Monday, December 14th, 2009
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8:26 am - Re: Dexter Season Finale
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
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2:07 pm - Parties must have been so interesting in 1922
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And here I thought it was all charades and hunt-the-slipper.
Also included is "the candle lighters" which involves precariously balanced children with open flames.
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Saturday, November 21st, 2009
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4:41 am - Shop images redux
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Because I like to torture myself, I set out to do a bit of a redesign in my CPshop, and go all CSS on my thumbnails (I've never been crazy about the normal ones) so this is what I came up with. Knock on wood it seems to be working the way i want it to.
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Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
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1:10 am - ooo wee ooo, weee oooo, wee oooOOOooooOOo ooo ooo ooo
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The laws of time are mine, and they will obey me!
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Saturday, November 14th, 2009
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11:49 pm - HA! HA!
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HA! HA! I'm addicted to google book search!
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
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8:37 pm - 20% Off Coupon Nov 3 - Nov 6 ophelias20
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ophelias20 20% off coupon code for my shop*, Nov 3 - Nov 6 (discount excludes the siggs and the minos)
This coupon is only good for 3 days, so don't delay if you wish to avail yourself of it.
*The details: Save 20% off your purchase from the opheliasart shop (CafePress.com/opheliasart), excluding shipping charges and applicable sales tax. Coupon code must be entered at check out. Promotion starts on November 3, 2009, at 12:00 a.m. (PST) and ends on November 6, 2009, at 11:59 p.m. (PST). All orders must be from CafePress.com/opheliasart (i.e., all products available from the following URL www.cafepress.com/opheliasart). Excludes other CafePress shop or marketplace purchases, Gift Certificates, Flip Minos, SIGG bottles, CafePress Groups purchases and bulk orders. Offer cannot be combined with any other coupons or promotions and may change, be modified or cancelled at anytime without notice.
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Saturday, October 17th, 2009
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4:29 pm - yay spoonflower!
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Spoonflower has started letting people sell fabric, hurray! One caveat is they only let you sell fabric that you have bought yourself some of already-- though that's logical it means I don't have much to sell yet (a lot of what I've ordered myself was for one of a kind type stuff) Anyhoo... at least I've got three designs up so far. Here's my gallery.
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
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9:17 am - Schundenfreude
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Schundenfreude... the shameful joy taken in enjoying trashy novels.
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Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
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2:41 pm - Bird flu? Swine flu? Wombat flu?
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Woke up with a sore throat and feeling sick. Which aside from the obvious is annoying because I was planning a trip to my parents today. (I could suck it up as far as feeling poorly goes, but I don't want to carry it to my parents and get them sick too) So in a word, bleah. I have no earthly idea how I caught this either, as I've pretty much been in anchoress mode lately.
Oh well, at least it gives me a good excuse to drink some emergen-C :D I love that stuff.
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Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
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6:38 pm - Triumph! 51,520 in Slorgs in Space
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Okay, so anyone who doesn't know or care about Neopets can ignore this post, but today I got over 50k in Slorgs in Space! As I generally pretty much suck at those games, I have been practicing this one REALLY HARD, and playing with GRIM DETERMINATION (as grim as you can get on Neopets anyway) hoping I would get a high score when they reset them on the first of the month. Most days I've gotten in like the 20-30k range. But I got into a really good groove and scored over 20k in the first level alone. Knock on wood I will stay with in the top 17 at least until midnight so I can get a shiny trophy in my look up.
Er, and just so my time on Neopets today counts as "research"... look! Neopets sells t-shirts:
(I'm holding out for them to get a Jelly Poogle or Snot Poogle though)
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Friday, August 21st, 2009
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1:37 pm - Maladroitness is not fun, despite what mary-sues might lead you to believe.
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Why does my knee hurt today? Because I fell off the front steps. You ever do that thing where for no good reason you think there is one more step than there actually is and just sort of pitch yourself right onto the ground? Well, at least I was alone with Archie. With no one else about I didn't have to attempt to salvage any dignity, I was free to sit on the ground spewing variations of "ow fuck ow fuck ow fuck".
Drove out to see my parents again, my dad seemed much better than before, knock on wood.
The weather is still awful hot and humid. Archie was speculating yesterday whether anything from Hurricane Bill would make it this far. Speaking of, I just can't help it. Every time I see or hear the name it makes me think of "Vampire Bill".
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Saturday, August 15th, 2009
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7:15 am - Swedish Vampires and French Chefs
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I finally saw "Let the Right One In" (with the "good" subtitles apparently) and thought it was great.
Also saw "Julie and Julia". It was good, but I really wish there were more "Julia" scenes. Perhaps even all Julia scenes... I really enjoyed reading "My Life In France", and would have loved to see the whole thing turned into a movie.
I was surprised the trailer for "The Lovely Bones" looks very interesting. I found the book unfortunately disappointing.
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Monday, July 27th, 2009
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7:08 am - Connecticut is at it again.
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I have been noticing this trend in the news for a while. Connecticut seems to be a hotbed of bizarre/tragic animal events. That horrible primate attack, another guy busted for owning illegal monkeys... Yesterday I read something about a zoo having an "exotic pet amnesty day". Some event where people can drop off exotic/illegal pets. People who didn't realize that that alligator would get so big, etc.
I mean, it is lovely this zoo is finding sanctuaries to re-home these animals rather than them ending up euthanized or set free in the suburbs... I'm more bemused by the fact there is enough demand/need to have a special event for it. (The guy in the article was mentioning something about how there were like 2 or 3 times more than they expected) I was blathering on about it to Archie yesterday, chalk another one up to Connecticut's crazy animal shenanigans.
So, last night he is on the laptop reading, and he pipes up "Did you read the article about how police busted up a huge canary fighting ring?" to which my reply was something like "!!!? Canary fighting? It's in CONNECTICUT, isn't it?" Yup.
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Monday, July 20th, 2009
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5:28 pm - Martyrs
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Watched a French film called Martyrs last night, without knowing what it was about other than the name and that it was some kind of scary movie. Um... wow. It was definitely not what I expected. (I do love seeing films without having seen a trailer first.)
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
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6:41 pm - BeSpeak&Spell says MOOOOO
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When presented with a Kindle to autograph at a recent book signing, David Sederis inscribed it with "this bespells doom". Of course in addition to this being hi-larious, it has apparently sparked a debate (amongst people who like to debate this sort of thing) on proper usage of the word "bespell" vs "bespeak" http://www.metafilter.com/82515/Authors-Can-Autograph-It Well duh, obviously it would bespeak doom, except that Amazon disabled the text to speech feature on Kindles, therefore it must bespell it. HA!
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9:58 am
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Oh hai, True Blood is back. (One important lesson to be learned from the first episode is ( Read more... ))
Last weekend I had a hankering to watch dystopian movies. So I sort of took a few random stabs at the wikipedia category and watched an assortment of wildly varying quality:
Deathrace 2000
The Airzone Solution (terrible, but it had like 4 doctor who actors)
The Handmaid's Tale
The Last Woman on Earth
Alphaville
Equilibrium
Soylent Green
half of Harrison Bergeron (I was quite over saturated by that point, and it had just awful mid 90s mad-for-tv production values)
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Recent dreams:
#1 Forgotten basement at my grandmother's place that no one had been in decades. Had lots of farm related stuff, and a vintage industrial sewing machine, with all sorts of interesting stitches. Upon waking I REALLY wish i had that sewing machine.
#2 I'm a student living in a dilapidated multistory house turned boarding house. All sorts of hidden nooks and crannies. I work my way up into the attic. Being in the wrong place at the wrong time leads to mistaken identity, and some European criminals think I have stolen their hidden money. Lengthy chase ensues, but by the time I get to the first floor they realize the error and we come to a friendly understanding.
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Saturday, June 6th, 2009
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9:19 am - Best Cat Toy EVAR
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Some weeks ago we got a package from Amazon. It contained what can only be called the Best Cat Toy EVAR. Which is to say, a couple yards long piece of brown kraft paper that was padded with... oh I forget, some books or dvds or other such useless-to-cat packing material. The cardboard boxes themselves have been a long established favorite, but who knew how much joy our orange cat would get out of a lengthy sheet of brown paper? In retrospect it seems so obvious. It's good for tunneling under, shredding with claws, and (when another cat toy is barely obscured behind a fold of it) taking a running leap at and sliding several feet across the floor. And the more play it gets, the more tatty the paper becomes, and the more fun it apparently is. Small tears become places for other toys to "hide", or for the cat to come busting through a la the kool-aid guy. It conveniently folds for easy storage and for a good sitting-down-on after a long hard day of napping. And seated upon it, it makes a perfect vantage point from which he can ignore the deluxe "realistic squeaking" mouse toy that we hung up from the door recently.
Sadly, the paper is about ready for retirement. I think I have a roll of kraft paper in the closet though.
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Thursday, June 4th, 2009
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6:31 am - All Austened Out
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 OK, so in quick succession I have read Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Seth Grahame-Smith's Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, and watched the 1995 BBC adaptation. I have a suspicion this combination is responsible for the sequence of dreams I had during a fitful night's sleep.
Dream #1: Two gentlemen are vying for my affections.
Dream #2: After breaking an engagement, I am chased by a strange cult.
Dream #3: Waking up in a rusty tool shed, I am chased by an axe murderer.
Dream #4: I get a new kitten!
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Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009
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3:39 am - In a shocking development, I'm sleepy.
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Egads I've been tired lately. Absolutely dragging. The sandman is just not cooperating these days. Crawled into bed tonight at 8, but I was up by 1. Which is actually a longer sleep than I expected.
I've been staring at the fabric I got from Spoonflower ages ago, I keep meaning to attack it. It's earmarked for a few corset projects I have going on when I have the time. Which reminds me I need to get down to Home Depot (heh, funny how these things are related) to see if I can find some decent cutters.
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
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5:46 am - "And it's set in Switzerland!" "Switzerland?" "Exotic Switzerland!"
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 Guess what we have now? If you guessed Sigg water bottles, you're right. Yay!
Also for anyone eyeing the ceramic travel mugs, they are back in stock again. So get 'em while they're hot!
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
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4:49 am - Flip Mino Again
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Arch borrowed my Mino when he went out tonight. This is one of his friends Katherine dancing around. (warning: loud techno)
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
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7:35 am - yay snow
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Everyone else can complain, I like it. :P
Also, this morning I got 25 gigs of hard drive space back because I found a bunch of photoshop temp files (left behind when photoshop crashes.... it had been a while since I checked for them and I had a bunch that were like 2gb each. yikes.)
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
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1:51 pm - knock on wood
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So, going back to working on my new layout I think (knock on wood) I have it pretty much working OK with both CP and CPshop, all the browsers I tried it with, and on smaller screen resolutions it looks ugly but not unusable. I did end up (hangs head in shame) resorting to tables rather than css for most of the structure. If I get real brave I will switch my main page over soon.
AND! my CPshop has been (knock wood again) pulling in all my products again with only my usual large-shop workarounds. It was so weird and I am not really sure which thing I did fixed it.
On the down side CP's been slow as molasses lately to work on adding/editing products, an unfortunate side effect of which seems to be me constantly dozing off. It's not terrible. But my usual approach is to work in intense, hours-long marathon sessions. Lately though I am finding if I can't work really actively, like if between each step of my work I have to constantly pause (as for long page loads, or photoshop going slow on large files ) I get fatigued so easily. So I think it's just slow enough to put me in an utter fog, then I'm not good for anything.
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8:35 am - Meeno? Myno? Minnow? Mino!
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 Hey look! New camera! Flip Mino! Minnno! Minnnnnnnnno! This is the one I got. (If you would like to see more I made here's a link to them)
I snapped a few photos you can see on my flickr page. I think the printing came out great. The ink has a slight raised texture, and seems nice and durable. And I can't tell if it's an optical illusion or not but it seems like the black lines are a little more raised than the colors.
Playing around with it so far I've found it insanely easy to use. Pretty much just turn it on and press the red button. When you want to put the video on your computer just flip (heh) out the USB thingy and stick it into your computer's USB port. The software is on the camcorder itself so you don't need to install anything ahead of time, plug it in and it goes. Then just a couple clicks to upload it straight off the camera to youtube, myspace & aol (or you can select "other" and it will just compress your video and save it so you can upload yourself.) You can also use it do some basic editing or add some pre-set effects and music. I don't have any captivating videos to show you, so here are my cats during their afternoon snooze with old timey effects added. (Unfortunately my cats are EXTREMELY LAZY. I tell them they will never get on cute overload at this rate, but do they listen?)
The youtube quality is much lower than what comes out of the camera. The original was 640 x 480 and a huge file.
The camera can also be screwed on a tripod, which is nice. I took Archie's gorilla pod for it and its perfect.
And apparently the proper pronunciation is "minnow".
:)
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
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7:37 pm - frustration!
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 Bleah, not a happy website day. CPshop is being uncooperative and only wants to show something like half of my items. (Actually it has been doing that for some time now but with some fiddling around I could force it to work. Now it's just not cooperating at all) And I have also somehow futzed up the new layout I was working on in trying to adjust it for CPshop. Since the whole point of all this off-and-on work I have been doing for approximately forever was of course to have my shop centered around the CPshop page on my own site instead of the CP hosted one, this is not a happy turn of events. I wanted to get this up ages ago. At this point, it seems like I may have to put the thing on hold indefinitely. Bleah. Bleah. Bleah. I wish a) I was more proficient at css so I could just see the problems easily and b) CP's ability to be customized was simpler and did not involve chopping, pureeing, spindling, mutilating or playing hunt the stylesheet.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
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11:57 pm - Consanguinity...
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...is word with a meaning not nearly as exciting as it sounds. It just means being related to someone. Nothing fun like exsanguinate or ensanguine.
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12:25 pm - Atom Age Vampire
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
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7:22 am - Grumble Grumble Computer
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Bleah, I am not happy when my computer is not working. But (knock on wood) it seems ok now.
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Saturday, September 27th, 2008
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8:28 am - floaty floaty
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Slowly making more progress on the layout. I've been trying to get floating divs working with the shop script and still have the particular types of item be sorted out like so. It's working pretty ok so far displaying the items, but I'm still not entirely happy with how the pages displaying images work. Mostly because the image size/name/captions on those vary so much.
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Saturday, September 20th, 2008
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4:03 am - poogle poogle poogle
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Another Chocolate Ball and Poogle Parade have gone by at Neopets, and still no chocolate poogles! Srsly!
In other news, I followed a tutorial to put color swatches on my shirt thumbnails in cpshop as can be seen here and am trying to decide if I like it.
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