All posts by The Lost Catboy
The Lost Catboy is on a Grand Adventure™ to explore the very large world around him. Occasionally he stumbles across anime conventions, where he is easily identified by his large whiteboard sign (which he uses to communicate) and the enormous dinglybell at his neck.
Small, thoughtful, and friendly to a fault, Catboy serves
1000 Gears as the site's founder, philosophical guide, and soft, fuzzy mascot.
January 2nd, 2008
So, yesterday, your friendly neighborhood Catboy (this is me) noticed that some nice people had written an upgrade to the software that makes 1000gears work. It was a fairly simple upgrade, but very important to the website, so he (me, again) put on a hardhat and took out a big box of tools and opened up the computer to put in all the appropriate parts. There is a whole lot of stuff in there! Actually the software is very well-behaved and upgraded with only one small problem to the comment system. Fortunately the patented Catboy Bonk on the Head™ made it behave even better and commenting should be working exactly as expected now.
We are very sorry if there anyone had problems in the meantime.
Thank you,
~Catboy! =^.^=
December 25th, 2007
Well, it is a present for most of you. I think perhaps that some of you will not want it.
Just in time for Christmas, Tanko has given her permission for us to post the first Tybalt pictures ever! She drew them for The Tears of Anael when it was published in the YaoiCon 2004 fiction anthology.
Tybalt is very pretty, but in these pictures he is also very naked! Please use your best judgement before you click on the story.
Thank you and Merry Christmas,
~Catboy! =^.^=
December 25th, 2007
Hello everyone!
This is Catboy again. Today I am here to wish you a merry Christmas. If you are part of a religion that celebrates Christmas in a religious way, I hope today is spiritually satisfying for you, and that you may carry feelings of hope, charity, love, and forgiveness throughout the coming year. If you celebrate Christmas as a secular sort of gift-exchanging holiday of togetherness and love, I hope that everybody adores the gifts that you bring to them, that you adore the gifts that people bring to you, and that you eat too much food (but only a little too much!) that is both tasty and nourishing. Of course many people celebrate Christmas in both ways, and to all of you, I wish you both kinds of happiness.
If you are a person who does not celebrate Christmas at all, then I wish you a very happy Tuesday. Everything will be back to normal tomorrow.
Thank you,
~Catboy! =^.^=
I think I have not forgotten anybody. If you feel that I have forgotten you, please leave a comment and I will wish you an appropriate happiness as quickly as I can.
November 22nd, 2007
With a little luck he will leave one more post to tide you over until his return. He says that he will check in periodically but definitely be back by the end of the month. This is not so very long in the grand scheme of things.
In the meantime I will try to make sure to approve all the comments in a timely way, and also to filter out spam as it may arrive.
Thank you,
~Catboy! =^.^=
November 1st, 2007
Hello everybody!
This is Catboy!
I made this place for you. It is a gift. Mostly it is here so that people can share their bursts of creativity (writing and pictures both!), and other people can come to enjoy them. There are of course other places where you can do this. Unfortunately, I think one of the big places is having a rough year, which is making it cranky and not so nice to its contributors. Those places are very big and quite friendly. Friendly is very important, but I think some of the people on them, while very friendly, are… uhm… perhaps in need of more practice before they stand up in front of the world. *nod*
This is not such a good situation.
(Catboy always tries to be optimistic about people and is far too polite to actually point out specific examples. Fortunately for you, I am not. - Adrian)
So! I have thought for a long time about this problem.
