Entries for December, 2006

Star Jaws

My throat hurts from laughing way too hard at an insanely silly and derivative Spider-Man plot. This one's going into my bookmarks.

spamily

My extended family is large enough and has been emailing everyone often enough that today my Yahoo mail flagged some of their messages as spam. I guess nobody legit mails a large group often these days. You'd think the sheer number of replies would indicate that the messages were desired, though!

naming shame

While looking up something else entirely, I found a brief discussion about a personal name, specifically a name belonging to a family member. The consensus was that anyone with that name must be evil (in the supervillain sense).

I... am withholding judgement. And giggling like a loon.

drop bears

Release the drop bears!

Radio.Blog

Last week I collected oddball Christmas songs and compiled them into my Radio.Blog, so I and anybody else who liked could listen to them during the holiday season.

Today they're not there.

What a waste of time. God, I feel stupid now.

I went fishing for the playlist XML file and found this in its place:

"The database server is currently down for maintenance. Please check back in a few minutes. We apologize for any inconveniences."

Sounds to me like it's a known issue and is being worked on. Rock. In the meantime, I have some MP3s stashed in my content area to tide me over.

wheeeee

Behold, after many months, there came an edit to a MoonBurnt test post, and its significance was thus:

I rock.

I've been wanting to get that settled for far too long. Having it done is like nerve aloe.

roles

There is a big multiversal Livejournal roleplay, one of several. A character has appeared from a television show I loved so, so much before its untimely cancellation.

The only problem with this is, when I see a post by that character, I can't stop myself from squealing for sheer joy. Several times.

broke

(Ranty McRant-Rant)

In other news, I had to remove the SITE['META'] tag from my template because it was invalid like whoa. Glad I caught it! I manually replaced all the valid elements I could find by View Source, and I checked afterward in Firefox -- but if something's buggy for you, please let me know so I can fix it ASAP. I hate broken stuff.

wishlist 2006

Meme!

• Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fun ("I'd love a Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

• If you wish for real possible things, make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

• Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ so that the holiday joy will spread.


(Ree's wishlist)

break

Autumn semester is done! Know what that means?

Gotta buy textbooks for spring and Christmas presents and Squirt's birthday gift because that's a week before Christmas and I still don't know what to get TJ and cards are gonna be way late but it can't be helped when I'm this freaking exhausted...

Alternatively, it means naptime. Zzz.

green stuff

My right ear has been all whooshy for the last week or two. It got bad enough to disturb my sleep. So I went to the doctor, who said it's down to a sinus infection. (I hadn't given my other symptoms a passing thought after my hearing went nuts.) He prescribed me a nasal spray that works like wow.

And then he said, "If you start to cough up green stuff..."

I laughed and made a face.

"No, really, if you start coughing up green stuff..."

Errrrrr. 'Kaaaaay. I think he went on to say that green means another doctor visit is in order. That should go without saying, don't you think?

Red ear canals, red throat, green... stuff. 'Tis the season.

I'm going easy on the internet stuff until the colours clear up, folks. Health > intarwebz. Have a good one.

solstice

Have a pleasant Solstice, celebrants!

smite

Goddamn idjits lumping huge corporations in with struggling small businesses. and tarring them all with the same brush. SMITE SMITE SMITE. With my wonky ear, I can actually hear myself get angrier and angrier, blood pressure going up and heartrate increasing. It's not cool.

The best part is this: if I say exactly what got me so pissed off, people -- strangers even -- will probably pop up to tell me that I'm the one who's wrong, even knowing that I have more firsthand experience with the subject than they do. IDJITS SMITE SMITE SMITE SMITE