So! The news of me.

Let's start with yesterday. Such as when I got off the bus on Tuesday, only to see a glove.

A glove on the road.

A single glove, battered and beaten, left lying in the middle of the road as though trying to claw its way to the other side.

A single, green-and-blue tartan gardening glove, lying battered, beaten and disempersoned in a dizzying and dangerous no-glove's-land between the kerb and its promise of safe, serene strips of grass before the anonymous and uncaring footpaths.

A glove, left by no mortal agency that could be divined in passing by a decaffeinated traveller on the pedestrian crossing of that particular stretch of street.

I considered, for one particularly odd moment, that it might've been dropped by a plane. This theory was discarded since the glove looked to be snake-free.

Also, there's a safety rail with a sign that has funny. It has a picture of a railing, and a picture of two stick figures, and the sage advice to not sit or lean on the railing. And one stick figure is plunging to tragic splattery doom, while the other looks on, arms outstretched.

I think the stick figure was pushed.

I'd have a picture of this sign, but I seem to only think of it when it's late and therefore dark. My options, therefore, are to remember it while there's light, or take a salamander.

Today lacks news, apart from my class being cancelled this morning since the materials needed for working at fixing and covering books were unavailable, woe. I slept in for great justice.
NOTICE


Most of the icons attached to my posts and comments will cease to be the icons selected for them for, once this is posted, I'm going to be changing the keywords on most of them.

So, in a few minutes time, it'll be Marvins, Marvins everywhere. And not-confusing keywords for me.

Date: 2006-04-12 06:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leila82.livejournal.com
I considered, for one particularly odd moment, that it might've been dropped by a plane. This theory was discarded since the glove looked to be snake-free.

*giggles* But the snakes could have escaped the glove between the time of its fall and the time that you saw it. So it could still have come from a plane, you know.

Date: 2006-04-12 06:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Well, yes. And this entire line of thought came hours later. 'Disempersoned', on the other hand, was made up on the spot.

Date: 2006-04-12 06:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leila82.livejournal.com
'Disempersoned' is a perfectly cromulent word. :)

Date: 2006-04-12 06:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] raptor-au.livejournal.com
Your HTML on that notice broke my friends page!

We need to make a stand against stick figure murder. It's the silent crime.

Date: 2006-04-12 06:37 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
It's clean, standards-friendly code (and pretty much all inline styling), and my Firefox fails to reproduce the error. What did it do?

Also, yes. Stick figure murder needs to be stopped.

And I just found out that icons can have multiple entries in the list from which icons are picked. Shiny.
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Date: 2006-04-12 03:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Grar. *kills buttons*

Right! That comment was supposed to look like:

My very best guess is that your layout is coded in such a way as to make an object with left and right margins equal to one-tenth the width of the containing block become an object of unusual size when viewed in $BROWSER.

Anyway, it should be fixed now.

Here's how it looked in my Firefox:


Also, your comment is supposed to still exist. I clicked the wrong button, for apparently I'm awake in ways that don't involve the ability to think.

Date: 2006-04-12 05:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] captainsblog.livejournal.com
Objects of unusual size when viewed in $BROWSER? I don't believe they exist....

Date: 2006-04-12 11:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Does this mean you know the secrets of the EllJay Swamp?

Date: 2006-04-13 05:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] captainsblog.livejournal.com
I mean, what are the terrors of the EllJay Swamp? One, the flame war - no problem. There's bad grammar and AbRvNsLOLWTFROUSes at the beginning of each; we can avoid that. Two, the snakes on the plane, which you were clever enough to discover what Samuel L. Jackson looks like, so in the future we can avoid them too.

I forget what the third thing was....

Date: 2006-04-17 07:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] eighthcloud.livejournal.com
!

Please tell me this hasn't been metaquoted.

Date: 2006-04-17 07:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
I don't believe so.

Date: 2006-04-17 07:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] captainsblog.livejournal.com
Fine with me. The PB riff actually begins a few comments above it.

Date: 2006-04-17 07:10 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
But, happily, not with the comment I accidentally deleted. I hope.

Date: 2006-04-12 10:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] herekittykitty.livejournal.com
Snake free? That's no fun.

Date: 2006-04-12 03:59 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
It didn't have Samuel L Jackson in it, either.

YOU!

Date: 2006-04-12 11:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com
YOU broke my flist! That table is like 10000 pixels wide (on my flist, not here, oddly.)

Re: YOU!

Date: 2006-04-12 03:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Again, I couldn't make it happen again. This puzzles me, but it's fixed now. Or, at least, I can't see it doing things it shouldn't.

Oddly enough, the percentage margins were meant to make it flist-immune.

I blame the layout designers.

Re: YOU!

Date: 2006-04-12 03:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
Here's how my Firefox rendered it:


Still, it should be fixed now. I hope.

Re: YOU!

Date: 2006-04-12 03:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
My day doesn't look to be starting well. The image is here.

Re: YOU!

Date: 2006-04-13 04:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com
Yes, but at work they only have IE. :-p

Re: YOU!

Date: 2006-04-13 05:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
I think the moral to this story is that IE sucks, and some layout designers suck, and that makes the Interwebs break.

Re: YOU!

Date: 2006-04-13 05:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] salzara-tirwen.livejournal.com
And that makes River sad.

Re: YOU!

Date: 2006-04-13 05:56 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] active-apathy.livejournal.com
And a sad River can be dangerous.

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