Follow-up ramble
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tarigwaemirAd Mundo Exteriore,
On a much lighter note...my site is up! At www.angelette.com/tarigwaemir/! Click on that link now, and take a look. The link should open up a new window, so you needn't fear that you'll forget to come back and read the rest of this post, heh! ^_^ Much more manageable layout, neh? Thank you, oniichan, for hosting me!
Tryo-chan, your skin's really nice, especially the playlist. Just a couple of hints: 1) make an equalizer, 2) make a set of windowshades, 3) write a readme.txt file (especially so you can cite picture sources and stuff like that), 4) it's better to delete the mb.bmp and av.bmp files altogether than leave them in the SkinAmp stage since the SkinAmp versions are much uglier than the default Winamp base skin. But otherwise, it's a really great first skin! I particularly like your choice of fonts and your slightly Gothic style.
I've been reading Anne of Green Gables and its seven sequels for the sixteenth? eighteenth? twentieth? twenty-fifth? (I lost count for some of them) time. That's the closest I've ever come to memorizing a book, and it's really charming and nostalgia-inducing to start a paragraph and think, "Yes, the reference to italics is next, and after that, the mention of the ring, and after that, Anne feels a little pang, and..."
I'm still a bit resentful toward L.M. Montgomery though. When I was little, I used to take Avonlea as a model for real life, and I was annoyed, deeply annoyed, to find out that no, we didn't get to learn Greek and Latin in school anymore. ;_; I'm surprised to realize that I'm older than Anne is at the end of Anne of Avonlea. I used to think that she must be ever so grown up to be teaching in a school. I also didn't know how funny and childish Anne is at 14. Possibly because I did think like her and act like her for most of elementary school. (HPTF was the turning point I think. That's when I stopped being so extravagantly talkative and fanciful. At least in appearance. I think you can tell by my LJ that I'm just as verbose and that my feet aren't quite on the ground yet either.) How come we don't read Tennnyson in English class anymore? Or Milton? Or learn the names and dates of European royalty? I feel cheated. I'll feel even more cheated by next year, when I'm in college and have a whole new book of impressions that turn out to be outdated. ::sighs:: I do learn a lot more from the modern educational system, but why can't we have classics as well as all the current curricular subjects?
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My, these are long posts. I haven't been online in four days though, so I feel I have a legitimate excuse.
...Tari
On a much lighter note...my site is up! At www.angelette.com/tarigwaemir/! Click on that link now, and take a look. The link should open up a new window, so you needn't fear that you'll forget to come back and read the rest of this post, heh! ^_^ Much more manageable layout, neh? Thank you, oniichan, for hosting me!
Tryo-chan, your skin's really nice, especially the playlist. Just a couple of hints: 1) make an equalizer, 2) make a set of windowshades, 3) write a readme.txt file (especially so you can cite picture sources and stuff like that), 4) it's better to delete the mb.bmp and av.bmp files altogether than leave them in the SkinAmp stage since the SkinAmp versions are much uglier than the default Winamp base skin. But otherwise, it's a really great first skin! I particularly like your choice of fonts and your slightly Gothic style.
I've been reading Anne of Green Gables and its seven sequels for the sixteenth? eighteenth? twentieth? twenty-fifth? (I lost count for some of them) time. That's the closest I've ever come to memorizing a book, and it's really charming and nostalgia-inducing to start a paragraph and think, "Yes, the reference to italics is next, and after that, the mention of the ring, and after that, Anne feels a little pang, and..."
I'm still a bit resentful toward L.M. Montgomery though. When I was little, I used to take Avonlea as a model for real life, and I was annoyed, deeply annoyed, to find out that no, we didn't get to learn Greek and Latin in school anymore. ;_; I'm surprised to realize that I'm older than Anne is at the end of Anne of Avonlea. I used to think that she must be ever so grown up to be teaching in a school. I also didn't know how funny and childish Anne is at 14. Possibly because I did think like her and act like her for most of elementary school. (HPTF was the turning point I think. That's when I stopped being so extravagantly talkative and fanciful. At least in appearance. I think you can tell by my LJ that I'm just as verbose and that my feet aren't quite on the ground yet either.) How come we don't read Tennnyson in English class anymore? Or Milton? Or learn the names and dates of European royalty? I feel cheated. I'll feel even more cheated by next year, when I'm in college and have a whole new book of impressions that turn out to be outdated. ::sighs:: I do learn a lot more from the modern educational system, but why can't we have classics as well as all the current curricular subjects?
Find out which Discworld guy you are.
Find out which Discworld girl you are.
What's your HP crossover? Click here to find out!!
My, these are long posts. I haven't been online in four days though, so I feel I have a legitimate excuse.
...Tari
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Date: 2003-04-22 12:07 pm (UTC)I have some of these Anne books too. Read the first one a couple of times, but gave up around book six or something because it wasn't about Anne anymore and I didn't like the children and they lived in such a perfect world. I kinda resented Anne for living in a time/place where you could row a boat down a creek on lazy saturday afternoons or eat cool non-Chinese food. I also gave it up because they didn't have dragons and vampires and space travel...
O.o
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Date: 2003-04-23 06:39 am (UTC)Yeah, I do too...now. Before I was too young to realize that I couldn't live in a place where you could row a boat down a creek or eat plum pudding. What does plum pudding taste like?
Oh, and a windowshade is when you click on that button that makes the window sort of minimize into just a bar...um...it's sort of hard to describe...oh, yeah. In titlebar.bmp, it's the third and fourth 275x14 pixel bars. There's also a windowshade for the equalizer in eq_ex.bmp and a windowshade for the playlist in pledit.bmp.
You know, looking over my comments, all I really had to say was that I wanted you to skin everything. Hehehe...aren't I evil?
...Tari
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Date: 2003-04-23 10:58 am (UTC)Btw, just as a note of..whatever, could you make it so when you move the mouse over the parts of the infinity sign, the little popup thingy is bigger, or maybe the image changes colour or something? that'd be a bit easier to see and navigate.
O.o
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Date: 2003-04-23 02:29 pm (UTC)Er...
Well, you know how lazy I am. But yes, I will remake all the popup graphics. It'll probably be far, far in the future though. Sorry! But it shouldn't be too bad on 800x600.
...Tari
anne
Date: 2003-04-22 04:07 pm (UTC)-tina
p.s.
Date: 2003-04-22 04:21 pm (UTC)i remember liking emerald city of oz. i ought to reread those.
my favorite chronicles of narnia was voyage of the dawn treader, and the horse and his boy. i seem to like away from home books.