Mood: 
hot
Music: Exo-Politics (Muse)
Mood: hot
Music: anime series intros
Mood: hot
Music: That Lost Horizon (Moby Grape)
Razermouse is nice, but I NEED to screw with the button config. Back and forward should not be the easily bumped side button. Xorg funtimes, hooray. The question is, do I attempt madness like rigging the less-hittable button to control previous/next track in foobar, knowing my ability to know just enough linux-fu to break things? Decisions, I tell you.
The actual mouse? I'd say it fits my hand better than most mice. The finish is niiiice and squishy, not the too-soft rubber I feared. It's got the usual too-tight wheel and really loud click issues mice seem to have before they're broken in, and the side buttons had* these annoying little bumps on, but other than that, it's quite comfortable, which is more than I can say for most high-DPI mice. It also seems to work out of the box in Windows, so I am so using it to play Sim City. The regular optical mouse just feels like failslow after about five seconds of using it on that big resolution.
We won't speak of my attempts to get wireless working on shinybob other than I hate you too, Network Manager. You have not won, I'll be back D:<.
* I like knives.
Mood: 
dorky
Music: You Shook Me All Night Long (AC/DC)
NOTE TO SELF: Don't eat that brand of cheese crackers again. It might have been the spices or something, but woaaaah guts do not want.
Have
the page of horrible and
two drabbles.
I'll finish that (fem)slash eventually. Really.
There's also a
new version of VLC media player out. If you're using older Ubuntu like me,
this should help.
It seems to no longer fail at softsubs, and does a bit better with H.264. Yay :D.
Mood: 
working
Music: Rescue / Discovery of the Great Valley (James Horner)
My wrist is still reminding me to take typing/mousing breaks, but it's amazing the difference 10 dollars worth of super-firm pillow (on sale, thank you Sears) makes for my desk posture. A more fancypants mouse is also on the way, which should help with having to move too much once I get it talking to Ubuntu properly. WHICH I'M SURE WILL BE NO PROBLEM, I NEVER HAVE BAD HARDWARE LUCK. ahaha. ha.
Crossing fingers! Also crossing fingers I can get my muses back so I can finish a short or two...and come to think of it, I have a drabble or two I haven't posted yet >_>.
Brief wtf at Newegg: they sent me a squishy laptop sleeve (for 15.5" widescreens) in a box I could easily fit a Gilvader's box in. Maybe it was all they had handy, I dunno. At least I actually needed a box that size for something I'm mailing!
Which reminds me, I have a number of things to pack/envelopify tomorrow morning. Do not forget, self.
(I wonder how many times I've burned copies of Fuzors for people. I REGRET NOTHING.)
Mood: 
hungry
Music: The Goodies
Unfortunate but amusing name overlap ahooooy. I wish I had reason to order such a cake :p.
Random sketches on impossible to photograph paper:
Angry Zoidbunnies (I found the Watership Down soundtrack)
Contour-drawn (sorta) HelcatCannibal wild Command Wolves (please ignore the messed leg perspective on the being-eaten one)
"Has Timmy forgotten to feed his pets again?"
"I say, looks like it. Well. What're we gonna tell him about Snowy?"
"Well, we could get him another that looks just like it, and sneak it in..."
"Oh no, not again, not after the goldfish."
Mood: 
sore
Music: Guess.
For all they LOOK unpleasant, wrist braces feel quite nice on wrists that are currently Very Cross about bad mousing + sleeping on them funny. I TRY to sleep on the other side, but I wake up on the sore arm every time. I'm too used to sleeping on my right side >_>. My other issue is I can't lower my desk enough to be ergonomic, and I don't want to be buying an expensive chair now when I'll be moving in a reasonable amount of time.
Which brings me to a question: High DPI mice. Recommendations? I hate hate HATE weird-shaped mice or anything with a funny texture, and I don't like extra buttons sticking out odd places, so looking at gamer mice I'm finding my options rather...limited.
This looks nice (I'm fond of Intellimice), but there's a number of reviews saying the cords short easily, which is ominous.
This one the texture worries me a bit, but it looks like it might fit my hand nicelike. Anyone used either?
I don't care about game response so much as something that'll be sensitive like woah and respond to very small wrist/hand motions to help cut down on strain.
Happier topic: I think I rather like Gargoyles (I'm about 12 episodes in, so no spoilers ;p). I have no idea how I missed it as a kid, though I'd have been weirded out by all the Trek voice actors!
Mood: 
sick
Music: Truly Madly Deeply (Savage Garden)
Did Irvine ever officially join up, or did he make those NOT GF RLY cracks up to the end?
Also, what exactly was Fiona studying with Doctor D other than ancient ruins and such, is it described anywhere? I can't find my English copy of that episode right now.
I'm still trying to finish that damned short thing with Riese and Fiona and am struggling with details because I fail at CC. Shut up.
Mood: working
Music: AMVs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoids#Battle_StoryI think I went a bit reference overboard to compensate for the lack of them elsewhere. Oh well, at least the fanon crap is dead now and it's hopefully more relevant to...the actual products, instead of just being plot summary. Feel free to fork at it (and/or remove crappy references for better ones in outside publications), but pleeease don't add anything you're not sure of. I keep having to pry weird crap out of other articles. Why so much fanon and weird for an obscure Japanese toyline?
Also, to whom it may interest:
Wild Giga.
Mood: 
frustrated
Music: Combining Can Go Fuck Off!! (Iwasaki Taku)
( Nobody wants my conditional comments NOT behind a cut! )PLUS
<!--[if !(IE 8)]> --> (list code here) <!-- <![endif]--> (see
this article) for two hunks of links because I can't figure out what's wrong with my menu in IE 8 and having it totally barf until I do is bad.
Yeah. I'm having a how much is my code and how much is bugs day when I'm less annoyed with it, pronto :p. And as much as I hate older IE and many of Microsoft's decisions regarding it, I will say this: THANK YOU FOR CONDITIONAL COMMENTS. I wish every browser had them.
Mood: hungry
Music: Joan Crawford (Blue Öyster Cult)
I keep sleeping badly. I have an all-day class thing tomorrow and will be getting there via a bus route I'm not terribly familiar with. This is not a good combination, considering my sense of direction*! Maybe I should take my camera, so if I get temporarily lost it'll be interesting :p.
For those after the HMM Gun Sniper,
HLJ has a preorder (so does
this site, though I've not used them). Due in October! (edit)
Image Anime too, if you want a store in the US.
Sharks :D. (Sharks are cute, dammit.)
Marriage Ligers, with their own little cake and asdsfsdfaawwww.
Thanks to Newegg I picked up a couple pretty (and cheap) 2 gig USB sticks. They're clear plastic/dark shiny metal. The clear purplepink one has been dubbed Mina, and I am likely going to make it into an Ubuntu Live CD in stick form. The clear yellow one still needs a name and a purpose in life, but I'm sure I'll find one. (Not Blake, you people snickering about mount.)
Ice Blazer inna hat. I haven't mouse drawn much lately, because my wrist is cross with how I'm mousing lately and I'm trying to figure out how to improve this rather than being stupid and pushing it too much.
So far, sitting farther up relative to my desk and turning my mouse sensitivity up (less motion to use it) have been most useful. I'm gonna keep upping the mouse thing as I get used to each setting. This has the bonus of making my computer further unappealing for people to try and borrow, though not as much, I suspect, if I ever attempt to learn Dvorak. (Yes, that's a bonus. No touchy my
baby computer buddy.)
Now, dinner. And an attempt to catch up on a bunch of posts and feedback/e-mails I owe people.
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astrae, Blade Liger showed up :D.
* Or, more accurately, lack thereof.
Mood: sore
Music: Ride the Wind (Poison)
End arc of CC—or GF, if you prefer. That city was buried until required by plot, yes, hence nobody noticed? (I can't remember exactly) So why are there gardens? There's a few planty things visible
when Shadow fuses with the Breaker the last time, and I would assume other places.
What?
Complete anime topic change: if anyone else wants crappy H.264 (recompressed from Xvid, because I'm lazy) of the various interpret-as-dodgy-if-you-want bits with Blake and Luke:
http://www.creativeinsanity.net/stuff/temp/blakeluke.zipOkay, so the BE gift bit's not dodgy, but
aww, birdy Zoid, so it goes in there. I may do something like this with audio of
all the assorted dodgy lines (go get bent!) in Fuzors later.
Buster Eagle zappy bit added now.
Mood: 
weird
Music: We're for the Dark (Badfinger)
Unrelated, but first off:
jammerlea and
astrae, your boxes are mailed. I hope they show up soon :D.
Music that is probably not best for writing fluff:
- Judas Priest
- Persuader
- Rick Astley[1]
I still hate trying to write character interaction with two guys. Three, at one point.[2] The pronouns, the pronouns. Blake is also a pain in the ass
why did I choose his point of view arrrgh I hate you Blake.
Signs you've been at Nethack too much: the typo of "charging" rather than "changing" something worn out sounds perfectly reasonable for a moment, even in the context of switching which arm you're holding something up with [3]. ARMS DO NOT RUN OUT OF USES, SELF.
More relevant than my rantings: Food in the form of sandwiches. What does Luke eat? And what's an annoying (but not terribly bizarre) sandwich component (condiments included) Blake might opt for to spite RD for stealing his food?[5]
( stop with the footnotes! )
Mood: weird
Music: Together Forever (Rick Astley)
I had a survey ask me about my "greatest beauty challenge". As this is 2 AM and I was feeling...odd, I typed this up on the fly with little regard to grammar or cohesion. I hope it DOES cheer someone up, or at least make the world
a weirder place in a nicer sort of way than an angry bobcat*.
rustydragonfly made me post it.( JEREMY AND THE WIG CHALLENGE )*Why does it have a long tail, anyway? It's still one of my favorite strips.
Mood: sore
Music: Rythem of an Ambush (Robert Etoll)
Mood: sore
Music: Digimon Savers
Zoid model peoples,
Leon Bladey,
Schwarz!Tiger,
Breaker, and some other HMM kits are on sale.
There's also lots of things from the Rebirth Century line with prices slashed.
Gul Tiger + gradeup for 1500 yen, 1250 yen
Kingligers,
Orudios for 2750 yen...and others. Search around a bit, it looks to be more than just Zoids.
Anyone wanna send me a Leonbladey in trade for some crap on
this list so I can finally use those chrome claws :p?
Speaking of which, I have some stuff to box up and shipping to estimate. Ow. So much hurting. Body faaails.
Mood: dorky
Music: ...Balto.
Our across-the-street neighbor came over while I was playing Sim City on the desktop, bringing a giftcard to the local movie theater as a present. What good timing, my sister and I said (after saying thank you, of course ;p), since we were gonna go see the Trek movie soonish. On impulse, I went to check when this weekend they were showing it. The theater's page had 7:20 Thursday, and my sister jokes hey, let's go now (this being around 7:00). I check Friday...hey, no Star Trek. No Star Trek Saturday either...turns out that was the last showing, period.
What the hell, we thought, and hurried to bum a ride off my dad, 'cause the bus is slow in the evenings. We made it in just as the previews were finishing...to a theater with only a few people, and the good seats right in the middle in the speakers' sweet spot still free.
As I got home, movie enjoyed...this month's set of bleeding and cramps started up. There'd have been no way I'd have been able to go this weekend even if they still had it in. Good luck, for once!
This so makes up for Generations upsetting me in the theater as a young child.
djslkfjdslf Kirk ;_;. Stop laughing at me. ( la la spoilers )
Mood: hungry
Music: Hangar 18 (Megadeth)
I was flailing at a reverse dictionary to get word ideas related to background sound in
mecha hangars out of it, and one of its first suggestions for "hangar noise" was "
rust in peace"...
Stuff I've meant to post for a while now, also on
fanfic.net. I need to not procrastinate/waffle so much over silly little shorts, eesh.
I posted a rough draft for the Bit and Stoller rematch here before, the rest will vary in newness depending on if I've thrown it at you before.
Right. Food.
Mood: 
restless
Music: I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That) (Meat Loaf)
I just caught a spider skittering about on my desk and trying to chill out on (in!?) my AKGs. Maybe he was seeking metal?
For bonus points, mister spider looked juuuust enough like a recluse* from a distance to freak me out, and in climbing over my desk to capture him and reassure my paranoid side I managed to knock the cable out of my external DVD burner mid-write and make a coaster. Nice, Tilly, real smooth.
Come morning, I will release him downstairs/outside to seek out girl spiders in peace. I've got enough bigger carnivores in my room-ecosystem already between the OTHER house spiders and the centipede :p.
* Yes, I know they're not supposed to be found in Wisconsin. I can still wtf at the idea when half awake.
Mood: 
ITCHY
Music: Fooled By the Serpent (Communic)
Figures, I found Zoids content in the
gopher world...and it was porn. Porn involving Moonbay and Fiona and periscoping breasts, and Leena seducing Naomi. OKAY THEN.
Speaking of sex: TREES, QUIT DOIN' IT. Apparently my immune system thinks pollen = EVERY BIT OF SKIN ITCH NOW, even with antihistamines in me.
Mood: 
sleepy
Music: Sorairo Days -Tengen Toppa EDITION Lagann-hen- (Shoko Nakagawa)
With the plants—wonderful little growing green plants—unfortunately come allergies, and with the spiders waking up come active house centipedes. I spotted a large one in my room and had a nice chat with it
while hassling it with my camera. Some of 'em hold still better that way, I swear, presumably because they're figuring out where the sound's coming from and why that human thing is making noises that aren't AAAAUGGGGH.
Between the stripes, their smooth leggy walk (seriously, watch one stalk rather than sprint if you get the chance/aren't phobic, they're so
fluid), and their hunting-fu, house centipedes are like the tigers of house-dwelling arthropods. Or something.
Mood: groggy
Music: The Games We Play (Andreas Johnson)
The Japanese /Zero DVDs appear to be TELECINED. I'M AN IDIOT. Further experiments forthcoming, but
here's one of my better tries. I can't seem to get rid of all the blobby/issues, but they may well be stuck there like the Ghosts of Shitty Conversion on the Fuzors discs...Zoids DVDs are not exactly stunning examples of quality. Any advice that's suitable to Handbrake welcome >_>.
Next up: figuring out how to remove commercials that are stuck in the same chapter as the ending! These DVDs have the worst chaptering evar.
Mood: hot
Music: Stripped (Depeche Mode)
Zeekdober's face is very weirdpointy. In a good way, I'm just saying. So pointy.
The Rebirth Century one is nice other than the prebuilt motorbox and gun molding changes, the plastic quality's solid and the black a nice matte. Appropriate, considering it's meant to be stealthy. The guns are more mobile than I thought, too...it can almost tuck its tail between its legs, and the back ones can move quite a lot if the blades aren't deployed.
Definitely another Zoid to put in the better than I expected category. Not superamazing from an engineering standpoint like Gungy, but a nice quick build with a pleasing result, kinda like a large windup and battery-op had babies. That's true of a lot of small Gradeups, really!
Go, crappy camera video fuction!
Mood: hot
Music: Devil in Jersey City (Coheed and Cambria)
Viral's claw-tastic hands sorta remind me of
Mok. Yeah, that can go in the "why did you do that brain now I
cannot unsee" bin now.
Poor Rock and Rule, it's nicely trippy and has decent music, but stays crazy obscure. Okay, the plot is wibbly from budget issues, but so was Heavy Metal's and it has much more cult status-fu :p.
Mood: 
hyper
Music: PBS auction
1)
Episode 26 screenshots (perhaps a bit overkill)
2)
MOLGA3)
...raver storch? (H.264 video, no audio, mkv container...
rapid blinky colors warning!)
Right, I have practical stuff I need to do, like get stuff ready to mail and things. Except I'm all gibbery, which is why I ingested caffeine to start. Now I'm gibbery and wired. Productive faaaaail.
Mood: weird
Music: Mission Impossible (Nick Mansell)
STORCH FRIENDSBetter photos when the sun isn't setting (I had to take a rather long exposure there) and I've dusted the poor NJR. Just thought you'd want to know the little guy made it okay.
Mood: sore
Music: So Did We (Isis)
Mood: frustrated
Music: AMVs
I WANT TO REMOVE MY ENTIRE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM. WITH AN XACTO KNIFE AND A MELON BALLER.
...okay, the boobs can stay, they're relatively inoffensive. THE REST DIES.
Less argh, some wtfery courtesy of my spam:
"That's why our revolutionary MaxGentlemen System has been specially formulated to start working RIGHT AWAY to give you both a noticeable increase in length, thickness, and control of your iErections..."
iErections?
iErections!?
Mood: hot
Music: Days of Thunder (Vanden Plas)
Dear people in charge of Doctor Who: If there is not a blu-ray/official downloadable-H.264-HD-tastic release of the specials that I can purchase in gratitude for you not being dicks about torrents that let me see things in a timely manner, I will be sad. We'll ignore I can't even play blu-ray yet.
DETAILS sjdsadkalkjdalskdj. And that was only 720p.
The actual show was good too ;p. Om nom stingrays nom.
Mood: working
Music: Bohemian Like You (The Dandy Warhols)
The more I work with writing, the more I think I like making outlines/summaries and plotting things out than the actual act of writing them. Same with editing. I love polishing drafts once I actually shake them out of my brain, but getting to that point, argh.
A lot of artists would love something that'd draw from the mind's eye. Me, as cool as that sounds...I'd want something that writes from my internal narrative so I could get the damn stuff out as things other than incoherent snippets and outlines.
Sigh. At least a couple of my half-done short fics are slowly moving.
Unrelated: Star Trek movies still make me warm and fuzzy in that childhood flashback way, and now I'm one Handbrake-flogging short of having 2/3/4/6 as nice computery files to watch. I really should pick up the first and fifth sometime, even if they're (respectively) slow-paced and a bit pants. Sometimes utter campy cheese can be fun (see: certain episodes of the animated series).
Mood: sick
Music: Gethsemane (Nightwish)
DO WANT new Doctor Who. The question is, do I want the crappy Xvids that'll be springing up very quickly so I can see it NOW AGH, or do I wait for an H.264/HD encode so I can see it all pretty? (I wish I wish the BBC's streaming thing was international.)
Meanwhile: PBS finally got back to showing season 3. Sure, it's much slower progress through the series than Sci-Fi, but THERE'S NO COMMERCIALS. BBC programs don't take to them well, as they don't have that Obvious Narrative Pause built in. So I could watch the DVDs...it's nice seeing it on TV proper. Even if it ends up doubly letterboxed between PBS and our 4:3 TV (what).
(edit) Woohoo, 720p. gogogo.
Mood: sore
Music: computer hum
Not terribly many because my hand hates me (and I'm behind on photographing things), buuut I was doodling the
wild Heldy in that one GBC game with intent to sculpt it later...and realized I was in the need of
lizard practice. Those are all very photoreferenced poses (and ignore that one foot, oh man XD), mostly of monitor lizards of varying types. Yeah, Heldy's an iguana, but it looks monitorish, dangit. Started a
Saber Tiger, then got mad at the proportions and didn't finish.
I also found a notebook with weird old critters I drew as a kid. It's not photographed yet, but I redrew one of the highlights,
this thing. Yeah, I dunno either. It looks more cat/llama/bit of donkey now.
Mood: durr
Music: Macross Frontier
Text courtesy of
jammerlea, from the 10th anniversary book's profiles:
リュック
サベージハンマーのパイロット。メカに詳しく、理知的で冷静な少年。実はリヒタースケ
ールのー員で、アルファ=リヒターの子ども、そんな己の立場への反発からか、自由に生
きるブレードにあこがれている。
Luke is a Savage Hammer pilot, knows mecha well, is calm and intellectual blah blah. Is also Alpha's son (confirmation!) and a member of the Richter Scale, but doesn't dig that whole viewpoint and...yearns for/admires/uh Blake for how he lives freely? Interpret
the verb how you want, I'd be tempted to translate it "fanboys".
...now Luke's
definitely related to Zenebas in my personal continuity. How bizarre. (I have Alpha as a descendant of some random bastard child, because those so would exist.)
I cannot find my heating pad, and any dose of painkillers that works leaves me loopy. OH YAYYYY.
Mood: urk.
Music: Macho Man (Village People)
I should be working on a thousand things. RP posts. Rebirth Century. Sculpture. Real life. Etc. But this wanted to be done, and so...it was mostly done. Other than one bit that's irritating me, and the usual stray lines/comments on them to be edited out when I stick it on my site. The original text is
here.
( Iiiit's Bitey's long-lost ancestor? )I still can't sleep ssdakalkfasdlkfdf stupid sick.
Mood: sore
Music: SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO
My old (8+ years, yellowed by the sun and some letters wearing off) keyboard still works :D. I have nowhere on my desk to put it at the moment and it's taking getting used to again, but man. Microsoft may have their software issues, but I actually rather like their hardware as far as inexpensive stuff goes. This sucker saw me through a lot of crappy writing, and none of the keys are being screwy.
Now if I could just figure out what I was thinking when I typed up half of this stuff so I could figure out where I put it and thus what's done already :p.
Mood: sore
Music: Are You Gonna Be My Girl (Jet)
Oh man,
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little_details wins XD. Questions posted in cat macro format ♥.
And is it bad I'd actually
buy this if it were real?
Google also wins. Oh man, the style guide XD.
Less amusing: I can't find the American plug bit for my MP3 player's charger, whiiich means I'm stuck charging via USB until I can find my old one/another, and with this battery that's an exercise in Waiting Forever...assuming it works at all, which I hope it does. Joy. At least I've still got the England plug.
The downstairs computer also decided breaking the mouse's drivers would be a fun prank and I had to find/reinstall. Woohoo :p.
Mood: 
amused
Music: GUESS.
I wonder how many people are gonna take LJ's latest "news" post seriously. Looking at the comments, a good many XD.
Also, Macross is awesome.
Mood: sore
Music: Knightmare :D
I appear to have somehow botherified a nerve in my right arm, so that I feel as though I've hit my funny bone. Except...milder, but not going away.
I figure avoiding using the mouse as much for a while will help that heal...so time to brush up on my keybroad-fu.
...more websites need to be more easily navigated with the tab key >_>. I wonder if I should make my skip links thingy visible.
Mood: hungry
Music: AMVs (again?)
I'd never wanted Twinhorn enough to pay OJR prices, but I finally built my Graphics one a bit ago. I like it more than I expected. The head bobs up and down in motion, which makes it quite funny when you're winding it up. The level of molded detail is quite impressive too, so I may have to panel line later.
The plastic was a bit bleh, though not brittle outright...and I swear the legs are more black than they should be, assuming the OJR matches Storch (anyone with both OJR?). But it's still a Twinhorn, and they're pretty cheap right now. If you're a windup fan, it gets my thumbs-up. I'm not articulating well, so...here, pictures!
POKEDangle(I know I have the back guns pointing the "wrong" way. They look better that way to me, so nyah.)
Mood: dorky
Music: Master of Puppets (Metallica)
I just spent ages trying to figure out why HandBrakeCLI was segfaulting, removing bits of syntax I'd possibly messed up one at a time.
THERE IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE between -t 1 -c 4 and -t 4 -c 1, self. THIS DVD HAS ONLY ONE CHAPTER PER TITLE.
*facepalms*
Oh well. ENCODE IS A SUCCESS. As stupid as I feel, there's something very satisfying about bricking a computer into doing what
I say, dammit via the Terminal—I was using the CLI in the first place because the GUI was being weird about resizing.
Mood: geeky
Music: AMVs
http://pics.livejournal.com/pointytilly/gallery/0006d0px (if something doesn't show up, hit refresh, Scrapbook's being strange)
The best is the
AMAZING IE 6.I think I have an (original, not even SE!) Windows 98 install CD somewhere too :3.
(edit) Install is working, stupid default XP menus/toolbar thingy killed dead. Next up, SOME kind of virtual desktop and Handbrake, while I DIE FROM WINDOWS UPDATES.
I hope nobody else wanted the connection right now.
(edits 2 and 3) Trying to install SP2...made it bluescreen, but worked on the second try. Woo :p.
Mood: sleepy
Music: Stray (Wolf's Rain)
The dishwasher killed itself in smoke and sparks* tonight, and Rosa somehow corrupted her filesystem in weird ways it took Broccoli's superior NTFS support to fix, never mind the poor thing's NTFS to start so she can talk to Windows and hold raw DVDs. Urge to reformat to ext3 anyway...rising.
I have my eye on you, other appliances in the house. No messing up too!
* No exaggeration, apparently. I didn't see it, just smelled burning electronic components...then realized it was coming from downstairs.
Mood: sore
Music: AMVs
My dreams are normally not very realistic, and frightening things in them do not scare me...especially when I dream as characters. Thus, the mostly very realistic settings + actually creepy stalker man + dreaming as me was most unwelcome.
( cut for length more than anything THAT disturbing )I wake up again, reflecting on how cheesy that was...before scuttling upstairs, locking the downstairs door, making mental agh faces at how many windows
this house has, and deciding
OKAY THEN FOUR AND A HALF HOURS OF SLEEP WILL HAVE TO DO. I did not want a sequel dream, thanks.
I'm still awake. I should be writing, but I have one of those didn't-sleep-well headaches now...when I originally went to sleep
because I had a headache. Rrrrgh.
Mood: restless
Music: Planet Claire (The B-52s)
Megaupload keeps giving me a failed attempt at a driveby-install in one of its ad things tonight. It gets as far as flinging a popup on download at me (since Megaupload dies with javascript blocked, those show up every so often), then said popup is all HAY, WANNA DOWNLOAD THIS EXE FILE? And its guts definitely
aren't full of TASTY WINDOWS CANDY.Juuust a heads-up. I figure people know better than to download AND run something like that, but I'm not sure how much warning other browsers/OS might give.
Mood: sleepy
Music: Elevator (Aerosmith)
If you're wondering why I've been spacy the last couple of days, intro to SQL three-day class thing eat brain. Okay, it's only regular class/school/wtfever length, but it's a lot of condensed info and I don't operate well on a an omgnormal sleep pattern and have thus been at the caffeine mints to keep functional. (I so will need to work from home or find something third/weird shift. Eesh, brain.)
I love USB sticks so much. I can have Notepad++, Firefox, and GIMP all running how I like without messing with anyone else's stuff. It's not perfect, mind. While I don't hate XP, Windows seems damn cludgy to me now. Ubuntu + Gnome has spoiled me with proper virtual desktops and always on top/always on visible workspace and everything being MOVABLE on the panel and sdjksljfflj.
I should really get some new pads for my PX-100s, these are getting a) worn and b) full of fluff/dead skin/fuzzy crap of unknown origin similar to a keyboard. Ew.
Mood: caffeine
Music: AMVs
NO I DO NOT NEED IE OKAY. I defeated it by...setting Wine to pretend to be Windows 98. SEVERE.
Pressure sensitivity is nonexistent, however, and I'm not sure if it's Elements, Wine, or my tablet. Should probably have yet another go at getting the bugger to fully work, I've got to just be missing something stupid. (I know about that big tutorial on the Ubuntu support forums. Been there/done that/got the T-shirt, sadly.)
Next up: Figuring out if'n I can fix the errors I get with both versions of Painter Classic...in the original's case, it seems to be the software itself, not Wine (just have to figure out how to apply the HAX that unbreaks it).
Amusingly, ArtRage works perfectly other than one keyboard shortcut failing...and there's a fix for that I need to find again.
But first, time to catch up on some RPG-related stuff. I can't help it, the Zoids ones always suck me back in.
Mood: dorky
Music: GAOGAIGAR
Auuuurgh, ReBoot. I mean, I knew there was gonna be a cliffhanger, but...dammit ;_;. I wish there were more.
I hate thumbnails. I'd do them in an automated batch with GIMP, but that doesn't offer the same control as hand-picking what bits to use and blahblah. There's still a lot to do for my site once I've got the reviews reworked, but I kinda want to get it all on the new layout ASAP so I can use it as an example of my website-making-fu. (Yeah, fansite, but it's got a little thought to accessibility and browser compatibility :p.)
(I need to make
rustydragonfly a new layout too, come to think of it.)
Mood: giddy
Music: The Day We Caught the Train (Ocean Colour Scene)
Hrm, Firefox hasn't randomly crashed since upgrading to 3.0.6.
Crossing fingers.
From the files of "because I can" and "oh look, I found a dice store that takes amazon.com gift certificates"...
stacks. The ickle purple one is now my mom's (she liked it), the teal one (without the flamingo) glows in the dark, and the clear coral one is my old desk d20. (If you ever fought an arena battle on MMM with me judging, at least a small part of your fate was in its hands ;p.)
Sadly, I have no gaming use for them at the moment. I must find one, as dice exist to be used!
Mood: tired
Music: King Of Bohemia (The Zozo Sisters (Linda Ronstadt, Ann Savoy))
http://www.creativeinsanity.net/writing/I can't remember if everything there is stuff I've posted before—in other words, there may be new (or at least revised) material lurking in the backlog. Really old crap is in...well, old crap. Watch it on LJ
here, though at the moment it's a weirdly ordered blob of older posts. (Sorry.)
And speaking of embarrassing old crap?
FEAR IT.That is actually far worse to show off than any old writing could ever be...
Other to do today: Get stuff ready to mail and some DVDs of crap burnt.
Mood: high
Music: Look In His Eyes (Flotsam & Jetsam)
(18:17:22) Tilly: And guess what my mom has.
(18:17:40) Tilly: Well, back when a certain book came out, she wanted to see what the fuss was. And then found it terrible...
(18:17:43) Tilly: CAN YOU GUESS?
(18:17:53) Rustydragonfly: ..oh NO
(18:17:58) Tilly: Oh yes.
(18:18:18) Tilly: [Before that I was] describing Gurren Lagann to her and now she wants to see it
(18:18:31) Tilly: And I like, open Twilight up and start reading out passages in bad voices
(18:18:47) Tilly: And then I hit one where Edward compares himself to a shark. okay, where the vampires are compared to them, I fail at flipping pages XD
(18:18:54) Tilly: And I think the crossover part of my brain died.
Reading Twilight out loud in overdramatic voices when uh...impaired is rather fun, by the way. This is true of any bad romance novel, really, but it has the bonus of letting you do a DRAMATIC VAMPIRE VOICE.
...it's probably a good thing I've lost my microphone.
