shanmonster: (Spasmolytic)
shanmonster ([personal profile] shanmonster) wrote2007-02-20 11:16 am

Doom Womb

Slowly, my computer is becoming more and more usable. I still need to get more RAM for it. It works so bloody hard, sometimes, yet appears to be spinning its wheels and getting nowhere for all the efforts.

My inbox has been deluged with performance-related emails lately. I'm currently trying to send my music for the Tribally Yours show next month. I've been talking with the organizer for the Eros and Thanatos Cabaret that I'm in tomorrow. I've been in contact with the show about my coathanger dance (I still don't know if I'm in or not)....

I'm also behind in some emails regarding dance classes I'll be giving. Argh!

Today, I plan on filling my brain with tomorrow's music (Tear Garden again), so every little nuance is programmed into my mental movement generator. I'm skipping out on weight-training today I teach dance tonight, study wing chun tonight, and am full of bee-killing cramps of doom! Stupid cramps. They'd better be gone tomorrow. I suspect dancers suffering from menstrual cramps don't get into The Zone much. Urg.

Links? You want links? Ok. Here you go.

I Rode to the Heavens and Back: Caught in a storm cell, a paraglider survives flying at an altitude of 9946 metres.

Reader Voices Strong Opinion on Atheists: Git off muh land (thanks, [livejournal.com profile] gha5t)!

Pastor with 666 tattoo claims to be divine: "Jose Luis de Jesus Miranda is not your typical minister. De Jesus, or "Daddy" as his thousands of followers call him, does not merely pray to God: He says he is God."

Edmund Ruffin: "Most people in this world are not remembered for anything after they are gone. A few people manage to affect the world such that they are remembered for one thing." I can't say I knew who this guy was, but now that I do, I think he'd fit right into classical Greek or Roman history if he weren't living during the American Civil War.

[livejournal.com profile] angramainyu received an award for one of his photos of me: Shan, ghost (NSFW). And yes, I did that pose starting from top to bottom. Had it been the other direction, my pelvis would have been more forward.

I remember my Dad telling me about a guy he knew years and years ago in Newfoundland. Apparently, this guy tamed a moose and used it to plow his fields and work the woods. I don't remember the guy's name, but I did find a couple of pictures of other people's work moose. I want one, but something tells me they're not easily litter trained.

[identity profile] tlatoani.livejournal.com 2007-02-20 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Can't see that photo without a DeviantArt account...

[identity profile] angramainyu.livejournal.com 2007-02-20 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad you remembered which way you were moving :) I was pretty sure this one was a slow laying-down one, but I had vague recollection that you did at least one the other way during that set of pictures. I love that picture, so very glad it got recognized!

[identity profile] shanmonster.livejournal.com 2007-02-20 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a good picture, indeed!

Let me know if you ever want to do another shoot....

[identity profile] allthingsnoisy.livejournal.com 2007-02-20 06:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Those Newfoundlanders are a resourceful lot!

Ugh, I want to go back there! Once I get back from Turkey and regain some vacation days, I will.

As for the pastor, what color is the sky in his world?

[identity profile] rachelbutoh.livejournal.com 2007-02-20 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
ha ha! my boyfriend is a descendant of Edmund Ruffin

[identity profile] zoe-serious.livejournal.com 2007-02-20 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Two things,

One, don't send large files via email.... use this site http://yousendit.com
just upload your file and put in your address and their address and they get a link that is valid for one week that they can use to download what you have uploaded! and free!

Two, might make it tomorrow to the Rivoli... I'll see how tired I am after class. And on that note, perhaps you should come to the beyond beginner class if you can make it in time, it's 6-7pm and not far from the Rivoli, just up on College and Spadina and the Rivoli is on Queen near Spadina.

[identity profile] shanmonster.livejournal.com 2007-02-20 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! I was actually about to go looking for yousendit, but couldn't remember the name. Gmail isn't being very accommodating for sending big wav files....

I'll see what I can do for the class. How much for drop-ins?

[identity profile] zoe-serious.livejournal.com 2007-02-20 07:05 pm (UTC)(link)
ooh it's $19 for the drop-in rate, I thought it was $15 but maybe that's the price per class over the session....

at any rate, it's the more advanced class called the beyond beginner class. Lots of drills, some zilling and combos.

[identity profile] thebluestar98.livejournal.com 2007-02-20 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
try this
Ad-Aware (http://www.adwarealert.com/index.php?hop=advanced99&p=3&gid=1072645447&oid=&aid=)

[identity profile] goth-hobbit.livejournal.com 2007-02-20 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
A second vote here for AdAware, and one for Spybot Search and Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/).

Of course, you know best how your computer is configured, so it's just a recommendation. But I've had a couple of drive-by stealth spyware installations that slowed me down to a crawl.