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I got some drawer-pulls at Home Depot and velcroed them onto my laptop for feet. It actually works pretty good: …

I love the internet. It allows people to make sites like these: Pavarotti Loves Elephants … and funky kittens playing xylaphones and saxaphones in the street.

10:13pm Yay, SP fixed the Moveable Type databases so I’m back up now. Whoo hoo!

5:59pm Great. Ever since I called tech-support at my hosting company last night and he copied one of my other websites to a new location on the server, now none of the blogs are working. (this blog, my SP’s blog, and my smaller blog just for family members) Nothing should have been broken, but obviously something is. So… I’ll save this file and copy/paste it into Moveable Type later on after I get it fixed. SUCKS.

3:45pm Funny how when you are running on 4 hours sleep, have dirty underwear on, greasy hair, unbrushed teeth, that the phone rings and your mom is on the way to the emergency room. Luckily she is ok (I hope). She had a TIA (mini-stroke) and that’s pretty scary. She’s had them before. But every time she has one, I worry, because she’s getting older and we’re best friends. Losing her would be more than losing a mother. It’d be losing the ONLY person who understands me 100%. I think SP understands me 99%. But w/ mom it’s 100%. I got to ride in an ambulance, though. But they didn’t let me run the siren. Bummer. I shoulda took pix but at the time, I had no idea how sick my mom really was and didn’t want to belittle the situation by clicking away. If I’d had my pencam w/ me, I might have been able to get a few shots in, like when I was at the red-light on the way to where she works and I saw the ambulance leaving a nearby hospital to go get her. She was released the same day, but is still having some numbness. I hope she will be ok.

This thing is TOOOOO WEIRD! The Flash Mind Reader. It was freaking me out for a while, and then I found out how it works, but it’s still fun! (via #!/usr/bin/girl)

Also via #!/usr/bin/girl… this fun game

I love fark… “Drunk naked man arrested for speeding on motorized bar stool with ass on fire“

The feet on my laptop have broken off. Whoppee. I can drop it off at Gateway for an uncertain “few days” while they get around to working on it, but I can’t live without it for a few days, no way. In the meantime, I’m using a very hardened (but softens when warm) Balance Outdoor Bar (like a Power Bar) as a riser for my laptop so that it can breathe. I’m hoping to take a trip to Home Depot tonight to search for feet alternatives. Got any ideas? I think for now I’ll get some rubber chair feet, and I’m looking into an aluminum laptop holder that acts as a riser and a heat sink at the same time. I’ll post links later.

UPDATE: This thing looks cool. It’s an aluminum laptop cooler: a laptop wedge w/ a built-in fan.

UPDATE: I think I might get this thing from IGO.com

I want this.
I want this.
I want this.
I want this.
…this…
… more…
It comes in other colors which is good ‘cuz the “chameleon” color is an extra $701 !!!! (yes, just for the paint job!) Whaaaaaaaa!

Ok, now that I’ve had the Aiptek Mini PenCam for a while, (a week), I think I can write a review of it. Later on I’ll post a review to Epinions.com and maybe amazon (if they sell it). I love it. It was $60 at wal mart. I had wanted the one that takes sd (?) cards, but this one was cheaper (and in-town so I didn’t have to pay for shipping) and so far I have not needed any extended memory. I find that you have to experiment to figure out what’ll make a good shot. It’ll overexpose in bright light, and take black pictures in low light. Also, you have to manually figure out the “focal length”, but w/ practice it’s do-able. But in proper light and w/ practice, you can take pretty good pictures. The batteries lasted me about 9 days. Drawback: it gave me no warning. It said the battery was good, then all at once it beeped and died. No warning, so… carry around two spare batteries (I think it’s AAA) with you. Here are some samples (click for larger):
Because I’m a die-hard, I still always have either my Elph or D60 with me. But what’s nice about the pencam is that you can quickly, stealth-ily take a picture. The D60 is huge and heavy and definitely not stealth. The elph is small, but when I want to take a picture quickly, I have to take it out of it’s case, turn it on (which takes a good 1-2 seconds), then take the picture: and there is some delay between when you press the button and the photo is taken. With the Elph, I miss alot of shots. So, providing that the lighting is right and the focal length is set, the mini pencam is better for impromptu pictures. I’m having fun w/ it.

Thought of the day: “Books, Cats, The Net… Life Is Good”

So…. SlashDot is now calling ANONYMOUS COWARDS “ANONYMOUS READERS” instead? What’s that about? Did some crystal-spined wimpy got offended by being called “anonymous coward”? Did SlashDot’s lawyers advise them to change it for fear of being sued? I can’t find an explanation of the change. (like anybody cares, I have no life)

Can anyone help me? I’m having a windows problem. Maybe somebody out there can advise me:

The ARRANGE ICONS –> BY NAME is not sticking. (exetneded entry, click to read more)
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I was so tired and in such a cranky mood yesterday I didn’t even blog-surf or blog. Amazing. I just woke up so cranky, and very tired. Whenever I had a silent moment I just had daydreams of getting in fights w/ total strangers, basically expecting my day of running errands to be full of *ssholes. Turns out that my day of running errands WAS full of *ssholes, but not really more than any other day. The world is just simply full of *ssholes. Just… you know, stuff like you’re trying to decide which bag of salad to buy when some old fart moves RIGHT in front of you and stops! Stands RIGHT in front of you! I was so mad. His nasty ass right within pinching distance. Makes me sick. He stood there forever. I was going to say “excuse me!” but I just knew that opening my mouth would be a bad idea. I’ve had my fair share of people taking innocent sentences that I utter and making them out to be nasty when they weren’t meant to be. They can’t get mad at me for just standing there, especially when I was there first. And stuff like this gets on my nerves, too: It’s not enough that you have to drive a freaking gas-guzzler that is a hazard on the road (you can’t see through them or around them in order to drive safely), you have to take up three freaking parking spots? F*cker.

I bought My Big Fat Greek Wedding today. I love that movie. I worry that they are going too far by making a tv show of it. Oh well, what do you do. I do love the movie though.

I’m doing it again. It’s 4am and I don’t want to go to bed. I want to blog, surf, read, play The Sims, and anything but sleep. But I’m tired. And if I don’t go to sleep soon my clock will be even worse off. I wish I could pause time. Then I could stay up for a long time and surf and read, etc., then hit “play” again and it’d only be 11pm and I could go to bed then. Oh well.

I’m still reading Fast Food Nation. I’m quite amazed at the book. I really like it. …….
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I started writing a post yesterday that I never finished. I was agreeing w/ a blogger (and now I can’t find the blog) about what a “hero” is and is not. I, too, am so sick of everybody being a “hero” nowadays just because they died. ……..
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It’s Friday (or, it was 47 minutes ago), and I figured I’d do a Friday Five.
    1. Explain why you started to journal/blog.
I just felt like journalling again and figured this time I’d do it online. Also, my old “personal page” needed to be overhauled and it seemed a blog was a better way to go since it is somewhat self-maintaining.
    2. Do people you interact with day to day or family members know about your journal/blog? Why or why not?
Sort of. Some know that I have a blog, but I don’t give out the url. I have another, tamer, blog on my home website for family members, etc.
    3. Do you have a theme for your journal/blog?
No, just life, “things that bug me”, photography, technology, etc.
    4. What direction would you like to have your journal/blog go in over the next year?
I’d just like it if other people got a bit of joy or laughter from sharing in my daily blurbs.
    5. Pimp five of your favorite journals/blogs.
GeekyChick.net || BigPinkCookie.com || Ciscley || LJC || MentalPutty.com

I’m not sure I get this. Reversible.org I say I like weblogs, I’m addicted to blogging and reading blogs, and reversible.org links to me saying so?

Ok, so I go to lunch w/ my Mom, and I order a fillet. When it comes, I laugh my ass off at how the steak is dwarfed by this HUUUUUGE sweet potato. Then the waiter comes by and sees what I’m laughing about and says “that’s a small one, lemme show you a big one!”, then he comes back with this! Now I’ve seen it all, LOL.

People are so Ignorant. SP and I went to our favorite Indian restaurant for dinner. As we were seated, the waiter said “I’ll put you under the Entwined Lovers picture”. After we glance at the picture, the waiter says: “Some people have asked me, ‘is that Osama?‘” I was horrified, how ignorant! I said; “that’s horrible!” The waiter says “anything brown with a beard, right?” and walks away. I felt SO BAD. I mean, it’s moments like that that I’m ashamed to be an American. No, I’m not. I guess it’s more that I’m just ashamed of some of my fellow Americans. That’s SO ignorant and SO narrow-minded. It just makes me sick not only that somebody would think that (did they really think that???) but that they would say it to the Indian waiter. Maybe they were joking, but that is NOT funny. I don’t know which is more sick, that an American would be that ignorant as to think it was osama, or that an American would be so ignorant as to joke about it to the Indian waiter. SP was horrified, too. Idunno, I just had to vent about it, it really bothered me. They’re REALLY nice people there at the restaurant, they don’t deserve biggoted attitudes or jokes.

SP sounds like he’s going to cry, he’s laughing so hard. I sent him this link earlier today and he’s STILL laughing about it… thinking about it… looking at it… giggling his ass off. (link via Ciscley.) It IS a riot!

UPDATE: I showed my own cat, Sasha (well, one of my cats) the link, and she reacted with pure shame for the cat on the website:

I’m trying to get back into the sims. I used to be so addicted to the sims. Then my sim got to a point where she could not get promoted until she became more social; skills were no longer enough. Seeing as how in real life I would never seek a promotion that required me to be more social, I got bored w/ the game. I kinda felt like: “in real life I have to work, exercise, play, sleep, pee… and that’s all my sim does, what’s the point?” But I love the game and thought I’d get back into it w/ a new sim.

I got the Sims Online for xmas. I have not used it yet, I wanted to play w/ the sims offline for a while first to re-acquaint myself w/ the game first so that I don’t waste any of my 30-days of sims online re-learning stuff. So… I forgot how addicting it is. Although this time, since I now have the money cheat, I’m more obsessed w/ starting various “families” and trying them out, rather than just working on one family like I used to do before I found the money cheat. I think I’m too much of a control-freak. I can’t stand to let my sim do one thing that I did not ordain.

I heard that the sims have more fun if you give them free-will anyway, so I let them go for a while and they peed themselves and burned themselves to death in a kitchen fire… both of them. So, I did not save the game at that point.

I’m trying to get them in the love bed together a few times so that they can have a baby. I want to have my sims have a baby and then wall the baby in a room w/ no doors. Heh heh. Yeah, I know.

All I need is one more thing to eat up my time. I already spend too much time on the computer surfing, working on websites, blogging, etc. Oh well.

Wow, PopDex got Farked today. To be “farked” means that your site was mentioned on Fark and as a result, your sever got overloaded. As of last attempt I could not get the page to load at all. Wow.

Here are some of the first few pix from my new pen-cam: … (click for larger).

Ugh, somehow I need to figure out margins (for my comments/permalink window), trackback, and categories. Why do I have so much trouble getting Moveable Type to work??? Ugh!

What a riot, I’m so excited. I got my little pencam last night and have been playing w/ it all day and it’s a blast. I’ll post some pix from it later. Then I go blog-surfing and land on one of my regular haunts (ciscley.frohme.org) and lo-and-behold, I’m not the only pen-cam freak! LOL!
Apparently there’s a “Best Pencam or Lo-Fi category” in the The 2003 Photobloggies, AND a Pencam Photographers webring (last 2 links via ciscley). I’m so silly, but I LOVE photography, and if I’m not carrying my D60 around, I have my Elph with me. I like to take photographic pictures, but also just silly life-pictures: things that annoy me, things that make me laugh, etc. So, this pen cam should be fun, and I’m not alone! Hahahahah.

I can’t figure out how to get TrackBack working, ugh…….

Happy, Yay. I went to Wally World, world of cheap plastic crap, and found a cheaper version of the pen-cam that I wanted! $60 instead of $80, and no shipping since it was in-town. I jumped on it. Figured what the hey. I’m having trouble w/ it’s software though, so I have yet to play w/ it. It’s the Aiptek MINI PenCam.

Found via LJC Blog, you can create your own wrestling character! (annoying free register/login, advice: register and login before creating your wrestler or it will be lost.) I created Super Pookie. (Click for larger) Fun! =:D

TechTV‘s Morgan Webb started a brand new Moveable Type blog. Go check it out and cheer her on!

This is REALLY depressing: “Pentagon has ordered 77,000 bodybags, compared with 16,000 for the Gulf War in 1991″… via FARK.com.

Ok, I need to go read one of my books now.

I’m a god-damned addict. I can’t stop blogging. I can’t stop reading blogs and looking for new blogs to read. I can’t stop reading technology books and trying to learn new things. I’m even haunted: SP‘s Linux Journal came in the mail the other day, it’s it’s all about BLOGS! blog blog blog blog blog blog!!!!! blog! Want to… stay up until… 4am… again… can’t… have to.. get up… early… like 9am… =:o

I want to get this little “pen camera“. It’s a little 1.3 megapizel digital camera that is somewhat pen-like and you can hang it around your neck. I already have a pricey Cannon D60 digital slr, and a killer small 2mp Canon Elph (both digital), but I want something that is more stealth just for my silly blog pictures. I like to take pictures of stuff that annoys me and then post pix and gripes in my blog. It’s fun. But people don’t like when you aim a camera at them (see this post). But if I had this little pen cam around my neck, it’d be less obvious, it hardly looks like a camera.

Like today, we went to an all-u-can eat pizza buffet and there was this family there… the parents were just sitting there stuffing their faces and talking, meanwhile their two little boys were SCREAMING and yelling and JUMPING up and down and BANGING the windows and climbing up over the booth into the next booth and jumping up and down on the booth and slobbering and getting crumbs all over the table that the employee had just cleaned and I just wanted to wring about 4 necks. I’d have taken their picture, but it might have started a fight.

The thing w/ the pen cam though is that there is no lcd screen so I’d have to put it to my face to take a picture. It might be just as stealth to use my existing Elph and use the lcd screen because then I could hold it down low and take a picture. I don’t know, I’ll have to think on it. The pen cam has no zoom either. Hmmmm.

And WHY do my permalinks have no margins?!?

I haven’t posted any pix in a while, so here: …this was taken from my home before they started building nearby. Click for larger (120k).

I’ve been wanting to read the book “Fast Food Nation“, and today I finally got it. Saw it in Target. I’ve only read a few pages so far, but already I’m impressed by it. Some of it’s pretty scary, like the fact that Americans spend more money each year on fast food than on higher education… and stories about how GM used front-companies to buy up railroads for the sole purpose of tearing them up and replacing them w/ GM buses. All this and I’m only a few pages into chapter 1. I think this is going to be a good read.

Ugh. I stay up late Friday night to watch a movie, go to bed after 4am, sleep until noon, take a nap in the early evening, then get mad when 4am rolls around on Saturday night and I’m not tired but I know I should go to bed. When will I learn?