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Bad Lip Reading – Morning Dew

Megan — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:43:49 +0000

Another video. I’m going to be posting these ones for a while because they’re awesome. They’re not only funny, they’re surprisingly polished, and often better than the actual songs they’re based on. I can’t get “Beard With Glue” out of my head. And if you haven’t seen them yet, check out Bad Lip Reading’s videos of the Republican candidates. I’m not sure whether they make them look more stupid, or more smart because anything better than that is a step up.

Lana Del Rey – Born to Die

Megan — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:09:23 +0000

Cannot stop listening to this song! And I usually don’t like music videos, but this one is incredible.

Fanlisting: Schneizel and Lelouch Doujinshi

Megan — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 23:57:07 +0000

This is my favorite of the Shunaruru revamps. It looks the most simple, and essentially is, using only two images and one texture, but took the longest to make. This layout took 45 minutes to make, went through 9 versions, and uses 12 layers. The Schneizel and Lelouch dojinshi fanlisting was moved to Aizo.Schneizel.org/doujinshi and renamed Kiss From a Rose. While I have heard the original song, this one is named after Angela Aki’s version, which I prefer.

I decided to go with this coding to make all the Shunaruru fanlistings more uniform, but this is not the coding I originally used. You can see the first coding here. I had wanted the coding for this layout to be more simple, and not make all the coding the same just for the sake of it, if there was something that looked better for this layout. The biggest differences which I had trouble deciding on between this one and the one used is the join form, which I prefer the style of. I also had trouble deciding which navigation I liked more. Ultimately I did decide conformity was best, as I couldn’t get the “simple” style coding of this layout to the point where I thought it was better that way. I considered using just the style of the form on Kiss From a Rose, but thought it was too out of place.

That’s it for the fanlisting revamps for now. I tried starting a Kadota Kyohei (Durarara!!) revamp, but it wasn’t working for me, and still isn’t. And since I have such poor luck with Schneizel layouts, I decided to use my Subeta profile layout as the Schneizel el Britannia fanlisting layout as well. That one went really, really well, and I know I won’t be able to do something like that again (at least for a while).

Fanlisting: Schneizel and Lelouch Rivalry

Megan — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 05:01:14 +0000

This is the second fanlisting that was revamped. The Schneizel el Britannia and Lelouch vi Britannia rivalry fanlisting is now named I’m Your Villain and located at Aizo.Schneizel.org/rivalry. This layout took 28 minutes to make, uses 5 images, 1 texture, and 10 layers. I went through about 14 different versions before settling on this one. It is also my least favorite of the Shunaruru revamps. Up next, my favorite: Schneizel and Lelouch doujinshi fanlisting.

Fanlisting Revamp: Schneizel and Lelouch

Megan — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 04:36:39 +0000

When I was without internet a few weeks ago I decided to revamp some of my fanlistings, starting with my Shunaruru ones. Previously named The Demon and the Devil, the Schneizel and Lelouch fanlisting has been revamped with a new layout, and has been moved to a different domain. CodeGeass.org/aku to Aizo.Schneizel.org. Its two companion listings, rivalry and doujinshi also moved and got new layouts and names. They will be featured in upcoming posts.

Aizo’s layout uses five images from Code Geass, 3 textures, and 10 layers. It had around 5 different versions, and took about 20 minutes to make, not including coding. This is my second favorite layout of the Shunaruru revamps.

Website Alphabet

Megan — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:33:54 +0000

I saw this on Shirogane’s (of VDex Project) LiveJournal, and wanted to try it out for myself. These are the sites that come up first for me for each letter of the alphabet. I did this a few months ago the the site for H and I have changed. I’ve been meaning to post this for a while but kept putting it off. Today I saw that I hadn’t posted anything since SEPTEMBER and knew I had to post this now. New posts coming up soon, I want to add some new icons to the site, they’ll probably be from Yamane Ayano’s Finder Series (expect to see a lot of Asami’s glorious abs!), and maybe some Code Geass ones as well. There’s some new calendar images and Geass in Wonderland pics to edit.

a: animenewsnetwork.com
b: bit.ly
c: community.livejournal.com/yamane_ayano/
d: dragcave.net
e: eggcave.com
f: facebook.com
g: google.com
h: hpana.com (now hidemyass.com) *
i: idarionis.com:9500 (now imdb.com)
j: japaneuse.org *
k: kofk.de
l: lisabee.org/wp-admin
m: my.yahoo.com
n: netflix.com
o: oreno.imouto.org *
p: paypal.com
q: none
r: rosedragongardens.com *
s: subetahq.com
t: twitter.com
u: unicreatures.com
v: vdexproject.net
w: wqed.org
x: xtube.com (*ahem* NSFW – you have been warned)
y: youtube.com
z: zantarni.com

* I rarely ever visit these sites so I guess I just never go to other sites beginning with those letters.

Living Your Life Online

Megan — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 04:22:51 +0000

Recently I did some investigating on the internet. I found out WDisney’s real last name in August, and Cynthia and I have been interested in looking him up. Don’t feel bad for him, he’s a disgusting, alcoholic abuser. Jail kind of abuse. It got me to thinking about how easy it would be easy to find info on myself. Most young people live their lives online with YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Formspring, everything is out there. At 21 I’ve lived almost half of my life online. So I got to searching. It’s almost impossible to find anything about me with my name and location. I have a common enough name that hinders that way of searching. With two of my usernames it’s easy because they are very unique. The majority of results are mine, with the exception of a few. One was actually quite shocking! I noticed a site I didn’t recognize and went there. With the title I thought it was a graphic site, and I guess it sorta is, but mostly it appears to be a troll stomping ground. I’m not sure if it’s still active, or why it isn’t monitored, but wow, what a cesspool! It was both entertaining and disturbing. Whatever floats your boat, but please don’t use one of my names. It could be completely random, or it could be intentional, because I did have a lot of people from a rival fansite out for my blood years ago. They were pretty vicious and this seems right up their alley. My third username, like my real name, is also almost impossible to find anything with. It’s common enough that not only does it bury my results, but it masks them because there are just so many. Yes, even in my area. One thing I did find was an old message board of mine from 2004! A writing site. Some of the plot bunnies I posted there were actually pretty interesting so I’m adding them to the site. Thanks 14-year-old me! NaNoWriMo is coming up in a little over a month! Maybe you’ll find some inspiration there? Luckily, though I lack foresight now, I’ve always had the common sense not to post anything I think is too private, and nothing I wouldn’t want anyone to know. So the worst thing that can be found about me, in my opinion, are some embarrassing poems from my early teen years. I’ve since logged in and made that board private. *cough* Unfortunately, due to the amount of things I wrote then… there’s probably much more out there.

What’s Going on Hosting Edition

Megan — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 03:45:11 +0000

So, I for the past few years I was hosted by Holdfire, a small company owned by Jordan Miskowisc/jordanriane of Ngametv. Generally it was a horrible host, the worst host I’ve ever had, and I was with Lypha. That’s saying something. There was a lot of downtime, she clearly did not know what she was doing, and was always rude to her customers. I’m not the only person who feels that Holdfire and its support was lacking. But they were cheap. Especially in early September. Supposedly sometime between the beginning of June (when Holdfire’s Twitter account stopped being updated) and then Jordan sold Holdfire. No one was notified, and if there was a new owner they clearly had less interest in it than Jordan. EditDNS which provided services for Holdfire was closing their users were encouraged to switch to their company. To let people know they were having scheduled downtime for their clients. Which of course affected their clients clients as well. Meaning me and all the other Holdfire users. So much downtime. Whoever was running Holdfire didn’t know/care about this. When I saw the message from EditDNS and realized that Holdfire could soon disappear due to the negligence of its owner, I began backing up my site. I made it in time, and luckily still had my birthday money to pay for a new host. It was between three companies, SharkSpace, WHB, and Beachcomber. I had domain monitors on sites I knew were hosted by them since the last time I was trying to decide on a new host. Then it was between four, SharkSpace, WHB, Beachcomber, and Holdfire. Clearly I made the bad choice there. I wasn’t even sure about my choice then either, which is why I set up the domain monitors, so next time I would be. All did well for the first couple years, then the first two started having more and more downtime. Beachcomber was the only one that was consistently up. And they had a half off deal. I couldn’t afford reseller hosting anymore, but I’m okay with that. This is even better in some ways since all my sites are together again instead of being spread out through several different accounts.

Before signing up I sent Beachcomber an email, just to make sure they were still around. Unlike Holdfire they don’t seem to have a forum, blog, or Twitter account, so there’s no way to tell if they’re still active. Just looking at Holdfire itself wouldn’t clue you in, but seeing that their Twitter account hasn’t been updated in almost 4 months is enough. I soon got an email back saying they were still alive and kicking, with an lol thrown in. A little unprofessional, but prompt. After signing up I soon got a call from them, which I was expecting. Most hosts call to confirm but most hosts are big companies who use automated systems. I had to talk to an actual, human person. I am determined never to do it again!!! Outside my family at least… At least there’s comfort in the fact that phone anxiety is actually pretty common. After that my account was set up within minutes. So far Beachcomber has had great uptime. But there have been some problems, the biggest being something to do with the way the server is set up. I’ve never had this problem with any host before, but there was some server setting interfering with WordPress and Enthusiast. It really, really drove me crazy, but eventually I found a solution to it, and now everything is working perfectly now. Though my IP was locked out for several hours due to my tinkering.

I have unpinned my status post, but I am still not done uploading everything. I had almost 24000 files to upload, which is a lot for a normal connection. With my borrowed wireless that has close to dial-up speeds it takes fucking forever. Some files I had to upload twice because the first time they didn’t upload correctly. I still have a few thousand at least to go, but I’ve got all my fanlistings up, as well as this blog, which are the important things. TFL and TAFL have had to deal with a lot of messages from me for the past year, what with all my internet and hosting problems. Hopefully now they will both be corrected.

My mother was wrong, and Cyndy was coming back tonight, not yesterday. So I’ll call her tomorrow and Monday, and hopefully, hopefully, hopefully I’ll have internet installed this week or the first week of October. The internet has been particularly shitty the past few days, not that it isn’t always. The way to find out whether internet is working for me is this: Is this internet not working? It’s not working. Is the internet working? It’s not working. “The internet is working” just means Comcast hasn’t set up their blockade, “The internet isn’t working” means they have. It doesn’t mean I can always actually get on. I really want to get internet before this connection goes down again. Because it is going down again. This has been happening since February and every time it happens again sooner, and for a longer period of time. I know the signs now and when the blockade is approaching, and the signs are here.

Oh, and I had to be responsible recently… I had money leftover after hosting and… I had to spent $36 on flash drives. *sigh* I’m getting 32 GB, but you don’t actually get all that. It would actually take 60 GB to backup everything I need to keep safe, but I don’t have that kind of money right now. Spending that much on two 16 GB drives that won’t even hold everything I need was hard, when I could buy a lot more other things for less, but it’s important.

She Actually Called Me

Megan — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:07:12 +0000

My idiot mother just called. I was going to call her because a letter came from storage saying she hasn’t paid yet. I didn’t want to call her because she’s 49 and is old enough to know how to pay her bills. But I know she probably put my SS card in there and I need that. She called me a few minutes later so… Then she started crying and saying she’s so depressed she wants to kill herself blah blah blah It was hard to understand her because she was sniffling. She hasn’t started looking for a job yet because she doesn’t know where she’s going to live. Blah blah blah things will get better she says. And then says she’s saying that for herself too. I know everything is about her. She’s staying at Cyndy’s while she’s in California. And I’m not getting internet until the end of the month or early October because Cyndy’s not coming back until the 23. Then idiot said she had to go because she was crying. Boo freaking hoo.

Why call someone if you’re crying? She just wanted to share how depressed she is. She’s not going to get any sympathy from me. I was going to put this on Twitter. I didn’t want to make a blog post for this because I wanted my status post to stay first, but it was too long. So I pinned the status post to first. When I’m done with everything I’ll put them in the actual order.

Since I had to make a whole post I might as well talk about something else. I started to watch some new shows. Ringer was last night, The Secret Circle tomorrow, then Revenge, and Pan Am. I’m just giving them a try. Ringer has exactly the kind of concept I hate, it’s super awkward, and I get… second hand embarrassment (or something?) from the characters and situations. Whenever I try to a new show I like to stick with it for at least a few episodes (I stuck through an entire series/season of Skins when I wasn’t sure about it!).

I didn’t like Ev’s new song the first time they performed it. I thought it might be because it was live, so I decided to wait until the studio version came out. It took me a bit to get used to the “Do what you what you want” part, which is what I didn’t like about it, but I really like the song now. The video came out yesterday, which I have to say I don’t like, but I so rarely like music videos so that’s nothing out of the ordinary. What You Want is a good start, can’t wait to hear the rest of the album.

I don’t have my icons uploaded yet, so no avatar for this post. I have to go back to fixing my fanlistings. I’m only on the b’s right now…

Status of LBE

Megan — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:13:31 +0000

This is mostly for my reference, but you can also see what I’ve done and what I still have left to do.

lisabee.org blog done
butterflii.org blog done
anime fls upload done
anime fls mysql done
anime fls config files done
update anime fls urls done
anime fls redirects done
amber fls done
fix anime fls errors done

tfl redirects done
tfl fls upload done
tfl mysql done
tfl config files done
tfl to enth currently
update fls urls
update affiliates
fix tfl errors
lbe content/images
submit anime moved forms (+ email change)
submit fl moved forms (+ email change)