kensingshow is okay. He says all power is down and aftershocks continue. Voice communication is overtaxed but some data available. He is watching the news on a battery powered TV and is sitting in his car outside of the house in the clear. His last transmission was, "What a day".


http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthqua.....n/Asia_eqs.php

Hello everyone,

 sugarcup has done it again! As I already told her, I've never had an opportunity to "squee!" so many times in such a short period! I've been included in her display of fashion design and love every dress so far! She does not think she's a better designer than Rarity, but look what Rarity comes up with:

http://ponibooru.413chan.net/index......post/view/1337

A far cry from a Jessica McClintock "gunnysack" dress, to be sure! So please go visit  sugarcup and look at the beautiful dresses she and I are wearing and please offer your comments!

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5279283

Love,

Neysa

Hello everyone,

Yes, the title of the journal was definitely not something that I would normally say, but the incredibly generous and surprising  sugarcup decided out of the blue to create a work of art based on *me*! It's better than three months of winter coolness and awesome holidays! I encourage all of you to visit her gallery and look at her art and help me thank her for her generosity!

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5269740

Ponies unite!

Love,

Neysa

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Hello everyone,

For all of my friends and aquaintances, I wish you all the best in the year to come! May it be prosperous and full of joy!

Love,

Neysa

Hello everyone,

I wanted to thank everyone who played the "10K, 10Q" contest. Several people were able to take screenshots on or just after the 10K view mark and the participant who was able to post the screenshot on FA first is  durpdedurr who has won a free sketch by  kensingshow . The screenshot can be seen here:

http://www.furaffinity.net/full/4939189/

Congratulations  durpdedurr and thank you to everyone who participated!

Love,

Neysa

Hello everyone,

I just noticed that soon I will be celebrating my 10,000th page view, something I never, *ever* thought I would achieve. To mark this occasion,  kensingshow has generously donated a prize for the person who can take a screenshot of this number. He will pencil sketch a single character picture, or your character with me, in a general audience setting. I will E-mail the scanned drawing to the winner. So good luck to those who want to play and thank you all for your support!

Love,

Neysa

EDIT: I have been asked how to claim the prize. If you can post on FA the screenshot of the 10000th view on my page and then message me, then I can verify whether you win or not. And in case of multiple submissions for the prize, the submission with the earliest FA submission ID will win. Thanks for playing!

Hello Everyone,

Tomorrow is  kensingshow 's birthday. Although his page says he's "99" years old, now he can be an even one hundred! Please wish him all the best!

Love,

Neysa

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to help promote an up and coming artist who has amazing talent in the realm of feral, anthro and human design. Her ability to color and shade is truly of professional quality, and now she needs your help. She needs to raise some funds to get a new desk and is creating these incredible works of art for $20. A great example can be found here:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4687326

Please take the time to see her ( ithkale) emotionally inspiring work, you will not be disapointed!

Love,

Neysa

Hello Everyone,

I am honored that I am part of a Public Service Announcement (PSA) for Breast Cancer Awareness Month by  rabbi-tom to celebrate "25 years of Awareness, Education, and Empowerment" (http://www.nbcam.org/index.cfm). Although it seems that many here on FA are younger than 40, it's important that women in their 20's and 30's understand that they should have a clinical breast exam every 3 years and learn how to perform a self examination. Women over 40 should get a mammogram yearly and may qualify for Medicare assistance. Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in the US and the odds, according to the American Cancer Society, are 1 in 8. Men can get breast cancer too. So please take initiative and be aware, we really are all in this together!

 rabbi-tom s comic can be found here:
http://www.graphxpress.com/cgi-bin/.....?date=20101017

Love,

Neysa

Hello everyone,

A nagging thought has occupied my mind for the past year that seems to rear its ugly head upon me more and more often. And I ask you to bear with me, my long time friends, acquaintances and casual watchers as I try to relate what has me so troubled. I will be touching upon things that might be offensive or controversial so I recommend that reader discretion is advised.

There was a time in my life, and perhaps for others, when you were young and life did not seem worth living. It was an existential existence and life had little value. But now, as I realize I am most likely beyond the midway point in my life, I value being alive more and more all the time. Even to become fearful of reaching “the clearing at the end of the path”. This feeling often hits me as I am listening to a song from the 80’s, which spurs a memory. Then that memory recalls people whom I have known and at that time, long ago, were my friends and mentors. But now, thirty years later, those same people have either reached that “clearing” while others are in their sixties and seventies. It astounds me that so much time has passed, yet, I feel as if I am still the same as I was some thirty years ago, albeit “smarter and wiser”, which could be debated. But to think that those whom I cherished will no long walk on the face of the Earth trouble me greatly. And the fact that after several thousand years of recorded history, no one has really come back, other than Shirley MacLaine, and said, “I was so-and-so a few years ago, but now I’m back, reincarnated as someone-or-another now”. I know it is the age long question of what happens to our consciousness once we pass on. Some believe we will sit on the right hand of God; others believe we transcend or digress into something that our karma dictates; others believe that we cease to exist. It frightens me terribly that who I am will just vanish, and that I myself will cease to exist.

I passed by a cemetery and thought that the markers and tombstones continue your existence for a little while longer, in the minds and hearts of those who knew you, but after a generation or more, people, like me, drive past them without a look, without a thought of who those people were, what they did, what they achieved and what legacy they left. Are we all doomed to be the same destiny? No matter how I try to think about this logically, it always ends up with the same result… And it’s an answer that makes me fear my appointment with the Grim Reaper. The elderly I see, do they think the same? Do they wish they were the same or actually back thirty or forty years ago? I know immortality is impossible, and even if it were possible, our overpopulation problem would be greatly exacerbated. We all grow old and die, one of life’s proofs. Unchangeable; unarguable; Q.E.D. Each day passes, bringing us inevitably closer to the end and what do I have to show for it? What will I leave behind? But more importantly to me; what will I miss?

Again, I will lay in bed, awake and pondering, fretting and fearful until sleep overtakes me and yet another day begins anew with questions unanswered and more questions born.

Neysa

Happy 10/10/10 day!

Hello everyone,

It has come to my attention that yesterday an account was created on FA (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/uhkam/) in which the character's name is "Neysa". The character looks nothing like me nor is there any relation at all. I know there is another account here (http://www.furaffinity.net/user/jaiyikendra/) that also uses Neysa and was created before me, but for some reason this account doesn't seem to be a cause for concern. I don't want to stifle anyone's creative license or dreams, but this latest one seems incongruent with the other two accounts. Granted what would be the difference between several furries all calling themselves "Bob", but Neysa seems a bit more unique. So my dear watchers, I ask you for your comments. Please do not harrass anyone, we all have the 'right' to be here, I'm just looking for ideas. If anything, I hope this doesn't express my arrogance and egotism...

Love,

Neysa

Hello everyone,

 sarcy has done it again, but this time with  rabbi-tom looking like a lewd Norman Rockwell. All he needs is a pipe! You can see the image here:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3931032/

And I think Sarcy perfectly captured my attitude and resulting response if I were ever to be found in that situation! So go take a look, but be wary that it is considered "mature"!

Love,

Neysa

Hello everyone,

I was wonderfully surprised to see this by  sarcy

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3909981

Incredible gift art from someone whose talent I admire, but never thought they know who *I* was. Apparently  rabbi-tom put in a good word for me. I always wanted to be a pirate! Thank you Sarcy and Rabbi-tom for making my week!

Love,

Neysa

Hello everyone,

Just a short note to wish all of our neighbors in the Great White North, a happy Victoria Day!

Sincerely,

Neysa

UPDATE: Well, it's official. Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen officially won the Razzie award for the worst picture in 2009 ( http://www.razzies.com/history/09release.asp ), beating out it's Hasbro sibling "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra". I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt the same way!



Hello everyone,

I’m sure this posting will anger some of you, offend others and the rest will say, “yes, I already know that”. But tonight I finally got to witness the spectacle by Michael Bay and his “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” on BluRay. And what a piece of cr@p.

Although I am sure that most everyone has seen this movie by now, spoilers are ahead.

There are few movies that have ever made me want to just get up and walk out of a theater. “Nothing But Trouble” and “Highlander II: The Quickening” top my list. It’s amazing how we can subject ourselves to such drivel by saying to ourselves, “It’ll get better in a few minutes” and then repeating that mantra over and over again when we reach that deadline. It is amazing, and far too numerous to list, what made me disgusted with this movie, and disgusted at myself for allowing that much of my life to be lost forever. But first, I have to give credit where credit is due, and that is to the actors that carried the film for me. No, it wasn’t Sam or his girlfriend, whose character’s name is already lost to me, but to Sam’s mother and the Agent from the first movie who ends up with a bagel shop. At least those characters showed some sort of character development, if not some comic relief to help dull the pain and agony.

As for the rest of the movie, where does one begin? I’m guessing that with Michael Bay, his philosophy is that “if one explosion is good, then creating a supernova in downtown Shanghai must be better”. So much happens between fast camera shots and explosions that it’s near impossible to see exactly what is going on. The Transformers all seem to have some brutal finishing blow, but unless you have the dexterity to observe 1/30th of a second, and have the ability to discriminate between two silver robots slugging it out, you’re gonna miss it! Also, the Autobots are like the Teen Titans, they may get the job done but at the expense of billions in damages! And how do you keep something like that a “secret”? It would seem to me that as soon as someone in NYC saw a giant robot knocking off the US flag from the top of the Brooklyn Bridge, mass hysteria would quickly follow. And that tiger Decepticon that steals the shard, it reenters the atmosphere from orbit, crashes into the ocean as a fiery meteor right next to some super secure military installation, and no one knows. ..until it scratches a glass vial. How about how the Fallen knows exactly when Optimus Prime is terminated, but when Megatron is resurrected, he has to fly all the way to see The Fallen? Seems like such a wasted trip when a phone call is all that was needed.

There was once a time where eye candy was a good thing. Special effects were expensive and difficult to do, but there’s a point where you can have so much instant gratification with CGI that everything is lost, even the detail. There is so much information that your brain just filters out all the work and talent used to make these special effect and says, um… what happened to the two vulgar wannabe ghetto subcompact GM Autobots who are proud that they are illiterate, or that vulgar little Decepticon radio controlled truck that got its eye burned out? Perhaps they sacrificed their lives for the better of man and Autobot in glorious battle, or perhaps they just got lost in all the explosions. Perhaps the writers just got lost themselves and forgot they even existed and just dropped them from the storyline. And why… why oh why, would you try to defend yourself against giant, armored robots that shoot missiles and extremely large caliber bullets with a government issue M-16? It seems like that gun would be so terribly ineffective that it wouldn’t even irritate or even be noticed by a giant robot. And if that railgun worked so effectively, why not just “go to town” with it and terminate anything that landed on the pyramid? If the railgun could terminate a robot that is so big it requires it’s own genitalia, it could surely put Megatron back into a coma.

Perhaps in a later journal, I’ll discuss why I preferred Macross (Robotech) as opposed to Transformers back when I was in high school, but for now I’ll just talk a little about shows based on Hasbro toys. Hasbro shows seemed to be the most incongruent to me. All kinds of stuff blows up and gets destroyed, especially in Transformer/GI-Joe, but no one, *AT ALL* ever gets hurt. Hey, didn’t you know that just before your Cobra plane explodes into a fireball, you always get to parachute to safety. Wow, ain’t war grand? At least in Macross, people who went to war, often paid the ultimate sacrifice, and you felt their pain. At least now with this Transformers movie, you can’t help but keep the body count in the five digit range. But again, with the shock and awe of Michael Bay’s explosions, even the tragedy of so many lives lost is dulled.

So there you have it, my opinion on Michael Bay’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”. If you enjoyed it, if you are angry that it didn’t win the Oscar for best picture, or if you have every single Transformer toy ever produced in triplicate, then I’m sorry if I offended you. I just wish I had those two hours back.

Love,

Neysa

Hello everyone,

I just wanted to direct you to a lovely, and terribly unexpected piece of gift art from  wendel2 that you can see here:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3466793/

I think he did a lovely job with his drawing, and I must say that his depiction of me is quite flattering! So go take a look at his art and of his terribly kind gift!

Love,

Neysa

Hello everone,

As you may have read in my last journal (http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/1126152/ ) I have little tolerance for absurd movies. Now don't get me wrong, Airplane! and Top Secret were absurd, but they were tremendously funny and designed to be that way, making them my favorites. I'm talking more on the lines of gratuitous explosions and wanton destruction. An explosion is a great way to punctuate the action, to make a statement. But the logic of 'if one explosion is good, then one thousand is better' just desensitizes us to the action. If you haven't seen today's Link Of The Day (http://forums.furaffinity.net/showt.....ad.php?t=62161 ) then I recommend you see it or not... they have this affinity for making vehicles pop up into the air or just explode for no apparent reason, and trip horses so that they flip. Poor horses.

But the cars, they use "A-Team logic" as  kensingshow calls it, whereas, when a car hits another car, it shoots up into the air. If Detroit could engineer this into their cars, we would probably have more people surviving auto crashes. Remove all crumple zones, make seat belts mandatory, then just figure out how to transfer the collision energy into a vertical lift energy! The next generation of automotive safety! The exploding cars though..... perhaps Tata took automotive engineering from the group at Ford who designed the Pinto!

And speaking of horses, I'm going to tell you right now, from my experience with horses, they don't generally tend to want to do summersaults. At least they made a fake horse slide under the trailer, but still...

So take this journal with a grain of salt... or if you're an equine, a salt block, because if this is the future of motion pictures, and it looks a bit dated anyway, Michael Bay will move on from just planet killing or star system killing, but galactic annihilation! Stay tuned....

Sincerely,

Neysa

Hello everyone,

I’m sure this posting will anger some of you, offend others and the rest will say, “yes, I already know that”. But tonight I finally got to witness the spectacle by Michael Bay and his “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” on BluRay. And what a piece of cr@p.

Although I am sure that most everyone has seen this movie by now, spoilers are ahead.

There are few movies that have ever made me want to just get up and walk out of a theater. “Nothing But Trouble” and “Highlander II: The Quickening” top my list. It’s amazing how we can subject ourselves to such drivel by saying to ourselves, “It’ll get better in a few minutes” and then repeating that mantra over and over again when we reach that deadline. It is amazing, and far too numerous to list, what made me disgusted with this movie, and disgusted at myself for allowing that much of my life to be lost forever. But first, I have to give credit where credit is due, and that is to the actors that carried the film for me. No, it wasn’t Sam or his girlfriend, whose character’s name is already lost to me, but to Sam’s mother and the Agent from the first movie who ends up with a bagel shop. At least those characters showed some sort of character development, if not some comic relief to help dull the pain and agony.

As for the rest of the movie, where does one begin? I’m guessing that with Michael Bay, his philosophy is that “if one explosion is good, then creating a supernova in downtown Shanghai must be better”. So much happens between fast camera shots and explosions that it’s near impossible to see exactly what is going on. The Transformers all seem to have some brutal finishing blow, but unless you have the dexterity to observe 1/30th of a second, and have the ability to discriminate between two silver robots slugging it out, you’re gonna miss it! Also, the Autobots are like the Teen Titans, they may get the job done but at the expense of billions in damages! And how do you keep something like that a “secret”? It would seem to me that as soon as someone in NYC saw a giant robot knocking off the US flag from the top of the Brooklyn Bridge, mass hysteria would quickly follow. And that tiger Decepticon that steals the shard, it reenters the atmosphere from orbit, crashes into the ocean as a fiery meteor right next to some super secure military installation, and no one knows. ..until it scratches a glass vial. How about how the Fallen knows exactly when Optimus Prime is terminated, but when Megatron is resurrected, he has to fly all the way to see The Fallen? Seems like such a wasted trip when a phone call is all that was needed.

There was once a time where eye candy was a good thing. Special effects were expensive and difficult to do, but there’s a point where you can have so much instant gratification with CGI that everything is lost, even the detail. There is so much information that your brain just filters out all the work and talent used to make these special effect and says, um… what happened to the two vulgar wannabe ghetto subcompact GM Autobots who are proud that they are illiterate, or that vulgar little Decepticon radio controlled truck that got its eye burned out? Perhaps they sacrificed their lives for the better of man and Autobot in glorious battle, or perhaps they just got lost in all the explosions. Perhaps the writers just got lost themselves and forgot they even existed and just dropped them from the storyline. And why… why oh why, would you try to defend yourself against giant, armored robots that shoot missiles and extremely large caliber bullets with a government issue M-16? It seems like that gun would be so terribly ineffective that it wouldn’t even irritate or even be noticed by a giant robot. And if that railgun worked so effectively, why not just “go to town” with it and terminate anything that landed on the pyramid? If the railgun could terminate a robot that is so big it requires it’s own genitalia, it could surely put Megatron back into a coma.

Perhaps in a later journal, I’ll discuss why I preferred Macross (Robotech) as opposed to Transformers back when I was in high school, but for now I’ll just talk a little about shows based on Hasbro toys. Hasbro shows seemed to be the most incongruent to me. All kinds of stuff blows up and gets destroyed, especially in Transformer/GI-Joe, but no one, *AT ALL* ever gets hurt. Hey, didn’t you know that just before your Cobra plane explodes into a fireball, you always get to parachute to safety. Wow, ain’t war grand? At least in Macross, people who went to war, often paid the ultimate sacrifice, and you felt their pain. At least now with this Transformers movie, you can’t help but keep the body count in the five digit range. But again, with the shock and awe of Michael Bay’s explosions, even the tragedy of so many lives lost is dulled.

So there you have it, my opinion on Michael Bay’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen”. If you enjoyed it, if you are angry that it didn’t win the Oscar for best picture, or if you have every single Transformer toy ever produced in triplicate, then I’m sorry if I offended you. I just wish I had those two hours back.

Love,

Neysa

Hello Everone,

I thought it was appropriate to thank  katayamma for a most lovely, and completely unexpected, gift. ( http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3171719/ ) Although it may be a Christmas Dance, with tonight being New Year's Eve, I'm sure many of us will be doing the same as in the picture. I wanted to thank  marymouse for her lovely rendition of all of us as both  rabbi-tom and  katayamma both look quite dashing, and I love the dress! Granted it will be several months before the fireflies and paper lanterns come out again, but we can all still have fun! Enjoy yourselves tonight, be safe, and don't drink and drive! We'll see you all in the new year!

Love,

Neysa

Hello everyone,

I wanted to wish all my family and friends a very Merry Christmas with health and prosperity in 2010!

Love,

Neysa

Hello everyone,

Make sure to thank  dragoneer and the rest of the team for their hard work. We take so much that they do for granted, so let your voices be heard. Huzzah!

Love,

Neysa

Hello everyone,

Just a note to see if anyone out there has a Slingbox ( http://www.slingbox.com ). I am interested in getting a Slingbox Solo, but what I'm reading in the FAQ it appears that if you try to watch TV over the internet, because it controls the cable box at home, it would interfere with anyone watching television at home. Is this correct? And does anyone know what the quality of a Slingbox is? Thanks for the help.

Love,

Neysa

Hello everyone,

November 17th is a special day, it's  kensingshow birthday! So go and wish him a Otanjou-bi Omedetou Gozaimasu, birthday wishes in Japanese, Hurray for repeating incept dates!

Sincerely,

Neysa