Season Pass, my ass. September 21, 2007 ~ 11:45 am
Posted by Julie in : Reviews, Technobabble , comments closedIs it wrong that I got excited when I was watching TiVo’d episodes of Rescue Me last night and saw a local take-out menu on Tommy’s fridge door? That place is ten blocks from me and is a total hole in the wall - how’s that for authenticity?
Also, I am pissed because the TiVo spazzed and did not actually record a full “Season Pass” and now I don’t know how the season ended.
No, I didn’t do the laundry. Why do you ask?
Shoulda been a pirate September 7, 2007 ~ 11:22 am
Posted by Julie in : Technobabble , comments closedI’ve been playing with the Pirates app over on Facebook and have been rapidly rising up the levels. I’m now a level 17 Corsair pirate with 10 crew on my ship. I’m pretty positive that piracy was a career I could have excelled at - too bad you can just up and join Captain Jack Sparrow these days, eh?
Since I can’t, I’ve decided to really get the Etsy shop up and running. To do this in the grand pirate style which it deserves, however, we need a kickass banner. I have played around with GIMP, but I am obviously a real-life gimp and am not getting it. Normally ESC is my go-to girl for matters such as this (and in fact she designed me a kickass vertical banner), but she’s on vacation. So, I ask you, my friends, if you could help us out. This is what we need:
A horizontal banner, 760 pixels wide, 100 pixels tall. It needs to have our shop name, Savvy Brooklyn, on it (ESC did this in some cool piratey looking script that glowed using GIMP on the vertical banner. I still have no idea how she did it, but it was awesome.). It should also have the Brooklyn Bridge and a Jolly Roger on it. I’ve got a pretty decent shot of the Brooklyn Bridge that I took myself over here (there are a couple other pics of the Bridge in that set as well) and an image search for Jolly Roger on Google should yield a ton of results. If you’re interested, or can teach gimpy me to do it with GIMP (we gots no Photoschop cos it’s expensive), let me know!
*sigh* July 31, 2007 ~ 3:10 pm
Posted by Julie in : Technobabble , comments closedI am just about over WP 2.2.1. Two days of me trying to figure out why there are strange symbols on my blog posts, being told that it is in my wp-config.php file, fixing that and having other strange characters pop up, being told those are the result of me putting two spaces between sentences and that I should use a search and replace plugin, and then that not working, either…it’s starting to wear on me. As I said in my new Asides (see? over there on the sidebar? hey, at least something I did works!), this level of monkeying around with code can no longer be called tweaking. I am fisting my blog, and it don’t like it. Can’t say as I blame it.
Someday this blog will return to normal, or maybe even surpass normal. But for right now? I could use some wine. 50 more minutes of work and then I am on Malbec like white on rice.
What iTunes needs May 19, 2007 ~ 8:19 am
Posted by Julie in : Technobabble , comments closedYou know what iTunes needs? A button that I could press that says “Keep this thing in my shopping cart, I do want it, but not right now, but please still give me the other five albums I’ve put in my cart.”
Because $75.89 is a bit much to spend all at once to get a non-cassette version of my favorite metal albums of the 80s. Especially on top of the $54-something I spent last night getting…things that weren’t metal. (I admit it, I got the Music and Lyrics soundtrack. And Dolores O’Riordan’s new album. And a shitload of Springsteen because I have finally accepted that I like his music.)
Yes, I have activated my new debit card. Why do you ask?
The dog ate my homework April 30, 2007 ~ 11:36 am
Posted by Julie in : Story Time, Technobabble , comments closedI uploaded photos to Flickr this morning that I was going to use in my post. Pictures of the socks I finished knitting last night, pictures of Freddie and Joe…it was going to be a fun and picture-heavy post. And then I got to the office and realized that my Flickr plugin was spazzing because I had updated Wordpress. Okay, no problem. Just go over to Bluehost and upload the updated plugin with FTP.
This computer? It hates the FTP. So now I can’t post the pictures or do the post I wanted. This is like the time in 7th grade where my dog chewed the plug off my typewriter (hey, remember typewriters??) and I couldn’t type my paper for English. Yeah, try using that excuse. Teachers don’t believe it even when your mother writes a note confirming that yes, the dog was that stupid. And when you bring in the plug to show them.
So…you can go over to Flickr and check out my half-done homework if you want. I’ll hopefully get the situation resolved this evening after Freddie’s vet appointment. In the meantime, I’ll just sit here and twiddle my thumbs.
Ya know what? February 21, 2007 ~ 4:14 pm
Posted by Julie in : Shorty, Technobabble , comments closedWork was such a bitch yesterday and I was so discombobulated by the furniture upheaval in my house that I completely missed my blogoversary.
Happy 3rd birthday to the artist formerly known as Rabid Rabbits & Psycho Squirrels. To celebrate, I give you the great Tim Curry singing (no, not Happy Birthday, that would be lame) “The Zucchini Song”!!! If I could find the video that goes along with this, I would totally post it, but it seems like anyone who had it lost it…probably like I did when someone who shall remain nameless but whose initials are Rick accidentally taped over it.
Scribbles January 26, 2007 ~ 10:41 pm
Posted by Julie in : Technobabble , comments closedThis turns my drawings into far cooler things than I could ever hope to make:
Explaining tech to my staff January 2, 2007 ~ 3:51 pm
Posted by Julie in : Daily Grind, Technobabble , comments closedI was on my way out the door for lunch when I realized my iPod was still at my desk. I made an abrupt u-turn to retrieve it. When one of my staff members (in her late 60s) looked at me like “What the hell was that about?” I said “I’m smack in the middle of Pirates of the Caribbean 2.” She was still confused, so I elaborated. “That’s why God invented iPods. So Julie could watch Johnny Depp on her lunch hour.”
For the record, that’s also the answer to “Why did God invent TiVo, YouTube, and DVDs?” Except those generally don’t apply to my lunch hour. But you get the general idea.
What the hell was I thinking? December 27, 2006 ~ 8:06 pm
Posted by Julie in : About a Julz, Technobabble , comments closedI am systematically importing every single CD I have onto iTunes so I can put them on the new iPod. Several times, I have been dismayed to see that I am apparently missing CDs; they are not in their cases. Where did Disc One of my Clapton compilation go? And where the fuck is my Filter CD??
Even more alarming is that while I’ve pruned the CD collection several times over the years, I still have clinkers in it. For instance, one that I just came across: the soundtrack to Footloose. Dude, what the fuck? All my music cred just went down the toilet to the sound of Kenny Loggins.
Hard Candy Christmas December 26, 2006 ~ 10:17 pm
Posted by Julie in : Fambly, Rick, Technobabble , comments closedThere were supposed to be Christmas pictures here. Really. Pictures of New York City at Christmas, pictures of all the mafioso houses decorated in Dyker Heights, pictures of how my neighbor’s house looks like Christmas threw up on it, all that stuff. But you have to forgive me. Because Mom gave me an 80 GB iPod for Christmas, which is only compatible with my PC, not my laptop. The laptop had all the songs for my iPod mini loaded on it. The PC had jack loaded on it. Thus, my computer can obviously only be used to do iTunes related stuff, not to upload photos to Flickr.
Lest we blame everything on Mom, we should take into account that Rick got me a Bose sound dock and a $50 iTunes gift card for Christmas, so he is equally to blame. Especially since he also took me to the Big Apple Circus yesterday, and so I wasn’t near a computer for two solid days. Rick is now also suffering from the tech time-suck as he figures out the iPod nano I bought him for Christmas (which he has just declared to be the best Christmas present he’s ever gotten - thank you, first freelancing check!). It’s been a hard Christmas here, people. A very hard Christmas. Hope yours were just as hard.
