Jul. 11th, 2009
| | 03:23 pm - | | | | I have new hair! :D It's all sorts of colors and still curly and awesome.
Basically I got an auburn brown base with blonde and copper-red highlights. Only the thing is, the old red dye in my hair is pretty powerful - so the tips of my hair, in full sunlight, show up red. :D
The result? AwesomeHair. XD
I <3 it though I really have to get used to the less red, more brunette thing - I think it looks good on me and I've been wearing that other red color for way too long.
Pictures are up here. Because yes these days I spend as much time on Twitter as I do on Livejournal. >_>; | | | | 6 comments | Leave a comment | |
Jul. 4th, 2009
| | 09:40 pm - | | | | I don't often post YouTube videos, but this one's hilarious - especially for the Twitter-haters out there.
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Jul. 2nd, 2009
Jun. 30th, 2009
| | 09:22 pm - | | | | Oh yeah - today is my journal's 8th birthday! Since June 30th 2001, going strong! I'd write a longer post but I don't feel like it XD My shoulder hurts and I think I'm gonna go to bed early tonight.
Anyway, happy birthday journal. Thanks for being my mind outside my head. | | | | 1 comment | Leave a comment | |
Jun. 20th, 2009
| | 09:44 pm - | | | | Meme I picked up from ![[info - personal]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) dame_grise.
When you see this, take a minute and share five good things of your day with the world, uncut.
1. I finally got the WAMP + Yii installation to work so I could run yiic, model and CRUD commands, creating a basic application.*
2. My mom brought me pastries.**
3. NASA has a tool that allows me to calculate when the International Space Station passes over my town. Now all I need to do is figure out where to look with my binoculars and go out to see. :D
4. ???
5. Profit!
There's only really 3 good things that happened today. Anything more I'd have to start making things up.
* I'm pretty sure most of this sentence makes little sense to most people.
** I don't know what the Dutch name for it is, but it's made out of hazelnut cream, covered with a thin hard chocolate layer on top, and non-crumbly biscuit/cookie like layer underneath. | | | | 6 comments | Leave a comment | |
Jun. 18th, 2009
| | 08:13 am - | | | | I have four new invite codes from Dreamwidth, just like that! :D
So if you want one, let me know; before I start giving them out to strangers ;D | | | | 12 comments | Leave a comment | |
Jun. 15th, 2009
| | 08:10 pm - | | | | For those who rely on traditional news sources (or even common news websites) for your news, you might want to try looking at a less traditional one: Twitter. Because since Sunday, dozens of Iranian Twitter users have been covering the fraud, violence and protests surrounding the Iranian elections. I have heard disappointingly little about it in the official press, but the homepages of Iranian users tell and show what's going on. If you don't believe the words, then believe the photos.
What's more, the rest of the world is showing their support - hackers have taken down websites of the Iranian government and are supplying Iranian students with proxies so they can continue to communicate. Whilst Ahmadinejad has shutdown internet and phone networks, Twitter has proven to be the one reliable way of communicating to the rest of the world. I have read or seen nothing of this in the Dutch news, and I find that appalling. All they mention is "our journalists got booted out of the country" - but somehow missing the point on why, and not attempting to delve deeper.
'Official' news sources aren't showing us what's really going on - but thank god, Twitter does. | | | | 18 comments | Leave a comment | |
Jun. 13th, 2009
| | 12:20 pm - | | | | I've made a MyBrute.com clan for us geeks (applicable to Geekfesters but welcome to everyone who identifies themselves as a geek): http://mybrute.com/team/51334
If you want to sign up for the site with a Brute avatar, go here. ;) | | | | 12 comments | Leave a comment | |
Jun. 10th, 2009
| | 11:16 pm - - Wallpaper meme | | | | Nicked from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) fool000.
I thought I'd grab this meme because... I can't do it.
1. Anyone who looks at this entry please post this meme and their current wallpaper at their Livejournal.
2. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper.
3. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on.
You see, I have a whole bunch of wallpapers that rotate every 30 minutes. I used to have a lot of wallpapers from http://www.cgwallpapers.com in rotation, but more recently I downloaded a lot of images from NASA and cropped them all to make wallpapers of them because I'm in NASA fangirl mode. I have these on rotation right now, so they change all the time.
If you want to see what they look like, go to the NASA Image Gallery or download the wallpaper pack here. | | | | Leave a comment | |
Jun. 9th, 2009
| | 04:27 am - - It's like the Oracle | | | | I googled "what's that 90s song with the bald guy in the mall one hit song".
First hit: http://thesecondsingle.blogspot.com/2008/10/one-album-wonders-new-radicals.html
... Exactly what I was looking for.
Seriously, did not expect that. | | | | 11 comments | Leave a comment | |
Jun. 5th, 2009
| | 04:02 pm - | | | | This just in: someone at Square Enix did not like Fallout 3. Or maybe I'm reading too much into things.
From today's newsletter:
"Before we get on with the show, we feel moved to mention that in the event of an all-out nuclear war, scientists reckon that cockroaches would be the only multicellular organisms to survive."
"Before you start imagining the kind of miserable post-apocalyptic future peddled by every other sci-fi odyssey, you should know that this game ISN'T full of mutant cockroaches..."
"(though thankfully free of smug radiation-resistant cockroaches), NIER is the story of a father's quest to save his daughter in a fallen world..."
"We were worried all that talk of radioactive insects might have shaken you, but true to form, you've made it to the end."
Also, there's a new trailer of FFXIII up on the official website, *with* the English voices this time and boy is it sexy. And hints a lot more at the nature of the plot that all the FF13 material I've seen so far.
-Edit-
I need some sort of warning on these post submit forms that tell me I forgot to fill out my tags. | | | | 7 comments | Leave a comment | |
Jun. 2nd, 2009
| | 10:31 pm - - Youtube favorites | | | | I usually don't make video posts, but these videos have been cheering me up for the past few days, so I thought I'd share them. :D No embedding, direct links to YT.
-- Literal Videos --
A new couple has risen up from the depths of Youtube to bring literal videos to us... with brilliant lyrics and great singing, too.
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart - I never realized how incredibly weird this video was until now.
Meat Loaf - I'd Do Anything For Love - the combination of dramatic music with the crack lyrics is hilarious. "I think I just walked into a Herbal Essences commercial"...
-- Parry Gripp --
If you haven't seen/heard any of Parry Gripp's videos yet you are totally missing out. (Like omg totally.)
Young Girl Talking About Herself
Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom Nom - this is my new ringtone.
"Hamster on a Piano" used to be awesome, but the owner of the hamster video wouldn't allow ParryGripp to use the video with the song. Lame. (I understand the whole commercial-profit-thing but still... sort of lame.)
-- Whack A Kitty --
I already posted this recently. But it's still awesomely cute!
-- NASA --
These are just cool if you're a NASA fangirl, like me.
Launch video from cameras on Solid Rocket Boosters. This video is infinitely awesome because it also shows how the SRB's fall back to Earth into the ocean eventually - including audio. It takes 35 minutes because it's three or four replays of the launch, from different cameras. Some have audio, some don't.
STS-125 HD Flight Day 8 Highlights - the good bit starts around 8:00, when Mike Massimino (Astro_Mike on Twitter!) starts talking to Commander Altman (Scooter). Massimino's hilarious ("I was thinking of my uncle Frank..." "Aren't ya in charge of the spaceship? Whadda we gotta do?" "You take care of all these buttons, we'll just hang out and relax...")
-- Games --
Portal players may have seen this one already. If not, they should.
-- Misc --
Breakdancing Robot - I think st_lemur forwarded this to me. I like the robot almost as much as the song. It certainly dances better than most people I know. XD
Scandal - Shojo S - the new Bleach OP. The guy in the clip is a bit weird but I like the song. It's the kind of uppity non-sweet pop sound that I love; I hope Scandal shows up with more songs soon. (If you're not gonna watch it for the music, watch it for japanese schoolgirls singing in the rain?)
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That concludes this Youtube favorites post. :D | | | | 4 comments | Leave a comment | |
May. 22nd, 2009
| | 11:34 am - | | | | If you just got a message in your inbox somewhere that says I defriended you, don't panic. I've tossed out a *lot* of people - the second of a recent friends list pruning. I've come to realize that I have held on to too many people I didn't really have a connection with, people who never post on their own LJ or comment back, and even people whose posts only aggravate me and with whom I have nothing in common at all.
If you feel you've been defriended unfairly with the above reasons, feel free to comment; I'm not gonna be all evil and hardcore about it. I just want to 'close down' my LJ circle a bit more.
In addition to that, I have removed a lot of my old LJ friend filters. I used to use these a lot, creating a sort of talking-behind-people's-back idea. The only filters that are still up are the ones I call 'single selection', i.e. a single user per group. This is so I can still select a few people I'm close to as a custom group. What it means is that all the entries that were set on the old group filters are now only readable to me. I doubt anyone will go back and try to read old stuff, but if you come across an entry that was previously open to read to you and now it's not, this would be why. | | | | 11 comments | Leave a comment | |
| | 02:32 am - - And now for something completely different and incredibly cute | | | |
So... cute... gaahhh! *squees* | | | | 4 comments | Leave a comment | |
May. 20th, 2009
| | 01:58 am - - They're watching you | | | | Don't click if you're paranoid.
"The debris objects shown in the images are an artist's impression based on actual density data. However, the debris objects are shown at an exaggerated size to make them visible at the scale shown."
Old news, of course, but the visualisation of it is pretty strong.
That, and you could just be incredibly paranoid about just how many satellites are eyeing Earth. | | | | 5 comments | Leave a comment | |
May. 18th, 2009
| | 05:33 pm - - Writer's Block: Same Name | | | |
No. I am the only person in the whole world whose name is Danielle Suurlant. That's how awesome I am. | | | | 2 comments | Leave a comment | |
May. 16th, 2009
| | 11:03 pm - | | | | So I've been watching this really cool reality show for the past few days. It's called 'Sentients To Space' on channel 125. Basically seven candidates are launched into space where they are followed by cameras whilst they complete certain tasks and communicate with the show's producers. Every day, viewers can vote a candidate out of the airlock by sending text messages to 6272.
Of course, sending humans out the airlock without a space suit would be murder, so the network producers have opted to let those who are voted 'out', perform difficult and precise maneuvers in zero gravity, such as undoing and redoing dozens of screws. These are called 'EVA's. More fun tasks include taking pictures of Earth. The bonus fun task, controlling the robot arm, is typically awarded to the candidate who is the most popular after each day; nevertheless the arm is also a very precise instrument, so besides fun it's also a great responsibility and requires a lot of coordination.
The cameras aren't on 24/7 as the network believes people in space do deserve a break from the public eye most of the time, and live video between Earth and the orbiter isn't always possible.
Anyway, I totally recommend you guys watch it, it's fun *and* educational! You really bond with the show's candidates and hope they succesfully complete their tasks, and it's exciting because come on it's in space! And there's a lot of danger in space that you normally don't even think about, such as even though it looks like they're floating in space they're actually going really fast. And how incredibly convenient velcro is when you don't have gravity to keep your stuff on your desk.
At the end of each day the show's producers talk about how the day went and what the candidates did and what their tasks might be for the next day, and the press asks them questions. Anyway, you can watch it here, it's really neat. :D | | | | 3 comments | Leave a comment | |
May. 4th, 2009
| | 12:59 am - - Writer's Block: You Don't Know Me | | | |
The Simpsons. I don't get the humor, the voices are annoying, the colors hurt my eyes and I don't like the animation style. | | | | 9 comments | Leave a comment | |
Apr. 21st, 2009
| | 11:27 pm - - THE SUN CAUSES CHRONIC STUPIDITY | | | | Despite st_lemur's warning, I had to go and look, anyway.
ZOMG FATTIES CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING.
This article is baffling. For starters, the heading: a great example of catching people's attention with a saying that's actually incredibly stupid when you think about it.
Of course, this is the Sun we're talking about. I believe it's the British equivalent of the Telegraaf, which says it all, really. But because this article is so full of crap it's laughable, I'm going to say more anyway.
Fatties cause global warming. Yeah. So does everybody else; everyone who eats, drinks, drives a car, everyone who has a computer and is reading this, every who watches tv, everyone who farts, eats meat, basically everyone who doesn't live in a cabin in the middle of nowhere producing and eating their own food is causing global warming. Human existence and human society in its current form cause global warming.
And that's even aside the whole debate about global warming, because there's still a whole bunch of people who think it's nonsense, and then there's people who don't think it's nonsense but can't agree on the reasons why not: people? Solar flares? Continental drifts? Living on a planet that goes through this sort of cycle once in a while?
And apparently the newest reason is fatties. Right, okay. Maybe fat people do have a bigger CO2 footprint on the global scale (because they're fat and have bigger feet, totally) but they are not solely responsible for the world's climate going to hell, no matter what Wall-E might visually have shown to us all. You can't point fingers and go, "Hey, you fatties, you cause more CO2! Lose some weight, you lardasses!" That's easy, isn't it? Pointing the blame at some obvious group instead of changing your own life habits. Saying "I'm not fat, so I don't cause global warming". Aha. WRONG. Doesn't work that way. Your very existence is contributing to global warming. The air you breathe, the food you eat, everything you use in your daily life in some small way contributes to global warming.
So if you're really that worried about the climate, either start making a better difference, or go jump off a cliff and rid the world of the carbon emission burden that is yourself. (Unless corpses also cause global warming. I'm not sure.) But don't stand there, do nothing, and tell fat people to lose weight because of global warming. That's like telling your roommates they're making a mess of the apartment without making any effort whatsoever to clean up your own mess, even if it's less messy than their mess. You know what I'm saying?
Let's take some of the wonderful statements in this article.
Overweight people are also more likely to drive
So are disabled people, soccer moms and grand prix racers. Next.
Lard help us ... overweight must eat less for planet
Lord help us... if we want to save the planet humanity should probably commit collective suicide right now. Because really? Fat people losing weight isn't going to make the difference necessary. (Also, dieters gain weight in the long run, but who cares about that as long as we can place the blame on fatties instead of taking responsibility ourselves, right?)
It means an extra BILLION TONNES of CO2 a year is created, according to World Health Organisation estimates of overweight people.
I say, BILLION TONNES is a great and fantastically accurate estimate. Especially when actually capitalized and bolded in the article. So much more impressive that way, very believable.
The scientists say providing extra grub for them to guzzle adds to carbon emissions that heat up the world, melting polar ice caps, raising sea levels and killing rain forests.
I seriously hope the scientists didn't literally say 'extra grub for them to guzzle'. That's not very scientific language. I wouldn't put it in my thesis if I were them.
I like the picture of the polar bear. What a cutie! He looks a bit fat, though. In the news tomorrow:
FAT POLAR BEARS CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING
FARTING COWS CAUSE GLOBAL WARMING
ROCKS FALL, EVERYONE DIES
"It is time we took account of the amount we are eating."
See, this is where they go wrong. It's not about taking account of the amount we're eating. It's about taking account of the amount we're producing, what we're producing, from what, from where, and how. Killing rainforests isn't necessary if we find a better, fairer, world-friendlier source of timber. Production is raised to meet demands, but people are people and will always be demanding more, bigger, better, faster - and that doesn't just go for fat people. You might as well say celebrities and rich people cause global warming, because they lead the most hedonistic lifestyles of all: what about all the carbon emissions of their private jets? Their sixteen sports cars that drive 2 miles to the gallon, their giant houses with huge plasma tv's?
Fatties aren't totally and solely responsibly for global warming. Partially? Yes. Just like everyone else is. Some in a more or lesser degree. But if you're gonna demand fat people lose weight for the planet, then I demand rich people and celebrities give up their cars and private jets, their giant plasma tv's and audio-video installations; I propose we close down Las Vegas and every other city that has a light-show all night every night; and so on.
Anyone with a BMI above 25 is overweight, while more than 30 is obese.
Oh, right! Let's not forget how incredibly accurate and reliable BMI is!
It is true fat people eat more food than average.
This one merely amused me because of my personal situation. Crap, I've been eating nothing but soup, salads and crackers for weeks and I'm STILL fat! I must still be eating more than average! Oh shit, I better stick to soup alone before I explode AND I KILL THE PLANET LIKE THAT PAINTING FROM HEROES.
And, ladies and gentlemen, the most brilliant observation of the entire article:
“A few obese people have a hormone problem*, although most simply don’t use enough calories and eat too many. But making them feel guilty antagonises them and may not help.”
HOLY SHIT. SERIOUSLY!? THE GUILT TRIP ANTAGONISES ME!? I HADN'T NOTICED THANKS FOR POINTING IT OUT!!!111
* Translation: "A 'few' obese people have a hormone problem, basically, we don't know the statistics, we know not everyone is fat because they stuff their glibbering gob full of junk food and never get off their fat asses to walk unless there's cake on the other side of the road but MOST fatties are probably fat because of that so it's totally cool that we hate them, ridicule them and guilt them into losing weight through whatever means possible because seriously who wants to go through all the trouble of recognising the diversity in the properties, strengths and weaknesses of every individual human body, haha fuck no, let's just mock some lardasses. | | | | 16 comments | Leave a comment | |
Apr. 15th, 2009
| | 06:11 pm - - Meme from cynni | | | | Everyone has things they blog about. Everyone has things they don't blog about. Challenge me out of my comfort zone by telling me something I don't blog about, but you'd like to hear about, and I'll write a post about it. Ask me anything! Repost in your own journal so that we can all learn more about each other. | | | | 9 comments | Leave a comment | |
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