May 16th, 2008 Dear Vista

Oh, Vista. How I’ve had it up to here (hand over head) with you. I’m so bloody tired and worn out trying to get this relationship to work. But it’s obviously one-sided. And you know what? I’m sick of being the one trying to make it work between us.

You’re like a big baby. I have to be taking care of you all the time. When we got together for the first time in April ‘07 I was actually giddy. You know me, I’m somewhat of a tech dork / girl. I thought “Oh my God, I have Vista on my notebook!” You were the cute new guy down the street most of us didn’t hate yet and were willing to flirt with you.

You were hot, with your awesome Aero look. And you were fresh, for some reason your parents (Microsoft) decided to rename a bunch of your folders and things and I thought “Well, sure. What OS doesn’t do a few name changes?” But you also had an attitude problem. Maybe I’m attracted to rebels? Not. You pissed me off from the beginning, not getting along with other programs. But I was blind and said “Hey, it’s my baby, okay? So he’s a little mean.”

You worked well with other programs thankfully after months. So I was relieved. But I also noticed I had to regularly clean out my closet because you kept storing so much crap (aka the damn shadow cache thing you have, you ate all my memory very quickly). So I had to keep reinstalling you until I figured out the problem. Thus banning you from storing your crap in my closets ever again (turning shadow cache off / system restore).

Things started to go really hazy between the two of us when you couldn’t even sleep well. You were paranoid and often “Blue Screen of Death”ed me after putting you to sleep or closing your case. You’re housed in a notebook. A notebook! How can you not go to sleep correctly?! That’s when the babying all began.

I gave you a wonderful firewall, wonderful antivirus, regularly scan you for adware and yet you decide to spit in my face and be all “I don’t need that” and get viruses anyway. I know you have a virus at the moment and I don’t give enough of a crap about you anymore to fix it. I really don’t. You’ve been one big problem after the other and I’m so tired of you.

I tried to cheat on you with Ubuntu (a distribution of Linux) but Ubuntu wouldn’t have it. Ubuntu wouldn’t work well with the sound card, maybe he felt bad for you. But there you have it, I’ve had a little fling with Ubuntu. I still much rather prefer Ubuntu’s company over yours any day of the week.

I know you’re insanely jealous too. With good reason, because everyone out there is better than you. Your older brother XP is better than you. Just about any distribution of Linux is better than you. BSD kicks your ass. OS X used to steal your lunch money and now he’s back to kick you in the groin.

But don’t fear, dear Vista. Don’t fear. When I get an iMac and hook up with OS X Leopard, I’m dumping your ass.

Love,
The crazy girl who’s pretending to write to an OS,
Munin

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May 16th, 2008 OCD And uStream

So, just a random post today. Because I’m watching eSushi’s uStream (I’ll explain later) and felt like blogging.

Again sorry for not blogging. I just haven’t had a huge want to do it. That and my modem broke.

I’m on wifi right now, stealing my neighbor’s wifi. Why? Well my modem broke. For some reason it doesn’t work connected directly to my brother’s PC, or through the router. It just works with my notebook connected. It’s really very strange.

But yeah. I just wanted to bring up OCD. I have a few weird habits I have to do every day or when I find the chance. I’m not sure why. But I’d like to see if you guys have quirky things you do?

For me? I count the numbers on the face of a clock. Over and over and over. I count lines too, like counting the lines of tile on the floor. My OCD-ness extends to counting things over and over and over. I can’t think of any other habits but that’s my weird OCD habit.

What’s yours?

Random note: Mitch (miiitch.com) is now streaming lately on uStream. I think it’s great. I so don’t have the cojones to do that at all. Well, for one I don’t have a good camera (1 megapixel). Secondly, I’ve been a bit stressed because of class. Studying. I look horrible. Messy hair all the time, when I’m home I’m in pjs etc. I look awful lol. Thirdly, I just don’t have the courage.

What would I stream on uStream anyway? My cat?

Mitch is like. Mah total win eSushi. Yeaaahs.

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May 5th, 2008 I’m Pregnant

In my dreams, anyway. No, I’m not hoping to have a baby. It’s just that every month during that special time that Aunt Rosie comes by and breaks a pipe (dunno if anyone’s heard of that saying. I tried to find it online but no go. Mainly it’s a cute saying for “I have my period”) I have at least one pregnancy dream.

Aunt Rosie’s visit is still young and I’ve already had a pregnancy dream. I really don’t know what they mean but I’ve been having them for years. Could anyone share any insight?

Most of the time, my pregnancy-related dreams involve me being pregnant (obviously). They also involve an unknown father. And most but not all of the times I end up losing the baby in some fashion. There’s only one pregnancy dream I can remember where I actually kept the baby in question. At first these dreams freaked me out. I used to think it was my body telling me “Now that you have your period, go have babies!” and when the babies would die in my dreams I believed “If you have babies, they’ll die!”. So you can see why these are weird to me.

But after having them for so many years now I don’t pay much attention to any subconscious signs my body might be giving me to reproduce. After all this time I just think that when I’m asleep my body like to think my cramps are actually a baby kicking.

Dreams are weird. Oh by the way, I’m back from hiatus. Sweet.

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April 13th, 2008 This is What is Called a Drive By

I haven’t posted in what seems forever. I’ve been meaning to, I have a few drafts laying around and unfinished. Just. Blah. It’s not laziness, it’s the lack of… Okay so it is laziness. You know how it is, you’re not doing much of anything but yet you can’t bring yourself to do anything too productive either.

Dunno. Slight woes maybe.

So yeah. I’m here. Hopefully this will motivate me to get back into my web projects and blogging.

I need to:

Yay for creative stuff. =D I’ll catch you guys later.

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March 31st, 2008 Bamboo!

Whoohoo, I received my Wacom Bamboo tablet in the mail today. I must say, I’m really happy with it! I haven’t drawn in a very long time so my drawing skills are far less “pretty” than I would’ve liked or hoped. But eh. With the tablet comes practice and working on my skills!

To be honest I don’t even remember why I stopped drawing. I just know I did and for a very long time. I just didn’t want to draw anymore. But recently I’ve seen reviews on tablets and I thought this would be a great opportunity to start back up again.

A tablet is a pretty neat thing. My twin brother described it quite nicely earlier “Now you have infinite printer paper”. I used to use up like all of our printer paper for drawing, ha! But he’s right, I have unlimited “paper” now and a way to color my paper as well. I was very relieved to find out that Photoshop 7 supports tablets and pen pressure. I had no idea it would, to be honest. I was prepared to have to find some other program (or actually pay for Photoshop CS. no to CS2 or CS3) for my tablet + drawing needs.

I plan to use this tablet to draw my little heart out and have it help me with my web design too. I’m not sure how the web designing bit would work yet, but it works like a dream when it comes to drawing. I had a lot of fun with it earlier. But I haven’t seriously tried anything though, just practicing.

And of course, here are my attempts: Attempt #1 and Attempt #2

I’m no artist but I still have some bite in me. I have full hopes that I can improve in my skills. Any pointers? XD

The tablet works quite well. It’s a lot easier to use than I thought it would be. I especially love the fact that you can use it as a regular mouse for your computer. Now, I’m new to tablets and I don’t know if that’s common. But man. I love it.

Plus it’s gorgeous. Once I get a job I plan to save up for an iMac and then for an Intuos3 6×8. I’m not sure what I’ll do with this tablet. It’s quite lovely and I love the smallness. Hmmm.

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