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    About ladyships

    Bio: I'm the unholy spawn of a computer scientist and a theoretical physicist, so I've been more or less reared by computers (Macs, youbetcherbippy) and have been known to design typefaces and jury rig half-app, half-macro chimeras for all sorts of scholarly drudgery. I live a double-life as a Classical scholar by day (or will, once I finish my dissertation) and a halfbreed programmer|graphic designer by night. Interestingly, even though I cannot remember spending an appreciable amount of time isolated from my computer within recent memory, I am almost impossible to contact! You can count yourself the recipient of divine intervention if I should ever actually answer my phone (& a minor miracle if my answering machine actually has room for you to record a message), have been known to avoid reading my e-mail for months on end, and have a habit of leaving exuberant evidence of myself on discussion boards before vanishing in exact symmetry to my precipitous (oft-entirely unwarranted, and in diction quite obviously undergoing an identity crisis) arrival. I have never owned a computer that I haven't managed to extend my sense of self into (which is an abstruse way of saying, "My immediate impulse is to take a shower when my desktop becomes cluttered). I spend most of my time doing research, scouting out the vast (& more-likely-than-not cleverly hidden by interfaces designed by programmers who have obviously not had the good fortune of reading Designing the Obvious: a common sense approach to web application design, by Mr. Robert Hoekman, Jr., [incidentally, the only programming handbook I've ever actually enjoyed reading]) academic resources of the vast 'net tubes...and, when I can delude myself into thinking I can afford to take the time, egregious bouts of electronic organisation. I object to using Zs almost all of the time, in spite of never setting foot in England. (I'm the great-great-great-so on & so forth-granddaughter of Sir Francis Drake, and my ancestors were the inadvertent gang of salty dogs that inspired The Pirates of Penzance. I have a reasonably hardcore Victorian photo album that consists primarily of photographs of a suitably-mangy looking cat [all asleep, from different angles, in different cat-beds] and an alarmingly sordid progenitor whose constant companion was an exceptionally lewd parrot who, incidentally, outlived him [in spite of the former's somewhat remarkable feat of living in three centuries---born in 1799, died in 1901---]. By the way, I have temporal lobe epilepsy (hell yeah, Myshkin!) and mostly suffer from bouts of hypergraphia instead of colourful fits of convulsions. Whenever I am obliged to write something, it ends up...being...rather more words than necessary. The dexterity of my tangents have been known to shame individuals especially known for the pigheaded ilk of their apical dendrites' more myelinated ventures. This'd almost be worth reading, though, if I had bothered to dress it up in drag as a mid- to late-nineteenth century broadside. (I've been known to subject [the intrepid few who defy my habitual, temporally-extensive, and almost certainly unannounced dropping-off-the-face-of-the-earth to the point of actually /e-mailing/ /me/] to two-month-late responses all gussied up in gratuitously-incongruous antiquated typography. And, yes, I find that these epistolic charades are best served with no acknowledgment of their impolitic comportment (& no small amount of solipsistic glee). ...frankly, I'm impressed you're still braving the brambly ungainliness of my nested parenthetical rants. Also, I love it when other people design software so that I don't have to spend time away from conducting intellectual endeavors making it myself. Thanks for existing, other devs! I like to think that I'll celebrate the completion of my thesis by polishing up my little research|organisation|drudgemonkey|(yet, surprisingly aesthetic!) apps & releasing them into the Great Collective Anonymous Interweb. (While they're, for the most part, for the purpose of facilitating [superbly compulsive!] tomes of research [& the attendant flock of citational woe], I can think of a variety of off-label uses that others might, MAYBE...find useful for them. SO, negligible demographic: get bloody /excited/ for, um...about this time, uh. ...next year.) Jesus Christ, I joined this site as a lark and ended up pissing away thirty minutes talking about nothing of substance. Eesh, that's quite enough.
    Member since: 28 March 2009
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