Ishte Rants and Rambles

Since I was showing evil_little_dog my ancient toy giraffe, I thought I'd show Jeannie and Tigger (another of the ancients) to the rest of my folx.

 

It is really way past my bedtime, but I just wanted to mention that
LiveJournal just completely revamped their application for Android.  I have to say that it is SO much better than the substandard app that they had previously. having played with it for only a few minutes, I'm already liking it better than their previous attempt, and even liking it better than the ElJay app I have been using previously. This works much better. I recommend it if you have an Android Phone. I can't speak for the iPhone version, other than that I know it exists. I'm not likely to ever intentionally own an iPhone as I intensely dislike proprietary equipment. I love my Atrix II.

because it is too cute not to share. It's going on FxcxBook too. hahaha.

As a Libertarian, I believe in the following two concepts:

1. Keep your hands out of my pockets.
2. Keep your laws off my body.

That said, I took this from kashicat and repost it because I am in agreement with it by 100%


( I will do as she did and repost the words as well. )

1. Leave a comment to this post!
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows


evil_little_dog gave me the letter "B".   ??? B?  Ugh...

1. Breda, Heymans - (Fullmetal Alchemist) On first glance you'd expect this guy to be the ox on Mustangs team, strong, but not too bright.  A closer look though, shows that he has a keen analytical mind. He knows what is going on and is probably ahead of most in planning strategies. Breda beats everyone at chess.

2. Bahamut, The King of Dragons - (Final Fantasy Series) In the very first game he gives your characters the honor of a class change if you bring him a Rat's Tail. In later games you have the ability to summon him for help in battle.  Earlier in the game he is generally a greatly sought after summon, and even when other summoned monsters are available to call upon, he is still an incredibly useful monster.

3. Barrett Wallace - (Final Fantasy VII) Big mouth, trash talker with a big gun grafted onto his arm. He appears at the very beginning of the game as Cloud Strife's boss (having hired Cloud as a Mercenary) on a mission.  Barrett isn't the brightest star in the sky, but he's dedicated to making the world a better place by ridding it of Shinra.

4. B'Elanna Torres - (Star Trek Voyager) Half Klingon. She starts out as a fairly minor character, but grows into a strong presence as she moves up to Chief Engineer of Voyager

Ehhh... B is HAAAARDDD! *Wail*

5. Bronski, Wolf - (Exosquad) Ok.. Bronski is the ox you expected Breda to be. Big and dumb, Bronski is the guy you want with you when you know you have to plow through a lot of hard core physical adversity. Don't expect him to solve any serious puzzles, but he's got the brain power to control his own exoframe without any trouble.

Wow this was damned hard...

Ok.. So seriously, Collapse Blast on Facebook has lost my top score on this damned stupid game that I play. It says I have something over 26,000,000 as a top score, when actually it's 32,196,233 that is my top score. That's a significant difference, so I'm going to post this here with the link so I can see it.

Cynthea Carrington

LMFAO HARD! hahahaha... How the hell did I get that score!

This, I believe is the link to the actual status: https://www.facebook.com/cynthea.carrington/posts/295671907142974

ɹǝɐllʎ' ʇɥıs ıs ʇɥǝ pnɯqǝsʇ ʍɹıʇǝɹ,s qloɔʞ ǝʌǝɹ˙˙˙

Seriously, can't we have some that actually encourage actual WRITING? I mean.. Duh?

Since I made my post saying that I was switching to Captcha to get rid of bots posting random comments on my LiveJournal, and made that switch, I have had so far 7 spams... 6 for cheap Chinese designer knockoffs (2 for Louis Vitton) and one elaborate one for cell phones, all of which apparently defeated the Captcha with ease, and all of which were on my most recent post, 3 of which posted today after I complained to LiveJournal about the high level of spam I'm suddenly getting.

Thankfully, LiveJournal did respond to my complaint and has let me know that if I eliminate responses from anyone not registered that it will still allow posts from people on OpenID, Facebook and so on who use those as their registries.  So Those of you who do RX my posts and aren't LiveJournal users yourself, 1) come to LiveJournal. We have cookies and stuff here. 2) just log in using your OpenID, or Facebook or whatever. According to OpenID, most people with the following provisions already have the ability to log in using OpenID (this includes LiveJournal users actually. I use my ishte.LiveJournal.com openID login all the time.):

( Here is their text but i took out all the logo graphics: )

Surprise! You may already have an OpenID.

If you use any of the following services, you already have your own OpenID. Below are instructions on how to sign in with each of the following providers on an OpenID enabled website. (When you see bold text, you should replace it with your own username or screenname on that service.)

Look for the “Sign in with a Google Account” button or use your Google Profile URL.

Look for the “Sign in with Yahoo” button.

Look for the “Yahoo! JAPAN IDでログイン” button.

Enter “username.livejournal.com”

Click the “Sign in with Hyves” button.

Enter your blog URL: “blogname.blogspot.com”

Look for the “Sign in with Yahoo” button or use your photostream URL

Click the “Sign in with Orange” button or enter “orange.fr”

mixi is a web service that allows users to communicate with their friends and acquaintances.

Look for the “Login with MySpaceID” button or enter “www.myspace.com/username”

Enter your WordPress.com URL, for example: “username.wordpress.com”

Look for a “Sign in with AOL” button or enter “openid.aol.com/screenname”

Other Well Known & Simple Providers

In addition, there are several dedicated OpenID providers that are generally recommended by various members of the community. While not a comprehensive list, each of these providers offers a free and secure OpenID to use across the web.

Chi.mp allows you to create your own social hub on an OpenID domain you own and control.

ClaimID is an easy way to manage your online identity with OpenID.

myID.net is an OpenID provider with support for groups and the Korean language.

myOpenID is the first standalone provider for both individuals and businesses, with secure multi-factor authentication.

VeriSign’s Personal Identity Provider is an OpenID provider with support for multi-factor authentication.

Your Internet ID lets you build a social identity to use on the web.

So what that works out to, is I will as of this post no longer allow anonymous comments. Sorry. you have to log in. you have two dozen different ways to do it. If you are too lazy to do it, You can't comment on my LiveJournal. I might even miss you. So just buck up and log in so you can comment.

PS... I totally failed at code and hit the post button before it looked like I was TRYING to tell it to, but having had a few at the pub tonight, I should not even be attempting to write code, though I can obviously still do math somehow...

PPS... apparently I'm only allowed to tell it to have ONE property for the blockquote. It pukes if I try to give it two. I cleaned it up. Sorry if you saw the vomit. *rolls eyes* 

I know some of you have noticed my long absence.  For one thing my computer was awful, but I was also working two or three jobs over the summer just to try to make ends meet.  Earlier in the summer I had been cycling in my neighborhood and since I had often wondered what kind of business was going on in a building down the street, I came in and looked it up. I immediately decided I needed to work there, so I wrote up an inquiry letter and resume and walked over to present myself in person. ( Cut for my usual long blathering about it... )

Yup... I have just been informed by my daughter, cheapcarnival, of my impending Grandparentization. Yup. You read right. I'm gonna be a Grandmother. Wow... is she really old enough to be a mom?  *counts* Yup... I was the same age when I made the same announcement to my own mom now that I think about it.

ETA: oh yes, and I had my 90 day review, and my boss is very happy with my work, glad to know that I'm getting along with everyone in the office, and wanted to know if I'd like to have my wage increased. To which I answered "yes". So I'll have a dollar increase starting next week. YAY!

Funny thing about that is, as an American, I have always had it.  I can't even imagine what the world would be like if I did not have what I consider one of the most primary fundamental rights, to speak my mind.  Obviously there are limitations, but they are SELF regulating. I censor myself and don't use certain words or certain speech in certain circumstances.  I don't swear in front of my mother, I don't talk politics at work (much), and I don't discuss religion with most Christians.  But those are self imposed and not something the government should have any say in at all. Again, I can't even imagine what life would be like if I had to live in fear of being jailed for things I say, or having my comments online blacked out because someone didn't agree with them.

I support the SOPA PIPA protest, and I'm glad to see LiveJournal take part it in it.

As of today, I am turning off anonymous commenting on my LiveJournal.  The reason for this is that I am tired of having to go and delete random BS (BotShit) posts (most of which don't even make any sense) out old posts in my journal.  I tried setting it to screen anonymous posts, but that hasn't worked because it still means I have to go and do something when they come in. The thing is I can delete them from my phone, but Livejournal doesn't get the spam report when I do it that way, and I don't spend as much time on the actual computer since I got my smartphone.  I have to say that this is partly because when I got the smartphone, I didn't have a computer that worked very well, having had to retire my 'new' computer and bring out my 'old' Sony Vaio with it's tiny screen. So in the mean time, I have developed different Internet habits, including reading my email and my friends list from my phone most of the time now rather than sitting in front of a computer.  It's a more dynamic connection that leaves me more out in the world doing the stuff that I do now rather than spending a lot of time sitting in front of a computer. You may have noticed that my posting has changed quite a bit too.  I do most of my posting from my phone, and there are a lot more Pictures involved because LiveJournal has made it easier for me to post my pictures and I just caption then as I go along like with my bed entry.

The end result of this action though, is that the few people who do read my LiveJournal who do not themselves have LiveJournal accounts are going to need to either log in using one of their alternate Id's and not just be anonymous.  It's not like it used to be where you only had two options. Now besides your LiveJournal ID, you can also use Facebook, Twitter, OpenID, Google, Mail.RU and Vkontakte (whatever those last two are. I think they are Russian services) Anyway, if you don't want to come over to where the cool kids are and get a LiveJournal (and use it ftw), then you'll need to use one of your other logins to comment on my entries. And I do encourage comments. Meanwhile, I'm outy. I got a lot of Live Journal to catch up on this week.

ETA: I discovered when I went to change the setting, that LiveJournal has added the ability to make anonymous users translate a Captcha image. I'm going to try that for a while and see if that gets rid of the problem or not. So for the moment, yes, you can post if you're anonymous (which is what I prefer) but you'll have to put up with the Captcha image so I don't have to keep going in and killing spam posts (hopefully).

I think I did it last year and it was kind of fun. In fact My first entry is that marynachaotica cause me to post something. So here it goes....


January - Embedded video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vPWE2Ebz48] No actual words, but the subject is "marynachaotica caused me to post this."

February: I'm not sure what lead into this dream, but the part I remember starts with me and cheapcarnival being out fishing with friends composer2005, BH and TD

March: The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Eigth Level of Hell - the Malebolge!

April: How anyone can see and hear these choirs and really believe that there are no souls, that there is no force or connexion between us, no higher power of any sort, I cannot fathom.  It moves me to tears. (this was in response to Eric Whitacre presenting the first 3 minutes of Virtual Choir 2.0 performing his composition "sleep" on TED: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang/en//id/1110

May: There have been some things going on around in the real world, that have made it hard for me to keep up here.

June: Embedded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWK-iyC5oPc Subject: "Too Funny: Om Nom Nom Nom!!"

July: I'm going to re-date this so it will go back to the top because there were some serious formatting errors and things that I discovered that caused large sections to be deleted and some to be repeated. I

August: And also, I'm finding that I've been a little bit Internet disinclined this summer. I am trying my very best to completely disengage myself from FaceBook because I can't stand it.

September: Yay! I have an android app for my LiveJournal that I can use from my Motorola Atrix!

October: I stole this off evil_little_dog's LiveJournal Post, and I am reposting. 

November: My first ever turkey is ready to go in the oven. yay!  (Caption on a picture of the bird)

December: No more sleeping on the floor for me. It's been a long tie coming but it was time for me to get a real bed.

What do I *love* about the wintertime? *blinks* What's to like? What I love most about Winter is when it is Spring again. The only thing that gives Winter any merit at all is when it is Yule. At least then there are pretty lights and it hasn't gotten all that cold yet since Winter is just starting. Bleh... Winter. Pllllllllthhtht!

But I do, and I Was looking for some new careers for my sims to have in The Sims 2.

What I found were a couple I was looking for... and then I found THIS:

http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=425512

I Don't know if you have to log in to read it, but I'll paste the text below the cut so you can see it.'

( Cut for brevity )

 

oh wait... it's just star.

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It does not match. I ha e teased her that I will dye her blue. she is nonplussed...

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and a stop at JY Bamboo for supper.

but I am now assembling my bed.  This is my headboard with the main brace reattached.

The etching on my headboard is very pretty.  It's solid wood two inches thick. you can see a detail of my cute flannel snowflake sheets in the background.

Now the headboard is fully assembled.  once I had the width of it I decided it needed to be in a different place so that the headboard didn't stick out past the window.

now the headboard and footboard are all connected with the rails. time to put the box back in.

It's lowidge! (translation: It's large)

Well then,  there it is in all it's bleu glorei

One last touch. Whee... it's bedtime!

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No more sleeping on the floor for me. It's been a long tie coming but it was time for me to get a real bed.

My new bed and curtains. the actual frame will arrive tomorrow. the headboard that is on it at present is a full and the mattresses are just sitting on the floor until we to get my frame tomorrow. Can't wait. the posts may not be tall posts but it's a four poster. It is blue because the sheets I bought for it are darkly cute snowflakes on warm flannel. The flannel is cream but the flakes are two shades of blue. Then I found these awesome curtains for $12.50 a set. Can't hardly beat that.

 

I got my new computer last week and have been setting it up. I may be back online more pretty soon.

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my first ever turkey smells good and is starting to look like something to eat.

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my first ever turkey is ready to go in the oven. yay! 

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I play several instruments.  For most of my life my primary instrument was my voice. 

When I was really small, I would make instruments out of rubber bands wrapped around the knobs of my dresser or chest of drawers.  Then I also had a hand me down toy guitar that had been my brothers and only had 4 strings left.  I had no idea how it should be tuned or any thing, but I tuned it however I wanted it, and made up my own songs to sing.

In the fifth grade I started with Concert Flute and shortly after that, with violin. I was not good at the flute at all, I never could get a decent tone, even after 6 months or so at it, and I would blow until I was faint.  On violin, however I was progressing quite well. So I dropped flute and stayed with violin. I played in the Orchestra until the 10th grade, and was first chair second violin from 8th grade on.  In the 11th grade, I had to choose between concert choir and violin, because they were both the same class period, with no other time available for either. That bummed me out, but I decided to try concert choir since I intended that to be my last full year of high school. (I graduated early). I no longer own a violin, but I can still play a little. I want to get a new one very soon.

Besides that, I also did eventually get a real guitar and learned to play it. I don't play it as well as I'd like, but I can play basic chord structures and know most of the major and minor chords and a few sevenths and augments and so on. I also play piano.... again not as well as I'd like, but I know more chords and know how to work out a major, minor, seventh, minor seventh, major seventh and various augments and diminishments on piano or keyboard in any key. Mostly I just play what sounds good to me, and I write a lot of music on keyboard or piano that is in 5 sharps because it is easier for me to play that way.  I also write songs on the guitar.

In recent years, the flute has come back to me.  But now, instead of overblown concert style flutes, I have picked up Native American, Plains style flutes. These are front blown, instead of overblown, and the mechanics of the flute direct the air over the tone hole.  These flutes are tuned to a pentatonic minor scale of five notes rather than the typical scale of eight notes common in western diatonic scales.  The sounds is beautiful, and i use these flutes to play solo music, as well as playing it with accompaniment in a variety of different styles, ranging from classic rock to Irish folk music.

Here is some music that a fellow musician and I wrote (actually it is us recording what we have come up with so far so that we can work on it some more and not loose what we've done so far.)

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As a member of Generation X, I felt it bore repeating a few hundred thousand times.

 

http://m.gizmodo.com/5851062/generation-x-is-sick-of-your-bullshit

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I stole this off evil_little_dog's LiveJournal Post, and I am reposting.  I'm way far behind in my LiveJournal because of Real Life just being too busy to spend much time online right now.  However, this is something that I feel is very important to Women's Reproductive Rights whether you are pro choice or pro life, there is a certain point at which we must draw a line, and constitutional provisions in any state that will prevent women from using most methods of birth control cannot be allowed to stand. 

It was originally posted by gabrielleabelle at Mississippi Personhood Amendment

Yay! I have an android app for my LiveJournal that I can use from my Motorola Atrix!

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