Hello 
I'm Siobhan Curran/Kisa Naumova, and this is my weblog. I tend to write about stuff like crossdressing, Macs, code, cats, wine and Second Life, but in general it's just an ongoing conversation about all sorts of stuff. If you'd like to know a little bit more about what this all is, I recommend starting on this page which has a little bit of info on who I am, and what I'm trying to do — or you could dive into my five years worth of archives if you like.
Otherwise, feel free to close this box and explore...
I Think About Things Too Much
I was all set this morning, to make a little quip to start the day. The sun is shining outside, there's a layer of frosty goodness on the ground, and I thought a little bon mot to fire myself up this Friday morning, before I pop out to pick up a few things, would be just what I needed.
I have, if I'm honest with myself, not really been at my best — writing-wise — this past week. The unfounded pressure to "write something fab" kinda clouds my head sometimes, and gets in the way of the general, relaxed "ack, fuck it" flow of Stuff™. And I thought that to break myself out of such a cycle, I'd make a frivilous observation on some piece of popular culture — and wrap it up in a little joke.
A long time ago, when I had my huge 32" telly, I used to get rather excited by one of the buttons on the remote — the one that froze the screen. It wasn't like a Sky+ box or anything, it just, effectively, took a screengrab. I used to sit there, remote in hand, trying to freeze it on moments that normally pass you by.
One of my favourite things (she said, suddenly realising that she has no life whatsoever 
) was freezing The Simpsons title sequence — in particular, trying to pause it exactly the moment that the till flashes up when Maggie gets scanned.
I wanted to know how much Maggie was worth
One day, I managed it 
And one of the first things that I did when the Little Box That I've Been Getting Far Too Excited About For My Own Good™ arrived, was try to recreate that moment by going through the sequence — frame-by-frame — so that I could share the joy with everyone else.
Anyway, like I said, I sat down this morning and penned a (maybe) witty post all about "The great unanswered questions of our time", and included a screen grab.
Chuffed with myself, I was just previewing it on my secret preview page, when a thought struck me:
"Um, Fox are pretty rigorous with their copyright enforcement aren't they? Maybe I should do some research before I start shoving copyrighted material online."
It was only one frame, but I thought "better safe than sorry", so I asked Mr. Google what he thought...
Then, as Else told me, “two things happened. First we discovered ... that Matt Groening doesn’t own his own creation—or at least that someone [at Fox] believes he doesn’t own his own creation.” And second, Fox “wanted ten thousand dollars as a licensing fee for us to use this four-point-five seconds of ... entirely unsolicited Simpsons which was in the corner of the shot.”
(via http://www.authorama.com/free-culture-11.html)
It's an interesting little story that, and I must go back and read what I can of that book, because it looks quite absorbing.
But anyway, after much deliberation, I decided that even though I'm an obscure trannie weblogger, who probably wouldn't even cause a blip on Fox's radar, I probably wouldn't like it if someone started posting my work on their blog without attribution.
And besides, it wasn't exactly the most enlightening piece of writing I've ever done. Not the kind of thing to get worked up over, or spend most of the morning internally deliberating when actually I should be up at the Post Office right now picking up the stockings that got delivered the other day.
See, this is what happens when you spend most of your waking life blogging — you start to lose perspective. There is a trannie-heaven waiting for me at the top of the hill this morning, and I'm sat here faffing about with pointless questions.
PS. Eight hundred and forty seven dollars, sixty three cents
Jenna
Good God woman! You need more wine. STAT!
Yes, I believe you're right...
Photo Splurge
I just shoved a bunch of photographs on Flickr, but permit me to share three of them here as well...
Right. That's my afternoon taken care of
Preview
(via flickr.com/people/si08han) 
iLife
(via flickr.com/people/si08han)
I was kinda expecting more substantial packaging. Still, iPhoto 6 is STUNNINGLY good
And Lo...
(via flickr.com/people/si08han)
...Siobhan buys a zoom lens
Yes, I am back online, and very slowly going through your archives. You blog more than anyone else on the planet! I've seen the Christmas Invasion but won't be able to catch the rest of the series unless I cough up 20 euro per month for extra networks. Pooooooooooooooo.
Lindsay
For completion's sake, I believe I should link to my comment on K's blog this morning, for that to make sense
Sorry, I often forget that some people are concerned about making sense. 
Lindsay
Concerned, but ineffective 
The new series will be on BBC ONE, LV. It's just the reruns they do on THREE.
Helpful K
waves her arms around like Kermit
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!
Lindsay
Yes, its fun when you realise you have no life isn't it
. I remeber getting all worked up about seeing a new wireless network appear in our area and instantly set up my scanner box to examine it and decrypt it, minutes later my wife walks in, I bound over like a springer spaniel who has just found his favourite chew toy to tell her, she glazez over and then says why? me — um hurrumph, erm its there?
her — Thats nice dear