I was totally going to post about something last night, but then I conked out around 5 PM and by the time I had gotten up at 3 this morning I could no longer remember whatever it might have been.

Neat, with the browser window maximized, there's two columns of post options below the entry box; with the window, er, windowed, the dashed line between the columns disappears, and it all becomes one column. I'm not sure how they worked that, although sourcediving shows that each column is actually in its own <TR> element, so maybe it's in the CSS. I love how I can start making a post about nothing in particular and then I wind up typing out giant nerdfests like, say, this paragraph here.

I was floating my sloop in YPP yesterday, just me and three sucky swabbies, and since I wanted to get to my destination fast, I was sailing instead of doing any kind of radar. And so another ship attacked me, and I managed to load enough guns to pump a couple shots into them, and then up comes the boarding and the swordfighting and hey look, yellow names, which means it was actually a player ship that attacked me instead of an NPC ship like almost every other time. Four or five guys and one bot versus me and three bots. I won.

For those of you who don't play YPP, the short version of that last paragraph is "I am kind of awesome sometimes."

My current music is It's Tough To Have A Crush When The Boy Doesn't Feel The Same Way You Do, but it won't fit. I'm in an OK Go mood, what with the treadmills and all.

Pants!

EDIT: I should totally point out that the latest Four Panels is for Snakes On A Plane. Although for that matter this installment of AKOTAS has something going for it!
Apparently I am, at least temporarily, now an avatar-maker for fellow YPP players. I have therefore made this post to direct people to; everyone else, feel free to ignore.

Schnip. )
Oh yeah, the pig thing.

So basically there is this YPP forum contest that you can read about here, and I finally finished my entry. It is here.

Warning: extreme cute ahead.

Yahoink.

Jun. 28th, 2006 02:57 pm
I have just drawn a pig in a pirate captain's hat.

OMG WHAT.

More to follow.
Usually when n00bs bug me I just refuse all their various requests and they go away. Sometimes, though, they prove more persistant.

During all of this I am working on shipwrighting. Naturally, if I am working, that means people should come up to me and start asking me to do things for them.

Fenestra says, "The angle of death, eh? Acute, right, straight or obtuse?" )
Oh, awesome. This is so hilarious.

Apparently some friends of Sarah's and/or Ted's read my recent journal entry mentioning the whole dog thing? And I guess they weren't happy with what I said, and so they told Sarah and/or Ted about it? And Sarah and/or Ted told mechamom about it? (I am a bit unclear on just who told whom what, since I'm getting all this nth hand from mecha)

Mechamom just called here, asked to speak to mecha, and laid into him over the phone about how Sarah and/or Ted's friends read bad things about them "on our website" (i.e. Four Panels) "on the 12th" (the entirety of the newspost for the 12th being "BOOBIES Also, robots").

LOLLERZ.

Dear Sarah and/or Ted's friends, who I guess are reading this: I'm sorry I said things you don't like in my personal journal! OMG NOEZ I AM SO TEH EVIL.

Dear Sarah and/or Ted: If you have a problem with ME, you can feel free to talk to ME about it. Just a thought.

Dear mechamom: Well, actually, aside from jumping down mecha's throat, this isn't really your fault/fight/whatever, I guess. I'm the one who does all the fp-site-updating, so if you should be upset with anyone, it would be me, but I don't expect you to know that offhand.

I invite comments from all parties concerned. Is there some fact I overlooked that caused me to be too harsh towards Sarah and Ted? Enlighten me! Did I get something totally wrong? Set me straight! Are you pissed at me in general? Post your ire! Just stop being a fucking third-grader-style tattletale, already. Jesus.
What is the thing at the end of the credits to X-Men 3? We didn't stay for the credits, so we don't know. Figures the one time there's something is the one time we don't stay, but then, we wanted to get away from the drunks sitting next to us.

Speaking of drunks, I am currently enjoying a margarita, served me-style. We have the fixin's because mecha made grilled margarita fajita type kebabs the other day, so just now I decided to pour myself a drink. The instructions say to go one part tequila, three parts of the non-booze margarita mix, and serve rimmed with salt. Instead what I'm drinking is about one part tequila to six parts mix, with a bit of sugar thrown in. It's still too much tequila to the mix, as I can still taste the booziness easily. But at least I got the sugar right.

Finally, my Puzzle Pirates character on Hunter is now up to Ultimate in carp. Me == l33tz0r.
Okay, I am now going to make a picture post about frozen treats. You may or may not remember that this is not unprecedented.

First: the Ice Cream Wars! )

But that's not all! We also have the Oozinator-like marketing decision that is... Superman Sticks. )

So there you have it, the second and third installments of Jenny Being Weird And Posting Things About Frozen Treats Theater. See ya next time!
The top of my LJ has claimed for like a year now that it will be oldskool-OT-themed, and yet I still haven't gotten around to taking my screenshots of AppleWin and doing anything with them. I am kind of lazy if you had not noticed.

At this rate by the time I DO do something with the layout, it'll be to change it to something entirely different. Or to put it back to Saturn Valley style. So boing.

I have started playing Puzzle Pirates again. My old crew that I used to run with is pretty much dead now - most of the cool people appear to have gone off to form a new crew, and often when I log in I'm the only Ghost of the Seven Seas online - and so I've actually gone and created a new character on the newest doubloon ocean and am playing her a lot. There are more doubloon oceans than subscription oceans now! This is actually good because it means that the dub model is working well for them, so they will keep it and I will get to keep playing for free or almost-free. We've already got $70 or so a month in monthly subscription costs for various things, $30 of which is two EVE subscriptions that don't even get used lately, so yeah.

I am rambling more than usual. I bet it is this tasty cookie dough shake I am consuming! It's very sugary. I love being able to go out for milkshakes at 3 AM.

My current music == teh awesome. After the bank account recovers a little from some recent expenditures, I should buy some more Coulton music. It's funny how if I am told "rarr you must pay for this music sharing is BAD" then I immediately run the other way, but if I am told "buy if you like, share for free all you want, here is my Creative Commons license" then I totally whip out the bank card! I wouldn't be surprised if Coulton was a psychologist on the side, and this were one big experiment into the thought patterns of music piratez0rs. Yaharr.

Lastly, everyone who can sleep normally should consider themselves very lucky. I "got up" at 1 this morning, and expect to spend at least another week at least partially nocturnal before I can finally get it swapped around again. Stupid inability to sleep like a normal person. We hates it and throws monkeys at it. MONKEYS I SAY

Now if I get hatted again, I will know that my screenname was stored somewhere! It better not have been. I have opted out kthx.
So mechamom is going to sell some crafty type stuff at the "pottery fest" coming up next weekend. And she decided to claim that she has a company, and named it Peaches, after Sarah and Ted's dog. And because artisty type people exist to serve others (HAY HAN YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT), she asked me to make a logo for her imaginary company.

The logo had to have... a puppy. Peeking around a basket of peaches.

The puppy was expected to be "happy".

Groan.

Needless to say, I prefer to believe that what you see below is not a puppy, but is in fact an evil alien that looks like a harmless Earth puppy, crouching in preparation to spring into action and rip off the viewer's head. Like the Invader Zim episode "Plague of Babies" only not.



Supposedly I am to print this out and give it to her, and I'm not sure what she'd do with the printout after that. I think I'll hold off on making hard copies since I don't want to get into a variation of the "scan in photographs, throw away the originals, print out the scans, then later scan the two-inch-high inkjet-printed copies back in again for archiving" mindset she has.

Fnord.
Today's review: X-Men: The Last Stand

Remember, to be more reliably informed of updates than depending on me to say "oh yeah that's right gotta make an LJ post", add [livejournal.com profile] fourpanelsfeed to your friends list, or http://rsspect.com/rss/fourpanels.xml to your RSS aggregator of choice.

I manually updated it instead of letting the auto-updater run because I wanted to make sure I had all the right files up on the site so that the update would come out completely right. You see, I went and let wilsonator get too dusty again, and so he shut down on me earlier tonight in the middle of working on the comic. I can't really dust him out right now, because for one thing I've only got one can on me and without a second can to switch to when the first one gets too cold, dusting takes forever; and for another, it is dark outside, where I'd have to do the dusting, and I'd rather do it during the day. So for now wilsonator is running with his case open and a fan pointed at his innards. It's doing the trick but I don't know for how long, and thus feet.

My back hurts really bad because wilsonator's being open means he's taking up space that is where my chair would usually go, and so I have to lean forward a lot to get at the keyboard.

I like cheese.

Um... that's it, I think.

Except for the cheese.
Okay, thanks to rsspect.com, fp now has its own RSS feed. I've long since tired of having to remember to give update notices in my LJ here, but I'd no idea how the hell to code a proper RSS feed. Sure, I could easily have reuploaded an xml file at update time every Monday and Friday, but that is kind of missing the point of automation.

Of course, setting up the fp script to work with rsspect has given me some idea how I could code my own, but such are the ironies of life.

At any rate, if you're at all interested in Four Panels then you should add [livejournal.com profile] fourpanelsfeed to your friends list, or http://rsspect.com/rss/fourpanels.xml to your favorite RSS reader. I'll do manual announces of the next few reviews, and include a link to the feed there too, because I know what it is to be lazy. But after that, if you're not reading the RSS feed, you will be so damn out of the know.

Shifting topics, today would be my birthday. I have reached my first quarter-century. I think that means I'm old or something? Or maybe that's 30. I don't know any cool young kids to ask and make sure. Either way, when I was in high school, I figured that by 25 I'd be graduated from college and teaching somewhere. Instead I am currently waiting in a bizarre limbo state to see if and when IU will get off its ass and give me my financial aid and stuff so I can go back to trying for the sixth or seventh year to finally finish a damn degree. Six if you count years I actually was going to classes full-time, seven if you count calendar years. Jesus. It's depressing.

But! I don't need to think about that now especially since there is literally nothing I can do, up to and including getting my advisor to even answer my emails. So let's shift topics again to kittens.

The thing about kittens? Is they are awesome.

Puppies are acceptable too.

Finally, for anyone who has seen or will seen X3 (spoiler-free): http://dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1496
While at the comics shop today, we heard this song (edit: mecha uploaded it here so until someone goes "OMG IT IS AN MP3 ILLEGAL!!!1" and reports it, you can get it there faster than from my server) over the store's speakers. We liked it so much that I just spent a buck at the guy's site to download it. Now according to the license I may share it all I like for free, and so I believe I shall.

Lyrics:

Welcome to my secret lair on Skullcrusher Mountain
I hope that you've enjoyed your stay so far
I see you've met my assistant Scarface
His appearance is quite disturbing
But I assure you he's harmless enough
He's a sweetheart, calls me master
And he has a way of finding pretty things and bringing them to me

[begin incredibly catchy chorus]
I'm so into you
But I'm way too smart for you
Even my henchmen think I'm crazy
I'm not surprised that you agree
If you could find some way to be
A little bit less afraid of me
You'd see the voices that control me from inside my head
Say I shouldn’t kill you yet

( Read more... )

So, yes. Awesomeness.
Happy 388th anniversary of the Defenestration of Prague, everyone!

Break a window today! It's a celebration!
I HAVE JUST ROLLED UP THE MOTHERFUCKING KING OF ALL COSMOS IN WE <3 KATAMARI

HELLS YES

I guess now the Queen will start showing up and I can maybe get her too.

Woot.
The following is my comment to this post, only expanded a bit to become a post in its own right, kind of.



I am totally behind the curve on this one, but YES.

[livejournal.com profile] wing_zero_ew and I see way too many parents these days who seem to think that it's not only their right, but their DUTY to pop out as many kids as they physically can -- whether or not they actually have the time or energy to give those kids the attention they need; whether or not the money is available to properly support them. And, naturally, once they've done the world the huge favor of having those kids -- why, they've got no obligations left, have they? They don't need to teach their children how to behave. Let the schools do that. Let the neighbors. And if the schools and neighbors and society won't do the hard work, it's certainly not the parents' fault when their kid turns out to be a thug. They already did THEIR part, right?

I also get tired of my roommate's mom telling me that I will never be a complete person until I have children. I'd like to think that my status as a PERSON is defined by, um, ME. Not by the presence or absence of small screaming things that share some of my DNA.

There should be a test you have to pass to be ALLOWED to procreate, with questions such as the following:

If you take your small child to the grocery store at 10 at night, and he throws a tantrum, is it
A) His fault, so yell at him and snap at him and threaten to leave him in the store if he doesn't stop.
B) The media's fault, because of all those awful awful video games that it's a damn crime for them to make, that you buy for him because you can't be bothered to read the cover and see that it's marked M for Mature and therefore wholly inappropriate for your child.
B) YOUR FUCKING FAULT FOR EXPECTING A SMALL CHILD TO BE AWAKE AND NOT CRANKY AT 10 AT NIGHT YOU IDIOT


Or:

R-rated movies are:
A) Totally acceptable for little Timmy. Sure, he'll get scared by the spooky bits or the loud noises, and start crying, but still, nobody should dare suggest that you and Timmy leave the theater.
B) Okay for little Timmy as long as you are there to loudly reassure him throughout the entire movie that everything is fine.
C) NOT OKAY FOR A SMALL CHILD WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING


And of course:

Teaching your child how to act in society is the responsibility of:
A) The schools! Even though you hate paying more than a pittance in taxes to provide the salaries of the people who you expect to raise your child for you, and the tools they need to do the job.
B) The child himself! He's too young to understand now. He'll get older and figure out on his own that screaming "I WANNA GO BATHOOM MOMMY I NEED GO BATHOOM AGAIN MOMMY PLEASE MOMMY MOMMY" in a crowded restaurant is not appropriate. You don't need to react in any way to this.
C) YOU. Because it is YOUR CHILD. IDIOT.


If you can get these questions right, you get to spawn. Otherwise, you get spayed or neutered.

For more thoughts on this topic, see the comment that mecha will no doubt be making when he sees this post!
Guess who has a signed The Case of the Missile Crisis? Huh? Guess who has one when you don't?

Me, baby. Me.
Bush says he tried to avoid war "to the max".

Round here, yo? We call DAT shit DIPLOMAXIC.

Represent.

Predictions, courtesy of mecha: Bush starts wearing bling to events; has hydraulics installed on fighter jet so it can bounce to the phat beats of the latest single from D12, "Mission Accomplished, Bitches".
EXPERIMENTAL BONELESS CHEESE

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