Comments | byelka58: House-keeping, mostly, with some interactive content.

byelka58

House-keeping, mostly, with some interactive content.

Feb 21, 2006 21:42

I am here to inform you of a number of things. For instance, I posted some fresh pictures in the "Arts and Crafts" and "Very Strange Things" albums, so if you like things that are fun, you might enjoy spending a few minutes there.1 If you prefer things that are AWESOME, note that you can have USPS stamps printed from any (suitably proportioned) ( Read more... )

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la_zumo February 22 2006, 04:44:29 UTC

Holy fuck. Those pics of Hewitt are frickin' hilarious! As for your poll, I would say that Thug Hewitt would have been the funniest if you had picked up the green of mate, because damn didn't it look like a big bag of weed when I sent it to ya.

Man, if only we could find a pic of the real Hewitt and put it on a stamp. We'd have to become penpals with Dougie then.

Don't worry about the ignorant people that inhabit this world. The first years here knew about "Poseidon", the new one coming out. However, they didn't know that it was a remake of a 70s disaster masterpiece. Ouch.

byelka58 February 22 2006, 05:29:22 UTC

I think the creepiest possible use would be to mail someone a letter with his/her own face on the stamp. That would be a STAMP OF HORROR.

As portraits go, something about your new userpic truly appeals to me, although until I googled its title I had no idea who the guy is. He looks... exasperated.

la_zumo February 22 2006, 14:13:20 UTC

!!!!!!!!.

I didn't need to see Dougie's face this early in the morning.

As for the icon, that would be Tony "Soulpatch" Almeida, a former agent of CTU who is currently in a coma. But once he comes out of his coma, he'll team up with Jack Bauer for some soulpatch vengence and whoop up on some Russian terrorist ass. Hell to the yeah! I LOVE the Soulpatch and I made the icon in honor of him :)

I watch WAY too much "24".

gabbiana February 23 2006, 07:12:08 UTC

Oh my dear god. *THAT* is what Dougie looks like? The Dougie you've been mooning over for, um, four years? WHAT THE HELL? The glasses, Rachel, the glasses!

I tear up every time I read that paragraph of The Silmarillion, the one that starts "In that time the last of the Noldor set sail" and ends "an end was come for the Eldar of story and song." Never mind that I can't get past chapter two of The Silmarillion; it's so beautiful.

And for what it's worth, I prefer the half-uncials.

Also: HOLY CRAP, weavemaster.

And squirrelmaster, apparently. If you've still got the bootleg squirrel around ("Secret Agent Squirrel," I believe I called him), you could have a whole series of photos featuring him tracking down and busting Hewitt for possession and bling. It'd be awesome, and then you could submit it to the contest like one child left behindAhhh, skits. They suck even in medical school. Twice, during physician and patient, we had to role-play Awkward Moments in Interviewing. One of those times, I was Middle-Aged Woman with ( ... )

byelka58 February 23 2006, 15:50:00 UTC

See, you knew me in high school, when I had my one crush on a person who was, how shall we say, conventionally attractive. It's been one skinny dork after another since then. Plus, he was my teacher, not my damn boyfriend. Intellectual crushes know no "cute."

And my current MA's glasses are purple.

The last page of The Silmarillion rocks the house. I will mark you down for half-uncials, a lovely font if a wiiiiiiiiide one ( ... )

byelka58 February 23 2006, 16:03:07 UTC

Weird dream last night: I was on a nice green island with a bunch of strangers and Sir David Attenborough, who was teaching us all about "manatees," to the extent that a quasi-walrus covered in mink-like fur can be called a manatee. While he was talking, a few people from the crowd slipped down to swim with the q-ws, and from up on the hill where I was sitting it sounded like the q-ws were screaming "Die!!" at the humans in their midst.

I found that upsetting, as you can imagine, and wanted the people to leave them alone. Attenborough corrected me, though; q-ws are actually quite fond of humans (he handed me a baby to hold, which is how I know about the mink-like fur: I could feel it in my dream, which was odd), and were in fact begging for treats... in BCS: "Daj mi [nešto]!" ("Give me [something]"), which I mistook for "Die!"

The multilingual puns are creeping into my subconscious, you guys. Plus I'm apparently dreaming about Mardi Gras as celebrated by pimp-coated BCS-speaking quasi-walruses. At least Attenborough was there.

vislius February 24 2006, 02:01:26 UTC

I'm rather fond of the half-uncials -- for me, it's all about the letter T.

On a Silmarillion related note, I've never been able to get past its first chapter, which I've read numerous times.

byelka58 February 24 2006, 05:01:49 UTC

Big two for half-uncials (secretly 3).

I'm pretty sure that I made it to the end on attempt 3 or 4, but you can tell from my uncertainty that, however long my eyes may have continued scanning the text, I stopped retaining information at the usual point, i.e., somewhere within the first 100 pages.

I love Tolkien's universe, but some parts of The Silmarillion have all the easy readability of the begats in the Old Testament.