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~ChimeraDragonfang:iconChimeraDragonfang:

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Journal Entry: Tue May 13, 2008, 11:44 AM
  • Mood: Euphoric
  • Listening to: Soundtrack to 'Wicked'
  • Reading: Everything & More - David Wallace
  • Watching: Nothing
  • Playing: Nothing
  • Eating: Watermelon and Cookies
  • Drinking: Nothing
My laptop lives! Me -> :typerhappy:

Fib has been resurrected. It took quite some time, but he's finally up and running again. So head on over to :icontem13ca:s page and tell him he's awesome. (Seriously. He's the only reason I have a working computer.) I think he considered this a matter of personal pride, as Fibonacci was very much kicking his ass at the beginning. (Fibonacci is my laptop, for those of you who don't already know. Though I was giving serious consideration to renaming him "Jerk".)

Evidence seems to point to a power surge frying my harddrives (both of them), so I'm now running Ubuntu Linux off my Firelite external drive. (Used a Mac to download Linux to replace an uncooperative Windows. [I understand why people hate Macs now. No right-click? No drag-and-drop? What the hell? To think I was once considering getting a Mac. *shudder*.] I could regale you all with the more technical details of mine and tem13ca's adventures in computer repair, but I doubt you would either a) care, or b) understand what I'm rambling on about. (If you do care, I can tell you. Just ask.)

Unfortunately this laptop revival came at a bit of a price. That price was my music files. All 40GB of them. I tried to move them to the Seagate external, but apparently all of them were corrupted and wouldn't transfer. :chainsaw: No idea what happened there, as the Firelite was not connected to the laptop around the time of demise. So now I have to rebuild my music library. At least the public library here has a lot of the same music I have in my CD collection at home, and the downloaded stuff just has to be downloaded again (don't worry, it was legal). Still, this will take quite a bit of time. :slamhead:

And I have to rebuild all my Firefox bookmarks too. The webcomics list will take the longest. (No loss compared to tem13ca's list of somewhere around 160. And at least my laptop didn't explode.) I did save them to one of my flashdrives, but one day it decided to spontaneously erase all my saved files. I don't remember if I also saved them to the Seagate, but I don't think so. I'm lucky that I did a backup of all my files to the Seagate a few days before my laptop died, so all my other things should still be intact. The Inventor files and stories are really the only files I care about.

Of course, now that I'm running Linux, quite a few of the programs I was running before will probably have questionable or limited functionality, or not work at all. The media player thing that comes with Ubuntu is pissing me off. I want my Winamp back. I'm running Wine, which gives me some Windows programs, but I haven't had a chance to mess around much and find out the limitations. I should still be able to load photos, and GIMP works fine, so my backlog of art should be getting posted soon. (In a week or so; I'm buggering off to Bergen tomorrow to visit friends of the family for a few days. Will be back on Sunday.)

Completely unrelated, listen to the musical "Zombie Prom". It's not what you might think at first from the title. Think "Grease" but with zombies. It's hilarious.

Devious Information

  • Current Age: Born the year the animated TF movie came out. Do the math.
  • Current Residence: A house in Oslo.
  • Interests: Music, Dragons, Cats, Sci-Fi, Astronomy, Astrology, Reading, TF, SG, SW, ST, Firefly/Serenity...
  • Favourite movie: Too many to choose from.
  • Favourite band or musician: Arrogant Worms, Queen, Daft Punk, ELO, Dream Theater...
  • Favourite genre of music: Most
  • Favourite poet or writer: Clive Cussler, Ian Fleming, Carl Hiaasen
  • Operating System: Ubuntu Linux
  • MP3 player of choice: Winamp, but I'm stuck with something else right now.
  • Wallpaper of choice: Default Ubuntu. Must change.
  • Skin of choice: Firefox Redshift; some random style stuff in Ubuntu.
  • Favourite game: Scrabble, Anti-Monopoly, Scorched Earth
  • Favourite gaming platform: Any sort of decently flat, level surface
  • Tools of the Trade: Knife and paper, pencils, beads, Autodesk Inventor

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~ChimeraDragonfang:iconChimeraDragonfang: Mar 8, 2008, 5:17:27 AMComment hidden by Owner Mood: Neutral
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~ChimeraDragonfang:iconChimeraDragonfang: Mar 8, 2008, 5:14:18 AM Mood: Neutral
You're welcome.

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~Aiera:iconAiera: Mar 7, 2008, 2:32:23 AM Mood: Love
:hug: Thanks a lot for :+devwatch: and the :+fav: on Ghostly :heart:!! :blowkiss: It means a lot to me!!

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:butterfly: I guess time is a healer :butterfly:
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~Konu-kun:iconKonu-kun: Mar 6, 2008, 5:26:59 PMComment hidden by Owner
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~VeroTheWolf:iconVeroTheWolf: Mar 6, 2008, 9:48:07 AM
hallo du er jo norsk x3
*illmatar:iconillmatar: Feb 25, 2008, 2:47:34 PM Mood: Love
Thanks for the fave on "That's Enough!"

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~ChimeraDragonfang:iconChimeraDragonfang: Feb 13, 2008, 8:08:44 AM Mood: Neutral
Oh, definitely. It would rock to have dozens of tiny dragons flying around.

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~Koontah:iconKoontah: Feb 10, 2008, 1:58:26 AM
I was charmed by the photo of the one sitting on your finger. Dont' you wish they could come to life? I always do. :plotting:

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~ChimeraDragonfang:iconChimeraDragonfang: Feb 9, 2008, 5:46:39 AM Mood: Neutral
No problem.

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~ChimeraDragonfang:iconChimeraDragonfang: Feb 8, 2008, 5:50:53 AM Mood: Content
I've only ever made them as stand-alone little sculpture things, but they would also be nifty jewellery.

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~Koontah:iconKoontah: Feb 7, 2008, 8:58:34 PM Mood: Love
thanks for adding me to your friends list! Love the beaded dragon! :heart: something like that would make a darling pin!

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"The future is built on dreams . . . "
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"There are approximately 516 types of weapons available on the planet. But against you, I only need my wits."
--Koontah
~Indigo-inside:iconIndigo-inside: Dec 16, 2007, 10:36:11 PM
O.O your snowflakes are absolutely amazing! awesome work ^^

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=Ar1ana:iconAr1ana: Dec 15, 2007, 3:12:06 PM Mood: Wow!
spectacular art....I am so going to show my husband!

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~ChimeraDragonfang:iconChimeraDragonfang: Dec 10, 2007, 3:10:19 AM Mood: Content
There'll probably be more at some point. I have some other projects to get out of the way first.
~junetown:iconjunetown: Dec 9, 2007, 6:44:02 PM
thanks for all of your kind words!

you have a fantastic skill for abstract, i'd like to see more if you ever upload any.
^Myana:iconMyana: Dec 7, 2007, 12:27:29 PM
Many thanks for the watch! :bow:

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=Crazyclur:iconCrazyclur: Dec 6, 2007, 6:22:52 AM
No, that's fine by me- I'd prefer solid wings anyway, though the feathery ones are cute. I still haen't figured out how to make solid wings from one wire... It's a task I'll have to reserve for my next lecture!

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~ChimeraDragonfang:iconChimeraDragonfang: Dec 5, 2007, 5:57:06 PM Mood: Joy
It'll be of the bat-winged variety, as I haven't found the really tiny beads that I use for the feathered ones here. Unless you want a slightly larger one. Dunno if I can get E-beads in that orange colour though...
=Crazyclur:iconCrazyclur: Dec 5, 2007, 3:16:26 PM
Nope, eye burningly bright orange is fine by me! It's not a colour I'd usually use, so I don't really have orange. It should stand out nicely :) I can send you a cheque if postage is going to cost you much, but looking at the Royal Mail website it would only cost (me) £1.20, whatever that is in Norwegian monies. I'm happy enough just to get a dragon :excited:

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~ChimeraDragonfang:iconChimeraDragonfang: Dec 5, 2007, 3:07:11 PM Mood: Joy
As I live in Norway now, postage probably wouldn't be that bad. I do not, however, have PayPal or anything similar. Though making another dragon would give me the perfect excuse to use beads in this really wonderful eye-burningly bright shade of orange. If you're not particular about colour, that is.