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1998
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11-7-98 Saturday I'm at work today and my brain is barely functioning. My allergies started acting up at 4am this morning so I took an antihistamine which made me really sleepy. Normally it wouldn't be that bad except that it's still affecting me now and I have work to do. So my 2 year anniversary was great. Thanks to Keith Ware for sending me a Virtual Bouquet.
And thank you to Mark Cuminsky for sending me a Virtual Postcard. Thanks for thinking of me. I got a really nice email from Bruce Ableson who runs the OpenDiary site. He said they got a bunch of hits from my site when I mentioned the Diary site in my journal yesterday. I'm glad. I think it's a terrific site and I hope that a lot of people will enjoy it.
_________________________________ Mare said she was emailing someone who saw us at the party last weekend. He said: "i was there for an hour... wanted to stay longer... but had to wake up early the next day... Alice mentioned that you all were hanging out with all the "cyber web masters" sorta like a who's who.... of the asian american WEB scene...." Mare emailed
me and said: I
responded:
Yvonne
Got Rice?
Thanks for your inspiration and support over the past several months. You guys have been really great and I've really enjoyed watching your web sites grow and evolve as our relationships have grown and evolved. Keep up the great work and thanks again. _________________________________ From my guestbook: "Hello! I read about it in a swedish newspaper(One of the biggest in ouer land, i think you gonna get some more visiters from my land." Cool. First Iceland, now Sweden. "If you build it...they will come." 11-5-98 Thursday Nite I had a few things planned for the journal tonight since tomorrow is the 2 year anniversary of this site. But I worked late tonight and I'm so exhausted. I have to work again this Saturday. It'll all be worth it in the long run but right now all I want to do is sleep. I don't want to get depressing or anything since I'm not really depressed. I'm just beat and my brain is all foggy and sleep deprived. I found this site today called the Open Diary. It's pretty neat. You can write in an online journal and remain anonymous. And people can leave messages in response to those journal entries. It's a neat way to be able to express yourself. But I wonder why you would want to do that if you're going to remain completely anonymous. Why not just write it down in an old fashioned journal with a pen and paper? Maybe it's the fact that online, people actually read it and in a sense, you know someone is listening. Someone hears you. And you can get responses to what you wrote. Until I started the Journal Ring, I had no idea there were so many journals/diaries out there on the Web. I was really shocked. So many people out there sharing the intimate details of their lives. Some really let it all hang out, so to speak. After reading some of them, it makes me think that my journal isn't really so much a journal/diary but more of an update page. Just little tidbits of knowledge and anecdotes that I share. But not a whole lot of emotion. Well, maybe sometimes when I'm really irritated, which has been fairly often the past 8 months. I don't really talk about all the angst and the scary stuff. Not the real raw emotional stuff. So here we are, 2 years of being on the net. I used the name BaddGrrl from day one and the site was called BaddGrrl's Home Page. It started at Geocities and I had a generic URL, www.geocities.com/SouthBeach/5860. What a friggin pain in the ass that was to try to give out to people. I finally got my own domain earlier this year, I think it was in April. That's when I changed the name to BaddGrrl's Domain. Geez, I just went back to my Geocities site and looked at my old home page. The oldest backup I have is dated 11-21-97. That's almost one year ago and one year after the site went up. I'm embarrassed looking at it now. The sad truth is, that's close to what it looked like up until May of this year. Yeesh. All those animated gifs and wavy banners. The absolute worst thing was the embedded midi file. Guess what the midi song was? The Spice Girls!!! Aiya! I bet you want to see it don't you? Sigh, don't laugh too hard and turn down your speakers first... The Old Sorry-ass BaddGrrl Home Page I bet a year from now (less maybe) I'll look back on all this and say, what the heck was I thinking? But for now, it works for me. I'm still relatively sane. Relatively. Personally, I think sanity is overrated. Hey, thanks for sticking with me through all these days, weeks, months. Years? It's been an interesting journey. Wonder how it's all gonna end? 11-5-98 Thursday Wow! Mare told me this morning that this web site in Iceland has a picture of me eating a sandwich. I checked it out and sure enough, there I am, plain as day. Unfortunately I have no idea what it says because it's all in Icelandic. Can anyone out there translate for me? Here's the URL: The Icelandic Site that I can't understand but I hope they aren't mocking me I think it may have to do with journals since all the sites next to my picture are links to other journal sites. Or maybe it says, "Check out this fool girl sittin there all piggin out in front of the cam..." Thanks for the "sitings" alert Mare! Hey if any of you guys have a BaddGrrl siting, drop me a note ok? Thanks!
** Update- Allen Mar sent me an email with a URL that helped explain the link to my page with that picture. I had seen that page with a journal excerpt from Bill of POW! site fame. But I was lame and didn't scroll down to read the whole thing with the explanation including my site. Thanks Allen for pointing that out to me! _________________________________ Have any of you ever wondered how we get these little screen shots of our webcam pictures? There are several programs out there that allow you to capture a still shot of a window on your screen. I don't know of any Mac utilities but you can drop a note to Fredlet, she'll probably know. What I use is this program called HyperSnap-DX. You can download the trial version and start making your own screen captures. You can get a shot of anything that's in a window on your Windows 95, 98 or NT 4 screen, even freaky email messages. Check it out. Download HyperSnap-DX 3.21.00 You can use it to make screen captures of people's webcam pictures like the shots you've seen on my Cam Archives and here in this journal. If you do use the program for that purpose, I would recommend you use the floating remote cam windows since they are smaller and will produce a smaller image and you won't need to crop it later in an external image editor.
11-4-98 Wednesday Hey, don't forget to submit your pictures for Picture of the Week. You could see your pic posted right on the Main page of my site. So here are some of the captions submitted for my freaky lips picture:
"Lorraine, hoping to tap into the ultra-hot FishCam market, practices her best guppie impersonation." -- Todd Miller "Whistle
while you work..." "Mental note. More sugar in the lemonade." -- seamus4
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Hey have you guys seen those commercials for You've Got Mail, with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks? I thought it was for a new ISP or something but apparently it's a new film that's coming out Dec. 18th.
"You've Got Mail is a romantic comedy set in the age of e-mail. TOM HANKS and MEG RYAN star as Joe Fox and Kathleen Kelly, two booksellers who face off against each other in real life even as they unwittingly romance each other via modem." _________________________________ Journal Spotlight
Fred sent me this excerpt from TechnoPagan's Journal. TechnoPagan is a witch. A what?! Yup, that's right a witch. When I first read that on his site, I was like, Yikes! I started browsing thru it looking for a picture of him with a pointy hat and a black cat but didn't find anything of the kind there. Nothing evil. 10/21/98 "Well, as you all can see, I have been added to a new Journal Ring. It’s very cool. I was not entirely sure that I would be accepted into the ring. The woman who runs it is more of a ‘trendy in-crowd’ kind of person. There is nothing wrong with that kind of person, I just thought that I would not fit into that type of crowd. I am glad that she is open-minded and can accept oddballs such as myself." _________________________________ I've never heard of myself described that way. A ‘trendy in-crowd’ kind of person. If he only knew. I don't know if I was so much an oddball but I was certainly not one of the popular kids growing up. When I was younger, I was one of the nerdy, geeky types. School, books, grades, that was pretty much all I had going for me. I wasn't athletic, wasn't funny, wasn't pretty. But I was smart and that's what I clung onto. I wanted to be all of those things but I was a dork, a nerd. I hated grade school and junior high, 7 years of Catholic school. I can't complain though because looking back now, that was the best education I had. Lowell High School? Ha, yeah right. I can't remember anything that I learned there. I read a few good books in some of my English classes. UC Berkeley? I don't remember. Spent a lot of that time partying. Yes, I was a total party girl. That's when I finally broke out of my Christian environment. Right before I started high school, I started going to church. It was a really rigid environment. We weren't supposed to date, go to parties, swear, smoke or do anything except go to church and serve God. We weren't even supposed to associate with non-Christians. I think the combination of growing up in a Catholic school (the same 30 people for 7 years) and going to that church throughout high school really impeded my social growth and social skills. I didn't even know how to interact with the male sex, much less date them. But I think in college I sort of came into my own, so to speak. I was still very self-conscious and insecure. I cared too much about what other people thought about me, but I did start to build my confidence a little. Too bad most of my self-esteem was based on other people's opinion of me. Point? What point? I'm just being rambley here. I'm entitled. It's my journal dammit. So does this ruin everyone's image of me? The BaddGrrl was NerdGrrl for most of her life? Who cares? It's those humble beginnings that have made me who I am today. 11-3-98 Tuesday Hmmmm, I started browsing thru several of the journals in the Journal Ring today and I'm afraid I may be hooked. People are right, reading other people's journals can be addictive. I've decided to feature some of the journals in the Journal Web Ring here so you all can share the experience...
Journal
Spotlight
The
Sole Proprietor
Check out the list of sites in the Journal Ring _________________________________
One of the engineers walked by as Fred and I were gabbing away at work today... Darrick:
(looking over at Fred's aquarium) Hey is there even anything living
in there?
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When I first saw this picture, I thought I looked really freakish but now I just think it's funny. What the heck was I doing with my lips? What do you think I was looking at? Anyone want to come up with a good caption? Umm, nothing perv-like ok. ? _________________________________ Derek Yee sent me this image. Thanks Derek! "Hi
Lorraine! This is history in the making for GI JOE collectors and the
doll industry in general. This is the very first JOE based on an Asian
American soldier. I stopped by FAO to visit some friends (and have my
brother's birthday present wrapped in FAO paper to throw him off) and
saw them on the shelves. A nice tribute to the legendary 442nd Airborne
Division." Whoa, how cool! An Asian GI JOE. Click the link below for more info.
G.I. JOE® SALUTES THE WWII JAPANESE-AMERICAN SOLDIERS OF THE 442ND COMBAT TEAM Another big surprise, they have a female G.I. Joe character, G.I. Jane, I guess. 11-2-98 Monday What the dilly yo! I wrote that in my pop-up message on my main page and said I didn't know what it means. Peter Chen emailed me to give me the 411: "Though I am by no means proficient in Ebonics, I believe the intent of the phrase "what the dilly y'all," made popular by Busta Rhymes in the MTV Music Awards last year when he present with Martha Stewart (which in and of itself is rather hilarious), was: "what is the deal that which is on the minds, at this present time, of all people who are currently in the same prefecture as myself?" or, in other words: "what's up?"
Cool,
thanks Peter! I searched the web and actually found quite
a few references for "What the dilly yo", most of them related
to rap stuff. Asian American Action Figure Homepage _________________________________ I finally updated my Cam Archive page. You may have seen most of these pics already but if not, here they are:
_________________________________ Did y'all see Ally McBeal tonight? Fredlet and I were chatting on ICQ while we were watching it: Fred:
renee's hair looks like crap Don't ya just love our running commentary during the episode? _________________________________
I posted a new pic of the booboo on my leg since Mare said the other pics were so nice and gross. Check out the
new pic and how nice it's healing on the Boo boo
page. _________________________________ Brian Lau aka "blau" gave me a great URL last night. You can read other people's Yo Mama jokes or you can add your own. "Yo
mama's so ugly, her face is closed on weekends!"
11-1-98 Sunday The new poll is up, please take a moment to take the Quizlet! Here are the results of the last one:
The funny thing is, I never take my own polls. I guess I already know what my answer is so I don't bother. I think I'd want to know if someone were hitting on my mate but I think it would also depend on the situation. If it was someone just making a flirtatious remark at my significant other, it wouldn't be a big deal but if someone was actively trying to steal my man, I'd definitely want to know. Now another question would be, if someone was hitting on me, would I tell my significant other? Usually in the past, I haven't. Not that I was keeping anything from them but because I didn't think it was worth mentioning. It wasn't anything that I thought was important enough for them to know. It's not like I had anything to prove to them, like "Hey look, I'm attractive enough for someone else to want me. You should appreciate me." Or try to tell them to make them jealous. If I felt they would want to know, then I'd probably tell them but in most cases, I just didn't think it was necessary. _________________________________ Hey, I've re-added some old features I had on my page. One is an on-line Greeting Card service. The other is a list (two lists actually) of Top San Francisco Restaurants. I took them off when I revamped the page but the Restaurant lists were registered under Yahoo so many people come to my page thru those links. I also have a midi music page and some people find my page that way. If you'd like to send someone an on-line Greeting Card, please go to my Post Office page:
San Francisco's TOP 40 Restaurants Top 10 list of New Restaurants in San Francisco ________________________________ The new Picture of the Week is up too, please go to the main page and check it out! Wow, it's going to be the 2 year anniversary of my web page this week!!! On November 6th, my web page will have been on-line for two whole years. The last 8 months have been absolutely amazing. I put the webcam up back in March and since then, my site took on a life of its own. Gotta give props to my Web Site Host, I-Step Communications. They made all this possible and have been working with me to keep this site up and running. Thanks I-Step! I'm also fast approaching 3 million hits! I'm not sure what to do. I was thinking of offering a prize to the 3 millionth visitor. That person would have to get a screen capture of the 3,000,000 in their browser page which might be difficult. Well, it's a thought. We'll see.
Pics from a Halloween Party I went to...
LC and John Dang
Steve, LC and JD
JD and some Shogun warrior dude
I went to the party with Mare, Rob, Nels and Bonnie.
Bonnie and Rob I wasn't going to write about this, but for some reason, I now feel compelled to share... We were all on the dance floor last night when Mare said to me, "You missed it. This lesbian chick was all feeling me up." I looked at her and said, "What?!" and she pointed at this girl behind me, (whom I recognized) and Mare said "That girl came up behind me and was all feeling me up." Now, I have the utmost respect for Mare but at that moment I was thinkin, "Has Mare been drinking?" I started walking off the dance floor to go talk to a friend and next thing I knew, I felt someone put their hands around my waist and their hands started to rub up and down and I was like, "WHAT THE _____?!" I turned around and it was the "lesbian chick". I then saw her move past me and start doing the same thing to every person as she was moving thru the crowd. Then I realized, "She is not a lesbian trying to cop a feel, she's just drunk and seriously jacked up". Now I have nothing against lesbians, I just have "issues" with being rubbed by strangers. Just a little quirk I have.
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