becky haycox

Month: August 2006

  • let’s interact: what makes you ache?

    Can I Feel Nostalgia for Something I Never Had?

    Dagda brings up an interesting paradox: the feeling of being nostalgic and dissatisfied. It made me think about that word we don’t have in English: a feeling of yearning for something that never existed. Couldn’t find that word, but I did find saudade:

    Some say that the ultimate form of saudade is one felt towards people and things whose whereabouts are unknown…

    Although it relates to feelings of melancholy and fond memories of things/people/days gone by, it can be a rust of sadness coupled with a paradoxical joy derived from acceptance of fate and the hope of recovering or substituting what is lost…

    Heavy. I certainly can site many examples of objects/places/sounds that can evoke a deep, bittersweet nostalgia, based on my real — or imagined — past. Real. Imagined. Real. Imagined.

    I bring this challenge to you, my delicious readers! What are the objects/places/sounds/smells that bring a pang to you? What speaks to your real or alternate universe?

    Use the comments, if you like, and I’ll compile them into a page.

  • ta-daaaaaah! {jazz hands}

    You asked, I provided. Yay, wordpress.org! Awesome coding and customer support. I got up and running immediately.. transferring the entries took a little longer, but here you are. A fully functional blog, with comments and everything. I want comments from you now!

    More design/glitch-fixing/feature-adding to come.

  • oh, internet {hug}!

    Tiny little bridge For your pleasure, today’s favorite shiny seashells from internet-combing:

    • Preorder your calendar today! Watch the animation on the home page — and the amazing no shirt-/shirt action like those naked novelty flip pens.
    • Look at this thumbnail of a picture from Moya’s photostream, presumably with a camera phone. Isn’t it enchanting? It looks like a tiny little oil painting. I love the Bay Bridge. More than [gasp!] the other one. I hope it doesn’t get seriously fucked up in the retrofit.
    • Read this article [who cares about The goddam View anyway]; skim it enough to grasp how much a jackass Elizabeth Hasselbeck is. And then: savor, SAVOR, the last paragraph.

    [i get sad, reading archived blogposts from years ago. so many of the links are dead. it’s like an old, abandoned amusement park. that’s going to be my blog someday. actually, that’s kind of cool.

  • 12:30am and perky as a cruise director

    Good ole insomnia. My friend.

    I really like the Awesome! blog, and not just ’cause I am on it! I sent in my favorite links without really thinking hard about them. Otherwise, of course, I would have included all of you, my sweeties! Why don’t you go ahead and submit your own?

    I am having a most vexing time bending the blogging software I use to my will. Great scripts, but lacking user-friendly documentation with the plugins. I can’t figure out the date-manipulation feature, nor the calendar or comments scripts. Sad face. A plea to my many readers: any ideas? Please: no suggestions of myspace or vox or other tightly controlled communities [i must ride hard and die free!] I’d really like to keep it on my webserver but am willing to consider giving over to a third party if it has enough bells and whistles to distract me and make me clap like a baby. Alternately, if anyone wants to help me with some [probably incredibly simple] CGI, let me know. Doesn’t that sound like fun?

  • i believe i’m called a craft goob. or just goob.

    From defectiveyeti.com:

    Latch Hooked
    Sorry updates have been so sporadic lately. But I started playing World of Needlecraft, and you know how that goes. I keep promising myself that I’ll quit, but then I’ll get a Apocalypse Thimble or find some Pinking Shears of the Gathering Storm, and then it’s back on another Appliqué adventure. I’m a level 47 Couturier now, but when I hit level 50 I swear to god I’m going to retire my Bobbin Of The Zodiac for good.

    Pretty funny. But as I read it I found myself thinking “I would totally play that.”

    I sent it along to Doug, who has had a WoW addiction for a long time now. He adds:

    My Epic Crochet Hook gives +25 to hit vs. Sheep.

    Although I dabble in a bit of online gaming, I can seem to get behind the MMORPG life. Sometimes there are clever moments, but generally there’s lots of shooting and competing and killing and dexterity. I don’t like contributing to the gender gap, but there are lots of boys playing these games, no? And the games tend to be designed and marketed for males, no?

    Anyhow. I’m just saying, give me a virtual Paris of the 1930s, let me use my cyberfrancs to buy Hemingway a cup of coffee, then take in a Josephine Baker show before kicking the gong around in Chinatown (or whatever! stay with me!). As my fabulous hat shop in the 6th Arrondissement makes me rich and powerful, I sacrifice my safety for the greater good of the world, by infiltrating Axis ranks as a fan dancer, and ultimately stopping World War Two before it begins — with a love-army of sparkling unicorns. Huzzah! Game OVER.