| Are you afraid yet? |
[Feb. 18th, 2007|02:36 pm] |
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| |  bored | ] |
| [ | Voices |
| | Regina Spektor - Your Honor | ] |
This is slightly creepy. Stalkerish much?
I found it on Ash's LJ, so I'm putting up here as a manner of revenge.
Create your own visitor map!
Nice long weekend... Nice long week... Got out of school for Tuesday and Wednesday because of snow, got out of class at UC Clermont on Wednesday because of V-day. Very lazy week.
Yesterday felt like sort of a waste. In the morning I was going to go to UC Clermont for an ASL Live Lab... Where a couple Deaf people come in and chat with students in the Beginning and Intermediate ASL classes. And in the evening Jessie and Elyssa were going to come over and we'd watch movies. But the Live Lab got canceled due to weather and the evening plans fell through too. But it was still a nice day.
It's going to suck to have to go back to school for real next week.
Y tengo que practicar con mis lenguas. Debo estudiar español por el examen AP, y debo estudiar esperanto para que pueda enseñarlo por mi proyecto grande del año, y mi hermanita me compró un libro del francés. Es interesante...pero...no! Debo practicar en español y esperanto y *no* el francés! Es una distracción.
De todas maneras, soy perezosa y hay mucho que hacer, pero yo preferiría hablar con mi novio y leer libros y oír música y surfear el internet. Es mucho más interesante que estudiar o trabajar.
~Joy doesn't want to do anything XP |
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[Sep. 11th, 2006|08:50 pm] |
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH
WORK
THUNDERSTORM
OUTAGE
CABLE
INTERNET
ROUTER
CRAPPY LIBRARY COMPUTERS
DRIVING
LOST
TIRED
*screams*
It's not been a very good past 2 days, 'k?
I'm going to bed. I don't care that it's not yet 9pm. I'm going to BED.
Edit: Scratch that. I'm staying up. |
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| does anyone have any clue what is happening here because I definitely do not |
[Sep. 1st, 2006|03:28 pm] |
Okay so the internet hates me.
It's letting me access some sites, Livejournal Google Deadjournal Superdickery (Main Page) Boingboing et cetera,
but for other sites it gives me a 'Server not found' error, Firefox homepage Superdickery Forum Every Other Invision Forum and the Invision Main Site.
I have no idea what's wrong with it and restarting the computer and restarting my router do not help. It is pissing me off.
Oh and it lets me get on IRC and AIM too, but not MSN. |
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| O internet whatever would I do without you? |
[Aug. 17th, 2006|04:09 pm] |
| [ | Spirits |
| |  confused | ] |
| [ | Voices |
| | Radiohead - Fitter Happier | ] |
Lullaby rock songs: Kinda weird, kinda cool. Using No Surprises as the sample song on that page is slightly creepy though. "I'll take a quiet life, a handshake of carbon monoxide, no alarms and no surprises please." That might just be me. Can you imagine being raised on that and then finding out what it's originally from?
Escher photoshopping: Purdy!
If you haven't heard about it yet, AOL released a bunch of their search records recently. (*is glad she doesn't use AOL*) If you're anything like me, and if you can put up with reading my ramblings chances are that you are at least a little, you've looked through your own search history from time to time. It can be interesting sometimes.
A few choice Google searches of mine, f'rinstance:
- ""Exellent!" Holmes ejaculated."
- "Ahsonnutli, the turquoise hermaphrodite"
- "andrew jackson in dress"
- A 7-foot tall man who has been smoking cigarettes since childhood
- gusbus lyrics
- quenya imperative
...interestingly enough, I can almost remember why I searched for all of those things.
Anyway, search histories are interesting in a nosy sort of way. Peek in on other people's lives and whatnot. The easiest way is Splunk'd.
This is taking up way too much of my free time. You just pick one of the other, which is better. It's sooo nerdy.
The top 10 best things ever, according to the people of the internet:
1. Members of the opposite sex who are hot AND smart AND want to sleep with you
2. Saying the perfect thing at the perfect moment, so that everyone laughs long and loud.
3. Finding out that that hideous accident/chemical spill/etc that should have killed you has instead imbued you with superpowers
4. Saying something witout thinking, and having it be the perfect thing to say
5. Finally learning telekinesis, like you always knew you could if you tried hard enough
6. The ability to light things on fire with your mind
7. Waking up next to the person you love
8. Meaningful late night conversations with that someone you desire
9. When you find out the girl (or guy) of the your dreams feels the same way about you.
10. Waking up in the morning realizing you’re perfectly comfy and being able to enjoy it for as long as you want
Tough decision: Which is better? The Oxford English Dictionary OR Secret hallways.
I do not want this summer to end, at all. It's not that the other summers I've felt like "YAY SCHOOL!" and it's not that I'm particularly dreading this school year, it's just other summers I have been so mind-crushingly bored and this summer I haven't. I've just been doing more, and keeping a semi-regular sleep schedule too (going to bed sometime after midnight, waking up whenever I can force myself out of bed, which is unfortunately usually some ten hours later).
I dunno.
~Joy is a slave to the Internet |
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[Jun. 30th, 2006|12:32 am] |
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| | They Might Be Giants - Fibber Island | ] |
All right, I'm coming to accept this.
The most delicious part of this all: Both of them lied about getting laid on Thanksgiving. Both of them turned out to be virgins (although this one is only 13).
Hahahah. |
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| Who on earth can I trust? |
[Jun. 29th, 2006|11:36 pm] |
| [ | Spirits |
| |  aggravated | ] |
| [ | Voices |
| | Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio | ] |
Man, what the fuck.
I thought I was good at this. I thought I could get to know a person, on the internet, and be able to tell if they were a creep or if something was wrong about them.
For the second time, on Superdickery, a guy has come out saying he's not who we thought he was. The first time was weird, but in a sort of cool way, y'know? Wow. The guy's not a teacher, he's just a kid. Wow. Good job man.
The second time. God DAMN. Why couldn't I see this coming? Why couldn't I tell that something was amiss? How many other people like this are there?
I'm angry at him, I'm angry at myself, I'm angry at my parents for thinking they know better than me because for once they probably do. Wounded pride.
I'm most angry of all that I'm telling YOU. YOU, GUYS ON THE INTERNET! Hey guess what, it's possible I don't know anything about you really. I've always told myself, "Hey, I'm honest, I know these people, and this is the kind of stuff that's too long-term and in-depth to fake."
But I knew Matt for 9 months at the time of his announcement, and I've known this guy for over a year.
He had pictures, he had recordings of his voice. How can you really prove identity?
Rest assured, this doesn't have anything to do with Lewis.
But damn. What is so difficult with being yourself? |
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| Shand I think I need to get that CD of Dawkins music. :D |
[Oct. 10th, 2005|06:06 pm] |
| [ | Spirits |
| |  bouncy | ] |
| [ | Voices |
| | Super Furry Animals - Gwreiddiau DWFN Mawrth Oer AR y Blaned Neifion | ] |
Things worth noting from the day (not night, but the day) of Saturday:
We went up to Columbus in the first place because Mom wanted to go to some psychic/spirtualist convention. So she did that and spent a lot of money on snake oil and crystals and a "healing harp" and stuff. Ugh.
Right next to the convention center though was COSI - Center of Science and Industry is what it stands for, I discovered. So it's a science museum in Columbus and it's big and nice.
Cool things:
A giant pendulum that proves the earth's rotation. There's a circular ledge set up around the pendulum with metal balls placed at intervals around it. Every 15 minutes or so it knocks two of the balls down: the pendulum keeps swinging in the same area the whole day, but because the earth rotates it seems like it's moving its way around the circle.
A keyboard that plays bodily function sounds according to pitch: at the low end was snoring, then things like burping and farting and sneezing and all that. Fricking awesome.
Things that fuck with one's perception. For instance, a same kind of turning tunnel thing like I saw at King's Island: you go across a bridge in a dark tunnel, and there's this big thing turning all around you that throws you off balance.
Also, an echoless room. You step in from the hall and everything falls dead silent. Really eerie.
A sign in the space exhibit. "13 billion years ago, the universe happened." I thanked my lucky stars for carrying a set of post-it notes and a pen. My addendum to the sign: "This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely considered to have been a bad move. --Douglas Adams."
Weird things:
A display showing the development of a human in the womb. Great visualisation of birth development, yes? It was pretty fascinating to look at until I noticed a sign on the side explaining how the fetuses had to be imported from Germany and how they all were donated by families when the mother had unexpectedly died. FUCKING CREEPY.
The gift shop was pretty lame. I don't understand it; there were about 50 things in the gift shop for the Field Museum in Chicago that I wanted but nothing at COSI or the Zoo gift shops. Oh well. The weird thing is:
They had a box of rubber bracelets. You know, stupid ones riding the Livestrong wave. Well, among the assortment were "PRAISE THE LORD" and "JESUS LOVES ME" bracelets. Bundled up in a 'COSI' tag. I little bit of brain slithered out of my ear when I saw them.
They did have space pens in the gift shop, but they were expensive as all hell. No, I can't tell you why I've gotten a pen obsession all of a sudden. I guess I enjoy quality writing instruments.
Also, we saw two movies. One was about lions and the other was Vikings.
Vikings rock. For real. And I never knew that they were the ancestors of like, everyone. A whole lot of Europe. They became the Normans, the Russians, and they were from Scandanavia, to start. And Iceland and Greenland and everything. They're everywhere.
LEIF ERIKSON YAY!
Oh, and we also had a reunion with the Buckeye Bullet. Last time we saw the ugly fast long thing (huh huh huh *snort*) it was at Nextfest in Chicago. Funky eh?
~Joy will recount the other two events later |
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| My monkey's not the only one who's acting like a jerk |
[Oct. 6th, 2005|07:10 pm] |
| [ | Spirits |
| |  crazy | ] |
| [ | Voices |
| | Utada Hikaru - Sakura Drops | ] |
My pens are here!
*grin*
Behind the cut lies many large-ish (800x600 and lower) (OK, Flickr resized them) photos. Dialup beware.
( PENS! )
So, am I glad I read about the Signo Bit in Wired? Heck yes.
Am I going to be using these things every day? Probably not. They're fun, but not really practical. You have to make an effort to write that small (though I enjoy trying to write small with normal pens and it's cool for it to actually be readable), and the occasionally clog up. They're really spiffy though and I'm going to keep a pocket notebook around and use it as if it were a journal. Because I CAN.
^_^
I finally saw that Danny Phantom episode, you guys.
You know, the one that everyone always tells me about after it reruns?
every-single-time it reruns?
I finally caught it rerunning XD
I was playing with my new pens and Paula's in the other room watching TV and she calls me over,
"Joy, what's that language you know? Not Spanish, the other one."
"Esperanto?"
"Yeah well this cartoon's talking about it..."
So I finally saw the danged thing. LA LUPO ESTAS TUTE ADORINDA! *heart* Aww I love the wolfy. He's so cute. And he said a sentence or two in Esperanto and he had a French accent, which is just awesome. Uvular R's awwwcute.
One more thing? Academic team is awesome.
One of the questions in the alphabet round (R) was RHPS. And I was all "I'MSEEINGITONSATURDAYAIEEEEEEE" and...stuff.
And all the people in it are really cool too. Bethany and Andrew, who I knew through middle school and gifted program, along with Rashikh, Steve (his name's really Sahadev... but someone named him Steve.), and Paul from chemistry class, and one or two other people I don't know.
Yay!
~Joy ish happy
PS: Thought - "tiny pens" is one letter away from "tiny penis". STFU, my eyes are tired okay. |
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| Fact: The Hundred Years' War began in 1337 (and lasted MORE than 100 years) |
[Sep. 27th, 2005|10:50 pm] |
Guess what week I'm unintentionally celebrating by being really slow at reading A Clockwork Orange:
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/27/celebrate_banned_boo.html
=D
So yesterday was really nice. There actually weren't that many specific things that made it nice, just I felt generally happy and I didn't get much work. Let's go though my classes, hm..
In Chemistry, I understood the stuff. I got a little moment of bliss when all the numbers finally worked out. So that was pretty nice.
In English, I read the story I wrote as well as listened to other people's. My story was pretty good but Zach's used the word 'haxxor' in it so his was unarguably the best.
Spanish kind of sucked. We had our speeches; the oral part of the exam. Mine was so so under a minute and I talked way too fast. It didn't suck enough to ruin my day though because it was Spanish class.
Journalism, we went out in the halls because it was something called Mirror Monday for WECIPA. Dude, no one reading my journal will understand that sentence.
To explain it I'd have to explain small schools all over again, which I've done like 5 times in here I should think.
Basically, part of the school (but not my part of it) had this cool thing where some parents and students switched places for the day. So we all in Journalism went and got pictures of dads in Dance class. Rawk.
Lunch? What did I do in Lunch. I don't remember. Probably Math homework or playing Spoons. (Who cares)
In AP US, Mrs. Beckett extended the homework deadline so I am not doing my key terms right now, instead I am procrastinating on all the essays we're doing. Good show.
I also got out halfway through to interview WECIPA lunch people.
After two more uneventful classes was the first meeting of Academic Team.
ACADEMIC TEAM!
As you may/may not already know, I haven't been able to join Academic Team in previous years because of Choir after school. This year, however, Choir's been moved to Tuesday/Thursday/.5Friday and AT meetings are on Wednesdays. So...
YAY!
Ohman, I'd so like to keep up the "I seem nerdy but I'm not really THAT nerdy... I don't take pleasure in learning and showing off knowledge or anything like that" sort of image, but god do I ever love it. I'm sorry; I'm a huge attention seeker on the inside.
I'm gonna friggin' love it. I knew (or half-knew; guessed) that Romansh was the language of Switzerland. I knew about Adam Smith because of Civ2. I knew about Judge Marshall because it was what we were going over in AP US that day!
It's like a big round of Trivial Pursuit. There are even pop culture questions: One was about Archie and Jughead. Friggin' sweet.
Yes my raving on Academic Team is going to be longer than the rest of the entry probably.
Two people I know are on the team so far:
Andrew and Bethany, both of whom are also in Gifted and are also people I was really good friends with in Middle School but then High School became a bitch and ripped us apart. Aww.
Everyone else I don't know (Bryant from Choir and Middle School and he shows up just about everywhere actually... Bryant showed up the first meeting but he says he's not going to join. He's got too much going on, which is definitely not a reason I can argue. I probably do too.). I don't know the teacher either. Mr. Prueitt. Yes it's spelled like that and not Prewitt o.0
Mrs. Vader the Librarian is helping out too. Yay! I <3 her.
I'm a really good guesser. I was at the meeting anyway. I got lotsa candy stashed in my bookbag now =D
Wednesdays will definitely be days to look forward to during the week. Yaaay Humpday!
....Guess I should work on those MF'ing essays now, huh...?
I'm sure I'll get in NHS on my good character... like all this cursing and cynicism... and my good leadership skills... like procrastination and being swept along in the tide of my classes... meh. o.o;;
~Joy put Firefox on the school computer today and got past the filters via proxy. Did she already tell you that? She also pointed Jessica to Lernu and Jessica taught her how to fold a pritty origami flower =D
PS: The NHS essay is much easier now that I've got the ball rolling and am started. But how corny is this...
I do my best to cheer people up when they are feeling sad so they can spread happiness in turn. |
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| Questions about iTunes |
[Apr. 2nd, 2005|05:26 pm] |
| [ | Spirits |
| |  curious | ] |
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| | The Eagles - Journey Of The Sorcerer (aka the Orgasm song =P) | ] |
Okay, all - I know at least Shand uses iTunes, and probably some other people (?). Sooo, I have some questions for you that I haven't been able to find within help files, etc.:
1. What file format are songs bought from the iTunes store in?
2. Can I listen to songs bought on iTunes in Winamp?
3. I have a non-iPod, 128mb MP3/WMA player. Can I put iTunes songs on this and be able to listen to them?
'Kay, thanks. I'm thinking about getting the HHG soundtrack, but I'm not going to spend $10 on something that I can't play.
~Joy is stingy, mmk |
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