okay, what the hell?

yes, i keep meaning to post actual posts, but then something like this happens and i get all sidetracked.

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handy: getting rid of snapshotswhen i heard about these initially, i kind of assumed the opt-out meant that you wouldn't have to see the damn things all the time. like opting out of ads. not that you just wouldn't be using them in your own lj. it seems like there's a perceptual gap, there - i mean, okay, i get that the opt-out is part of the ( Read more... )

the answer is, of course: push harder.

i am very slowly exploring the wacky new things that came built into my new machine. like garageband, and photobooth. (okay, garageband was on the old machine, too, but i never opened it, so.) here is what i look like in the morning when i wake up finally get out of bed:


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1) i am sort of having one of my turns where i hate all of humanity right now, except for how i'm totally not, and i don't, and i don't even know. but it makes it hard to post ( Read more... )

so you know how post topics just pile up in your head when you don't have time to actually post? and then, eventually, the topics are no longer, well, topical. and they fall off the list ( Read more... )

the most anxiety-producing thing that happened to me yesterday was being fucked with by the customs guy on the way back into the country. seriously, i know i don't go to canada very often, but i thought that was kind of not the sort of behavior they encouraged (the 'they' here refers to cutoms/border guard orgs, not canada, obviously. canada is ( Read more... )

random thing i don't care for (haha remember the stuff i like posts? yeah, those will happen again, someday. they're just...harder.):

?style=minereally. i like seeing other people's styles. i like my style (well, okay, less all the time, but i still pretty-much-like it), and i like reading my lj and my flist in my style, but i really like seeing ( Read more... )

sometimes mr blackcustard takes photos of me that make me look like heathcliff, if heathcliff hung out next to lakes moodily examining mussel shells rather than roaming the moors shouting at the heavens. and sometimes he takes pictures that make me look like me and potentially prompt casual viewers to wonder if i actually know how to comb my hair, which is ( Read more... )

hi lj! apparently what i need to make a post is to be at the halfway point of a four-day weekend.

yeah, so, i really have nothing to say on the whole fanlib thing, other than to sort of read a lot of people saying very cogent things via metafandom, and to generally be impressed with the caliber of analysis. copyright and intellectual property are ( Read more... )

i'm making this corn chowder today, and i get partway through it and am all "wtf i put no roux in this recipe. was i smoking the really cheap crack?" because, seriously. it doesn't need much, but otherwise it breaks like a brittle broken thing ( Read more... )