philosophy

...maybe I'm looking for a reason to be upset? I don't know. I was trying to distract myself from the fact that LJ wasn't loading (and therefor couldn't make my daily_scifi entry), so I rewatched the damn thing twice on VHS, then tracked it down on the internet so I could make a bunck of icons for a scene I loath. Don't mind me. But then again, Elisabeth Röhm, so, pretty!

Can you tell I haven't slept right in days?



Also, if anyone wants 300+ caps of her in her final scene on Law & Order, let me know. Maybe then I can justify it in a better light?

***** these were written at various times over the last few weeks when I thought them but was too fried to post. I apologise if there are any typos; each and every one was all but unreadable when I actually typed them, but I did run it through spell-check on MS Word, so I hope I got the majority of the mess. *****
sad fact just editing and cleaning this up took... too long. I opened the page at "22:43" and finished at "23:55". Jeeze.

 - I really dislike wiki sites. It took me this side of forever to not hate them immediately because of the potential unreliability of them (I don't care what anyone says about how a wrong answer can be corrected as quickly as under a minute; I know of four incidents involving people I know personally and in 'real life' [as opposed to on-line] where it was the wrong information that kept getting 'corrected'), ( bitching because I can't figure out the damn rules + gushing over ComicVine )

 - Sometimes, words are awesome but right now, I despise my vocabulary. Unless I know someone really well**, I can come off as either harsh, pissed off or attacking when I don't mean too. Apparently, saying that 'x' template email was used to justify the deletion of a submission is being rude, but that's the most descriptive word I can come up with. "Explain" doesn't fit because the email didn't explain anything.
  **or they happen to have an X-Files reference as their username not be angered because they say the same things with the intent of being a (funny) pain in the ass being harsh.

 - You know how sometimes when you watch a show that you haven't seen in a long time and when you watch it again, you wonder how you didn't see how truly **awful** it is? Well, I caught myself thinking the reverse when I was watching Star Trek; Voyager a while back. I always remember it as being poorly acted in the beginning, not all that good with continuity, having created Seven for gratuities sexuality and just really hokey. I attribute watching it to it being _Star Trek_. But when I actually watch it, it's not nearly as bad as I always think of it.

 - ( http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=91) I cannot comprehend a situation where paying for alcohol is equivalent to covering pizza except maybe in the case of a children's BD party and the parents of birthday child drinking after.

 - spent a full day dicking around on the Blue Bloods Wikia site. A very long no-point detail list of what specifically I did and justifications for everything can be found here; http://bluebloodstv.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Pixie_child/self-absorbed_mind_drop

 - I have found a new way to be horrified and very amused at the same time; http://wonkette.com/. ( shifting blame + recs found at 2AM )

 - Wow, I'm getting a little political lately. I know it is just through quoting one of the awesome-ness of one of the coolest "Old Guys" on TV, but still. They're directly currently politically-related, so it feels pretty damn close. And while I'm pretty sure no one on my f-list** is a [what's the US equivalent of Canada's Conservative party? I can't keep the two names separate because unlike up here in the land of "Universal" health care, neither words are (as far as I know) words in the English language], but just in case, I apologise. I don't want to offend anyone. Well, not unless you would vote the illiterate media whore, ah, "companion". Then I am not going to say anything in your regard, because I'm a firm believer in the rights of everyone, but you really challenge that.
  **reading this and not a member of my f-list? Seriously? Well, after questioning your sanity (^_^), I invite you to contact me either through commenting, PM-ing via LJ or DW, or emailing me! If I haven't scared you off yet, I'm almost guaranteed to be more than willing to babble incoherently with you.

 - suddenly overwhelmed by 14-year-old guilt from back when I spent two weeks with my aunt and uncle. ( an instance where I was reminded how everything is a reflection on my father )

 - I'm easily amused. Apparently, Jeri Ryan's birth last name is Zimmerman. cue Star Trek-related giggles
    - also just learned that she turned down a cameo offer to be in (Star Trek) Nemesis, and only asked Kate Mulgrew after. I have nothing against Jeri Ryan, but seriously? Janeway made much more sense than Seven of Nine to appear.

 - this is super cute; http://www.kimonostownhouse.com/

 - I fucking hate the '07 layout of Microsoft Word, but I [well, my OSAP grant] paid for it and it would be stupid to pay for a downgrade just because I'm a stubborn jackass when it comes to change. I just wish I could do the same thing with it as I did for running Windows Vista (I've got it set to look like Windows '98).

 - I really like using DreamWidth as my alpha journal for many reasons, but the major ones are that the posting interface just feels cleaner and the staff is so damn helpful and friendly. Also, because I don't have to fight with logging in and DW allows me to cross-post. That being said, I guess LJ has spoiled me because I find it incredibly inconvenient not to be able to tag my entries with a tick-box list and it drives me up the wall when I want to have more than one space at a time, because you just can't do it in the Rich Text format (they are removed in the post), and if you put the   into the code box then switch to Rich Text for any reason, they are removed then as well. Little things, but they get to me.

 + another thing I had intended to add to my list of upcoming posts; a work-in-progress meme. It is actually one of the few things I could have done in the last few weeks, because it would require little thought, except that there are at least 75+ files in my "in progress" folder and have no idea how to compile the list without having to copy/paste or re-type all the file names out.

I have been home since Sunday. I am still feeling crazy, but to the few friends I mentioned my, uh, experimentation with my meds, it was informative. The second night, I actually had Greg a little worried because I was so mellow (and not bouncing off the walls or wanting to spin around every thirty minutes), happy just to watch Andromeda and either doodle or play Solitare.

Also, because I am too ADD to work on the over-due holiday gifts, I have been staring at a story board for one of my own conceps that will never see the light of day, and coming up with 'clever' t-shirt designs for a specific tries-too-hard character. ∴ this lead to me having to check with Google to see if it was "Rule 43" or "Rule 34", and I re-found this; http://www.xkcd.com/305/ Likely most of the internet population has read it before, but it's silly and cute.

PS (another dumb quote); I can't get "All right, you liberal pansy sex fiends! 1940s morality is back and it's going to set you fuckers straight!" out of my head. Which is not abnormal, but what should be at least a little worring is that even as an uptight, margenly homophobic, mock (as in, not from a real comic), Steve Rogers still just seems 'quirky'. (from this mock, which I've rec-ed before and am sure most of you have seen as well.)

 
Just ones I found particularly funny.
Please excuese the poor spelling and/or typos. There were done on notepad as I read them and I couldn't be bothered to go over it before posting.
 
...Questionable Content - eariler recs can be found here
( QC recs under the cut )

- Why is it that of all the characters' in this series, I relate to the OCD-Nurotic girl & the breezy air-head perky-girl? ...don't answer that.

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...Ctrl+Alt+Del
( CAD recs under this cut ) 
 
(  and of course, because I just can't help myself, there are always then ones that inspired rants  )

Also, read this ; http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/03/tech/gamecore/main677960.shtml

I have found something that has amused me for 6 hours and I'm only into the first 300 out of, like, 2000. Thanks to sophia_gratia for introducing me to it! http://www.questionablecontent.net/ Actually, though, it seems to be a weird influance, because it's the only thing I currently am into that doesn't have me thinking any slash (m/m or f/f) influances.

the ones I found most entertaining so far;
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=47
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=87
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=126
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=165
http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=282 
also, you have to read the text below this one; http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=312

Okay, so even though I couldn't go to sleep until, like, three in the morning, I work up at seven thirty. Fun.

Anyways, after dragging my ass out of bed to take the dogs out, I decided that if I can't write, I may as well f-around on Photoshop to make the icons for a specific project
- and ended up spending over an hour and a half making icons from one comic page scan, most of which were not related
- and somewhere in the middle of doing that, I got distracted and spent half an hour (not counted in the 1.5h of icon making) making 3 textures from Pixie's wings, none of which I used
- then, after taking the dogs out again, I remembered I still had to watch the latest episode of Caprica online (RE; yesterday's kvetching), so I started that while going back to work on the third icon actually related to what I started doing
- only to be distracted by the very pretty Cylon/dead/digitally 'resurrected'/"death walker" girls and just had to cap them, regardless of the crap quality and 'SyFy' (I will not bitch about the dumbass station name, I will not bitch about the dumbass station name, I will not bitch about the dumbass station name...) logo in the 'corner' that is way too far away from the actual corner not to be deliberately a hindrance
- which, as soon as I realized how foolish (and on Vulcan, in relation to how off-project) what I was doing was (at 11:30, 4 hours after I began to make the icons thinking it would only take an hour or so), led to me typing this on Notepad because I know that if I connect to the internet now, I will only get more distracted by updates at various journals/comms/archives.
- speaking of waking up stupid-early and typing to-be LJ entries on Notepad, I just remembered I started 3 last Friday; a general personal update, a list of media I would recommend to everyone and a list of my personal canon/fannish squee

I think I need help.


added at 1:30: ...and yet, even though I didn't want to post this until I finished what I was doing, I still went on to post a dumb memory from years ago. I reiterate; I need help.

 
...and some people shouldn't be allowed on the internet after combining different sleeping pills. (Long story, basically, I hadn't slept in a few days and desperate, I took one of my mom's actual sleeping pills along with my antipsychotics just so I could get real sleep. 39 hours later, I'm still loopy.)
 
So, I ended up deciding to create that Young Marvel Heroes "Secret 'Santa'" fic exchange. I only ever got one responce when I asked if anyone would be interested, but I'm holding out hope that I'll be able to get at least a few people to sign up.
 
http://community.livejournal.com/ymgiftexchange/
 
PS; fullmetal_cute, I tease with full fandom love.
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