Saturday, September 20, 2008

Only Temporary

I am going to make a new blog just for some creative websites I belong to. So if you come here expecting all my creativity to be flowing out of your computer screen, sadly, I am going to disappoint you. 


I have blogs and journals all over the Interwebz and all of them are dying slow, neglected deaths. But when I get a new one for my artsy-fartsy side, I will post it here. 

My, my, what a tangled web we weave when first we ... well, we don't do anything. 

I am the world's worst blogger, but I enjoy reading other blogs, esp artists' blogs because they have such purdy pictures and great ideas!

Monday, April 02, 2007

More Images to Share

This time, it's an Easter-themed set of images to use for personal projects. Remember, respect the copyright and angel policy (all on the site, in very easy-to-understand language).

If you're like me and don't celebrate Easter -- OK, so I celebrate the *original* Easter, aka Ostara -- the images still can be used in vintage/spring works.

http://www.tentwostudios.com/countdown/

Monday, March 12, 2007

St. Patrick's Day Freebies

Can be found on Lisa Vollrath's amazingly fun website at the following link:

http://countdown.tentwostudios.com/

Be sure to follow the angel policy/copyright rules and spread the love!

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Saturday, July 09, 2005

Oh Well...

I tried to install the java script for a pagan search engine but blogger doesn't like it very much.

So if you want to check out the glossary for the training programs at Witchschool.com, well, go there. :-)

OK, here's a real link: here. The "Search the Dictionary" function is right in the middle of the screen.

Enjoy.

Sunday, June 12, 2005

Google Image Fun, and Picasa sucks

Below are my entries in the Google Image game spreading around blogdom. See below the pics for an explanation, but you simply take certain words and go searching on Google Images for a pic that comes up. You either take the first, or your favorite. Both have interesting results. Mine are -- in reverse order, see rant below: Place you grew up, place you live now, your name, your grandmother's name (boy, am I glad SHE wasn't named Janet!), and favorite food, drink, song and smell. Upload, and wait for the comments to roll in!

Now, I am cursed with having the picture posts look like this because of the lame program with the even lamer name that came with this blog: Hello by Picasa. It's icon is a half-daisy on a blue field, and together with the name, you would think it was meant to provoke happy thoughts. HAH! It refused to see even HALF the images in my file I had stored for this, even though they were valid JPEGs, as that seems to be all that will load. I re-saved a few -- from jpeg to jpeg, mind you, and the stupid program seemed to get the hint. They load as though they are separate posts, as opposed to one long one. And I just don't like the silly name because it doesn't make me all that happy!

PS on the cheese: I ripped the cheese image from here. Take a look. Gotta go. There's apparently a marching band coming down the street. OK, a church marching band. Things you miss when you live in the suburbs... which is also here -- although it's actually the 10th whitest. Our neighbor to the west holds the top spot, but that may actually bother people there.


Favorite Smell: Sandalwood. This is a fan carved out of it. It's fast becoming an endangered species in its native India, so I don't know how long I can keep admitting publicly that I still indulge...
For the Google Image Game


Favorite Song: OK, this one is going to take some 'splainin' -- My favorite song of all time is Peter Gabriel's "In Your Eyes." But my favorite song right now is NIN's "Hand that Feeds." So I plugged in "bite the hand" and found this, which is an appropriate sentiment regardless, as the RIAA sucks. They can't produce or market successfully, so they go whining to the Feds. Pussies. (My cats take offense to the use of that term, so I retract it. Dumb asses. I don't own any donkeys.)
For the Google Image Game


Favorite Drink: As most people who know me can attest, I will drink cheap wine but I must have expensive beer.
For the Google Image Game


Favorite Food: Behold! The Power of Marketing! or, Why I Can't Be Vegan.
For the Google Image Game


My grandmother's name was Florence. This is the Florence in Italy and very fitting to remember her by.
For the Google Image Game


Yes, my name is Janet, Ms. Vandenabeele if you're nasty -- making you try to pronounce "Vandenabeele" is your punishment, see?
For the Google Image Game


Wow, if only Detroit actually looked like this. But hey, the old gal takes a nice pic now and then. My neighborhood is, um, nothing like this. I live now in the northeast corner of Southwest Detroit, which is to say, exactly nowhere.
For the Google Image Game


This is the Maryland Lottery office in the community (a suburb of DC) where I spent most of my growing years. Not much else there except bedroom communities, office buildings and a Beltway exit.
For the Google Image Game

Monday, June 06, 2005

It was a Connectivity Malfunction!

Wow -- TWO comments about the Google Image craze I mentioned in my last entry, and neither one of them from people who live in my house!

Anyway, I will upload the images soon. My excuses are 1) Crappy dial-up connection requiring long upload times and 2) last week of my latest class and 3 papers due! Class is tomorrow (Tues) so I'll be free to upload away when I get home, though after watching The Shield, since it's an episode I missed during the Great Cable Blackout of Aught-Five.

One little hint: Since my first name is Janet, I'm betting you can just guess what the first image hit I got was!!

Peace.

Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Blogging trends, good and bad

First, a rant about the bad. I guess it had to happen sooner or later, but now you can hit the "Next Blog" button in the upper right hand corner and chances are pretty good that within a few clicks, you'll hit on a spam blog. There may be a real term for it; "spam blog" is just what came to mind. These are so-called blogs that look like they have real text written by some afficianado of something or another, only to click the link and hit a link of (generally craptastic) commercial sites. Some of them aren't even real sites, either, or have nothing to do with the subject.

I'm not going to provide any links because it's not mere commercialism, but sheer crap.

The first one I hit was a site having to deal with hunting and teddy bears. So there were links to gun products and Care Bears. I was intrigued what kind of bleeding heart conservative was writing this blog (or maybe it was Ted Nugent after a few beers? Who can say.) Maybe it was just a fetish. Well...I was totally wrong and more than a bit disappointed. I never actually found real content or even a place to buy anything other than e-books guaranteeing my First Million By Yesterday! Sheesh. Spam blogs...a higher order of annoyance.

Whodda thunk?

Now for the good, or at least, stupid fun. This blog here suggests the following game, again, I suppose a higher order pursuit made possible by the Internet.

First, go to Google Images here.

Then, do a search for the following:

The name of the place where you grew up
The name of the place where you live now
Your name
Your Grandmother's name
Your favorite food...drink...song...and smell

Then, post either the first or your favorite view. Make copious apologies for any potential copyright violations and blather on about fair use. Hah!

So I'm going off now to do just this. Looks like fun.