| Saturday, November 21st, 2009 |
| 12:20 am |
DJ Figgy
Yo, I control the flat and the vertical. Do not adjust your tuner, this is pirate radio. We stole the air and we ain't givin' it back. Shout-outs to the Kitties and Cats and the big booted bass players groovin up my world. Songbird Jen, where you at? Dresden? Now they got a real Dresden Doll. I ain't got nothin' else to say. Let's get some pop in here. They call me Figgy, or maybe caterpiller, catch me down by Z--used to be there. Scammers always copy every picture I take, but their IQ's lower than my GPA. Rivetheads stomp, I stomp too; that's why I got my Demonia shoes. Blue jeans ack, outta here Jack, there's an M on plastic riding my back; Minx shirt natch, I am ze man, gonna slam dunk Jagermeister shots with Herman. Chaos star on my chest, call me super duper, still with fake IDs? You're a bunch of oompa loompas. Don't go bugging the vamps they got bad behavior, the Bose in my basement wakes up the neighbours. Interior crocodile alligator, I drive a Chevrolet movie the-a-ter. |
| Thursday, November 19th, 2009 |
| 1:08 pm |
77272 words, actually
I've fallen prey to the overly generous OpenOffice word count system. The beta version of NaNo's word count validation subtracted over 1000 words from my count. Others report they gained. My first conclusion was that the validation system disliked me, skimming words off the top and giving them to others like a federal wealth redistribution program. It's more accurate to say OpenOffice hosed me. As a result, I give you 77272 words, the "accurate" word count. |
| Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 |
| 12:54 am |
77876 words: Munchkin
Vaguely inspired by its usage in role playing, I've decided that anyone who updates their NaNo with a much smaller amount than they would normally bother, solely for the purpose of leapfrogging a rival on a list, is a munchkin. It's also a verb; to engage in this activity is to munchkin. That said, temporarily back in fourth place yet again, I represent the Lollipop Kids. |
| Sunday, November 1st, 2009 |
| 3:28 pm |
3723 words
Not being a show-off... getting ahead in case shoulder procedures leave me temporarily one-armed in the near future. Three word wars helped to bolster that count, even though I more or less LOST all of them. But then, if increasing some word count is your goal, everyone who gets more than zero wins. Some might get a negative integer. This is for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) reynardo, who I thought was a bit incredulous at the thought of an era where ice hockey players didn't wear helmets, and the goalies didn't wear masks or helmets. |
| 2:00 am |
2039
For the next month, most of my subjects will be word counts. I'm happy with the way I started things. It doesn't seem as problematic as the first attempt, months ago. Future possible proofreaders will also be happy to know that proper chapters seem to have emerged from the immediate writing process without much discomfort on my part. It will probably make things easier to manage than the blocks of text confusingly jumping around in time that I gave current proofreaders. It all takes place chronologically as well. |
| Saturday, October 31st, 2009 |
| 7:41 pm |
Captain America
I might have failed to mention I now have an ultrasound appointment for my shoulder. I'll be sure to head to it armed with a note full of my chiropractor's concerns, since Dr. D said I should get such a note. If I didn't have a chiropractor with concerns, the original advice was actually "Just do exercises to avoid Frozen Shoulder, that's probably it". The recounting of how exactly I hurt it, years ago, probably sealed it. So, I can't imagine there's any fix for it that isn't surgical. Given my last experience with trying a cortisone injection instead of operating, it's an unpleasant stretch of time resulting in no improvement, and I'm quite sure things are worse in there than in my hand. I'm also sure things will continue to be sub-normal with my hand until this shoulder is fixed too. While I'm being "sure", I'm sure when I pass out from medical gas and lose time, just like last time, I'll really be teleporting to another dimension where you find TV characters whose shows have been canceled or comic book superheroes who've been temporarily "killed" by comic book makers who've run out of ideas. I would let you know how the card game with Steve Rogers goes, but I'll return from The Zone with no memory of the experience. |
| Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 |
| 12:41 pm |
twitch
have pc, startup instructions fail. recovery discs should be fine as nothing installed on there anyway. need new wireless adapter with drivers. levitation and astounding sounds arrived in mail at least. huw lloyd langton recovering miraculously from kidney failure. hello malpingu. o.o |
| Sunday, October 25th, 2009 |
| 7:33 pm |
dead fact
computer fried. new one on tuesday. boss warned of failure. laptop nearly dead too, will extract vital data w\usb key in safe mode. sad figgy. hi ladynine. |
| Saturday, October 24th, 2009 |
| 12:49 pm |
Turbine
A different design for a wind turbine, rather than just keep bellyaching about the problems with the most common version. Someone should install about twelve of them on a single roof, just to be excessive and to completely undo the "subtle and unintrusive" benefit of the design. |
| Friday, October 16th, 2009 |
| 2:19 pm |
Arts camp for stutterers
I can vouch for the validity of this report, insofar as it says the problem will alleviate or disappear when singing. I'm not personally familiar with the camp, or anything of its kind. Also for the part near the beginning where someone says a teacher thought they were deliberately disrespecting. I've actually encountered that. Fortunately, she was a fill-in for an absent regular at the time, and didn't return next year, possibly having to do with a giant student petition for being in charge of a Math class where nobody actually learned anything. Given the suspensions that were threatened as a result, I suspect there's some other factor I don't know about either. Embedded version: |
| Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 |
| 11:25 am |
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| Saturday, October 10th, 2009 |
| 3:37 pm |
Fig tree
I dub you... Figgy. Picked "Figgy" up at the Woodbridge Fair, where they decided to put a porcupine in the petting zoo near a sad looking wallaby. It's mucky and wet outside. Porcupine looked nothing like a hedgehog. |
| Friday, September 25th, 2009 |
| 1:06 pm |
Housekeeping: Two apologies
First, I could have left a less cryptic message about my time off from the blog and I apologize if I worried anybody who could conceivably have gotten the obscure reference. Second, I feel my knee-jerk two word Red Dawn send off for Mr. Swayze was trite and could reasonably be construed as insulting, and I regret choosing to stuff that on FaceBook as a status. |
| Saturday, September 19th, 2009 |
| 4:06 pm |
Dr. Wily (crosspost)
I had the privilege of holding a drugged pet today; the only time I could really get a good look in her mouth. All is well. She had another antibiotic shot to make damn sure all will stay well, and should be back on dry food shortly. That also means having to pay for the drugs, but I understand to get her to uncurl with a bath is one thing but she's really not going to let you look in her mouth without being drugged. Not gonna happen. So, Oona 3, nagging constant illnesses 0. They're almost like Dr. Wily from the Megaman series; every time you beat them they're all like "I'm sorry! I was wrong! Please forgive me!" but once you do they'll just try to take over the world again some other time. It's good that things turned out this way, no sign of cancer at all, so no needless bad news could put a damper on the evening's festivities. |
| Wednesday, September 16th, 2009 |
| 1:18 am |
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| Monday, September 14th, 2009 |
| 10:36 pm |
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| Friday, September 11th, 2009 |
| 1:04 pm |
Well, I engineered this by taking a much needed break yesterday, but today's the bastard typing day from hell. Maybe I can hedge the time spent by figuring out which of the two sound files of the exact same interview has better quality, and ditch the poorer one, instead of listening to both. It's also an Instructor Meeting, in which we'll all get to see how close that tough decision has creeped. [I wasn't exaggerating with the typing part, I had to slow down the file even more than usual to pick out what Jumping Jackrabbit was trying to say.] |
| Thursday, September 10th, 2009 |
| 9:35 pm |
reynardo Do you recall what type of snake I handled while I was visiting? Was it a carpet python? |
| Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 |
| 9:17 pm |
A new record
Less than 24 hours after webcasting to a sparsely populated Cogwerkz, I saw the club go bankrupt. The groups are disbanding, as I have been ejected from both of them, and they'll lose the "parcel" shortly. I'm sure the fact that I played there and its folding are entirely coincidental, but this sets the record for the shortest-lasting SL club ever to want my services. |
| Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 |
| 8:30 pm |
Where the Rangers are now
Of course, when I refer to Power Rangers, I mean the one I watched. I sometimes forget that show had another version as I never really saw any previous version or subsequent version. That's why I understand when people say the Pink Ranger is on Flashpoint, and I was curious about the Green Ranger's Mixed Martial Arts debut. He certainly has gumption going into this bloodsport when many would like to say they beat up the Green Ranger. Of note: See the tattoo? "Jesus didn't tap"? Not sure what to think about the religious icon being invoked in a hyperaggressive violent context... |
