and I and the painting, and I'll be posting it here once I get home (don't have a mini usb to transfer pics from my camera to the laptop). And incidentally while looking for a low res image of the art, I found that there's some french rpg site that has the entire article and the art copied. That's oddly flattering. Tommorow I might get to see the Reaper sculpt for the protean mini. Cannot wait. *glee!* | | Saturday, August 7th, 2010 | | 12:07 am |
This LJ update brought to you by GenCon and Glenlivet 18
Sitting in the Omni lobby right now, using the free wifi and sipping really good scotch. *griiiiin* Updates in brief: - Paizo rocked the house tonight and pretty much swept the golds at the Ennie awards. Well deserved. - Eclipse Phase likewise won some very, very well deserved ennies as well. I'm currently devouring Sunward that was released here at the con. Hopefully I didn't come off as too fanboy when I gave Rob Boyle my business card and asked about freelancing for them at some point to get in on the awesome. - Got free artwork from Beth Trott. Very awesome pencil sketch of Astrid, my 1/2 faerie dragon character in Quan's 3.x campaign. I offered to pay and she just did it to have something to doodle. She's an awesome artist and a really cool person. - I'm using awesome quite a bit in this post. It's like the Pee Wee's Playhouse secret word. - Apparently the state of Indiana does not produce Diet Code Red Mountain Dew. - WoD MMO in the works. No surprise there. I've held out against playing WoW, but I'm not going to dodge the bullet on this one whenever it gets released. It's likely to be awesome ([PeeWee] AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH [/PeeWee]). - I still have yet to go to Bucca's for lunch or dinner. This must be rectified. Current Mood: cheerful | | Thursday, June 17th, 2010 | | 12:07 am |
Publication (this time scientific)
Looks like I'm going to get co-author credit on a manuscript later this year or next year, for which I was involved in the early stage design process and actual hands on lab work. Not a clue which journal at this point, and it hasn't been written fully yet, but I'll get to review it prior to submission and all.
Feels good to actually carve another notch in the wall for something in the scientific press versus fiction work. I would not have guessed ten years ago that my fiction work would eclipse my scientific papers. Current Mood: accomplished |
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