This is my xmas pressie to myself

About fifteen hours, a tng marathon, two xmas specials, a movie, and hours of doctor who, and i have my own scarf! It's not nearly so dense as if it was knitted, but the loom is way faster and softer. I do love it so!

link: Real Life Twist for Sonic Screwdriver

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/08/5612100-real-life-twist-for-sonic-screwdriver

Scientists at Bristol University are trying to create a working Sonic Screwdriver, and seem to be pretty far along with the basics. Which makes me stupidly happy. I want one so bad. More than I want a tricorder, although if I could have both, I could do anything.

memolane

Memolane has finally notified me of being open for testers, and I've set up my lifestream over there-- it's pretty awesome. I can apparently add anything that has a feed (which means TVGA and NYJB are out at the moment, but still), and it's got a really nice interface. See what you think.

men

Is it weird that I want to be able to wear clothes like a man? Sometimes, anyway. I don't want to be a man, I like being a woman and dating men, but I wish I could wear a coat like a man does, long and lean and tall, especially tall. It's not even that I wish I was taller-- I gave up on that wish when it was obvious I wasn't ever going to be taller than my 13 year old self-- but just... I wish I could be taller when I wear coats. I wish I could look like Sherlock and Peter Bishop when I have peacoats on.

I have aesthetics problems, obviously. It's why I keep getting pierced and tattooed. But there isn't anything that can make me look like that in the winter only, and only when I'm wearing my new coats. I'll have to make due with simply losing more weight so I can get the leaner part of the equation, at least!

I feel dreamy and mutable today, and it's aggravating that I can't be physically so changable.

Winter

You know, I actually like the cold. According to Paddle (my iPad), it's 32 degrees right now and it feels like 19 with the wind chill. And I'm okay with that. I get to use several blankets. I wear my hoodie to bed. I had an excuse to buy an all new wardrobe including three really awesome coats* and some fabulously long socks and seven pairs of Converse**. And it reminds me of most of the places I grew up that I remember. I think I'm genetically predisposed toward cold climates-- I definitely take after the Irish and welsh side more than the Cuban one!

All of this doesn't keep me from complaining or taking twice as long to get going in the morning, but I also spend the whole cold season not missing the heat, and not feeling like I'm fighting reality for my living preferences. It's much better and easier to layer on than it is to take clothes off when it's hot out.

Maybe I'll wear my greatcoat tomorrow.



*a peacoat with green lining, a long almost-peacoat with red stitching, and a fantastic vintage 70s greatcoat that looks like something the Doctor would wear and goes almost to my ankles.
**I hadn't intended to get so many, but I kept getting sniped, so I bid on a bunch, and I won a bunch (not the red ones, though, so I'll have to get them later). My brother is going to custom design a pair or two for me since I have some to spare.


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silly texting

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.

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.

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

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.

video: fat cat in a vase