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It's interesting. When I write things online, I do so with the knowledge that the internet is in fact a public place. LJ isn't something I go to any length to keep disconnected from real life -- nor are any of the other random forums or whatever I have accounts on -- and yet there's often a moment of panic when I realize there's another potential route from one to another; for example, I've just realized this is google-able via a username I occasionally use elsewhere, much to my surprise, meaning that it's totally findable to a few folks (who shan't be named) (should they choose to indulge in a bit of stalking) who I hadn't really pictured running across it. Totally not the end of the world, just a really odd realization and a reminder that if I want to rant without paying attention to the potential of an audience then that's what private entries are for, or, y'know, not putting stuff on the internet at all. :p

This is pretty cool: generate color schemes via sampling of image search results on a specific word.

I'm taking the skating phys ed class this quarter, conclusions: ice skating is pretty cool. Ice skating backwards is very cool. Turning around without losing momentum? Less cool. At least in my world right now. I see other people do it and it looks dead easy and elegant; I do it and I pretty much fall over. (But it's awesome when it works.) Going backwards exercises muscles I've never had ache before (except *maybe* a little from dancing at recent 4e parties): it revolves around shifting your weight from one foot and hip to the other, and pushing off backwards alternately with either foot. Which is, again, exciting and really neat when it works. I wore a skirt on Monday just because I thought it'd be fun to see the effect -- really neat, the swirling lends another physical indication and lingering effect of weight shifts and changing directions, I actually found myself *more* aware of what I was doing than when I'm just in jeans and can look down and watch each action. It's really a bitch when I fall down though... probably won't do it again until I'm pretty sure I know what I'm doing.

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That's always struck me as the weird thing about blogging online -- anyone can read it and, probably, anyone can find you with enough determination. I've tried to be smart about remembering that because it's easy to pretend that you have your own private corner of the internet. And that's just not true.

I took ice skating lessons once. Like most things that require coordination and motor skills, I was pretty terrible at it. Forward I could do, backwards hourglasses I could do and that was it. Even the t-stop was a little beyond me. So, yeah. Haven't been back to it in a while.

*grin* Sometimes I do justify to myself writing things by thinking: okay, if anyone who I wouldn't expect to find this finds this, that means they're totally being stalkers, and that makes them more pathetic than me anyways. :p

I'm pretty spectacularly uncoordinated -- but the skating is weirdly coming a little less slowly to me than most physical things do. I'm definitely not complaining, but I *am* surprised...

Now, that is true! Anyone who takes the time to search out that sort of thing definitely needs a hobby or two. It's scary, but there are people like that out there. Luckily, I think it's a pretty small subset of humanity.

Hey, something like that with the skating, you don't question that. If it works, just do it.