Biiig Cumulonimbus cloud vs iddy biddy seaplane. Guess who won. Felt like a rollercoaster ride that lasted 30 minutes. Weeeeee….. Bleh….Weeee… Bleurghhhhh.

According to my stats you don’t! greedy bunch of Mudbloods and PC users! I am busy shooting videos all day Friday and Saturday in the cold and the rain with only steeped tea and timbits (small donut holes for yous unfamiliar wif Tim Hortons aka Timmy Hohos) as nourishment and I come back to find my precious stats in the gutter.

The gutter, I tell you!

Do you think i have an endless supply of tech advice/awkward, funny and endearing stories of my personal trials and tribulations/tears? Do you think that my vast knowledge on pretty much every topic ever grows on trees like the money that I earn from my blossoming acting career? That I can surf the www and read RSS feeds during my 8-10 hours of beauty sleep?

The answer is NO. Ok. I’m human. I make *mistakes* (though not often grammatical and/or spelling errors) and I have to work *cough* and do housework *liar* like everyone else *i’m not like everyone else* Am I?

And if you think I’ve just got an endless supply of half-naked pictures of myself (e.g., my feature in the best selling swimsuit calendar “Hot Bikini Babes of BC”), I don’t. Actually, that is a lie.

FYI. I was on September… and December. Two months? I know. I have so many layers…

So what did you miss most about your two days without Mostly Lisa updates? (emotional comments welcome)

Hizzah Hizzah. Thanks to Jonathan, and all the uber l33t people at Revver for creating this much needed plug-in for Revver and WP users.

Publish, manage, and track your video content all without ever leaving your own website, and even allow your subscribers to submit their own video responses to your posts! It’s your own interactive video portal, made simple with Revver and Wordpress.

I totally digg this new plug-in. I will ftp this up to my new site (what? you have a new site??? oh yes, my new super sweet blag is nearing completion and will be up and running in the next few weeks. excited??? i sure am. i’m ready to move to the big leagues of blogging!)

Or is global warming all just an elaborate illusion?

We shall see. Al Gore is speaking at the University of Victoria this Saturday. So I will disguise myself in my best West Coast hippie dread wig and pachouli & granola scented fleece and let you know the secrets behind Al’s keynote prestige.

Tickets are $199? wot? yowzers. that is expensive. uh, well maybe i’ll just rip this dvd instead.

Who needs an iPhone? Canada sure doesn’t. What with all the crazy high-tek stuff we’ve got going on here. Just check out the superwikkidawesome internet access at the Vancouver International Airport.

The information superhighway has never been more derelique… ahem… i mean elite… Sorry Canada, i have a lingering cold. All the snow and ice and moose droppings… can’t be good for the lungs. maybe i should stop smoking all these cigarettes?

If you haven’t read my about page, you should be ashamed of yourself! Think of all the Mostly Lisa you have been missing out on. So I’m putting it here… front and centre, so you can linger on my smooth wording a little bit longer (and mostly cuz i’m condensing my about page and i can’t bear to toss these eloquent words in the the cyber bin.)

Here are my “neat” things:

I have a Master’s Degree which makes me ok smart. I have “mastered” the arts. All of them. Except the dark arts, because of the whole muggle discrimination thing…

I know a lot about linguistics, especially phonetics, specifically articulatory, acoustic phonetics, and the productive mechanisms involved in early infant speech development. What? Huh??? Exactly. Nobody knows, nobody cares, nobody wants to hire me in that field… hence my quarter-life career switcheroo to creative, fun, and cool things. I still partially consider myself a linguist and love to learn, hear, and think about language. I am quite fond of early infant acquisition, brain and language stuff, and accents… mostly.

PS. Asking a linguist “how many languages do you speak?” is kinda like asking a veterinarian “how many pets do you have?”

If you must know. I speak Russian, Spanish and French… mostly.

I was a nationally competitive figure skater (ice dance) until 2000 when my partner dropped me and I hurt my back and I was forced to quit skating and go back to being a regular university student which made me kinda bitter and a little bit mean… (I guess that’s last bit is something that’s not so neat about me). but every now and again I get a hankering for spandex, sequins, and mini gloves — an impulse that I just can’t ignore.

I’m also an active member of iNeedConstantAttention club, being a Model, (of course!) an Actress (who isn’t?) & a Singer/Songwriter. Ahh, the trifecta of fame, fortune, and eternal self-esteem “issues”. Ain’t it great!

I know what you’re thinking. “She IS perfect. Is there nothing this girl can’t do?” My answer: Not much really. But if you must know, I am a fairly rubbish cook and the last 6 books i read were all children’s books. And, if you must know, I was expelled from Hogwart’s TWICE! So if I master the cooking thing, move on to some heavier reading materials and finish my Potions OWL, I may be close to the “Most Perfect Person Ever”. Either that or the “Most Vain Person Ever”. Which ever. They are both pretty sweet titles.

Tired:

Plugging in is lame. And for those of us who work in a home office/in their bed and cannot physically separate themselves from their MB for a period longer than < 3 minutes tops, constantly moving electrical outlets or running down battery power is draining to say the least. Speaking of batteries…

Expired:

Noooooooo! my ipaaaaaaaad!

Fire Hazard:

There’s no doubt aboot it. This maxed out power bar and the five others i have stashed in every corner of my apartment are a hazard of some kind. Which brings me to my topic du jour.

Wires suck. Wireless is uber. I love bluetoothing my keyboard, streaming my music to my sound system, backing up my photos to a wireless HD. Airport Extreme is l33t.

(wireless mice however have caused me some grief… but that’s another kettle of worms. what?)

Future of Wirelessness: Wi-Tri!:

Wi-fi meet Wi-Tri: wireless electricity!! Boo-yah!

WiTricity
n. Electricity that is transferred wirelessly between two electromagnetic coils resonating at the same frequency. It could one day power laptops and charge cell phones cordlessly, but engineers will need to increase the 7-foot range and 40 percent power efficiency.

For more, here’s Wiki.

You can DO it smart tech scientists of the world! i believe… i believe… mostly.

Ok. Back to work. So stressed out right now.

Basically, I became so busy and important I had to hire a personal assistant to do all the menial tasks around my office/bed, i.e.,

• getting me my morning tea & biscuits,
• fetching me Firewire & USB cables,
• finding new sweet OSX aps to fill my dock,
• doing like ftp stuff,
• pirating DVDs,
• fetching me my afternoon tea & biscuits,
• monetizing my blog,
• fetching me chocolates & or cupcakes,
• coding stuff with brackets,
• making me dinner.

So far my new PA is not working out as well as I had hoped.

i think i’m at a point of no return with this whole two point oh social networking scene. i’m fairly certain that if i had to communicate to a person.. in person… i might run away or hide in my hair. which actually happened today.

that’s why i feel like i need to take a step away from the facebook to analyze it’s impact on mostly me.

Self Exploration through fb profile pictures

what does it all mean? how do i censor myself? who am i? do i even exist? how many pixels wide am i? why are my tears so beautiful? am i numb inside or is it merely life that numbs itself to me?

these are common questions we all ask ourselves each day. exploring the “self” is important. i like to reflect on a daily basis. mostly by looking at my reflection in a mirror. but as we all know, your reflection is not always the face you present to the world. we often censor ourselves. essentially creating or equating reality with self. if you didn’t get that, you’re probably not smart enough to read this blog. intellectualism is not for everyone.

anyhoo, um… i need some java… totally falling asleep right now. what was i saying? oh yeah, exploring self and stuff. if you’re up for it, i really recommend an exercise from my 3 part Self-exploration Series, entitled “My Internet Reflection: What is my Facebook Profile Picture really saying?”

The exercise is simple. Look through your fb profile picture album which probably has over 100 photos of you, or 200+ if you are as gorgeous as me, and ask yourself “what is this picture saying about my inner self?”

Here is an example from my own fb self-examination.
The following photos are saying…

“Coordination is important to me.”

“i heart attention”

“Please love me”

“I can balance a rock on my forehead”

“I like to play the guitar without pants on”

“I am definitely a model”

“I’m so bored right now”

Now let’s analyze these “truth statements”:

1. appearance is important to me
2. being centred and spiritually aware is essential for my growth
3. music strips away my outer layers
4. being labeled as a “model” by other people is important because i am vain
5. vanity isn’t a fault when you are really good looking
6. you’re probably boring me right now

Now it’s your turn. If I’m not still bored, let me know what your personal exploration into your fb profile picts reveal about you.