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Still getting used to this posting thing
The weather's gorgeous today, so I walked downtown after work. By Gallery Place, there was an unmarked bus parked by the side of the road and a woman standing next to it in a red tutu, hula-hooping. Another woman in a business suit walked up to her and said, "Can you tell me where this bus is going? Someone just told me that I should get on it." I ( Read more... ) -
OTW: Party in the USA?
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Misc
Was up in NY this weekend - the weather was at least a tiny bit cooler, although the subway made me appreciate the fact that, for all its faults, the DC metro does at least have air-conditioned stations. Visits with family are always a bit draining these days, but this morning I wandered out and enjoyed the 80 degree temperature in Central Park. ( Read more... ) -
Valve's Source Filmmaker
This sounds fascinating from a future-of-vidding POV: Valve hands over its own movie-making tools to gamers
The new tool will allow gamers to make their own movies using the acclaimed Source game engine directly. This means that users will have almost any element from a recent Valve game at their disposal, including characters, locations, props, ( Read more... ) -
What day is it? Where am I?
First, apologies if I'm slow in getting back to anybody about OTW stuff right now. My schedule was pretty jammed before I started working 16-24 hours a day, and that is sadly not hyperbole. /o ( Read more... ) -
Censorship for fun and profit
Great video on SOPA/PIPA:
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
And some bizarro-world quotes from the MPAA on the matter:
Only days after the White House and chief sponsors of the legislation responded to the major concern expressed by opponents and then called for all parties to work cooperatively together, ( Read more... ) -
Blanketfort Failure
(To anyone who doesn't care about OTW: I'm so sorry? Also, maybe we should hang out more. That would be refreshing ( Read more... ) -
AO3 Fun Facts
I'm really not up to reading anything about anything at this point (I'm building a blanket fort and hunkering down with this season of Merlin), but here are some fun behind-the-scenes stats from AO3:
- In October 2011, AO3 had almost 500,000 unique visitors and almost 19 million pageviews. Right now, there are over 2,600 people in our invite queue ( Read more... )
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Shiny things!
Once Upon a Time: I enjoyed that a lot more than I was expecting to, and I really loved Jennifer Morrison's character. Will watch again ( Read more... )