July 2008 Archives

this script looks at the websites you've visited and gives the likelihood that you are male or female, based on the male-female visitor ratios of the websites.

of all the sites i've recently visited, youtube was the only one with an exact one-to-one male-to-female ratio. google was a close second at .98. npr.org and americanexpress.com also are .98. jezebel.com was 1.02, surprisingly skewed ever so slightly male.

the most male skewed sites i've visited recently were slashdot and sourceforge.net, at 1.74 male-to-female. treehugger.com was up there too, 1.25. mit.edu was 1.13, just between flickr (1.15) and ebay (1.11).

my girliest website visited was hm.com at .57.

the program correctly guessed that i was a girl, with 98% likelihood. if i use my firefox history instead of safari, it guesses 94% likelihood. all of the sites i've visited are pretty evenly split between male and female visitors, with nothing as high as a 2-to-1 ratio. i wonder what the extremely gendered sites are, and how they get this information, anyway. you can check out more web demographics at quantcast.

1 my phone broke. which i guess is what i get for buying a fancy new phone just because it's pink. but yeah of course it's past the year warranty but before when i qualify for discount pricing on a new phone. fortunately egg had an old verizon phone lying around, so i'm going to use that until october when i can hopefully get a new phone for very little money.

edit: actually! i found out that if you make a purchase with a credit card, they will extend your warranty, so i filed a claim with american express and hopefully they will give me the $100 back that the phone originally cost.

2 went to connecticut this weekend for gram apple going away pool party. got to see baby cousin, family & friends. experienced the perks of riding business class on amtrak (complimentary nytimes).

3 shark week! apparently a shark's favorite color is yum yum yellow.

4 i finally started my jelly bean carousel horse jigsaw puzzle, but andré has been sitting on it/knocking pieces on the floor. bad cat.

5 weeds is sooooo good. silas went from being an annoying whiny baby to super HOTT.

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
                                                     i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

of making maps of the united states, i would cut out all those pointless boring states in the middle like kansas and missouri so that san francisco and boston would be right next door to each other.

this saturday i took my driver's test and finally became a real adult.

basically:
1 i was very nervous
2 it was very easy

i didn't feel especially nervous, but i was nervous in a very physical way, akin to how one might feel speaking in public or to a cute boy. my hands were shaking as i fumbled through my wallet for my learner's permit, shaking when the tester had me sign some form, and shaking still when he had me prove i could turn on the high beams.

but fortunately, as the test went on and i realized how straightforward it was, i calmed down. you're allowed three chances at parallel parking, but i only needed one. the most difficult part of the road test was driving through the parking lot: the 15 mph speed limit had me looking down at the odometer constantly to make sure i didn't go over, which threatened to distract me from important things like stop signs and other cars.

most importantly, i passed! they're going to mail my real driver's license to me, but here's the temporary one they gave me for the next two weeks:

also, since i've been home i've fallen in love with my sister's kitten, whom i've christened ferocia. her given name is 'axis time,' which is possibly some anime reference i don't get.

she is completely fierce and taken to rearing up on her hind legs like a tyrannosaurus. her other hobbies include tearing into the throat of a stuffed cat handbag, which looks kind of like this, and dragging it around the room. she also chases her own tail and purrs incredibly loudly.

half the pictures i tried to take of her are blurry because she won't sit still, but i did get a few good ones.

last night i decided that to catch my 11:05 train this morning i'd have to leave bexley by 10:20. i set my cell phone alarm for 9 am with a backup alarm at 9:30 am, so i would have time to shower and finish packing. i plugged the phone into my power strip to charge overnight.

fast forward to 9:55 am this morning. my phone's dead, the alarms never went off, and i probably only woke up because andré was bothering me. genius point: when i rearranged my room a few days ago, i never plugged the power strip back in.

i have no time to shower, and 25 minutes to get dressed and finish packing. fortunately, i do end up catching my train home, but without andré's help, i may have missed it.

on the train, i spend most of my time looking out the window at graffiti and trying to decide what my tag will be when i become a graffiti artist.

also i watched margot at the wedding, eavesdropped on other people's conversations, and did three crosswords.

this month is our 4 year anniversary.

also these pictures are hosted with DROPBOX.

i can't remember.

ITALIAN POP STARS

i have been listening to this on repeat. can't stop.