She did what??............

Posted via LiveJournal.app.

my new default search site:

http://www.ohnorobot.com/index.pl?comic=56

This is RJ, a long time member of the Faire Family. He was kicked by a horse years ago.
He could use your help in this contest for $30,000 to repair his smile.. Please give him the time to cast a vote.

Internet Voting – Vote Online for Robert P of CA – 1-800-DENTIST®

Shared via AddThis

You can vote once a day until Dec. 1.

Thanks to Eain, i bring you this

How things go to hell in a zombie appocolypse

( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

Notes augmented

We've enhanced and de-bugged Notes. If you haven't tried it yet, now's the time! You can create a private note when you ban multiple users. You can also delete multiple notes at once. Lastly, paid users have the option to add a note (visible only to you) whenever you add or remove a friend (guaranteed to avoid embarrassing social mishaps). If you don't currently have a paid account, you can upgrade now! It only takes a few minutes and costs less than a bad shopping mall haircut (plus, it's way more fashionable)!

Product tweaks and bug kill

1. In another effort to zap spam, comments containing links from domains LiveJournal deems untrustworthy are now automatically screened
2. If you sign up to get notifications of the Writer's Block question of the day, you'll now see the daily question in the email notification, so you'll have a little extra time to ponder before you post. You can subscribe to Writers Block notifications here
3. The issue causing random comments to vanish has been fixed!
4. If you visit a LiveJournal page and get prompted to log in, you'll be returned to the same page after you sign in (Thanks, Dreamwidth)!
5. If you don't edit the timestamp for an entry at all, the entry timestamp will indicate the time the entry was posted instead of the time the Update Journal page was loaded
6. Comments with paddings/backgrounds render correctly within the comment box (and will no longer wrap outside the box and break frames/margins)

New FCK fixes rich text editor!

1. We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5
2. When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds are no longer broken
3. RTE now functions properly in Safari 4.0
4. An extra line/space will not be auto-inserted whenever you switch from RTE to HTML editor
5. The insert image link now works correctly in all browsers

LiveJournal Cares

We’re pleased to introduce you to lj_cares, a new LiveJournal community dedicated to raising awareness and funds for U.S. charitable organizations that improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Each month, we’ll spotlight a nonprofit that is making a significant global impact through medical research, public outreach, and/or humanitarian social programs. Charities will be selected in accordance with the U.S. calendar of national health observances based on a high rating (of over 60%) on Charity Navigator and global scope of impact.

In this, our inaugural month of November, we will celebrate national adoption month by offering a charitable virtual gift (priced at $2.99) to support Love Without Boundaries, an organization that saves the lives of orphans with life-threatening diseases and places them in loving homes around the world. LiveJournal will donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of charitable vgifts (we'll cover the cost of credit card transaction fees). To learn more about Love Without Boundaries, please visit lj_cares and read about how they helped save Baby Kang and the Rainbow Twins from fatal illnesses, who are now thriving in nurturing families. You can purchase your Love Without Boundaries gifts in the Virtual Gift shop.

Papered in postcards

A couple of weeks ago, we asked you to send in postcards to surround us with LiveJournal community. Thanks for coming through! We've received postcards all the way from Germany, Finland, and Canada and from all over the US, including Texas, Florida, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Indiana, Hawaii, and Oklahoma just to name just a handful. We're thrilled with our improved decor.

Please keep the love coming for one more week by writing 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 drawing the names of ten random contributors next Thursday to win paid account credits!

Photos of the week

We have more dazzling images posted by talented LiveJournal photographers from around the world. We're hoping to span the entire globe, so please continue posting and tagging. Of course, you can also sit back and enjoy the view at lj_photophile.

You can see a sample of this week's gorgeous photos and check out spotlight communities and awesome user content after the jump!

( Read more... )

Curtains

We thank you, once again, for joining us. See you next week!

EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

---

On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

(A few more photos from Halloween)

THIS IS MIDGARD!!!




One more angry-thor after the cut!

A man said to the universe:
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."

sixwordstories
Whether you're in the mood for a creative challenge or you're short on time or attention span, this semi-addictive community is perfect for those who find flash fiction way long. Once you get the hang of it, you won't be able to stop. The prince turned into a frog. The girl ran home to mother. Tough to write. Easy to read. It's a double threesome of fun.

dailyfoodie
Delicious, ambitious, and occasionally nutritious dishes make for an eclectic, all-you-can-eat feast. Whether you're searching for recipes for your next dinner party or you're jonesing for a late-night brownie fix, your cravings are sure to be well sated. A warm and inclusive community that welcomes all orientations, from carnivores to vegans, from gourmands to junk-food junkies. Guaranteed bias-free, food-positive, and pan-epicurian.

When we are children and we are upset, often our reaction is to physically lash out. Manifesting our unhappiness, sadness, rage, anger- in a physical way. This is (hopefully) quickly conditioned out of us.


When we are older, we suppress this desire. We construct an intellectual social architecture whereby this behavior is shunned and internally processed as "Shameful". Frustration, anger, depression, inchoate rage- all are internalized and run though the meat grinder of the heuristic algorithm that makes up our behavioral paradigm. In short, we suck it up, talk it out or (write about it) and just generally process the negative stimulus in such a way that it doesn't result in things breaking.

I'm going to suggest an additional, post-enlightenment level of reason and human understanding.

Whereas:

We are biological organisms with a very specific stimulus / response mechanism hardwired in to our brainmeats

We are frequently plagued by outside forces which impinge upon our ability to live our lives in peaceful, harmonious balance with the universe

Some assholes just need a lead pipe to adjust their attitude...

It is posited:

Fully understanding the social ramifications and multitude of hardships and consequences that will ensue, when one has been irritated, hurt and upset enough by an outside factor- sometimes, sometimes- it is perfectly acceptable if not natural (and calming) to visit great vengeance and furious anger upon the noun / irritant in question.

Doing so immediately, with great vigor (and preferentially with a lever of some sort made of Lead or an available hardwood) will bring about an end to the stress created from the desire to strangle the living shit out of some asshole and the understanding that doing so goes against years of operant and social conditioning and as such is painfully socially unacceptable.

Visiting wrath upon the irritant in question will have the extra-added benefit of creating a high barrier to entry for those entities who desire to enter the "fucking with other people" market.

I see a future of professors, teachers, lawyers, judges, and all people walking around carrying "Go ahead, make my fucking day" sticks on their belts, ready to use to defend their sanity from those that seek to defile them.

Sometimes, Wayne Brady really just needs to choke a bitch

went through my contact lists and made an effort to consolidate e-mails and phone numbers and google address lists with yahoos and add birthdays and such.

still a lot of holes, but i feel i really have a solid contact list for the first time since i used to use my palm pilot regularly.

but it sucks when you collect a lot of data and accidentally delete it and have to re-enter it all!!!

off to my brother's baseball game, then Pink's, then game. hope you are all having a great sunday!

first BREAKFAST!!!

Remember me as I am now, before I put on 5 pounds this weekend...

Attention Me:

It is now the start of my birthday weekend. This is the one weekend of the year where it really, truly, utterly is ALL about ME. Anyone that pisses me off this weekend gets the back of my hand or the brunt of my wit (such as it is).

This also signals my plethora of (now cowering) organ systems to prepare for an onslaught of junk food and sex and any other number of pollutants I may potentially steep them in.


This weekend I am indulging my inner hedonist.


And you thought my *outer* hedonist was bad.


I have preemptively called in dead for Monday.


37 was awesome. I won 37.

I WISH i could go to this, but if you do, take pictures please!

http://www.murgent.com/users/job_link.php?job=4671-EC-091104-00&tr=5efef74e&mqcid=121690586

Some days, I really dislike people. I say "Some days" because really, almost all the time, I really do like people and persons.

Like I've always said, never get involved in a land war in Asia- I mean, the only people who can really hurt you are the people you really care about.

What's the phrase that Natara uses? Trauma Trance?

Yeah. Still sorting out how I feel right now. I think, first, I'm going to try to staunch the bleeding before I try to suss out "how I feel."

Better living through chemistry and exercise. Thankfully I have a stash of one and an appointment with the other at 5pm.

The empire strikes back

In 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 again

If you're addicted to xkcd_rss, 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!

c_s_i

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 postcards

Last 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 week

If 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!
( Read more... )

Survived two weddings, a cruise, 8 weekends driving 14 hours on avg, and now I will have a free weekend. It will be the first since the beginning of august.

Now I can have some free time to:
Call Mom, David, Arion, Eric, Brian, Dad
E-mail Nvidia
Groom Sly (cat)
Flea bomb the apartment (or perhaps a less drastic measure)
Get Bread
Vacuum
Shave
Watch some House on DVD
Maybe even finish reading book

I am getting training at work, which is always great. I am trying to balance that with all the random work that needs attention now.

Posted via LiveJournal.app.