A bit of a grab-bag entry (er ... as though that's anything unusual) as I try to get ready for Pennsic.

Baitcon: I mentioned that there were lots of folks ( Read more... )

Today's QotD entry includes a little layout change, sticking a ( Read more... )

Hmm. I shoulda seen that coming ...

When mirroring an LJ entry to GJ and IJ, if the entry contains an tag (e.g. examplename => examplename), the IJ and GJ copies of the entry will interpret the same tag as linking to a user of the same name on those sites. And similarly, if I try to link to a GJ ( Read more... )

( meme: "The LJ personality test: Just what are you like?" )

For commercial television, viewers are not the networks' customers, nor are television shows, ultimately, their product. Viewers are the networks' product, and the advertisers who pay big money to reach those viewers are the networks' customers. The programming is just an intermediate step, a byproduct, or,if you will, bait.

Who are Six ( Read more... )

So here's the video I was trying to turn into an animated LJ icon:
( ... and the animated LJ icon I've managed to create from it so far [Embedded YouTube video, followed by a tiny animated GIF] )

Argh! I've been seeing more comment-spam lately, and on waking after too little sleep and seeing LJ comment notification email that read just like the beginning of a sales pitch and didn't seem to make much sense otherwise, I quickly -- too quickly for being not quite awake -- deleted it and checked the "report as spam" button.

Which would have ( Read more... )

This just showed up in my mailbox, un-credited. [Edit: It took asking Google three different ways and then Googling additional clues as they turned up in a sort of breadcrumb-trail, but I think it's by Andy Borowitz (the original has one extra "in other news" paragraph at the end), a slight reworking of what he posted for last year's SotU.] My ( Read more... )

Hmm. Something I heard on television tonight needs to go in a quote-of-the-day for 2009-01-02. (It will both amuse me and scare me a little if any of y'all can figure out the reference from just those two clues.)