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Jun. 9th, 2005
Few things all randomly thrown together.
Jun. 9th, 2005 08:55 am
1. I'm seeing a lot of comments from people I don't know. Hi-hi! Who are you? Come introduce yourselves! Tell me how you found me!
1a. The rest of youse can do that too.
1b. You can lie about yourself if your real life isn't interesting enough. I won't mind.
2. I'm going to rewrite my userinfo soon. I think I'll model the form after![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
book_icons, and stick it all in an entry somewhere. Much cleaner. Anybody have any questions they'd like answered?
3. How can something be the "very first"? Isn't that like being "very unique"?
4. We've been having blackouts. I don't get it. It's not even that hot yet!
5. Believe it or not, I'm actually going offline today for a substantial period of time. Going to the bookstore. The air-conditioned bookstore. Should be fun!
6. Okay. Since response was generally positive, who's up for a game of Calvinball this weekend? A real game, in Central Park (or another park, whatever)?
7. I need to buy some shorts.
1a. The rest of youse can do that too.
1b. You can lie about yourself if your real life isn't interesting enough. I won't mind.
2. I'm going to rewrite my userinfo soon. I think I'll model the form after
book_icons, and stick it all in an entry somewhere. Much cleaner. Anybody have any questions they'd like answered?3. How can something be the "very first"? Isn't that like being "very unique"?
4. We've been having blackouts. I don't get it. It's not even that hot yet!
5. Believe it or not, I'm actually going offline today for a substantial period of time. Going to the bookstore. The air-conditioned bookstore. Should be fun!
6. Okay. Since response was generally positive, who's up for a game of Calvinball this weekend? A real game, in Central Park (or another park, whatever)?
7. I need to buy some shorts.
When I was little-little*, I honestly used to think that if I stood very very still and didn't move, people would think I was a statue. If I stood even stiller (more still?), I'd turn invisible.
I believed this despite the fact that it didn't work. At all.
I also thought that there was no way to think a lie. You could think something like "I'm going to say the sky is green" or "I wonder if the sky could be green", but you couldn't think "Gee, the sky sure is green!" unless it actually was green. Finally, when I turned seven or so, I decided to test this hypothesis by thinking a lie. I was actually scared to do this, because I suspected that the actual act of thinking a lie might make me sick, or even kill me.
No, I don't know where I got that idea.
And now I'm gone! Djusk' a!
*Lately, I've noticed that I reduplicate when I ought to just say "very". Why? Does anybody else do this? Have I always done this? Did I do this before I learned of reduplication? Is it annoying, or interesting?
I believed this despite the fact that it didn't work. At all.
I also thought that there was no way to think a lie. You could think something like "I'm going to say the sky is green" or "I wonder if the sky could be green", but you couldn't think "Gee, the sky sure is green!" unless it actually was green. Finally, when I turned seven or so, I decided to test this hypothesis by thinking a lie. I was actually scared to do this, because I suspected that the actual act of thinking a lie might make me sick, or even kill me.
No, I don't know where I got that idea.
And now I'm gone! Djusk' a!
*Lately, I've noticed that I reduplicate when I ought to just say "very". Why? Does anybody else do this? Have I always done this? Did I do this before I learned of reduplication? Is it annoying, or interesting?
This? TOO COOL. I've always wanted Mario boxes hanging around.
This? TOO FUNNY. Stupid, but funny.
And this is fucking scary.
This? TOO FUNNY. Stupid, but funny.
And this is fucking scary.
I will starve this week.
Jun. 9th, 2005 04:01 pm
I bought two books for Ana, because I fell madly in love with them.
The first is an alphabet book, titled "ABC A Child's First Alphabet Book". I went through it once, wasn't too impressed. It's a very simple text. A is for apple. B is for balloon. C is for cow. X "marks the spot", if you're curious, which was a nice twist. I didn't get interested at all until I came to Z is for Zoo, and realized that I'd seen those animals before. Not just on the preceding page (Y is for yacht, of all things), but throughout the book.
So I went through it again, more slowly. A is for apple - and in the distance, we see the hot air balloon. The man from that balloon has landed in E is for elephant.
I went through it again, more slowly still. The envelope we see in D is for dog is the same envelope the man is showing the elephant. When the artist-woman paints a picture of a panda, we see the man talking to the panda a page later. Wait - are the man and the woman writing to each other? THEY ARE. I think. It's hard to tell.
But I've now gone through this book five times, and I'm still not sure I've seen the end of it. It's insanely complex - B isn't for balloon. It's also for ball, and bee, and beehive, and butterfly. All these things are in the picture, hiding away to be noticed. M is for moon, sure, but it's also for the man's map, for moose, for mountain.
I love it. Ana will love it, both now, and when she gets old enough to understand it.
I've now put a similar book by the same illustrator on my wishlist. When I find it in real life, I'm buying it, stat.
The other book is "Cinder-Eyed Cats". Words cannot describe this book. Let me just say it tops "In the Night Kitchen" for depiction of a bizarre dream. (Which reminds me, I saw a Sendak book "Bears" which featured the boy from Wild Things.) But as dreams go, this is a dream I'd like to live in. It's... it defies description.
All in all, a good day.
The first is an alphabet book, titled "ABC A Child's First Alphabet Book". I went through it once, wasn't too impressed. It's a very simple text. A is for apple. B is for balloon. C is for cow. X "marks the spot", if you're curious, which was a nice twist. I didn't get interested at all until I came to Z is for Zoo, and realized that I'd seen those animals before. Not just on the preceding page (Y is for yacht, of all things), but throughout the book.
So I went through it again, more slowly. A is for apple - and in the distance, we see the hot air balloon. The man from that balloon has landed in E is for elephant.
I went through it again, more slowly still. The envelope we see in D is for dog is the same envelope the man is showing the elephant. When the artist-woman paints a picture of a panda, we see the man talking to the panda a page later. Wait - are the man and the woman writing to each other? THEY ARE. I think. It's hard to tell.
But I've now gone through this book five times, and I'm still not sure I've seen the end of it. It's insanely complex - B isn't for balloon. It's also for ball, and bee, and beehive, and butterfly. All these things are in the picture, hiding away to be noticed. M is for moon, sure, but it's also for the man's map, for moose, for mountain.
I love it. Ana will love it, both now, and when she gets old enough to understand it.
I've now put a similar book by the same illustrator on my wishlist. When I find it in real life, I'm buying it, stat.
The other book is "Cinder-Eyed Cats". Words cannot describe this book. Let me just say it tops "In the Night Kitchen" for depiction of a bizarre dream. (Which reminds me, I saw a Sendak book "Bears" which featured the boy from Wild Things.) But as dreams go, this is a dream I'd like to live in. It's... it defies description.
All in all, a good day.