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celestialweasel : What could possibly go wrong?A colleague says:
'I've got a Siamese tea-bag'
[FX: demonstrates the conjoined nature of 2 pyramid tea bags]
'I'm going to look up 'Siamese tea-bag' on Google.'
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dailykitten : DukeLocation: Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
I am Duke, and this is when I was two and a half months old. I am now a grown up boy, at least I believe so. Mommy still thinks I am a little boy! I love to sleep, sleep and sleep, there couldn’t be a better sport. I eat whatever mommy gives me, except for boiled chicken… eew… how can she even think I will like that. I love to play with my toys and also love to play chase with mommy especially when she is least expecting it; and not to forget the small insects and flies that keep crossing my way. I love people coming home, as long as they act polite and let me assess them completely, before they start acting comfortable like it’s their home. The only thing I hate is mommy closing doors on me, like the kitchen door when she’s making my dinner.
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afuna : Google Chrome Volume on Mac OSX? Lately I've been seeing Growl Notifications of a Google Chrome being mounted on my Mac, while I'm not running Chrome, and without my having done any action on my part. (I have been keeping Chrome around out of curiosity because I want to try the beta, but I haven't run it in a while).
I do not know what's been going on, but I can't find any way to turn it off -- I can't even figure out where to start looking. ps aux | grep -i google (look for "google" in all running processes) just shows me a GoogleTalkPlugin... and I don't know what that is for either, or where it is from.
I suspect there's something that's just trying to be helpful, but since I don't know what it is, and I don't recall giving anything permission to do this, I don't like it :p And not remembering whether I gave it permission or not, may be my memory being faulty, but whether I gave it permission before or not, I can't find any way to turn it off now.
So now I'm trying to figure out how to purge Google Talk Plugin and Google Chrome from my system. Anyone run into any of this behavior before? Any idea how to stop it?
ETA: Mrrrr, found it. Google Software Update was installed automatically on my computer, probably when I installed Gears, or checked out Google Earth or Google Chrome. I don't mind being asked for permission to check for updates when I start a program, but having something automatically update without notification or permission makes me twitchy, so I've removed all the google software I don't need, leaving only gears.
I'll also do this as well: http://www.google.com/support/insta
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coughingbearThe Broadland Archives at Southampton University include Mountbatten papers, Palmerston's travel diaries and other papers, including letters from Queen Victoria, and a lot of other material. The Trustees of the Archives are selling them, and the university are trying to raise £2.85 million to keep them. More details here.
And here's a picture of Little Itchy, who has found a new place to hide in the study which we can't work out, but who is very friendly and purry whenever she does deign to appear:
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cleanskies : moments between postsThis also happened today:
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jinty : Out and AboutYesterday, cycling back from work: someone on Exeter College, wrapping a tinsel scarf on the Gormley statue. No photo opp; maybe today? #
Getting ready to hand out some posters for next Monday's Low Carbon East Oxford meeting - 7:30, Magic Café, Magdalen Road. Come along! #
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cleanskies : paranoid cartoonist pursued by big black birdsOh, I'm lagging on the scanning, and everything is ending up out of order. Not that that's any sort of excuse for posting a strip that was written sometime in mid 2006, and it obviously hasn't been waiting in the scan-me pile all that time. It's been languishing pencilled bar the first panel where the ink (long since thrown away for being shit) had spread, while I couldn't decide if that irritatingly ruined first panel meant that I should redraw the lot. No, of course not, it's fine, just shove a wash on it. Hence, this week's strip from over three years ago. Ink washes are lots of fun when a kitten is helping! I ended up having to wipe ink off her nose.
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| I've had enough of the bad dreams thank you An old strip from a few years ago. |
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celestialweasel : They should do more of this on the BBC News ChannelI refer you to this post of jwz.
If they did more of this on the BBC News Channel I would pay my licence fee instead of pretending to be a 85 year old blind nun.
Sister Frances Dunstan
(EDIT: GRR got the wrong link, now fixed, though that one mentioned WEASELS!!!)
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rho : In most train stations, you don't have to cross a motorway junction to change platformsToday was going to be a productive day. I figured out last night all the things I was going to do and was feeling motivated and everything.
Then this morning, I woke up after a nightmare (involving trains, Staffordshire, and interviews). I then went back to sleep, only to wake up not all that long after from another nightmare (this one had tigers, witches, and what I think may have been Oxford Street).
This has left me feeling tired and cranky and turned today from a happy fun productive day into a slob around moping and order pizza day. Bah.
On the plus side, at least neither nightmare involved secondary school or changing rooms, which are my standard nightmare fodder. Variety is a good thing, right?
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dailykitten : JasmineLocation: Levittown, New York, USA
Jasmine is two months old now. We adopted her from the Town of Hempstead Animal Shelter in Wantagh when she was barely six weeks old. She is a bundle of energy and brings a great deal of joy to our house.
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luminairex : One hell of a stormEvery tree on campus is damaged somehow. Maybe 1 in 4 is uprooted.
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burr86 : attn spoosh and coffeechicaBillboard has named Daniel Powter, whose song "Bad Day" topped the Billboard charts for five weeks in 2006, the one-hit wonder of the decade. The magazine defined a one-hit wonder as any act whose second song didn't reach the top 25. To be fair, it only considered the years 2000-2007, because last year's hit-makers might still have another one up their sleeves. (via)
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afuna : Loose endsI'm in a massive clean-up mood right now, and I'm fighting the urge to tie up some loose ends that have been bothering me, mostly because they probably aren't as loose or ended as I feel they are.
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satyrica : PhotosIn case anyone who may be interested missed them on FB, I have internetted some of my pictures from India and Thailand
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aveleh : Requesting some help in answering web requests.(This was going to get posted to a community, but my laptop is at 10 minutes until no battery, and I can't figure out if there's an appropriate comm to post to, so I'm putting it here.)
Hey guys. I opened up all the web requests in tabs to go through and answer as many as I can. But I need help, so here's a list of all the requests I didn't put an answer on, that I think can be reasonably easily picked up. They range from "explain the IC to the user" to "test something and see if you can reproduce" as far as difficulty, so any interim should find many of them approachable. If you find one too overwhelming, look at another. Or go check out another category.
Edit Friends Page:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_
User is having problems with editing their friends - most likely has to do with a weird character in a friend's display name. Can someone try to reproduce this and either IC or jira it and then respond to the user?
[msn] error: 'There's a problem with the site you are trying to share your information with. Please try again later. (Internal server error)'
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_
I don't know? Can anyone see if they can break this? Maybe it's not working for users with non-alphanumeric passwords or something?
[msn] error
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_
... I do not trust my ideas.
(not) getting notifications they (don't) want
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_
Can someone test to see if the gunky hacky workaround works for turning off these notifications, and then tell the user how to do that? And even if not, tell the user that we know, we're sorry, and to watch lj_releases.
User can't create new custom group
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_
No idea. Someone else try? Ask the user questions?
User doesn't like that they get millions of cookies
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_
I think? Send them to suggestions maybe, but first lets establish what the user is actually doing.
User is having problems creating an account
http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_
Says there are no errors. Please either try to troubleshoot on your own, or ask for more information. Could also be weird caching or something?
Ooh, this user - http://www.livejournal.com/support/see_
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abbylee : Notifications UpdatesIf you're still not watching the ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small}
lj_maintenance community, you should be. It will tell you things like how poor notifications are down right now. (See http://community.livejournal.com/lj_mai
Also, thanks so much to devildoll, an anonymous friend, and sunbrae for the snowflake cookie vgift. It makes me happy to see how many people are being cheered up by them :D
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coffeechica : Writer's Block: Top ten playlist, then and now
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dailykitten : BluLocation: Gornja Radgona, Slovenia
Blu is six months old now. We saved her from death. Before, we did not know what it was like to live with a cat. Now we know only too well – Blu has brought so much joy and warmth to our house. She makes every day a beautiful day.
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luminairex : StowawaysForgot to unload my backpack this weekend. Oops!
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elyssa : TSO!We sold our tickets to the Brett Favre show to see TSO. Don't regret a thing
:)
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synecdochic : what the fuck, it's fucking monday againMondays, every week, let's celebrate ourselves, to start the week right. Tell me what you're proud of. Tell me what you accomplished last week, something -- at least one thing -- that you can turn around and point at and say: I did this. Me. It was tough, but I did it, and I did it well, and I am proud of it, and it makes me feel good to see what I accomplished. Could be anything -- something you made, something you did, something you got through. Just take a minute and celebrate yourself. Either here, or in your journal, but somewhere.
(And if you feel uncomfortable doing this in public, I've set this entry to screen any anonymous comments, so if you want privacy, comment anonymously and I won't unscreen it unless you tell me it's okay. Also: yes, by all means, cheer each other on when you see something you want to give props to!)
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luminairex : TSO!stevieg found us some amazing seats for Trans Siberian
Orchestra. I think these are some of the best seats I've ever had at a
show!
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the_kitty_kat : Yay for Legolas the Christmas elf!Today I completed all of my Christmas shopping for people at work. Next up is family shopping. I feel like I'm already behind.
Also, I'm getting ready to send out holiday (NOT specifically Christmas) greeting cards. If you'd like one, please PM or e-mail me your address, or comment with a link to your filtered contact info post, etc. Comments are NOT screened, so please don't post your whole address there unless you want god and everyone to see it. I have many of your addresses already, so if you know I have it, don't worry about it (although you can say "MEMEMEMEME, I want a card!"). Some of you are getting a card whether you want one or not. ;o)
Now I am going to wash some laundry so I will have some clothes to wear this week. This was a good weekend, but too short. Always too short.
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synecdochic : 101 Times JD Nielson Hitched A RidePeople seem to be taking me up on this in comments, so I shall track it here!
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ivorygates posted the aforementioned JD-and-Jason-Gideon story, Driver Picks the Music, and it is SO AWESOME)
1. Dr. Who, the Doctor (giglet)
2. Torchwood, Jack Harkness (circadienne)
3. (to name it would be to give it away) (zarhooie)
4. Sarah Connor Chronicles, John Connor (abyssinia)
5. Supernatural, Dean Winchester (me, the beginning thereof)
6. Dr. Who, the Doctor (rho)
7. Desperate Housewives (archersangel)
8. NCIS, Tim McGee (ladyyueh)
9. Star Trek: Voyager (quinfirefrorefiddle)
10. The Sentinel, Blair Sandburg/Jim Ellison (sid)
11. Dark Angel (goldjadeocean)
12. Gateverse, quantum mirror (slybrarian
13. Pirates of the Caribbean, Captain Jack Sparrow (alyndra)
14. Sanctuary, Ashley Magnus (abyssinia
15. due South, Fraser/Ray V. (synecdochic)
16. Twilight, Bella (tiferet)
17. Farscape, John Crichton (kazbaby)
18. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Oz (jadelennox)
19. La Femme Nikita (twistedchick)
20. Heinlein's World-as-Myth (melannen)
21. Dinosaur Train (circadienne)
22. SG-1, Jack O'Neill (archersangel)
23. Criminal Minds, Elle Greenaway (merrycaepa)
24. The Pretender, Jarod (jamoche)
25. Georgette Heyer, Dominic Alastair (cesy)
26. Leverage, team (lisabounce)
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badasstronaut : UK MCR 2009Yet another one has now been and gone - the 6th one, and the fifth in the same house in Wickwar. It was lots of fun and this time I got a bit more drawing done than in previous years, although so much time passes between occasions upon which I draw these days that I feel I must have regressed.
Thank you to everyone who came, and especially thank you to Jenni, Selina and Jason for lots of help in the kitchen - Jason also did a great job on pudding duty, Richard for doing the frustrating job of untangling the fairy lights and also for hunting down retro pop culture reference material, and Jay for organising the comic arrangement.
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synecdochic : 101 Times JD Nielson Hitched A Ride ...So, here at the stitch & bitch, I mentioned that sarah and I had been discussing the old 101 Uses for a Canadian Shack fandom project, and that we both think that "101 times JD Nielson hitched a ride" would work out, because I have JD and Dean Winchester in progress, and ivorygates has made noise about JD and Jason Gideon ...melannen immediately piped up and said, "If you do that, I will write JD Nielson and Tony Stark."
(I got up immediately and sat down at the keyboard to make this post. After I stopped laughing.)
So, here's the challenge: Write JD Nielson hitching a ride with somebody. Doesn't matter when, doesn't matter how, doesn't matter crossed over with what, just JD, a vehicle, and someone giving him a ride. Have at it, and I will finish that story with Dean Winchester.
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coughingbear : books do furnish a roomJust shelved a Billy (double of course), with some of my adult fiction. Was amused to find Hemingway had got mixed up with Heyer...
The dining room looks considerably more like a room than it did, but the front room is still full of book boxes. In other news, Christmas shopping with my sisters was lovely (to see them) and horrible (negotiating Oxford Street and trying to find presents and think of things I would like myself. No one seems prepared to give me an unpacked house for Christmas). We also now have a plumbed-in dishwasher and a huge fridge, which are both good.
And two bests of all: rosathome came to visit this weekend and was the first person to stay in the spare room, and it was lovely to see her, and on Saturday hano and I went for a gorgeous lunch with nicnac and J, and came home with a ginger kitten. She is a little scared of everything still, and hides behind hano's desk a lot, but she has been eating and drinking and earlier this evening she was playing with me and getting me to stroke her head, and purring. So I think she will be fine. Fox and Wosk appear to have realised that the study door is closed, and that there might possibly be food on the other side, but not as yet that there might be another cat in their house. They are both on diets, on vet's orders, and their only thought is where the next meal is coming from. Admittedly that's what they've always mostly thought about, but now it's Serious.
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jinty : Another year, another MCRLovely and mellow this year - I'd felt on the way over there that I didn't want to necessarily do lots and lots of active comics creation this time, and indeed I did just as much as I wanted to, without feeling pressured either by myself or the press of events. The main ingredients - chums, good food, pen, paper, and daft ideas - were all there as usual, with some added improvements (specifically, double glazing meant that the farm was nothing like as glacial as it has been in previous years!).
The numbers were a bit lower compared to some other occasions, but it worked well I think - ten of us. Jay did the lion's share of the writing and overall plotting, and I wrote about 4 pages, which was round about the number of pages that most of the artists each drew. This year, too, the overall shape of the story didn't run away with itself - sometimes we have so many things to try to fit in that you're forever trying to write or draw the pages to get it all in, and then you realize that there are bridging bits missing. Great stuff it was.
The overall conceit turned around vintage telly, so there were lots of questions flying around such as "what happened in The Generation Game?" "Does Bruce Forsyth have a moustache - and did he have one in the 70s?" "what did Fanny Cradock look like?". As usual we also incorporated our late-night conversations about anything and everything into the comic, too; so Saint Lucia (with her eyes on a plate) and her chum Saint Agatha (breasts on a plate) turned up alongside Ronnie Corbett and Babs Windsor...
Lovely lovely stuff, anyway; I'm much looking forward to seeing it all put together and PDF'd for our reading delight! Thank you Debra, thank you Jay, thank you everyone!
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dailykitten : BorisLocation: Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Boris is a seal point ragdoll. This clumsy kitty took a nosedive after once trying to sit on top of the flat screen TV. Huffy, he went and sharpened his claws on the screen. Boris also has a knack for getting his head stuck in yogurt cartons, making a run for it, and crashing into the wall. Then there is the time he jumped into the toilet thinking the lid was down… I had a blue kitten streak across my living room spraying a wake of blue water on my floor. He is such a goofball, and it’s hard to imagine how I ever lived without this much laughter in my home.
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dailykitten : ShermanLocation: Brookville, Pennsylvania, USA
Meet Sherman. When we rescued him at seven weeks. He was afraid of everything, but now he’s a big and sweet gentleman. His three older kitty sisters are lucky to have such a kind and patient brother. Sherman adds a touch of class to our home and we love him dearly.
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mendel : Getting it right.
contemplative]I had a thingy in my to-do list to post an excerpt from a Dharma talk given by Edward Espe Brown, the cook at Tassajara Zen Center and author of the Tassajara Cookbook and Tassajara Bread Book. But I'm listening to the talk now, and there's really no one sound bite I can cut things down to.
So instead, here's a link to the whole thing. Listen to the whole thing if you want. It's a little slow-moving at first and might be a bit too Buddhist for your tastes to begin with, though.
The stuff I was going to post about starts at about 16 minutes in, where Ed starts talking about relating to food, but the best part is around 17:50:
This is also something about your heart. Because most of us get involved with getting it right. I want to do it right. Because if I did it right, and it came out the way it should, nobody could criticize me, nobody could question me... but getting it right is different from what you love.
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intrepia : The RiverFull disclosure: I first wrote this poem in late November 2001, when I was 15 years old, after reading Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in my 11th grade English class. This poem is in some ways a response to that novel. It was not an assignment, although my teacher was kind enough to give me extra credit for the class when I showed it to her. In this revision, I have tried to preserve the original voice of my 15-year-old self (something both fitting and necessary for a poem at once about and born of youthful optimism) while injecting some of what I have learned after the craft of poetry in the years since then.
therealljidol Season 6, Topic 6: Sunrise. If you enjoyed this entry, please vote for me in this week's poll.
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afuna : More scarf for grandpaOn aveleh, synecdochic, and zarhooie's advice, I've settled on a simple 1x1 rib, which will let the yarn shine.
This yarn is so very very soft, I can hardly feel it against my fingers when I knit.
GOODNESS GUYS. Knitting this yarn is like knitting a cloud of soft fuzzy sensual love.
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afuna : Renaming
working]I'm doing Bug 216: Renaming, and maaaaaan.
It's kind of funny -- I studiously ignored most of the renaming support requests back on LJ, because it seemed complicated and I didn't want to dig into the code, and now here I am, writing similar logic from scratch *snickers*
I'm having great fun. This seemed like one of the projects where tests would have a great effect, so I spent some time figuring out how to write tests from scratch, rather than just trying to tweak existing tests.
My tests look kinda like this:
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I'm coding by first writing a bunch of tests, then writing code to make the tests pass. Every time I think of something new I should check for, I dash off a quick TODO block and then go back to writing either my test or my module. That helps me not lose my train of thought, but also means that I don't lose my ideas.
I'm starting with a small set of limited functionality, and then gradually expanding the scope. I actually started by disallowing everything except user-to-unregistered, and now I'm relaxing the rules as I add more. So far, I have personal-user-to-unregistered, with redirect and without redirect, and lots of checking for whether $fromu can rename to $tousername.
I'm in the middle of user-to-other-user, where the second user is just moved out of the way.
I estimate that I'm only about 10% of the way through -- I still need community-to-unregistered, community-to-other-community (or journal??), two-username-swap, keeping or removing various links -- subscriptions and the like, then catching edge cases (loops, openid attempts to rename, etc). And then I need to integrate it into the shop. And after that, I need to build a frontend so people can buy it from the shop *g*
At some point, I'll probably need to catch someone in chat to ask certain questions about the renaming process -- what should happen to usernames that were renamed away from, is swapping usernames one token or two, should you be able to rename a comm to a journal and vice versa, blah blah blah, buuut that can all wait a bit, because I'm sure I'll end up with still yet more questions.
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mendel : Sigh.
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From Sociological Images.
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coffeechica : Staircase at the library
Staircase at the library
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Dominican University, where I got my MLIS. Classrooms are up here on the third floor, coffee bar is in the lower level, floor 0. (Four floors of stairs weren't fun when I was pregnant. but still eyecandy.) I showed Amie the electronic rolling stacks, which would be boring to photograph, but she got a kick out of them.
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