What is it with women and change?

[itsallovernow]

Have I mentioned that I'm not a big fan of change? For instance, although it's much prettier now, I'm not really thrilled with having to re-learn how to navigate LJ. It is an unexpected upset in my Friday. I will get over it.

However, I also unexpectedly have to go to a meeting. This suggestion comes from the same man who didn't want me to go to yesterday's meeting, which I wanted to go to and was appropriately dressed for. Who would want to take someone to a meeting who's wearing a v-neck white tank top and low cut black jeans? I am not dressed appropriately and this will embarrass me because we are going to a chichi architectural firm and they will raise eyebrows at me. Which makes me cranky.

I have also arrived upon a very important question stemming from my overwhelming viewage of scifi programming (ok, maybe not overwhelming, mostly Futurama and FS and the commercials for Stargate): why is the space/time continuum- wormholes and stargates and the like - always blue? Is this scientific, or merely pretty? And yes it is pretty.

Thing I learned from Futurama's commentaries is that cartoonists are smart. They got the Kiegelcizer, complete with someone using it in the gym, past the censor board for a show that aired at 7:00 p.m. in CA. Never underestimate geeks with a zillion dollar budget and a marker.

Everyone go giggle at rubberneck's new icons. They're brilliant, as are whitelight1's School of Mulder Torture icons.

And, while I'm trying to harrass crankygrrl into doing this, I'm lusting after some LGM porn. It can be brief, or detailed or angsty or funny, but I've really got a hankering.

I don't know what to do with the 7 Virtues thing, whether I should bother cleaning it up and sending it anywhere or not.

To all those allergy suffers, my mother reccomends white willow bark and something that starts with a C that is yellow and you can purchase in the grocery story. She swears it will help. But this is the woman who used to make me drink cholophyll in my water, who would in fact hide this concoction in a pink plastic sports bottle thinking I wouldn't be able to tell, so you takes your chances.

Comments

[sorlklewis.livejournal.com]

why is the space/time continuum- wormholes and stargates and the like - always blue? Is this scientific, or merely pretty?

It's just pretty. Wormholes are merely theoretical, so we have no idea what they would actually look like. They could be red. They could be black. But blue is pretty and non threatening. *g*

http://www.hypography.com/topics/wormholes.cfm

LGM porn? Oy. Well, I have some half written. This is a good reason to finish it, I suppose.

And I think I'll pass on the allergy remedy...

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

You can't be cranky. I'm Cranky. If both of us are cranky we'll cause a breech in the laws of physics if we ever meet in the same time and place.

*heh*

Working on the LGM porn.

[spoonishly.livejournal.com]

They're brilliant, as are whitelight1's School of Mulder Torture icons.

*blush* Thank you. The idea actually came indirectly from themoonbar when she mentioned that Tom Quinn was going to be the next Fox Mulder and that Tom and John both angsted beautifully.

LGM porn? No, another challenge. Challenge overload...

*head explodes*

[electricland.livejournal.com]

OK, here's my wild-ass theory: blue is at the most energetic end of the visible spectrum. F'rinstance, Cerenkov radiation (which you get when you have electrons moving faster than the speed of light in water) is blue. Anything involving lots 'n' lots of energy (such as a wormhole) is also, therefore, depicted as blue.

AND it's pretty and non-threatening. ;)

Without exception my coolest. Phys chem lab. EVER. involved (a) a laser, (b) liquid nitrogen, and (c) glowing blue stuff. It was awesome.

allergy Rx

[raithen.livejournal.com]

well, the White Willow Bark is basically aspirin -- our good friend acetisylic (sp?) acid is in the willow bark in good quantities. Now, of course, they produce synthetic ASA, but the willow bark did it first. And some naturopaths/herbalists maintain that even if you don't tolerate regular aspirin well (like me, who hallucinates wonderfully iffn I take ASA), you can take the willow bark (I haven't been brave enough to try, because the hallucinations are NOT pleasant). So I guess it would help with allergies.

As for the C stuff, not sure what that might be. Calendula comes from marigolds, but I can't see how that would help allergies. . .

I do know that stinging nettle helps allergies -- it works like an antihistamine. And I have had great luck with homeopathic treatments for allergies. Bioallers makes a great line of over the counter products that are general enough, but target specific allergy groups - trees, grass pollens, hayfever, molds, dust etc, if you don't want to see a homeopath.

And the chlorphyll thing is just MEAN. My sister is home right now and she drinks these disgusting looking shakes with frozen fruit, club soda and chlorophyll all blended together. She claims they taste good. . .

Oh, right, I'm supposed to be working. :S

[raithen.livejournal.com]

you scientists get to have all the fun! but then, of course you have to do the Evil Math^tm to do the fun stuff in class. So you know, all in all it balances out. :)

Re: allergy Rx

[cretkid.livejournal.com]

me, I will stick to plain jane claritan, thankyouverymuch

that, and my inhaler :-)

[jeviltwin.livejournal.com]

They got the Kiegelcizer, complete with someone using it in the gym, past the censor board for a show that aired at 7:00 p.m. in CA.

Ohh. That's nice. This is weakening my resolve to not buy the Futurama DVDs. Now if only my checking account would also weaken-- er, fill magically with money. You know.

Good luck with the interview and/or a pox on the guy who's screwing with your clothing schedule. I'd hate that.

[sorlklewis.livejournal.com]

I feel stupid now... why the hell didn't I think of that? *g* But for TV, it's probably just that it's pretty and non-threatening. *bg*

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

The Futurama DVD's are totally worth the money. The commentaries alone are worth the money because they point out all the things you'd miss - like the Kiegelcizer - and they make a lot of fun of Matt Groening for never having seen Star Trek:) And I totally sympathize with the dwindling checking account balance. Much as I love these, my roommate bought them, so there's no guilt involved.

My boss gets wild hairs on occasion - his wild hair yesterday was that I had to stay in the office. Today it was that I go with them to this meeting. I always wear jeans on Friday. The fact that I was actually wearing a bra today was just a stroke of luck because I try, universally, not to:) But thanks. It was a good meeting anyway, if such a thing isn't considered an oxymoron:)

Re: allergy Rx

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Stinging nettle is actually fantastic for allergies. I take that myself in tea form. It works better than Claritin. The C thing isn't Calendula, damn, now I'll actually have to ask my mom. Kercatin. I guess that's not a C, huh?

Any you're sister. She's lying. Cholophyll tastes like dirty grass.

Re: allergy Rx

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. I just sent a reply to this to cretkid. she's gonna be so confused!!

But the stinging nettles. Great stuff. I drink the tea and it makes a huge, huge difference. In fact, I'm gonna go have some now.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

That's unbelievably cool that you can actually speculate that!! I'm gonna take that as my official explanation:)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

They're lovely icons. Be proud. And it's not so much a challenge as me fullfilling my role as an only child - I want something, therefore I expect that if I'm loud enough about it, this thing that I want will appear:)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Yeah. And I'm not cranky any longer, though I do have a designer wifebeater that says Crabby on it, though that has dubious conotations:) You have the reigning title my dear.

And may I just say how jubilantly uncranky the thought of you writing LGM porn makes me:)

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Good reason to finish it, yes!! And for the allergy remedy, I'm rescinding the suggestion - not really, I know my mom, it'll work. However, nettle tea, really will work and it comes in nice little regular tea bags. Just make sure you put some honey in it.

[life-on-queen.livejournal.com]

Speaking of which, can you shoot me Cave Canem at some point?

Need it to make up the set.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

Absolutely. I'll e-mail it today.

[apathocles.livejournal.com]

why is the space/time continuum- wormholes and stargates and the like - always blue?

Hey, it's orange in Red Dwarf. *g*