Shades of Nothingness

languidnights @ 2009-03-06T20:39:00

2009-03-07T04:41:34Z

Incense rises up
Conduit of our prayer ---
Vernal mercy, please

Forgive Me

2009-02-14T04:35:28Z

Forgive me.

Photo-graphies

2008-11-15T03:13:19Z

Wooden Stairs
The Local Dam
The Pier by the Dam
The Reservoir Bounded by the Dam
The Entrance to the Realms Below (by the Dam)

languidnights @ 2008-11-04T20:23:00

2008-11-05T04:26:03Z

Congratulations President-Elect Obama, I am glad for your victory.
Congratulations Senator McCain, I applaud your grace in defeat.

Photographs of Anita

2008-09-19T03:08:49Z

Photographs of the Lovely Lady:
That Faraway Look
Her Hair is Beautiful Red
She Wears a Snood

Originally published at Shades of Nothingness. You can comment here or there.

School News

2008-08-29T15:07:59Z

I have programmed. That is all.

Originally published at Shades of Nothingness. You can comment here or there.

Beginning at the For-Real School

2008-08-22T16:46:43Z

So, I have attended the Welcome Convocation at the real school (read: not the community college who can’t spell). It was less-than-interesting, but it was the mark of finally being ready to start programming classes—though this coming semester I’m going to feel more like a math major than a CS major.

In other news, it’s my lovely’s birthday today, and I will come bearing gifts of frankincense and myrrh…okay not really frankincense and myrrh, but I will be bearing gifts! I will also be bearing cake. May today be happy and wonderful for you, Anita!

Laters,

Originally published at Shades of Nothingness. You can comment here or there.

WordPress-LJ crossposter

2008-08-20T02:56:35Z

I have set up a WordPress-LJ crossposter! Now duplicating effort for no good reason! Ah well.

Originally published at Shades of Nothingness. You can comment here or there.

Two posts within a week?!?

2008-07-31T20:11:11Z

A poetic work I discovered hanging out on my computer
(sorry Anita, I really do like you better)

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My lovely lady
Dickinson---my heart
Knows naught but despair
For I shall never
Meet with you---nor shall
We share the air---no!
Death has taken you
Years long before I---
Such a tragedy
Is that---I yearn for
You not to have died
But pain breeds pain breeds
Death and life with you
I cannot enjoy
And so your mem'ry,
Poetry cherish
---I---

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New Photos

2008-07-31T03:15:56Z

I discovered a new park, and Anita and I made a preliminary photography run. Here are some of the results.

A Beshadowed Bench

A Bird Bath (1280x1024)

My Lovely Concentrating

A Creek

Upstanding Grill

An Old Building

Rocks upon a River

More Rocks upon a River

languidnights @ 2008-05-27T10:56:00

2008-05-27T18:01:32Z

John Walsh Requiescat In Pace

Beloved Husband, Father, and Grandfather

The Lord Keep Him

languidnights @ 2007-12-23T12:32:00

2007-12-23T20:38:32Z

Since I haven't posted in awhile (and have been attacked by various persons for not doing so...), I thought I'd give a refresher of photographs. There were all taken 2007-11-18 (the day I proposed :-) but were edited and posted 2007-12-23 (today :-P ).

The ones with numbers in them are suitable for a widescreen display (1600x900) or a standard display (1280x1024) wallpaper.

Enjoy the photographic goodness.

Reflection Upon Engagement

Bridge, take one (1600x900)

Bridge, take two (1600x900)

Creek, take one (1280x1024)

Creek, take two (1600x900)

Ducks

A small pool (1600x900)

Trees (1280x1024)

Birds of a Feather

pffft

2007-10-15T21:58:30Z

hear that? that's the sizzle of hot coffee working its way through my monitor.

http://xkcd.com/329/

languidnights @ 2007-10-13T13:36:00

2007-10-13T20:37:04Z

I made a cake. That is all.

languidnights @ 2007-09-15T18:05:00

2007-09-16T01:11:53Z

I have to perpetuate. I cannot let it die after 3 of my fellow lj-ers in a row post such!

Career matches (I do 1 to 10, because 20 is a bit many choices for me :-P )

1. Biomedical Engineer
2. Electronics Engineering Tech
3. Optometrist
4. Announcer
5. Computer Engineer
6. Engineering Tech
7. Electrical Engineering Tech
8. Dental Lab Tech
9. Optical / Ophthalmic Lab Technician
10. Electrician

free radeon drivers!

2007-09-05T23:48:18Z

ATI/AMD have decided to create an open driver for linux for the r500 (Radeon X1???) and up graphics cards! More importantly, however, they've decided to release documentation on the card so as to allow others to implement their own driver! I *knew* when AMD bought ATI that good things would happen, it just took longer that I had expected. Any of those who don't know to be excited, well, be excited!

OoXML

2007-09-05T02:30:02Z

Microsoft's bid for passing OoXML, a completely and utterly redundant and broken and deficient specification, to ISO failed! They have one more chance, in February, to get this passed. I'm not sure if there's anything you, my gentle readers, can do about it, but rest secure in the knowledge that even Microsoft couldn't outright buy the standards making process. If I find out action to take, I'll let you know. In the meantime, use OpenOffice.org as it supports a real, strong, already-passed standard, ODF.

Election Power Play by CA Republicans

2007-09-03T21:13:22Z

The California Republicans are trying to get a ballot measure passed that would allocate electoral votes by Congressional District rather than by state. While this *seems* to be a "fair distribution" move, it really isn't. The Republicans are trying to rig the Electoral College system. They say "fair distribution"; they mean "more votes for us". "But mommy, I didn't win the auction, make them cut up the toy train and give me half!" What's next? Electing two Governors, one to rules over the Republican districts and one over the Democratic districts? Re-drawing the lines so *every* district favors the Republicans (they've done it! look at Texas...). This is a broad jump down a slippery slope, and something which must be opposed.

For the record: these views are mine and mine alone. I do not represent any organization, group, confederacy, cabal, mercenary troop, Viking raiding party, or interstellar merchants guild.

A Clock

2007-07-31T23:25:33Z

A clock can be found here and

languidnights @ 2007-07-19T18:00:00

2007-07-20T01:14:27Z

from nyessax

Psychoanalyze Yourself. Answer the following questions with the first thought that comes to mind. Then read which each answer means. (No cheating! )

1. You are not alone. You are walking in the woods. Who is with you?

'Nita

2. You are walking in the woods. You see an animal. What kind of animal?

Fox

3. What interaction takes place between you and the animal?

I give it a bit of bread (do foxes eat bread? well, I do anyway..)

4. You walk deeper in the woods. You enter a clearing, and before you is
your DREAM house. How big is it?

uhm, small-ish? 2 or 3 bedroom cottage, 2 level

5. Is your dream house surrounded by a fence?

no

6. You enter the house. You walk into the dining room and see the dining
room table. What do you see on AND around it?

apples on it, in a kind of bowl. small wooden chairs around it, stained dark. it's covered in a reddish tablecloth

7. You exit the house and a cup is on the ground, what kind is it?

white porcelain teacup

8. What do you do with the cup?

turn it upright and leave it sitting by the doormat

9. You walk to the edge of the property where you find yourself standing at a body of water. What kind of water is it?

a kidney-shaped pond--like a full rain basin

10. How will you get across it?

Walk around the edge, watching the reflection of trees

1. The person who you are walking in the woods with is the most important person in your life.

2. The size of the animal is representative of your perception of the size of your problems in your life.

3. The severity of the interaction you have with the animal is representative of how you deal with your problems.

4. The size of your dream home is representative of the size of your ambition to solve your problems.

5. A lack of a fence is indicative of an open personality. People are welcome at all times. The presence of a fence indicates a closed personality. You'd prefer people not drop by unannounced.

6. If your answer did NOT include food, flowers, or people, then you are generally unhappy.

7. The durability of the material with the cup is made of is representative of the perceived durability of your relationship.

8. What you did with the cup is representative of your attitude.

9. The size of the body of water is representative of the size of your sexual desire.

10. The way you cross the water is representative to how easy or hard you expect your life to be.

languidnights @ 2007-07-03T14:05:00

2007-07-03T21:10:07Z

I must admit a kind of respect and admiration for certain aspects of the Goth movement. They've cloven themselves so completely from society that they feel free to enjoy things for the sake of enjoying them.

School-ish-ness

2007-06-17T21:00:50Z

Summer classes begin on the morrow. I'm kinda excited to have something to be doing, but I hope I haven't forgotten all my calculus!

More photograpies

2007-06-17T02:23:23Z

This time taken and editted using the Rule of Thirds.

A Flower Fighting Extinction

A bed of flowers bordered in brick

Another Red Star

Help with the yard work

Photo-graphies!

2007-06-16T23:43:41Z

I have some new photography up. I'm learning more and more each time :-D For example, this time I learned about composition guides such as the "rule of thirds" and the "golden mean". Note that I did these pictures before learning that, so don't expect magic just yet ;)

An old-style photo of a new-style lamp

A tree "in the family way"

The beautiful child of same :-D

and

The lovely bit of enablement my sweetheart gave me.

Enjoy! Your friendly neighborhood LanguidNights signing off.

languidnights @ 2007-06-15T22:18:00

2007-06-16T05:30:03Z

Stolen from cincinnati_arch

1. My username is _____ because ____.
2. My journal is titled ____ because ____.
3. My subtitle is ____ because ____.
4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.
5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.

1. My username is languidnights because I was creating a place to put poetry a long time ago, and it required me to enter a username, so I came up with the first vaguely-poetic thing I could recall. I have no recollection of where I heard the term, though.

2. My journal is titled "Shades of Nothingness" because it, like me, borders on the verge of No-Thing. I was feeling a little zen when I first typed it in ;)

3. My subtitle is "Reason's got nothing to do with it" because, well, it don't. This was, at one point, one of my all-time favorite sayings.

4. My friends page is called "Friends" because I quite frankly just now learned you could change it.

5. My default userpic is "vitae" because I am a vitae. I have been a vitae since I started on the internet, and it has become a strong part of my identity. Also, it allowed nyessax to know who I was when I first showed it to her, which indirectly led to a happy relationship :-D (I'm obviously prescient and knew this would happen).

Shades of Nothingness

languidnights @ 2009-03-06T20:39:00

Forgive Me

Photo-graphies

languidnights @ 2008-11-04T20:23:00

Photographs of Anita

School News

Beginning at the For-Real School

WordPress-LJ crossposter

Two posts within a week?!?

New Photos

languidnights @ 2008-05-27T10:56:00

languidnights @ 2007-12-23T12:32:00

*pffft*

languidnights @ 2007-10-13T13:36:00

languidnights @ 2007-09-15T18:05:00

free radeon drivers!

OoXML

Election Power Play by CA Republicans

A Clock

languidnights @ 2007-07-19T18:00:00

languidnights @ 2007-07-03T14:05:00

School-ish-ness

More photograpies

Photo-graphies!

languidnights @ 2007-06-15T22:18:00

pffft