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Monday, September 30, 2002
People I Stalk, Part One
"Crispin" looks English and pasty, yet was spotted Saturday morning in the company of two guys who were obviously still in their Clothes From The Night Before. Lives south of me someplace. Resembles my boyfriend to the point that I almost grabbed his ass once when I saw his shoes as he walked ahead of me on the steps leaving the train platform. At least I realized my mistake in time.
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Monday, September 23, 2002
Have you forgotten?
I realized this morning that I could no longer recall my Movable Type login, password or editing URL from memory.
That's what I get for having 1. a house guest 2. a GameCube (Shine, Mario! Shine!) and 3. a cold.
Today I'm squeezing in an hour for template editing and post conception. Blah blah blah, promises-promises-fishcakes etc. Don't hold your collective breaths. I'm really just posting this to stave off the inevitable Fourteen Day Front Page Wipeout which haunts all MT users!
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Thursday, September 05, 2002
Happy Mac Returns; Heart content.
Although it's been rather a crappy site for the last few years (relying more on cutesy icon replacement rather than real resource editing to do anything USEFUL), ResExcellence has just come through with instructions for editing/replacing the tasteful gray apple that replaced the beloved Happy Mac in Jaguar.
I really want to make my own version of that cute little anime-esque "Hello." guy that was making the rumor rounds not so long ago.
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Students. Oy vey.
1. Every high school graduate in America received an iPod this summer from their parents. There's no other way to explain the blinding amount of stainless steel and white plastic on view when walking through the NYU environs.
2. I can't stand hippies.
3. What's with this new trend that I hereby dub Half Pants? I have seen no less than three guys wearing pants that are JEANS on the front and, like, BEIGE CORDUROY on the back or vice versa. I can't keep up. I guess it's an extension of last summer's Half Shirt thing where you cut two t-shirts down the middle and sew 'em together. (Watch the John Cameron Mitchell interview on the Hedwig DVD for an example) Weird.
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Wednesday, September 04, 2002
Spotted.
So my dear Rory and I have taken a giant leap into the 21st century.
Rory, of course, is my PowerBook G4, and she's now happily running OS X 10.2, aka Jaguar.
I haven't been posting much lately because I've been desperately busy rearranging everything to my liking and dealing with all the weirdness X and its kooky FreeBSD subsystem bring to the party.
Mostly, I've been trying to turn off all the chrome and resizing effects. I have things to DO with this computer. Swirling genie windows are all well and good until one realizes the first character one types into a browser window is getting cut off because the SYSTEM IS TOO BUSY DANCING TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE KEYBOARD. I bitched about this in #macintosh on Undernet; I was told I should upgrade my computer. It's one year and one month old.
And don't get me started on Mail.app, which is still about as speedy as a Postal Service employee on the way back from a smoking break. Suffice it to say I've retreated to Eudora; it imported 70mb of email in about 4 seconds and we were back in business.
Anyway, I'm pretty much up to snuff at this point. There're only a few bugs that had BETTER get sorted (like how I can only mount my iPod once without restarting, or how I can't play DVDs on my TV using my video-out port, or how the File Open/Save dialog boxes seem to have been designed by...by... oh, fuck it, I'm metaphorless. Suck it up.) but for the most part I'm loving this brave new world.
Send your tips, app recommendations, and $$$ for program upgrades post haste. I'll be the one drowning in a pool of throbbing aqua jelly.
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harry pottah in pervy shockah!
My friend Megan sent me a link to the H*rry P*tter 2000 broom on Amazon.
First of all, can we talk about the picture of that boy on the broomstick? I dread the day when he has to sit down with his parents for The Chat.
And then... well, then come the reviews:
My 12 year old daughter is a big H*rry P*tter fan, and loved the part with the Nimbus 2000, so I decided to buy her this toy. I was afraid she would think it was too babyish, but she LOVES this toy. Even my daughter's friends enjoy playing with this fun toy. I was surprised at how long they can just sit in her room and play with this magic broomstick!
My oldest daughter (17) really likes it too!
What possible use could a 17 year old have for a light-up toy broom? Oh. Wait:
It wasn't until after she opened her gift and started playing with it that I realized that the toy may offer a more than sensational experience. The broomstick has cute sound effects and ***VIBRATES*** when they put it between their legs to fly. Come on---what were the creators of this toy thinking? She'll keep playing with the Nimbus 2000, but with the batteries removed.
It's a VIBRATING BROOM. A VIBRATING BROOM FOR CHILDREN.
I'm going to go say a rosary. Then I'm going to put it on my wishlist.
