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After my last post I was completely embarrassed and at the same time, perversely proud to notice that the episodes I listed as having watched since the previous post amounted to 87. In NINE days. And over the next 24 hours I watched another 13 episodes, bringing my total for those ten days up to an even 100 (ten of which were ( Greek )). All this while working full-time (but not very hard, I must confess), having at least two game nights with friends and reading tons of fanfic. I'm not sure how I did it.

But considering my resolve to watch at least the first seven seasons of The X-Files before the movie premieres (which is August 1st here, giving me an extra week), I'm hoping I'll stay in this strange time vortex for just a little while longer. Right now, I'm on 2x10, and I'm hoping to finish seasons 2 and 3 before the end of the week.


Also, I'm thinking I should cap some episodes as I go (because even though there ARE caps for most episodes, the quality is sadly lacking), but I can't really figure out which ones to cap except for Paper Hearts, so any suggestions/requests would be welcome.

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crackers4jenn's recent icon post made me remember this set of pictures, so I set about making myself a wallpaper from the cover (now that I can put it into rotation!). The fruit of my labors, if anyone's interested:

( I got my second BPAL order today )

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Since I last posted, I've had a week off, so, naturally, I've been watching tons of TV.

( Ashes to Ashes season 1 )

( My Boys season 1 + aired episodes of season 2 )

( The Big Bang Theory season 1 )

( Etc. )

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I also managed to cap the first two episodes of Pushing Daisies. Well, the first two and a HALF episodes, but I have to actually finish the third one before I can upload the caps.

1x01 - Pie-Lette
1x02 - Dummy

*loves on DVD caps*

Oh, this is so cool.

( Image under the cut. )

Today marks the official launch of Firefox 3.0, and they're asking users to help them set the world record for downloads in a 24 hour period. I'm doing my part, but MAN, the server is jammed. It's taking forever to download this file (I started the download before I started writing this. It's less than 8 MB and I still have more than two minutes to go!). I'm starting off by installing it on my laptop, just in case my can't-live-without-them extensions haven't been updated yet. Though I've noticed tons of updates in the past few weeks, which I'm guessing was for this release.

( How about that Fringe pilot! )

I've finally started my Farscape rewatch. Started last night and right now I'm watching DNA Mad Scientist.

That's the good part about rewatches - any episodes you can do without you can just have on in the background while doing other stuff. For me, that other stuff consisted mainly of putting up a blog on my site, for posting cap updates. Mainly, I'll be using it to keep a running tab of what episodes I'll need to upload the main caps page with, but in case anyone else is interested in knowing when I upload caps, I created an LJ feed of the blog: jemscapsfeed.

I'll probably keep posting here too, the only difference is that there, the sole purpose of the post will be to link to the caps. Here, I'll tack it on to whatever I post next - even if that happens to be weeks later. So, you know, business as usual.

Speaking of tacking things on, the caps:

Farscape
3×01 Season of Death
3×12 Meltdown
(Can you spot the theme? ;-)

Friends
9×10 The One With Christmas in Tulsa

( Shopping is awesome! )

Also, the weather is gorgeous, I just went miniature golfing with some friends (and won!), tomorrow I'm having a get-together with my co-workers (which is actually a lot of fun when you hardly ever see them) and Friday is a national holiday.

Huh. 2008. Being happy. I never would have thought to put those two things together. ;-)

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Also, I've halfheartedly started on another picspam, this time with John & Aeryn kissing. ( And boy, are they pretty doing doing it or what?! )

One of these days, I really need to finish all those picspams I've been working on. I've got about five that are in various stages of completion. The next installment of the Aeryn picspam is almost finished, but I Just. Can't. Finish. It. I have to clue why.

( I'm going to be redecorating my apartment this summer. )

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So, aside from the two Ally McBeal episodes I capped and the half a season of Avatar that I watched (half a book that I watched? Sounds bizarre), that's pretty much how I spent my weekend. *g*

I meant to post this yesterday for elz's "Post About Your Favorite Female Characters Day", but work got away from me (as it is wont to do these days) and I didn't finish in time. So here is my picspam of really just a fraction of my favorite female characters.

( In no particular order... )

Work has been INSANE lately, which is why I'm not around right now. After a hellish work day yesterday, I treated myself this afternoon by watching some TV.

In the order that I watched:

( How I Met Your Mother )

( Bones, w/ tiny picspam )

( Gossip GIrl )

( I also watched the The Office finale on Friday. )

( I bought the first season of Love My Way on DVD and watched it this past week. )

( I've also watched ReGenesis up through season 3. )

Last week, for the first time in several years, I actually entered an icon challenge. I don't even know what came over me, I was just journal-hopping and suddenly I had Photoshop open and was making challenge icons. Don't know if it'll be a regular thing, but I had fun!

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Another thing I've been doing since I last posted is working on my galleries.

I've got a new look (well, as for right now, it's only the Dexter gallery, since I've been working out some kinks).

The main thing I've been trying to do is to resize the fullsize images on the intermediate image page using html, and I finally got it working! I am NOT using intermediate pictures. If you right-click and view the image on that page, or if you save it to your hard drive, you'll get the fullsized one.

Personally, I always copy the image and paste it into Photoshop when I make icons, and I've been trying to find a way of not having to use an intermediate picture, but still being able to see the whole thing without the need to scroll sideways. As it turns out, the theme I'm using also meant some restrictions, so I ended up resizing the images to fit the gallery width so it didn't start looking weird.

If you absolutely hate it, you can always change the theme by adding ?theme=water_drop (my old theme) to the url. Otherwise, you'd better get used to it because I'm slowly changing all my galleries over to the new theme. Except I'll probably do something different for vm-caps.

Also, what do you guys think of the film strip showing seven images? I feel like I get lost with so many there, maybe five is enough?

( I made my first BPAL purchases today. )


( And here's a bunch of stuff I haven't bought yet, but am salivating over. )

I haven't done a whole lot of capping lately, but here are a few things:

• Enchanted


• ReGenesis 1x01


• Six Feet Under (1x02 and credit sequence.)

Usually, when I only feel the urge to picspam just one scene I just...don't. Because there's a little bit too much work involved in order to only end up with one panel. But Samantha Who? (OF ALL SHOWS!) made me realize that I needed to picspam, but of course one episode of that show yields only a small number of picspammable caps, so I decided to picspam a bunch of other scenes/episodes from the past couple of weeks that I haven't bothered with since it would be so little.

( Spoilers for Samantha Who?, The Office, Life on Mars and How I Met Your Mother. )

I don't really post about TV anymore. I thought I'd remedy that.

( Make Me a Supermodel - finale spoilers! )

( The Office )

( Bones )

( Life on Mars season 2 )

( Gossip Girl )

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And speaking of spoilers, even though I haven't really cared about getting spoiled for anything lately, the way people keep NOT cutting for reactions and outright plot spoilers is starting to really rub me the wrong way. Not to mention the numerous uncut images, which, at the correct size I'm mostly fine with, but people are getting sloppy there too. At least learn how to resize images with the html tag if nothing else. /PSA

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( How I Met Your Mother 3x16 )

( Regenesis, 1x01-1x07 )

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Well, that was long.

The only other news I have is that I played the new MarioKart for Wii this weekend, and now my mind's definitely made up. Wii, here I come!

Today is my five year LJ-versary, and I had planned to post the second part of my Aeryn picspam, but then hackers happened and I lost my will to live picspam. Instead I have tried to icon (operative word here is TRIED), watched P&P and read fic. All in all, I have to say I have no regrets.

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I got all my galleries up and running and so far so good. *keeps fingers crossed* If you notice anything wrong, please tell me about it.

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txvoodoo linked to this site the other day: What if we all voted? It's a chance for non-Americans to vote for the candidate they like in the US presidential race. Obama is winning by a landslide.

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I want to watch something, but I can't decide between starting my Farscape rewatch, finishing the last three episodes (EVER) of The Wire, Life on Mars s2, Six Feet Under s1, Wire in the Blood s5 or Spaced s2, so instead I'm just sitting here watching nothing. I think I'll just grab whichever is closest, which happens to be...Six Feet Under.

Well, I now know what I'm doing instead of having that relaxing weekend I've been dreaming about: Restoring my web site, which got HACKED. (Fuck!)

Just as a public service, since I've spent all day dealing with this shit, ( here's some tips. )

winter_baby and bellanut, I've checked your galleries and so far I haven't seen any signs of them being hacked (hacked galleries have a row of black characters at the top and bottom. Also, my script blocker pops up), but you might want to take the preventative measures I listed under the cut. Also, winter_baby, the original FNL gallery has been compromised, so I'm just going to delete it entirely (I only say this because I noticed you hadn't uploaded the caps for episode 2 yet, so you might want to do that).

Right now, the galleries that are affected are offline or the directories renamed (another side-effect seems to be that I can't log into some of them to take them offline). So far, I've only restored some of the smaller galleries, like Eureka, The Black Donnellys and [spooks], but I hope to get vm-caps and the movie gallery up and running tonight.

Wow, this sure is FUN. /sarcasm

Since I last posted - last Wednesday - about how the work week already seemed about six days long, I have not had a single day off. Not only have I worked every day, Friday-Tuesday I also helped remodel a kitchen. ( This kitchen, in fact. )

Add to that the fact that yesterday and today, my work days have ended...oh, around this time. I just finished working for the day (because I can no longer be coherent) and yesterday I finally sent in the rush job I spent all day working on at half past one. Kill. Me. NOW.

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But yesterday I remembered a segment Samantha Bee did on The Daily Show last month, and watching it periodically throughout yesterday and today has saved my sanity, I'm sure. ( I still laugh till I cry every single time. )

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Before this madness started, I got about halfway done with the next installment of my Aeryn picspam, so I'm hoping to have that posted sometime this weekend.

Just to show that not all of us are pikers. ;-)

( That Empire magazine top 50 TV shows meme. )

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I was thinking about buying myself a video game system and I'm not sure what to get. In the past I've bought Nintendo systems, but Wii seems to be pretty expensive, not to mention the fact that whenever I look at games, they seem to be more expensive too. And since my brother has an Xbox, I was thinking of getting me one of those. I would imagine they're pretty cheap by now and I can borrow a ton of games from him. Anyone got any advice? Other considerations?

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Why is it only Wednesday? I started out thinking Monday was Tuesday, so I was a day ahead of schedule before the week even began. And now it feels like it's been at least a six day work week already. *sigh*

( Year One. )

ITEM THE FIRST: I don't usually get what people see in lolcats, but I gotta say, The Lolcat Bible? Genius!

ITEM THE SECOND: I just wanted to make sure that anyone who has seen the vid made from my V/L: MFEO picspam that I didn't do it. I know the difference between alias and anti-alias, thank you very much!

ITEM THE THIRD: I'm sorry, I'll be returning not!posting any day now, don't worry.

ITEM THE FOURTH: Hi, Laura!

I tend to think of How I Met Your Mother as a very low-key show, one that's dismissed in the minds of large parts of the viewing public and loved ferociously by large parts of fandom. So imagine my surprise when a story pops up on my BBC News syndication about the show. So I go to check out the article. It's okay now, but this is what it looked like when I first saw it. Good thing I remembered to take a screenshot.

Which brings me to the second part of this post: Extensions. I made the above screenshot with one of my favorite new finds: FireShot

( And here are all of them. )

I didn't post for over a week and now I've posted three times in two days? CRAZY!