Day: June 28, 2006

Meta, Pets

Random cares and truant joys

Shelly
  • Via Boing Boing, there is a guy who recreates artworks by painting them in the dust on car windscreens.
  • I had my hands in bleach water for a long time on Monday, and now they’re peeling. Ugh.
  • I suddenly had to cut my hair this morning. Why on earth does that sort of urge always seem to strike at 4am?
  • Slathering your hands with lotion, then picking up a sweaty beverage, is not a good idea.
  • Also, averaging 4 hours of sleep per night is not a good idea. I feel a little bit like this.
  • Speaking of which, is Bea not the absolutely sweetest looking thing you have ever seen? I may need an insulin shot.
  • But, wait! There’s more! And more! And more! (Simone is just unbearably cute.)
  • Now, as an antidote to anyone who might be seduced by the siren song of The Terribly Cute Boxers: Meet Lilly. Lilly reminds me just a tiny, wee, itty, little bit of Harriet.
  • Speaking of Miss Brown… She just keeps getting more and more entertaining with every day that passes. She lives for car rides, so our new routine is for her to accompany me to the mailbox. We’re using it as an opportunity to work on automatic sits, waits, and whatnot. She knows this stuff already, but keeping that knowledge fine-tuned is a good idea. This entails making sure that her butt is always on the ground while I’m putting on her leash, that she always uses the same car door (rear, passenger-side), and that she doesn’t leave the gate or car without permission. She’s a funny, funny dog, so this refresher course has been a total riot for both of us.
  • It’s currently 78F and sunny, which in Indiana means we should be having tornadoes and floods by this evening.
  • Also via Boing Boing, an amazing website of lightning photography, including tips on how do your own lightning photography.

And, now, fun with Stats (a semi-regular feature):

  • nude blog? I expect the searcher was sorely disappointed at the lack of hot porn action hereabouts.
  • victorian punishment for wayward girls? Really? I don’t want to know what, exactly, they were searching for. Let’s just hope that it was scholarly research.
  • half cat half women drawings? I’m reminded of a furry freak who used to plague the dog newsgroups. He was also an amateur artist, and had a bunch of perfectly awful drawings of mating werebeasties on his website. O ick.
  • george munro moravia sutherland earl kenneth 4th halidon? Say that 10 times fast.
  • nathan dicks 1727? I’m guessing this–like the former query–must come from the Esther genealogy.
  • why would a kitten not use the litter box every time? I swear, I get searches like this all the time. Folks, take your cat to the vet! If it’s not using the litter box, it could be a serious–and very painful–medical problem. It’s far better to rule that out, then look to potential behavioral issues, than the other way around.
  • 87 files in 7 albums and 9 categories with 0 comments viewed 0 times? M’kaythen! My guess is that this was a cut-n-paste mistake. But, if so, how it got someone to my website is a mystery.
  • nick cave his son jethro? Now, I can understand Googling for Nick and Jethro. I’ve done it myself. However, the wording of the query is a little amusing.
  • jethro nick? That’s a little more to the point, but it’s gone a bit far in the other direction.
  • jethro lazenby? Now, that’s more like it.
  • psittacism? This one makes me inordinately happy.
  • civil war male wasp waist image? Sorry to disappoint, as I have no images of such.
  • the state hospital by ed kienholz? I get a lot of Kienholz queries.
  • precolumbian artifacts for sale stone heads? I also get a lot of hits returned for searches on Precolumbian art. Ironically, the essay in question is partially about why trafficking in antiquities is a Very Bad Thing. So, no, I don’t have any stone heads for sale.
  • maya penis? No, really.
  • funeral remember with with laughter as that is how i will remember you? Another fan of the original CuddlyGoth? Or, a Little House fan? Or, something else altogether?
Art, Drawings, Meta

This private thing

Shelly

My Flickr Pro account expired last month, and I neglected to renew it. Then, I got a bad case of the grumpies about it, so I stopped using it altogether. I suddenly decided this afternoon that that just would not do, so I renewed it and added a badge thingumy to my right sidebar. Ain’t it purty? I also created a smaller version of my gallery graphic and added that, too, cuz why the heck not?

Nude II
Nude, ink on paper, 24 x 18 inches

Then, since I was on a roll, and because I was suffering from an attack of OCD, I created a header graphic [1] and updated the style sheet for the main part of my website. Yeesh, was that ever a pain in the arse! I did finally manage to get something sorted out that is within the same general visual family as the blog and the gallery. I’ve checked everything in IE, Firefox, and Opera, and though there are various browser-specific quirks, everything seems to be basically functional. I don’t have Netscape (and their stupid download protocol makes it pretty much impossible for me to install it on my machine), so I can’t check that, but I’m hoping that nothing is too out of whack in that direction.

And, with that, I think I’ve enjoyed just about as much Fun with Coding as I can stand. And, I’m sure y’all are sick and tired of hearing about it, so that’s a win-win, eh?

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1. I thought long and hard about the image I picked. I nearly went with another filmstrip collage, but I just couldn’t get excited about that. The sketch I used was done in figure drawing class–a 10 or 15 minute drawing that was never finished. I hung onto it, though, because despite the fact that it’s rough, I really like it. I also like the symbolism of the nude, faceless figure. Blogging and presenting your art on-line is sort of like that. You tend to share more of yourself than is probably prudent, but no matter how transparent you are, you’re still, to some degree, an unknown quantity.