Re: Last week's epsiode of SPN.
Man, just when I'm beginning to like that show, they go and pull shit like that.
(And Ghostfacers was so awesome, as well. I feel cheated) | |
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Guys guys guys guys guys
Screw the alleged fuel shortage. This afternoon I have caught a glimpse of a potential situation much more damaging to the British Way of Life.
A Pimms shortage.
Stock up now, or don't say I didn't warn you. | |
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It has long been an established bad habit of mine when I like a thing, to dismiss the opinion of everyone who disagrees with me, with you just don't get it . As I've matured, I like to think this tendency has faded, so something has to be really really good to invoke that same reaction again. Something like Iron Man. When I knew there was going to be an Iron Man movie, I admit I was a little apprehensive. I'd defy anyone to be, if the last Marvelverse movie they'd allowed themselves to be persuaded to see was 4: Rise of the Silver Surfer. But I committed myself on the strength of ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) steely_glint's gay crush on Robert Downey jr, and you've got to hand it to Sam - he done well on this one. I don't really think this film can be spoiled - it's just not that type of story. But I'll cut anyway. ( List under here ) | |
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Or something like that.See it turns out I have a picture frame from Millicon last year, but nothing i really want to put in it (well, one photo of me, Bing and Stampy, but nothing groupish). Could you all have a look through your photos and send me (email, if there are people on them not OK with being on the internetso) you best 'millicon' picture. it doesn't have to be Chicago - it can be DC or a Britcon or just a bunch of muns hanging out. It doesn't have to have me in it - but I'd like it if there were some sentimental value to it. I just want something that I can look at, sigh happily and say 'Milliways rocks'. OR maybe I'll just print out one of these. I haven't decided yet. | |
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It was Tony who said that sometimes PHD comics hit too close to home, right?
Men's Daily News gives you many reasons to vote FOR Barack Obama.Check out his stance on reproductive freedom!
An insight into one aspect of what it's really like to be - what's the term metafilter used? LGBTQWTF? Of any degree.
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I'm thinking about standing for the LJ advisory board.
*thinks.* | |
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There are lots of ways to spend a Sunday, but I think reading the entirety of The Red Star is one of the best. This is probably one of the highest forms of sequential art out there, and I never get tired of it. And because it's so pretty, ( I made icons. )And now I'm off to lounge on the sofa and watch The Justice League: New Frontier! | |
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The following is perhaps the most callous thing I'll say for a long time, but: Dear Kate and Gerry, Get. The fuck. Over it. love, IB I'm extra unsympathetic to them today because they've decided to cash in on the Fritzl case my wrangling themselves column inches just to say Maddie might be in a dungeon like Elisabeth . And it makes me callous and bitchy that they could be so disrespectful as to try and make someone else's tragedy about them. Yeah, it's probably media overexposure here, but just STOP IT ALREADY AND BE PROPER PARENTS TO YOUR SURVIVING CHILDREN. OK, that's out of my system. Yesterday was a bad day for me. A very bad day. Lack of sleep combined with painters in the flat ripping me out of my comfort zone, combined with not eating lunch, combined with the realisation that I fucked up on Important Stuff again (I still have to go back to Belgium: I hated it the first time, failed at organising it the second time, and need a passport RIGHT NOW), led to -actually the first panic attack in some time. But I'm able to write off the day as a bad day. I got myself through it, I recognised my wretchedness, I gave myself space, and I did finally sort out the trip. It's going to be OK. Today I have an interview re: volunteering to teach children at the Natural History Museum. I'm not by any stretch giving up on the Grant, but hopefully this can be a weekend position, and it's TEACHING KIDS ABOUT SCIENCE. I am also taking the day to sort my brain and my work out. Get my diary up to date. Make sure I know what I'm doing with my life, and generally calm the fuck down. But it's hard when, not only is the git wizard not dead of aspyxiation, but Johnny Vegas has not been arrested for serious sexual assault. SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU VOTE CONSERVATIVE, PEOPLE? | |
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Because weaverandom did a list of her favourite Firefox extensions and I've been thinking of doing a post like this anyway: here's a handy guide to how I use Firefox and other tools to make my internet life easier. And as most of my internet life is Livejournal - well, you get the picture. First of all we have Firefox itself. I know other people use other browsers, but for the life of me I don't understand why. Different strokes, I guess, but if you're not going to be converted, there's not a lot of point reading on. Firefox on its own is nothing special (except the find on page function already makes it miles better than I.E.), but it's the available add-ons that make it indispensable to LiveJournal Users in particular. ( Add-on List. Now with handy 'this means you' guide. )And one more thing: ( Firefox and LiveJournal Feeds ) | |
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(If you use neither of these sites, nor have any interest in using them, and yet people on your friendslist do - skip to the bottom. There's something for you, too.) When I first signed up to Twitter, it was for the express purpose of using LoudTwitter to post a summary of my day when all I had to contribute during the day were blithe one-liners. This was - well, fine I guess. Some people complained but I couldn't care less really, it's my journal. However, I ended up not using Twitter for that, instead preferring to use it as a quick networking tool. One lines thrown out into the webosphere to interact with the people I read. It's what Twitter was designed for, I guess, and I like it that way. It's like public IMs OTOH, Del.icio.us has proven ideal for those days when all I have to post on LJ is a bunch of links. Each account has a standard .rss feed of one link per item, but feature I use is the daily blog post - that aggregates ones daily feeds to a single exporting post. This isn't directly compatible with LJ, but I use it thusly: ( Posting Daily Linkspams to livejournal )---- ETA: matgb has kindly offered his own Delicious Glue script to anyone who wishes to use it, at: If you do, please let him know? ---- Whether you have LoudTwitter or Delicious Glue set up in your LJ, if you're reading this, it's likely someone on your friendslist does, and you may or may not agree with me that the general formatting of both is a bit ugly. So, armed with my trusty FireBug, I set about tweaking my LJ style to make these look a bit better with the following code. Colours have been taken out because they're unique to my style and you can do them your own damn selves: ( .CSS for sexy Linkposts and Twitters )Sample posts can be seen here: LoudTwitter | Delicious. Just copy and paste the code provided into the custom CSS box in Livejournal's Customise page, and Save Changes. Alternatively, why not try Twitterless - a Greasemonkey script for removing LoudTwitter posts from your friendspage. View this post in My Style | Your Style | Light Format | |
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A long discussion about the Fundamentalist LDS sect. I remember being aware of extreme communities like this when I was in Green River four years ago. it makes me sad how nothing surprises me anymore.
Jeffs preaches to his estimated 10,000 followers that all blacks are the descendants of Cain, “cursed with a black skin,” and selected by God to be the “servants of servants.”
OK, so techincally I found it on LJ-Nifty yesterday. How was I supposed to know that Mat had it already on his journal?
Vid of the Day: Or, why I love the Daily Show
\"at the end of the day, I think the message is more important than the messenger.\" - Jennie talks about racism; i'm sure she'll agree this should be applied to everything
Love Music Hate Racism uses the positive energy of the music scene to fight back against the racism being pushed by Nazi organisations like the BNP.
I don't know why I don't pay more attention to my After Ellen feed. Cute lesbians talking about movies. ♥
Matt Taibbi Undercover with the Christian Right
By the time this is posted to LJ, I guess it'll have happened, but: LIVE SQUID DISSECTION.
Amy gives us the good shit./
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From Mat - Simple, obvious, but sage advice and worth reading.
I did want today's linkspam to be more than \"here's what Mat's linked to that I like\", but it's really not going to be.
The Four A's: Acknowledgement, Apology, Amends Action.
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I was going to say something about how this journal's been a bit low contentish recently- except the last two 'real' posts have actually been pretty high content, for me. It's just they haven't been very regular,and so there's been a lot of 'noise' in the forms of one-link Del.icio.us posts and Twitters. Now, many people object to Loudtwitter posts on their flist. I really couldn't care less about people objecting to what I put in my journal. It's my journal, and I can use it how I like. But I have suspended Loudtwitter for a while- my current usage of Twitter is noisy rather than signally, and while I'm enjoying it, there appears to be very little need to have it recorded on LJ right now. Also, I think the main reason for having LoudTwitter was so keep a daily post on my LJ of some sort or other, out of a compulsion to have my calendar filling up daily. I don't now think this is strictly necessary, and Twitter actually manages to fulfill my need for spewing chains-of-thought onto the web quite well. I'm just not sure everyone needs to share. Anyway, the point is - there's not been a lot of mid-level "this is my life and brain" content recently, for a number of reasons, mostly that I haven't felt the urge to write. I've been reading a lot. Reading and absorbing information and just - well, reading. Which is nice. Comics, of course, but I've been paddling around the whole recent feminism wank and trying to figure out - not where I stand, it should be obvious what side I take, but - what I'm going to do about it. I've also been listening to early zencasts and reading websites on Buddhism, Taoism and related philosophies, and learning to meditate. It's not a change in religion or anything - just an exploration of philosophies I've been meaning to explore for a while. I'll get back to you on it. So yes - I'm still alive and still functioning, but feeling more like absorbing information than giving it out. Maybe there'll be longer posts when I have figured out what to say. Maybe there won't. | |
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It's about time I actually caught up, isn't it?
Can someone please link me to essential reading so I can understand the recent furore over White Feminism? | |
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Because sometimes what I have to say isn't worth an entire post. Courtesy of Twitter and LoudTwitter | |
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I've been tagged for a meme, but I'm not doing it (yet), because the tagger's fiancé* gave me an even more important one.
I couldn't not do this. But on the other hand, I'm sure you're sick of me talking about some of these. ( So I cut )* gender specific-form chosen deliberately | |
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Because sometimes what I have to say isn't worth an entire post. Courtesy of Twitter and LoudTwitter | |
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