Jesse: Hope you do well, oh luscious one.
Me: Hee!
Jesse: *How goes your day?
Me: Work is all school groups today, but not bad. Except kids don't tip.
Jesse: *Curses, no tips! But at least you're taller than them?
Me: About half the time!
Jesse: *Well, that evens your odds if you have to take them out.
Me: I know! And then I can kick them out!
Jesse: *I think perhaps you need a weapon, like a bat.
Me: A big bat! With lazers!
Jesse: And LEDs! And a plasma torch!
Me: And a flamethrower, and pretty ribbon streamers!
Jesse: Well, with all that, we had better get a robot to wield it.
Me: And a dinosaur to carry him!
Jesse: And a jet pack!
Me: In a spaceship!
Jesse: A spaceship with a mothership!
Me: A spaceship with a mothership and a squadron of fighters!
Jesse: A whole fleet of supercarriers!
Me: And a deathstar!
Jesse: And a Narn planet-killer!
Me: And a star-eater!
Jesse: You know, I'm thinking that all of this won't fit in your shop.
Me: Well, we need to reorganize the place anyway...
Jesse:Reorganize it with lazers!
Me: And a flamethrower!
Jesse: Heh, would that do it?
Me: If it doesn't, it's not much of a flamethrower.
*Reconstructed from my foggy memory because I was a doof and cleared my texts before copying half of these.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Monday, November 15, 2010
tv time with sami: castle, "murder of the fourth kind"
(or something)
I would just like to state that I loved this ep, and mostly for things that had little to do with the story itself: 1) it was self-awarely acting like an episode of X-Files, 2) there was that cute moment when they woke up in the car and then after, when they were insisting that it wasn't hickies and the boys didn't believe, 3) They used the term 'Cigarette Smoking Man', and best of all, 4) Castle speaks Cantonese because of 'a show I used to love' which, with Nathan Fillion speaking it, can only be Firefly!
Sometimes, this is my favorite show ever.
I would just like to state that I loved this ep, and mostly for things that had little to do with the story itself: 1) it was self-awarely acting like an episode of X-Files, 2) there was that cute moment when they woke up in the car and then after, when they were insisting that it wasn't hickies and the boys didn't believe, 3) They used the term 'Cigarette Smoking Man', and best of all, 4) Castle speaks Cantonese because of 'a show I used to love' which, with Nathan Fillion speaking it, can only be Firefly!
Sometimes, this is my favorite show ever.
Friday, November 12, 2010
lifestreaming
I want so badly to be able to plug all my rss into one place and have a nice, pretty, easy-to-view lifestream. My whole freaking life is online. I want to be able to link to it all in one place.
I currently have an account at Profilactic, which has a horrible name, and it's functional enough, but it doesn't look all that great-- it's just a list of things, no pictures, no icons, and it doesn't load some of my feeds all that well (or a few of them at all). MemoLane looks gorgeous but isn't available yet.
So I ask you, Interwebs: where should I go that has what I want (details to follow), that's free or very very nearly so, that doesn't require a lot of HTML or other coding, and that is reliable?
Here's what I'm looking for:
- Pretty to look at, with pictures displayed as well as titles-- or at least an icon of some sort indicating what sort of media it is or where it comes from (like Soup.io, but better)
- Reliable-- updates quickly and consistently, from all the feeds I put in, all the time.
- Easy to navigate
- Not a lot of coding work
- Not limited to the top ten social media sites or anything like that-- the more sites the better
Bonus points for:
- Auto-filtering of duplicate posts
- Extreme flexibility to add new feeds
- A really good interface or design
I currently have an account at Profilactic, which has a horrible name, and it's functional enough, but it doesn't look all that great-- it's just a list of things, no pictures, no icons, and it doesn't load some of my feeds all that well (or a few of them at all). MemoLane looks gorgeous but isn't available yet.
So I ask you, Interwebs: where should I go that has what I want (details to follow), that's free or very very nearly so, that doesn't require a lot of HTML or other coding, and that is reliable?
Here's what I'm looking for:
- Pretty to look at, with pictures displayed as well as titles-- or at least an icon of some sort indicating what sort of media it is or where it comes from (like Soup.io, but better)
- Reliable-- updates quickly and consistently, from all the feeds I put in, all the time.
- Easy to navigate
- Not a lot of coding work
- Not limited to the top ten social media sites or anything like that-- the more sites the better
Bonus points for:
- Auto-filtering of duplicate posts
- Extreme flexibility to add new feeds
- A really good interface or design
more ideas for an ideal life
My ideal life will include:
- A cast iron tea set, a yixing red clay tea set, and the ability to afford each without having to scrimp and save forever.
- The feeling of time, even if I'm really very busy: Time to spend an hour making and drinking tea on the front porch, time to plant my spring garden and tend it through the rough months until summer can take care of itself, time to grow roses, time to visit friends and go on vacations and attend local events and eat at food festivals.
I'm feeling like I need to make changes.
- A cast iron tea set, a yixing red clay tea set, and the ability to afford each without having to scrimp and save forever.
- The feeling of time, even if I'm really very busy: Time to spend an hour making and drinking tea on the front porch, time to plant my spring garden and tend it through the rough months until summer can take care of itself, time to grow roses, time to visit friends and go on vacations and attend local events and eat at food festivals.
I'm feeling like I need to make changes.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
wookie!
I don't know what kind of dog this is, but I MUST own at least one. Preferably more. And they will all be named obscure Wookie names (because most of them are probably named Chewbacca). And instead of collars, I'll train them all to wear shoulder sashes and belts.
but where would they make their home?
Picture from here, c/o Geninne: http://blogdelanine.blogspot.com/2010/11/fish-bird.html
I adore the idea of a fish and a bird being in love. One of my stories that's been backburnered but still floats to the surface (how's that for a mixed metaphor) is about just exactly how and where they'd build their house. I think it's linked to my annoyance at fairytale endings where the monster has to become a prince and then they can live happily ever after. I mean, why? They fell in love the way they were. Why can't they stay in love the way they are? I'm determined to show that it's possible. Probably over and over again throughout my career. In the meantime, I'll love pretty art like this that shows that they really can be in love and that it's just fine if they are.
::love::
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
link: a world of tweets
http://aworldoftweets.frogdesign.com/
This is kind of beautiful-- a dot for every tweet. As of the time of this writing, the hot spots were NY, London, Paris and Indonesia, and I saw someone tweet from the Azores and the middle of Siberia. It's so great! It's like looking at the world from space, only all you see is people connected to the internet.
I wish there was a way to embed it in realtime so everyone can see it...
California, Japan and Brazil have come onto the scene. And someone just tweeted from Africa! I'm sucky at identifying African countries (all the maps have changed since Geography), but it looked like Cameroon-ish. No, I was wrong-- Nigeria. Man, I need to learn me some maps.
This is kind of beautiful-- a dot for every tweet. As of the time of this writing, the hot spots were NY, London, Paris and Indonesia, and I saw someone tweet from the Azores and the middle of Siberia. It's so great! It's like looking at the world from space, only all you see is people connected to the internet.
I wish there was a way to embed it in realtime so everyone can see it...
California, Japan and Brazil have come onto the scene. And someone just tweeted from Africa! I'm sucky at identifying African countries (all the maps have changed since Geography), but it looked like Cameroon-ish. No, I was wrong-- Nigeria. Man, I need to learn me some maps.
Monday, November 1, 2010
lists, lists, lists
I am a compulsive list-maker. Have been as long as I can remember. And because of that tendency, I've recently (since about 2008, near the end) started organizing my life with lots of lists. What I have to do this week. What I have to do today, tonight, right now. What I have done. Books I've read. Movies I've seen. How much I worked each day. What I've spent and how much money I have. What I eat each day. How much exercize I do, and now much weight I've lost and what my goals are for both. All my appointments, my addresses, my penpals. All this week's ideas and everything I should look up. On and on an on.
And I love it.
There's a book I saw at the bookstore about making lists, and I lust after it like it's pornogrpahy or something.
And you know what? It's working. I don't always list everything every day. Sometimes I go entire weeks without anything of the sort. But mostly I print up all the sheets I've downloaded and made for myself every Sunday or Monday, and I use my lists, and I miss very few deadlines now unless something unforseeable comes up. I almost never go under in my bank account. I get a dozen articles written each week, usually. Sometimes I even have time to goof off or go looking for more work or whatever. And it's freeing. My lists let me not have to worry about it all, so my brain can be occupied with getting stuff done. All the organizing websites said that's what it would do, but I didn't really believe them until now. But it's true.
So viva la lists.
And I love it.
There's a book I saw at the bookstore about making lists, and I lust after it like it's pornogrpahy or something.
And you know what? It's working. I don't always list everything every day. Sometimes I go entire weeks without anything of the sort. But mostly I print up all the sheets I've downloaded and made for myself every Sunday or Monday, and I use my lists, and I miss very few deadlines now unless something unforseeable comes up. I almost never go under in my bank account. I get a dozen articles written each week, usually. Sometimes I even have time to goof off or go looking for more work or whatever. And it's freeing. My lists let me not have to worry about it all, so my brain can be occupied with getting stuff done. All the organizing websites said that's what it would do, but I didn't really believe them until now. But it's true.
So viva la lists.
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