| so, iPhone and Touch owners... |
[Dec. 8th, 2009|04:00 pm] |
What apps should I look into?
Free is better, of course. :p
(I got a Touch as a birthday+Christmas gift from my parents.)
General management and ownership tips are welcome too. I need to get a case or something as well...something that keeps crud from getting in AND cushions it is better, I think. o_O
(Icon only relevant inasmuch as people who make free apps have done so.) |
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[Dec. 8th, 2009|08:32 am] |
The Fruit of Paradise: The Fruit of Paradise, the Nectar of Death: bittersweet pomegranate, nurtured and cultivated in the hollow darkness of the Underworld.
In bottle: Pomegranate and musk.
On me: Pomegranate and a hint of musk.
Very very nice. Simple, and not too sweet. |
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ritornelle/ritornello: (n) An instrumental refrain, interlude, or prelude in a vocal work.
stitch: (n) 1. The act of cutting or dividing the earth with the share in ploughing; the (greater or lesser) depth to which the share is driven in making a furrow.
2. A ridge or balk of land; especially a strip of ploughed land between two water-furrows; also, a narrow ridge in which potatoes, etc. are grown.
lex/lax: (n) A salmon; in later use some particular kind of salmon.
preclusion: (n) 1. The action of precluding; the action or fact of preventing the occurrence of something, especially by anticipatory measures; prevention, restriction.
2. In U.S. Law: The barring of evidence, testimony, claims, etc., from a trial.
interfiliate: (v) To blend or combine multiple origins or affiliations.
logogriphics: (n) The study of logogriphs: A kind of enigma, in which a certain word, and other words that can be formed out of all or any of its letters, are to be guessed from synonyms of them introduced into a set of verses. Occasionally used for: Any anagram or puzzle involving anagrams.
treponema: (n) In Biology and Medicine: An anærobic spirochæte of the genus of this name, the members of which are parasitic or pathogenic in man and warm-blooded animals and include those causing syphilis and yaws.
spirochæte: (n) A genus of bacteria having a highly twisted spiral form; in modern use, any bacterium of the order Spirochætales, comprising actively motile non-spore-forming organisms having a helical form.
erysipelas: (n) A local febrile disease accompanied by diffused inflammation of the skin, producing a deep red colour; often called St. Anthony's fire, or ‘the rose’.
febrile: (adj) 1. Of a person: Affected by, or suffering from, fever.
2. Of or pertaining to fever; produced by or indicative of fever; feverish.
aphonia: (n) In Medicine: the inability to speak.
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| Excursion to New Orleans |
[Dec. 7th, 2009|03:55 pm] |
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) s00j concert last night was wonderful! It was a small venue, with only a handful of people there, and while I could have wished s00j a bigger audience, I actually really liked the intimacy of it. I got to meet some great people, and the other two members of the Traveling Fates were wonderful. I shall be buying CDs from them as soon as I can afford it again.
Also, while in New Orleans, I made a point to go to Pirate's Alley. I cannot describe the feeling of being there, on that street, where my novel takes place; of putting my hand on the wall of the building that *is* the Black Rose; of smelling the unique scent of New Orleans mingled with the fragrance from the Cathedral garden; of sitting drinking rum and cranberry juice in the bar whose interior will inform the layout of Liath's bar. I took tons of notes. It was incredible, and surreal, and wonderful. I need to go back! |
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[Dec. 7th, 2009|12:29 pm] |
Countess Willie: Chocolate plum musk, red musk, amaretto, candied fruits, and red ginger.
In bottle: Chocolate, sugar, citrus fruits, and ginger.
On me: Amaretto and musk, with an undertone of chocolate, and an afterscent of candied fruit.
Ok, but a little too foody for me. |
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[Dec. 6th, 2009|07:19 pm] |
Dear me, please don't take it all so seriously. Cause it doesn't need to be. You can be happy anyway.
So there. |
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[Dec. 6th, 2009|03:19 am] |
Finally a clean kitchen. This represents hours of work. Least it felt like hours.
It's satisfying anyway, that it's finished and looks good. Cause I kinda hate doing dishes.
And I'm making gluten free chocolate cake now so yay, I needs a reward, yes.
Hmm, I wonder if my aversion to this kinda houseworks stems from my mother. She used to have us do it, saying her mother never "taught" her how to do it and therefore she was unprepared when she got married and she didn't want to leave us unprepared. She didn't work. We went to school, but she expected us to do the housework. Sounded like the lamest excuse ever to me. It was more often the dishes that she was wanting me to do. My room could be a wreck but rarely did she ask me to clean it. And I don't mind cleaning my room. Though it never takes so long as the dishes does. So who knows why. ~shrug~
Strange to find myself at 40 still feeling manipulated by my mother to do work that was hers to do.
Seems so petty. And strange. Cause it's over, isn't it? Right, it's over.
I'm so glad I grew up. Being under her influence was incredibly difficult. Growing up seemed to be the only way out.
Is there something that says at this age one rehashes their childhood?
Cause I keep seeming to.
But I'm moody today, tender. There is blood and cramps and I'm so sad cause a friend, a dear friend is leaving town, moving away. I'll keep her here in my heart, right here in this spot behind my heart.
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Nice. I'm listening to my lastfm station and "Pimp Ballad" by Black Sun Productions just came on. It's rather funny. I needed that.
Thank you World for your love. :)
Love too. |
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[Dec. 5th, 2009|12:22 pm] |
I ran around my back yard very quickly cause it's cold and my feet were bare and I was wearing thin pajamas.
I saw the light through the bare branches of the deciduous trees.
And I realized the benefit of this to us, to the Earth.
The trees, when they lose their leaves, I mourn it, it seems sad to me a bit and I get less cover around the house, less privacy in a way. And I've heard that the trees do it to save energy for the winter, and I understand that. The evergreens don't need to and I do appreciate that.
But it occurred to me in the weaker sunlight of the winter with less leaves on the trees more light can hit the earth and more light gets to me. And that, is grace.
I'm thankful for it. |
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[Dec. 5th, 2009|01:23 pm] |
On Darkness: An embrace: black poppy, lavender, thick black incense, black amber, rose geranium, Brazilian rosewood, and benzoin.
In bottle: Poppy, amber, and incense, with an undertone of rose and an afterscent of benzoin.
On me: Benzoin and incense, with an undertone of amber and poppy and an afterscent of rose.
Very pleasant: dark and warm with a sweet undertone. |
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[Dec. 5th, 2009|01:17 pm] |
colocasia: (n) In Botany: A genus of plants of the Arum family, natives of the East Indies, and largely cultivated in warm climates for the sake of their leaves and tuberous root-stocks, used as articles of food.
ecologic: (adj) Alternate form of 'ecological.'
canorous: (adj) Singing, melodious, musical; resonant, ringing.
torus: (n) 1. In Architecture: A large convex moulding, of semicircular or similar section, used especially at the base of a column: resembling the astragal, but much larger.
2. In Botany: The swollen summit of the flower-stalk, which supports the floral organs.
3. In Zoology: A protuberant part or organ, as the ventral parapodia in some annelids. torus angularis, a single ossicle which articulates with a pair of interambulacral plates in some starfishes.
4. In Anatomy: A smooth rounded ridge or elongated protuberance, as of a muscle; specifically the tuber cinereum of the brain.
5. In Geometry: Originally, a surface or solid generated by the revolution of a circle or other conic about any axis; e.g. a solid ring of circular or elliptic section. In modern use, a surface or solid conceived of as generated by the circular motion of a circle about an axis outside itself but lying in its plane; also, any body topologically equivalent to this, having one hole in it but not necessarily circular in form or cross-section.
astragal: (n) 1. In Physiology: The ball of the ankle-joint; the huckle-bone.
2. In Architecture: A small moulding, of semicircular section, sometimes plain, sometimes carved with leaves or cut into beads, placed round the top or bottom of columns, and used to separate the different parts of the architrave in ornamental entablatures.
3. In Gunnery: A ring or moulding encircling a cannon about six inches from the mouth.
interabulacrum: (n) In Zoology: One of the imperforate plates occupying the intervals of the ambulacra or perforate plates in the shells of echinoderms.
interambulacral (adj) Off or pertaining to interambulacra; situated between ambulacra.
parapodial: (adj) In Zoology: Of, relating to, or of the nature of a parapodium or parapodia.
parapodium: (n) 1. A muscular lateral appendage occurring in pairs on the body segments of polychaete annelids, typically consisting of two lobes, bearing setae and sometimes gills, and variously used for locomotion, respiration, and sensation.
2. Either of two lateral lobes of the foot of certain gastropod molluscs (such as sea slugs), used as undulating fins in swimming.
ossicle: (n) In Anatomy and Zoology: 1. Any of the small bones of the middle ear (the malleus, incus, and stapes).
2. Any of various other small bones; especially any of the bones of the carpus or tarsus; any of the tiny bones found in the sclera of the eye in birds and some reptiles.
3. A small calcified or hardened plate, segment, etc., in an invertebrate; especially each of the calcareous plates forming the skeleton of an echinoderm; each of the disc-shaped segments of the stalk, cirri, arms, and pinnules of a crinoid; or each of the small hard thickenings of the chitinous wall of the cardiac chamber of a malacostracan crustacean.
tuber cinereum: (n) A conical projection at the base of the brain.
malleus: (n) In Anatomy and Zoology: 1. The outermost of the three ossicles of the mammalian ear, which transmits vibrations of the eardrum to the incus.
2. In a rotifer: either of two hammer-like parts of the chitinous mouth-apparatus, which masticate food by working on the incus.
3. A genus of bivalve molluscs of the family Malleidae, whose elongated shell resembles a hammer owing to the presence of projections at the hinge; a mollusc of this genus.
incus: (n) In Anatomy and Zoology: 1. The middle one of the three small bones of the ear (malleus, incus, and stapes), to which the sonorous vibrations are conveyed from the malleus or ‘hammer’.
2. A part of the ‘trophi’ or mouth-apparatus in Rotifera, upon which the two mallei work.
stapes: (n) 1. The innermost of the three ossicles in the tympanum of the ear in mammals; named from its stirrup-like shape.
2. a bandage for the foot, making a figure-of-8 round the ankle.
slera: (n) The sclerotic coat of the eyeball.
slerotic: (n) 1. The hard outer coat of the posterior part of the eyeball, forming the white of the eye.
2. A medicine for hardening the flesh, etc.
pinnule: (n) 1. Either of two sights (usually small square metal plates, pierced with holes, and each turning on a hinge) at the ends of the alidade or index of an astrolabe, quadrant, or similar instrument.
2. In Zoology: Originally: any part or organ resembling a small wing or fin, or a barb of a feather; especially each of the small fins behind the second dorsal and anal fins of a mackerel or tuna. Also (now chiefly): a subdivision of a pinna, especially any of the jointed lateral branches along the arms of a crinoid.
3. In Botany: A subdivision of a pinna of a bipinnate leaf or frond, especially of a fern; a leaflet, a lobe.
crinoid: (adj) 1. Lily-shaped; applied to an order (chiefly fossil) of echinoderms, having a calyx-like body, stalked and rooted.
(n) 2. A member of this order.
malacostracan: (n) 1. A crustacean of the class Malacostraca, which includes shrimps, crabs, lobsters, isopods, and amphipods.
(adj) 2. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the class Malacostraca.
rotifer: (n) In Zoology: An animal of the class or phylum Rotifera; a wheel animalcule.
trophi: (n pl.) A collective name for the mouth-parts in insects, as organs for seizing and preparing the food. Also applied to the parts of the pharynx in rotifers, having a similar function.
alidade: (n) The index of an astrolabe, quadrant, or other graduated instrument, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees cut off on the arc of the instrument. In the astrolabe it revolved at the back, and was called by Chaucer the Rule.
pinna: (n) 1. A bivalve mollusc of the genus Pinna, having a large silky byssus; a fan mussel. Later also: the genus itself.
2. In Anatomy and Zoology: The broad flap of skin-covered cartilage which forms the external ear in humans and other mammals. Formerly: the upper part of this.
3. Any of various structures in vertebrates functioning as fins, wings, or feathers; especially a fin of a fish; a flipper of a seal or whale.
4. Any of various structures in invertebrates resembling fins, wings, or feathers; especially an arm of a crinoid; or a lateral branch of certain colonial polyps, as pennatulaceans.
5. In Botany: Each primary division of a pinnate or pinnatifid leaf or frond, especially of a fern.
isopod: (n) In Zoology: An animal of the order Isopoda of sessile-eyed Crustaceans, characterized by seven pairs of equal and similarly placed thoracic legs; comprising marine, fresh-water, and terrestrial species, some being parasitic.
amphipod: (n) In Zoology: An animal of the order Amphipoda, an order or sub-order of the sessile-eyed Crustacea, having feet of two kinds (in which they differ from the Isopoda), of which the common sand-hopper is an example.
animalcule: (n) 1. A small or tiny animal; formerly applied to small vertebrates, such as mice, and all invertebrates.
2. An animal so small as to be visible only with the aid of the microscope; applied chiefly to the Rotifera and Infusoria.
byssus: (n) 1. An exceedingly fine and valuable textile fibre and fabric known to the ancients; apparently the word was used, or misused, of various substances, linen, cotton, and silk, but it denoted properly a kind of flax, and hence is appropriately translated in the English Bible ‘fine linen’.
2. A name formerly given to filamentous fungoid growths of different kinds, which are now more accurately classified.
3. In Zoology: The tuft of fine silky filaments by which molluscs of the genus Pinna and various mussels attach themselves to the surface of rocks; it is secreted by the byssus-gland in the foot.
4. In Botany: The thread-like stipe of some fungi.
5. A name formerly given to asbestos.
pennatulacean: (adj) 1. Of or relating to the order Pennatulacea of alcyonarian coelenterates, which have an elongated primary polyp anchored in sand or mud and usually bear secondary polyps on lateral branches.
2. (n) A coelenterate of this order; a sea pen.
pinnatifid: (adj) Of a leaf or frond: pinnately divided about halfway to the midrib.
sessile: (adj) 1. Having no footstalk.
2. In Botany: Of leaves, fruits, flowers, or other organs: Immediately attached by the base; not having a peduncle, pedicel, or the like. Hence of a species or variety (e.g. of oak) bearing sessile fruits: opposed to pedunculated.
3. In Zoology: Of limbs or organs: Immediately in contact with the structure to which they are attached; having no connecting neck or footstalk. Also of certain animals.
4. In Pathology: Of morbid growths, warts, etc.: Adhering close to the surface.
5. Of certain animals: Sedentary, fixed to one spot; not ambulatory. Of cells: Immobile.
6. In Crystology: Of a dislocation in a crystal: unable to migrate through the lattice; fixed.
alcyonarian: (adj) 1. Belonging to the Alcyonaria, a sub-order of Actinoid Zoophytes;
(n) 2. A zoophyte of that group.
actinoid: (adj) Having the form of rays, radiated; said of a division of Zoophytes or Polypes, having the internal cavity divided by radiated partitions, as in the coral zoophytes.
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[Dec. 3rd, 2009|09:56 am] |
If you would like to help a long-time LJ friend of mine (well, I'm pretty sure we met at least once at a party of gaaneden's or mactavish's or...) who could use some support after the not unexpected but still shockingly sudden death of her husband, please go here:
http://community.livejournal.com/britgeek_love/
I think a huge number of you already know britgeekgrrl online, offline, or through friends-of-friends, but if not, here's your chance. The auctions include everything from signed Regency romances to a permanent LJ account to skull mitts to jewelry to photos to antique absinthe equipment to Harry Potter handknit vests, and then some.
Things are still being added, and since the couple were involved in the gaming and costuming world, and have friends who are writers and so on, there are lots of things that are likely to appeal to you! |
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[Dec. 3rd, 2009|08:30 am] |
Nes Gadol Haya Sham: Nun, the Snake: nuun, nothing. Naḥš, in modern Arabic, means bad luck. Represented by scents of loss and remembrance: opoponax and lemon verbena.
Gimel, the Camel: the Ship of the Desert. Represented by scents of abundance, fortitude, and determination: patchouli, heliotrope, pomegranate, and almond.
He, the Window: sometimes used to represent the Unutterable Name of God, this is the window in our souls through which God's light touches us. Represented by scents of clarity and piety: frankincense, myrtle, and hyssop.
Shin, the Tooth: also stands for Shaddai, one of the names of God. The hand formed into shin acts as a priestly blessing. Represented by scents of strength, generosity, kindness, and benediction: carnation, myrrh, red poppy, and hibiscus.
The essences of Nun, Gimel, He, and Shin are blended to become Nes Gadol Haya Sham.
In Bottle: Wow. A very complex scent. I can smell the patchouli, opoponax, frankincense, and lemon verbena, along with some other herb-y scents I can't place.
On me: Ok, the lemon verbena is stronger on me, and I can smell the patchouli and myrrh and maybe a hint of almond. It's a lovely scent, even if I can't parse out all the components.
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