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Friday, July 3, 2009
They are prolly gonna make all the Twilight books into movies...so it makes me wonder if I should jump on the band-wagon and make some "Twilight inspired" junk too >.>
Thursday, July 2, 2009
I know it's just been a day, but for anyone who wasn't on IM with me at the time, my laptop isn't in totally working order right now. Well, it's in limited-time working order. Here's what happened: I was just doing random Gaia stuff when I noticed that where it plugs into the computer was flashing. I thought maybe the cord was bend so I went to move it. The second after I moved the cord a bit, sparks starting shooting out of the power-supply-brick-thingy. Well, after getting it all unplugged and such I saw that it was fried and scary looking. It will cost me $79 to get it from the MAC store in the mall (if they still carry it). So right now my laptop is either in sleep mode, or the battery has given out, but either way, I won't be on it for a bit.
Otakon is also coming up, so I've been trying to sell buttons and make some money for that. Yay money!
I also found out the wire I've been sitting on for a while won't be good for making rings. Grr. No more half-hard for me unless I need some sort of wire with some springy-ness to it.
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Saturday, June 6, 2009
On the way back from the airport my bf tells me that I will have a wet t-shirt contest with myself. One will win and the other lose. My legs will be the judges, and my hands are going to translate what they have to say.
Just wanted to share that with everyone...
Current mood:  amused
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
I found this article in the Washington Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/29/AR2009052903733.html
This Book Is Only Half the Story
By Mike Musgrove
Sunday, May 31, 2009
A video game blogger named Rachael Webster created a minor stir in the blogosphere last year, when it turned out that she didn't exactly exist.
Sure, Webster has been cranking out interesting enough commentary at a site bearing her supposed nom de blog, PixelVixen707. She even got herself quoted in an article or two at other gaming news sites along the way. But you probably won't bump into her at, say, the video game industry's big trade show in Los Angeles this week. After all, she's a character in a book.
"Personal Effects: Dark Art," published next month by St. Martin's Press, is a creepy page-turner about an art therapist in a mental institution trying to figure out whether one of his patients, a former CIA spook, committed a series of brutal murders. "Rachael Webster," as it turns out, is the protagonist's punk-rock girlfriend.
Get to the last page of "Personal Effects" and you'll have many answers, but to fully enjoy this book, you'll need a Web connection and an interest in puzzles.
"Personal Effects," a collaboration between thriller writer J.C. Hutchins and game designer Jordan Weisman, is part book and partly the latest entry in the hybrid entertainment form known as "alternate reality games." Play the game correctly and you might be able to pick up on details that the protagonists missed -- and, perhaps, end up with a different perspective of the book's events.
To do that, you call up phone numbers mentioned in the storyline, which will play a protagonist's voicemail greeting. If you've been paying attention, you'll know the passcode and, thus, you'll be able to hear some saved messages. To bolster the online verisimilitude of the book's world, a half-dozen or so Web sites have been created, ranging from the game blog to a site purporting to belong to the "Brinkvale Psychiatric Institute." The book's front cover is actually a pocket, packed with a small stack of documents and photos referenced in the book; just more pieces of the puzzle.
Weisman is already known for his inspired and slightly crazed-seeming viral marketing schemes, such as one called "ilovebees" that was used to promote Microsoft's Halo franchise. In that bit of weirdness, the idea was that a beekeeping Web site had been hacked by a bit of artificial intelligence. Players, who came to the site after the Web address was flashed subtly in a Halo commercial, followed clues from one site to another, collaborating online to assemble the pieces of the story that Jordan's team had thrown across the Web. By the time "ilovebees" wrapped up, hundreds of thousands of people were following the saga online.
Last year, to promote the latest Batman blockbuster film, the Dark Knight, Weisman's firm bought billboard space around the country and filled them with advertising that appeared to promote "Harvey Dent" for district attorney. Dent is, of course, a character from the world of Batman, but the billboards served to kick off another round of puzzle-solving madness.
Weisman was a pioneer in this area, but his once-startling style of blurring one medium into another has solidly caught on across pop culture. After all, at this point it would almost be disappointing if the paper company from "The Office" -- or the one from "Heroes," for that matter -- didn't have its own Web site. And when J.J. Abrams, the producer of enigmatic shows like "Lost," guest-edited the May issue of Wired, it was a no-brainer that he would fill the pages with a mostly-clandestine set of puzzles, over which readers online collaborated to solve.
"Every medium that we use in everyday life can be used as a medium for storytelling," said Weisman, whose Seattle firm, Smith & Tinker, employs a team of imaginative operatives, such as whoever is actually writing the PixelVixen707 blog. Using tools across a variety of media is a way of breaking the world of fiction's "fourth wall," he says. "It allows us to get past the screen and into the world that the characters inhabit."
"Personal Effects" is the second such "transmedia" book to bear Weisman's name; "Cathy's Book," aimed at young adults, debuted on the New York Times bestseller list when it was published in 2006. As for Hutchins, this isn't the author's first experiment with non-traditional storytelling; at his Web site he has long encouraged users to create, and post, their own riffs on his imaginary worlds in the form of audio voicemail messages or video clips.
"Some people will look at this and see a gimmick-packed book, and that's fair," he said. "But what we're gunning for is a 'Sixth Sense'-style twist that can only be experienced beyond the pages."
Whatever happens next, the book's publication has already been positive for Rachael Webster's career: Imaginary or not, she recently started a column for the popular and geek-centric erotic site SuicideGirls.
Current mood:  geeky
Monday, June 1, 2009
I keep thinking I want to make yarn falls...then I wonder what style of yarn falls I want to make. The pig-tail ones are fun, and while I can get my hair into the pigtails, I stink at making the buns tight. I could make the one "fake pig-tails" type using my headband. But I don't know if those will be as poofy. Also, just because the yarn was cheap and I bought it to make yarn falls doesn't mean I want to waste it >.> (though if nothing else I could just tie the ends and make a funky scarf or something) I'm thinking the head-band version would be easier, and more consistent.
I dunno ~.~
Current mood:  indecisive
Sunday, May 31, 2009
In case you didn't know, your eyes aren't HD on their own! But if you get these glasses you too can see the secret HD-ness of the world! Don't live another day seeing the world like you are now, get your special sun glasses to make your eyes see the world in HD!
haha XD
https://www.hdreaders.com/ver1/index.asp
Current mood: amused
Friday, May 29, 2009
1:58PM
I'm doing the sale at the Fun Fair at Bonnie Brae later today. Hopefully I'll get to make a bunch of money. I'm taking some resin necklaces, buttons/badges (normal, metallic and glow-in-the-dark), and some crochet cupcakes.
Now to finish things!
Edit:
Back! That was fun and sooo worth it! The sale was from 5-8 and I took in $114. The table cost was $50, so that leaves me with $64 that I made today! Yay!
Current mood:  excited
Friday, May 22, 2009
Poor little dude. We called the lady back and turns out the little dude passed away about 3 hours after we left him. He at least was warm in a nice quiet area. He also had a sweet little baby possum as a neighbor. (though I doubt he knew) RIP little Bunny! You were so cute and sweet while you were around.
Current mood:  sad
Thursday, May 21, 2009
We took Bunny to the Wildlife Rehab lady. She said that Bunny did have a cut on it's tummy and would need some antibiotics. She is going to tube-feed him some formula mixed with some type of acid to help his tummy break the food down. She said baby bunnies are the hardest to tell how they are doing. She said that one that could be looking fine could die or a really weak one might live. So I'm hoping Bunny will live.
I'm thinking of calling her sometime next week to see how Bunny is doing. She also said that we did good for the little one while he was in our care.
She also had 3 guinea pigs in the dinning room and 4 squirrels in the kitchen. There was also a cat who was fluffy like Nezumi, but they shaved most of it. So it looked like a little lion with leg warmers XD haha.
Go Bunny, we're cheering for you!!
Current mood:  hopeful
One of the wildlife rescues called back and we are going to take Bunny over there to get a quick look over. They are going to try and determine if Bunny is well enough to live on his own or not.
From the way he's acting, I don't think he is, but I'm no expert!
Current mood: hopeful
We moved Bunny to the porch so that he isn't in the sun and won't be in the garage while we move cars around. He is also now in an old guinea pig cage, so if the little dude feels better and wants to move it can.
We tried to call a Wildlife Rehabilitator to either take the little one or to give us advice. The phone number of the closest one doesn't seem to be working at all anymore. There is also no one by the name in the phone book ~.~ None of the other ones listed for the area mention bunnies.
I put some water in a Sample cap in case bunny wants to drink on its own. When I checked on Bunny it had climbed into it, so I pulled Bunny out and put new water in.
12:55PM
This morning Bunny was laying a bit funny, turns out Bunny was very cold. I picked Bunny up and he/she almost fell asleep in my hands! It was so cute! Bunny has now been placed out on the trailer so it will be in the sun to be warm, but with a towel over top of the guinea pig cage top so it will get to be in the sun to get warm but not become overheated.
I got some water into it. Not sure how often to give water and/or milk and how much to give.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Bunny was more active when we got back from the Knitting Group. This is good, though a bit annoying. We gave him/her some milk to try and get some nutrition into it. It put up a mighty fight. We did get a bunch into it, another half dropper. That's a good thing and after the milk it tried to hide under some of the hay and grass we have in the tray with it.
Bunny is still alive and kicking. We got some water into it. At first it resisted and clamped it's mouth closed like any good wild bunny. Though after wetting it's lips and getting a drop in I was able to open it's mouth and get more water in it. It had about half of the little syringe's worth of water. That perked it up a little. We put it in a little plastic tray with grass and hay and moved the little dude/girlie into the garage with a guinea-pig cover over top. Don't know if the water will really help or if it is something very different.
Bunny is a little fighter.
My mom found a tiny baby bunny in the lawn. It didn't run away or anything. She got some gloves and a box for me and we scooped the little one up and took it to a more covered area. It doesn't seem to be doing too well. It's really sluggish and isn't eating the grass we put in front of it. It tried to move, but fell over and had issues righting itself. We made a little nest out of old hay for it, and it seems to like that.
Poor little baby. I want to be able to help it, but there's not too much we can do and let it still be all wild. I know what I want to do to help it, but we'll see how it's doing later.
Current mood:  worried
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
This morning was really weird... the fire alarm went off at the bf's around 5-something in the morning. I got-up and my vision went a little funny. I walked out of the room and it got worse, everything was turning a bright yellow. Not like everything was changing color, but like what I was seeing was really just on a screen and someone was painting the screen bright yellow. My arms also felt really heavy and my tunny kinda barfy. I leaned over on the chair and my arms felt cool and my vision mostly returned (there were two yellow circles still) so I straightened to try and get ready to go out. The yellow came back again, only faster, though I didn't feel like my tummy was upset this time. I asked the bf to make sure the shirt I was going to put on was right-side out. I got-up and ignored the yellow coming back and such so I could use the bathroom. After sitting with my head on my knees for a few seconds I could get-up without the yellow. We went out and I felt a it weak, but nothing else happened.
I slept until 10 or 11 and now I have a sore throat. Such a nice morning...
I think I'm going to try and bomb my self with Vit C and see what all happens.
Edit- 12:30pm
And now my fav glass over at the bf's is broken :( It looked a lot like this one:
( Pic behind cut )
When I googled it the person who posted that pic said their grandma and grandpa got them 20 years ago on a trip to Ireland. Grrreeeaaaaat. I also did a search and can't seem to find anywhere to buy them :(
Edit- 1:20pm
The bf found some on eBay and they either look super-close to the one we have, or at least have the same pics up and down the sides.
Edit- 4:50pm
Hrm. I can't seem to find my clear/white glow beads. I found my good black ones, but not those. I counted the ones from my big bag of glow beads and I still need another 17 or so. This might be a good thing. The weather tomorrow sounds cold. It will at least give me a chance to wear my boots instead. The grand unveiling will have to wait until further notice.
Edit- 10:03pm
Of course I now find the beads...they were hiding on the desk. I think I'm going to keep working on the top, though I have a different idea for what I am going to wear tomorrow.
Current mood:  grumpy
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