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| Sunday, May 18th, 2008 |
shatterstripes
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2:41p |
I wish Google Maps had a "walking" mode. That would make planning things like the trip Nick and I took out to Trader Joe's a lot easier. Also, damn, I really miss living in Glendale where it was sunny all the time, and there was a TJ's like five blocks from where I lived. Oh, to move back to California.
Meanwhile, the past couple days have been spent in the grips of GTAIV and its hooks into parts of my brain that make me act like an addict, thanks to ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) read_alicia loaning us her 360 for a bit. I keep on comparing it with GTAIII, due to it being set in a caricature of New York, and it keeps coming up wanting - sure, it's more detailed, but most of the detail is at the expense of gameplay. Zooming across a bridge, then having to brake sharply to stop and pay toll does not enhance the fantasy in the least, IMHO. The whole thing's full of design decisions like that: petty simulationalism over fun. Which, really, is no surprise after all the micromanaging you had to do of your character in GTAIIISA. I should just hook the box up to the router, give it my cc info, and buy Space Giraffe and a few other indy games. (ooh, and it seems that Everyday Shooter is on Steam now. Better download the demo on Rik's machine, this one keeps sounding cool.) Current Music: Aphex Twin's Classics : Digeridoo |
tugrik
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12:27a |
6 years of life on a tiny chip Major, major props to waywind, who was kind enough to point me at a service called LJBook.com. It's the tool I've been trying to find for years now. In short, it takes your journal and makes a very well constructed PDF backup of it. It lets you pick the date ranges, what security levels, how much of the media (pictures) to include, and so on. Then it bundles it all up into a .PDF file with a full table-of-contents, broken in to date-wise chapters. All comments are included, as well. The end result is wonderfully readable, unlike countless other LJ-Backup tools I've tried. 
Turns your journal into a PDF Book.
LJBook ( gads_ljbook)
(yes, that's their official 'plug' code; I felt it was only proper to include it.) I feel a lot better now knowing that my journal is backed up in an offline fashion that's still searchable/readable. I've put a huge amount of my life's last six years into this journal, and if it all went away one day without warning I'd be crushed. As I type this the data is making it to physical media and remote storage. I'll re-do the process every few months, breaking it down into year-wise .PDF booklets at the year ends. The current stat: 4800 pages. 60Mb. Just... duuuude. That's a lot of stuff for "oh, I think I'll just keep a journal for a while and see how it goes." The nifty thing, though, was to take the MobiPocket reader (which I have to run under Parallels, but no worries there) and convert the "My LJ as a Book" result into the .mobi format. The reason: my Kindle can use .mobi natively. I've copied the result over to an SD card to sit alongside the big collection of sci-fi, fantasy and trashy romance novels I keep in the little e-paper device. Even after the double-conversion, it looks great. All the pictures show up. All the comments are there. Every link, every tag, every note. The chapters all work as do the search indexes, letting me quickly scan for things I've written years ago. As an added bonus, every link is still clickable due to the Kindle's EVDO connection and built in browser. The active linking helps keep the 'alive' nature of the original online journal. It may be silly, but it's kind of neat to see this little leather-bound book (which is what a Kindle looks like when closed) sitting here on my desk, knowing just how much of my life -- and comments from my friends about that life -- it contains. What will it look like to me when I go back and read it in 10 years? 20? 30? |
| Saturday, May 17th, 2008 |
secret_willow
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4:31p |
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secret_willow
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4:28p |
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shatterstripes
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11:23a |
0(2). The Fool  Leaping into the unknown. Again and again. So here we have another bit of strangeness for my deck: there are to be three Fools. This is taking a page from the way there are three Magicians in some printings of the Crowley/Harris Thoth. However, in the Thoth, these three Magicians are there because they weren't satisfied with the first two (or so I gather), and some publishers decided to use the extra images to fill out the full sheet of cards to a nice round 80. In mine, this is quite intentional; my notes on doing this show up about a dozen cards into the sketches. This is the third fool, number 0(2). It is the old fool, the Crone fool. This Fool has gone along the "Fool's Journey" narrative of the Major Arcana more than a few times; she knows the road and knows the observers. She's playing for the camera a bit as she dives headlong into the future. I'll talk about the commonalities between this card, the other two Fools, and other cards in the deck once it's all done. Also I need to remember to post this to the VCL once it's working again. Print available on Artspots. Current Music: Barry Adamson's The King Of Nothing Hill : That Fool Was Me |
mellowcupcake
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11:27a |
Venezia et familia
Venice maybe deserved more than one post, but I think not.
Venice is beautiful. Like, beyond beautiful. Like, sights you can not even imagine even though you have seen them a million times in photographs and the like.
But Venice is like New Orleans. It is the most goddamned tourist-y place I have ever seen. More than New Orleans. Ever three feet there is a pizzeria, a gelateria or a tourist shop. It was a bit underwhelming in that way. But don't get me wrong, it *was* the coolest thing since sliced bread. Maybe just one day fewer would have sufficed.
Now, the real treat, the meat and potatoes so to speak, the coup de grace (in Italian, I don't know) was meeting my distant family in Italy. No English. I don't speak Italian in any form that can be called competently, but we managed. Goob, I forsee many Italian-only dinners. I must learn it all.
My family gets a huge awesome post later. Needless to say, wonderful wonderful people who embraced us with open arms. Viva italia! |
| Friday, May 16th, 2008 |
crystalgee
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11:17p |
What I found in my kitchen tonight a vase of irises that my wonderful husband gave me in honor of our 6th month anniversary. *GLEE* I have a wonderful man! Tomorrow night we'll celebrate in true romantic fashion by participating in the Boney Fiend Ramones tribute show at Dunedin Brewery. *smirks* Well, before that we'll have a nice dinner together.. :) Happy 6th month anniversary to my loving husband soundwave106 I love you honey, thank you for making me the happiest pepperpot in the world! Current Mood:  loved |
sclerotic_rings
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6:15p |
And now for the sad And now we get into a sore subject. Texas public schools aren't the joke they were in the Seventies and Eighties (my old high school apparently thinks that we're still as dumb as we were back then, because I was just solicited to buy a directory of contact information on Lewisville High School alumni between 1900 and 2006), but the state keeps going on and on about a teacher shortage. Well, yeah, there's a teacher shortage, because the vast majority of certified teachers in the state only want to teach kindergarten to fourth grade. (And before anyone asks, I can't apply for one of these much-desired science teacher positions, mostly because I don't have a degree. Even if I did, I wouldn't consider teaching science in Texas unless I had a written guarantee stating that I was allowed to punch out any no-necked administrator who got in my face about how I'd best be teaching "intelligent design". Oh, and a similar written guaranteeing that I'm allowed to rape, kill, and eat, and not necessarily in that order, any football coach that "suggested" that I exempt his precious little snowflakes from the No Pass No Play Law.) |
sclerotic_rings
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4:02p |
Life with anteaters Normally, the Czarina is the one telling me that we can't have a particular exotic animal because we don't have the room/we can't afford it/the beast has a venomous bite and claws that could rip apart a Chevy/we can't get that many virgins on short notice. I suspect, though, that when she gets an eyeful of tamandua anteaters at home, I'll be the one going "You can't have an anteater if I can't have a crocodile monitor" and she'll be responding "But they're so cuuuuuuute!" Along that line, our poor neglected outdoor kitty keeps coming back up on the back porch, and he even spooked the hell out of me the other day when I went to check on the greenhouse. For obvious reasons, I'm naming him " Harold". |
dv_girl
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1:55p |
Narnia Okay. I should note that I'm not a fan of the Narnia stories to start with but, Stacey had been away on a trip and got in late last night and we wanted to spend some time together and she likes fantasy movies so.. We went to see it. All I can say is: For the love of God and all that is Holy, don't go see this film! I don't care if you like Narnia or not. This transcends all. If you go to the Narnia film, before the movie, you will be subjected to THIS trailer!I am NOT responsible if you click on that link. If you go blind or start speaking in tongues or summon a shoggoth to devour your mind, just so the hurting will stop, it is NOT my fault. I've WARNED you. Current Music: The Box |
sclerotic_rings
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3:32p |
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sclerotic_rings
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3:07p |
Completely unrelated Oh, and for the Czarina, joiseyguy recommends RottenBidders for eBay problem customers. Oh, if only this had existed two years ago, considering the number of Cat Piss Men who were already making eBay a nightmare zone. (For everyone else, one of the many reasons why my unwanted books are going to the local library from now on instead of to eBay is the latest bidding incident, where one CPM got into a bidding war for a poster, got pissed off that a poster of unknown and stated unknown provenance wasn't an original movie poster, and blamed the Czarina for letting him "wildly overbid" without offering him compensation for his mistake. Even better, he's expressed his displeasure by calling the house twice to "work out a compromise," as if we threatened to rape his chickens if he didn't keep bidding. Considering that his patter seems to be just a bit too polished, I suspect that he's been kicked off eBay before for similar tantrums and just keeps coming back under new account names. And so it goes.) |
blackiestark
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3:02p |
Yo te quiero y finito, yo te querda, oh mi corazón. I guess by now most of you have seen the t-shirt sold by Mulligan's bar, in Marietta, GA, a suburb of Atlanta:
Just in case you doubt his intentions, know that the following slogans have been spotted on his marquee: "No habla Espanol - and never will""Democratic dilemma - a boob with nuts or a nut with boobs?""Discounts for Caucasian Escalade drivers""INS agents eat free""Undocumented my ass! They're illegal!"(What is it with Atlanta Irish pubs and The Fear?) Some people have claimed, given all this, that this t-shirt goes too far. But I maintain that it doesn't go far enough, and have created a t-shirt that accomplishes the same effect when you wear it, but with less subtlety:
Of course, you could also fight fire with fire, so I've designed two more harmless cartoon character shirts featuring Presidential candidates:
In the end, it's this guy's right to put whatever he likes on his bar or his clothing (although the Curious George people are threatening to call The Lawyer In The Big Yellow Hat). But you might also exercise your right to free speech by visiting sites that review his bar and grill and leaving your own glowing recommendations. My favorite: i went to mullgan's just once, but i will never ever go back. The owner relentless pressured me into having anal sex with him and three other men who worked in his kitchen. He assured me that my meal would be free and i have very little money so i complied. Unfortunately during the sodomy i vomited on the owner because his food poisoned me. He was very upset and then forced me to pay for my meal. also, he gave me anal snails. I highly suggest that you avoid Mulligan's. Current Mood:  sadCurrent Music: "Spanish Bombs," The Clash |
sclerotic_rings
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2:40p |
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dv_girl
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12:22p |
So... In the news yesterday... BUSH claimed Obama was the sort of person who'd capitulate to nazis...
Seriously. WTF is the furor smoking?
So anyhow. He was saying this because Obama might in theory try talking to Iran rather than just storming in and murdering people or starting an insurrection (because that worked so well LAST time a super power tried it)
Then. Not to spare us any irony, he turns around and starts wheeling and dealing with Saudi Arabia, including putting development of nuclear facilities on the table.
But he doesn't deal with oppressive regimes...
Current Music: Aquasonic |
dv_girl
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12:01p |
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sclerotic_rings
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1:03p |
On greasing the pan Wow! Look: there's hope for a collection of my old articles and essays yet! I have to wait until about a century after I die for my work to be appreciated, but that's because it'll take that long for enough lead and mercury to collect in municipal tap water to make anyone think a collection of my crap is worth the money. And on that note, I simply note that this blog shuts down a month from this Sunday. Go through the archives and pull what you want to pull, and the first person who makes noises about how much my writing matters gets punched in the heart. |
vidvicious
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10:17a |
What a fun filled week. Well a lot's happened, and I have little time to tell it. Last Friday flew up to NYC to view the sold out screening of Poultrygeist, the movie I gave a summer of blood sweat, tears and a whole slew of other bodily fluids to help make. My flight was delayed so I missed about 15 minutes of the begining but I stayed for the second screening as well. Afterward The Onion threw an afterparty at some bar in Chinatown. I did get to see some old friends who I hadn't seen in a while... Becky, Lloyd, Kiel, Gabe, Andy, Pierce, Ryan, Beast, Steve, And a whole slew of others. I had wanted to see Matt who was kinda my partner in crime on set, but he got lost on the way from Maine and since I know squat about NYC I couldn't really give him the best of directions. I flew back saturday night just in time to make it to doctorpinkerton's barbecue. Saw Petri and Charlote and their new son Saku. nice to know there's another Finnish American Half Breed in New Orleans. That pushes our numbers to... 2. Chatted with Charlie Brown about the perils of working for our former cost-cutting bargain basement ad exec boss. Yesterday doctorpinkerton visited the set. I showed him around brought him to the Pace trailer, where they prep the footage for editorial as well as make dailies for everyone to watch. They showed us a little package they put together for journalists. If it's any indication, it's going to blow theater audiences away. I just dropped almost $200.00 for tickets to Tom Waits in Mobile. I've been dying to see him live for going on 12 years now. So no qualms about dropping that much + gas to do it, It's Tom Waits. Little brother's flying in tonight... and monalilmonalot's graduation is tomorrow. On top of that it's a work day and the FD4 wrap party at *shudder Gordon Biersch (why???) So I'll have a pretty heavy weekend as well. Current Mood: excitedCurrent Music: Klaus Nomi - Total Eclipse |
dv_girl
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10:19a |
Moment of the world not sucking
Just heard on the news that Oscar Pistorius has won his case and will be able to attempt to qualify for the Olympics and run in events if he qualifies.
This gets me really choked up and inspired for some reason. I mean some days I feel like we're barely out of the trees and flinging our own poop at each other and then suddenly I hear something like this. When a guy born without shins can compete on the Olympics, it makes me think that maybe just maybe we're going to make it after all.
It's also a good reminder. Hold onto your dreams and you can accomplish anything. |
prickvixen
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12:40a |
In a speech today, Arizona Senator John McCain described what the United States would look like after four years of his presidency, although he neglected to mention the enormous purple and blue enchanted castle in which every American would be able to eat their fill of ice cream and pie any time they wished, even if they hadn't eaten all their vegetables, and be able to stay up as late as they wanted, even on a school night. |
| Thursday, May 15th, 2008 |
neworleans
[ deadcowboy ]
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10:13p |
Tonight! Shadow Gallery presents the Prom of Doom! Tonight, Shadow Gallery will take the denizens of the New Orleans Gothic Scene kicking and screaming back to high school! Join us for the night that should've been! Shadow Gallery and the Dragon's Den proudly present... Join us for an alchemical evening of memory-making, as we rewrite high school history! DJs Schadenfreude, Tot Kuh Junge, and WrappedInPlastic spin the best in Goth, death rock, and ethereal for your dancing pleasure. A photographer will take pictures in the courtyard, with prints available to order. Corsages and boutonnieres are available to order in advance from Flora Savage, by calling (504) 581-4728. Doors open at 11 p.m. Upstairs at the Dragon's Den, 435 Esplanade Ave. No cover Find us online at www.myspace.com/shadowgallerynola! |
neworleans
[ gutterboylive ]
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9:45p |
Gnats II
Thanks to all who recommended gnat-traps.
I ended up pouring two fingers of cheapo balsamic vinegar in a Mason jar and throwing in a couple of crushed grapes. Didn't bother with the Saran wrap or the rubber band because I didn't have the band. And I set it on the kitchen counter and went to bed.
When I woke up this morning, there was a scum of gnat corpses bobbing on the surface of the vinegar - probably 25 or 30 of them. Don't know how many fell to the bottom. And the house was 90% gnat-free. Thank you!
Of course, tonight I went outside after dinner, and....
...Formosan termites. |
neworleans
[ docbrite ]
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8:17p |
Getcha Carts Out Da Park The following "official notice" was printed not very prominently in Section A of today's paper. It may be old news for all I know, but I know we have marrus and some other Jackson Square artists here, and I wanted to bring it to their attention. After wading through the tortured syntax, I figure this is just another step in the city's apparent mission to make the lives of JS artists as difficult as possible. NOTICE TO ALL EXISTING AND PREVIOUS JACKSON SQUARE ARTISTS
The French Market Coroporation (FMC) has issued this public notice to all existing and previous Jackson Square Artists who are storing artist carts on French Market property in Washington Artillery Park. This notice will serve as a thirty-day notice for all artists to remove their artist carts and their contents from Washington Artillery Park by Monday, June 9, 2008. The FMC will dispose of all unclaimed carts on june 10, 2008. Please direct questions to Patricia Henry, Deputy Director at 522-2621. |
lukeski
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8:07p |
Tune in! "Dementia Revolution" with the great Luke Ski is on the air! Winamp, Ctrl-L, http://dementiaradio.org:8000 for dialup users, or http://dementiaradio.org:8027 for broadband users. It may be also be possible to use other MP3 players to listen, like ITunes, Real Player, Windows Media Player, Quicktime, or Soniqe. |
neworleans
[ docbrite ]
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6:55p |
Missed Opportunity
Damn.
Stacy Head walked in front of my car today, not once but twice. Unfortunately, I was sitting in the parking lot of the St. Charles Walgreen's both times, and could not have run her down without driving up onto the sidewalk and doing serious damage to my front tires ... not to mention my freedom and liberty.
Still, it's a shame the things you see when your brakes aren't failing, causing your car to careen out of control through no fault of your own. |
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