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With great power comes great responsibility. Good thing that’s not me. I have X-Ray vision. I am a knower, a seeker. I may seem indifferent but genuiunely care for those around me. I derive my greatest pleasure from helping others. I am a problem solver. I can think not only outside the box… but through it as well. |
Looking for the Borg AU Classification?
In honor of my latest quiz results, I’ve fixed the Netscape 4.x display problems some more. Now the images shouldn’t float over the text in antique browsers. (The problem was the line-height inherited by paragraphs.)
Too cool for words: The Mini-Mizer (link compliments of Liz) where you can picture yourself in Lego. The image can only be saved with a screen shot, so I learned how to do screen shots in OSX - with the Grab application, those little scissors I’ve seen occasionally. Now I have to convert it from .tiff to .gif (with GraphicsConverter) to put it up here - I guess I could also test MT’s image uploader, but I prefer to have all my images in the same directory so I’ll just do it the old-fashioned way.
P.S. I see from Jerie’s blog that CYBORG is giving out images now. Here’s mine:
Which Voyager Character are YOU?
I didn’t even have to cheat. The best part of the quiz is the submit button.
Did I mention the Zendom Quotes article? I’ve been blogging so much lately (relatively speaking) that I can’t keep track.
J.E.M.I.M.A.: Journeying Electronic Machine Intended for Mathematics and Assassination
Jemima’s true Borg nature was brought to you by C.Y.B.O.R.G., kindly linked by Lori. Brunching Shuttlecocks is a dangerous site to surf to - there’s an infinite list of toys, including a test to tell whether your fic (not my fic, mind you - your fic) is porn or erotica. I got 8 out of 12 right on the Christian Metal Band or Star Trek Episode? quiz.
“First she’s a perfectly normal girl, then POOF . . . she’s a rat.”
I made a membership button, even though I’m not really a clique:
If it doesn’t show up, you can see it on the Buffybot Memorial Fic Page.
So many interesting bloggets have come up lately, and now is my first chance to reblog them all here. First of all, I was bowled over by the Demon Casablanca Blog (scattered through Anna’s blog) that I found via Jintian. (Via is one of those words you should never use - there’s always a better preposition, in theory. One of the joys of fanfic is breaking all those rules - so you’ll get my said-bookisms when you pry them out of my cold, dead fingers!)
Jintian was also kind enough to say nice things about my fic, even though betaing it relieves her of all minion duties. Ever vigilant, she also informed me that I was recced on a page I’d never heard of, Polyamorous Recommendations. (I’m under What’s New? It took me a while to find myself.)
Liz complained about her Buffy the Musical CD going bad. I was all excited about my Buffy the Musical CD, which my lovely sister Veronica made for me to cement this Buffy.obsession for which she’s singlehandedly responsible. (I guess she wants more Buffyfic, though she’s not at all happy that the Legion of Doom is starring in my next story.) Where was I? Oh, yes, all excited, until I found out that neither of my CD players will play Buffy the Musical. Sigh. I guess crime doesn’t pay after all. At least my mac will play it, and it plays audio CD’s in a whole other mode, so they don’t eat processor time like the clunky old free mpeg player (MPEGLayer3Player) I’d been using.
Liz isn’t the only one getting units of reviews on fanfiction.net while others get hundreds. It’s a strange, strange place. I think I may give it up again, since it was just a play for feedback.
Hey, Christine is actually blogging! Did I miss something? Am I yesterday’s news? Am I a pile of the morning’s Metro left on the Red Line despite the conductor’s plea, “Please remove all personal belongings, newspapers and Metros“? (If you live in one of the many cities around the world afflicted by the Metro, you’ll appreciate the implication that it’s not a newspaper.) I don’t even know who Lilla is, and everyone’s linking her now. I don’t remember her from jetc. How much have I blocked out?
Linked by the mysterious Lilla, a bloggily-transmitted disease:
Speaking of jetc, Seema was talking about on-line friends in her blog. I have, of course, a rather jaded view of virtual people, so I found the following line far more descriptive of on-line relations than ten blogs full of analysis:
Real emotions about fake people…eventually, it bites you in the behind. The last time I got into a philosophical discussion of friendship, my beta reader got very nervous. It’s no use preaching Aristotle these days, so I’ll just let Sans Ailes stand as my obscure statement on friendships, near and far.
Yes, Lori, I have heard of making the cat dance, though I’d heard masking tape was the way to go. You know how easy I am to talk up onto that soapbox - Fic Taxes it is. Do you want that before or after Taking Things Too Seriously?
The last blog of the evening is zendom, the magazine. The Vinegar of the Biweek is an essay by a hobbit about the seamy side of fandom. I did promise freedom of speech…but if it were up to me, everyone would be obliged to write good stories without ever inserting Part A in Part B. Somehow English literature limped along for eight hundred years with nothing racier than the occasional cuckold joke or mad-Hamlet innuendo - and yet it was all so good (except The Mill on the Floss).
Maybe I’m just taking things too seriously.
Well, that concludes this evening’s tour of the local blogs. One last bit of non-news: I’ve joined the Guild. I’m a big fan of guilds; in fact, I’m practically medieval - but that’s a whole other blog, in which all fanfic writers, rejecting the modern cult of originality, are medieval. And it’s a good thing.
Well, I tried to post A Maquis Holiday to ASC, but I think my newsserver wasn’t in the mood. I’ll see if it shows up tomorrow. And I took the Art Test:
I am extremely popular and widely known. Although unassuming and unpretentious, my enigmatic smile has charmed millions. I am a mystery, able to be appreciated from afar, but ultimately unknowable and thus intriguing.
Which work of art would you be? The Art Test
I like that better than the Name Game.
If your friends all jumped off bridges in their blogs… Seema did it, so I had to do it, too:
Your name of Jemima gives you a clever mind, good business judgment, a sense of responsibility, and an appreciation of the finer things of life. You are serious-minded and not inclined to make light of things even in little ways, and in your younger years you had more mature interests than others your age. Home and family mean a great deal to you and it is natural that you should desire the security of a peaceful, settled home environment where you can enjoy the companionship of family and friends. Whatever you set out to accomplish you do your very best to complete in accordance with what you consider to be right. In the home you assume your responsibilities capably, having the self-confidence to form your own opinions and make your own decisions. Others can rely on you; once you have given your word you will do your utmost to fulfil a responsibility. However, there is a tendency to be a little too independent in your thinking and it is difficult for you to accept the help of others when you should. Due to your strong sense of responsibility, you could experience worry and mental turmoil through assuming more responsibility than you should. Friction could arise through others feeling that you were interfering with their rights and privileges, even though you are only trying to help.
There is, by the way, no such thing as being “too independent in your thinking.” What’s in your name?
Thanks to the recently relocated Liz, I’ve discovered my true vampire nature:
I’ve also been rejected by a professional sf magazine. On the positive side, my sister got a Mac, and EEVIYE (zendom) has a new article up.
Back to that Buffy fic…
