Saturday, December 08, 2001

After saying I have no desire to redesign this journal in an earlier post, I decided for the heck of it to download Greymatter and give it a shot. Now I am terrified of scary code things, and don't even really know what a cgi-bin is for, so I was sure I'd screw it up. But you know what? I installed it perfectly. I did not mess it up at all. After all is said and done, the uploading, the CHMODing and all was EASY. Now the hard part comes in designing a template that incorporates the Greymatter code...
posted by Ann-S-Thesia at 12:58 PM || link it email me

It's now been twenty one years. It seems so soon to be reminded of this again. What's hard is when someone you've known for a very long time just doesn't understand how you feel about these topics. I'm at least glad I can voice my thoughts to Stan and Tim...they feel the same way. I guess it's karmic that we all met.
posted by Ann-S-Thesia at 12:19 PM || link it email me

Friday, December 07, 2001

I've had this same basic design with only a few minor modifications for over a year! I really like it. That's why I haven't redesigned. I think there's a certain point one reaches designing websites when one just doesn't need to redesign every month to reach some sort of unobtainable perfection. I used to redesign my other sites frequently. Now I'm very satisfied with them. But for those of you who want a change, click on one of the Chameleon options in the upper right corner. It's sort of fun to play with, even if you decide to stick with the default.
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Thursday, December 06, 2001

Enough said.
posted by Ann-S-Thesia at 10:26 PM || link it email me

Oh ferfricksake...

"Ann, your theme song is Walking On Sunshine!
Your upbeat approach to life makes "Walking on Sunshine" the perfect anthem for you. We can see you dancing down the vegetable isle with your grocery cart, smiling at all the checkout clerks. Read more about your theme song… "

This is why I hate Emode. It's as if the entire staff who make up these tests are a bunch of giggly sorority girls. Sorority girls that didn't take remedial spelling so they don't know the difference between "isle" and "aisle."

I much prefer the whackier alternative personality tests in the previous posts, even when they're off, they're off in a good way.
posted by Ann-S-Thesia at 1:10 PM || link it email me

Strawberry: 0/100 Pear: 40/100 Banana: 50/100 Tomato: 30/100 Lemon: 10/100

Take the What Fruit Are You? test by webkin and aaronr!

Funny...I used to be nastily allergic to them up until I tried one again last year. Now there's a bunch of them in the kitchen.
posted by Ann-S-Thesia at 12:56 PM || link it email me

I can't remember much of my dream last night, other than Stan and I were driving into fog. It got to be blinding white and we couldn't see where we were going. I hate dreams like that.
posted by Ann-S-Thesia at 12:37 PM || link it email me

Take the What Cat Are You? test by webkin!

link via Shelagh
posted by Ann-S-Thesia at 12:33 PM || link it email me

Wednesday, December 05, 2001

I'm The Art Test!

I'm, erm, a pretty nondescript test that just does what it says on the tin, really. I don't thrive on in-jokes, controversy or irony, nor do I host ads... I have some pretty pictures though, will that do?

Click here to find out which test you are!

Hey, wait...I answered "YES" to the controversy and irony questions. This test must be broken.
posted by Ann-S-Thesia at 6:43 PM || link it email me

I am Matched Phrenology Busts. I enlighten Norwegian glass bacteria with richly sponged hardwood thought processes. Four ripe metronomes ridicule my lucky castle of relief. My auspicious mercury rides level coral. What erudite spheres reveal strata? The Utterly Surreal Test

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If I were a James Bond villain, I would be Mr Wint or Mr Kidd. I enjoy strong cologne, the company of men, and stabbing people with flaming shish-kebabs. I am played by Bruce Glover or Putter Smith in Diamonds Are Forever. Who would you be? James Bond Villain Personality Test

Um...totally lost me on that one...although I do enjoy the company of men much better than the company of women. But who ARE those blokes?
posted by Ann-S-Thesia at 6:30 PM || link it email me

I had the most absurd dream last night. I don't remember much to it, but I dreamt about The Simpsons. I distinctly remember Marge's hair was light brown instead of blue (imagine...me a realist!) and it was less high. She also wore it in a bun. I don't remember the plot, but they were doing one of those flashback episodes where they show the young Marge and Homer as high school kids in the early 70s (except now as the show progresses and because they're cartoon characters and they don't age they keep moving it up so that now they were probably teenagers in the mid 80s). Except in my dream the flashback was taking place in the 60s (heh) and I kept thinking that it must have been a really early episode.
posted by Ann-S-Thesia at 5:12 PM || link it email me

If I were a work of art, I would be Piet Mondrian's Composition A. I am rigidly organised and regimented, although my cold and unapproachable exterior hides a clever way of thinking and a rebellious and innovative nature. A lot of people don't understand me, but I can still affect them on an emotional level. Which work of art would you be? The Art Test

Well, I don't know about rigidly organized and regimented (take a look inside my house!), but I agree with the rest. And hey, I like Mondrian. I just wish he would've used tertiary colors.
posted by Ann-S-Thesia at 5:01 PM || link it email me

Monday, December 03, 2001

Geez...I didn't realize how much my top five list sounded like something right out of Progressive Glam 101. So I'm a cliche...so sue me.

I should also add...I don't have lots of albums I used to have in my collection because in 1989 we moved 1000 miles and sold almost all our vinyl (500 records or so) for money for the move and because it was impossible to move all of them. It was very sad, and we only have reclaimed a small amount over the years in CDs.
posted by Ann-S-Thesia at 5:53 PM || link it email me

Memetime? Um, ok...well, I have a list here that I comprised a couple years ago...still stands pretty much. But if I had to narrow it down to five? Five?!? Ten was hard, but FIVE?

Here Come the Warm Jets - Brian Eno
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie
The Stooges - The Stooges
The Velvet Underground and Nico - The Velvet Underground

OK, newmeme...what about....

1. What record did you used to have that you wish you still had?
2. What record did you used to have that you were/are totally embarrassed to have had in your collection? (BE HONEST!!!)
3. What record did you never own that you'd like to hear?
4. What was the first record you bought/was given to you?
5. What was the last record you bought for yourself or someone gave you?

For those of you kids out there, record can also translate to CD. ;)

My answers:

1. White Album - The Beatles
2. Pronounced - Lynyrd Skynyrd
3. Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
4. Rock and Roll Music - The Beatles
5. Penis Envy - Crass
posted by Ann-S-Thesia at 5:48 PM || link it email me

Bizarre, macabre dream last night. I was looking at my body unclothed and the front of my abdomen was all stitched up. It looked like one of those stitched up rawhide chew toy things for dogs (if you have a dog and spend too much time looking at doggie fun products, you know what I mean). I was thinking I either had an operation or an autopsy. It was a hack job, like whoever sewed me back together didn't care how it looked; the thread, which looked like it was made of skin itself, was very thick, the stitches sloppy. I was thinking how this would affect my sex life (like Stan would care about that if I was dead!). Odd thing; I didn't really care all that much that I looked that way, or if I was indeed dead...it was all so matter of fact. The nice thing I thought in the dream was that my stomach was a lot flatter...like I'd rather have an unattractive, sewn up, lumpy, leather-like, autopsied, operated-on stomach as long as it's flat rather than a smooth, scar-free fatter one! (Actually, I think some sickos probably would...anything to be thin).

Very sad time here for me, still trying to adjust to a world with only two Beatles. These things affect me much more the older I get. Of course I've been depressed about things in my own life this past week, sick from it even, but when I heard the news about George Harrison, that all went away and no longer felt sad for myself, but felt sad in a larger sense.

Sometimes I wonder what I would have written if I had an online journal in April of 1994...

I also wonder why when in December, 1980, I didn't cry much if at all. What makes us cry easier when we're older?

But anyway, heard something on the news this morning that "Something" was the only Beatles song that Frank Sinatra (cough) ever covered, and he'd credit it as Lennon/McCartney tune. What a dolt.

I was having a couple good online (email) conversations with two different people about two different topics this weekend, but a thread kept reappearing in both of them, that of originality. I'm really starting to resent singers who do not/did not perform their own material. Sinatra and Presley naturally came to mind. It's not so much I resent the fact that they performed other's songs (hey, we all love covering others' songs, it gives us a rush, even if it's just in the shower!), I resent the fact that they made the songs well known so that a song is then known as a "Sinatra" song or a "Presley" song in the popular consciousness, when it was originally written and performed by someone who was probably starved not just of royalties, but just plain credit that you can't even put a price on. When I was a teenager, I didn't realize that a lot of the old blues-influenced British Invasion I listened to and liked was frequently covers of old blues songs. I feel bad about that.
posted by Ann-S-Thesia at 1:15 PM || link it email me