Dimview

user since
Fri Jun 10 2005 at 15:55:27 (3.3 years ago )
last seen
Mon Oct 13 2008 at 21:47:38 (5 hours ago )
number of write-ups
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level / experience
6 (Crafter) / 17533
C!s spent
638
mission drive within everything
Yes
specialties
Rhinos and Sumo (there may be a pattern here), and all things weird.
motto
Never lie, never quit, never regret
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most recent writeup
Walking in the dark, you see such strange sights

That's my boy - and his girl
The disembodied hand creeping up onto his shoulder belongs to his wife. It is still attatched to her arm and the rest of her... Last I checked, anyway.
Oh, and that's my "workplace", btw, where I sit and do my computering.




Hello you. Are you my Secret Santa? If so, here's a few suggestions for you: trinkets, odds and ends, homemade stuff, stickers, key chains... actually I'll be happy for whatever you can think of. And don't go spending a lot on money; no need for that. Assorted weirdities will do nicely. Thank you.




Welcome to my homenode. Please leave your expectations in the basket by the door.



I am the proud Grandmother of Fniggles, born on March 21, 2008.









The following section is under construction.




I like:

  • Well written, well researched factuals
  • Well written fiction
  • Funny weird stuff

I do not particularly like:

  • One-liners and add-on's. (If I just have one or two pieces of information I feel is really important to add to an existing writeup, I'll go see if the noder is still active, and send a msg.)
  • Writeups that clearly haven't been edited. It just seems disrespectful somehow. Like the noder couldn't care less.
  • Dead Links! Linking isn't really all about putting in some square brackets to keep the CEs off you back: it's about sharing good ideas and guiding the readers along some paths that you, the noder, have thought out on beforehand. When I read a wu, and I follow the hardlinks - and I do - I get so irritated when I slam into a dead link. I feel the noder could have taken the time to pipe me through to something interesting. Either that, or just leave out the brackets in the first place! (Ahem...)
    If you want to use a 'dead link' as a suggestion for future noding/noders, go ahead and create the nodeshell too. Just don't leave your reader hanging on the 'Findings' page.









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I update my nodes. I have written a few 'biographies' about still-living persons (sumo wrestlers), and as they are e.g. promoted or win special prizes I add the information to the writeups. If you do find something out of date, please /msg me, and I'll fix it.







I'll do node audits if asked nicely. But you need to be prepared to take the good with the bad if you do ask me...






My writeups, categorized:

Sumo:

Wrestlers (sumotori):
Asashoryu / Taiho / Chiyonofuji / Tochiazuma / Kokkai / Kotooshu / Chiyotaikai / Kaio / Kotonowaka / Wakanohana / Roho / Hakuho / Tochinonada / Dejima / Kakizoe

Officials, helpers, etc.:
Gyoji / Shimpan / Tachimochi / Tsuyuharai / Ozeki / Maegashira / Tokoyama / Tsukebito

Other:
Sumo for Beginners / Basho / Tachiai / Seigen jikan / Mawashi / Dohyo / Kengamine / Shobudawara / Dohyoiri / Henka / Keshomawashi / Banzuke / Oichomage / Shikona / Danpatsushiki / Kenshokin / Sumo Special Prizes / Sumo Primer / Akeni / Yumitorishiki / Tegata / Tegatana o kiru / sagari

Kimarite:
Yorikiri / Oshidashi / Uwatenage / Hatakikomi / Shitatenage / Okuridashi / Kotenage / Hikiotoshi / Uchari / Yoritaoshi / Isamiashi / Tsukiotoshi / Kirikaeshi / Sukuinage / Sotogake / Uchigake / Ashitori / Fusenhai

Non-sumo writeups:

Daylogs:
September 10, 2005 / Kids learning social skills, having fun as they go / October 8, 2005 / The right hand knows not... / So stupid / Lawn mower madness / Scaring kids is so much fun / Always back up your nodes, people / I miss my house, my fortress / Things you really don't want to discuss with your mother / Sometimes, knocking someone to the floor is the kindest thing you can do to them / Computers - or the lack hereof... / Good bye, Frank / Memories and healing / One year down... / These trees were made for climbing / Another day at work / The maternal unit baffles yet again / I like big guns / Notes in the lunch box / The weirdest thing / The quest for a passport / The quest for a passport, take two / I have never, ever even been on an airplane / Coming to America / Taking from a thief / A smiling bus driver / Angling for sympathy / My Mom... again / Same old, same old / I just hate it when that happens / Suddenly citizen / The most drunk I have ever been / A jumbled collection of randomness / A prison of her own making / Seems to be all downhill from here / Fniggles' birthday / My son's wedding / Another daylog about my mom

Reviews:
Pibgorn / Jungle Night / The brothers Lionheart / Dark horse / Webmaster / Sucking Vacuum / The Big Idea

Fiction
(entry for 2005 Halloween Quest): Who knocks within?
(entry for 2006 Halloween Quest): prey / They say the prettiest girls get to be angels / Tag, you're dead
(entry for 2007 Halloween Quest): Off the catwalk, into the dark
(entry for 2008 Halloween Quest): Part one - That one makes me scream, she said and Part two - Walking in the dark, you see such strange sights

(entry for the 2007 E2 Quest: More Than Walls): This is our place
(entry for Prosenoder's Cup 2007): Dreaming of Anna (entry #27)
(entry for Gone in Sixty Seconds 2007 - A Theatre Quest): Perspective (entry #18)
A five word challenge from TheDebutante: Forgiveness is a double-edged sword
A general challenge from TheDeadGuy: Why I love Everything2


"Science" fiction story in two parts: 1. Just One Of Those Days and 2. Now is the time

Jinn in a tin: 1. Genie, meanie, miny, mo, 2. Jinn fizz, 3. Gone wishin'

The pwning of Judas / Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him / At night, she still believes in him / One day we will burn / Past perfect future unknown / Show me the mask that you hide beneath the mask that you wear

Briefcase full of souls - part I, chapter 6, Briefcase full of souls - part II, Chapter 4: a collaborative story.

Misc.:
Copenhagen Beer Days / Brutalis / Frederik's church / Moses Hansen

Nodermeet and aftermath nodes:
Dublin Nodermeet aftermath node / Britnoders go wild aftermath node / The Cologne nodermeet aftermath node / Beer! Mermaids! Jazz! The grand Copenhagen birthday-meet of 2009

Recipes:
Sticky Chocolate Cake







I have met the following noders in the Real World:
liveforever, andersa, bipolarbear, IWhoSawTheFace, momomom, Scribe, cbustapeck, randombit, Gorgonzola, jubal, Major General Panic, unperson, JellyfishGreen, darl, Wntrmute, kohlcass, ReiToei, Cloudstrife, Haruspex, The_Lady, TheDebutante, spiregrain, la_petite_mort, StrawberryFrog, k9, paraclete, Heisenberg, sloebertje, Hazelnut, Kizor, panamaus, montecarlo, izubachi, BaronWR, AndrewAguecheek, sam512, DTal, archiewood, rootbeer277, Junkill, AspieDad, and voltaireontoast...

Some people I have spoken to on the phone, but never met:
Swap, Glowing Fish

People I have spoken with on a "video/audio" (Skype and WengoPhone) connection on the 'net:
Swap, Senso, Mouesh, and Whiskeydemon


I think that writing daylogs is fun. Daylogs let me tell the anecdotal little stories that come to mind. The everyday adventures. Sometimes my daylogs get upvotes, and that's cool. Daylogs are about sharing, sort of. Sharing thoughts the way you do when you chat with friends. I like that.




(Wohoo! I made 1000 xp on September 15 2005. Whaddaya know...!?)
I made 3333 xp on February 19, 2006... Cool.
I made 4444 xp on April 20, 2006. I like it when I have some kind of palindromic xp score.
I made it to 9999 xp on January 5, 2007. Now THAT was cool!
And I got my 100th C! on June 14, 2006. Given on Hakuho by dannye. You guys are just too sweet...
My 200th C! was given to me by eien_meru, on a daylog, no less.
Also my wu #100 was a daylog.









Mauler translated my favourite poem from Danish: "Måske en martsnat" by Grethe Risbjerg Thomsen. For this, I am truly grateful.

Perhaps a Night in March

I die a little bit for every second that goes past.
I’ll carry death within me, until I breathe my last.
One night – perhaps a night in March – when snowmelt has begun,
I’ll fade away into the dark, at last my dying done.





E2 is unfriendly to new noders... I don't know. I never felt unwelcome. Sure my first w/u was deleted, but I never got any snide remarks or anything. A couple of downvotes (2, I think). A kind msg from rootbeer277 with an explanation and some hints.

As I'm a factual noder I'm on fairly safe ground most of the time. I guess my w/us would be boring to someone not interested in sumo, and I do get the occasional downvote - but on the whole I think E2 is pretty much what you make it. It's a lot like real life...







Me?

Well... If you really must know, I was born in 1959 (wow... time flies, doesn't it?) and I'm an April's fool.

I'm rather deficient in the Y-chromosome-departement, and I have two kids, of whom I am immensely proud. My SO is a astrophysicist (immensely proud, again), and I work with children.

I live in Denmark, in lovely Copenhagen, and you'd need a really big crowbar to shift me from here.

As I have mentioned above, I can be a real pain in the... backside. People usually forgive me, though.

Did I mention that I am a huge sumo-fan...?













I like to look at homenodes. They say a lot about the noder who wrote it. I have probably looked at your homenode too...






<TheDeadGuy> "If The Ass Is Tight I Won't Put Up A Fight" would make a great bumper sticker.

<Tem42> /help
<Tem42> Well, that didn't help at all...
<rootbeer277> type /help help for help on help
<Tem42> Some of us are stupider than you ever imagined.
<Tem42> Well, that's just cool.




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