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  <title>Journey to Gestalt</title>
  <subtitle>...with side-quests all over!</subtitle>
  <author>
    <email>ouri-chan@ouri.laranica.com</email>
    <name>Ouri</name>
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  <updated>2009-12-15T20:27:41Z</updated>
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    <id>urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:ouri:31337</id>
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    <title>A (Warped) Mind is a Terrible Thing to Waste?</title>
    <published>2009-12-15T20:27:41Z</published>
    <updated>2009-12-15T20:27:41Z</updated>
    <category term="wtf&amp;apos;ery"/>
    <content type="html">My brain is being thoroughly inappropriate today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While skimming a Ravelry message board, I saw mention of a shawl pattern called the "Colonnade" and the prompt thought was:  "Okay, so if you're supposed to make lemonade when life hands you lemons, under what circumstances do you make &lt;i&gt;colon&lt;/i&gt;nade?"  O_o;;;;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then &lt;span lj:user="kijikun" style="white-space: nowrap;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://kijikun.dreamwidth.org/profile"&gt;&lt;img src="http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png" alt="[personal profile] " width="17" height="17" style="vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://kijikun.dreamwidth.org/"&gt;&lt;b&gt;kijikun&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; made a post on Twitter about D.C. (as in the District of Columbia) legalizing gay marriage - which is wonderful news! Really, it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Except that Inappropriate Brain piped up with "Now if we could just convince Marvel to do the same!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... ... ... I'd really better hope none of my co-workers make any comments that could be twisted into innuendo and/or a bad pun. *sigh*</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:ouri:30773</id>
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    <title>W.T.F. DISNEY TAKES OVER MARVEL?!?!!</title>
    <published>2009-08-31T16:01:37Z</published>
    <updated>2009-08-31T17:49:53Z</updated>
    <category term="wtf&amp;apos;ery"/>
    <content type="html">&lt;a href="http://marvel.com/news/comicstories.9360.Disney_to_Acquire_Marvel_Entertainment"&gt;It's the End of the World(s) As We Know 'Em&lt;/a&gt;... and I &lt;i&gt;don't&lt;/i&gt; feel fine.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not that I think Marvel was doing a bang-up job on its own, but - but - but - !!!!!!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;The only good thing I can think of here is that now they &lt;b&gt;may&lt;/b&gt; retcon the whole brain deletion thing... but is it worth it if it's a Deus Ex Mickey-na?&lt;/small&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:ouri:21633</id>
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    <title>Kentucky Derby WTF?!</title>
    <published>2009-05-02T23:11:00Z</published>
    <updated>2009-05-05T02:25:24Z</updated>
    <category term="wtf&amp;apos;ery"/>
    <content type="html">Was watching the Derby coverage, and suddenly heard a few notes. Thought, "No, can't be!" Heard a few more and it was unmistakable - they stole "Driving with the Top Down" from the Iron Man soundtrack for one of the pre-race montages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;gt;,&amp;gt; Did a crap job of editing it to fit their footage, too. If I were Ramin Djawadi, I'd sue them.</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:ouri:21235</id>
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    <title>OURI SMASH</title>
    <published>2009-04-18T00:10:15Z</published>
    <updated>2009-04-18T00:23:41Z</updated>
    <category term="fandom"/>
    <category term="wtf&amp;apos;ery"/>
    <content type="html">Don't it just figure, the one time I let myself get invested in a fandom comm, it descends into hate memes and trolling, and then implodes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So much for wanting to get away from rants.</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:ouri:20730</id>
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    <title>Not Dead Yet....</title>
    <published>2009-04-08T18:14:04Z</published>
    <updated>2009-05-01T17:32:52Z</updated>
    <category term="fangirling"/>
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    <content type="html">Well, except for brain-dead, but that's nothing new.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have been trying to break a creative slump, and if I can find the right reference material I may even have something to post soon. Ish. I hope.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime, I've been &lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;playing around online again!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First we have a question for Captain America: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="background:#fff; text-align:center; padding:8px 32px;margin:0px 10%;border:8px #cca solid;color:#000"&gt;&lt;p style="font-size:1.6em;font-family:impact,verdana,arial; margin:16px; color:#000"&gt;How Do You Eat &lt;u&gt;Your&lt;/u&gt; Iron Man?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;form action="http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.cgi" method="get"&gt;Enter a word for your own slogan: &lt;input type="text" name="word" size="10"&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="Generate" class="button"&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;p style="font-size:0.6em; padding:0px"&gt;Generated by the &lt;a href="http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Advertising Slogan Generator&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Get &lt;a href="http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan?word=Iron Man"&gt;more Iron Man slogans&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And what does Cap like to do after a tough mission?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="background:#fff; text-align:center; padding:8px 32px;margin:0px 10%;border:8px #cca solid;color:#000"&gt;&lt;p style="font-size:1.6em;font-family:impact,verdana,arial; margin:16px; color:#000"&gt;Have an Iron Man and Smile.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;form action="http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.cgi" method="get"&gt;Enter a word for your own slogan: &lt;input type="text" name="word" size="10"&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="Generate" class="button"&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;p style="font-size:0.6em; padding:0px"&gt;Generated by the &lt;a href="http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Advertising Slogan Generator&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Get &lt;a href="http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan?word=Iron Man"&gt;more Iron Man slogans&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next we hark back to the last fandom to eat my brain &lt;i&gt;before&lt;/i&gt; Avengers slash...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fashion suggestion for Ichigo Kurosaki?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="background:#fff; text-align:center; padding:8px 32px;margin:0px 10%;border:8px #cca solid;color:#000"&gt;&lt;p style="font-size:1.6em;font-family:impact,verdana,arial; margin:16px; color:#000"&gt;Wear Quincy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;form action="http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan.cgi" method="get"&gt;Enter a word for your own slogan: &lt;input type="text" name="word" size="10"&gt; &lt;input type="submit" value="Generate" class="button"&gt;&lt;/form&gt;&lt;p style="font-size:0.6em; padding:0px"&gt;Generated by the &lt;a href="http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Advertising Slogan Generator&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Get &lt;a href="http://thesurrealist.co.uk/slogan?word=Quincy"&gt;more Quincy slogans&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Any response to that, Ishida?   ...&lt;img src="http://www.insanejournal.com/userpic/2480506/43265"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, that was juvenile but amusing. ^_^</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:ouri:18396</id>
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    <title>Dear Brain:</title>
    <published>2009-01-14T18:17:07Z</published>
    <updated>2009-01-14T18:17:07Z</updated>
    <category term="wtf&amp;apos;ery"/>
    <category term="writing"/>
    <content type="html">...this is why we don't write fic when we only have another fic-writer's take on the canon. Too many questions, not enough facts to hang even a PWP on.  &lt;s&gt;...dang plot(what-plot)bunnies....&lt;/s&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:ouri:17181</id>
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    <title>Whoa...</title>
    <published>2009-01-07T18:08:57Z</published>
    <updated>2009-01-07T18:08:57Z</updated>
    <category term="wtf&amp;apos;ery"/>
    <content type="html">Awesome cool slide-show of deep sea creatures &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2007/05/22/science/20070522_DEEP_SLIDESHOW_7.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. ...omg, a dumbo octopus is so weirdly cute!</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:ouri:14601</id>
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    <title>Friday Factoid</title>
    <published>2008-11-07T16:13:45Z</published>
    <updated>2008-11-07T16:13:45Z</updated>
    <category term="wtf&amp;apos;ery"/>
    <content type="html">For anyone who tries to tell you that alchemy is impossible: &lt;a href="http://www.physorg.com/news145255770.html"&gt;Turning Tequila into Diamonds!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I do hope this doesn't make margaritas an endangered species, though. XD</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:ouri:13907</id>
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    <title>Rocket Man!</title>
    <published>2008-09-26T17:12:34Z</published>
    <updated>2008-09-26T17:12:34Z</updated>
    <category term="wtf&amp;apos;ery"/>
    <content type="html">Okay, I'm betting &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/26/rocket.man.english.channel.ap/index.html"&gt;this guy&lt;/a&gt; watched the old "Centurions" cartoon back in the mid-80s.  &amp;gt;,&amp;gt; Paint him blue and he'd pretty much pass for the Air flyboy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;::ETA:: ...dang, they changed the image. The first one had a &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt; better view of the wing &amp; suit itself.</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:ouri:6788</id>
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    <title>Bad Brain! ...no biscuit</title>
    <published>2008-03-28T20:14:19Z</published>
    <updated>2008-03-28T20:14:19Z</updated>
    <category term="wtf&amp;apos;ery"/>
    <content type="html">I will not write yaoi SSBB fic.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You hear me, brain? &lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;I will not write yaoi SSBB fic.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:ouri:5482</id>
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    <title>Just what is my subconscious trying to tell me?!  O_o</title>
    <published>2008-03-20T19:20:34Z</published>
    <updated>2008-03-20T19:20:34Z</updated>
    <category term="weird dreams"/>
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    <content type="html">I don't know what it is with me and strange dreams lately. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;First dream: getting chased by a angry bear while camping. I may or may not have actually woken up from that one squawking; only the cats know for sure, 'cause my housemates can sleep through quite a bit of noise.  &amp;gt;,&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second dream: reading a friend's story &lt;i&gt;in a professional publication&lt;/i&gt;, and finding that a whole line of it had been replace by gibberish (of the sort created when somebody's cat walks across their computer keyboard) - and nobody at the magazine had caught it before the issue went to press.  Oh, did I mention that this was the line that revealed the climax of the story's entire plot? &amp;gt;,0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last night was graced with visions of large creatures with carapaces and far too many legs. No clue if they were bugs, crustaceans, or aliens of some kind. The dream-critters were freaky and unsettling, but they didn't act threatening, or even seem to notice me - I just had to deal with my own squick-reaction to them. (I'm blaming that one on the mix of cold medicines I took last night.  *sweatdrop* )</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:ouri:5110</id>
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    <title>**SNERK**</title>
    <published>2008-03-04T21:41:15Z</published>
    <updated>2008-03-04T21:41:15Z</updated>
    <category term="wtf&amp;apos;ery"/>
    <content type="html">Okay, this is just priceless. &lt;a href="http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/sports/2008/03/04/vo.aus.cricket.streaker.ninenetwork"&gt;Cricket Player Blocks Streaker&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I think what really makes it hysterical, to me, is how very &lt;i&gt;bored&lt;/i&gt; the player looks with the whole thing.</content>
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    <id>urn:lj:insanejournal.com:atom1:ouri:1204</id>
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    <title>I'm not sure I want to know...</title>
    <published>2007-08-28T12:29:22Z</published>
    <updated>2007-08-28T13:07:21Z</updated>
    <category term="dreams"/>
    <category term="wtf&amp;apos;ery"/>
    <content type="html">...what kind of omen it is for the rest of the day, that I woke up this morning from a dream about a possessed toilet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mean, really. &amp;gt;,0&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The dream started out &lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;as attending something that seemed like a cross between a family reunion and some kind of fannish get-together. I don't think the dream-me had any close friends of relatives involved, though.  Anyway, the people in charge had just gathered folks around a campfire for the main event of the gathering (which I seem to recall involved alcohol somehow), when the weather suddenly turned nasty and ominous, and scattered everyone.  I ran with several other people into a lodge-type building.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since biological functions happen, apparently even when you've fallen into the middle of a sad, sorry excuse for a horror movie, I headed for the bathroom. Which was dark, not well-maintained, and just kind of gross overall. And I thought, 'great, this is just about the point where the toilet does something weird.'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And sure enough, the bowl obligingly welled up and flooded over, threatening to swamp my toes. I remember being glad that at least the last person had flushed, so it was nothing worse than clear water. But it still ticked me off, because, well, &lt;i&gt;I had to go&lt;/i&gt; and this toilet was getting attitudinous on me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I hit it. Hard. And growled something about "Don't you EVEN start with me - !"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And it stopped flooding.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well all right, so that much worked. I still really had to go, and I didn't trust the damned &lt;small&gt;(perhaps literally)&lt;/small&gt; thing not to act up. So I was busy threatening to kick it off its base if it tried to get smart with me again...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...when I woke up.  And realized - I had to go to the bathroom.  So I crawled out of bed, used our nice, non-possessed toilet, and crawled back in to doze the 10 - 15 minutes left before my alarm went off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That was my morning - how's all of yours going? =D</content>
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