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LOL Chimp! Doing some serious cooking. Bought her a bunch of stuff over the weekend, to spoil her, but didn't "valentine's gift" it to her, y'know?

WAY old school, Mush...for those that remember, my "most infamous" exploit was to trash the hell out of a poser, "Von Doitch" with a RL rage...from over 100 miles away... But back when 1.5-1.6 were "fresh", that was my raging game, followed by some original Battlefield 1942 stuff...haven't been active *here* much, since those days :)

captinamerica, Hugo reads like an antique soap opera...but if you liked Les Miserables, you'd like Hunchback, too. What I'm reading "right now" is a huge list...what I read just for the sake of reading, is even longer...this household tends to dump all but our "serious favorites" two or three times a year, on used book stores, and begin collecting again...yet we somehow consistently have 3 six foot bookshelves piled two high and two deep on each shelf, in paperbacks. Right now, I'm into John Ringo's Paladin series, love his book "Last Centurion", liked the "Empire of Man" series he did with David Weber, read all the Honorverse books, am re-reading the Wild Card books (George R. R. Martin editing), which were re-released in '09, but were originally released in the late 80's. Of course, we keep Steinbeck, Dickens, Hugo, Twain, Orwell a few other classics around the house, but they're not "I go back to these to waste time" type books. Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (Gaiman does the Sandman comics) did "Good Omens", a great comedy built around Armageddon not going right (by the POV of Heaven and Hell, anyhow), and Pratchett did the Diskworld comedies, which I like the Moist Von Lipvig and Sam Vimes centered books from. Orson Scott Card did the Ender series, which I LOVE "Ender's Game", and like the next three books of...

I still cruise in to see what the "new talent" is up to, and check out any new, useful, information posted, once in a while, peepulz. Been active in console raging (and teaching my boys, who are now teens, how to do it), but not too much of that on my end (THEY are getting seriously into it, though).

ROFL...forgot you'd quoted that, but that's another piece of advice I give, and follow.

Take nothing too seriously, everything changes. Do what really makes you happier, overall. Most people are stupid, when it comes down to it, the brighter they are, the more likely this is to be true. Maybe this can be better said "most people are incapable of thinking rationally about anything they are involved in or care about". People are selfish. This includes you. If you find yourself tempted to be generous/charitable, figure out what it is YOU really get from it (warm fuzzy feelings, a tax shelter, a feeling of having done your part to ease suffering in the world, whatever), and if you still think it's worth it, then have a blast, but UNDERSTAND your motivations. Be well capable of providing for your own needs before taking on the responsibility of providing someone else's It's always worth taking the time to illustrate to an idiot exactly how stupid he is...most people ONLY learn through painful experience, so you're doing the world a favor when you aid someone in this way. If you start a sentence "hey guys, watch this", you're about to learn something by the method listed above.

His last words: "Croikey! Take a look at this beauty, she's a raal purty wun, let's jus' 'ave a closer look, shall we? C'mere, baby."

No, you wouldn't need an amp to use the speakers, but to get full performance out of them, you would need one. And if you do the wiring internally for the speakers, it's not hard...all I did was take a premade circuitboard out of a car amp, mark all components down, trace a template, copy it onto sandwitch board, and make "cloned boards" for each speaker, screw it to the back of the speaker boxes, and run what HAD been the solder points to the RCA jacks for 2 speakers direct to the cones I'd installed, and mounted clip style input feeds in place of the old RCA input jack, and mounted them through the back of the box. The only hard part is makign certain you wire everything in phase properly.

I'm a student of American History, specifically the times near our Revolutionary War (the successful one...we tried earlier, and failed), and the "Old West". I've taken college classes cocentratign on both areas, but alot of this knowledge is the result of self-motivated studies. I've read the full content of the transcriptions of the debates around the framing of our Constitution and Bill of Rights (available through the Library of Congress, largest library in the country, at this time, and ranked amongst the "world class" libraries), though that took me almost three years to finish reading all 14 volumes (and cost my folks $2600 to purchase for me as a gift, my senior year of high school...that was my graduation gift), and have gone out of my way to read anythign and everythign I could find written by Jefferson, John Q. Adams, Tom Paine, Benjamin Franklin (though I disagree with most of what he says...he was a Francophile Socialist, after all, and I REALLY disagree with alot of his politics, I just admire him as a statesman and diplomat, as well as considering him damned smart for someone stupid enough (or blind enough to human nature and advanced maths) to think socialism could actually work in a capitalistic society...but then again, maybe he was assuming that everyone had the same desire and drive to make themselves busy he did, and failed to understand MOST humans will do the very least they HAVE to do in order to support their lives, and a small handful of vices they consider to be enough to make them "comfortable", which is THE fact that has driven social advancement....I never understand how people fail to see that fact, no matter how bright or stupid they are otherwise, when they support socialism/communism or analogues of them.

Honestly speaking, I'd go for the 5.1 surround sound reciever...probably the one Jedi pointed you at, as it's definately a good brand and model, buy a decent 100watt+ powered subwoofer, and build my own speaker setup...you get better speakers cheaper by scrounging the yard sales and pawn shops for single or double cone setups with decent wattage, and building your own tower/stack boxes for them, and doing the internal wiring yourself than you get buying premades... I've got a set for mains that I built off three 10" cones off 100 watt "main channel" shelf system speakers per stack box, with sattellights I made with dual 8" cones each off the same sort of system...picked up all these speakers cheap as fuck at pawnshops because the shelf system they came with was trashed, and mounted them in homedone cases, then actually used a car amp and a PC PSU to convert 120AC to 12VDC for it in each speaker (actually, to be honest, I pulled the 200 watt amp out of my Camry and replaced it with a 400 watt, then took that 200 watt, desoldered it, after marking all parts and taking pics, went down to radio shack, and basically ran 4 copies of the breadboard circuit off with a breadboarding kit, and built my amps to be mounted internally in each speaker, so the two sattellite 2-speaker babies have 200 watts, the center speaker 2 speaker side-by-side box has 200 watts, and the "mains" have 300 watts each, all functioning as if they were designed as powered speakers...so I deliver 100 watts to each cone I have running, off a little 50/250 Magnaxvox home theater 5.1 surround sound setup with TiVO and DVD-R I picked up for $150....I went less than $500 in, all told, and ended up with wattage that lets me play my music INSIDE so loudly that I can hear it OUTSIDE clearly while mowing the lawn.)

Hooded, alot of modern Americans are under the impression that American English (or "English", as they call it) is the official language...it's amazing how many of them don't know there isn't one in fact, even though there's one in practice, adiopted due to being the most common "common language", back in the day. The only reason all our signs are in English, and our schools teach it, etcetera, is because, as I just said, it was adopted as the best "trade language", back in the early-on days, because more people had English as a common tongue than Spanish or French, or German....during the mid-1800's, it was a pretty close thing...after the Louisiana Purchase, we ALMOST ended up with French as an "official language", but Jefferson opposed it, and Franklin was out of politics by then (he'd originally pushed for French as our official language, then when met with heavy resistance, switched to the "none" stance)...and during the absorption of the Republic of Texas and adoption of California, we almost ended up adopting Spanish, but the Eastern states were already to calcified in using English as the common tongue....

Thanks to Jefferson and Franklin, there is no "official language" for this country (The United States), so I've got no problem with them doing the Anthem in spanish for a spanish-speaking audience. As for "illegal aliens", we didn't HAVE an immigration policy until the 1920's, so anyone whose family was here before then, I guess, would have to consider themselves the descendants of "wetbacks", unless they were full-blood Amerind. Personally, I've got no problem with REAL illegals...the ones who cross the border, work migrant farming, and such, and ship some money home (or spend half the year south of the border, and live well for that time), the only ones I have issues with are the (few) who cross the border, apply for welfare, and start living off the working public...generally those aren't true illegals, as it's too big a chance they'll be deported, for not fitting the standards for asylum or a visa/green card, usually, those are the second generation cholo assholes...children of illegals born here, thus assured citizenship, and certain that THEY can abuse the system and not be deported for it. My hate and disrespect is saved for those who earn it through being willing to live off the efforts of others...I personally respect anyone who will bust their ass to try and make things better for themselves and their family, especially if they have to go through shit conditions and miserable situations, compared to most "legitimate Americans", to accomplish it. I'd sooner do migrant cropping myself than go on welfare, so I have NO issue with those who recognize that the US Farmer can't hire Americans at wages we generally insist on for that kind of work, and still sell their produce cheap enough for most of us to afford it, and then go "but me, I'm from a poor country, so I can do that work for less than half what a Yankee will ask for, then I can come home, and live well, the farmer, he sells his food at prices the other Yankees can afford, and the Yankees can work at jobs that CAN afford to pay the wages they insist upon, without unsettling their whole economy", and come over to do so.

Yes, you ARE a noob. You don't put stuff in "startup" through an exploited open port, it's easier to simply edit the regkey in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run to include a path to the executable or batchfile you got in, if you're good enough to use a port exploit to get something into someone else's machine anyhow. Generally, what you do is you find they've been infected with a remote access program of some sort you have a client for, infect them with one yourself, or get physical access to the machine....then you do it all as if uploading files and making registry changes on a server, or on your home machine (if you got PHYSICAL access) Otherwise, your only option is to learn enough about computers to know how to run commands through buffer overflow exploits, and the like, so that you can cause the machine to go download what you want it to have and run it all because of your exploit use (this is used for getting the machine to download and run an installer), or stick to scriptkiddy tricks, like getting a trojan, telling them you're sending them some piece of software or something else that won't get through if they don't disable their antivirus for some reason they buy, and so on....

Actually, I was thinking it'd be cool inked over the colored parts of certain pieces of my sleeve, seeing as you can't cover a darker color with a lighter one, and all the chameleon UV reactives I could find are VERY light colors (light to the point that white ink covers THEM if laid in afterwards). Like I said, I have blacklights in the house for the nocturnal reptiles my boys have, blacklight isn't uncommon at completely non-raver cons and parties, and just generally, when exposed to UV, like fluorescent light in general (which is high in UV content, as anyone here who remembers the late 80's can testify to), will show up all the brighter and more "alive" and "glisteny".

OOOO, nifty! Think I'll see if the guy doing my sleeve would highlight some of the biomass with that green UV reactive...be real wild at clubs and cons, or in my kids' rooms (where they have blacklights for heating their reptiles' cages)

Let's make it more complete, MAKONG....the house I own free and clear has doubled in value since I bought it, which was three months after starting school in '02 (September, that is), and that's just county assessment, not counting all the improvement projects I've done like re-wiring the joint, making it high tech friendly, redoing carpets, floors, trim, and doors, adding a REAL paintjob every year or so, etcetera. In other words, while my portfolio value has dropped due to deriving most of my income from it for a couple years, and funding BIG projects from it since then(meaning I'm dipping into the capital on occasion), my net value INCREASED steadily, since I "fucked up my life", according to 2na. SO, 2na, wanna tell me again how I "fucked up my life" so thoroughly when I've put myself in a position where I can look and live as I like 95% of the time, cover up what society doesn't accept the 5% of the time I need to do so, easily, and am in a position where I COULD spend the rest of my life never going back to work or completing my degree, and live comfortably, if it weren't for the fact that I intend to be able to pay three children's way through college, if that's what they choose, WITHOUT hurting the way I live (very comfortably in the middle/upper-middle class in "things", decidedly "counterculture" in entertainments)? In other words, 2na, I'm already PAST the point your folks hope to be at when you are four years out of college and into a "good job" just starting the struggle upwatrds yourself, and I'm not yet 40. By 40, I'll be back in the workforce, having spent a couple years as a code monkey, just to prove the degree was useful, by 45, I'll be "rich" according to census "wage and earnings" figures, clearing more off my portfolio yearly alone than 90% of the population makes in wage and earnings, and by 50, I won't be doing a damned thing I don't WANT to do, besides paying taxes.

There's no "think" about it, 2na, I am hard...as for "fucking up my life", at 35, I own a 3300 sq foot house free and clear, both my cars are less than three years old and paid for, I have three dirt bikes and a street bike in the garage (all paid for, granted, the street bike is a project piece, which replaced my last project, which I wrecked at the racetrack), I'm living off a combination of the portfolio I created working in the car buisiness, which I spent just over 7 years in, after deciding neither the Army nor construction was for me (though I DID like bumming around the country "chasing storms" as a construction worker, and have plenty of interesting experiences out of that), and am spending the time I have to wait to be able to get my insurance andSEC7 liscenses back in school, learning to do what I really love, make a computer sit up and beg. OK, so the first felony bust...the one that cost me my insurance liscense and a job that, in my last year in it, paid me damned near 3/4 of a million, including bonuses and stock options, COULD be counted as a "fuckup", but I was already planning to quit and go back to school, anyhow, I just ended up doing it six months earlier than planned. In the meantime, nothing stopped me from getting a business liscense, and running three seperate DBAs out of my house (all computer related) as I gained the skills, I keep my hand in the car game by spending 1 day a month as a vendor rep for a high-mile warranty, and end up PAYING better than $30K a year in taxes, even after all the tax credits a self-employed full time student with three kids who is the SOLE income in the (owned) house gets...lemme give you a little hint...that puts me in the next to the top tax bracket in the U.S. for wage and salary income (22%), plus a hefty capital gains. Just how "fucked up" is my life when I spend more time with my kids than most dads can, take time off pretty much whenever I like, and can afford to have my wife stay at home full time while doing this, all while paying full time college tuition without assistance (that I wouldn't qualify for if I were half coon and half asian, due to income)? Damned straight I'm "hard"...I made my own way, did it RIGHT, and managed to stay true to what I've believed in the whole time, and continue learning enough to adjust just what it is I believe in specifics as more/new knowledge became available.

Well said, and as I said above, I think there are only three or four types who get ANY type of permenant ink on them, and I DO caution most people to be one of the last two types, who either think it fully through and put stuff on them they KNOW will carry meaning they're willing to haul around for life, or get ONE ill-advised piece, THEN, having decided they LOVE getting inked follow that route. As far as the barfights, and the like, yes, this IS "acceptable behavior" in my eyes...and was in the eyes of general society up until the 1970's. The world isn't the "cotton candy" place we've been trying to force it to be since 1964, and never has been, so I've chosen deliberately to take most of my moral opinions and lessons from firsthand historical accounts gathered here and there in books, direct conversation with my grandparents, and fiction authors raised in those earlier times (Asimov, Heinlein, Piper, L'Amour, a few others), and even from oldsters down at the rest homes (bel;ieve it or not I spend at least a day a week "volunteering" a couple hours at one of the local retirement communities, and I bring the kids along). You've got to remember that along with that "I'm as good as any other man, and willing to throw down on a moment's notice if you fail to respect that, or seem to think *I* failed to respect that about YOU" attitude is one that says I owe certain debts to society and obligations to myself and my family, as well...debts that come BEFORE anythign else....these debts and obligations put me in the military at 17, with parental waiver (where the social pressures reinforced this "antiquated thinking"), had me working for my own money, rather than getting out and expecting mommy and daddy to pay for my college, when I got out, lead to a HELL of an interesting bunch of life experiences, and caused me to set out on a path of patterned learning that didn't leave me room to go to a "real college" until I was in my 30's...by which time I TRULY knew what I wanted to spend my life doing, rather than "falling into" a trade, because I jumped from H.S. into college, mucked around, ended up with a degree, and started trying to earn a living before I knew what it was I loved out there in the world. On the way, I found some things I HATE doing, I found some things I love doing, and have skill at that just won't support the lifestyle I wish to enjoy. IUt's not the right path for everyone, but the baseline morals and beliefs WILL work for anyone who applies them truly. My basic rules...and those I'm trying to teach m,y kids are: Most people CAN'T think properly, and most who can, WON'T, unless forced to, so learn to think clearly and rationally, and employ it constantly, and you'll be at an advantageYou gotta give respect to get respect...but this means you show respect at all times unless you're willing to end up in a fight over it, and ALWAYS be willing to get as aggressive as necessary to enforce the reciept of the respect you're due"The Boss" usually isn't the guy best suited for bossing, he's just the guy who was best at the job that LEADS to that job...so always make sure you're thinking about the GOALS s/he expresses, try to find easier and more efficient ways to accomplish them, and ask (as innocently as possible) HIS boss(es) why you'r work group isn't being asked to do it *that* waySpend the time to learn any skill that you think you MIGHT not want to do without the results of, if there were suddenly noone else around to do it for you, even if this means spending a lifetime in "hobbies" learning to do stupid shit like smelting ore, forging your own metals and tools, so on, and so forth.Read absolutely EVERYTHING you can get your hands on written by authors that do REAL research, just for fun...you learn vicariously, that way.Set your goals so they depend entirely on YOUR actions, and noone's reactions to them Oh, and the BAR wasn't connected to either of the cases where I was prosecuted....in every case the cops have shown at the Shamrock, they just took names, assessed the damage, and told the manager to call and press charges if "the boys" didn't pay for them within a reasonable amount of time. Like I said, usually, we take it outside, beat the snot of of eachother until someone says he's had enough, go inside, and end up buying eachother ptichers, anddoing what my uncle (an oilrigh worker) calls "roughneck roundup", where we brag on the good shots, bitch about the nasty hits someone else landed on you, and generally spend the time mutually congratulating eachother on being "man enough to face it, and tough enough to walk back in and share a beer afterwards"...this is the bar the local "99%" bikers (non-outlaws), industry workers, and such hang out at...the kind of place becoming rarer and rarer outside rural communities and "factory towns".

In boith cases where the assault was prosecuted, I was attacked first, I simply failed to STOP attacking when he stopped trying to get back up (or even resisting)...all other cases where I've interacted with the law enforcement community have either involved racing, speeding, or what they locally call "mutual assaults" (mutual fights by choice, usually a minor "disturbing the piece" charge if they find it annoying enough for whatever reason to prosecute, around here)...everyone speeds occasionally, racing is an adrenal-charge thing...I just can't resist the challenge if I have a chance against the guy (in my own estimation), and when I get into "mutual assaults", gernerally it really IS mutual, not really anything personal, just a bit of rough and tumble barehand fun...the bar I hang out at most is noted for being the site of most of the weekend barfights in town, and yet is considered to be a "kinda cool" bar, because only once or twice a year does a fight become anything more than two or four guyys stepping outside and going at it barefist.

Not out of touch with the mainstream, at all...work in it...STEEPED in it, on a daily basis, to my eyeballs. A good 90% of our "society" gets their political knowledge (and forms their opinions on it) from blatantly biased news bytes, spends most of every day not doing ANYTHING that steps outside "pre-programmed" rote-learned "routines", and not only doesn't, but CAN'T use their minds on demand for anything harder than deciding what flavor ice cream to order at Baskin Robins (and this applies almost as badly to the EU societies I've been exposed to in any depth). Damned straight that I take pride in setting myself apart from them in any "disguisable" way I can find. My ink can be (and always will be set up this way) hidden by a business suit, same with my piercings, my record only shows up on a background check, and won't even show up THEN, once expunged, and the folks I do business with don't have to know I participate in body art conventions or human suspensions unless they happen to run into me at one, or I happen to find out or decide they might be interested, themselves, and start letting them know. Outside of THAT, which is hiding the more deliberate "symbols" of the fact that I conciously reject the "standards" of our culture/society, I enjoy more insidious ways of demonstrating it, in my off time...things like introducing myself to strangers on the street by holding my foot out, to shake feet, instead of my hand...just to see how they react, or other "harmless pranks" that simply test whether THIS person is one of the few who can and will use the only thing that keeps us from being nothing more than shaved monkies.

Again, shows just WTF you know about life outside middle class suburbia. Those who've pulled real time DO carry it with pride, especially, if, like I did, they managed to "dodge the bullet" and get suspended sentences with minimal actual time. Both times I was convicted, assault was involved, both times, I was facing 5 years, and both times, I pulled minor time in county, and sentence suspension with fines, community service and other bullshit as part of the "overcrowded prisons probationer's program"...it's also what cost me my insurance and SEC7 liscense, and therefore my job in F&I, which is why I went back to school. As far as "being stupid enough to get caught"...it's kind of hard NOT to get caught if you're still beating on the fucker when the cops show up....we're not talking some dumbass "stick up a 7-11" bullshit, both times I was actually charged, it was article 901's. And if you knew a goddamned thing, you'd know assaults (especially serious ones) rank just below murder/manslaughter on the "yard respect" totem pole, so what time I DID do wasn't "bad time" in the least...especially since, since my sentences were suspended, I spent all my time in Whatcom County lockup, rather than waiting at Monroe (where I'd been had it been a homicide orvoluntary manslaughter charge). Waiting for sept 2007 to get the first one expunged (IF I can), and then gotta wait for 2009 for the second one, unless I manage to qualify for early expungement. When a pussy ass suburbanite momma's boy like you hasn't got the experience to know what hes talking about to begin with, he's usually best just sitting down and shutting up, 2na. Or maybe it's just coming from totally different backgrounds, I dunno...about half my family have records, my Dad's the "black sheep" in his family, mom's the one in hers, both because they've never been arrested, done drugs, or gotten tattooed...everyone else in the last two generations has at least two of the three of those in their history. Quite a few have all three. Different strokes for different folks, NWA...you know I got some serious respect for your mind and your opinion, but on this one, we'll just have to disagree...I think well done tatts are GORGEOUS...every serious "bible" I've ever read (Qu'aran, Bible, Talmud, etcetera) claims the body's a temple...I want the walls of mine painted more than plain white...just so long's I can put on a suit and hide it, so I can make a real living, once I finish with these last couple semesters. After they've hired you, most companies could give a flying fuck less what their IT/Code Monkies look like, just as long as they can do the job. Right now, it's looking like I'll end up working as a contractor for a few years, until the record "falls off", so I can get security clearances again, and am not blocked from certain liscenses and certifications (f'rinstance, stopped the CCIE program one semester in, when I found out that even if I passed, they wouldn't certify me until 2009 or I was fully expunged, since it's (in part) a security certification backed by the company itself).

Agreed. I'd almost like to get hold of the equipment it takes to do the movie costuming stuff like that and see if I COULD turn it into a working business, doing more realistic, longer-lasting "temporary tattoos" that were capable of being more than the little printed flim crapola ones or henna ones currently available to the public. Granted, they'd only sell to the poser drowd, the wannabe emos and goths, and such, but there's enough of them around with enough expendable income that it might just be doable...

Nothing "trekkie" about biotech body art, mate, it's a good way to belnd in a sleeve, and one of the most common (all that stuff you see with bare skin with "holes" in it showing stuff in the background in the tat 'zines is "biotech style", by definition, as is all the stuff with the skin appearing to be ripped so stuff can come through (like the skeletons or skeletal hands ripping through the skin, in appearance), I'm just taking it farther because I'm a Giger fan...not just of his stuff from the Aliens and Species movies, but of ALL his art, and much of the stuff influenced by it. I also happen to be a big fan of Escher, Bottecelli (who influenced the idea of possibly backgrounding the right arm in greyscale gargoyles), Dali, Pollock, and several others... As for you "kicking my ass"....that's a pretty good laugh...we got an e-tough over here threatening a guy with a multiple violent felony record, and a sheet of "unprosecuteds" long enough that more than half the cops in a town of 65K know him on site because the thinks his ink is "geek" or "pussy"....just how much ink you wearing, mate? If any, I'd lay odds you've thrown on trendy tribal or kanji bullshit, or maybe a cartoon Taz or maybe even (if you've done service) one of the service related "mascot" pieces. Come talk to me when you've worked out and at least started on at MINIMUM a half sleeve piece that's to be fully inked, no natural flesh left bare. TY NeoPhyte...Biotech..especially the HEAVY biotech like that isn't going to be everyone's style, by a long shot...part of why I like it so much. It's nto another one of the "christian collages" so common on Hispanics, or skull-and-death motifs done by blackwork fans, fits in with the more "hidden" symbols I'm incorperating, and should be something outstanding, different, and definately eye catching, even at body art shows and human suspension exhibitions...I figure if you're going to do something that pretty thoroughly lables you "subculture", you ought to do it right, rather than being like the 1980's "cookie cutter Punkers" or the 90's "Idustrial Goths", who showed how "different" and "outside the mainstream" they were by wearing what amounted to a fucking uniform.

yeah, but work like that, done for movies and shows, is temporary stuff placed with specially inked pre-made "flash" an artist (often a tottooist or body paint atrtist) makes sections of paper all cut to fit/wrap sectionf of body, draws the whole thing in, and they scan it...from then on, before shooting, they run it off on a printer (complete with cut-lines) fed with transfer paper, moisten the body with a solvent that helps the ink transfer without blurring, then those tatts are on unless strong alcahol is spilled on them (which is how they remove them...rubbing alcahol and swabs or paper towels) You can design or have designed, and purchase job lots of this sort of stuff cheap as hell, if you know where to go, but they fade out in 3-5 days without pre-application, even if you don't wash them off with alcahol. In other words, it's surface only...nice looking stuff, buit alot of it couldn't be done or wouldn't work for a real tattoo (especially the finework detail, which tends to "blur" on a real tat after 5-7 years, as the skin is stretched or loses elasticity, or is exposed too often to sun unprotected) As this style of "temporary tattoo" becomes cheaper to make, I expect it'll hit the market in a big way. Right now, you could buy a pre designed upper "suit" with 1000 copies (about 4 year's worth of daily, or 8 years, with care and every-other-day reapplication, since they'll survive a normal shower) would cost you about $4K, so long as you had ALL the proper measurements, or were willing to go to a tailor who's worked costuming or bodysuit work before to get them.

$200 for the work done so far, $100 advance on the next bit of outlining work, a total of $500 expected just for outlining, and probably another $1000 to $1800 to be spent on shading and coloring, just for the par6t that goes wrist to just above elbow. Probably $2500-$3500 for the full sleeve, when it's done (which will happen over the next year)