Using Photoshop to help correct the flaws of my poor photography… By the way, all the creatures I’ve posted, and ones yet to come, will be for sale at CONduit at the end of May.
Creeeeee-tures!
Justifying the “I make things” part of my subtitle, here are a couple of things in jars that I made recently: Yes, I know, I am a terrible photographer. They look much cooler in person.
E-karma.
Hostivia, the crappy webhost which let all of my data crash and burn without a backup, apologized by offering three months of free hosting. Obviously, I would rather get something for something than nothing for nothing, so I signed up with another provider. Didn’t bother cancelling my Hostivia account, though. Got the quarterly email today…
Whither Pulp of the Day?
So. I’ve got this domain working (obviously), CheapCaffeine.net is spewing out marginally humorous cartoons on a daily basis, Lousy Book Covers is all current (I’m still working on the archives, currently back to the summer of 2012), Cold Fusion Media has a placeholder page, Fifth Planet Design is at least aimed at the right host,…
Book cover design — the home surgery edition!
i just posted a little guide to designing your own book cover over at Lousy Book Covers. It’s really good, he said modestly.
Aw, they’re leaving the nest…
Cold Fusion Video Reviews also hosted several movie review subdomains which I referred as the “Cold Fusioneers,” independent movie critics who didn’t mind associating themselves with the Cold Fusion Media Empire. When my web empire died through a server crash, they all died with it. The first one to arise from the ashes is MonsterHunter,…
But in other (eldritch) news…
I’m taking a vacation day today to sit in front of my computer and start to put things back together, starting with Lousy Book Covers, since a) I’ve got most of the posted content mirrored to the tumblog for easier restoration, and b) it was the only site that made me any real money. In…
And so it ends.
I finally got the following message this morning from tech support, in response to my websites being down for almost two weeks: Unfortunately as you may already be aware, the server hosting your website suffered a catastrophic failure of it’s storage array. We believe this to be a failure of the RAID card in the…
Book Bomb for Ben
(Large parts of this post are copied and pasted from other sources, as I didn’t see the need to restate everything.) Ben Wolverton, age 16, was in a tragic long-boarding accident on Wednesday the 4th, 2013. He suffers from severe brain trauma, a cracked skull, broken pelvis and tail bone, burnt knees, bruised lungs, broken…
So this is what “Plan B” looks like.
This is what happens when you put all your eggs in one basket. As you may know, in addition to my blog at NathanShumate.com, I also had ten years of video reviews archived at coldfusionvideo.com (plus five other subdomains containing other writers’ reviews). Plus my publishing company, coldfusionmedia.us. Plus my webcomic, cheapcaffeine.net. Plus my book…