Corner of Bourbon & Division

Found some fun Dresden Files icons. Am using one because it amuses me.

Getting up at a decent hour this morning was yet again a bust. Oh well. Turns out that if I don't have somewhere pressing to be I can't drag myself out of bed. Didn't help that I was sleeping off yesterday's migraine. At least I haven't had that many migraines lately. I think I've had maybe three in the last year, which is pretty good given that I used to have them five or six times a month.

Today is a day of not much. I am going to take the morning "off," and finish up the fourth season of Lost, which should free me up afterward for things that aren't obsessive TV-watching. Sheesh. At least there are only about four episodes left.

I am a little embarrassed to admit that the early life on the Lost island seems pretty sweet. I mean, few utilities, nice weather, reasonable amounts of food, and mostly-friendly company? No schedule to keep, no job to go to, nothing to do except lie on the beach, go swimming, occasionally hunt and gather food? Sounds pretty nice. Of course, the subsequent war with the natives puts a crimp in things, but hey.

I'm using my old "rabbit poker" icon, which karine made for me back in the day. Yay for LJ giving me a whole bunch of icon slots!

MAH ICONS.

default	oldest	newest
saddest	happiest	angriest
cutest	sexiest	funniest
fave ship	fave fandom	fave animated
best quote	best textless	best stolen idea
use the most	favorite

HOW MANY ICONS DO YOU HAVE: 174
OUT OF HOW MANY AVAILABLE ICONS SPACES: 195
IF YOU COULD BUY SPACE FOR MORE, WOULD YOU: Yup, although I'm still trying to figure out which ones to use for my available space.
DO YOUR ICONS MAKE A STATEMENT: That I'm a colossal geek?
WHAT FANDOM DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: Babylon 5
AND THE SECOND MOST: Firefly
WHAT SHIP DO YOU HAVE THE MOST ICONS OF: No ship icons. Horrendous, isn't it?
ARE YOUR ICONS MADE MOSTLY BY OTHER PEOPLE: A lot were made by curtana. She is lovely and talented and a pearl among women. Also, we share a bunch of fandoms.
DO YOU MAKE ICONS: I used to but lost my image editing software between computers.
ARE THEY ANY GOOD: I like 'em, but I mostly just crop existing images. I'm not especially talented.
ANIMATED ICONS ARE: Annoying when they're too fast, but otherwise lots of fun.

DO THE MEME.
Coding can be found here

I just randomly discovered that I have 50 new icon slots!

iconsbycurtana, prepare to be boarded! :D

I snagged me some Hufflepuff icons from slyferret. I am all giddy now. :)

So, inspired by dizietsma's latest post, I made my way through the thousand pounds of junk currently occupying my parents' garage (not their junk, sadly, but it has to stay there until the condo repairs are done) to see what had happened to my bicycle.

I haven't used my bike in, oh, about seven years. Even then, I was useless at routine maintenance. I rather think that the poor bike needs a lot of TLC. One of the grips on the handlebars is split, the tires are completely flat, and part of me suspects they may need to be replaced entirely. I assume tires aren't meant to make dry crackling sounds when one presses on them, anyway.

There's a bicycle shop just around the corner from here. I figure that if I can just get the bike away from my parents' (with two flats and no car, that's going to be interesting), I can bring it there and ask them to take a look at it and see just how badly it's fared since I've neglected it.

I think that biking from here to work is actually doable. It's uphill to go to work, but the inclines aren't too steep, and I suppose I can always walk the steeper bits until I get into better shape. It's worth a shot, anyway.

I wish my head would stop hurting. Maybe it's caffeine withdrawal. I'll make some coffee and see if that helps.

Also: new icon. It makes me think of fearsclave.

I apparently have no patience for the photo-uploading process. I have well over 200 photos (I am insane apparently), and have found no good way to mass upload/mass re-size them. So I am uploading in batches of ten, and then re-sizing one at a time. It is taking for-freaking-ever. I also have to sleep at some point in time, so once again, there will be no post of substance today concerning France. At this rate, I don't know when I'll have them done, since dealing with the visual component is taking so freakin' long.

Anyway, please bear with me, folks. I promise that this will get done, sooner rather than later. I just can't devote as much time to it as it really needs right now. I will post some teaser pictures later tonight, to tide you over. Bear in mind, I am the most amateur of all amateur photographers. None of the photos were taken with good photography in mind, but merely to document what I was seeing. I leave awesome photography to the likes of longpig, chibipunkdemon, ankhorite, and dizietsma, among many other talented photographers of my acquaintance.

In other news, I took the cats to the vet for their follow-up appointment, which cost "only" half of what the previous one did. George has what looks to be a respiratory tract infection, so he gets pills twice a day for ten days. If that doesn't help, then we're looking at even more expensive treatments. *sigh* I love my cats. I just wish they weren't so damned expensive.

I am considering an icon overhaul of this LJ. I hate icon overhauls, because I love ALL my icons, even the ones I never use. However, my icons are ceasing increasingly to reflect what I'm doing with my life these days, and so I think I may have to do something drastic. In fact, I may try to overhaul the look of my LJ completely for the first time in... what... four years? *gasp*

Okay. Back to re-sizing and stuff.

1) Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2) Make a post and talk about the icons I chose.
3) Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4) This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee.

Asked by curtana:



This is from my Two Lumps craze. I still love the strip, but it no longer dominates my icon list. This gif was made by the lovely and talented joane. I use it for posting drunkenly and for silly posts. :)



I am not especially pleased by the way this icon turned out. It's a Mal quote from Firefly, which I stuck onto an image from a different episode, because it amused me. In the scene, Inara reproves him for barging in unannounced, and he responds along the lines of "I was under the impression that you found it manly and impulsive."

It makes me wish my icon-making skills were better. It would probably help if I had proper image-editing software.



Heh. This is an icon that I made based on an in-joke with a family friend. He told us an anecdote about a business retreat he went on, where the group he was with were each asked who they would be, if they could be anyone (it was one of those team-building exercises). Everyone had fairly typical answers of some sort of sports, political or cultural hero, until our friend. When his turn came he said: "I would be Darth Vader. I'd like to have the power to destroy a planet on a bad day."

Bearing this in mind, about six months after the "my fandom [blah]" icons started to go out of fashion, I decided to make this icon. I rather like it, even if it's kind of simplistic in its execution. I use it for some science fiction posts, and for posts in which I manifest a desire to extinguish small planets due to a bad mood.



I have no motivation for picking out this icon from the ones you made, other than that I really like the first season of Battlestar Galactica, and it's a pretty icon. I was also looking for some "happy" icons for myself, since I rarely post anything but good things these days, and this one caught my eye.



This is one of the very first icons I ever used in this LJ (along with some Resident Evil ones, believe it or not). I found it online, at this point I completely forget where, and it amused me no end. Then I replaced it with other icons (this was back in the day when even a paid account netted you ten icons; uphill barefoot in the snow both ways!) which caught my eye because they were shiny, and at one point I had a "theme" for my LJ (first it was books and then it was "Lilo & Stitch"), so it didn't have its place among my icons. Then George killed my computer, and I lost the image. I found it again recently and with my new and improved icon space, I resurrected it.

I think it's fun, and I use it for happy bouncy posts.



This is my most recent acquisition, which was made by palmir and which he generously allowed me to snag for my own nefarious purposes. I have recently begun running, and since I was doing a lot of running in the snow, this seemed like a very appropriate icon. I also used to read Boondocks regularly, back when the Gazette carried it and I read the Gazette, and found it clever and incisive. So, it works out well all around.

1) Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2) Make a post and talk about the icons I chose.
3) Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4) This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee.


Asked by bodhifox:



The Overtime Fairy is the icon I've used the most recently. The term is one I invented by borrowing shamelessly from my friends, who had already coined the terms "Migraine Fairy," "Cookie Fairy" and any number of fairies that I'm probably forgetting. I've talked about the Overtime Fairy for about two years on and off, and mentioned only recently that I really ought to have an Overtime Fairy icon, which the lovely and talented curtana made for me. I agree with her that Eddie Izzard makes an awesome Overtime Fairy.



This one is also by curtana (I'd say about 70% of my icons are her creations) and based on a quote from Babylon 5 which I watched in its entirety for the first time a little over a year ago. I loved the show, and was especially impressed by the writing. The above quote is (I believe) from Delenn, an alien (for the purposes of simplicity: I understand that not everyone who reads this LJ has seen the show) who is in love with the human commander of the station. Their relationship is the cause of much controversy, and I particularly liked the way she phrased this. It's very much the way I feel about most of my friends: they are my chosen family, because we are of the same heart.



Ah, the Canadian Borg. I snagged this one from taxlady, and I believe several people on LJ have it. No idea who the creator is (if anyone knows, please tell me so I can credit!). This icon showcases two of my loves: my country (in all its quirky politeness) and Star Trek: TNG. I am a very quiet patriot. In fact, I am very Canadian in my patriotism, and very Canadian in general, a fact which my mother delights in pointing out all the time (not necessarily a good thing in her books, but I take it as a compliment). I try to be polite in my everyday dealings (I occasionally apologize to people who bump into me, and, more embarrassingly, to objects with which I've collided). I am also perfectly bilingual. Anyone who has listened to a Canadian phone recording understands just why "Pour l'assimilation en Français, faites le 2" is hilarious. As for the Borg aspect, well, let's just say that before Star Trek: Voyager ruined them, the Borg were the scariest villains on television. They were big, they were fast, they were powerful, and they were inexorable. They also acted on a collective imperative to increase their numbers, and not through any understandable motive like revenge or imperialism. I suppose I liked them for the same reasons that I like zombies: they are unfathomable, and unstoppable by normal means.



You are a (relative) latecomer to my LJ, so you might not know that I am, in fact, a superhero. Read the comments to find out how I acquired my superhero name: Rocking Thing. I believe that t! came up with the suggestion because, at the time, one of my favourite things to say was "I rock like a rocking thing." Invisible even wrote a song about me and the other girls in my band called "Rocking Thing." It blew my mind. I don't have a copy, sadly, or I'd have posted it already.

The icon itself is a closeup of my right arm (yes, I wear my watch on my right wrist), hand holding drumsticks and resting on my snare. I believe this was one of the originals taken by owldaughter during a rehearsal. It sums up my superhero alter-ego quite nicely.



This is the only icon I have which shows my face (I had more but got rid of them). It's a crop of an original taken by fearsclave from the first year were were snowshoeing together (so late 2004 or early 2005). We made a bivouack out in the swamp behind his father's and WOSM's house and built a fire over which we made Kraft Dinner, which we ate with SAS racing sporks. Much fun. The larger photo is one of me whacking away at a dead tree with a cheap Canadian Tire machete, and I use the icon for most of my outdoors-y-related stuff.

The cats, collectively

I'm not sure if you mean just the photo icons of my cats, or all my icons about cats in general. Please specify and I will post the icons and comment as needed. :)

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These are my two "George" icons. George is my baby cat, although now that he's over six years old he's no longer really my baby, but a big grown-up boy. I use the "curious George" icon for any post that involves him, or to comment on people's posts about cats. I use the "yawning George" icon for silly cat-related posts, and occasionally for posts in which the cats have been too cute for words.



This is my Pan-Pan icon. I use it for posts and comments about him, specifically, or for posts about clueless things cats have done. Pan-Pan is very lovable, and very very stupid, and thus provides me with a lot of amusement as well as affection.



This is my Gretzky icon. I basically use it only for posts and comments about her.

I have no icon for Smudge, and I keep meaning to remedy that. All the above icons were made by the talented meallanmouse from a cat-photo-shoot at my old apartment, and of course I didn't have Smudge at the time.

I am sneaking online at work to say that I am having connectivity issues at home. My modem appears to be snubbing me. I hope the problem will be resolved soon, but if you don't hear from me for a while, that's why.

Cheers!

Also: GIP courtesy of taxlady

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After reading a number of frustrated posts from others, I have realized that it was my provider and not me, and that the situation has been resolved already. So, yay!