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"We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
-- Oscar Wilde
What's On My TV:
Bleach
Dancing With the Stars
Death Note
Doctor Who
Naruto
Ninja Warrior
Pucca
The Sarah Jane Adventures
Supernatural
Unbeatable Banzuke
Waiting For:
Burn Notice
USA, Summer
Dexter
Showtime, ?
Frisky Dingo
Cartoon Network, ?
Heroes
NBC, ?
Metalocalypse
Cartoon Network, 5/18, 11:45
Project Runway
Bravo, ?
Robot Chicken
Cartoon Network, August
Stargate Atlantis
Sci Fi, ?
Torchwood
BBC America, ?
The Venture Bros.
Cartoon Network, 6/1
Randomness:
100 cheapest, best places to eat in NYC
Babelfish Translation
Book-A-Minute SF/F
Carol Lay comics
The Complete Pondering List
Fed Ex Locations
Forgotten NY
GasBuddy.com
German words of love & romance
HopStop subway directions
Internet Movie Database
Invisible Records (Underground, Inc.)
Isolation Tank music & merch
Lileks' Institute of Official Cheer
Living on a Shoestring
Lucky Cats - Maneki Neko
Mapquest driving directions
Metropolis Mail-Order
MTA NYC transit
New York Press
Overheard in New York
Random Name Generator
Rate My Kitten
Saiyuki Reload in Zero Sum
Television Without Pity
Tomato Nation
ThinkExist Quotations
Witchblade Episode Guide
World Time Zones
Yu-Gi-Oh! Episode Guide
LJ-related
paid account status
friends of friends
interests match
member birthdays
popular amongst my friends
recent comments
what server am I?
Writing Fandoms:
Slash
Andromeda
Angel
Buffy tVS, the movie
(Pike and Benny)
Death Note
Doctor Who
due South
Fight Club
GetBackers
Hard Core Logo
Once a Thief
Saiyuki
Smallville
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Twitch City
Two Guys and a Girl
Weiß Kreuz
The X-Files
X-Men (comics)
One Shot Fandoms
Gen
Andromeda
X-Files
Recommendations
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Quotes of the Moment:
"In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these."
-- Paul Harvey
“I think [doubt is] perceived in this culture as something weak or denatured, and that’s a huge mistake. Conviction is what you do to be comfortable, to write The End on thinking. Doubt keeps you in the present, it keeps you conscious and reacting to and acting on what is going on now. It’s work, and people like to avoid work.”
-- John Patrick Shanley, playwright of Doubt, a Parable
"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points."
-- Virginia Woolf
"Like in Last Night, there was a lot of laying on top of other
women, and, and, and... not other women, not like I'm a woman, but -- that made no sense. On other women, you know, and you have to -- it's a bit tricky 'cause you're trying to respect what's, you know, them, and the scene, and the stuff, and you know. If I get excited, I apologise, if I don't get excited, I apologise."
-- Callum Keith Rennie, on doing sex scenes
"You may have noticed that Turlough spent a great deal of time kept captive in various states of bondage. It was always a disappointment to me that there seemed to be no getting around this problem."
-- Mark Strickson
Introduction,
The Companions of Doctor Who: Turlough and the Earthlink Dilemma
by Tony Attwood, Copyright 1986
"So hit us at Talismaniac.com, where you can log on and you can rock on, because my nipples are dry and he needs food."
-- part of Gabriel's advertising pitch, with baby doll, for his business website
Witchblade: "Static"
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
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4:30 pm - The Subway Is Hungry
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I had a doctor's bill I'm fighting in my hand as I descended to the L line. Once I got there, a strong breeze whipped it out of my hand and onto the tracks. Then the train came. I hope the bill gets too dirty and lost down the tubes for anybody to use any of the information on it against me. *sigh*
At least I took down a lot of the information I need down elsewhere.
current mood:  frustrated
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| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
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2:17 pm
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Someone sent me a virtual pot of gold and some more time! Thanks!
current mood:  sleepy
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| Monday, May 12th, 2008
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5:58 pm - In the End
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Seeing Death Note Saturday (episode: "Father") it struck me that ( spoilers )
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( spoilers for Saturday's Bleach )
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I'm liking Code Geass to some extent, though the lead character often annoys me. That they're using the same voice actor for him as for Bleach's Ichigo adds to my occasional WTF. Another CLAMP property where a lot of the leads strike me as really unpleasant people.
current mood:  hungry
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1:19 pm - Mercury Coming Into Retrograde
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Now Dad/Grandma's computer is having trouble because somebody--not him or Maria-- set up a log-in password, and yesterday the computer somehow logged them out. Now you can't get the computer started without a password. Thus, I'm on my brother's Mac. (Thanks, guy!) Working IM through aol.com sucks though....
Legal Aid continues to review my statement, but now that I don't have access to a printer once they approve it they'll have to mail it to me to sign.
I'm going stir crazy without my own computer. It's not just that I can't socialize with my friends, it's also that I didn't realize how often I distracted myself from my pain by going online to do things and talk to people. There have been vertiginous weather and temperature changes in the last week, so I'm really suffering. I also really miss writing fic. The few hours a day I'm elsewhere with a computer I'm spending checking up on whether my lawyer has contacted me about the statement and keeping up with some LJ stuff. Plus, I have to keep getting used to different keyboards.
The computer search continues, though it's going harder and slower by not having much internet access. I need to get something soon.
current mood:  sore
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| Saturday, May 10th, 2008
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8:26 pm
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6:16 pm - Spelled Backwards It's "Bob"
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My brain glitched in an amusing way today. I was thinking about something by Andy Warhol--a piece called "Silver Clouds" and how much fun I had interacting with it--but couldn't remember his name at the time. My brain came up with "Harlow" at first. Usually it glitches in a related-to way instead of creating anagrams.
current mood: hungry
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5:20 pm - Going No Way
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The bid for congestion pricing failed a little while ago, to my great delight. My travel experience today is part of why outer borough people don't take the subway more often.
( Read more... )
current mood:  cranky
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5:14 pm - City Stories
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I saw some unusual stuff while I was out today: a wedding in the park in front of City Hall and a blind man with a dog on the train walking around asking for something through a kind of mic but nobody could figure out what it was. It started out as a kind of bid to give changing walk/don't walk signals a sound so blind people can be aware, then turned into him crooning something. Everybody in the train car was kind of 'huh?" about it.
Later I gave $1 to a guy who claimed he was pickpocketed and needed $8.50 to get home to upstate NY.
Last Monday a woman asked me for directions while I was in the city to pick up my assistance benefits card. Turned out she was going there for that herself. I walked her to the door. Really, I'm magic.
New York City is a cool place, although parts of it are constantly changing. A lot of favorite places are gone, with entire blocks being ripped out in gentrification. It's sad. Though some nice renovations had been made to City Hall's park: a fountain with gaslight lanterns in places.
current mood: hungry
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4:24 pm - Trying It on For Size
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::on Grandma/Dad's machine::
Blue let me go online for about 5 minutes last night before violently protesting with Fade FADE FLICKER BOUNCE FLICKER BOUNCE BOUNCE. Not good. The screen is dimmer throughout, but the worst when I'm in AOL and especially online, though trouble still starts if I'm in VLC or Word for a while, just not as violently.
I went to J&R Music today to see notebook computers. I'm hearing a lot of good about Lenovos, but they're not aesthetically pleasing and the no-man's-land is largish. A lot of the Lenovos, including the model I was looking at most seriously, have a small mouseboard but two rows of mouse buttons, one above and one below. These rows appear to have the same function. WTF. I was using the top row as I played around with it because the bottom row would be awkward. I often use an external mouse anyway, but this two-row system is what's making the no-man's-land bigger and less comfortable.
I love the look of Toshibas, but when I ask two salesmen if they still overheat, one said he doesn't know and the other avoided the question by saying if my notebook overheated I could get a cooling pad. The last of which sounds to me like "Yes, they still overheat." Nobody can give me a breakdown on overheating by model.
So the Lenovo Thinkpads come recommended but I don't like the look, the large size of the no-man's-land or the small size of the mouse board on the models that have the screen size I want, come with Windows XP, and are within my price range.
I saw Sonys and ASUSes as well but didn't get a positive personal opinion. For me it's come down to Lenovos for the recommendations and Toshibas for aesthetics and familiarity. It's almost impossible to hold them side by side for a price check because there are programming, packaging, platform, and screen size differences. I'd love it if I could do a point by point review.
current mood: frustrated
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| Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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2:07 pm - Recommendations?
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If it comes down to it--*sigh*--what contemporary laptop/notebook brand/model would you recommend? What should I avoid at all costs? Do Toshibas still have overheating problems? (Blue is a Toshiba Satellite A45-S150, and yeah, its fan has been a pain in the ass. I like Toshibas. The configuration feels good to me. I just don't know if they've resolved the overheating problems.)
I've heard it's possible to avoid getting Windows Vista on a PC; is it true? Do they charge extra for that?
I don't play video games or make vids; I just write text, have MP3s, do digital photos, and watch shows from CD-Rs. I definitely don't need something high-end. I have some programs I happily use that I think don't have Mac versions, so I refer PC. I believe that I have filled about 65% of Blue's 512 MB installed memory, with a 60 GB hard drive, and some of that is just because I store a lot on Blue due to my ignorance on CD-burning. *ahem*
ETA: Also, I need to be able to try out the keyboard for myself. Back when I bought Blue in 2004, even before the nerve damage in my arms became worse, some keyboards I tried made you reach all the way in over a large mouseboard holding area to get to the keys, and that is painful to me. I'm not buying anything I can't first do my reach test on.
ETA #2: Any suggestions other than Dell? For other possibilities. I tried some Dells tonight at Best Buy only to find that the no man's land in front of the keyboard that holds the mouse board is larger than most of the laptops and thus makes me painfully reach farther to type, that the area feels wrong every time my wrist touches it, and my Dad's few-years-old Inspiron is an expensive paperweight.
current mood: frustrated
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1:03 pm - But Of Course
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Blue is declining big time. When I turned on today the screen image started bouncing as well as dimming and flickering within ten minutes.
This would happen when my lawyer is sending me documents via e-mail to work on.
I'm at the house on Dad/Grandma's computer, and it is sooooo slow. I hope I can get a hold of my lawyer while I'm here.
current mood: frustrated
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| Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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11:54 pm
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My laptop screen is getting much worse very quickly. I can't believe how fast this decline is. That's why I've been on and off today and may not be around much for... I don't know.
current mood:  scared
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12:17 pm - Kick 'Em When They're Down
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My laptop's screen has started flickering at times. The first time ever was yesterday, and last night it got so bad that I turned it off immediately. My screen is dimmer today and has flickered a few times since I started it but seems to be dimmer but stable for now, though it's giving me a bit of eyestrain. I had no discernible problem until yesterday.
This is, of course, a terrible time for my four-year-old laptop to start breaking down. My private insurer appeal still hasn't been sent--the Legal Aid lawyer says that I could have it done fast or have it done right--and the small public assistance I've qualified for is proving to be a struggle to actually get access to.
E-mail is an important resource for me, for my disability stuff and in other ways, and internet is the main way I'm socializing. Since I'm a long way out of warranty, Toshiba would want a $30-40 fee just to take a guess by phone at what's wrong and how it can be fixed. (If they even think it can, or if replacing the screen is necessary but so costly they'd suggest I'd buy a new machine.)
I don't know what to do. I have so much going on that it's hard to add something else to the pile. My ability to think is shot. The added stress of this actually has me shaking; I skipped physical therapy this morning from stressing out half-awake over the computer and the Medicaid stuff simultaneously for hours.
ETA: It started flickering badly again after being on for five hours this afternoon, so I turned it off and gave it a 40-minute rest. It started up with some scary flickering but for now is just dim again.
current mood: scared
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| Monday, May 5th, 2008
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10:12 pm - Wide Squirrel Is Wide
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| Friday, May 2nd, 2008
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10:23 am - part 239: "I'm a go-getter. You love it."
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Previous installments are available in my Memories here. Please make sure the Memory page is set to sort by Description to get the entries in the correct order.
Warning: There's some dark stuff in part of this. If you'd like a more detailed warning, you can see it in the rating section.
( 'Glass Houses' WIP part 239 )
current mood: sleepy
current music: "Bloody Bunnies (Superficiality)" by Gram Rabbit
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| Thursday, May 1st, 2008
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10:39 am - "Transience"
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Weiß Kreuz gen: "Transience"
RATING: PG-13 (for Yoji’s mouth).
SUMMARY: Life is made of moments.
current mood: sleepy
current music: "House on Fire" by Assemblage 23
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12:25 am - Beyond the Veil
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| Monday, April 28th, 2008
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10:14 pm - Dancing With Cut-outs
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Dancing With the Stars
Me: The RUMBANGO
Kef: XDDD
Me: Marissa has improved.
Kef: yes!
Me: Oh, Bruno
Me: Ha, Christian!
Kef: awwww
Me: [Christian's daughter] is a guest appearance I approve of.
Kef: sooo cute <3
Me: ::mutters about Henry Winkler::
Kef: i wish i could sing
Kef: says the singer
Me: Nah, they think they can sing.
Me: Ouch! "Singers," STFU
Me: What's up with her shoulder ribbons? She's like a present.
Kef: who knows XD
Me: I am so tired of Kristi. I want her out.
Kef: unfortunately they want her to win ):
Me: She's preventing me from getting any sense of excitement out of this season. What's the use when they want her to win so badly?
Kef: NO
Kef: AVRIL LAVIGNE
Kef: UUUUUUUUGH
Me: hahahahahaa
Me: Emotional? Kristi? No.
Kef: HAHAHAAH
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Me: Kenny returns tomorrow! Dance Center!
Kef: weeee XD
Me: Def Leppard really will be on tomorrow??
Kef: this scares me
Me: Me too
current mood:  annoyed
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| Sunday, April 27th, 2008
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11:42 pm - Job Security
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Syvia: *snickering* (I just finished reading [your new WIP])
Syvia: Good for Aya :3
Syvia: Vocalization and bitchiness~
Syvia: also using logic to get Yoji's ass moving
Me: Not that logic always works on Yoji. *g*
Syvia: XD It's only now occurred to me how much it must suck that they can't fire him from the flower shop, because that's only a cover
Me: Yes! All they can do is try to prod and torment him into doing his job.
Syvia: XD Poor boys.
Me: Aya: "...when I signed up with Kritiker, I didn't think I was agreeing to be Yoji's dom."
Syvia: *cries* XDD
Syvia: They could ask for a replacement, but he's actually somewhat competent [as an assassin].
Me: Yes. Plus, who knows how the new person will mix in with them.
Syvia: Well hell- he didn't think he was signing up to be a sex toy when he got with Crashers.
Me: Sex toy and fetish object
Syvia: Aya: All I actually want to do is kill people for money. Why is this too much to ask?
Syvia: The devil you know. I fully understand that sentiment
Syvia: heh
Syvia: poor Aya
Me: I know. He is tortured.
current mood:  weird
current music: "Document" by Assemblage 23
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| Friday, April 25th, 2008
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6:03 pm
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As I posted that last post about my fixing genius, it refused to crosspost to GJ, something new with my recent Semagic update. One of the quibbles regarded the new content setting.
While I was at GJ for the first time in a while to see if there was something I could adjust there, I saw that it had deleted all my icons except my default and has a message atop its pages that it's disabled and everyone should use insanejournal instead. GJ is apparently continuing its disintegration, and I guess Semagic is paying attention to it? Too bad IJ is still a pain in the ass for my Semagic, although at least since I switched the layout to S2 with one of the default color schemes at IJ it's not randomly deleting my color settings anymore. It won't let me do anything I want with the sidebar either.
Is there a point to crossposting anywhere right now?
current mood: frustrated
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