Chaos Theory

What's Going On

Camp NaNoWriMo
NaNoWriMo
2010 Ravelympics!
My Swurl page
Aggregates a bunch of journal-y blog entries together. Convenient!
Ravelympics
Knitting and crochet and all kinds of projects, competing to be finished within two weeks and change!
National Novel Writing Month
Saturn Return Can Bite Me
My beta test blog over on Vox, astrology-related.
Knitting Olympics 2006
I was a gold medalist!
The Spanglemonkey Awards 2005
Best Internet Variety Show (and Good Luck Getting Anything Done, Ever) in 2005!
My Bloglines blogroll.
Fine. There you go.
I am the Minister of Chaos
Like you were surprised to hear it. Heh.
My Blog Threat Level Is:
The Feminist Valentine Blog Awards.
The Spanglemonkey Awards

* Spanglemonkey's Best Site From Which to Steal Links Shamelessly in 2004
* Best Blog Title Based on Ian Malcolm's Dialogue in Jurassic Park, in 2004
BugMeNot
Be a rebel. Screw registering. Read stuff.
Craft Enabled, Domestically Disabled
My new craft blog, to give the "Craft Projects" photo album a bit of purpose.
Speed-Reading Book Nerd Reviews
Yes, I started a booklog, mostly for summer reading. Eventually, I'll even add reviews to it.
My NaNoWriMo Novel Site

If you're interested in that sort of thing.

Quotes

Steve Jobs:
"Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later. Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
Apple:
"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
Miss Manners:
"Please do not -- repeat, not -- make a hostile approach to knitters. Have you not noticed that they are armed with long, pointy sticks?"
Stephen Tobolowsky:
"And of course, nothing is what I figured on in my life. That seems to be a recurring theme."
James Bulls:
"When you find yourself walking a true path, you will know it because you will want to walk it no matter the burning Sun, freezing sleet, torrential rain, and treacherous ground. The risks become no less and the journey as always exhausts you, but your desire to brave the challenges never diminishes."
SOMEBODY???
"May the bridges I burn light the way"
Amy Argetsinger:
"Twitter is a disease, plain and simple. It makes people insane. A decade from now I expect the CDC and FDA will be issuing warnings."
Cary Tennis:
"You don't have to "move on" either. Not until you're ready. People say, Oh, you should be grateful. They say, Oh, it's time for you to move on. I'm like, What are you, a cop with a nightstick? I'll move on when I'm done playing the blues on my harmonica, thank you very much."
Mark Morford:
"It is 2011 and here is what we know: Reality is fluid, fact is malleable, cause and effect completely uncertain. We know what we don't know, but we also know the opposite."
Charlie Jane Anders:
"Just remember, if you flinch from your destiny, you'll never achieve your true greatness — you didn't choose to be chosen, but being chosen means you have to choose."
Roger Ebert:
"To put it bluntly, I believe the world is patriarchal because men are bigger and stronger than women, and can beat them up."
Myca:
"Jesus is not the reason for the season, and there's no way I need to act like he is. Christmas is a stolen tradition. There's no reason we can't steal it back."
Lady Gaga:
"I hate the holidays! I'm alone and miserable, you fucking dumb bit of toy!"
Dianna Agron:
"I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can’t erase the strokes you’ve made, but each step is much bolder and more deliberate."
John Mayer:
"It occurred to me that since the invocation of Twitter, nobody who has participated in it has created any lasting art. And yes! Yours truly is included in that roundup as well. Let me make sure that statement is as absolute and irrevocable as possible by buzzing your tower one more time: no artwork created by someone with a healthy grasp of social media thus far has proven to be anything other than disposable."
Vanessa, Something Positive:
"I like 'em crazy. You hear insane rants, I hear a reminder that the sex is interesting. Oooh! Hear that? Tonight's gonna tingle."
Anonymous:
“Your problem is that you want to be an artist. What you need to be is an artisan.”
Sugar:
"Ask better questions, sweet pea. The fuck is your life. Answer it."
Wide Lawns:
"Often very odd things happen to me. Usually they are not my fault and mostly beyond my control."
Anonymous reporter:
“When weird shit happens around here, weird shit really happens around here.”
Anne Johnson:
"Today some stranger sent me an email that said, "You are a nut case." Well, I must admit this never would have occurred to me. Everyone else is a nut case. I'm the sane one. I think."
Carl Mayer:
"Whenever I start to feel like my life isn’t where I want it to be, “Cops” is there to put everything into perspective. Yeah, I haven’t made all the right moves over the last 34 years, but I’m not hiding from the police under a kiddie pool, either."
John Scalzi:
"In retrospect, it’s a little weird to think that my entire future was falling into place as I obliviously tucked into the El Presidente chimichanga platter, but of course, that’s life for you — the most important days of your existence don’t always announce themselves in obvious ways."
Tart and Soul:
"Indeed, love comes whether we have braced ourselves for it or not. But commitment offers a choice, tapping us on the shoulder to say, “sorry to bother you. Is this a good time?”
J.C. Hutchins:
"I was Wanky McWankerton, in love with words I’d yet to write. I did this for nearly two years. If every sperm is sacred, God wasn’t irate with me — he was effing thermonuclear."
Beth Sekishiro:
"You don't need to be conventional to love people. Maybe you've got to give up your whole life - but that's just when you'll find it."
Cormac McCarthy:
"Creative work is often driven by pain. It may be that if you don't have something in the back of your head driving you nuts, you may not do anything. It's not a good arrangement. If I were God, I wouldn't have done it that way."
From "Andromeda Klein:"
"sometimes the Universe was subtle; other times it hit you over the head like it thought you were stupid."
Dame Margot Fonteyn:
"But somehow or other, fate doesn't always do the things that might be sensible. Fate leads you to do other things. And I'm a great fatalist."
Alan Moore:
"Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky."
Lani Diane Rich:
"I have a good friend going through a horrendously bad time right now, the kind of lifetime crisis that either kills you or changes you so fundamentally that you will never again be the person you were before. I recently went through something similar, although I don’t think I let it take as much of a chunk out of me as it’s taking out of her, mostly because I’ve had my ass kicked by the Universe before. I know that when you keep trying to make something work, and it doesn’t no matter what you do, then you need to relax and figure out what the Universe is trying to tell you, because the Universe will continue to make your life hell until you do."
Cary Tennis:
"Some people might not approve of your needs. Screw them. You didn't invent your own needs."
Jennifer Finney Boylan:
"The world is full of false hopes, most of them dumber than the hope of being transformed by love."
Hugh Macleod:
“Good ideas come with a heavy burden; which is why so few people execute them. Few people can handle it.“  
Fiona Glennane on meditation:
“I want you to close your eyes and breathe deep. Picture a peaceful mountain stream. Can you do that? Picture yourself drowning the kidnapper in the stream.”
Sarah Haskins:
"We used to just grow old and be spinsters. Now we have a lot of options: We can be spinsters or cougars."
The Doctor:
"All that attitude, all that lip, 'cos all this time... you think you're not worth it. Shouting at the world 'cos no-one's listening. Well... why should they?"
Winter, the guy trying to visit all the Starbucks before they close:
"Pointless though it might it be, a goal is a goal."
Carolyn Hax:
Carlsbad, N.M.: How do I figure out what to be when I grow up? Carolyn Hax: I dunno, but it's easier if you grow up first, then figure it out. Otherwise you'll just change your mind when you get there.
Bobby Singer:
"Are you under the impression that family is supposed to make you feel GOOD? Bake you an apple pie, maybe? They're SUPPOSED to make you miserable, that's why they're family!"

February 26, 2012

Mos Eisley Performance Hall

Sexy stormtrooper, sexy Chewbacca....

Posted on February 26, 2012 at 02:04 PM in Geekitude | Permalink | Comments (0)

February 25, 2012

Teller!

Revealing his secrets...some of 'em, anyway.

"MRI machines are awesome, but if you want to learn the psychology of magic, you’re better off with Cub Scouts and hard candy."

Posted on February 25, 2012 at 09:14 PM in Weird, Wild Stuff | Permalink | Comments (0)

Sweet dancing

Dude can DANCE with crutches.

Posted on February 25, 2012 at 08:58 PM in Weird, Wild Stuff | Permalink | Comments (0)

February 24, 2012

Ways to make The Lorax cry and Dr. Seuss roll in his grave

1. Cast Taylor Swift in it.

2. SERIOUSLY MISSING THE GODDAMNED POINT.

Posted on February 24, 2012 at 08:59 PM in Current Events and News, World Goes To Hell | Permalink | Comments (0)

Why the Cheers titles are evil

"Do try to ignore the drunken letch beneath the table on the right, and the vampire on the left. It just isn't a party unless a woman in an implausible hat is being simultaneously molested by a drunkard and stalked by the undead."

Posted on February 24, 2012 at 04:27 PM in Non-Whedon, Non-Reality TV, Weird, Wild Stuff | Permalink | Comments (0)

Escher Girls

A compiliation of "sexy" comic book women who can't actually anatomically do that shit.

Posted on February 24, 2012 at 04:23 PM in Feminist Chick Talk, Geekitude | Permalink | Comments (0)

Did The Hunger Games really rip off Battle Royale?

Let's do an official comparison.

Posted on February 24, 2012 at 03:57 PM in Geekitude, NaNoWriMo/Writing Stuff | Permalink | Comments (0)

Resume downgrading

"JENNIFER: I was unemployed for two years. I have - unemployed from hospital work. I went back to get my bachelor's and tried to get hired on at a hospital. And they told me because of my experience and my degree that they could not pay me what I deserved in the position that I was applying for.

And I was in a situation where my unemployment had run out, and, you know, I had to get something. So I went back and eliminated my degree and some of my work history and turned in the application again, and within a week, I was hired.

So it's a situation where, you know, like, I actually got reprimanded after being on for a year and applying to another position that my degree fit, was reprimanded for not disclosing that information when I was hired.

CONAN: I think we've all heard of resume inflation. That's the first time I've heard of resume deflation.

JENNIFER: Yeah. And when I explained to my boss why I had done it, you know, he was like, well, I understand that, and we're just going to put you on probation for a week because we have to give you some kind of reprimand. But, you know, it's a situation where, you know, what do you do? I've got student loans. I've got kids I've got to feed. And I know if I don't have the experience, then I'll get hired. So I lied.

CONAN: Well, and I assume there's some part of that application where you say I hereby swear and avow that this is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but...

JENNIFER: Yeah, yeah.

CONAN: ...I think everybody can understand.

JENNIFER: So it's gotten me into a little trouble, but I have a job. So I'm really - you know, I'll take the week's probation. At least I have the job, you know."

Posted on February 24, 2012 at 11:50 AM in World Goes To Hell | Permalink | Comments (0)

How to handle Facebook

Two interesting links:

Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook:

"Mikalah uses Facebook but when she goes to log out, she deactivates her Facebook account. She knows that this doesn’t delete the account – that’s the point. She knows that when she logs back in, she’ll be able to reactivate the account and have all of her friend connections back. But when she’s not logged in, no one can post messages on her wall or send her messages privately or browse her content. But when she’s logged in, they can do all of that. And she can delete anything that she doesn’t like.

It’s a lot easier to deactivate every day than it is to change your privacy settings every day. More importantly, through deactivation, you’re not searchable when you’re not around. You really are invisible except when you’re there. And when you’re there, your friends know it, which is great. What Mikalah does gives her the ability to let Facebook be useful to her when she’s present but not live on when she’s not."

Huh. This is really not a bad idea.

"The Right To Be Forgotten."

"Yesica and her lawyers have exercised a legal right now dubbed the "Right to Be Forgotten" that allows you to remove embarrassing pictures or information you put on the Web — and do it permanently, totally. Which means you can tell Yahoo or Google or Facebook, "I don't want that there anymore. I want this to be forgotten. You have the image or the email or whatever in your computers. Remove it. And if you don't, you are breaking the law."

Sounds great, but not likely to happen in America, apparently.

Posted on February 24, 2012 at 11:21 AM in Geekitude | Permalink | Comments (0)