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...
66 Prims
I think I prefer the latter 
TrannieSpheric, 2006
Post Of The Year: A Call For Submissions
Getting pressganged into beta-testing something the other day by Nikolai Nolan, I started to wonder about all the stuff we've all written over the course of 2006. It occurs to me that inbetween the quips, ephemeras, and Torchwoods, there are some little gems of posts — pieces literary genius that deserve some sort of fanfare.
I've just spent a fair bit of the morning ploughing through one or two blogs in my immediate vicinity, picking out the posts that made me gasp, cry, laugh and fume — but I thought it would be rather nice if we all clubbed together to pick out the singularly most brilliant post of 2006.
So, while I lie here in bed trying to pick up the pieces of my pickled brain, I'd like to ask everyone to trawl back through archives and memories, and post a comment linking to the thing that you read this year on one of the blogs in this map that most deserves our mutual accolades.
(I was originally going to list some rules — but leaving it as open as possible seems a much better way to go)
In the meantime, I'll try and come up with some sort of voting system and 'prize'.
Lifted
When everyone's left for the holidays, I like to let my hair down at work.
Ha ha
May I suggest This comic. It may not fit in the 'literary genius' category, but it makes me laugh, it's very well done and it's unmistakably 'ours'.
Hmm, any episode in particular?
But it IS a Shit-Hole
Enraged locals drive blogger from Barrow-in-Furness — [The Register]
Um, there'll be no votes for me then... I'm not on the map. But nor is The Gate of Ivory which has several worthy contenders — A Melancholy Realisation for one: a most thoughtful and poignant post.
Choose just one? Oh dear. Well I guess the first one 'sets the tone 
and is a good place for somebody new to start.
next weeks headlines on the Register...
"Enraged Barrow-in-Furness locals drive blogger from Lancaster"
I'm fully expecting enraged philosphers to drive me from whatever party it is that I happen to be at next...
You know, I've been to Barrow twice in my life — once to (almost) buy a double bass, and once to pick up some wine that a very nice man sent me.
Both times I got out of it as soon as I could — the depressing barreness of a decaying port was too much for my fragile mind.
It's not called¹ "The Cul-De-Sac Of England" for nothing
¹ Although, it might just be me who calls it that...
May I suggest This comic.
I have to concur that it would be a travesty for anything else to win this contest.
That was an intertextual pun by the way...
Talking of intertextual puns, my icon is your default gray one and not the flickr buddy icon I have (did you like that conversation switch BTW — very smooth wouldnt you say?)
Is there something up with Flickr?
Flickr's been running really slow for me all week....
Um, no. Nowt up with Flickr. But for some reason Erin's not scraping the buddyicon right. Odd 
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Oh. They'd changed stuff on the profile pages — I've fixed it now.
That must've happened in the past couple of days I suppose it's just telling me that I need to use the API properly rather than page-scraping...
ah yes — I use http://phpflickr.com/ but you no doubt know all about that. Page scraping can be v useful though — especially as I dont think there is an api for flickr comments (not since I last checked). Its also v useful for other, slightly dodgier activities...
A priest in Middlesbrough called Barrow "The Cul-De-Sac Of England" only three days ago. Mind you, he's never been to Fleetwood.....
April, you said and I quote "The only truism is how you feel". If you're going to advise people to do just what they feel like doing then you have to accept that a lot of people feel like doing really bad things. That was the point of what I said — doing what you feel like doing is no guide to knowing whether what you are doing is good or bad. The fact that you think putting on a dress is good and murder is bad shows that you do have an ethics and one that goes beyond "doing what you feel". You just don't want to think about it.
Adobe Creative Sexualities v3
Do you see what I did there? Eh?
Photoshop
The Evolution of the Photoshop Splash Screen — Version 2 was the first time I used it in a 'professional' sense, but I do have a copy of version 1 lying around here somewhere that still runs under Classic
Actually, I think I've got a copy of the first (clever) thing I ever did in Photoshop in the loft somewhere. I must try to dig that out...
gosh I'm in a derailing topics mood tonight...
Hi Stephanie — yes you are absolutely right — I dont want to think about it — in my mind the whole "putting on a dress is good and murder is bad" debate was sewn up long ago. Maybe I'm alone in this — but thats bleeding obvious, ain't it? I would like to think certain things go without saying. But then maybe thats because you're a philospher and I'm a drug fuelled nutcase in a dress with a camera.
Smile. Say cheese.
Do you see what I did there? Eh?
err... no actually. I don't have a context for it.
I might be being slow, I've been asleep since 6 and I've just woken up, but I can't really see what it means/does/shows.
sorry.
Do you see what I did there? Eh?
Errrrrm, nope. Well, I can make a stab at what some of the abbreviations mean, but those Adobe logos and most of the symbols have got me flummoxed... I'm guessing the relationship between colour / shade and abbreviation is personal to you...
Nah — I give up.
The thing is, sometimes I really hate myself for the crap that I post — in relation to the ideas that I have before I post
That thing, was supposed to be a hilarious reworking of Adobe's CS3 icons — the ones that are causing much controversy right now — by reducing certain sexualities down to the two-letter abbreviations that Adobe seem to be employing.
But in my head, it was a hilarious thing — a pastiche, a parody, a piss take.
But it didn't work. So /me sulks
I would like to vote for this post from the draGnet: a most eloquent and moving piece.
Thank-you, Stephanie, for your kind yet thwarted nomination.
(So that's what caused the spike in visitor numbers?)
by reducing certain sexualities down to the two-letter abbreviations that Adobe seem to be employing.
Can we have a key please?
"supposed to be a hilarious reworking of Adobe's CS3 icons — the ones that are causing much controversy right now"
in the sense its just as incomprehensible as the CS3 originals? Not sure I get it either.
Adobe always seem to court controversy with photoshop — my! the fuss that was made over royalty free photo library integration into Adobe Bridge (CS2) — and rightly so.
Ah, now I see what you've done: assumed we all know about 'the controversy over Adobe's CS3 icons' 
My vote is for this episode from Becky's site.
You see the world in prims now do you? Sort of like neo? Or more like an autistic savant?