Recently Discovered

[datlowen]

###ABSTRACT###I'm done grading papers! I've gone completely soft. Dan Quayle is small and inoffensive, and so was Murphy Brown, but I have real Small Wonder issues. European drag racing is even more lame than you could possibly imagine. Imagine the lamest thing ever, and then lame it up some more, and then put it in a bunny costume. That's how lame

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[malibonobo]

YAY for color changes! I normally read ljs just off of my Friends page, because I enjoy reading everyone else's lj in my personal orange and blue scheme. But now I won't have to, because you're orange and blue too! I hear that orange and blue are the new red and green. The new peanutbutter and jelly of the color wheel, if you will. I dunno, that's just what people are saying.

[datlowen]

I know! I was kind of getting bored with my all-blue all the time. I don't know if I like the Orange and blue, though. I mean, I totally do, and orange and blue ARE the new red and green. Like, Christmasy and retarded Canadian "comedy" and all that crap--ALL irrelevant! It's all blue and orange now. Like we're Dutch, or Viginia Cavaliers, or something.

[malibonobo]

You don't like your orange and blue because none of your colors coordinate. (I know but I'm totally straight!) On my page, the oranges are similar, but one is less saturated than the other. Same with the blues. And the only difference between light blue and light orange is really just the hue, same brightness and saturation.

Use Word to look at the colors. Use the HSL model to get the right hues, saturation, and lumenessence, and then just switch is to the RGB model to see what to put into your LJ in hexidecimal.

GUH! I don't have to teach you color in hexidecimal do I?

*feels very nerdy*

[datlowen]

HAHAHA. I understand the colors in hex thing, and I understand that it's RGB, but I don't know how to get those colors and how to look at them in Word and blah. I mean, you're the one who took art and crap. I just took about 10,000 history classes.

TEACH ME COLORS!

[jgesteve]

I'm completely underwhelmed by this entry. I have neither gone cross-eyed or suffered a headache from trying to follow your leaps in logic.

Charioteering = HA!

Garnets and most crystalline gemstones are actually formed during the cooling process that occurs when highly compressed, hot fluids cool and solidify into a crystalline lattice determined by the chemical composition of the original. About the only gemstone that you might not be able to find on a beach is opal.

Mmmm, old books.

[tm_gemini]

While trying to find books for research on the tip top shelves of the highest floors of the library, I was distracted by books over a hundred years old. At first it was the ones from the 30s, then the 20s, then I found ones pre-1900. I was wooed by them. I tried to find the oldest ones I could. And I SMELLED them... -__-; There was this one set from Portugal or something that stank; I had to wash my hands after handling them. The oldest book I found before realising how crazy I looked doing what I was doing was about Ontario regulations; the Queen was practically every fifth word in the damn thing! But I loved it nonetheless.

Re: Mmmm, old books.

[datlowen]

YES! I adore the smell of old books. I don't know if I mentioned how much I like to go around smelling the old books but I *DO* I just didn't want to sound crazy. Even though I am. For my MA thesis I had to look at a lot of books from the 30s and 40s, and it was COOL. I'm almost disappointed that the 130-year old Austrian journals were on microfilm.

Re: Mmmm, old books.

[tm_gemini]

It is so fun to hold a book and think that people from the Victorian Era, or who lived through the world wars, held it too, and turned its pages. Ugh, so hot. ... I mean. o.O

I'm the same way, I'd much rather get the hardcopy of the book than the microfilms/microfiches. But they'd probably disintegrate, or something. d:

Gee, why is your daughter always in a red maid's outfit?

[xanthussaves]

The best thing about Small Wonder is that they made their new "daughter" in a maid's outfit. And nobody ever said anything about this, either. I was always waiting for this show to do a crossover with She's the Sheriff (Lady Cop?! HOMG!), Out of this World (1/2 alien girl!), or My Secret Identity (Boy with super power of "float"!).

Re: Gee, why is your daughter always in a red maid's outfit?

[datlowen]

Well, she was SO LIFELIKE, how would we have known she was the robot if she wasn't always wearing the same outfit!?

Man I loved Out Of This World. What a terrible show that was.

[road_to_hell]

I am too upset with your bashing of Small Wonder, one of the greatest shows of the syndicated market, second only to Out of this World, that I can not comment on your post at length.

[datlowen]

Aww, I still love you, though. I'm sure if I'd seen more than about three episodes in syndication randomly I'd love it as much as you do.

[road_to_hell]

you totally would, and here's why: Vanessa. Vannessa was a robot built after Vicki. It wa splayed by the same actress, but she was more human, but also more evil in that HAL kind of way. Episodes with her were my favorites. (ive always had a thing for doppelgangers.)

[datlowen]

OMG there was a SECOND robot? And it was EVIL? I have clearly underestimated this show.