I'm trying to finish up an entire release before I leave town for Dragon*Con tomorrow, but I feel I need to weigh in on LJ's latest fuckwittery.

LJ's new implementation of pingback will report links in locked posts, and will include up to 600 words of post content, including content from locked posts.

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LJ wants you to identify your gender. abbylee has a wonderfully detailed explanation here. I give you three guesses why, one for each letter in the answer, which begins with an A and has a D in the middle and ends with an S. So there are two levels of ick here: one based on making people identify their gender on LJ, which is problematic for a giant ( Read more... )

I have missed a bunch of birthdays. Happy very belated birthday to _jems_, and belated birthday to sugargroupie. (sugargroupie, forgive me for not getting in touch with you while I was in Birmingham; on top of some airline shenanigans, I was sick. Maybe next time?) And happy slightly belated birthday to molly_may--I meant to post on Sunday and then got poleaxed by bad news, and I'm ( Read more... )

Today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day! But what I want to know is, what about the ninjas? Why is there no International Talk Like a Ninja Day? Sure, it would probably be really quiet, but still. Ninjas need love too.

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I have missed so many birthdays lately. A (in some cases really, pathetically belated) birthday to sweet_ali, and pukajen, ( Read more... )

I just realized I haven't posted in a while. I've been having some trouble focusing over the past few weeks, for a variety of reasons, and work has been strange (thanks to some organizational oddities and my uneasy relationship with leadership, I feel like a freaking border collie right now), and fandom has been making me cranky (not the fandom I ( Read more... )

I came wide awake at 4:42 this morning with the first tremors of this earthquake. Normally, I sleep through these things, so that was different. My house jiggled like jello and the wine glasses hanging under my wine bar rattled together, so I knew it was a decent-sized quake, but by the time I was able to pull together a coherent thought about ( Read more... )

So, LJ is having another permanent account sale. I'm feeling a little more cautious about LJ these days; I don't think fandom is going anywhere (I don't think it really could, or would want to in the absence of stronger provocation), but I was deeply unhappy with the way they handled the deletions. And who's to say what we'll all be doing on the ( Read more... )

This episode of The Office hit it out of the park.

( The Office 3.05 - Initiation )

I was going to rewatch some Battlestar Galactica this weekend, but instead I ended up mainlining the entire first season of The Office. In my defense, the first season is only six 22-minute episodes, but I was not expecting it to be so cracklike. I also wasn't expecting a big epic romance that approaches the OTP factor of John Crichton and Aeryn ( Read more... )

Happy, happy, happy, happy birthday to thassalia! May the coming year bring you much fulfillment on all fronts, work and creative and personal.

And for those of you who haven't checked out Thea's Farscape stories, GO NOW because she is an amazing writer.

And speaking of talent, and Farscape, rubberneck has made the most incredibly clever Farscape finger puppets. ( Read more... )