Shaving_Private_iippo. I'll do a proper before-after shot at a point, but those who can't wait, clicky on linky. :)

Dear Diary.
Today Isilando called me a vadelma! :) I was so chuffed, and still thinking about the moment makes me all happy and twinkling inside.

I know I'm a bit early anniversary-wise speaking, but I came across this site today and wanted to share. Maybe it's better to be a bit early so you'll have time to think about it before the acual day...

What I'm on about is April 26th. It will be the 21st anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. And the site I am talking about in relation to that is http://www.kiddofspeed.com/default.htm It is a photographic journal by a biker who rode her motorcycle through the dead zone, recording the area and putting it online, to bring it to the public attention. So please pay attention to it.

A photo from the site that is of interest to me specifically, considering my line of artwork.


You might find the images of the last three chapters most interesting. To me at least they speak the most strongly.

Finska v'a'nner, titta h'a'r:

http://mee.fi/musiikkikysely

Why I'm speaking (bad) Swedish is beyond me. Sorry to the rest of you, the link is an interesting questionnaire thing about music used for a study of some kind.

My future in Geek Tragedy! XD XD XD

http://www.geektragedy.com/strips/2006/20060704.htm

(You'll love it Silvie :P)

Ah-ha! Second GT moment! Remember Hallowe'en? I had my picture up with the nun a while back, remember? 

http://www.geektragedy.com/strips/2005/20050721.htm

This is what friendship is all about.
http://www.geektragedy.com/strips/2005/20050531.htm

Thanks for [All_Most PUNK] for pointing GT out to me. :)

This for me.
http://www.amazon.com/Five-Hundred-Seven-Mechanical-Movements/dp/1879335638

(UK version http://www.amazon.co.uk/Five-Hundred-Seven-Mechanical-Movements/dp/0917914252/ref=sr_1_3/203-7592960-5365526?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1176467485&sr=8-3 )

Sorry guys, I just have gotten diary-active again. <_<

http://www.deletedyoutube.ftvteen.com/?v=agK2uZBNbnU

One of the coolest things I've seen in a while.
(But then again, I haven't seen Fonzie in a while... *misses*)

I was reading an interview of Ron Perelman (Hellboy) the other day, and he is so awesome. That makes me happy.

Something that doesn't make me happy:
Have you ever been working on a project, and thought "yes, I know there is one more thing I need to do, but since it's fairly easy, I can do it whenever" and then pushed it back and didn't do it until much later? And then the thing didn't turn out to be quite as simple or easy to do?
(Yes, this is another ActionScript story. Don't hate me for being emo over it, hate [Exapno Mapcase] instead.)
Well. You remember I sorted my stupid script-problem and was all like "whee parr-tae!" back then, yes? What I didn't mention that there is still one thing of my project to do in AS. I need to communicate the abstracts that the buttons/machines represent to the user without being crass about it. So I'll have a bunch of definitions for each abstract, that will show to the reader one at a time randomly in a corner of the stage when they hover the mouse over the button. Sounds easy, yes? Randomness is the thing that Flash is most useful for and the reason I'm so attracted to ActionScript and Flash. Well. I've been breaking down that statement of what I need to do, and it turns out I need to make 13 randomosity-codes (one for each button), each code placed in a movieclip (another 13), which are all stacked invisibly on top of each other on the main stage. Each of those 13 movieclips has the different definitions of their respective abstracts in their own movieclips (4 or more each), stacked invisibly on top of each other. And I need to add a code to each button (13) that says "when they hover, do this". Oh and have I mentioned that I hate invisible stacking?

I need lunch now.

*jumps on the bandwagon*
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=447704&amp;in_page_id=1770&ICO=NEWS&ICL=TOPART

It's the "link to a Daily Mail article -day!

I decided to go for this sorrowful story obviously because of the sob-factor. I want you all to weep as uncontrollably as I did when I read the news.
A moment of silence, if you please.

This is the it that it is all about:

In the twentieth century we have made a successful transition from the sooty iron surfaces of the industrial revolution to the liquid smooth surfaces of computer graphics. On our computer monitors we may be just beginning to see a reflective surface that looks increasingly like a mirror. In the virtual world that exists on the other side of the mirror's surface we can just barely make out the form of a body that looks like us, like another self. Like Narcissus looking into the pond, we are captured by the experience of this reflection of our bodies. But that reflected body looks increasingly like a cyborg.

http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol3/issue2/biocca2.html

Yet I do not wish to see a better me, a cyborg behind that reflective surface. I want to see the sooty iron surface. I don't only want to see it there, I want to put it there.

Randomest contest

Morality in a nutshell.
http://www.graphicsmash.com//comics/digger.php?view=archive&chapter=12906

And what is evil and what is good:
http://www.graphicsmash.com//comics/digger.php?view=archive&chapter=12950

I was not aware of the fact that Ron Perelman not only played/plays Hellboy in the recent movie-versions but the he was/is the voice of Hellboy in the original animated movies. In fact before today I wasn't even aware that there were animated Hellboy movies. I've just watched Sword of Storms, and it rules and I am currently drawing some Hellboy fanart in MS Paint.

So to recap:
-Hellboy is awesome
-Ron Perelman is my new favourite everything
-I still feel a bit sick -_-; (this has nothing to do with Hellboy, it's just my whatever that's acting up)
-I seem to have a link in my wikicomments to elftown freak show XD We should make that wiki some day. :P


Quoth someone complaining to the guards:
"that member was banned just for argueing about a scientifical picture that was taken of a solar flare, which was ment for the purpose of others to use and look at.. now true he broke the uploading arts rule because it wasn't his..but he should atleast be able to appeale."

Oh, so when you know the rules and still break them, you have the right to appeal. Gotcha. -_-

The picture that broke my heart this spring:

http://elftown.lysator.liu.se/stuff/558AmazingPicture.jpg

Here be yet another of these questionnaires that you answer with the shuffle of your MP3-player of choice (this one comes from the rabbi [Viking] of the house of David)
Since my player-of-choice was my Yahoo!-radio, and it being what it is, I gave myself an implemented rule that if I hadn't rated or heard (of) the song, artist or album before, I wouldn't use the song (because if it was my MP3-player, that song wouldn't be in my files now would it?)

How am I feeling today?
Artificial Flowers by Bobby Darin
Lyrics-wise I'm feeling like a hard-working orphan who is abused by the rich and powerful, but there is a great reward for me in Heaven. o.O
Title-wise I'm feeling pretty but fake.


Will I get far in life?
The Second Time Around by Frank Sinatra
I'll take that as a 'yes if I try twice'... Which you can't do with life. Nice.


How do my friends see me?
Waterfalls by Paul McCartney
"People who jump waterfalls sometimes make mistakes." Thanks friends. <_<


Where will I get married?
Shine by David Gray
It would seem to be of the opinion that I'll get married in the place "where we can shine" (eg. Heaven). What's with the afterlife songs today?! Geez.


What is my best friend's theme song?
Epiphany by Bowling For Soup
Owch, a break-up song. My friend will always break-up? >_O Sorry Tibo.


What is the story of my life?
Loves Me Like a Rock by Paul Simon
By the sound of it I will be tempted by the devil all through my life, but my mother still loves me. And that I will become the president! Score! And that I will... grow to be... a man... o.O *shrugs* Ah well, we all knew I'm gender-confused.


What was high school like?
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by the Proclaimers
(Man, it really should have been High school never ends by Bowling for Soup)
It was...long? XD ("I would roll five hundred miles" + Scottish accents <3)


How can I get ahead in life?
I Get Around by the Beach Boys.
The double entendres are killing me so I'll just say I'll get ahead by driving a car. >.<;;;;;;


What is the best thing about me?
Mellow Yellow by Donovan.
I'm laid back? I can live with that. ^^


How is today going to be?
La Vie En Rose by Madeleine Peyroux.
What? Another completely French day?! Noooo! >.< (If anyone feels like telling me what she says in this song, I wouldn't mind :3)


What is in store for this weekend?
I'm Gonna Find Another You by John Mayer
Oooh. :D That's pretty straight-forward of what will happen: I'll get solid proof for the ranxeroxist-theory and revolutionise science once and for all!


What song describes my parents?
Commando by the Ramones.
Whoa man: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/ramones/commando.html
(The second rule is esp. accurate)


To describe my grandparents?
Until The End by Norah Jones.
"A one time apple queen, And a one time tramp, And an old time movie star." -- So that's where I inherit it all from. :3


How is my life going?
I'm a Believer by the Monkees.
No sh*t Sherlock. But seriously, what's with the faith-theme today?


What song will they play at my funeral?
Someone To Love by Fountains of Wayne (Yahoo!-plays this to me a lot... I like it all the more everytime)
Appropriate end for my life... a little bit melancholy tune with a "keep going" -attitude in the lyrics and references to the mafia and 'King of Queens' *nod nod*


How does the world see me?
Head Over Feet by Alanis Morissette
Heh, I dash around and about without thinking?


Will I have a happy life?
No More Mr. Nice Guy by Alice Cooper
o.O I will if I stop being nice? Ummm... nope. No deal, I'll always be nice :P


What do my friends really think of me?
I can't Stop Loving You by Ray Charles
<3 Thanks.


Do people secretly lust after me?
California Girls by David Lee Roth (a Beach Boys cover o.o)
Either it's a 'yes people do' or that 'yes Californian girls do'.


How can I make myself happy?
I'll Stand By You by the Pretenders
Wow. What a fitting song. <3


What should I do with my life?
Aeroplane by Red Hot chili Peppers
Travel. By the power of music.


Will I ever have children?
Jailhouse Rock by ZZ Top (must say I like the King's version better)
My kids will go to jail. :/


What is some good advice for me?
Headlights by Sean Lennon ("from the album Friendly Fire released in 2006" - he's publishing music again? :D Awesome)
I got nothing, really. "Don't turn off the lights" maybe?


How will I be remembered?
White Boys from the soundtrack of the musical Hair.
... XD I'll be remembered as a slightly racist.


What is my signature dancing song?
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) by They Might Be Giants
Wicked! It's an awesome song. I would dance to this if any dancing place ever played it.


What do I think my current theme song is?
As Long As I'm Singing by Kevin Spacey
That's a nice theme song, "as long as I sing, it'll be ok" :)


What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
Aquarius/Let the sunshine in from Hair again.
You lot think i'm in some hippie-phase?


What type of men do you like?
Butterflies by Natalie Imbruglia
Gay men, apparently.

Time for a long-forgotten dose of Alexander Woollcott:


-All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening.
-I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
-Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
-Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune.
-There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
-His huff arrived and he departed in it.
-A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.
-The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
-At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
-I have no need of your God-damned sympathy. I only wish to be entertained by some of your grosser reminiscences.
-It comes from the likes of you! ... Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Woollcott
Love him much more than you love me, that's an order.

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Mon dieu, my sister just told me that the bourgeois parties won the elections in Finland. o.O I mean... I'm very clueless about Finnish politics because it's all just different shades of grey... But I've somehow always expected that the socialist-democrats would... well, not-lose. o.O I need to start voting in elections.

And I hear that the strange man Jyrki Kasvi (whose website was in Finnish, Swedish, Estonian and Klingon) also got in... Got all the trekkie-votes I bet :P

*edit*

I just realised that they're going to make the new ministers and stuff! :O If Erkki Tuomioja doesn't continue as the foreign minister, I'm not impressed! But he is a social democrat so it's gonna be well strange if he gets to be a minister... Whoever else is appointed, I'm going to start paying close attention to him/her.