I woke up fifteen minutes early and washed my hair for the first time in I'm not going to remember when, because the answer is DEPRESSING. Felt fantastic ( Read more... )

Quinn is short for Alonquinn. It's too early to know if we'll go into tribal warfare, but hostilities have been exchanged; but then, Delilah could have taught Quinn lessons about computer hostility, and we settled into a fine working relationship. Quinn is my new computer, and she's already got stories behind her before I ever even used her. ( Read more... )

So, final project due in seven hours and twenty minutes. I have about twenty-five jump rings to solder- without, y'know, melting anything important. Or soldering anything together that isn't supposed to be. And then clean the firescale off the thing... whee, THAT'LL be fun. For all values of fun = pain in the neck ( Read more... )

Either the electronic driver or the backlight lamp died on Delilah's LCD ( Read more... )

Classes are done, and I survived, with a D+ in each, because while I turned everything in, I missed three days, and also I chose to do more ambitious projects that were just slightly outside of my skill level, so the results weren't perfect. What torques me off is that people who chose very safe, simple, easy projects (an origami diorama with ( Read more... )

There is a Livejournal strike on Friday- Thursday, for those of us west of Greenwich Mean Time.
It's about censorship, misunderstanding the userbase, and general asshattery.

One potato
Two potato
And for something slightly different, an intelligent, balanced opinion....My favorite part was the bit where Anton Nosik said that any strike would be ( Read more... )

Today was a good day. I got stuff done- got tuition paid, the misplaced power bill (eh he he he... oops) paid, had lunch, went to class, sat the SAC used art supply sale, sewed on half a frog, cleaned the cat box and rat cage, applied for a job, vacuumed, put stuff away ( Read more... )

Either fandom is migrating or it's just grumbling about it ( Read more... )

Telesilla wrote something very good, about going through the (now removed) FanLib FAQ question-by-question.

Also, here is a link to Pink Guy/Blue Dude slash. >:3 It produces fleets of rofflecopters on lollerskates.

From a conversation about Icarusancalion's article, linked in my previous post:
"FanLib also failed to research the demographic of ( Read more... )

Other people, especially in fan communities, have already posted on FanLib.

For myself, I will not be posting on FanLib, visiting FanLib, or reading anything posted on FanLib.

...except possibly blue guy/pink guy slash.

What others have said:
Henry Jenkins
Chris Williams on Henry Jenkins
Lj user Bookshop
Lj comm "Life Without FanLib"
LJ user ( Read more... )