All my geeky friends are cordially invited to the Forum at the End of the Universe:
http://milliways42.15.forumer.com/

I changed my password on Wednesday. Times attempted to log in with old password on Tuesday, by 5 pm: 11.

*prods and pokes Silvie, and glomps*

You might just see the "return of the dictionary"... :3

http://s65.sanoma.fi/video/Halytysajo_Vt7_20061102.mpg

Footage from near where I live in Finland, filmed from an emergency vehicle trying to get to an accident site (involving an animal transport and school bus - no one was badly hurt this time) on the road to Vaalimaa, which is the border crossing site to Russia. 2nd of November, 2006. Those queues of trucks you see there have existed for years now. Will they wait for an accident with real casualties before fixing up that road with truck parking and highway-quality passing possibilities?

(And no, Silvie and Draug, we won't have to drive around that place in December to get to my house, don't worry. Although the roads will look a lot like that most likely >_>)

I've been doing a lot of reading about Marcel Duchamp (The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, even, aka the Large Glass to be exact, which is Duchamp's magnum opus - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bride_Stripped_Bare_By_Her_Bachelors%2C_Even ). I see a lot of connections between his work and mine, which is awesome. I will definitely work in some contemporary dialogue about it into my work. It is very interesting to read about his development towards the mechanical imagery, I use it as direction for me: "this is what Duchamp did, I will do different."

He researched mechanical drawing because he wanted the artist's hand to disappear: "My hand became my enemy in 1912. I wanted to get away from the palette" and he found a model for depersonalized expression, free of "taste", in the techniques of mechanical drawing or scientific illustration. He strived for dryness. Me, I don't strive, I am. He longed to make something depersonalized - I am depersonal. I don't express anything, and my images are free of artist's touch, for I'm not unique. I'm not in my images. I am the impersonalisation. I seem new and weird to everyone for no one has seen the impersonal before. My work reveals things everyone knows but which are also hidden from sight. It is an image of my world, but it is also everyone's world. You know it on a subconscious level, you just turn a blind eye to it.

Attention.
I want to talk about smells. Talk to me about smells.
-What is your favourite smell?
-What is a smell you like, but it's a bit weird?
-Can you recognice people from their smell? If so, who?

For instance, I wear this perfume because it smells like chocolate: http://www.thebodyshop.com/bodyshop/browse/product_detail.jsp?productId=prod160508
I love the smell of the petrol that we use in the boat (it's this toughly, roughly weird kind of petrol). And I love the smell of dog's paws - the inside or sole of the paw, the hairy bit between the toes. I don't know of any dog whose paws didnt smell nice. Also, I learn to recognice the smell of men (who are close to me) - my brother's, my father's, my ex-boyfriends', etc... o.O It's odd, but I don't recognice women's smells. Oh and my towel smells like cookies when I've used it for a while without washing.

One more! ^^;;;
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Sorry another pointless diary, but I enjoyed this image, it's called "Next time close MSN you fool!"
http://media.urbandictionary.com/image/large/owned-41249.jpg

XD

My nose is so smooth! ^,^;

I always forget that it's Hallowe'en (mainly because Finland doesn't really celebrate it as such), so I got a freakin' heart attack when I logged in to the blackness of Main street o.O

I had another heart attack yesterday: we were watching a film when I heard a knock on the door. It was dark outside so I looked from the bedroom window before going to open. And omg, it was trick-or-treaters! My first trick-or-treaters ever! I was so baffled and confused that I barely said anything to them, and my roommate gave them the sweets we had left from somewhere (which looks odd I must admit, but we're new to this!) and we were worried that others would come too since we didn't have any more of anything sweet left, and damn what an odd situation to be in. Damn. XD

T.T

Wewt, the student calendar we get from university didn't mention that today clocks go back. Is that some twisted way of making student turn up in time on monday, or are they really such tossers that they didn't include the end of BST in the diary?
*slappage*

The past 5 featured arts have all been nominated by [Lothuriel]... *suspects a conspiracy*
:P
And if you are reading this Loth, feel free to make a feature for the Elfwood selections, too. :P

You know when you have MSN messenger running and you get an email, it kind of makes a little note "you've got mail from suchandsuch"..? You gotta love that. But today was the best ever. I got an email from Opus Dei. o.O
Apparently, I subscribe to the Opus Dei newsletter. I wasn't aware of this. Now I worry I've been subject to a "lets sign iippo up for stuff" -prank. >_>

And as revenge, I naturlich added all of my email contacts to the list as well, so expect to get mail from them soon :P

Other people who send me mail include Paul McCartney and horNy.houSe.WifE. >_>

Right, so I'm doing this art thing for uni:
-I'll do it in Flash, so there'll be some interaction. It'll be one image of a machine that is made up of smaller components. Each of those components is a button, and has an abstract idea attached to it (love, sorrow, faith etc...) The user/viewer selects any two buttons, and a sound will play, which will be somehow related to the combinations of the two abstracts (example: love + self = narcism, sound that plays is the story of Narcissus read out loud by someone). And I want all/most of the sounds to be things read out loud by people.
So if you could, you have the chance to be ever so helpful by either:
-hinting me to texts that could be nifty sound files: passages from books, poetry, song lyrics etc... Must be in English.
-reading a text out loud for me onto a sound file (I will ask some individual people to do this, but if you love me you'll volunteer... :P)

[Skydancer]'s Firefox addment that allows him to use animated gif smileys is pretty cool. ^^

I just ate the world's best bisquit.
It was the first of the pack, from a packet of Morrisons Coconut Rings.

My eye feels so much better now, I'm again amazed at how fast antibiotics work.

Also, I found my dream place:
http://www.britishengineerium.com/
(check out the function room - that's where I'll invite you all to attend my wedding, whether it be me getting married to a man or to [ally]'s nose, but I'm having the wedding there).
I admit that the notice about closing-not-closing makes me go through a number of emotions: "relief: phew, they aren't closing", "shock: what, they were about to sell that stuff", "disappointment: omg, I could have bought awesome stuff", "jealousy: I want to be rich and buy awesome stuff".

I'm sick, now also in the other meaning of the word; that is, I'm not feeling well. My cold is not going away and I have an infection in my eye - I've seen the doctor so the latter should be getting better soon with antibiotic ointment. But since it is in my eye, it means that I am partly incapasitated by it. The ointment gives me blurry vision and generally the sore makes me want to keep my eye closed, which makes using the internet a little difficult. So if there's something you really want to make me aware of, or need to ask something, be awares that I'm not online much, but I do check messages (this, on the other hand, is not an invitation to send me 'get well soon' -messages, because too many messages will make me not want to check them either :P)
Just a general heads up if I seem absent, but don't count on that - if you really want to be rid of me, you'll have to leave ET :P

Portfolio Contest
[Linderel] is so cool, as is this contest by it.
*proddages everyone to join, dammit* It's both art and photo so none of you have an excuse!