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[geekchick]

I hope I manage to get some sleep tonight. Last night I was up until 1 watching the Oscars (who let Gwynyth Paltrow out of the house looking like that?) and then I woke up in the middle of an unpleasant dream at 5:30. Thought I was going to be late for work, until I realized that if it was still dark out there was NO WAY I was going to be late. Tried to go back to sleep for another 3 hours, but ended up right back in the same dream and woke myself up again at 6:30. I think sometime around 7 I managed to sleep again and had gotten into yet another dream when the alarm went off. Today was not the most productive of days.

rivka 's post about her user icons was fun, so I think I'll lemming and follow suit.

	My first user pic. It's from a collection of illustrations by Arthur Rackham, who was an early 20th-century illustrator. I tend to use it for posts that are about something unhappy or perhaps when I'm feeling GAF. =)
	From www.stor.co.uk . At the time I made it, this was pretty close to accurate. I had short red hair, glasses, and was always wearing a long black skirt and my black coat with the big fake fur collar. Of course the only real difference now is that my hair is long and back to its natural color. I use it when I don't feel like using the actual photo.
	The logo on one of my favorite t-shirts from ThinkGeek. I use it for, well, geeky posts. ;)
	Tare Panda. I don't remember where I found this one, but I *heart* Tare Panda. I use this icon mostly for my rare reflective posts or when I'm commenting in the journal of someone else I know likes Tare Panda too.
	This is me in 1971. It's most often for nostalgia posts, although as I mentioned elsewhere I use it as proof that my unconscious habit of smirking every time someone points a camera at me that I can't escape is not something that developed recently. =)
	From the Hello Kitty tarot. It gets used often for posts about things that are annoying; even though I know that's not what the card means, it's just a great image to imagine My Melody chasing down someone with a scythe.
	Taken from a t-shirt I saw a while ago. Another one of the generic "use this for random posts"; it was my default for a while and kind of replaces the "Hello Bubbles" icon for cutesy stuff.
	This was drawn by a former coworker of mine several years ago; he was a cartoonist and drew similar icons of the entire web team for our site. It's my librarian look. ;) (Calm down there, Greg. *snicker*) Also was a default for a while.
	The current default. It is a cropped section of a picture that was taken before a party at Arisia in January 2000. I decided that I wanted to add an actual picture to my userpic collection for some reason, and this is one of the few that I can tolerate. I actually have screaming-red-bordering-on-orange hair in that picture and it's one of the rare occasions that I have contacts in.

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[hammercock.livejournal.com]

who let Gwynyth Paltrow out of the house looking like that?

I was wondering the same thing. Cameron Diaz's hair was pretty bad, too. Sheesh. Halle Berry, though...yowza!

[geekchick]

The two words most often overlooked last night as far as I could tell: "foundation garments". That and lots of dresses that really needed to be pulled up a bit (*cough* Jennifer Connelly *cough*). But on a less bitchy note, Ian McKellan's boyfriend is hot. *grin* And Halle could wear a Hefty bag and still look stunning; I loved her dress.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Foundation garments...hehhehheh. Yeah, what happened to Jennifer Connelly's tits? She used to have them...as cthulhia mentioned, it looked like Uma Thurman got them instead. :) You know, if I were a Hollywood actress, there's no way in hell I'd ever show up anywhere without boob support, not when I knew that every gossip mag and tv show would be dissecting my choice and making catty comments about it afterward. But then, the last time I could justifiably go braless was probably at age 12.

Agreed about Ian McKellan's boyfriend, though...and did you see when the camera cut over to them and his hand was in Ian's lap? Oh yeah!

[geekchick]

not when I knew that every gossip mag and tv show would be dissecting my choice and making catty comments about it afterward.

And even the newspapers. ;) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16903-2002Mar25.html

[trinker.livejournal.com]

I wanted to scream "STAND UP STRAIGHT!" at Gwyneth Paltrow.

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

Oh man, so did I. The slouching made her gown look that much worse on her. Mmph.

Stortroopers. They get everywhere...

[mrph.livejournal.com]

I'm increasingly convinced that they're just a cunning plot by Dishmop, one more tool for world domination...

Re: Stortroopers. They get everywhere...

[geekchick]

So what's wrong with tools for world domination? ;) And you know how it is, you get one person on Livejournal to post something and soon everyone here will follow right along (which is how I ended up with my stortrooper at any rate). *grin* Hmm. World domination, lemmings...I think I sense a plan coming together. Muahahahaha!

Re: Stortroopers. They get everywhere...

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Oh, nothing's wrong with tools for world domination. Just as long as they're my tools for world domination.

World domination, memeplagues, lemmings, tactical thermonuclear weaponry... yep, I have to admit, there's real potential lurking in there...

Re: Stortroopers. They get everywhere...

[geekchick]

Mmmmm, tactical thermonuclear weaponry... I knew there was something my plan was missing!

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

The current default.

Pleasant photo, and you weren't smirking! Well, not much. Although I keep straining to make out the necklace details...

From the Hello Kitty tarot

The thought of a Hello Kitty tarot, in the first place...

From www.stor.co.uk

Hmmm... I've seen a half-dozen userpic illustrations done in a very similar style... does that site generate them?

...when I'm feeling GAF

(clueless look) GAF?

[geekchick]

you weren't smirking! Well, not much. Although I keep straining to make out the necklace details...
*grin* That's about as not-smirking as I ever get in photos, the one exception being the photo a friend took of my while sailing where I didn't realize he had a camera pointed at me. The necklace is a choker of hematite beads; you could probably get a better look at it on my site in the photo albums, I was wearing it in all the Arisia pictures coincidentally.

I've seen a half-dozen userpic illustrations done in a very similar style... does that site generate them?

There's a Java applet there, yes. Follow the link to Stortroopers.

GAF?

Goth as F*ck. ;)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

Hematite beads? That sounds lovely. Plus it probably matched you hair at that point ;-).

Although I'm not quite ready to join someone's memetic quest for world domination... (grin)

[geekchick]

Hematite beads? That sounds lovely. Plus it probably matched you hair at that point ;-).

Nope, any silver hair I might or might not have was well hidden by the red dye. ;)

Although I'm not quite ready to join someone's memetic quest for world domination... (grin)

Aw, man! C'mon, I need minions! ;)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

(chuckle) minions, eh?

I had thought of the unpolished, feral form of hematite, which can be quite reddish (i.e., as in http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/ess/esic/photojpeg/1996-081.B.jpg ). Not implying that you were prematurely grey! (sheepishly)

[geekchick]

*grin* I knew that (about the reddish hematite, and it fact is is kind of close), I'm just being difficult. ;) The necklace is, however, the shiny metallic silver variety. If I could get my hair that color, I'd do it in a minute.

(And doesn't everybody need minions? How can I achieve world domination if I don't have any minions? How can you have any pudding if you...*ahem* Sorry, tangent.)

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

:-P

That'd be a true platinum blonde! Well, at least an iron blonde...

(grin) Yes, ma'am. If I'm your minion and I'm a good boy, will I get pudding?