A nice cup of rabies

• Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
• Turn to page 56.
• Find the fifth sentence.
• Post that sentence along with these instructions on your LJ.
• Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

Soon's I got back from the convention I hustled over -- my natural shyness makes me somewhat tounge-tied but... Mam'selle Hepzibah, honey-chile girl, sweetheart of the swamp an' points south, how'd you like to get married ?

So there's this meme going around: five things you'd tell yourself at 16.

I can barely remember who I was at sixteen. It's more than half my life ago, and it's in the long grey blur of being dead bored in high school and still deeply depressed over my father's death.

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Twelve first sentences from first posts. Except when they're not because it sounds better that way.

So we went out by Bill and Nat to do New Year's. I've promised myself I wouldn't post to LJ unless I had art to show for a while. I should be doing some late-night work; instead I flipped through a couple books on Matisse and Miro. Dear US Customs and Border Protection, thank you for your kind letter informing me that you have seized my shipment of female hormones, in which you offer me the choice of letting you destroy them, voluntarily abandoning them to you (after which they will be destroyed), or forward them to the FDA for destruction.

It's hooked to a universe of nothing but PURE CUTENESS! You'd better hope you don't wind up in the hands of the Norse gods when you die, because Loki is going to be seriously pissed at you for associating his name with so much stupid. AlmostVPN - a cute little ssh tunnelling app. I'm just sick of animation. I was gonna hack up some code to abstract out the different joystick arrangements and had a cute little autodetector going and all, but furshlugginer Blitz kept on giving me handles to old objects instead of new ones when I instanced new joystick descriptions. [voice post] Bunnies like to be counted!

FOUR JOBS ALMOST EVERY JOB YOU'VE HAD IN YOUR LIFE

• Grocery store clerk
• Cel sorter
• Flash animator/programmer
• Freelance illustrator

(I've never actually had a 'real job'.) ( more than four more lists of four things )

Also, here's a lazyweb idea to toss out: an iTunes visualizer that cycles between audio-reactive Quartz Compositions. Especially if you build a hook to go from iTunes' audio directly to the QC engine, rather than using the mic.

I am The Fool The Fool can signal a new beginning or change of direction - one that will guide you onto a path of adventure, wonder and personal growth. He also reminds you to keep your faith and trust your natural responses. If you are facing a decision or moment of doubt, the Fool tells you to believe in yourself and follow your heart no matter how crazy or foolish your impulses may seem. For a full description of your card and other goodies, please visit LearnTarot.com

What tarot card are you? Enter your birthdate. Month: Day: Year:

Some of my leaping-off-a-cliff decisions have worked. Some haven't. Even when they haven't, I've been glad I did something instead of hiding in fear of failure.

Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in ( ... )

Based on the lj interests lists of those who share my more unusual interests, the interests suggestion meme thinks I might be interested in...( Memeage. )

Also, I still have a cold. My right ear is full of goo. I'll sleep on my left side and maybe it'll drain... I'm sure you wanted to know that.

It's That Meme That You Should Take Before Reading My Results! Go here if you wanna try it. Then hit the cut tag.

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...I didn't know that you could embed stylesheets in HTML. But it works. Cool. But only in Safari. Not cool. Ah well.

Also, this is very hypnotic and calming.

So that "LJ Crush" thing came back. The people who wrote it this time learnt from the previous incarnation; it requires registration now, unlike the original.

If you're doing it, you might wanna think about reading the last paragraph of the terms of service.

Also, in the interests of being chaotic, my password there is "ljm3m3". Who do you think I should have a crush on? Fill it out for me and make my love life more interesting! Who is it clearly obvious I'd never want? Take 'em off the list!

And do the same with your ljmeme password!

For all the SF I read that posits machine-readable codifications of interpersonal relationships, for all my on-and-off interest in graphing friends networks, I sure have some issues with putting such things into practice, don't I? Maybe it's because my social life is so depressingly virtual, and my experience so far is that Internet-based relationships just make things worse.

I'd vaguely appreciate it if you leave an anonymous comment (or not-so-anonymous) here if you play with my heart, maybe even telling me who you added to or removed from my crush list (and you can type in any old LJ name, too), but you don't have to.

Art stuff meme, caught from neogeen.

Basic
Name you sign your pieces with: Egypt Urnash
Avatar character: None, at present. There used to be a skinny black dragon, but she stopped existing, her purpose served a while back. When I draw myself it's just an idealized and possibly monsterized caricature of me.

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