I have dreams of catching up on my email this weekend. It's not impossible...

Anyway, I'm still pretty fried, so this is a links-only post. Some of these have been open in tabs for several days, but bear with me.

Via sarcasm_hime, painted 3-D goldfish embedded in resin. Wow. *_*

Via LJ's Twitter feed (I think), The Return of LiveJournal discusses some of ( Read more... )

Holidays! Happy Hanukkah and Yule! ^_^

Christmas baking so far this year: eggnog cookies (still in ample supply in the freezer), chocolate gingersnaps (gone quickly, between a party and the office), eggnog custard pie (one lone slice remaining gone in the name of a midnight snack for one of the boyfolk), and sugar cookies (dough chilling in the ( Read more... )

I am, of course, shocked and appalled that LJ is having a massive security issue and not talking about it. *eyeroll* (If you don't know what's going on, read this postMy question is, does it actually do any good to delete one's LJ account(s), temporarily or otherwise? I see a lot of people doing it, but if someone accidentally gets logged in as you ( Read more... )

This is not a cheap week. Without even touching on all the social stuff I've been doing, last night I ordered a small heap of manga and this morning I've ordered more of my favorite tea and registered for a distance ed. copy-editing course. Given the state of the manga industry, expanding what I can do as a freelancer seems like a reasonable course ( Read more... )

As it happens, LJ's ongoing issues mean its servers (understandably) aren't up to letting Dreamwidth accounts do imports, so I haven't managed that so far ( Read more... )

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As usual, many of you already know about this. Bear with me.

In the same update where, as I mentioned earlier, LJ a) introduced privacy-breaching cross-platform post/comment notifications and b) broke tags with slashes (
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You know, I try not to gripe too much about LJ these days--I think of Dreamwidth as my primary online home, and I drop by LJ 'cause that's where so many of my friends hang out, so while things still affect me I try not to let 'em bug me too badly. But the number of times that LJ has posted updates ("upgrades"! To "improve your experience!") that ( Read more... )

Dear Internet: I have things I've been meaning to blog about, like the closure of one of our most-beloved-ever restaurants last weekend (there was almost literally weeping), but Casual Job is eating me alive. Also, I hope to basically do an entire adaptation over the weekend (!), for values of "weekend" that hopefully include at least a few hours ( Read more... )

I'm trying to decide whether I should get a Tumblr account to add to my list of online haunts (most of which get neglected to some degree or another, although they all contribute to nibbling away at my time). Does anyone have any opinions about the site? Right now my main reason for wanting an account is "there are people I adore using it!", which ( Read more... )