Makeup, my second love and passion.

With BH Cosmetics pallettes, Brush guard and Michelle Phan's videos!!
Here is a lovely link to the BH site. Asked for some of the palettes for my B-day.
http://www.bhcosmetics.com/ They also have some reviews of their products on the site videos and I've seen them in use in other youtube makeup blogger's sites.

Here is a link to the Brush Guard site. http://www.thebrushguard.com/

I'm ordering some of them today after eying these up for awhile, was over at a friend's house recently and she had them. These are AWESOME! And the price is unbeatable!

And then there is the incredible Michelle Phan!
Here is one of her videos for a "vampire" look. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg-2rDnWCJA
I really like how she starts from a fresh face, and demonstrates her techniques on both eyes and explains which brushes to use and why. I'm making her rice toner today and I'll update on how that works after I've tried it for awhile.

Bill Nye and Rachel Maddow explaining climate change.

For all the morons out there (republicans and people who don't believe global warming is real) Here is a nice little video for you. With Bill Nye the Science Guy explaining it for you. Its in small words, so you don't think its "elitist".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYvk1OtI0H0&feature=player_embedded

CCleaner=Best Thing EVER!

This is the best tool for PC's that I've ever used. It makes my life at the help desk so much easier. Download it, run it, love it.

Heartless Bitches International

I absolutely LOVE this site! Such good information as well as humor. Check it out today!

Twilight:New Moon, Someone please kill me now.

I found this on the rifftrax forum, this is epic. I love it.
 



P.S. Go see the Raven's Riff's riff of the original Twilight, because I'm in it and it is awesome ;)

Extremely overdue post

Not entirely sure that anyone really reads this, HOWEVER, if someone should, I'm terribly sorry I've been long overdue for a post. I've basically spent all of my time doing homework the last 4 months because I've been trying to graduate! And that time has... for the most part... finally come. I have one class left that is finished in March and another I have an extension on because I got totally overwhelmed (hence the no posting the wonderful and strange goings on that are my daily existence). So basically I went through the ceremony etc for graduation, but I don't get my piece of paper until March 2010-ish. Darn the luck! Oh well at least now I will have a little bit more time for posts. I've got several new LKH books that I've got to read and I just finished R.A. Salvatore's The Ghost King, his most recent addition to his Drizzt series. He's probably one of my most favorite fantasy characters next to Aragorn and Anita Blake.(If you don't like Drizzt, that's great, I don't care and I don't want to hear about all the reasons you think I shouldn't, kthnxbai) Also, might try to find myself a D&D game to join for a few months before I move. Haven't played 4th Ed. yet and would like to give it a try but not sure that will be feasible as I haven't found any decent groups around here lately. Which is rather sad because I REALLY enjoyed playing and just got an awesome new set of dice and a dice bag to match! Also got the Serenity and Firefly blurays for xmas and those will need a much more thorough inspection. (SQUEE!!! Did you know that Alistair from Dragon Age Origins is based on Xander from Buffy and on Captain Mal from Firefly!?!??! LOVE IT!!) 

Anyway, tangents aside, hopefully in the next month or so I'll be able to put up some more posts about books and games. Or I might just do a random blog about killer zombie space ducks. You never know!

Virtual Meanderings

So tonight I had one of my classes, we're studying network security and "anti" or "ethical" hacking. Classes just started, so we haven't gotten too far into the book yet. So far we've covered laws, contracting (get it in writing!!), and TCP/IP. Fun stuff! I'm finding this to be super interesting right now, and since I'm going into network administration, extremely helpful. I'm looking at this class as my ounce of prevention. Tonight we had fun getting some virtual machines installed and installing some services on the virtual server that we've got. We also got to use some FTP software and a we saw a demonstration on how packet sniffing works. Is it just me, or does packet sniffing sound like someone huffing Sweet n' Low? I had a lot of fun when we started doing the installs of various Linux flavors. We installed Mint, and Ubuntu so far, not so sure if we're going to install any more or not but it might be fun to try a few. I've played around a little bit with Kubuntu and I was a little bit disappointed. For all its hype, I tried installing a video driver and it ended up crashing the WHOLE SYSTEM!! I think thats a little ridiculous, I've never had that happen to me on any other platform. Needless to say, that was deleted quickly and I just installed Ubuntu instead. So far pretty impressed with it, and have been using it to practice PHP. Might take a class in that next semester just for the hell of it... maybe. 

Anyway, the actual point of this post was to talk about this awesome new VM software that I found that I've got installed on my Mac! I did a little searching around and while I've heard VMware Fusion was the answer for all things virtual machine related to Mac, I was not about to shell out a bunch of money for it, since I'm rocking the poor college kid thing. The software is called VirtualBox and its free! Best part? Its made by Sun Microsystems, the same people who make Open Office and Java. Pretty neat! So far at home I've got an image of XP installed, Linux Mint, and Ubuntu. Its been a fun night in geekette land!