Author: etoiline

my stomach hurts

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…but that’s partly because I did massive situps and crunches on monday night after not having done any for oh, months years and my abs are tight sore. Seriously. You Will Laugh Your Ass Off. Caution, strong language.
Occupation: Girl – Troy in Fifteen Minutes
Excerpts:
Paris is practicing archery on a nice straw man nailed up to the wall. He hits bulls-eye after bulls-eye.
HELEN: Wow, I had no idea you were so good at this.
PARIS: Neither did I. Weird, isn’t it? And I really want lembas now.
HELEN: What?
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ACHILLES: Briseis!
BRISEIS: Achilles!
PARIS: *shoots Achilles in the heel*
BRISEIS: NOOOOOO!
PARIS: *gets his Legolas on, shoots Achilles 15 more times*
BRISEIS: PARIS, NOOOOOOOOOO!
PARIS: OH MY GOD, I FINALLY DO SOMETHING GOOD AND PEOPLE STILL YELL AT ME!

Rainy days and returns

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Oh my goodness how much it has rained. Flooding-type weather here, hail in some places. Thank goodness nothing’s flooded around my place yet, but some of the low roads have standing water and the highways were a mess last night. I hate to say it but St. Louis drivers on the whole are pretty bad. Now, you can’t lump me in with the whole because I’m a very good driver (almost always 😉 ) and I’ve never had (read: caused) an accident, but gosh, the people in my town can’t drive if there’s severe weather. When my car was hit (about a year ago, I guess) it was only slightly rainy and the lady sure had the choice of going up on the curb or hitting my car…sheesh. Go slow, turn on your lights, and don’t tailgate like the stupid van behind me this morning.
And so I have finally seen Return of the King on DVD, which makes me happy…however, it’s also the first dvd that I’ve ever bought or rented that is defective. Nearly all of chapter 28, the Siege of Gondor, flickers, breaks up, and just plain stops until there’s only five or so minutes left to the chapter. *yes it’s a long one* The rest of the movie plays fine. So I’ll have to exchange that today. blah. Somehow I managed to buy two copies of the Hidalgo soundtrack, so while I’m at it I’ll return the duplicate…and return the cd-only version of the new Hanson album because I found the cd-dvd version at fye. Yay returns! (heavy sarcasm there)
Some subtle improvements could have made Troy a much better movie…

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Return of the … DVD

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Well, after months of waiting, RotK comes out on dvd today. I’ve had my copy reserved for a while now, and I think I even get a King Aragorn figurine when I go pick it up. Someone from the store called yesterday just to make sure that I remembered to come by the store…like I would forget. I reserved mine at FYE, but I should have gone to Borders…they had a midnight release party. I think I could have gotten another t-shirt. Ah well. I don’t really need any more t-shirts, though it would have been cool. But then I would be tired today. See, I have some common sense.
I wouldn’t be surprised if our softball game gets rained out on thursday. not because it’s actually raining, but the ‘field conditions’ thing again. Sigh. I remember griping about this before…it’s april showers, not may showers. bah.
Oh yeah, the “extended cut” of Underworld comes out today as well. Maybe I’ll pick that up too 😉 You know me and werewolf/vampire flicks 😉 What to watch tonight? Healthy wholesome family flick or dark bloody horror? Or the 24 “season finale you’ll never forget”? lol.
Too bad Alex and Leo are going down to Texas. I’ll just have to have fun without them. Be safe you two!

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Hah! and Drat!

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Well, you may or may not have noticed that there are now colored scrollbars! Yahoo! And the site doesn’t get bigger than 1024×768. Thanks to SN for telling me what’s up with CSS.
In other news, the first softball game was cancelled because of field conditions. Ah well. Next week, perhaps. Hopefully we’ll get some in before it gets too much hotter…though it’s plenty hot now. mmm. summer in St. Louis. Gotta love it. Or not.
I’m interested in web design again 😉 funny how it comes in cycles.

CSS rules

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for those of you who didn’t know…I love css. some of it doesn’t work on Macs, which sucks big wind (like colored scrollbars, which I finally got to work on my MT blog) and others, but at least it looks pretty to 95% of my readers. Which is like two other people. Anyway…here’s a good link for those quickie CSS needs: http://www.csscreator.com/ Yay for code generators.

Prices, verbs and men in skirts

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Those of you who actually read this thing know that I now use Movable Type for my blogging software. Basically this means I downloaded the script and changed some variables and now when I visit a certain URL I can just type something in (e.g. this entry) and it shows up at etoiline.com. Amazing! I used to use Greymatter, which does the same thing, but it had fewer add-ons and a little less flexibility, so during the server snafu of February I decided to switch over to MT. This is version 2.something or other, and MT kept saying how they would introduce a new version with some features that I would like to have, so I’ve held off on trying to modify (read: hack) the code to get what I want. But Six Apart (the company that distributes MT) announced recently that while they would offer a free version of MT 3, it carries certain licensing restrictions, namely it can only have one author and a max of 3 (or 5, don’t remember) blogs. Well, this sounds silly to me. I actually fit into that category, because even though I plan on having many different blogs here, they’re all under the etoiline.com name, so according to them that’s alright. And as I’m the only author, I’ve got no problem with that. I just wish they would lower their prices. I was thinking about upgrading and now I probably won’t, seeing as I’m doing fine without a ‘currently listening’ section after each post anyway. It just bugs me that things I like, i.e. MT, YaBB forums (I used to use YaBB (CGI base) for my forum until the server change, when I got YaBBSE, which is php based, but about two weeks after I installed it I realized they were no longer supporting my version and were changing over to a totally new script) are moving to the paid version. Ah well.
Read about the french guy who supposedly wrote a book (223 pages) without verbs. Weird.‘Fictitious’ author publishes the first book without verbs
And now what you’ve all been waiting for, I’m sure: my review of Troy, or what I can remember about it, anyway.

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funny. maybe.

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A father, angry at his son for not doing well at school tells him, “At your age, George Washington was the best student in his class.”

“Yeah dad…” replies the kid…”and at yours, he was the President of the United States!”