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GoodSearch

2008-08-13T04:55:07Z

I think this is a pretty awesome idea. GoodSearch is a search engine that lets you raise money for your charity whenever you search the Internet. It donates at minimum 50% of the money earned from advertisers for every one of your searches. Talk about the definition of making money without doing anything. All you do is search as normal but with a different search engine. And even if you want to be a snob and say "but it's just not as good as such-and-such" well first of all it is, and secondly you can still use that too. Really, there are more search engines than just google people. Try using multiple ones and you'll come up more results, I always have, especially for obscure searches.

Anyway, this wasn't supposed to be an angry rant about google's attempt at world domination, but about just what a brilliant idea and resource this website is. Earn money for your favorite charities just by searching. You can see how much money has been raised and you can even add it to your browser and everything. It's pretty cool.

discovery

2008-07-15T05:43:40Z

So, I now have a new opinion about jousting. it is spawned by this fic I just read

Title: Poles
Author: Jude
Fandom: Tamora Pierce (author) Protector of the Small quartet
Summary (by me): Evin informs Dom of what he thinks jousting represents. "men pointing their poles at each other in a way that won't make their wives disown them...”
Rating: PG-13? (for innuendo?)
Warnings: bad formatting, innuendo, lack of subtlety, slashy undertones
Link: http://ltsdropcentre.proboards26.com/index.cgi?board=tortall&action=display&thread=35

I don't know how I didn't think of that before, at least to that extent, and it's ME for gods' sake. my mind is permanently in the gutter; taken up residence, have a welcome mat, I even get mail. I really just...don't know how I could have missed it. I suppose if I felt like defending myself I could state the continuing inability to get over the absurdity of men riding at each other on horses to smash sticks into each other, but STILL! *incredulous look*

on another note, you know you have been watching too much anime when you look for the subtitles when talking to people. *headdesk*

so then, there's some of the interesting fandom related things that have been happening to me, well, that I remember to write down anyway.

plagerism

2008-05-28T02:29:20Z

lolz, I is plagiarizing myself. *nod nod*

so I have to write a summary for a project I did, and being lazy and just wanting to get it done to read more fanfic, I just reworked the beginning part of the proposal I wrote for it i.e. changed tenses and a few other words here and there. when I finished I thought "well that was easy" *cue hitting imaginary EASY button*. and then thought "this is extreme plagiarism, except...it's to myself..."

I have also come to the EXTREMELY late conclusion that I spam my own lj. oh the contradictions. *sigh* I just do this to myself, yes I do*

icon

2008-05-21T21:35:14Z

Well, this is my first attempt at icon making. It features Chaucer from the movie A Knight's Tale played by Paul Bettany, who also plays Dr. Maturin in Master and Commander, another favorite character. The text is in reference to an amv a friend and I plan to make. It was make in MS paint and really all I did was add the words and lj re-sized it into an icon. I have no idea where I got the original screencap from.

All in all I pretty happy with how it turned out. It's not complicated and it's not very good quality but it amuses me.

The Work of the Devil, I Tell You

2008-04-12T05:11:04Z

Broilers are the work of the devil. I put my parmesan bread in earlier this evening and it was coming along perfectly fine. I turn around for a moment A MOMENT to move some pans so I have a place to put them when I take them out, then I turn back around, and BAM! Instant charcoal. Honestly! I couldn't have looked away for more than 20 seconds! DAMN BROILERS!!!

Goodbye Jim Posante

2008-01-14T03:00:18Z

I've never been good with words, especially at times like this. All I can say is you'll be sorely missed. And thanks, for everything. This song's for you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHkT2YfqHE4 "Bye Bye Miss American Pie" by Don McLean

Goodbye

seme quiz

2008-01-13T20:02:36Z

well then, apparently I'm 100% seme. on the one hand I am highly pleased and am mentally going "hells ya" but on the other I'm kinda wondering how accurate this quiz is.

School today

2008-01-09T05:22:12Z

so part of the school flooded,

then we lost power,

but we still had school.

it's obviously the first two of the seven plagues and the general reaction was "umm...hey cool, we can sail little boats and have boat races!"

*face desk* I think the worst part is that this is relatively normal. I don't even want to contemplate the implications after that.

*sulk* and I was hoping we wouldn't have school tomorrow.

Test

2008-01-03T18:13:58Z

this is a test to see if I can use lj cuts or not.

Well it appears to have worked

hopefully it worked

Roman Writers

2007-12-27T06:15:56Z

Oh dear. The Roman writers seem to be infesting my brain lately. I just re-read my English termpaper and discovered that I have practically a whole paragraph that's an ablative absolute (a.k.a. an aside or a rant). But upon further investigation I realized that most of it actually is in the ablative and so actually is an ablative absolute therefore making it perfectly grammatically correct, of course, that is in Latin grammar, I'm not too sure about English grammar. *uncertain look* But luckily my teacher is obsessed with the Roman writers including all the old grammar rules and is a snob about them. So hopefully he won't mind, or even give me bonus points. *says with misplaced hope* if not I was doomed anyway.

pooped

2007-12-24T06:58:20Z

I just got back from my grandparents about five minutes ago and man am I tired. After a day of cooking and baking I'm more sore than after hours spent playing basketball. Never underestimate the strength of a little old lady. My grandma doesn't look like much but she can whip those mixes long after my arms feel like they're about to fall off. *dies of exhastion*

a quote from my real-world adventures

2007-12-18T21:10:54Z

*mother is eating brownie crumbs*
mother - "these brownies are chewy"
me - "I know, they're good"
mother - "(insert my younger sister's name) thinks I made them so I have to get rid of this box"
*cue hysterical laughter*

anyway, it was hilarious at the time.

you know what. I think from now on I'm going to start writing down quotes from the real-world, because they amuse me. and it's not like anyone reads this anyway (besides you Shatter dear) so it doesn't really matter, it's just like talking to myself (which we're just going to pretend doesn't matter).

morons

2007-12-16T04:17:02Z

I live with a bunch of morons! One little thing, I just asked them to do one little thing. But no! Who the hell goes to the store and buys one thing of ramen!? One, as in singular! For gods’ sake they’re 16 cents. And how the hell is it that they came home with bags of groceries and there still isn’t anything for me to eat for dinner!?!?!?

life

2007-12-13T04:45:27Z

Gahahahahaha...

As usual I have too much to do in too small an amount of time. I have an English exam on Friday, which would be fine except I keep mixing the poems up with each other in the middle. I also have a large amount of math related work to do and I have a term paper due and my prof. just blew my thesis to hell. I also have a number of rather large decisions to make which have to be made NOW and it's rather difficult to concentrate as a result of the stress of the time constraint, schoolwork, and family stuff.

And to top it all off I just gave two disastrous presentations.

*sigh* I don't know what I'm going to do.

brainssssss!

2007-12-06T04:43:55Z

my Yeats paper is eating my brain.

To Do List Makeover

2007-11-27T03:14:38Z

Microsoft Word makes fast, easy, and now recently dicovered colorful to do lists. YAY!!!

"..."

so I like to make lists! I don't know what your talking about with all this psyc-whatever mumbo jumbo.

paper

2007-10-25T00:47:26Z

extreme paper writing is eating my brain.

scary

2007-10-10T03:10:04Z

It's sometimes scary how well I fit the mad scientist stereotype.

yesterday

2007-10-06T20:07:50Z

Yesterday was a day from hell.

Some highlights: missed my bus for work so was a half an hour late, just got to work and set up in the lab then the fire alarm went off - turned out it was a malfunction but was forced to stay outside for 45 min., later on in the lab we were disposing of some of the solid waste when we saw a small plume of black smoke and sparks - we slammed the fume hood down and thought well shit there really is a fire this time - it turned out fine we just melted the funnel a bit but we decided to call it a day.

And that's besides the rest of the crap that had happened earlier that day.

insane

2007-10-02T10:12:35Z

dragonmists753 is slowly going insane from all the work she has to do and the small amount of time she has to do it in.

cool new stuff

2007-10-01T03:16:50Z

So I'm extremely excited. I got a laptop and wi-fi the other day. Now I can use the internet whenever. YES!!!

Well there goes any chance of getting any sleep anytime soon. lol.

hey

2007-08-07T22:59:22Z

hey all. I've been lurking here for awhile and finally got an account. and now I've decided I should probably post to my own journal. I'm not too good at this writing and posting thing, especially not that update thing (blasphemy!), so I'll probably just post when I'm in a mood to write. since that mood is usually the crazy-hyper-up-the-wall kind of mood my post will mostly be rambling...a lot of rambling...and won't make any sense. this would have been better but my first finished draft got mysteriously deleted. *sigh* oh well.

by-the-by, I mostly use this account to read fanfiction. if anyone is actually reading this, ever, I promise I'm much more interesting and energetic when talking about fanfiction. I've never been very fond of this "tell me about yourself" crap.