glasmalerei: I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. ([personal] deadlines)
2011-04-12 08:47 am
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hurrah, I did something useful!

Taxes! Ta-da. Knock one thing off the to-do list. I swear, this is the latest I've ever let filing the stupid things go. Normally I'm much more on the ball than this. v___v

But! They're filed. And that means soon the ultimate shiny will be mine.

....I haven't quite figured out where to PUT the ultimate shiny, yet. As I sort of like hanging out in the living room, but it's, y'know, the size of our TV (or close enough). O.o Quad cores only come in super sizes, apparently, and Dad is insistent that I get a quad core. I might have to take some of the rest of the tax return and invest in an actual solid end table to put it on (I'm currently using a not terribly solid folding wooden TV tray. =P)
glasmalerei: purple cartoon bunny (Default)
2011-03-09 03:06 pm
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Note to self...

...these might be relevant to my interests:

one | two | three


Also, I just really like these: one | two | three | four | five | six

....and now that I've made this post as a reminder/wish list, I'm going to totally STOP looking at Etsy before I get pulled into the yarns and rovings temptation.
glasmalerei: purple cartoon bunny (Default)
2010-11-26 07:38 pm

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I continue to struggle - badly - with my copywriting class. It's not morals or ethics or disgust at this point. It's sheer inability to actually DO the assignments as written. Literally. Because they're all "go watch/listen/research THIS form of media advertising and write X about it" which would be simplicity itself IF I HAD ACCESS TO ANY OF IT.

[tears at hair] I have not owned a television plugged into an exterior channel since I moved away from my ex's family 7 years ago. I haven't listened to the radio... possibly since I bought my first CD player back in the 90's? Not counting brief clips where I was switching out the CDs in the car stereo and the radio came on inbetween? I have never owned a popular magazine subscription (and having to buy one now reminds me WHY, as omg the perfume bits that fall out of those things are gross and even without that the paper itself just has that funky musty smell) and I'd say my last newspaper subscription was also 7 years ago (and was mostly used for the purpose of a, lighting fires in the fireplace, or b, packing stuff).

Why YES, I *DO* live in a pop culture VACUUM. I'm pretty damned happy that way. I get my media culture from the internet, and I've got AdBlock installed on EVERYTHING. v___v

This is making this class really severely unnecessarily HARD.

On the other hand, it lead me to finding this commercial. Which is PRICELESS. I hearts it. Alot. (Call of Duty: Black Ops. Fake violence, no blood, lots of really awesome people.)

...and now I go back to searching for commercials that suck, instead of ones that are awesome. ARGH.

EDIT: oh yeah. THIS is why I stopped listening to radio. It's not even the advertising - it's how incredibly stupid and jeuvenile and crude most of the radio DJs are. x____x
glasmalerei: siamese kitten reaching for toy ([personal] shiny!)
2010-11-26 12:57 pm

TMI Pimping

Anyone who's followed any of my TMI rambles for any length of time is probably familiar with the fact that I hate my female reproductive system and we have universally declared war on each other which involve irregular skirmishes that usually have me downing stupid amounts of pain killers and being all sorts of unhappy and gloppy.

Don't worry, this is NOT going to be one of those posts. ^_^

Cut for Pimps! (and also TMI) )
glasmalerei: innocent cat ([personal] ...who moi?)
2010-07-30 08:07 am
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Toes!

...which I will not announce in multi-scented rainbow hues with a gleeful fox grin, for those that know what I'm talking about. If you don't, then please ignore. In joke. ^_^

But! Seriously, TOES! The most comfortable and funkiest shoes EVER. At least for those of us who spend all of our time indoors barefoot. 'Cus hey! now the barefeet can be taken out of doors! Read more... )
glasmalerei: circular stained glass ([writing] covenant center)
2009-11-19 02:08 pm
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Wishlist Meme

Dear god, it's almost December! Where did the year GO??? x_x But 'la! The wishlist meme is going around the flist again, and I've got a few people pegged with "things I can maybe do", so I guess I should post mine.

1) Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 unlimited holiday wishes.

2) Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list.

Some of my favorite things... )
glasmalerei: siamese kitten reaching for toy ([personal] shiny!)
2009-10-20 12:57 pm
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Ink!

So, awhile back I commissioned [livejournal.com profile] hopeofdawn to draw a tattoo design for me, because I *LOVE* the way she does positive negative space for black ink work and she does fabulous foxes and I figured cheetahs aren't SO different from foxes, right? ^___^

She really outdid herself. Eeeeeeeeee!

The plan is to get it inked on my right arm, from shoulder and just above elbow. I'm sure my future tattoo artist is going to hate me for all those spots, but they're so cute! In that slinky feline sort of way. I love them!
glasmalerei: triumphant Zelenka ([fandom] eureka!)
2009-10-13 08:55 pm
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Typey thing!

I take back what I told Xineko - I can haz a typey thing! The nice guy in the apartment main office is nice, but sometimes a bit of a dork, and he forgot to bring my box up until well after the office closed, when he was leaving for the night. So now I have a Typey Thing!

Specifically I have a used blue Quickpad scavenged off of ebay for about $50 with shipping, all cords and the infrared receiver and even a full pack of batteries included (after they swore they couldn't ship them with batteries, but lo' and behold, when I got it out of the box it turned right on. I think somebody forgot to take them out.)

Given that it is ooooold 1980's technology masquerading as a portable word processor, I am immensely amused that the box came stuffed with dot matrix printer paper. =D (no, seriously. It has 113K of file storage. LOL!)

It's small and blue and cute! It's almost a full sized keyboard - it's maybe half a key shorter in width than my macbook keyboard. It's not at all hard to get used to that. On the other hand the keys are the 'rugged' type and made to be nearly indestructable (also easily removable and cleanable!) which seems to mean that I have to hit them much harder than I'm used to doing on my macbook. I found I was missing a lot of letters on my weaker fingers at first, but a bit of practice has smoothed that out. It does slow my typing speed down just a notch, but that's not a bad thing, really, and when I'm writing cold from my head (instead of transcribing handwritten notes) I'm not that fast anyways. (note - "fast" means I've been clocked at around 90wpm when transcribing, but drop that to stop and start bursts of 50-70wpm when writing cold.)

The IR receiver plugs right in, plug and play, and will happily beam text to any open text program - works just fine, on a Mac, in OpenOffice, Bean, and my personal favorite of Scrivner. It was trial and error again to figure out what the best settings were for uploading - there's a speed of 0 (slow) to 9 (fast) out of which 5 seems to work best for me, and oddly enough it likes PC mode better than Apple mode. It will still occasionally drop a letter or two when transferring the text, but I think that's because I was transferring it on my lap with the receiver on my knee and it wasn't exactly steady (infrared, not wireless). Alternatively, if I want to hit up RadioShack, there's a different type of cord that would connect it straight to the computer for direct transfer, I think.

The little screen isn't backlit, which is sad, but it's quite crisp and high contrast, not at all dirty or smudgy the way old screens can get. One of those little clip on book lights would probably solve the "typing in dim light" problem just fine, and I'll see how it does in sunlight next time I'm out in it. =P

[hugs it] eeee! I have a typey thing! Just in time to work on my first english mini-essay for tomorrow. =P