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[Nov. 6th, 2009|01:42 pm] |
giveup up up up....
down we gooooooooo |
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[Nov. 6th, 2009|12:24 am] |
I'm no so much scared at my past, at all. I should be more scared at room/home 908 at Holiday Inn Charleston, WV. I packed a suitcase full of clothes (which have been cleaned more times in two weeks than probably ever before), but damn man, I need a filing cabinet. So much work. So much work. Leisure? please? tomorrow.
Screw the economy, I'm hiring for upper management and it sucks to find. |
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| LiveJournal Major Notes: Spam counter-attack, RSS feeds again, CSI Deadly Intent contest |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|01:15 pm] |
The empire strikes backIn recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal.
RSS feeds againIf you're addicted to , ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience.
Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests!
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If you're a gamer who loves CSI, have Wii got news for you! c_s_i is sponsoring killer contests. Simply post a question to a member of the CSI crew. The winner will get a free copy of CSI: Deadly Intent for Nintendo Wii (with a retail value of $39.99) and get their question answered by a member of the CSI writing team! There's also a fantastic monthly contest. To enter, join c_s_i, play the online version of CSI: Deadly Intent, and respond to a two-part query for a chance to win a Wii! Entries will be judged on composition and originality. Sorry, but you must be a U.S. resident and over 18 years old to participate. Check out the rules here.
Enveloped in postcardsLast week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be giving ten random users paid account credits.
Photos of the weekIf you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too!
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| familiar like |
[Nov. 3rd, 2009|10:47 pm] |
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You can tell when you say the word "love" whether you mean it, really feel it all the way love with everything you have mean it. Like when you say it and you're not sure and it sounds reeeally awkward and just flat, like your mouth can't really get around the words all the way and they just come out at 75% or maybe even less all things considered. You feel kind of dumb afterwards.
But when it is real your tongue hits the back of your teeth and the rest of the word falls long and round and warm sounding around it. It's familiar and second nature. You can say it in a whisper against my ear mostly just breathing or in passing as you hop out of the car but it never sounds dumb or awkward or any of the things it could be. Just warm and something to believe in. |
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[Nov. 3rd, 2009|09:20 pm] |
I went to Boone on the 17th.
What happened was a pretty big deal.
I'm 100% okay with it.
I love my new car.
I'm 20.
I'm moving out soon.
Life is coming together. |
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| stuck? |
[Nov. 2nd, 2009|07:34 pm] |
feet feeling heavy again.
and the booze wont quite talking |
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| putting off homework |
[Nov. 1st, 2009|10:14 pm] |
And instead looking through a bunch of old pictures on my computer, such as this gem:
My dad (second from the right), his younger brother and older sister, best friend and random hippie guy!
Sometimes a lot of times I wish I was young and alive in 60's-70's.
( a few others ) |
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| He said he would love me like a revolution, like a religion. |
[Nov. 1st, 2009|09:24 pm] |
Driving home tonight 24-South I think is the road, maybe North I should know by now but never pay attention, the moon is full and huge and hanging in a sky that is half pink half purple in the dip between two big peaks, freshly covered with snow hanging off the edges, the snow is glowing maybe from the moon maybe from the last light of the sunset and I am in loveinloveinLOVE with a life.
As if a cell phone camera could capture what it looked like, but not really. |
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| welcome to the working week |
[Nov. 1st, 2009|08:31 pm] |
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So this is what corporate work feels like. Busy 12 hour days and keep your head above the free booze as much as humanly possible. I really don't mind West Virginia as much as I thought I would. It's fun to explore on my bike and yea, the views are nice, as well. Got news tonight that I may end up in Florida by x-mas with a promotion if I continue to do the sort of job performance I am currently. Nice. Greensboro's not looking that great compaired to the things I'm undertaking here. The friends, the booze, the "college life" isn't all that appealing anymore, or at least not on the level that it was. People seem so irresponsible, so young? Or may be I simply pissed the whole city off. Probably the latter and I love it. |
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| Network Maintenance - Saturday, October 31, 2009 at 04:00-05:00 GMT/UTC |
[Oct. 30th, 2009|05:17 pm] |
EDIT: If you're reading this, our maintenance is OVER! The problem was not found on our equipment, which means we'll have to work with our ISP to fix this small problem -- which also means another maintenance window in the future -- but at least we have eliminated our side.
Thank you everyone, and a special shout out to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) rekoil for giving me a great suggestion AND also the opportunity to feel like I've just called in to a local radio station.
Have a great day, night or afternoon wherever you may be.
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Hi everyone, sorry for the late notice but I'm going to have to do some testing on 1 of our 4 internet circuits TONIGHT; Friday night or Saturday morning depending on which time zone you're in.
Most of us shouldn't notice any impact, though there may be some slowness or lag when I switch traffic on to our other ISP circuits and then another hit when I stop the tests. If a page won't load or times out, try hitting refresh 1 or 2 times and it should load then. If it doesn't work at all... trust me, I'll be typing really really really fast to try to undo whatever I just did. Hopefully you'll have some Halloween candy (if you're in the USA and celebrate that kind of thing) nearby to take away the bitterness of a small site outage. :(
Here's the handy-dandy Website That I Always Use to get a feel for when the maintenance will start in your area. Our site traffic historically dips on Friday afternoons until Saturday morning which is why we tend to pick this time for maintenance work.
( tech details )
status.livejournal.org will, of course be updated before and after the maintenance window. Or else marta will get mad at me. :D
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[Oct. 30th, 2009|12:43 pm] |
p.s I MISS MY BROTHER SO FREAKING MUCH. Gr. Chicago seemed closer, but it's not really. Hopefully I will be driving there over Thanksgiving. Actually, I don't really see any reason why I can't drive there over Thanksgiving.
Two people in Chicago. |
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| Hello Dearest Love, |
[Oct. 30th, 2009|12:37 pm] |
butiwishthatpersonwasntgone awaydrinkingbrocasualsexaksjdhaksjdhaskjdhandhavingnothingtodowithbeautyandnatureandeverythingthatwealwayscaredaboutloved.
I WISH TEVA WOULD STOP CHEWING ON MY PANTSSHOELACESCHAIRLEG. She is swinging her mouth around wide open, catching eveything it comes into contact with.
LEaving for the mountains in a matter of hours, or less THANK GOD. Have to go to REI first to buy a pair of snowshoes yeeee!!! |
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| LiveJournal Major Notes: Search super-tweak, postcards, and amazing user content! |
[Oct. 29th, 2009|10:53 am] |
In response to user comments from last week, we want to let you know that we'll remain LJ cut-free for the next month in order to get more eyeballs on our evolving newsletter. As for product coverage, that continues to be our top priority. For more granular detail, however, we recommend you join lj_releases.
Super-tweak for Yandex searchSome of our beta testers expressed privacy concerns using the Yandex search engine. Here's why: Last week, when you ran a search, you could see the usernames (and only the usernames) of everyone who commented on an entry, even if that entry was switched to Private or Friends Only after it was originally indexed. You could NOT see the actual comments from Friends Only or Private posts. In response to your input, we've implemented a fix to keep all user activity currently marked Friends Only or Private completely hidden. If you'd prefer your public content not to be indexed by Yandex, click here and use the settings labeled Search Inclusion (this covers your entire journal) and/or Comment Search Inclusion (which covers comments only). To test drive Yandex search now, click here.
Postcards from the edgeSeveral years ago, we asked LiveJournal users to send postcards to help us decorate our dull, white-washed offices. Since a good idea warrants repetition, we're at it again (same issue, new address). We hope you'll surround us with LiveJournal love by sending your postcards to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. We'll post snapshots right here. Be sure to include your username, since we'll randomly pick 10 lucky recipients to win free paid account time.
Conquer Writer's BlockHere are some excerpts from this week's most popular question of the day:
If a friend or relative makes a racist or homophobic remark, do you tend to confront them or let it slide? Are you more likely to confront them if it offends you directly or someone else who seems reluctant to speak up?- I find it easier to stand up for other people, and i wouldn't let it slide if they made a rude or hurtful comment.
- Usually if a friend makes a racist or homophobic remark, I tend to let it slide. I think that while i would not say such things myself, I have no right to censor those around me.
- This happens all of the time. I confront some relatives, but I refuse to if they are drunk or watch Fox News.
- I'd let it slide if it was just a private remark... As much as I despise bigotry and intolerance, I know that you can't change people-they have to change themselves ...
- Confront! confront! confront! Politely, but without equivocation.
- SPEAK UP. Always, always, always speak up. Letting something slide lets ignorance win. No matter if it offends me directly, or someone else, I will confront the speaker and let them know that's not ok.
- I don't get offended personally. As an immigrant, woman, gay and person of color if I took every single potentially offensive remark seriously I wouldn't get anything done.
- I punch them in the balls. With my mind.
- I do speak up, but often very timidly because I feel that I'm white and therefore I don't really have any authority to lecture someone on what's racist and what isn't...
- Generally speaking, I do not let this shit fly, because it reduces me as a person, to this non-person and it replicates the destructive discourse that makes sure that sexual minorities, racial minorities, women, people with disabilities, trans people and every intersection thereof into something other than human... And sometimes... I'm just too tired to deal with it, so I roll my eyes, make a sarcastic remark and hope the conversation moves on quickly.
For more daily questions and user comments, join writersblock. FYI, we don't want to invade your privacy, so we haven't credited individual users for their responses. We'd appreciate your feedback on this!
Spotlight community of the weekWe can't resist making one last midnight trip to the ol' pumpkin patch. If you adore crazy costumes, fiendish festivities, and bottomless candy consumption as much as we do, this community has just what it takes to light up your jack-o-lantern.
halloween_fan
Photos of the weekWe received so many incredible photos, we had to close our eyes and point. We uploaded a selection of awesome images at our new lj_photophile community. Please join and start posting (try to keep the width at around 625 for the sake of consistency)! We'd love for you to tell us more about your photos! You can help us select spotlight photos by commenting on your favorites. Once again, we thank you for making our online world more beautiful!
CurtainsThanks, again, for tuning in. We look forward to seeing you next week. |
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| snow culture. |
[Oct. 29th, 2009|11:25 am] |
I love Boulder buried in almost two and a half feet of snow. I love Boulder and how everyone says "fuck it, it's snowing...party time." And well, it's still snowing. Not supposed to stop until tonight, I think.
Last night we all started to get big at Southern Sun Brewery, which is really the only place to go when it is snowing like crazy in my opinion. We then hiked over to Tantra Hill....a long, STEEP hill in a park in South Boulder. During the day it's where all the middle school boys go when school is cancelled, but at night it turns into a giant snow party. Last night we got there around 10:00 and there were maybe 150 people there, all getting drunk, building jumps (note, there is NO WAY to land a five foot ramp in a plastic sled), running into each other, and sliding down the hill at breakneck speeds on everything from legitimate sleds to trays from CU's dining hall, a pie tin (as someone in my group was using), one shopping cart, frisbees and a large piece of plywood that someone attached skis to the bottom. Dogs would stand around the middle of the slope, and chance one person that went flying by until another wizzed by, and they would switch directions. On guy was shooting off bottlerockets down the slope.
I woke up this morning bruised and aching. It could have been way worse, but somehow during our biggest accident, Kibbles (on of the guys on the frisbee team) managed to someone throw himself over me mid-air, instead of landing completely on top. I think it was that same pileup that another one of the guys landed in push-up position above Dana to keep from crushing her.
Time to take the dog out to play in the snow before class (yes, campus is still open. bleh).
Teva in Ben's front yard early yesterday afternoon when there was only about 8 inches on the ground...by this time the snow is as deep as she is tall. |
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| Found |
[Oct. 27th, 2009|12:11 pm] |
the biggest tree I have ever seen in my life, since the oak behind my grandmother's farmhouse was struck by lightening and cut down.
On Boulder Creek, I don't know what kind of tree it is, but I tried to measure it with my arm span, and four of my arms spread all the way out got only about halfway around the trunk.
My new years resolution was to see redwoods, but if I alter that to just any giant tree, than done. 2009 can end completely fullfilled. |
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