Well, THAT was a train wreck.

[nolawitch58]

Who knew that fascist-leaning sphincter smoochers really suffer from coprophobia? They have a pathological fear of the commonly-used word for doody and other coarse language the way some of us have a revulsion for assaults on logic. For a complete, albeit transitive picture of the aforementioned train wreck, visit ufieland and watch the poo being flung for yourself.

I'm delivering my sister-in-law's computer tomorrow. I'm probably helping her assemble the desk-in-a-box she bought at Wal-Mart too. I actually found everything I was looking for and hauled it downstairs to be crammed into the car in the morning. Now I can start working on another system to give to someone else.

I got a call from the guy from my writers' group who got the other Frankensystem earlier this week. He had finally connected everything, but he said it wouldn't turn on. I asked if he had any cords or cables left over. He had a power cord he hadn't hooked up. I told him that both the monitor and the computer needed to be plugged into the wall. He must be doing alright with it since he hasn't called me all day.

The smell of red beans wafts gently beneath my nostrils. I may get the office vacuumed before class tonight. It feels really good to be making progress of any kind.

Frank Gorshin really looked good on "CSI" last night. If he hadn't died recently, nobody could have told from that performance that he was even sick. All troupers know that the show must go on and he was in excellent form. I'll always have the fondest memories of him in those question marked green tights on "Batman" as the Riddler. I was fascinated by the defiant bulge at his crotch. The revealing aspect of the costume never seemed to bother him. He even may have subconsiously used it to his advantage while posturing as the archvillain. Rest in peace, Frank; there are scant few to carry on your legacy.

After the past few days of perusing others' journals, I'd like to ask those who peruse mine to let me know if there is anything about the look of it that I could improve. Some of the color schemes I've endured during the perusals are real retina killers. If my journal bothers your retinas in anything besides content, let me know and I'll try to find a more soothing look. Thanks so much.

Comments

Goddess forfend, eh?

[flat-lander.livejournal.com]

I think I'm glad to have missed _ that_ horse shit! Did you step in it?
and no, I don't find your color schemes uncomfortable, not a bit. I should probably investigate to learn how to do that, yes?

Re: Goddess forfend, eh?

[celticess.livejournal.com]

I caught a little bit of it perusing my friends page communities filter and wondering what the heck was going on. I had someone explain a little bit of what was going on to me as I don't read UF anymore.(I've not read it for months actually now)

For altering look of your lj go to you user info page, click the nav bar and you'll find under part of it customize. Then when you go to there it should have styles. You can edit your style to one of your liking and also further edit it using a link on that page to change default color scheme. Basically a few clicks and your done. :)

Re: Goddess forfend, eh?

[flat-lander.livejournal.com]

I do read UF still, but not completely and everydaythe way I used to. And it's pretty rare that I [articipate more than just a little.... Got bored of it really, and I find some things offensive and...

Hell's Bells, it's just not the same without Naruki and Salegamine!

Oh, the User Info Page; of course that's where it would be. Thanks.. Hey, will you "friend" me so I can read what you have to say over in your Journal? Or is it more private than that?

Re: Goddess forfend, eh?

[celticess.livejournal.com]

Yes I'll friend you :) For the most part my journal is private after that VH1 thing and from when ogw's friend porn spamed a poll of mine.(I think they found me off his friends page)

I found UF to be getting either people flame waring eachother(or maybe it was people getting offended easily I don't know) or getting stuck on a few small topics. It made me read a bit less but why I left was a difference over opinion on something with KS. Illiad knows why I'm not there. I still really like him and I do like KS as a person despite the difference of opinion.

These days I read friends here which are two different communities I guess for the most part. The UF crowd and those I know for disability or health reasons. I also can be found posting on soapbox which originally was run by Wil Wheaton but he was too busy and such so it went to it's own server run by volunteers. Similar atmosphere to UF I guess around 2001-2003. Only slightly different posting rules.

Hmm I just remembered I need to finish radiowaves logo too. I should go to UF to find his email address again and find toxins. I heard he's in town this weekend and wish he'd come over for coffee.(he and I actually share a mutual friend he knows as Papa Smurf and I know as Aaron of the Black mountains.. They were paramedics together.)

Re: Goddess forfend, eh?

[celticess.livejournal.com]

Darn toxin doesn't list his email in his diary there. So I just tried to send him one at ufies.org hoping he has one there. Asking him if he wants to come over for coffe and see what my new house is like.

would that I could help,

[flat-lander.livejournal.com]

but unfortunately, I don't know him at all away from UF

Re: would that I could help,

[celticess.livejournal.com]

I do know he stays in Burnaby when he comes as he used to live there or Helen has family there.(SWMBO I think he calls her on UF) I also passed on to MikeCDN to say hi for me if he see's him before I do. I'm not sure Mike was aware there was a meet this weekend. It feels odd not going but I don't think I'd be totally comfortable with going. Worried I hurt KS feelings though he didn't seem to mind he hurt mine I don't like hurting others. Oh and if you haven't met him in person Illiad just like Toxin is hilarious and has very interesting conversations. :)

Re: Goddess forfend, eh?

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

Yes, I jumped in. I had had it up to here *holds finger above her head* with the crap the cabal had been dishing for some time. The last straw for me was when they had their little slag-fest in early March on the UF board at my expense. I haven't posted much over there since, though I have lurked and read some of the threads I find interesting. Honestly, I was relieved to be able to have at it no-holds-barred and unload some of my pent-up anger. I'm still holding a handful of comments in abeyance because I feel some members of the cabal might receive a fortuitous blow on the head and come around. If not, there is still more pointed ammunition in my arsenal.

For now, I'm leaving my color schemes alone. Unless somebody has a huge problem with it, I think it's fairly neutral enough. As my Good Witch of the North friend points out, most people read them in their own friends pages and presumably they have those set to their own optimal comfort.

[celticess.livejournal.com]

Hopefully you find mine ok. I've not clicked your main page as I usually read it through my friends. I perfer low contrast and darker pages due to my vision... so in other words yes I've found a few of our friends have really really bright pages. I'd rather see them in this reply view default lj theme once I click "view" or "reply" off my friends page than visit their journal direct. I don't comment on the brightness usually because to each their own. It's their self expression even if it makes my head spin so I just read it with my friends page and avoid visual issues.

I read you in my friends page too.

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

I don't find yours at all rough on the retinas. Usually I don't like overly dark pages, but yours is very restful. That may be because you don't have some gaudy bright contrasty lettering. I had the worst headache from some people's journals. I wasn't about to friend them so that I could read their rubbish without ocular distress. It was a one-time search operation and for that I'm thankful. Grammar, spelling and punctuation aside (I can forgive that of some people), their entries were so miserable. I know I'm not the most exciting person around, but now I have more to be thankful for even in my limited temporary circumstances.

One other thing that somehow disconcerts me are those flashing animated avatars. Some of them are fine; they don't zip by at seizure-inducing speeds. Some of them are worse than anime on methamphetamines. I need a drink to steady my nerves after too many of them.

Re: I read you in my friends page too.

[celticess.livejournal.com]

Are you using firefox? There is an extension that is ani disable. Using it I tell it to animate once. So I don't get the constant strobing as sometimes it can bother me too. And yes I know what you mean about the bright. I usually go mid tone on dark or dark on mid tones. People have been trying to replicate a grunge matrix look I think. One friend I have I totally adore but I can't stand to read their LJ in their theme. Luckily we only have to see them usually on initial hunt for an lj. After that our friends pages spare us.

I agree on the grammer as well. While I do have my language issues I make some effort with punctuation and spell best I can. I don't write all in caps or lower case. Also I tend to avoid the "valley girl" type talk or leet speak. Both get on my nerves when I see them in any excess. I may briefly try one as a joke but as you've seen that's not often I attempt to speak in those languages.

BTW a few people on my list aren't ufies. I know them for other reasons. I think the odd one you'd like though for their activism politically or otherwise. Aka you might find the odd one interesting. Literalgirl cracks me up and also is politically active for one. :)

Oh and if you see my new website it should be a reasonable compromise with peoples tastes look wise. It offers some features my old site didn't have. Such as ability of people to set their own themes to cruise the site in. I purposely avoided downloading themes I thought were overly bright or done by a colorblind person.(I'm also working on a few custom themes)

Re: I read you in my friends page too.

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

I'm using both Mozilla and Epiphany. I'll check to see if either of them have the animation disable option. Thanks for the suggestion.

I might go check out literalgirl. There are loads of people I've friended based on finding them in others' journals and I like their style. I can't believe how huge my friends list got. I've had to sort them into groups. I'm probably not as popular with other people as they are with me. As long as they don't object, I'll keep them friended. I've only had to unfriend one person so far.

I checked out your website the other day on its shakedown cruise. Very nice. It's decorative, but not rococco. It doesn't have any of those annoying blink tags. Whoever came up with blink tags deserves a Tabasco and ground glass enema.

Re: I read you in my friends page too.

[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

My husband's guitar player loves every terrible website cliche that one can put on a website. I've really tried to talk him out of it, but I haven't had much success. I don't think I can use their site as part of my portfolio - I'm just too embarrassed about the whole thing. ( http://www.metalfinger.net )

Just remember I did NOT choose any of these "design features" -- at least he let me have a manual start for the audio on the 'about' page (and that took an argument from me and 2 of the other band members to convince him).

Re: I read you in my friends page too.

[voxwoman.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that... I've added a still picture just for you.

Yours wasn't that bad.

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

Yours wasn't one of those rapid-fire strobe-fests that some people use. I appreciate the calm stasis of the still image, though. Thank you.