By mim on January 18th, 2006
Well okay, so I was gonna try and play with it more, but eh, how do I decide when I’m “done?” Plus I don’t know how to do anything so I’m slow. Really slooooow. So I think I’ll just start posting new entries over at http://nothingedifying.com and leave this up as archives. Maybe if the server goes down or something, I’ll post up here:) But it oughtn’t.
I decided to host with A Small Orange cos I liked the name and the logo (it’s an orange:p). I also decided to install typo cos I liked the live search function and I liked the general look of it. But now that it’s running, I feel like it’s slow. I dunno why. Maybe I did something wrong when I installed it, I dunno. It’s entirely possible cos I basically didn’t know what I was doing:p If you have suggestions about this (or anything else) please please email me!!!
But yeah, change your bookmarks/feed readers over please! And thanks for reading:)
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By mim on January 15th, 2006
By mim on January 13th, 2006
For the blog’s one year anniversary, I’ve decided to host this blog somewhere. Actually, there’s nothing terrible about Blogger, and I might still stick with it, but I thought it’d be cool and I might learn something. And it’s something I haven’t tried before. So I’m working on that. Honestly, it’s a little confusing for me right now. I’ll let y’all know when/if I get done:)
By mim on January 11th, 2006
Today it’s been one year since I started this blog. Crazy! It doesn’t seem like that long. I think that means I’ll keep at it:)
By mim on January 9th, 2006
Wow, did you see my ads? There’s evidently a Mim Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey! How cool is that:)
Looks like it got replaced by Scrabble ads though.
By mim on January 8th, 2006
A while back K and CT called while they were playing Scrabble with K’s friends. I hadn’t thought about Scrabble in forever. Maybe cos I sort of suck at it. We just don’t have the skills to put down a few letters and complete like five words at once!!! Or whatever it is that them Scrabble champs do.
Anyhows, listening to them talk about it made me think to play it, so, we broke out our Scrabble set and played 1v1.
Yut was beating me for the whole game, but then I drew the J. Dooooood, I thought I really lost cos I didn’t think I could use the J anywhere, but since we allowed ourselves to use the gameplay guide which has a list of acceptable two letter words, I found JO and the perfect spot to play it right at the bottom triple word score. After that, Yut couldn’t catch up, so I won:)
When we finished, we went to look up some of our questionable words, which weren’t quite questionable enough to challenge: HEADSIZE — not a word (oops, that one was me), but also, ENDO — not a word (that one was Yut), so all good:)
By mim on January 7th, 2006
Have you seen the new(-ish) tampon line, dittie?
Yeah, the whole gimmick is that tampons that come packaged in pink wrappers with “sassy messages” printed on them will make “your period more fun!” Yeah, really, that’s what it says on the website.
Some of the messages are chuckleworthy, like, “Wanna know Victoria’s Secret? It’s called airbrushing” but some of them barely make sense, like, “Don’t just be the life of the party – be the party of life” which is really bad chiasmus.
I don’t see why some old school dot matrix style printed messages on the tampon wrapper would really make me feel like I NEED THESE TAMPONS! Well I mean, any more than I already feel like I need tampons in general. I mean, one is much like another. ‘Cept when I bought these, they were on sale, which is a marketing gimmick that I really like:)
By the way, I had this random thought today: I wonder if diapers and maxi pads are made of the same thing. Cos I mean, the commercials for them are suspiciously similar. There’s always a little cup of blue water that gets poured, then one leaks and one doesn’t. Although, come to think of it, paper towel ads are like that too.
By mim on January 5th, 2006
So okay, I’m probably the last person to discover these, but:
Meebo, a web-based IM client. It’s like AIM Express but you can log in to AIM, Yahoo! Msger, MSN Msger, and Jabber, I think. Doesn’t let you use the client smileys though. Or if it does, I don’t know about it. Too bad cos I love the Yahoo! smileys. It’s my fave im client at least partially cos of those smileys. In contrast, the AIM smileys give me the creeps:p CT, you should try this:)
Rate My Professors, where you can rate your college professors, and read what other people had to say. It’s a pretty nice tool for picking classes:) Take with a grain of salt, of course.
And for the high schoolers out there, Rate My Teachers is the same thing.
I went and looked up some of my old professors and teachers and I think quite a lot of them have retired or moved on to other schools. And I’ve forgotten quite a lot of their names. Goes to show how many years it’s been. Makes me feel old:p
By mim on January 5th, 2006
So the patch to the Windows security flaw has been released, so yeah, it’s time to apply the patch and reregister the dll.
Instructions at Security Fix: Microsoft to Fix Windows Flaw Today.
Kay, I’ll send you a file, just do the update, restart, and then run the file, then restart, ok? :p
In a way, it seems that when these flaws are found, everyone’s so careful already that it’s not as bad as it could be. Well… so it seems right now anyhows:)
By mim on January 4th, 2006
My doctor told me I needed more fiber the last time I talked to her. You can generally at least sort of imagine for what, I don’t think I need to get into it. She particularly recommended dried fruit cos there’s more fiber per ounce than with regular fruit and it’s easy to persuade people to eat dried fruit. Anyhows, today, we went to Berkeley Bowl to buy fruit and a couple other things cos you know, what with two big visiting-family trips back to back, our fridge is pretty empty (although the freezer is still half full, thanks mum:)!). With my doctor’s advice in mind, we stopped by the bulk section to pick out some fruit:
There’s two kinds of dried apricot (one identified as being from California, one from USA; one with color preservative, one without), dried pears (which I didn’t even know existed), and dried plums (which are different from prunes, who knew). Clearly I’m not edumacated about dried fruit.
The problem is, I put some in front of me, and even though I’m not hungry, they’re in front of me, and I find myself absent-mindedly reaching over to eat. Well, I mean, it’s ok, right? The doctor said I should eat this stuff. It’s good for me! Aaaarrrrggghhhh. The other bags are on a bookshelf, and now I’ve closed up this bag of apricots, and I’ve pushed them back further away from me, and I’m going to stop now, yes.
