OMG, I have been going nuts with thinking up userpics ideas at work and trying to stop myself from actually making any even though I now have Photoshop in my software suite. FIFTY, 50, five-zero new userpics I can have! Erg! <\/p>\n
Some of my trillions of ideas for new icons<\/strong><\/p>\n In other news, I baked the best apple-strawberry pie EVER on the weekend, with cheese in the crust and treacle in the filling. It was so delicious, it lived for less than 12 hours in the open air before boyfriend, roommate, and various family members polished it off. I take that as an excellent sign of tastiness. <\/p>\n I finished reading Margaret Atwood’s “Oryx and Crake” today. Weeeiirrd. Really bizarre book. Well written, as usual, but many many unanswered questions left dangling at the end. The setting reminded me of “Resident Evil”, except with less zombies and more pigs and chickens. Definitely a strong ‘Raccoon City’ feel. <\/p>\n One thing I have to say for good old Peggy: she’s not afraid to look evil straight in the eye. The things she was writing about were chillingly current, topical, and although they deviate rather sharply from our current course, they were all too possible. The stark and widening division between gown and town, the bioengineering of everything with no moral boundaries, the horrific uses of the Internet. <\/p>\n It’s all happening, right here, right now. No soothing familiar escapist literature that stretches back into the past or looks at very selective elements of what we term the good life in the present. There are some horrible insights into the mind of an intelligent man who has been pushed beyond his limits, and is suffering from isolation and malnutrition. His collection and protection and listing-off of obscure words is a habit any rabid bibliophile can relate to, and one that I found myself doing as I was reading, in relation to his situation. <\/p>\n An interesting read, and a good rigorous follow-up to the pleasant escapism of “HP and the Half-Blood Prince”. Where to next? Maybe some nice, bulky literature.. Melville, Eco, Thackeray and the like. Today’s train ride home will have to make do with one of Lillian Jackson Braun’s “The Cat Who…” mysteries, though, since it’s all I have in my backpack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OMG, I have been going nuts with thinking up userpics ideas at work and trying to stop myself from actually making any even though I now have Photoshop in my software suite. FIFTY, 50, five-zero new userpics I can have! Erg! Some of my trillions of ideas for new icons – DUNE! (Screen shots, Muad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122dib, […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2371,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions\/2371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}–\tDUNE! (Screen shots, Muad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122dib, my name is a killing name?)<\/strike>
\n–\tQuilting (needles, thread, sewing machine, grid, rotary cutter, fabric, patterns) [in progess]
\n–\t“TV geography vacation spots” (sunnydale\/capeside\/stars hollow\/cicely, alaska\/Twin Peaks\/Orange County\/Smallville) <\/strike>
\n–\tgirl idols (1 Sigourney Weaver, 2 Tank Girl, 3 Buffy, 4 Rory, 5 Cher in clueless, 6 C.J. from West Wing, 7 Leela, 8 Geena Davis as Pirate\/Beetlejuice wife, 9 Kaylee firefly engineer, 10 anne of green gables, 11 queen Elizabeth \u00e2\u20ac\u201c blackadder or shak in love?), My Mom (use black&white shot of her on beach)
\n–\ttmb.net articles I have written, and not written (check marks and x-es?)
\n–\twooden dinosaur skeletons (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I build dinosaurs!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)
\n–\tdisgruntled playmobil office worker #245
\n–\thome improvements (my power tools, drywall, caulk, projects in motion)
\n–\treading reports \/ printed word \/ glasses \/ book page (I heart reading)
\n–\tBaking\/ all pie, all the time \u00e2\u20ac\u201c apple, blueberry, pecan (fruits, pastry, recipie)<\/strike>
\n–\t“Mystery men” (sherlock,lord peter, poirot, lovejoy, etc)
\n–\t“comedy idols” (Eddie Murphy, adam sandler, dave chappelle, will Ferrell, Ali G….)
\n–\tfave embarrassing movies (Real Genius, Coming to America, etc)
\n–\topera
\n–\tmore recent me pics
\n–\tgrad photo! \/ gene simmons<\/strike>
\n–\tmuppets, still shots from season one
\n–\tvideo game voyeur icon (peeping eye, pixellated images) [in progress at home]
\n–\tconfusion
\n–\tclockwork [in progress]<\/p>\n