August 31, 2005 at 9:31 am · Filed under Dreams, Thinking
The title is a side comment. I really do. I have this rosemary scented bodywash and after a shower the smell emanates through my apartment. It’s good to keep fresh rosemary on hand for smelling when you need a little pick me up. But really, my point today is to mention that I couldn’t fall asleep last night. I was expecting that as usually I would crash as soon as my head hit the pillow but I could not. My mind was racing. My thoughts were about dimensions. K this may be influenced by my bout with the sims, but what if we lead several lives? Not in the “I have multiple wives” sense, but if we were really able to switch our souls from one body to another where each body lived in different dimensions? Maybe my soul actually does this but my present body and mind is completely unaware of this :P Thinking about that, I wanted to switch dimensions to my other life where perhaps I would be hiking through a dense forest, instead of impatiently waiting for my body to fall asleep. I did manage to sleep though, always do. To some weird dreams but I cannot remember all of them. In one I left my apartment to wander around the neighborhood and there was a festival going on by the beach. I cursed myself for forgetting to attend the festival again this year (supposedly I did the same thing last summer) as I manoeuvred myself around drunks and revelers. I remember that as I walked through the streets, there was music playing, music that echoed from building to building and you could never get away from it. I think all it was was the guitar beat playing in the Graduate during the end “chase”… …in between the bits of Mrs. Robinson. Sometimes it became Simon and Garfunkels’ Cecilia. It was a weird dream, very surreal. I think I had a similar dream last summer, possibly when I missed the festival before.
Oh it’s hilarious, I’m still laughing at the short clipped played when I found my results of the “are you a baxter” quiz. My results: I’m a “Middle-Of-The-Road Minor Character”. The Are You Are Baxter? site has a quiz you can take to determine if you are, or how close you to being, a baxter. They define this as:
A guy/girl you “settle” for because you can’t be with the one you really love.
The Baxter is a movie coming out ….two days ago I think. Can’t seem to find Canadian showtimes though. If you can’t see the movie in your neighborhood, at least check out that site. It is beautifully designed.
Blogged by Techie Diva and then by Popgadget, this Telegraph article discusses the imbalance between male and female users of technology. They specifically mention that (in Britain), 96% of tracks are downloaded by men (I’m not sure where those are downloaded from). Now I can take the fact that yes, there are more gadget geeks then geekettes out there and men are often more willing to spend time figuring out how their technologies work. What I can’t handle is the manner in which they present these facts, as well as how companies are trying to market towards women. They make women appear incompetent and unpatient when it comes to technology. A few quotes:
Would you rip files at a high or low bit-rate? Do you prefer AAC, WMA or MP3? If you are completely baffled by these questions, you are probably a woman.
However, like HMV, electrical goods manufacturers seem determined to turn women on to cameras and computers. Apple launched a mini version of the iPod in pastel pink last summer, and this season’s desktop must-have is a Hello Kitty mouse.
“It’s easy for women to say they don’t understand and ask a man for help,” says Tom Stewart. “As the saying goes, boys play with toys, and girls play with boys.”
Gawd…could they make the dividing line even thicker? I guess the reasons why I might get impatient with technology are that its not always social, there are thick manuals, sharp edges and it fails to be associated with men. I never knew…
August 24, 2005 at 11:55 am · Filed under Site Specific
…that blogger had a small program you could download to your desktop and use to make blog updates. Something like an instant messaging client but when I say things they can be quickly published online. I guess the drawback of this would be that I don’t have to think as much about what I say before I say it :P But random thoughts…I’m listening to music on iTunes and I let unlimited amounts of anybody connect to my playlist. I was checking my preferences because I couldn’t remember what I had set my shared name to. Then I checked it again. And again. Can you believe it? I’m getting my need for attention satisfied by the number of people connected to my iTunes library.
I did a lot of face making into the mirror when I was a child. My face is relatively stretchy and fun to play with and that’s what I did. I just discovered the other day that making faces into a webcam is like the mirror x 1000. A number of the faces I can give credit to Jemma and Jacquie for teaching me – I wanted to make a GIF of me doing their “signature” faces. One thing led to another and suddenly I had made what you see below. This is for anybody who has ever had the patience to watch me make faces. Turn up your sound and then press PLAY. (BTW I don’t think this works using the Internet Explorer browser so if you want to watch it you’ll have to switch to Firefox :) It has been tested and does work with the Safari browser as well.)
You know what – it felt sooooo good to do this. I hope everybody gives it a try. If you do please send me a link to your video!
