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[afuna]

I keep getting sucked into coding the entire day! Sans the afternoons when I usually take a break and head out for errands into the summer heat -- I think there may be something wrong with this plan. OTOH I usually go from my room which only has the electric fan to places with aircon, and I avoid the blackouts that way so this plan is somehow accidentally completely okay!

I have 75 tabs open right now, and I really need to cut down, so I'm taking some time tonight to knock things down a bit. Here, have some links:

• dw_mobile: New official community for the mobile page, headed by dreamatdrew; mobile brainstorming post in dw_biz


• Animal Reviews blog: Humorous reviews of animals. Science and snark!


• Dreamwidth swag, eeeeeeh! I am plotting :-)


• jQuery Widgets tutorial - I've been doing a lot of jQuery lately. jQuery is seriously *gorgeous* as far as frameworks go. I love it. Hmm, I just realized I'm not doing a proper widget though, but that can wait until later. I'm still pretty happy with the shape of my code


• chocolate ice cubes, via omnomnom


• Typewriter sound effects for the mac. Not going to grab the application, but that brings up memories of our typing class in high school, where we learned to touch type, occasionally blindfolded, on actual typewriters. Mine broke during final exams -- one moment I'm typing away, the next, ball bearings are flying everywhere. I may or may not have learned to type in Dvorak to wipe away the memories of that class from my mind.


• jQuery developer guide - some good medium-level tips. These do assume you're familiar with basic jQuery concepts.


• Information on packaging Perl modules; was useful to background information which helped me in figuring out how to install GTop (asdfghhjklklk;;lgh) in Ubuntu 9.10: Hints for Distributors from the Perl Foundation, Debian Perl Packaging Policy. Long story short, there are three main places for packages to put perl modules. For personal installations, you'll want to be using "site" (not "perl", or "vendor". I think that "vendor" is the default of some packaging tools), and that most of the issues I've run into when installing are because the installer tool or the perl module metadata assumes that you're wanting to install into the vendor location


• Knitted hanging planter! Nifty intersection of gardening and knitting *g*


• Keratosis pilaris a fairly common skin condition(?). I apparently have keratosis pilaris alba, (just rough bumps, less scary-looking than the picture). I used to try to "fix" it, but gave up when lotions had no visible effect.
  
  Apparently there are whole lines of products that can be used against this. Most are marketed as anti-acne, but may help with this as well. Whole lines. I am excited!


• Filipino version of the Voltes V theme song (with english translations). Went to karaoke a couple of days ago, to Chicago (near Metrowalk), which has a pretty big selection of non-English songs. The big winner for me were the lyrics to the Voltes V theme song (Filipino version -- which is not a translation of either the Japanese or the English theme songs). Voltes V against kidnappers, carnappers, dognappers, snatchers, hold-uppers --- ahhahahhahahah. So much a sign of the times, yes

In other news, working on Dreamwidth has been very agreeable to me. I've come to think of my days as ten half-days, not as five whole days. That gives me a lot of flexibility, and means I have my afternoons free go take care of business for offices that are only open during the daytime (or else to take a siesta. Mmm siesta).

NTS: Take driving exam, get driver's license

It's been a bit odd because I feel that I have a lot of free time even though I've been working a lot, but I've tallied up hours roughly and everything seems right. It's just that the two-to-four extra hours I'd spend on DW stuff after my dayjob is now free time? Plus, I no longer have a one-hour commute (two hours both ways) eating up my time. Will take some getting used to.

I've been playing with Charlie (our minischnauz) a lot. I think he likes my being home about as much as I do *g*

Other things -- my fingernails are now black, my toenails are pearly white, and I somehow ended up in Divisoria (cheap clothes *G*) and came away with five pairs of shorts, two summer dresses, and a skirt. I have never had a summer dress before *G* (Used to think I wasn't girly enough to try these, but they feel great in the summer heat, and they look pretty too *G*)

Comments

[yvi]

It's been a bit odd because I feel that I have a lot of free time even though I've been working a lot, but I've tallied up hours roughly and everything seems right. It's just that the two-to-four extra hours I'd spend on DW stuff after my dayjob is now free time? Plus, I no longer have a one-hour commute (two hours both ways) eating up my time.

Oh, that sounds nice. I am so glad you are having fun :)

[exor674]

Waitwait a Fu in a skirt?!? *passes out* ( I totally want to get myself some pretty skirts/dresses for this summer haha >_< )

P.s. your http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratosis_pilaris link is messed up and links to your journal

[afuna]

Oops, fixed now, thanks!

And three skirts, even :D The dresses can be either long dresses , or even longer skirts, ahahhahaha. (Yeaaaaah).

[draigwen]

Thanks for the jQuery links - I've just started using jQuery at work and I loves it! Unfortunately my use of it will be limited at work. *sob*

Working at home is the best thing. I used to work from home every so often and I'd take a hugely long lunchbreak before getting back to work for the afternoon (generally including a long soak in the tub). Before we had the car we had a commute from hell too, the extra free time is always a great thing (unfortunately I don't seem to get anything more done even when I've got 2-3 more hours a night).

[afuna]

Oh! I'll keep linking nifty jQuery stuff as I come across it then *grins* I hope that you get to expand your jQuery at work (it is niftyawesomewondergreat!) ♥

Hhehehe, back in my old job, we had a client who smoked in a closed airconditioned room during meetings. Since their office was basically two blocks from my home, I used to come home after every meeting to take a quick shower to wash the clinging smoke smell from my hair.

This is like that, only, all the good bits and none of the bad *_*

[pauamma]

*grin*

[afuna]

*grins back*

[starlurker]

Okay, you linked to a lot of cool stuff up there, and it's always nice to see Animal Review linked and linked over again because I just love that site and pimped it out too (I think), but the coolest thing you linked?

FILIPINO VERSION OF VOLTES V! Instant childhood!

I'm reminded of that clip in Philippine Idol where this girl who was the lead singer for an anime song cover band sang the theme for it in Japanese. Here! She was much better at singing anime songs than "normal" songs, as the judges call it.

[afuna]

FILIPINO VERSION OF VOLTES V! Instant childhood!

Hahahha, yes! Ganun na ganun din kami yung nakita namin siya sa songlist :D

And oh! Thank you for that link. I haven't been keeping up with Philippine Idol at all, so I'd never seen that clip before :D Galing nga ng rendition niya ng Voltes V!


(PS. Is Filipino like this okay, or do you prefer English? *G*)

[starlurker]

I don't really keep track of Philippine Idol either, but I had a nostalgic kick one day and felt like listening to the Voltes V theme song and she came up.

I can speak and read Filipino quite well, but writing it? Ack! By all means, keep writing in Filipino, but I'd rather not write it back because I've been told my spelling is atrocious.

[afuna]

Heee, okay. Sometimes some sentiments are easier to express in Filipino (less formal *G*) .

(My Filipino spelling is atrocious too, so just promise not to laugh!)

[angelikitten]

You don't know me, but you just made my day by linking my recipe :)

[afuna]

And you made mine by posting it up *G* I just realized I didn't comment there, so I will here: thank you \o/

[owl]

Yay jQuery! I must brush up on it a bit, I haven't been coding it since last autumn.

[afuna]

jQuery *_____*

[miome]

oh hey, Keratosis pilaris, that may be what I have! Certainly sounds like it. I moisturize & exfoliate, but it doesn't do much. Let me know if anything works for you?

[afuna]

Sure. I'll try to update in a couple of weeks. Apparently the products make it worse (initial side effect of what they do), before they make it better, so I'm holding off on comment for now *g*

[azurelunatic]

I find it mildly hilarious to use something marketed as a facial scrub as a body wash. It makes my skin happier, so it's not just for amusement purposes!

[afuna]

Heeeeeee! Dual purpose ftw \o/

[synecdochic]

it makes me so happy that you are enjoying your new setup so much. <3

[afuna]

♥♥

[ex_pippin880]

Oh man typewriter sounds heeee I am loving this. I just keep tapping up and down in glee.

[afuna]

Heeheeheehee!

[ex_pippin880]

Ohhh, have you seen any Katekyo Hitman Reborn? Now you have fu I don't know if I'll be able to take one of the characters seriously. D:

[afuna]

Which characters? I was reading the manga, but I got stuck at the point where it turns from a gag manga to a serious one *g*

[ex_pippin880]

Mukuro. ku FU FU FU

Me and a friend have been watching it (we saw an episode in Japan and, even though we had noooo idea what was going on, fell in crazy love). We watched, uh, 50 or more episodes over a three-day weekend earlier this year. I had some pretty whacked-out dreams, trufax.

[afuna]

Ahahahhaaha, OMG. Okay I'm looking forward to getting there (I'm on chapter 61 at the moment *G*)