Back. And stuff.
Well, not much stuff. I've been pretty much incommunicado during the time I spent in Germany, partly from choice and partly because I find it difficult to form coherent thoughts when three people are talking to me at once.
The weather was lovely throughout, and it was really depressing last night to come back to a typical Scottish evening (followed by a typical Scottish morning, and a wet kitten on my bed. Well, the kitten was kind of nice).
I discovered the joy of ice cream cups. With cream and chocolate sauce and fruit and, ideally, liqueur. Why couldn't I discover the joy of raw celery? Or pickles? Huh.
Also huh: GOING! and the accompanying PV. Or rather than 'huh', perhaps the operative phrase is 'WTF is that??' Guys, if I wanted to see/hear NEWS or Arashi or HSJ, I'd be a NEWS or Arashi or HSJ fan. SRSLY. I haven't found one of their A-sides so sucky since... actually, that must have been before I was in the fandom. In fact, that may have been YOU. What a co-incidence. :-/
A kind-of sort-of PSA for those of you who are in Germany: for something my mother was doing, I hunted up the German equivalent to our Say No to 0870 (a consumer service which helps you avoid calling horribly expensive 'customer service' numbers); it doesn't seem to be very well known in Germany, so here it is in case you want it: Das 0180-Telefonbuch.
While I was away, we uploaded our kizuna_exchange story Amigo to our own fic journal and also to our abode on AO3. Summary: Kame rings in the years with angst, some abandonment, and a cosmopolitan. Akame, 9,000 words, Teen-rated; betaed by ina. Thank you again, Ina, you were great! :-)
I think I still have comments to catch up on. It feels weird to be going back almost a week. It also feels weird to be looking at my KAT-TUN calendar and deciding that I don't want to miss out on some of the pics for which the dates are officially over, so I'll be catching up more slowly there. Today is the 26th. :-) I think I'll be back on track by 3 May. And kriszeth, I'll be getting back to you well before then!
Finally, question. Well, back-story first. I use Firefox as my main browser but I can't run two instances at once on Win7, and for complicated reasons I need to have two separate browsers running quite frequently; otherwise this wouldn't be an issue. Now, is there a way to stop moving animated images in Google Chrome? Preferably after allowing them to do their animation thingie once? Basically, to do what in Firefox, setting 'image.animation_mode' to 'once' does? Or failing that, I'd be grateful to be told just how to turn the bloody things off entirely. Icons that constantly move at the edge of my vision give me migraines.
Oh, and while I'm at it, does anybody know how to force Chrome to override any given site's font settings? I know where I can set the fonts I want to have displayed as defaults, but that seems to work only when the site itself hasn't set specific fonts. (AO3, I am looking at you. I do not like your swirly serifs.)
The weather was lovely throughout, and it was really depressing last night to come back to a typical Scottish evening (followed by a typical Scottish morning, and a wet kitten on my bed. Well, the kitten was kind of nice).
I discovered the joy of ice cream cups. With cream and chocolate sauce and fruit and, ideally, liqueur. Why couldn't I discover the joy of raw celery? Or pickles? Huh.
Also huh: GOING! and the accompanying PV. Or rather than 'huh', perhaps the operative phrase is 'WTF is that??' Guys, if I wanted to see/hear NEWS or Arashi or HSJ, I'd be a NEWS or Arashi or HSJ fan. SRSLY. I haven't found one of their A-sides so sucky since... actually, that must have been before I was in the fandom. In fact, that may have been YOU. What a co-incidence. :-/
A kind-of sort-of PSA for those of you who are in Germany: for something my mother was doing, I hunted up the German equivalent to our Say No to 0870 (a consumer service which helps you avoid calling horribly expensive 'customer service' numbers); it doesn't seem to be very well known in Germany, so here it is in case you want it: Das 0180-Telefonbuch.
While I was away, we uploaded our kizuna_exchange story Amigo to our own fic journal and also to our abode on AO3. Summary: Kame rings in the years with angst, some abandonment, and a cosmopolitan. Akame, 9,000 words, Teen-rated; betaed by ina. Thank you again, Ina, you were great! :-)
I think I still have comments to catch up on. It feels weird to be going back almost a week. It also feels weird to be looking at my KAT-TUN calendar and deciding that I don't want to miss out on some of the pics for which the dates are officially over, so I'll be catching up more slowly there. Today is the 26th. :-) I think I'll be back on track by 3 May. And kriszeth, I'll be getting back to you well before then!
Finally, question. Well, back-story first. I use Firefox as my main browser but I can't run two instances at once on Win7, and for complicated reasons I need to have two separate browsers running quite frequently; otherwise this wouldn't be an issue. Now, is there a way to stop moving animated images in Google Chrome? Preferably after allowing them to do their animation thingie once? Basically, to do what in Firefox, setting 'image.animation_mode' to 'once' does? Or failing that, I'd be grateful to be told just how to turn the bloody things off entirely. Icons that constantly move at the edge of my vision give me migraines.
Oh, and while I'm at it, does anybody know how to force Chrome to override any given site's font settings? I know where I can set the fonts I want to have displayed as defaults, but that seems to work only when the site itself hasn't set specific fonts. (AO3, I am looking at you. I do not like your swirly serifs.)