It needs to be said: I miss LJ. Pillowfort hasn't quite worked out as I'd hoped (because I'm lazy/old/bad at making new friends - take your pick), though the platform improves steadily. I've had over a decade here and this structure just GETS ME, ya know? Or maybe that's the laziness again ( Read more... )

April 13, 2019

Due to recent changes in LJ's security settings, I've had to remove my adult content warning from this blog in order to link photo content from it to other sites like Ao3 and Pillowfort. The settings update broke YEARS-WORTH of image links, so I had no choice but to remove it. Since there is no longer a warning in place - THIS IS ( Read more... )

I'm definitely getting old. Photoshop CC is pissing me off with all of their "enhancements" set as defaults that it takes a coding degree and a bucketload of patience to disable ( Read more... )

... this little blog of mine isn't going anywhere ( Read more... )

I think your name must be ironic because you seem to be brutal to those who seek out your products (you know, people who come to you to buy something, not cold call sales that you have to randomly convert), and as far as I can tell there is absolutely no 'service' involved ( Read more... )

MB found this and made me watch it. Despite the fact that it is an ad for a potentially frightening IBM product, I loves me some Carrie Fisher, so...

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My first question was "when did we start referring to "artificial intelligence" as a "cognitive system"? My second question was "why don't technology engineers read more horrific sci-fi in order to ( Read more... )

I'm a big music fan but because I'm married to a sound engineer, I don't handle the technology and filing of our huge music collection. It's better if one person curates and the other just follows along - makes for less squabbles that involve "what the hell have you done with all of my 80s hair metal?!?". Anyway, MB has a large, powerful MAC ( Read more... )

Almost there, darlings!

27. Where is your favorite place to write, and do you write by hand or on the computer?My favorite place to write is in bed on my ancient Mac Powerbook that has no internet access. Hell, it's so old I'm still using Word 97. God knows what I'll do when that laptop finally gives up the ghost... (I have 3 other laptops - all ( Read more... )

So, I clicked one of x_los's twitter links and came across this gem. I can't embed the whole thread but you really need to SCROLL DOWN THE POSTED EXCERPT SECTION.

I always knew that Clippy couldn't be trusted... and also, there is erotic fanfiction about ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. I am no longer surprised by human kinkiness, nope.

Why do you give Word users a free thesaurus built into the program but ask them to DOWNLOAD A DICTIONARY APP FROM THE OFFICE STORE ONLINE?!?! What the fuck is your damage ( Read more... )