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Mistletoe now on iBookstore

Ted — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:59:43 +0000

You can now purchase a digital copy of Mistletoe’s Night through the Apple iBookstore app for the iPad and iPhone. Hopefully I can get it on the other ebook devices (like the Kindle) as well. To find it, simply type ‘mistletoe’ in the search box in the iBooks app. You can also buy it as an epub file from Lulu as well; which should be viewable on all the ebook devices out there, but I’m not 100% sure.

Update: I now have it available on the Kindle through its respective service. I don’t have a Kindle so I don’t really know how its going to look, but from what I could tell from the preview the formating might be a little goofy, and obviously the illustrations are in black and white.

Finished illustrating another textbook

Ted — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:24:46 +0000

My Jack and Jill drawing

I just finished the last of the illustrations for the thermodynamics textbook I’ve been working on. Hopefully everything comes through okay, and my part is finished. I can finally focus more time on my own book and other things.

I’ve also been looking at getting an iPad to use as an inexpensive drawing tablet. I currently have a very serviceable seven year old Wacom Intuos tablet, but I still have some trouble drawing strait lines and shaping objects on it. And I’m still in the market for a new camera as well.

Oh, and I hope to install the latest Ubuntu sometime this week as well.

Illustrating another textbook

Ted — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:13:29 +0000

Spring is finally here! I hope to pick up a new camera soon, and get back to photography.

Over the last month, I’ve been compiling the hundreds of illustrations for the second edition of the thermodynamics textbook my dad wrote in the late 80′s. It’s been a pretty grueling process going through each drawing.

Also, the second edition of Exploring Engineering is now on Amazon.com. It contains most of my original illustrations with a few changes.

REMLAB Update

Ted — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:44:52 +0000

The latest update I put on SourceForge fixes a bunch of calculation bugs that I had come across plus some other tweaks. I also added preliminary structure/building construction to REMLAB as well. FASA never really flushed out the rules for designing building and installations. The orignal Compendium had rules for it but they just seemed to have too many unnecessary features. So I ultimately went off the “guidelines” from the Maximum Tech source book. Because of the way REMLAB is written there are just a few minor limitations with weapons allocation on multi-hex buildings, but nothing really serious. For the next release, I’m going to try and finish ProtoMechs.

Spring update

Ted — Wed, 27 May 2009 01:34:38 +0000

By in large I have nothing really new to report in my life. I’ve regularly been uploading photos from my various activities to my Picasa Web Album and some videos of my niece to Vimeo as well. As for Mistletoe’s Night, it’s now available in its entirety for free as an ebook on Scribd and you can now purchase the paperback of it through Amazon.com, even though it’s still cheaper to buy it straight through Lulu.

In the meantime, I plan to do one more illustrated book about a teddy bear before I take a crack at a writing a graphic novel. But, this time I plan to do the illustrations more traditionally than the 3D rendered look of Mistletoe’s Night.

First royalty check

Ted — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:00:51 +0000

I finally received my first royalty check from Lulu. It’s not a lot of money, especially considering more than half of it was from direct family members (Mom). But, it certainly helps when you don’t have much to begin with. It will probably cover half my license plate renewal that’s due next month.

Also I recently made an e-book version of Mistletoe’s Night as well. I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to do with it though. I’ll probably put it online at some point.