Eeeeenformation!
First of all, I subscribed to several RSS feeds, having stumbled onto this feature while trying to figure out how to fuse my LJ Friends page with my Dreamwidth Read page. That has nothing to do with trying to move off LJ and everything with trying to starve out my distractibility by giving it only one page to check every five minutes. As a result, I am now viewing Lifehacker, Calvin and Hobbes reruns, and XKCD. ...And Fandom Wank.
Second of all, I came across a ridiculously good Alternate History by the name of Now Blooms The Tudor Rose. It diverges at the point of "What if a Tudor heir had been born in Elizabeth I's place?", and continues to have... some pretty ridiculous, hilarious, and impressive divergences. For one, strangely, Don Carlos wound up getting slightly better genetics through the butterfly-effect, and is now an deformed and eccentric yet highly-intelligent prince, rather than... well, a mentally and physically malformed psychopath. (It helped that he never took a short walk off a long flight of stairs.) For another, Catherine Howard gets an exciting life as a mercenary spy for everyone willing to pay her gambling debts. CATHERINE HOWARD. And these are just the divergences that aren't major spoilers.
I just spent all day reading this AH on my cellphone. I SERIOUSLY recommend it.
(Links to individual posts given here. I think the discussion is highly entertaining and informative, too, but you may wish to just get to the meat of it.)
Third of all, am I the only reader of Fandom Wank who initially thought “We don’t know how to handle money; PLEASE SAVE US BY GIVING US MORE MONEY” was a wank having to do with the Federal Government? I am? Hm...
Third-point-five of all, that may be the only time I've seen the disclaimer [PARAPHRASED] 'We judge the organizer Not Guilty on the grounds of crippling stupidity.'
Fourth of all, I'm actually using my List Maker... demi-hemi-semi-app. Which is good. The Dragon Fighter mini-app included with it proves mildly entertaining. If I had more spare time, I'd be seeing if I could upgrade it to some sort of low RPG (tossing the app into a 'battle' function and having the character wander around a single screen getting into random battles, with EXP and money being introduced on later updates), but I don't have the time. Alas.
Fifth of all, I'm trying to actually pay attention to my many and sundry How To Draw books for once, so I may somewhat improve on that front... provided that I keep that up.
Sixth of all, 25 days into Codecademy, I have successfully completed the Web Fundamentals (HTML/CSS), (basic) JavaScript, and (basic) jQuery courses. This stuff is fun. :D And if I concentrated on my actual schoolwork in the same manner, I'd probably have already graduated. Confound it...
Seventh of all, I'm actually going to take up exercising again. I have less than virtuous grounds for doing this. Basically? I've noticed that my brain does better on a diet somewhat higher in sugar and fat than I've been consuming. Given that I am desperately willing to take any brainpower boost I can get, and that I am also very much against going from 'moderately chubby' to 'Henry VIII's twin sister', I'm left with no choice but actually exerting some effort. On the bright side, I do have more energy this way, so I might actually be able to commit to this...
Eighth of all... I hope you've all had a good weekend! Mine's gone pretty well indeed. :) Eight cheers for actually doing things!
This entry is mirrored at http://guardians-song.dreamwidth.org/56619.html. Comment wherever you like. Just remind me to get off the internet and do my homework.
Second of all, I came across a ridiculously good Alternate History by the name of Now Blooms The Tudor Rose. It diverges at the point of "What if a Tudor heir had been born in Elizabeth I's place?", and continues to have... some pretty ridiculous, hilarious, and impressive divergences. For one, strangely, Don Carlos wound up getting slightly better genetics through the butterfly-effect, and is now an deformed and eccentric yet highly-intelligent prince, rather than... well, a mentally and physically malformed psychopath. (It helped that he never took a short walk off a long flight of stairs.) For another, Catherine Howard gets an exciting life as a mercenary spy for everyone willing to pay her gambling debts. CATHERINE HOWARD. And these are just the divergences that aren't major spoilers.
I just spent all day reading this AH on my cellphone. I SERIOUSLY recommend it.
(Links to individual posts given here. I think the discussion is highly entertaining and informative, too, but you may wish to just get to the meat of it.)
Third of all, am I the only reader of Fandom Wank who initially thought “We don’t know how to handle money; PLEASE SAVE US BY GIVING US MORE MONEY” was a wank having to do with the Federal Government? I am? Hm...
Third-point-five of all, that may be the only time I've seen the disclaimer [PARAPHRASED] 'We judge the organizer Not Guilty on the grounds of crippling stupidity.'
Fourth of all, I'm actually using my List Maker... demi-hemi-semi-app. Which is good. The Dragon Fighter mini-app included with it proves mildly entertaining. If I had more spare time, I'd be seeing if I could upgrade it to some sort of low RPG (tossing the app into a 'battle' function and having the character wander around a single screen getting into random battles, with EXP and money being introduced on later updates), but I don't have the time. Alas.
Fifth of all, I'm trying to actually pay attention to my many and sundry How To Draw books for once, so I may somewhat improve on that front... provided that I keep that up.
Sixth of all, 25 days into Codecademy, I have successfully completed the Web Fundamentals (HTML/CSS), (basic) JavaScript, and (basic) jQuery courses. This stuff is fun. :D And if I concentrated on my actual schoolwork in the same manner, I'd probably have already graduated. Confound it...
Seventh of all, I'm actually going to take up exercising again. I have less than virtuous grounds for doing this. Basically? I've noticed that my brain does better on a diet somewhat higher in sugar and fat than I've been consuming. Given that I am desperately willing to take any brainpower boost I can get, and that I am also very much against going from 'moderately chubby' to 'Henry VIII's twin sister', I'm left with no choice but actually exerting some effort. On the bright side, I do have more energy this way, so I might actually be able to commit to this...
Eighth of all... I hope you've all had a good weekend! Mine's gone pretty well indeed. :) Eight cheers for actually doing things!
This entry is mirrored at http://guardians-song.dreamwidth.org/56619.html. Comment wherever you like. Just remind me to get off the internet and do my homework.