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Aha! ... oh.
Posted Jan 28, 2009
So, I was (re)reading Good Omens, by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, when I chanced upon a character who was currently going by the name of Carmine Zuigiber. She is associated with the color red, which made me think of Carmen Sandiego; at another point, the same character is going by the name of Scarlet (or some variant spelling). This, in turn, made me also think of Scarlet O'Hara.
My train of thought, which has a habit of making huge leaps of logic, went: aha! Is the name "Carmen" etymologically related to the color red? Does this mean that her name is actually a reference to that of Scarlet O'Hara?
Answer: no. I looked up "Carmen", which means "song."
Oh well! Yet another random thought of mine which fell flat.
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So, I had a rather strange dream.
Posted Jan 13, 2009
I dreamed that I was in yet another of those adventure-threads with Affy and GL and whatnot. I was doing just about everything irritating from my younger years (i.e. bringing in Loads And Loads Of Characters, providing excessive sound effects) ...
Keep in mind that I'm seeing this as "physically happening" in the dream, but the dream is insisting that it is a roleplay thread on the H2G2.
So, the adventure involved going down this really deep shaft on a moving platform. At the bottom of the shaft, there was this sort of pool of water, and what looked like a random hallway/antechamber from a building. There were other ways to get down there (Affy took a quicker route), but I was on the platform. The platform abruptly broke, causing me (I know "I", Dylan, and Yar Kramer were there separately for some reason, along with possibly Mog and I think some nonexistent character of "mine" who was supposed to be an equivalent to GL or Gairus) to plummet down the shaft. However, I was safe, because I landed in two inches of water (in the Half-Life games, two inches or more of liquid will negate all damage from falling).
Then the adventure got derailed when some sort of old friend of Affy's wandered into the thread, and they started greeting each other and being all "oh, long time no see!" and catching up with each other; said person was (I'm not making this up) a dark-skinned pre-op m2f transgendered person in a skimpy green thong-bikini. Another transgendered person was also there in the background, as well. My brain comes up with the most *outrageous* things, sometimes ...
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The Proper Format
Posted Nov 23, 2008
So ... due to a ridiculous virus that was making my life unhappy, I had to reformat my laptop's hard drive.
Twice. The second time was because I botched restoring from backups, thus seriously buggering up the filesystem permissions. I couldn't run Photoshop, for instance.
The good news is, I have 90% of what I need on an external USB hard drive, and I had 90% of everything else backed up. The bad news is that among that which was lost was an E-Portfolio I was working on for a class (I had it on my laptop's hard drive, due to that being where Apache resides. Lesson learned: never wait to upload important files), and my (ill-concieved and not-even-1%-completed) Inform 7 projects. Le sigh ...
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Ho hum ...
Posted Aug 7, 2008
I apparently last posted four weeks ago. I've also found I don't particularly mind having not posted in the past four weeks, beyond having to wade through a backlog the size of an oak. Most of which appears to have come from Peet (who has merrily posted in his Journal at least once a day).
Mmm ... oh well. It was fun while it lasted, especially the roleplaying bits. Pity *those*, er, stopped lasting before I stopped being a somewhat self-centered and obnoxious teenager who (a) always jumped for ideas I had without considering whether or not it was actually a good idea which people other than myself would appreciate, and thus kept mildly derailing other peoples' roleplay threads, and (b) never properly thought out my ideas when I *was* permitted free reign of them, and thus merely managed to crash. For that matter, looking over some of the stuff I did in the previous months, I appear not to have fully learned my lesson, natch.
I'm not likely to leave for good in the foreseeable future ... it's just that I'm a bit more amenable to the idea of not being here. Oh well.
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Firefox 3: The Return
Posted Jun 22, 2008
Okay, so, I've finally gotten Firefox 3.
So far, most of the problems I'm having are with a few plugins which were being compatible with Firefox 3 (in some cases, they'd last been updated in 2006!), but in most cases either most of their functionality is built into Firefox 3, or I can easily hack the .xpi files (which are just .zips in disguise) to include Firefox 3 in the "allowed versions", which has only caused problems in a few cases. (Now, if only I could get Show All History into a sidebar ...)
My biggest complaint is with the Awesome Bar, which they would have done better to call the Obnoxious Bar, and apparently I'm not alone in thinking this. I have to get an add-on which *disables* it and restores the URL Bar to the Firefox 2 functionality. I am not making this up, and I wish I was.
Meanwhile, on TVTropes, I discovered the existence of an Audio Drama called "The Dead Girl"; the title character is named Annabelle Sykes. By a complete coincidence, I'd been considering this name for a character in my own writings. Oh well, guess I'll have to go with something else ...
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