* fatespawn got me a new fish! is a flounder, a fantastic flat fish with both its eyes migrated to one side of its head and sticking up as little bumps, and its mouth off-centered on the other side. when he swims he glides like a little magic carpet. so cool. was thinking of naming him something along the lines of mobius, but then fatespawn mentioned that he had been joking with his mom about how the flounder would be like a tasty pancake to any of the newts, and that the name 'flapjack' had been bandied about. flapjack is a cool, cool name for a little flounder, but we are jealous of not having though of such a thing ourselves first. such an immensely awesome fish. he would have gotten along really well with the upside-down catfish... perhaps someday i'll put together an m.c. escher tank, with fish swimming about in all manner of orientations and sidedness.
* speaking of m.c. escher, knowing how to work mathcad has been serving me well at work. have made a lovely 3-D graph showing how to optimize an example company's profit within their production contraints. is a warped and rainbow-colored surface, colored reddish around the areas of highest profit and sliding down through orange and yellow and green and blue to indigo at the areas representing least-profitable setups. am going to animate it by displaying it at different angles and importing those images into flash, tracing over them with vectors, and seting up a beautanimous 3-D graph rotation/zoom-i-ness. will be most impressive. yay for knowing mathcad! yay for being a passable math girl! yeeeah. and yay for being familiar with programs enough to cobble things together without requiring expensve and ill-suited plug-ins or, worse yet, "realistic compromise." how i hate realistic compromise...
* i used to be paranoidish about my rigid contact lenses and the general well-being of my eyes, but lately the focus seems to have shifted over to my teeth. why, i do not know. all i can say is, even though i heard the story years ago and it didn't bother me hugely in the interim, recently, whenever i see a glass bottle with a metal cap (such as a beer bottle or a root 66, neither of which i generally consume), i recall the tale of the unfortunate who liked to open such bottles with his teeth, until one day his teeth broke off as a result. have had other such random thoughts of teeth trauma brought on by things as simple and common as the sight of gravel beyond a curb. it is most bothersome. if this continues, the inner psychologist may be compelled to come up with a theory. as it is, though, i'm given to understand it plenty of other people have various random thoughts like this too, so it's not a point of great worry. and i'd like to think the eye twitch is kind of starting to get better. don't want to be neurotic, geh.
* had dinner with people tonight - awesomeness. tasty food! and fatespawn and fatespawn's mom have gotten us all sort of wonderful instruments of cooking, plus a recipe book. i look forward to future developments. and fatespawn made mini-cheesecakes, and they were beloved by all. i am so full.
* at work today there was a bowl of candies on the desk of the lady nearest the entrance to our department (i don't know if she is a secretary or a receptionist or a generic office worker or what). ate many hershey's kisses and pink starbursts, surreptiously gathered over the course of the day. however - the candy was ancient. i realized this when i took a tootsie roll pop - i unwrapped it to find that its orange color had faded alarmingly. it was shattered on one side and thus could not be effectively sucked - i chewed one of the broken-off pieces and it was soft and yielding. i tossed the lollipop out. which is impressive, as i'm not the sort of person to lightly cast candy aside. later, i nabbed a reese's cup, but had the good sense to break it apart with my hands rather than inside my mouth. it offered an abnormal amount of resistance before exploding between my fingers in a great chalky spattering of peanut-colored dust. i can't get the powdery little smears to come out of the fabric of my work chair. i am rethinking my attraction to this bowl of candy.
* you should check out this site - www.worth1000.com. it's a big community with lots of photoshop artists, photographers, writers and artists in other media, all submitting work for various themes and contests. results in some immensely well-done images and a lot of fun-to-browse image galleries. off the top of my head, i'd recommend checking out the photoshop advanced contest galleries for animal renaissance 3 and superhero day jobs 3 (as well as the most recent beginners' photography contest gallery for yellow). they're all very cool. some good tutorials on the site, also. only thing i found disappointing was the amount and quality of flash animation they seem to have... but that was only at first glance. will have to take a closer look later.
* have not been active online so much lately... am feeling a tad bit torn between work and onlineness and doing things in real life and time for myself and lack of time in general. looking forward to the weekend, definitely. wish i had more time to comment in people's journals - so often as i'm quickly reading through, a thought crosses my mind and i'd like to send it... it's so hard to trace the way back to it when i revisit later at my leisure. *sigh*
* that said, goodnight everybody.
* speaking of m.c. escher, knowing how to work mathcad has been serving me well at work. have made a lovely 3-D graph showing how to optimize an example company's profit within their production contraints. is a warped and rainbow-colored surface, colored reddish around the areas of highest profit and sliding down through orange and yellow and green and blue to indigo at the areas representing least-profitable setups. am going to animate it by displaying it at different angles and importing those images into flash, tracing over them with vectors, and seting up a beautanimous 3-D graph rotation/zoom-i-ness. will be most impressive. yay for knowing mathcad! yay for being a passable math girl! yeeeah. and yay for being familiar with programs enough to cobble things together without requiring expensve and ill-suited plug-ins or, worse yet, "realistic compromise." how i hate realistic compromise...
* i used to be paranoidish about my rigid contact lenses and the general well-being of my eyes, but lately the focus seems to have shifted over to my teeth. why, i do not know. all i can say is, even though i heard the story years ago and it didn't bother me hugely in the interim, recently, whenever i see a glass bottle with a metal cap (such as a beer bottle or a root 66, neither of which i generally consume), i recall the tale of the unfortunate who liked to open such bottles with his teeth, until one day his teeth broke off as a result. have had other such random thoughts of teeth trauma brought on by things as simple and common as the sight of gravel beyond a curb. it is most bothersome. if this continues, the inner psychologist may be compelled to come up with a theory. as it is, though, i'm given to understand it plenty of other people have various random thoughts like this too, so it's not a point of great worry. and i'd like to think the eye twitch is kind of starting to get better. don't want to be neurotic, geh.
* had dinner with people tonight - awesomeness. tasty food! and fatespawn and fatespawn's mom have gotten us all sort of wonderful instruments of cooking, plus a recipe book. i look forward to future developments. and fatespawn made mini-cheesecakes, and they were beloved by all. i am so full.
* at work today there was a bowl of candies on the desk of the lady nearest the entrance to our department (i don't know if she is a secretary or a receptionist or a generic office worker or what). ate many hershey's kisses and pink starbursts, surreptiously gathered over the course of the day. however - the candy was ancient. i realized this when i took a tootsie roll pop - i unwrapped it to find that its orange color had faded alarmingly. it was shattered on one side and thus could not be effectively sucked - i chewed one of the broken-off pieces and it was soft and yielding. i tossed the lollipop out. which is impressive, as i'm not the sort of person to lightly cast candy aside. later, i nabbed a reese's cup, but had the good sense to break it apart with my hands rather than inside my mouth. it offered an abnormal amount of resistance before exploding between my fingers in a great chalky spattering of peanut-colored dust. i can't get the powdery little smears to come out of the fabric of my work chair. i am rethinking my attraction to this bowl of candy.
* you should check out this site - www.worth1000.com. it's a big community with lots of photoshop artists, photographers, writers and artists in other media, all submitting work for various themes and contests. results in some immensely well-done images and a lot of fun-to-browse image galleries. off the top of my head, i'd recommend checking out the photoshop advanced contest galleries for animal renaissance 3 and superhero day jobs 3 (as well as the most recent beginners' photography contest gallery for yellow). they're all very cool. some good tutorials on the site, also. only thing i found disappointing was the amount and quality of flash animation they seem to have... but that was only at first glance. will have to take a closer look later.
* have not been active online so much lately... am feeling a tad bit torn between work and onlineness and doing things in real life and time for myself and lack of time in general. looking forward to the weekend, definitely. wish i had more time to comment in people's journals - so often as i'm quickly reading through, a thought crosses my mind and i'd like to send it... it's so hard to trace the way back to it when i revisit later at my leisure. *sigh*
* that said, goodnight everybody.
I think the fear of the eye's and teeth are bourne from the fact that they are not replacable. We have made leaps and bounds in terms of optical enhancement and replacement, but the fact is, when one of those things go , more often than not they go for good. I, many times, have hurt myself rather well but have shrugged it off in the long run knowing I would heal in time from it. Losing a tooth, or gods be good, my eyesight would frighten me completely because I would know I would be losing something that would never come back.
My .02 of course.