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Why the Internet broke?

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

For some reason nothing on the internet likes me today. Facebook says there’s a problem in the AJAX that controls the notes, my blog says Akismet Antispam is being blocked by a firewall. Another site is slow to load and another doesn’t seem to exist right now. (Of course I’m connected to the internet!)

Trying to clean up an RSS feed parser I wrote; right now it’s nowhere near as clean as it should be. I didn’t think of it as a portfolio project when I made it until Jeremy pointed that out. Tempted to trash it and just make my second attempt cleaner from the start. Right now it gets the job done, but doesn’t look pretty.

Packing and downsizing is still going nicely. The shed is completely done, the house getting there. Still working on jobs and housing, but those will come in time. :-)

I had a breakthrough when it comes to my mom, which is allowing us to get rid of some super bulky things. We ended up being the designated family storage place at some point, which means we had things given to us that the family didn’t want anymore but couldn’t part with. Growing up, we had huge piles of junk in our basement. All things actually belonging to our family. At one point, we were even storing a boat. We managed to get rid of most of it over the years, but there’s still some things.

One of the big things are 1000 – 2000 photo slides. I remember being just utterly dismayed when the first load came in and utterly furious when the second load arrived. In addition to the slides, there’s the screen, projector, lightbox, lights, and more. While I totally understand the importance of all those family photos… holy crap, that’s a lot of junk. Trying to figure out a compromise, I discovered this little gem. And mom happily agreed to part with all the slide equipment so long as we got her the converter someday.

She also has an old microfiche reader and a collection of the actual microfiche. Some of the collection was old genealogy books, which I was able to find and download from Google books. Missing just one book, but I think once we’re more financially secure I’ll start watching eBay and Amazon for it. The rest of the records can all be found on Ancestry.com, which made for one happy lady. (And ecstatic daughter when I saw everything going into the “get rid of” pile!)

So anyway, we have another car- or truck-load of stuff to go to the consignment shop and we’re getting rid of more junk. Letting go has never felt so good.

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Social Networking Sites

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

I finally broke down and got a Facebook account today. Not like I’ll have time to update it like the rest of my things… *grins sheepishly* So in case anyone wants to follow me and my insanity, I can now be found on the following social networking sites:

Don’t be alarmed that it says Richmond, VA instead of Michigan. Since I’m highly considering moving to Richmond, I wanted to start trying to locate contacts in the area.

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Mild frustrations

Thursday, April 19th, 2007

What is it with me and fandoms? First RW terminally pisses me off, now Naruto is edging that way for me.

There’s a few guys on the Official Naruto thread on Gaia Online who are so damned dogmatic it’s impossible to have a conversation or a debate about something or a character they don’t like. It’s the whole homogeneous opinion bullshit all over again. Wasting energy despising a fictional character too. If you disagree, it’s cause for personal insults and mocking in chat speak.

I really hate to pull back because it’s one of the only Gaia Online threads I’ve actually enjoyed for the most part. I know everywhere is going to have trolls, but it doesn’t mean I have to put up with it.

Anyway, no news on the job I applied for yet. That’s either a good thing or a bad thing, depending on my mood. The listing is still up, so it’s probably going to be a while. In other news, I got a whopping $600 of student refund money, so I think I’m going to buy Adobe Photoshop and maybe Illustrator. (Depends on if I can buy the student versions.) It might help me if I get to interview and say, “In anticipation for this position and to provide the best services possible, I began training in Photoshop and Illustrator.”

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Narutofan frustrations

Monday, March 12th, 2007

I guess Theresa was right when she warned me that it’s like you have to prove something in order to successfully join the forums at Narutofan. And I just don’t have that kind of patience anymore.

I guess I’m sticking with Gaia Online and Luna for my forums.

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Domain back

Monday, January 15th, 2007

Well, Lunaescence.com is back… and I couldn’t be more depressed. And I’m not sure why. Sure, I’ve been depressed the whole time it’s been down, but now I’m even more depressed.

It may just be the realization that the progress my site had made was brought to a crashing halt. It may also be the knowledge that now I don’t have time to do any of the things I wanted to do with my site. The final semester has started and I now have to buckle down and find that internship and finish up these last things before graduation.

I don’t know.

I’m mad because the site could have been up yesterday (Saturday), but I didn’t feel like walking down to get the mail. Heck, I didn’t even want to leave the house.

Which brings me to a rant: What is it with us and bad neighbors??

*sigh* Friday, we believe our neighbors deliberately turned both their pair of mastiffs loose. They’ve come right out and admitted that Judge, the big male, is vicious. He’s bitten someone twice now, attempted to bite our neighbor once. I spent much of Friday hiding in the house while animal control attempted to capture Judge.

That damned thing actually charged the animal control truck and wouldn’t let them officer get out. The officer eventually managed to coax the little female mastiff (which shockingly seems to be nice and even-tempered) to jump into the cab of the truck on her own, but then proceeded to sit there until backup arrived.

They finally managed to capture Judge and carted him away to the pound.

Anyway, the reason we think they did it on purpose is because the husband (or whatever he is) turned out to actually be home. The little female was loose first, but we didn’t know if she was vicious like Judge, so we stayed inside. I looked outside at one point and watched the guy walk right past the dog, get into his truck, and speed away. Less than 10 minutes later, I look back out and see Judge.

Oh. No.

I’m not scared of big dogs, but I’m scared to death of Judge. I really hate to say it because I love animals, but I hope he’s put down before he seriously hurts someone.

So anyway… Saturday morning, Jass walked down to get the mail, but none of us felt like doing anything. So when mail came that afternoon… it sat there until Mom went to give our statement to our landlords.

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Kiss of death

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Remind me if I’m trying to get into a chat on Gaia: Lie about my age. Just out and out lie. I think 19 will be good. I miss being 19.

It’s like the kiss of death admitting you’re an adult on there. I’m not looking to do anything bad/nasty/wrong, I just wanted to chat about anime I like!

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Feeling Proud

Tuesday, November 21st, 2006

I’m feeling rather proud of myself right now. I just completed a script to handle my fanlisting codes and I’m thrilled to say it’s working exactly the way I planned. ^_^

Looking at the page, you won’t see anything that truly different. My images will all appear to load normally. But if you look at the image’s URL, you’ll see it’s PHP rather than an image. *huge grins*

For those technically inclined, the script basically first checks to see whether or not the fanlisting code is being accessed from my blog. If it is, the script progresses and serves the image being called. However, if someone tries putting the image as part of their sig on say — Xanga or Gaia Online — the script will first log the attempt and then terminate.

To make it easier on myself if someone figures out how to circumvent the script, I even stored the fanlisting code directory in an array. That way if I need to move or rename the folder, I only have to edit just that particular line and every code will be changed.

I’d still like to add a few more security checks, but right now this is awesome. There are times I feel like I’ve learned nothing new in college and then I completely surprise myself by doing something like this.

I have no real problem with people using stuff, but I’m awful protective of my bandwidth. My baseline server costs are plenty without overage charges. Besides, they can download the fanlisting codes on the fanlisting sites and use photobucket. It’s just stupid.

College is going well. I got 100% on my first speech — talk about awkward, though. I’m not used to web cameras, so I stared at my monitor the whole time. XD I was so wooden too!

I really need to get around to calling my academic advisor, but I keep procrastinating. I need to get details about what I need to be doing to get an internship somewhere, but I’m feeling rather “meh” about the whole thing.

Well, time to get on my English homework. Yes, another level of English. -_-; Wish I could test out, but it’s business writing so I suppose I should pay attention.

Much ♥ — talk to everyone soon.

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Flamed… ?

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

Did I… I just get flamed over on DeviantArt for expressing that I liked someone’s artwork?

I was tired from my homework last night and decided to go on the prowl for artwork of my favorite Naruto character, Shino.

I found one 100106 – shino. by The-Pie and added it to my favorites, commenting:

“Okay, I won’t say kawaii. How about :+fav:? =D”

And she responds that my comment has nothing to do with the picture itself and it “annoys the fuck out of [her].” Thing is, her comments are set to “critique discouraged” and there are a million juvenille comments on the picture. But a comment saying I was adding it to my favorites gets me flamed?

*sigh* People make my teeth itch.

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Habits may die hard

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005

… but they still go pretty quickly. ^_^;;

I’ve just kind of slipped into lurker mode myself lately. I just haven’t felt like I really have anything to really rant or talk about. The weeks go by, all pretty much the same as the last, living in-between paychecks while trying to get the bills paid. I pretty much only pay attention to when the next homework assignment is due, and that’s it.

The new Halloween layout for Lunaescence has stalled. I just can’t find anything to actually do. I think I’m almost saving myself because I have a massive redesign to do once the new fanfiction script comes out. We’re merging the gallery with it too, so I’ll have all sorts of new features I have to somehow integrate into the layout. I think with my schedule, a holiday layout might be as far as I’m willing to push things for now. Jasson has a series of mods he’s going to be making too, but again, it’s waiting until the script comes out. But those are going to be his problem.

So far no takers on that challenge, but I really haven’t had time to announce it that well. Oh well. ^_^;;

Rowen’s back! ^__^ Not sure where he’s been or what’s been going on, but I know better than to ask. I’m just thrilled to see him online again. Last time I spoke with him, he seemed downright hyper. Not sure what to make of that, except it’s kind of contagious.

Anyway, Mom doesn’t have to be to work until after noon but doesn’t get out until damn near midnight, so I think I’m going to go out and watch some TV with her. (Provided she isn’t asleep. XD)

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Finally!

Tuesday, June 1st, 2004

I finally have my weblog back! X_x Sorry about that. I’ll post again later and explain what happened. I need to place a bunch of phonecalls in the meantime.

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