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I'm Yati. I am also on Goodreads and Twitter.
What you can expect in this journal: me blabbering about books but never really posting reviews, perhaps a glimpse of fanfiction now and then, random squeeage over a number of things which include, but is not limited to, video games, anime/manga and code. I, um, also sew stuff, so some of my lopsided creations might make their way into this journal.
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with equations, they fight crime!
Jan. 17th, 2010 03:06 pmI'm watching season 1 of Numb3rs and enjoying it very much. It's a show I've been watching on and off throughout the six seasons; I like it, but I could never manage to consistently catch it on TV. I know it airs (aired?) on Tuesdays here, but I'm horrible at tracking days and dates -- I always end up remembering much, much later (say, at almost midnight) and go, "Oh, it's Tuesday. I missed the show again." My memory is horrible like that.
I can't remember ever watching the pilot, though. Right now I'm just going "Ha!" at Charlie explaining that the chances of winning the lottery is once in every forty thousand years and saying it's basic probability theory. It's a bit startling to realise how oblivious he could be about some things; I remember more of the recent episodes than the earlier ones, so seeing him so vulnerable at times and cocky at others just makes me shake my head in wonder. Him rushing around in the FBI briefing room made me grin.
(Ahahaha, these guys are consistent. I just noticed that Charlie misspells "anomaly" in the pilot. I think someone points it out to him later in the series, when he spells it wrongly again and gets challenged to a game of Scrabble.)
Some of my friends accuse me of liking the show because of my engineering background. (Most of them just don't understand why I rate it higher than CSI.) That's . . . part of it, I guess. Mathematics fascinate me, though it has never been one of my stronger points. I know very little about the things Charlie talks on the show -- basic game theory, probability and statistics, some parts of the Fourier analysis, yeah, sure, I get some of that. The other things, not at all. Most of the time I just sort of gape at his analogies: he makes it sound so simple.
If only our lecturers made it that fun. And it would've helped if they were cute, heh.
I can't remember ever watching the pilot, though. Right now I'm just going "Ha!" at Charlie explaining that the chances of winning the lottery is once in every forty thousand years and saying it's basic probability theory. It's a bit startling to realise how oblivious he could be about some things; I remember more of the recent episodes than the earlier ones, so seeing him so vulnerable at times and cocky at others just makes me shake my head in wonder. Him rushing around in the FBI briefing room made me grin.
(Ahahaha, these guys are consistent. I just noticed that Charlie misspells "anomaly" in the pilot. I think someone points it out to him later in the series, when he spells it wrongly again and gets challenged to a game of Scrabble.)
Some of my friends accuse me of liking the show because of my engineering background. (Most of them just don't understand why I rate it higher than CSI.) That's . . . part of it, I guess. Mathematics fascinate me, though it has never been one of my stronger points. I know very little about the things Charlie talks on the show -- basic game theory, probability and statistics, some parts of the Fourier analysis, yeah, sure, I get some of that. The other things, not at all. Most of the time I just sort of gape at his analogies: he makes it sound so simple.
If only our lecturers made it that fun. And it would've helped if they were cute, heh.
in which weekends need to be longer
Jan. 10th, 2010 11:50 pmIt hasn't been a very good weekend.
I planned to catch up on a number of things but I just . . . didn't. Mostly because I spent most of the time napping. I read some stuff, and then I fall asleep. Perhaps it was because I wasn't feeling very well on Friday -- you know it's going to be a bad afternoon when a headache appears out of nowhere and you get into the lift and it moves and your first thought is oh shit, I'm either going to faint or throw up while another three girls are looking at you worriedly, but luckily I didn't do either, or I would've been mortified for the rest of my life.
I can't figure out what triggered that episode. Probably a weird combination of cigarette smoke and someone's perfume (though usually both of those things are more likely to send me into a sneezing fit instead of causing a migraine), or heck, maybe it was the weather.
Well. In any case. Most things I wanted to do this weekend didn't go as planned. I'm already behind the January start for![[community profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
intro_to_cs; I didn't do anything last weekend either (not even Python installed, whoops!) so now it's two weeks I need to catch up with. I'll have to find time during the week for this.
Also I need to reply to emails and comments and write up some stuff but I'm already yawning. (Which really seems unfair considering the amount of time I spent sleeping.) Tomorrow, maybe?
I planned to catch up on a number of things but I just . . . didn't. Mostly because I spent most of the time napping. I read some stuff, and then I fall asleep. Perhaps it was because I wasn't feeling very well on Friday -- you know it's going to be a bad afternoon when a headache appears out of nowhere and you get into the lift and it moves and your first thought is oh shit, I'm either going to faint or throw up while another three girls are looking at you worriedly, but luckily I didn't do either, or I would've been mortified for the rest of my life.
I can't figure out what triggered that episode. Probably a weird combination of cigarette smoke and someone's perfume (though usually both of those things are more likely to send me into a sneezing fit instead of causing a migraine), or heck, maybe it was the weather.
Well. In any case. Most things I wanted to do this weekend didn't go as planned. I'm already behind the January start for
intro_to_cs; I didn't do anything last weekend either (not even Python installed, whoops!) so now it's two weeks I need to catch up with. I'll have to find time during the week for this. Also I need to reply to emails and comments and write up some stuff but I'm already yawning. (Which really seems unfair considering the amount of time I spent sleeping.) Tomorrow, maybe?
Wow. I wrote one (1) piece of fanfic the entire year. I didn't think of this earlier, but with all the 2009 recap posts I've been seeing, I began wondering what did I do the whole of last year, fanworks-related, and . . . there you go.
It's this one: On the Precipiece of the World; Final Fantasy X, about 6,400 words. And it was for Final Fantasy Exchange. If I hadn't participated in that, I would've written nothing.
I am boggled by this! Boggled!
A few minutes have passed . . . and I am still boggled.
. . .
Anyway. In other things: I got involved with Dreamwidth somewhat, and submitted two patches, both style-related. I still have one assigned bug to my name: #1813. Whoops. I keep saying I'd get that done, but I still haven't. I feel bad about it. I also have a style I keep "improving" on; I should really get it done with and submit it. And I should try something other than styles, really. One thing I wanted to do was learn Perl, and I guess this year would be a good time for that.
I also got dragged into tag wrangling for AO3, which is surprising addictive. Probably even more addictive than code, imagine that! Though it has managed to get me curious about what happens behind the scenes -- I'm tempted to go over and volunteer myself as a coder. But! I am torn! Because I can't learn too many things at one go, and they use Ruby and I already promised myself I'd do more for Dreamwidth. Hmmmmm.
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I went around and subscribed to a number of people that I've been seeing around and I think are awesome! If you came by to see who is this![[personal profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
yati who has this sudden interest in you -- that would be me. Hello!
It's this one: On the Precipiece of the World; Final Fantasy X, about 6,400 words. And it was for Final Fantasy Exchange. If I hadn't participated in that, I would've written nothing.
I am boggled by this! Boggled!
A few minutes have passed . . . and I am still boggled.
. . .
Anyway. In other things: I got involved with Dreamwidth somewhat, and submitted two patches, both style-related. I still have one assigned bug to my name: #1813. Whoops. I keep saying I'd get that done, but I still haven't. I feel bad about it. I also have a style I keep "improving" on; I should really get it done with and submit it. And I should try something other than styles, really. One thing I wanted to do was learn Perl, and I guess this year would be a good time for that.
I also got dragged into tag wrangling for AO3, which is surprising addictive. Probably even more addictive than code, imagine that! Though it has managed to get me curious about what happens behind the scenes -- I'm tempted to go over and volunteer myself as a coder. But! I am torn! Because I can't learn too many things at one go, and they use Ruby and I already promised myself I'd do more for Dreamwidth. Hmmmmm.
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I went around and subscribed to a number of people that I've been seeing around and I think are awesome! If you came by to see who is this
yati who has this sudden interest in you -- that would be me. Hello!Ten Yuletide recs, with tl;dr fangirly useful canon information for each because you need to read these books:
( recs for The Dalemark Quartet (Diana Wynne Jones), The Gentleman Bastard Sequence (Scott Lynch), The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood), I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith), Malay literature, Matilda (Roald Dahl), To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis), Sunshine (2007 movie) )
I have a few more fics and fandoms, but I'll leave that for some other time. Oh. And AO3's bookmark feature is awesome; bookmark or rec at one go -- you don't even need posts like these, but of course we like long, rambly, off-tangent posts. This has been a "books you should read!" post almost as much as a fic rec post, but hey, sharing things you love is a good thing, right?
( recs for The Dalemark Quartet (Diana Wynne Jones), The Gentleman Bastard Sequence (Scott Lynch), The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood), I Capture the Castle (Dodie Smith), Malay literature, Matilda (Roald Dahl), To Say Nothing of the Dog (Connie Willis), Sunshine (2007 movie) )
I have a few more fics and fandoms, but I'll leave that for some other time. Oh. And AO3's bookmark feature is awesome; bookmark or rec at one go -- you don't even need posts like these, but of course we like long, rambly, off-tangent posts. This has been a "books you should read!" post almost as much as a fic rec post, but hey, sharing things you love is a good thing, right?
I bet no one is really interested in a list of books I read this year. So, instead, we'll have a post with pictures and toppling towers of books.
renay was talking over here about her resolution to read her height in books in 2010. I was impressed by this commitment (and also by how tall Renay is)! I totally want to do something like that but I had no idea how much I needed to read to reach my height. Out of curiosity, I stacked the books I read this year to see how tall the pile is. XD
( the leaning tower of books of 2009 )
renay was talking over here about her resolution to read her height in books in 2010. I was impressed by this commitment (and also by how tall Renay is)! I totally want to do something like that but I had no idea how much I needed to read to reach my height. Out of curiosity, I stacked the books I read this year to see how tall the pile is. XD( the leaning tower of books of 2009 )
oooh bubble wrap! shiny!
Dec. 26th, 2009 07:08 pmThings somewhat related to the holiday season:
Yuletide fic exchange over at Archive of Our Own! I'm not participating, but it doesn't stop me from looking at the collection with glee. The archive was a bit slow and I felt bad refreshing the pages a million times, so I haven't really explored, but it seems to be faster now. Some of my tiny tiny fandoms are being represented! Also, unexpectedly (at least to me), there's one fic posted under "Malay Literature", which I think is pretty awesome. Though I do wish that the author had been more specific as to which bit of literature it's being written for; it seems terribly unfair that a whole range of stuff gets lumped under one fandom. (The archive can handle it being separated into distinct literary works instead being under that one heading. The thing is, will there be more fic? >.> As much glee as I have at seeing Malay lit being represented, I doubt I'd be writing any fic for it myself.)
It would be awesome if we had separate entries for Sejarah Melayu or Hikayat Hang Tuah. Or those things some of us (not me, I'm not young enough) had to read in class, like, um. I can't think of a single title. What did they make kid reads in school for the Malay lit component? I can't quite remember the title of the story my siblings kept complaining about. Or those fantasy novels by Ahmad Patria. Or, or, I don't know, one of those awful romance novels with ridiculous titles like Cinta Marisa that I'll never read, but I'll still be happy to see fic for it in the archive.
Or fic in Malay, even. Surely someone has given it a go?
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Spent a few nights frantically trying to finish some sewing projects, all of them gifts for friends and colleagues at the other office. We're sending them a gift box. They'll only arrive after Christmas, but that's ok. I managed to finish sewing these on Wednesday night, just in time, though I was knotting threads and trimming them during lunch at the office. XD
So. Boxy pencil case/pouch things are go (pictures are rather blurry; I was quite possibly rather sleep-deprived at that point):
( cut for pictures! )
Happy holidays, everyone!
Yuletide fic exchange over at Archive of Our Own! I'm not participating, but it doesn't stop me from looking at the collection with glee. The archive was a bit slow and I felt bad refreshing the pages a million times, so I haven't really explored, but it seems to be faster now. Some of my tiny tiny fandoms are being represented! Also, unexpectedly (at least to me), there's one fic posted under "Malay Literature", which I think is pretty awesome. Though I do wish that the author had been more specific as to which bit of literature it's being written for; it seems terribly unfair that a whole range of stuff gets lumped under one fandom. (The archive can handle it being separated into distinct literary works instead being under that one heading. The thing is, will there be more fic? >.> As much glee as I have at seeing Malay lit being represented, I doubt I'd be writing any fic for it myself.)
It would be awesome if we had separate entries for Sejarah Melayu or Hikayat Hang Tuah. Or those things some of us (not me, I'm not young enough) had to read in class, like, um. I can't think of a single title. What did they make kid reads in school for the Malay lit component? I can't quite remember the title of the story my siblings kept complaining about. Or those fantasy novels by Ahmad Patria. Or, or, I don't know, one of those awful romance novels with ridiculous titles like Cinta Marisa that I'll never read, but I'll still be happy to see fic for it in the archive.
Or fic in Malay, even. Surely someone has given it a go?
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Spent a few nights frantically trying to finish some sewing projects, all of them gifts for friends and colleagues at the other office. We're sending them a gift box. They'll only arrive after Christmas, but that's ok. I managed to finish sewing these on Wednesday night, just in time, though I was knotting threads and trimming them during lunch at the office. XD
So. Boxy pencil case/pouch things are go (pictures are rather blurry; I was quite possibly rather sleep-deprived at that point):
( cut for pictures! )
Happy holidays, everyone!
The point of to-do lists is getting things done. This has not been working lately.
Dec. 15th, 2009 11:27 pm. . . You know, even with Dreamwidth's subscribe without giving access thing, I'm still afraid of subscribing to people. (This has nothing to do with how Dreamwidth does things -- it's just me and my insecurities.) Why am I so absurd.
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Completely unrelated: things I must (must must must) do by the end of the week:
1. Dreamwidth patch for bug 1813! If you're wondering why you still don't have an option to display your userpic on the left or the right of your entry/comment, it's because of me hogging this bug and taking forever to complete it. Even if I don't finish and submit it by this week, at least I should get more done for it! Geez. I had this lofty idea, once, that maybe I could work on submitting one patch a week, since I pick up the reasonably easy bugs. 1813 is reasonable easy if you know CSS (and I do know CSS and I'm not really intimidated by the bug) but we have so many styles it just takes forever. I should at least get the Tabula Rasa–based ones done so I can submit that part of the patch! . . . And then stay away from CSS bugs. XD
2. Tag wrangling-y things for AO3. I have more claimed fandoms to my name now but not many of those are fandoms with existing fic, and I doubt there'll be much fic for it even for Yuletide. But I really should check what's already there. And upload my own fics. Hee.
I felt like there were more things, but I can't recall them. Ah well. Two is a good number.
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Oh, LJ. Since the commit has been rolled back, I'll just shut up about it. (Still! Impressive back-paddling!)
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Completely unrelated: things I must (must must must) do by the end of the week:
1. Dreamwidth patch for bug 1813! If you're wondering why you still don't have an option to display your userpic on the left or the right of your entry/comment, it's because of me hogging this bug and taking forever to complete it. Even if I don't finish and submit it by this week, at least I should get more done for it! Geez. I had this lofty idea, once, that maybe I could work on submitting one patch a week, since I pick up the reasonably easy bugs. 1813 is reasonable easy if you know CSS (and I do know CSS and I'm not really intimidated by the bug) but we have so many styles it just takes forever. I should at least get the Tabula Rasa–based ones done so I can submit that part of the patch! . . . And then stay away from CSS bugs. XD
2. Tag wrangling-y things for AO3. I have more claimed fandoms to my name now but not many of those are fandoms with existing fic, and I doubt there'll be much fic for it even for Yuletide. But I really should check what's already there. And upload my own fics. Hee.
I felt like there were more things, but I can't recall them. Ah well. Two is a good number.
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Oh, LJ. Since the commit has been rolled back, I'll just shut up about it. (Still! Impressive back-paddling!)
welcome to the internetz!
Dec. 6th, 2009 09:43 pmHey guys! Anyone got any Harry Potter femslash recs? Hermione/Ginny would be nice, but anything well-written and enjoyable will do. I need to spam someone with those. XD XD
Why? Here's an IM conversation, edited for sanity's sake, and posted with the other party's full consent, heh.
( I can't believe you didn't know about fanfic. I should have educated you sooner. )
A lot of flailing around ensued. And then I tried to pitch Archive of Our Own again. :P
Why? Here's an IM conversation, edited for sanity's sake, and posted with the other party's full consent, heh.
( I can't believe you didn't know about fanfic. I should have educated you sooner. )
A lot of flailing around ensued. And then I tried to pitch Archive of Our Own again. :P
Good grief. I came home from work feeling exhausted for no real reason, and took a nap that lasted four hours. I just woke up about half an hour ago -- now it's about twenty to midnight. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to fall asleep tonight.
Uh. Anyway. So. I am now wrangling tags for AO3. It is Renay's fault, as always. ♥ Everyone! Go request an invite! The queue looks pretty long, but you'll get to the front reasonably fast.
I've claimed the Lymond Chronicles (yeah, yeah, I know) which right now has only two fics in the fandom. Post more Lymond fics, people! Well, probably no one reading this post is even reading the books, let alone writing for them, but! Oh well. At least now I have bothrenay and ![[livejournal.com profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
arianur starting the first book! Though I was just flipping through The Game of Kings last night and found myself shaking my head -- I'll be lucky if they don't run for cover by the time Lymond utters his first line. It made no sense whatsoever to me the first time I read it. XD
Also pre-emptively claimed the House of Niccolò series, assuming fic about that gets posted. (It was in the Yuletide request list! I still have hope!)
I'm also wrangling the tags for Xenosaga. Xenosaga is, um, a bit of a strange choice -- I'm familiar with the canon and comfortable with all the PS2 games, and I know where to go to look up information about the characters, even those in the DS/cellphone/whatever platform games I've never played (plus manga, which exists but I've never read, plus anime, which I did watch and wasn't very impressed by it), but I know nothing of the fandom itself. Never bothered with the fandom, really, so whatever conventions it has completely escapes me right now.
So I am adopting it for now, and if anyone more knowledgeable comes by and wants it, I'll be happy to hand it over.
Uh. Anyway. So. I am now wrangling tags for AO3. It is Renay's fault, as always. ♥ Everyone! Go request an invite! The queue looks pretty long, but you'll get to the front reasonably fast.
I've claimed the Lymond Chronicles (yeah, yeah, I know) which right now has only two fics in the fandom. Post more Lymond fics, people! Well, probably no one reading this post is even reading the books, let alone writing for them, but! Oh well. At least now I have both
renay and arianur starting the first book! Though I was just flipping through The Game of Kings last night and found myself shaking my head -- I'll be lucky if they don't run for cover by the time Lymond utters his first line. It made no sense whatsoever to me the first time I read it. XDAlso pre-emptively claimed the House of Niccolò series, assuming fic about that gets posted. (It was in the Yuletide request list! I still have hope!)
I'm also wrangling the tags for Xenosaga. Xenosaga is, um, a bit of a strange choice -- I'm familiar with the canon and comfortable with all the PS2 games, and I know where to go to look up information about the characters, even those in the DS/cellphone/whatever platform games I've never played (plus manga, which exists but I've never read, plus anime, which I did watch and wasn't very impressed by it), but I know nothing of the fandom itself. Never bothered with the fandom, really, so whatever conventions it has completely escapes me right now.
So I am adopting it for now, and if anyone more knowledgeable comes by and wants it, I'll be happy to hand it over.
If you forgave me for that horrible print_entry funtion, you can forgive me of anything.
Nov. 29th, 2009 07:50 pmEeeeh. I wonder why people are still asking me whether they can use Flexible Squares at Dreamwidth. (For, um, anyone who joined the party late and never made the connection, I created and submitted Flexible Squares for the style contest at LiveJournal ages ago, and it was made into a system style over at LJ.)
I have nothing against anyone using the style at Dreamwidth. Or anywhere else, for that matter. It's just this: with all the styles Dreamwidth currently has, and the flexibility of Core 2/Tabula Rasa, you don't need Flexible Squares. It's old news. Completely outdated. Can be thrown out of the window and fed to sharks. (Also its default is in ugly blue/grey colours.)
. . . I am tempted to fiddle with the CSS for Core 2 and coming up with something that looks exactly like Flexible Squares, just to prove my point. Well, just CSS won't be enough, but it won't take up to over 1,000 lines of S2 like last time.
. . . Then people will be asking why the CSS they've been using over at LJ doesn't work here. XD You just can't win this one, I guess. There's no way I'll use some of the class names we had for FS. I was young and not very bright then. I am still not very competent with CSS now, to be honest.
Uh. Let me finish bug 1813 first, and that style still in limbo in![[site community profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png)
dreamscapes, before getting grandiose ideas.
I have nothing against anyone using the style at Dreamwidth. Or anywhere else, for that matter. It's just this: with all the styles Dreamwidth currently has, and the flexibility of Core 2/Tabula Rasa, you don't need Flexible Squares. It's old news. Completely outdated. Can be thrown out of the window and fed to sharks. (Also its default is in ugly blue/grey colours.)
. . . I am tempted to fiddle with the CSS for Core 2 and coming up with something that looks exactly like Flexible Squares, just to prove my point. Well, just CSS won't be enough, but it won't take up to over 1,000 lines of S2 like last time.
. . . Then people will be asking why the CSS they've been using over at LJ doesn't work here. XD You just can't win this one, I guess. There's no way I'll use some of the class names we had for FS. I was young and not very bright then. I am still not very competent with CSS now, to be honest.
Uh. Let me finish bug 1813 first, and that style still in limbo in
dreamscapes, before getting grandiose ideas.I've never been much of a reader of historical fiction. Most of the problem came from the fact that I didn't have much grounding in world history; it seemed like my education began with the ancient civilisations and skipped straight to World War II. (Well, the Renaissance was in there somewhere, I vaguely recall the pictures in the textbooks, but it went by very fast and didn't grab me much.)
Then came Dorothy Dunnett. I read her Lymond Chronicles and loved the books, and The Game of Kings, the first book in the series, is one of my favourite books ever. But that story (or the retelling of it) is for another time.
I started her House of Niccolò series this year. The series is a prequel to the Lymond Chronicles, following the adventures of one Nicholas de Fleury, an ancestor of Lymond in mid-fifteenth century Europe, who started as a lowly apprentice and rose to become a merchant trusted by kings. ( I spent almost ten months, on and off, reading these books. )
What can I say? The lady was a magnificent writer.
Below are some thoughts about the series, and some knee-jerk reactions especially to the last book, Gemini, since it's fresh in mind and I am somewhat boggled about a number of things. They are not in any particular sequence. None of them are very coherent.
( spoilers for both House of Niccolò and the Lymond Chronicles )
Then came Dorothy Dunnett. I read her Lymond Chronicles and loved the books, and The Game of Kings, the first book in the series, is one of my favourite books ever. But that story (or the retelling of it) is for another time.
I started her House of Niccolò series this year. The series is a prequel to the Lymond Chronicles, following the adventures of one Nicholas de Fleury, an ancestor of Lymond in mid-fifteenth century Europe, who started as a lowly apprentice and rose to become a merchant trusted by kings. ( I spent almost ten months, on and off, reading these books. )
What can I say? The lady was a magnificent writer.
Below are some thoughts about the series, and some knee-jerk reactions especially to the last book, Gemini, since it's fresh in mind and I am somewhat boggled about a number of things. They are not in any particular sequence. None of them are very coherent.
( spoilers for both House of Niccolò and the Lymond Chronicles )
I hate my internet connection. Hate hate hate. I have lost count how many times it has fizzled out today. Even when it was working, it was pretty damn slow, but I am already too pissed off at my current service provider to upgrade to a better account. The one that I have now is not supposed to be bad. And rumour has it that the upgrade doesn't do much anyway.
Waiting for the connection to come back so that I can access web pages is bad enough, but bearable. The intermittent connection killing my SSH sessions and disconnecting me from IRC -- that is just evil. Especially getting disconnected from the SSH session. ARGH. I was doing something, damn it.
(. . . What the heck, the connection died again as I was typing this. This is why I draft everything elsewhere.)
Sigh. Let's see if we can balance this with some good news. Here we go:
Why are weekends so short! The other weekend projects listed in last post are definitely doomed.
askjhfldhff;;; The connection died again just before I hit post. Did I mention that I hate my internet connection. Yeah.
Waiting for the connection to come back so that I can access web pages is bad enough, but bearable. The intermittent connection killing my SSH sessions and disconnecting me from IRC -- that is just evil. Especially getting disconnected from the SSH session. ARGH. I was doing something, damn it.
(. . . What the heck, the connection died again as I was typing this. This is why I draft everything elsewhere.)
Sigh. Let's see if we can balance this with some good news. Here we go:
- I now have an Archive of Our Own account! If you need a reason why you should support the effort, it's this: FANDOM OWNS THE SERVERS. That has to be the most awesome thing ever. You can request for invites here.
- I finally managed to upload the patch for bug 1886 and made a bit more progress with bug 1813 before the internet connection went nuts. Damn you internet connection!
- Uh. Off the internet, I've managed to potter around the garden a bit and trimmed some of the wayward looking plants, so the garden looks a bit tidier. It won't last with all the rain we're having, but I can live with that.
Why are weekends so short! The other weekend projects listed in last post are definitely doomed.
askjhfldhff;;; The connection died again just before I hit post. Did I mention that I hate my internet connection. Yeah.
Will things get done this weekend? That, friends and neighbours, is the burning question.
Nov. 14th, 2009 12:15 amI do not understand why people punctuate sentences with LOL. Well, to be fair, I guess people don't understand why I end my sentences with XD either. But every other sentence? Why? It's not that there is anything particularly funny in the post.
I sound snippy. Sigh. I guess I've been feeling slightly down these days, cause undetermined. I feel vaguely distressed over a number of things (and the fact that I can't even pinpoint what it is that's troubling me troubles me even more) and then I keep thinking, why am I being silly over things I can do nothing about? And I end up getting more upset. Yeah. Someone knock me out of this stupid loop.
Today is Friday, Friday, Friday. (. . . And now it's Saturday. I take way too long to draft posts.) I have so many things I want to do I end up doing none of them.
What I keep planning to do:
Archive of Our Own open beta starts soon! Isn't that grand!
I sound snippy. Sigh. I guess I've been feeling slightly down these days, cause undetermined. I feel vaguely distressed over a number of things (and the fact that I can't even pinpoint what it is that's troubling me troubles me even more) and then I keep thinking, why am I being silly over things I can do nothing about? And I end up getting more upset. Yeah. Someone knock me out of this stupid loop.
Today is Friday, Friday, Friday. (. . . And now it's Saturday. I take way too long to draft posts.) I have so many things I want to do I end up doing none of them.
What I keep planning to do:
- Upload that patch for bug 1816 again. I can't even get this simple thing properly submitted. Sheesh. (This actually needs tweaks. There have been themes -- well, at least one theme; I am horribly behind in everything -- added for Negatives, so I might as well set colours for those as well.)
- Work on bug 1813. There is progress here, I swear. (I should try non-styles things next. Try to pick up more Perl. Spend some time actually going through tutorials.)
- Finish Dorothy Dunnett's Gemini, because otherwise I'll never go to bed on time. (Damn you, Nicholas.)
- Write a book review, or two, or three. (I've been saying this since when, now?)
- Finish sewing that curtain. (Yes, it is still on my floor.)
- Replay Final Fantasy XII.
- Write fic!
Archive of Our Own open beta starts soon! Isn't that grand!
This hasn't been a very good week.
I've had a persistent sore throat that doesn't seem to want to go away no matter what I do, and it makes me feel as if I'm about to come down with a flu. Ergh. No amount of gargling or throat lozenges is doing the trick -- this might mean a visit to the clinic. :(
I've been coming home from work feeling tired and out of sorts, and I've been getting nothing done the last week. Lack of motivation: check. It's been so bad that I'm not even doing the simple things that can be done in minutes, like generating the diff for a patch for bug 1886. (It's already done -- the work is all there. I just need to generate the patch again because of, uh, I'm not entirely sure what happened, probably some Unfortunate Event between ftp-ing it over and uploading it to Bugzilla. Alas.)
( work stuff, end of year appraisals )
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Reading-wise: I've finished Stephen Hunt's The Court of the Air, which I didn't like very much. It's the first book in a series. This is rather unfortunate, because I was recommended the second book in the series, The Kingdom Beyond the Waves, and I thought I might as well start from the beginning. I'll try post a longer write-up for it later.
Kind of hit a snag in reading Dorothy Dunnett's Gemini -- it's sitting on my desk waiting for me to pick it up again.
Nanowrimo: as predicted, it is going nowhere. (For the curious, the total wordcount is now 0. If it was possible for it to be a negative number, it would be one.)
I've had a persistent sore throat that doesn't seem to want to go away no matter what I do, and it makes me feel as if I'm about to come down with a flu. Ergh. No amount of gargling or throat lozenges is doing the trick -- this might mean a visit to the clinic. :(
I've been coming home from work feeling tired and out of sorts, and I've been getting nothing done the last week. Lack of motivation: check. It's been so bad that I'm not even doing the simple things that can be done in minutes, like generating the diff for a patch for bug 1886. (It's already done -- the work is all there. I just need to generate the patch again because of, uh, I'm not entirely sure what happened, probably some Unfortunate Event between ftp-ing it over and uploading it to Bugzilla. Alas.)
( work stuff, end of year appraisals )
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Reading-wise: I've finished Stephen Hunt's The Court of the Air, which I didn't like very much. It's the first book in a series. This is rather unfortunate, because I was recommended the second book in the series, The Kingdom Beyond the Waves, and I thought I might as well start from the beginning. I'll try post a longer write-up for it later.
Kind of hit a snag in reading Dorothy Dunnett's Gemini -- it's sitting on my desk waiting for me to pick it up again.
Nanowrimo: as predicted, it is going nowhere. (For the curious, the total wordcount is now 0. If it was possible for it to be a negative number, it would be one.)
In which there is an end-of-week update.
Nov. 1st, 2009 11:46 pmAnd it's a Sunday night!
This week I was supposed to do some sewing (curtains -- will have to explain in another post) and work on bug 1813. Not much progress on the bug; I was doing the fixes alphabetically and right now I am still at, uh, Bases. Yay progress? But I did Tabula Rasa first, honest! So that all the layouts based on it will have the icon placement thing fixed or partially fixed. Perhaps I should submit the ones I'm done with first.
I probably shouldn't have picked something so CSS-y, huh. Not my strongest suit, CSS.
As for the curtain, no progress on it at all! It's still on my floor, alas.
I worked on my own layout for a bit, based on some feedback I received, and ended up making some modifications of my own. I'm beginning to dislike the colours, which probably means I've been looking at it too long, XD.
Other things I've been up to: I've been reading the House of Nicolò books and have finished book seven, Caprice and Rondo. I started the last book, Gemini, but I have been rather slow at getting through it, mainly because Caprice and Rondo ended on a somewhat happy note and while there are tons of things unresolved, I'm just glad that the main characters are reconciled about a number of things. Also the writing in Gemini seems a bit more low key and toned down -- I don't feel like I need to rush through it as I did for the other books.
Re-watched Howl's Moving Castle (the Miyazaki movie) with my brother, who hasn't seen it, and now I feel like rereading the book. I love the movie -- it's so pretty! -- but I'll always love the book better.
I had also just realised, with dawning horror, that November is here and I have signed up for Nanowrimo and I have nothing to write! I don't know what foolishness makes me attempt to write 50,000 words year after year. We'll see where this will go. (My prediction is nowhere.)
This week I was supposed to do some sewing (curtains -- will have to explain in another post) and work on bug 1813. Not much progress on the bug; I was doing the fixes alphabetically and right now I am still at, uh, Bases. Yay progress? But I did Tabula Rasa first, honest! So that all the layouts based on it will have the icon placement thing fixed or partially fixed. Perhaps I should submit the ones I'm done with first.
I probably shouldn't have picked something so CSS-y, huh. Not my strongest suit, CSS.
As for the curtain, no progress on it at all! It's still on my floor, alas.
I worked on my own layout for a bit, based on some feedback I received, and ended up making some modifications of my own. I'm beginning to dislike the colours, which probably means I've been looking at it too long, XD.
Other things I've been up to: I've been reading the House of Nicolò books and have finished book seven, Caprice and Rondo. I started the last book, Gemini, but I have been rather slow at getting through it, mainly because Caprice and Rondo ended on a somewhat happy note and while there are tons of things unresolved, I'm just glad that the main characters are reconciled about a number of things. Also the writing in Gemini seems a bit more low key and toned down -- I don't feel like I need to rush through it as I did for the other books.
Re-watched Howl's Moving Castle (the Miyazaki movie) with my brother, who hasn't seen it, and now I feel like rereading the book. I love the movie -- it's so pretty! -- but I'll always love the book better.
I had also just realised, with dawning horror, that November is here and I have signed up for Nanowrimo and I have nothing to write! I don't know what foolishness makes me attempt to write 50,000 words year after year. We'll see where this will go. (My prediction is nowhere.)
In which I am thwarted by dusty books.
Oct. 27th, 2009 09:30 pmI think I'm having an allergic reaction to the book I'm reading.
No, seriously. I got it from a used book store and it's dusty and looks slightly icky and if the microwave still worked I would've considered putting it in to kill germs and stuff, but it isn't so I can't, so now I am stuck reading a slightly icky looking book. I started sneezing the moment I started reading it -- you would've thought that the dust of centuries were upon it.
Now I have a sore throat and an itchy nose.
Dangerous hobby, reading. Who knew.
(For the curious, the book is Caprice and Rondo by Dorothy Dunnett, in which I spend a lot of time feeling like I'd like to throttle the main character, despite him being fascinating and clever and all. I have been doing this for six books, people! Someone should come join me.)
No, seriously. I got it from a used book store and it's dusty and looks slightly icky and if the microwave still worked I would've considered putting it in to kill germs and stuff, but it isn't so I can't, so now I am stuck reading a slightly icky looking book. I started sneezing the moment I started reading it -- you would've thought that the dust of centuries were upon it.
Now I have a sore throat and an itchy nose.
Dangerous hobby, reading. Who knew.
(For the curious, the book is Caprice and Rondo by Dorothy Dunnett, in which I spend a lot of time feeling like I'd like to throttle the main character, despite him being fascinating and clever and all. I have been doing this for six books, people! Someone should come join me.)
let's read for twenty-four hours!
Oct. 24th, 2009 07:47 pmSo. I'm participating in Dewey's Read-a-thon, which simply means I will be stuck in a nook somewhere, reading, for the next twenty-four hours. Official start is in less than an hour!
Here's a list of books I might read in the next twenty-four hours:
( a list of books! )
I won't be posting hourly updates -- it's more likely I'll update using Twitter, and probably add comments to this post instead of making new posts.
Fifteen minutes to go!
(The only downside to this is I won't have time for bug fixing *looks at bug 1886 woefully* but I'll try to get it done by tomorrow night. It's mostly done, but done in the wrong places, heh. It shouldn't take much work to get it fixed, I think.)
P/S: OpenID works on Dreamwidth -- you can log in with your blog's URL if you're using a blogging service that supports OpenID, like Blogger and WordPress. :D
Here's a list of books I might read in the next twenty-four hours:
( a list of books! )
I won't be posting hourly updates -- it's more likely I'll update using Twitter, and probably add comments to this post instead of making new posts.
Fifteen minutes to go!
(The only downside to this is I won't have time for bug fixing *looks at bug 1886 woefully* but I'll try to get it done by tomorrow night. It's mostly done, but done in the wrong places, heh. It shouldn't take much work to get it fixed, I think.)
P/S: OpenID works on Dreamwidth -- you can log in with your blog's URL if you're using a blogging service that supports OpenID, like Blogger and WordPress. :D
I always feel mildly benevolent towards Thursday nights. Mainly because the next day is Friday so I don't feel too guilty about staying up late, XD. I know the logic's flawed (I still need to get up early to go to work on Fridays), but there you go.
. . . And now it's Friday morning, and I haven't managed to finish drafting this post. XD Oh well. My kindly feelings towards Thursday nights will have to be expounded upon some other time.
. . . And now it's Friday morning, and I haven't managed to finish drafting this post. XD Oh well. My kindly feelings towards Thursday nights will have to be expounded upon some other time.
Weekends are for sewing projects!
Oct. 18th, 2009 10:29 amUrgh. I have a sore throat and a red nose and watery eyes from sneezing too much last night. It's obviously an allergic reaction to something, but I can't figure out what.
Anyway. It messed up with my plans to play with code yesterday, but at least I managed to finish the bag I was making for my aunt!
( pictures of an orange bag )
I think I'll give bug 1813 a go a bit later. And maybe check and see whether there are still things indreamscapes to do.
. . . Also fix my own layout I have there for submission. I keep thinking I should change some things before starting to convert it proper, but I keep putting it off. It seems like I'm having more fun poking stuff other people made than fixing my own!
Edit: ooh oh oh, I forgot to mention this! My first patch got committed this week! There was a lot of squeeing going on because of this XD.
Anyway. It messed up with my plans to play with code yesterday, but at least I managed to finish the bag I was making for my aunt!
( pictures of an orange bag )
I think I'll give bug 1813 a go a bit later. And maybe check and see whether there are still things in
dreamscapes to do.. . . Also fix my own layout I have there for submission. I keep thinking I should change some things before starting to convert it proper, but I keep putting it off. It seems like I'm having more fun poking stuff other people made than fixing my own!
Edit: ooh oh oh, I forgot to mention this! My first patch got committed this week! There was a lot of squeeing going on because of this XD.
