Cassette players don't get any love

Moron. I know you're here. So write already. (Even if only to mutter a few choice swear words at me and the world for ragging on you during your holidays.)

POST, WOMAN. POOOOOST. -points flamethrower menacingly-

As for myself, I would write a longer death threat, but lunch is on in about T-10 seconds so I've gotta rush.

-rattles flamethrower-

And here's a pre-recorded message just to drill it in. -presses button on ancient-looking cassette player- -skips out the door-

POST. POST. POST. POST. POST. POST. POST. -tape rewinds- POST. POST. POST. POST. POST...

~Mnemosyne

I blame your corridor of premature mortality for the general lack of postiness

Well.

If you'd have liked me to post to the blog while you're gone then maybe you shouldn't lock me in the closet beforehand, eh? Think about that next time. It takes me a while to shovel six feet of concrete with a spoon. A plastic spoon. Goddamned cheapskates.

Then I had to dodge all your fooking death traps in your hallway of fooking inconvenience. I almost ran out of glass shards for the lasers--sorry about the bathroom, by the way, I'll replace the two-way mirror as soon as I scrape up the cash--and the poison gas ruined the wallpaper. (You're going to have to disinfect the place when you get back.) Oh, and I split all your security camera lenses with some well-timed bagpipe music. Nothing like 90 decibels of "Amazing Grace" to put a $500 thermal imaging scanner out of commission.

As regards your bottomless pit, I was apparently correct when I assumed that the gap would be smaller than the length of a ski. Plus the slats were good for when your stairwell turned into a slide. The guard at the bottom looked like he choked on a lemon.

Speaking of the guards, I nearly broke my wrist taking out the one in the kitchen--it's a hell of a lot harder smashing a chair across someone's back than it looks in the movies. The one by the garage? Introduced his coattails to some lighter fluid and a match. The three of them got on wonderfully, like a house on fire. With the smoke and the panic and the insurance claims and everything.

So, my dear, what can we learn from this?

The answer is: if you want me to post faster, just give me the goddamn closet key before you leave.
 
~Mnemosyne

Mnem the MIA

Hm, I'm the one not supposed to have internet access here.
When I finally get to a hotel with Internet, I log on and what do I know, no new posts.


-loudspeaker- Hey, Mnem? You were supposed to keep this place running whilst I was gone! See, this layer of dust... -sneeze- -sneeze- -sneeze-

Well, this attic blog has been abandoned for quite a while... -places a 'for sale' sign outside-

-adds subtitle-
THIS IS WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF YOU DON'T REVIVE, MNEM.

-Chronos

3 things I'd like to tell all you design nut dabblers out there

I don't fancy myself a particularly good graphic designer, as I've said before. But I know something awful when I see it. When the visual balance is off, or the colours don't quite work together, or God forbid they've saved in the wrong file format and there are little pixelated grains everywhere. Tchah.

So I have three things to say.

1. Save in PNG.
If you want high-quality stuff with little to no blurring and discolouration then for God's sake save in PNG format (*.png). Seriously, it's much better than JPEG in terms of quality, although it does take up a touch  more disk space. But it's worth it. Definitely.

2. Read this. 
It's an unbiased impartial honest surprisingly relevant (given the website's normal material) look at fonting.

3. Retain your fashion sense.
You'd never wear lime green with fluorescent violet, right? So why would you splash a header with those same shades of horror? Some combinations are just not meant to be seen by the human eye; I'm referring in particular to flat blue with dead fuchsia, which is unspeakably popular in some parts of the world, although why on earth they are condoned outside of a leaflet for the blind is a mystery to me.

~Mnemosyne

PS. I'm still wasted. Could you tell?

What's in a name? That which we call a blog / By any other name would bite as hard

Yes, I'm alive. Although I sound kinda wasted. -shakes head slowly- What was I saying?

I ran through the design options like you asked. Some of them are pretty but they're not necessarily applicable to FG--it's like strapping Chronos in a pair of ballerina flats and a dress. Sure it looks nice for a bit but then you get hit round the ears when you don't expect it. So yeah.

I like Chronos' design pick and I like this one too:

It's got the same basic sketchy theme going on, but it's a slightly different colour and with a slightly different subject. Hearts and rainbows and skulls and the like. When I read what I just wrote it strikes me as being somewhat clichéd (no shit Mnem!) but I really do think the design is neat. Random and all over the place. Wish it were a little more off-the-wall though.

Scrolling down so you can see what the posts look like:

Not too bad. I'm particularly fond of the orange page links up top and the orange page titles. I dunno why. I'm not usually terribly attached to that colour in and of itself. It just looks cheery when juxtaposed with the contents the design of this blog. So all I'm asking is that--whichever design we go with, Chronos' or mine--we keep the orange.

God, I sound so out of it.

~Mnemosyne

Chat Box Interface

Hey again!
3rd post, whoo! Sorry for getting all emo in my first post of the morning. Top of the morning to everyone now, because I've stopped angsting over the last episode of Angel Beats, which, besides the sentimentality, was awesome.
Thanks to Mazui subs, who fansubbed Angel Beats into English with patience, good quality, and speed.

That aside, the purpose of this post is to inform you of this new interface that I installed. Well, you can't really call it an interface... you see, I went here and obtained an html to our very own chat forum / room, which is currently displayed at the bottom of the page. Scroll all the way down... oh yes, if you would like to post whilst chatting, then you'll have to open a new tab of 'new post' so it doesn't close the chat interface and have to make you relog.
Yep. It runs on Java, just so you know, so make sure you have it installed properly if you want to use it!
I have power of admin to literally kick your ass out of the room if you don't behave, so bear that in mind. It's a means to communicate with Mnem as well, when she's not on MSN.
Other than that, enjoy.

Ooo, new designs.

Blogger has apparently installed a more advanced blog design system now.

Some of them look pretty. *_*

May I change the design, Mnem? D: -desperately wants a background picture-

Yes, I'm crazy enough to loiter around Blogger for exploration whilst waiting for episode 13.

Edit: I've done some exploring, and I'm currently gunning for this design. 

Click to enlarge. You know the deal. This design has the part with the post area and sidebars enlarged to its biggest width, as well as two sidebars. My only problem is the navigation bar doesn't look all too nice.

I think we might be able to change the text color though. What do you think?
Play with the design customization for a while. You can change anything and see how it will look on the new blog without actually affecting the original. Whatever you do, DO NOT press 'Save Changes to Blog'.
So... -silently sits in front of computer to wait for Mnem's response... AND EPISODE 13-

-Chronos

Chronos: FK YES. Mnem: Oh noes.

Episode 13 of Angel Beats! is out.

It's the finale.

Mnem knows what I mean.

-feels like jumping until her head hits the ceiling and laughing and crying and writing a run-on and also run-ons FTW hahahahahahaha nooooo I need my Angel Beats! 13 which is currently downloading with 2 hours left noooo -rages--

2 HOURS?! IT MUST BE A CONSPIRACY.

-Chronos

Edit: ... now it's 3 hours left.
Edit: 1 hour. 2 hours. 3 hours. NOOOOOOOO!
Edit 2: Yes, I am sad enough to WTF my own post and come back to edit the post to let you know.
Hey, just called myself sad and I'm not striking out.
YESSSSSSSS.
Crap, umpire forcefully removed me from play. I was never that good at baseball, anyway. Now, SOFTBALL, on the other hand...

FINISHED DOWNLOADING.
EFFING CRIED.
WHAT THE HELL WHY DOES KEY HAVE TO MAKE SUCH EFFINGLY EPICLY SAD SERIES?!
-cries-

[insert witty comment here]

Hi.

Can't think of anything to write.

I've been reading random TV Tropes pages all day. Fun stuff. It's the kind of website where you go, "Oh, I'll just open this link..." and you end up clicking and clicking and opening tabs and new windows until you realize your CPU's froze. And then you kick it back into life and open some more tabs. Yes, it's like that.

I like that website. They're a wiki, like that famous one, but they're much breezier and more casual, and the Tropers (in-universe nickname for the long-suffering contributors) have a definite sense of humour which comes through at least once an article. Plus it helps that they know what they're doing.

It's 10:04 at night and I'm kinda sleepy, so I guess this is where the post will end.

Sorry Chronos.

~Mnem

EDIT: Whoa, sorry. The title was originally enclosed in angle brackets, but due to Blogger's inherent stupidity built-in HTML recognition capability, the text disappeared, which is apparently what happens when it sees HTML tags it can't read. Hence the square brackets.

Yeh. Sorry for the flashy entrance, but if you're complaining about Blogger... :)

-Chronos 

A new member of the Ferret Gun family who is neither ferret, gun, nor ferret gun...

Long post titles FOR THE WIN.

I guess, like me, Mnem has vanished off the face of the Earth. Worry not, she will return... someday (Someday that might or might not be today, tomorrow, or someday next year).

In any case, I would like to welcome a new member: とうふ / 豆腐はんなり
Er, translation. It's a live piece of tofu with a cute face doodled on it. I took a picture of it and photoshopped it into a header I was GOING to use for my LiveJournal, but...

Ugh, I'm not even going to tell you how long that took to upload. Despite its shrunk down size, this is meant to be 650 x 260 pixels. In other words : somewhat damn big.
Cute tofu, ain't it? That's my opinion, anyway. The spammed Chinese / Japanese characters behind the 'hanabiira's LiveJournal' section say tofu x 29384798123740129830921830912.
Yes, that's a lot of tofu.
Welcome, Tofu.

-Chronos

Edit: Tofu has been added to the designs page, like all our other inanimate friends that were brought to life by our lack of creative imagination.