April 2008 Archives

• Lost: A theory on time travel
  LOST has presented us with various themes of fate vs. destiny; however, by the end of the series, we will all be back at the same universal question: Are we completely controlled by fate, or do we have the ability to change what’s already happened in th
  (tags: lost tv theory timetravel fiction)

toxic relations
poison for the mind and soul
free yourself from them

i just got my first trackback spam on this site. 

you can now buy shoes online at DSW.  Hurray!!!

so i'll admit it; i am addicted to that parking wars game on facebook.  if you have received an invitiation from me to play it, it is so i can have more streets on which to park my cars.  help a sister out!

i wish tashia still blogged.

i hope huny comes back soon

xt04 also.

and where is stacey?

• BAW: Tavis Smiley Quits the TJMS
  We all know that isn’t the real reason he’s leaving the show. The real reason is that he can’t take the hate he’s been getting regarding the Barack issue — hate from the black people that he loves so much. He needed to feel the love. We all do,
  (tags: tjms tavissmiley tomjoyner blackamericaweb)
• Mike Davidson - Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace
  One of MySpace’s greatest features is its ability to let you skin your own home page. Unfortunately, 99% of the customizations I’ve seen are chalkboard-screechingly awful, but what could a MySpace home page look like if some actual design thought went
  (tags: myspace css design templates webdesign blog articles)

I'm debating whether or not I want to renew my Flickr Pro Subscription.  Perhaps some kind soul will just gift me and end the debate altogether. 

I haven't updated here in a few days.

I made my MySpace public. Time will tell if this is a mistake or not. 

I found out from the lovely Michelle (are you patronizing her business yet?) that although MT4 uses a lot of includes and template modules, I am able to create an old school style template using just the regular template tags, so that is my next experiment to work with, details forthcoming. 

And now, after my second cup of coffee has settled in, I feel energized and ready to begin my day. 

On my to do list:

1. Clean my room
2. Clean the bathroom
3. Laundry!!!'
4. Work on Movable Type
5. Dishes!
6. Clean out my car
7. Recycling!
8. Write for an hour
9. Read for an hour
10. Chillax, it's Saturday!

And with that, I'm on my way.

i'm sitting at my desk at work.  i've already done my daily checkbook balancing, sorted and distributed the mail for both departments i support, and i'm currently working my way through my first cup of coffee as well as a yummy pecan scone.

i almost let something bother me yesterday.  let me rephrase; i did let it bother me for a few hours and pervade my thoughts when i went to bed, but i realized upon waking this morning that i am a CHAMPION, and anything i want i can have.  this thing that i want, and i should state that i am now in the process of analyzing whether or not i really want it, but this thing that i think i want is not so hard for me to have.

i am a black superwoman.  i can do anything.

I used to believe in love.  Now I believe in me.  I used to think I wanted him, but what I really wanted was the man I wanted him to be. I used to believe in miracles, but now I believe in making shit happen.  I used to leave it to fate, but now I am my own captain.

if you move too slow, it might just pass you by.

• Tavis Smiley Quits Tom Joyner Morning Show Friday - HipHop-Elements.com
  Tavis Smiley reportedly quit his weekly political commentary position with the Tom Joyner Morning Show on Friday. The move was announced on air on the show Friday morning. However, the exact reasons for his resignation were not determined. Smiley became a
  (tags: tavissmiley tomjoyner news celebs)
• Victoria Lindsay Attackers to be Charged as Adults - HipHop-Elements.com
  The six juvenile girls who beat one of their classmates will be charged as adults. Two boys were also involved in the beating. They have already been charged as adults as they are 18. The eight Florida teens ganged up on Mulberry High School cheerleader V
  (tags: victorialindsay youtube beating girlfight)
• Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn Cancel Divorce Papers - HipHop-Elements.com
  Sean Penn and wife Robin Wright Penn have cancelled their divorce papers, reconciling four months after they filed for divorce.
  (tags: celebs seanpenn divorces marriage gossip)
• WHO TV - Des Moines: UI scientists seek marijuana smokers for pot study
  The study examines how marijuana affects brain function and cognition, with particular attention to the duration of use and the age of first use. The measure is brain imaging studies and achievement tests, such as for math and verbal skills. Robert Block
  (tags: marijuana decriminalization drugs science)

the coolest thing happened over my parents' house today.  my sister and brothers and i burst out into an impromptu performance of "The Message" by Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five.  We were loud as hell, clapping and dancing around my mom's kitchen.  My mom and Dad were watching us, and both of them were smiling with a look that mixed pride and love and I know they were thinking, "Yep, these are our kids."

We sang the song from beginning to end. 

7 days without it, and Iike Mary J. Blige, I'm doing Just Fine.

• History and Race in ‘Meeting Mr. Wilson’ on MSNBC - New York Times
  In “Meeting David Wilson,” a documentary on MSNBC on Friday, a 28-year-old African-American from Newark in search of his roots finds his way to North Carolina. The goal of his trip is to meet a 62-year-old man whose great-great-grandfather owned slave
  (tags: race documentaries racerelations conversation)

i'm watching my soaps on dvr, uploading pictures and videos into flickr, thinking about the barbecue we're having around the pool at my parents' house tomorrow and wondering if i should go get a new swimsuit or not.

why are men so easily manipulated?

<insert devilish grin here>

so TWOP went all funky crazy and redesigned the look of their main page yet again, but now none of the links work. 

or as it is more commonly known, WTF

this is an anitra-ism.

twitter killed the personal blog...

• Washington Mutual to exit wholesale lending - Apr. 8, 2008
  When a bank lays off nearly 3,000 employees and ceases to be an actual "savings and loan" institute, that is never a good sign.
  (tags: bank banking wamu washingtonmutual)

pssst...we point and laugh at you.  srsly.  all day long.

putting plans into place to be at lollapalooza this summer!!

i am consuming my first cup of coffee with a blueberry scone.  scones are so delicious.  who came up with this idea anyway?

...of coffee that is.  i've had none yet this morning, and i am stuck behind my desk waiting for a student who should have been here at 10:00 on the dot, but is late already.  I'm giving her ten more minutes before i take off to the cafeteria and she will just be out of luck.

so michelle, in all her awesomeness, has already begun working on a variation of the DePo Skinny theme for Movable Type.  she isn't quite done yet, but has enough of it done to give me a headstart on what i wanted to do with it.  

i get by with a little help from my friends.  any time i have an MT question, i don't go to the support forums; i go to my own personal MT guru, who just happens to work for the company that makes the product.  i'm not going to out him here, because i am sure that would cause an influx of IMs with people doing the same thing, and then he'd be pissed at me.  suffice it to say that this man is hella smart, makes me laugh and answers not just my MT questions, but general web coding questions as well.

today i had an old school MT question, and this dude was nowhere to be found, so i went to the next best source, my shero, who knows MT as well as if not better than my guy friend.  y'all know she came back with an answer within like ten minutes, right?  i'm going to out her, because she runs a business and can help you get your site running and looking good.

so, thank you, Michelle.  you are the shit!

why do i roll my eyes into the top of my head anytime i read anything you've written?  because i know you are posing.  yes, you are a poser.  those of us that have really had time to know you realize this, and we are just waiting for your ass to catch up. you are this huge pod that just adapts whatever personality you think is "in" at the moment, whether it be miss health consciousness, miss fashion diva, miss "soul sista" or miss "i'm so much more evolved than the rest of you". 

the sad part is that in the nearly ten years that i've known you, there really hasn't been any evolving on your part, but more a devolving back to the way people used to act in high school when trying to fit in with the cool kids, and that my friend is just sad.

i like how flickr tells me that my attempt to blog a photo from within their system was unsuccessful, but when i look on my page, it is there.

if anyone has any suggestions on how to make these two play nice, i am all ears.

heather armstrong, aka dooce, saw rick springfield in the airport apparently. i would have been forced to walk up to him and call him dr. drake, but that's cause i am a GH nerd.

i'd like to play around with movable type today.  this is the only blog i have set up in it with any content so far, so i suppose this is where i will start playing.  as far as design goes, i am thinking something along the lines of the depo-clean and depo-skinny themes created by Derek Powazek.  his designs were created for word press blogs (which begs another question: why is everyone switching to word press?), but i think i might be handy enough to recreate this look or somethng very similar for myself. 

stay tuned...

• Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com
  Charlton Heston is dead. Good Night, Mr NRA
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psychological addiction
codependency
MUDs
the need for privacy and alone time
exercise plans and eating habits
erotica

it is friday, and i've been home since before 2pm. 

i love my job.

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i'm feeling like an idiot because i just realized why people use the screen name "lessthanthree". 

less than three

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I'm so slow sometimes.

only one entry, but good stuff so far.  lexicology

again with the two cups of coffee.  i feel decidedly better.  now on with the rest of my day.

Today is the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr Martin Luther King.  On the Steve Harvey radio show, they played an excerpt of his "I Have Been to the Mountaintop" speech that he gave the night before he died.  I've read the words on paper, but actually hearing them come out of his charismatic, son of a preacher man, southern preacher man mouth brought tears to my eyes.  Especially when I realized how prophetic those words were when he died the next day.

i am an extremely different person off of caffeine.  i have no energy today.  i just want to go home and go to bed.  this has been a really long week.

yes, jason does have the right idea.  i think i'll make a photo food diary as well.

it irks me when people keep asking me questions and trying to talk to me when they can clearly see i am trying to do something else that does not involve talking to them.

my ideas sometimes get stuck in the planning phase.  that is the worst part.