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go get…you know

I hate Linux. Or Ubuntu. Or both. I’m sort-of mad at tAlex & Rob for letting me believe I might be smart enough for it. Yes, I know it was my choice to install it…but at present I’m being angry, irrational and frustrated. I believe my exact words to FD about the Linux-Ubuntu matter was “they can go get fucked with rusty razor blades”. Sadly, not my expression. I did extend the metaphor to say I would crawl back (to L-U) like the pathetic significant other I am, despite it having slept with my hotter older sister. FD said ‘wait - did you just mention a hot sister?’. Sorry, dear, I don’t really.

(does that make Windows the comfortable, vanilla significant other I ‘turn to’ who’s filthy rich with whom I’m not in love…?)

Digression: clearly, I’m not smart enough.

Perhaps when I’m not quite so pissed off I shall attempt to Google and fix my (tech-related) problems. Though Googling how to set up a wireless network proved fruitless.

Anyway, yesterday. Drove for 2 hours for my second dress fitting. The dressmaker told me I sound posh on the phone. Hmm. That’s funny, seeing as she’s British. The dress is strapless, makes me look like I’m, um, well-endowed, and is red satin. It’s actually going to be nice when finished, I think. This translates as ‘rewearable’ unlike the last wedding monstrosity I had to wear as a bridesmaid.

Played Guitar Hero at my workmate’s for the first time ever. Apparently a beginner girl isn’t allowed to beat boys. I want to play more. It is ace. I also drank Victoria Bitter for the first time in ages. I shan’t be repeating that experience again. In case you missed it the first time: Guitar Hero is ace. I don’t get how I managed to beat boys: usually I suck at computer/video games.

Neighbour and I went to get Urban Burger…but it closed early due to unforeseen circumstances! It can’t do that! In his words, we sat down outside, like two lost souls before eventually wandering across the road for nasi lemak (which is much nicer on the plate than in a takeaway container). For some odd reason watched the second half of In Her Shoes instead of heading out with workmates to get sloshed…

After all of next door went to bed, I did at least four hours worth of poetry reading and my inbox is still not empty! Ugh! I also did not get to read yesterday’s paper. Don’t remember the last time I read the paper…bad nerd.

Today - brunch at the Hot Poppy in my hood with DF. We both had poached eggs with hollandaise sauce and pancetta, served on English muffins. It came with half an avocado, slivers of which I sneakily ate (I love avocado, my stomach does not) Gave him his copy of Snow, Glass, Apples, drank Turkish fruit teas and listened to music that my housemates would otherwise consider ‘noise’ (well, only one such artist - Bauhaus).

The kegs have been empty since Friday afternoon. I’m not quite sure how I managed to survive.

I think I might go (and) get*…one of those horrendous quad monster burgers people have been talking about after ‘Bela Lugosi Is Dead’ by Bauhaus is finished playing.

*You see what I did there? I employed a literary device. I started with the words “go get…” in the title and ended with the same words in the last sentence. J-P would remember, Mr Ryan taught us that in English class (final year of high school)

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deflowered!

So…I’m back from my first ever MTUB gathering and I had a fantastic time! I can’t believe how friendly everyone was!

I first arrived at the Fad Gallery in Chinatown, Melbourne and had no idea where my fellow Twitterers were supposed to be…so I asked at the bar. They looked thoroughly perplexed which is never a good sign, so I decided I would try approaching a group of people that looked like they might be the people I was looking for…

Luckily for me I found the right group of people and was warmly welcomed and got myself the first of many gin and tonics. I found that I was in excellent company - many loved the xkcd tee I was wearing (the ‘just shy’ one). I did my best to talk to as many people as I possibly could and passed around a piece of paper so that I could jot down everyone’s Twitter nicknames and follow them there.

After much wonderful conversation, we headed out to a Chinese restaurant, stuffed ourselves stupid then headed back to the Fad Gallery for a couple more drinks before most of us retired knowing that there was the drudgery of work the following day. Many snickered upon inviting me out to see the X-Files film tomorrow night, which I very reluctantly turned down due to band practice! As you can well imagine, there was much mirth when they found out I played the flute (thank you American Pie).

But yeah, what a freaking awesome idea. I can’t wait till the next MTUB. And yes, I did check out Google Street View and am suitably freaked out!

So yeah, I had a wonderful time and am grinning like a Cheshire cat. Course, that could be all the gin and tonics I had…

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how do I heart nerds

Let me count the ways…

A transcript from a conversation between myself and FD.

(9:18:09 PM) Gem: dude i’m too depressed for beer. what’s that about?
(9:18:52 PM) Felicidade: You have good self-control - I’d be straight on the piss
(9:19:02 PM) Gem: hahahaha usually i am!
(9:19:13 PM) Gem: this last month i’ve drunk SO much
(9:19:22 PM) Gem: even at the pub i was…well-behaved, haha
(9:20:02 PM) Felicidade: Didn’t notice. Feeling worse than usual are you?
(9:20:15 PM) Gem: i don’t think so. it’s just no one’s home
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(9:21:56 PM) Felicidade: Sorry, gotta go and eat Tim’s excellent cooking.
(9:22:03 PM) Felicidade: Be back soon
(9:22:07 PM) Gem: ooh lucky. kk
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(10:27:35 PM) Felicidade: Gemma! I’m back again.
(10:27:41 PM) Gem: yea! felicidade!
(10:27:44 PM) Gem: welcome back
(10:28:17 PM) Felicidade: You too!
(10:28:27 PM) Gem: *giggle*
(10:28:30 PM) Gem: what was din-dins?
(10:29:29 PM) Felicidade: Beef and rice noodles
(10:29:44 PM) Gem: ooh nice
(10:31:18 PM) Felicidade: you?
(10:31:51 PM) Gem: leftovers from lunch. it was some pastry spinach and cheese thing, very nice
(10:32:39 PM) Felicidade: cool. What’s on the agenda now?
(10:32:51 PM) Gem: not much, listening to radiohead
(10:32:59 PM) Gem: chatting to a friend online
(10:33:02 PM) Felicidade: Huh. Cool
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(11:14:05 PM) Gem: night Felix! thanks for chatting! xxx
(11:14:47 PM) Felicidade: No prob - a good way of honing my Dvorak skills
(11:14:54 PM) Gem: HAHAHAHAHAHAA
(11:15:06 PM) Felicidade: Good night!
(11:15:09 PM) Gem: night!

In case you’re wondering, Dvorak is an alternative keyboard setup. No, seriously, this really cracked me up. God I love my nerd friends, they are just so awesome in so many ways.

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We love you Rob

Well, I do for several reasons, but this is for a very specific reason, and I am sorely glad that Thoughtfix alerted me to this very important day…

System Administration Appreciation Day

http://www.sysadminday.com/ (sadly, this day has passed in Australia, but better late than never, eh?)

You can also read Cory Doctorow’s story about sysadmins…ruling the world, hehe.

Love your sysadmin! They deserve it!

Thanks Rob for all your awesome geekery and genius, u11 loves your work!

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hijacked!

My blog proper, which I should declare dead, was hijacked! I was informed of this when a friend of mine said he did a Google search for my blog because he hadn’t yet saved it as a bookmark. I did a Google search and lo and behold, it said visiting this site might harm your computer.

Turns out Snarkattack proper was hijacked and I found posts that I’d never published about stupid polyphonic ringtones.

Thankfully, I had my awesome sysadmin housie to fix all the mess that was created! Man am I ever lucky (thanks Rob!)! Guess I better get ready for work and brush all the knots out of my hair.

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NaBloPoMo day 10

I’d like to know why strangers are following me on Twitter! I think it’s kind of nice, but I don’t fancy myself as being very interesting and yet people seem to be adding my Twitter feed to theirs to follow. As an exercise in positivity, I think it’s going remarkably well. I do read back on it and see that I largely tend to focus on the good, fun things I’ve done in the day, and even if the day hasn’t gone so well, I’ll try really hard to record something nice that happened. Yea me, haha.
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frustration

I’m trying to listen to music on last.fm and not having much luck thanks to its update not downloading and installing properly.

I can’t uninstall it, meaning I can’t reinstall it and it’s not scrobbling (saving a history/list of tracks I listen to) properly. Thoroughly pissed off. Sigh, I’ll just have to wait till I move out and have my future housemate/good tech geek pal look at it and see if he can fix it for me.

If anyone else has any tips on what I could do, send ‘em my way, I’m all ears.

And I don’t care what my ex says, Joy Division rock. Of course, I haven’t heard as much of it as he did so that might account for my attitude (congrats on the new job too Z if you’re reading).

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favicons!

You will now notice that Grace Notes has its own favicon!

What is a favicon? Check beloved Wikipedia for their entry. I owe this favicon and the one on Snarkattack proper to the work of a lovely lady who has her own blog, Singular Scene, which I have a link to.

The now infamous Nerd of My Dreams (NMD) was supposed to have designed one for me but sadly, he forgot and he has still to repair my awesome death metal tee which I’m sadly probably too much of a fattie to fit into, sob sob.

So yes, I’m quite excited about finally having favicons for both my blogs. Silly of me perhaps, but eh, they’re cute and I’m allowed. It did take a little bit of tweaking by my friend Rob to get them to appear. Thanks for the magic as usual, Rob!

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intelligence - c’est moi

Hopefully by the time this is readable, the problem I pray will be resolved thanks to the hands of some real tech people as opposed to hacks like myself.

I attempted to upgrade my blog software. The last time I performed this, I was successful but it was still quite stressful. However, this time I was not so successful thanks to the software somehow being downloaded and getting all corrupt (thank you Dee for the support forum links that told me this), installation wasn’t as smooth.
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taking it way back

You might recall me saying something about being a bit of a Nintendo lover. I just remembered that the reason I initially started buying the older games about two or so years back was because I couldn’t afford the latest console.

In one eBay lot, I paid 10 bucks for 10 ancient NES games - we’re talking so ancient they were older than me. One of them was called Dragon’s Lair and was, for me, impossible to play. As in, I couldn’t get past the first screen.

It was time for reinforcements. Serious reinforcements. Bring on my tech geek maestro pal Rob. If he can’t do it, no one can.
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variations on a theme

Amusingly, I read on a fellow NaBloPoMo participant’s blog that many blogs don’t have themes. Hmm. That might be…though admittedly I tend to prefer themed blogs, I find myself returning to read ones that aren’t themed.

But that isn’t quite the theme I’m referring to in the title of this post: I mean graphic theme, or layout one’s blog.
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this tech geek stuff is exhausting!

‘Twas truly a geeky day. I always get very excited when I login here and my admin panel thingie tells me that an absolute stranger had linked to me. Now I begin to understand that social blogging thing…(darn it Caro, where are you?!?)

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Wii, Wii, Wii?!?

It was a big mistake to begin the day by browsing through some toy catalogues that arrived as junk mail, methinks.

Yes, I’m 27. Yes, I’m female. Sadly, my interests are somewhat…diverse.

On the first page of the Toys-R-Us catalogue, there it was - the Holy Grail of Nintendo consoles (at least till the next one comes out): the Nintendo Wii on pre-order (cue Thus Spake Zarathustra by R. Strauss here).
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time capsule

Inspired by Jonathan Harris’ Yahoo! Time Capsule project. I actually submitted a photo - I wanted to submit two but I’d probably get into trouble for the second one, so I only sent one of the dear feline friend, under the category ‘Love’.

If you want to check it out, go here. It reminds me a lot of the UK blogging project where as many people as possible with ties to the UK were invited to submit a blog/diary entry and it gets housed in some British library. Yup, I submitted an entry.
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modern life is complicated rubbish

This year, I thought myself incredibly grown-up to have several superannuation funds I had from all over the place rolled into the one fund. It turns out that this current fund has closed my account as a result of inactivity and it has been transferred to the magic Unclaimed Fund Heaven, where all the little lost funds go.
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what the heck?

So I submitted this blog to yet another blog directory-type thingie and was told that it was refused on the basis that i. it was commercial ii. posting wasn’t frequent enough (at least twice a week) and iii. the URL to my blog wasn’t functional. Was it even checked by a human being?!
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slump

I’m sad. I’m angry. I’m…desolate. I swear it has something to do with my parents’ place. Spent most of the week elsewhere and was fine, even if a certain moron claims I need looking after. What would he know, his head’s too far up his own arse see reality as it is.
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glee! yep, again

Are the gods shining the nice light on me at the moment?! Well, they better not come too close lest my unruly Indian eyebrows scare them off!
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