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| Monday, December 1st, 2008 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ hallidae ] |
5:23p | We can haz fucking awesome scene composition, plzthnx? I'm surprised no one has mentioned this bit of awesome: Genndy Tartakovsky joins crew of Iron Man 2 as a storyboarder. |
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threegoldfish |
9:08a | Free shipping, today only!  Apistogrammas in The Octopus Gallery Photo mugs on Zazzle.com FREE [US domestic] Shipping! All products. No minimum. Today only. Use code: CYBERZSHIP08 |
| Sunday, November 30th, 2008 | ||
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threegoldfish |
8:59p | Crustaceans! I have at least two surviving babby crayfish because I saw two together! YoY I also bought three of these red claw macro shrimp today and they are awesome. I would show you my own pictures, but they have vanished into the depths of the plants and probably won't be seen again for a week. I'm excited that they have supressed larval development (meaning instead of having a free-swimming larvae stage which is hard to feed and keep alive, they basically hatch as miniature adults and are much easier to raise) because I'd like to hopefully have a bunch of these too. The whisker shrimp I got a couple of months ago don't have a suppressed development so it will be difficult to get any survivors from the bunch in the Battlestar. I may stick a bunch of them in outside ponds in the spring and see how they do out there since people generally have success raising ghost shrimp that way. |
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otf_wank [ ladylauren ] |
7:50p | My word count is pastede on yay Someone claims to have 'won' NaNoWriMo with 2.5 million words, a feat so fantabulous it apparently requires announcing twice. Unfortunately, checking out his website reveals that he used a less than conventional technique to reach this count: In order to compile so many words in such a short time, Leach leaned heavily on the Internet. He generated what he calls a “non-linear literary collage” by mining various blogs, chat rooms and fan fiction sites, grabbing whatever words caught his eye. “The talk pages of Wikipedia and the reader comments on io9.com were my absolute favorites,” he said. “These are my people. I shamelessly plagiarized their words -- even their misspellings and gramatical errors -- at every opportunity, combining the anonymous messages with recycled content from ‘Marienbad My Love’ and entries from my dream journal. I repeatedly cut and pasted and searched and replaced, transforming the various writings into a completely new and unique literary work.” NaNoers are Not Amused. Edited to add my favourite reply from the forums so far: Plagiarizing other peoples' words is not writing. It's plagiarism, pure and simple, contrary to the spirit of Nano. Not to mention that your pretense is so thick you could stand on it and not worry about sinking for a good three hours. Current Mood: Fan-Fucking-tastic Current Music: The Format -- 'One Shot, Two Shots' |
| Saturday, November 29th, 2008 | ||
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threegoldfish |
8:20p | lol latest but  FREE SHIPPING ON ALL ORDERS! See my shop for more details. Etsy: Your place to buy & sell all things handmade TheOctopusGallery.etsy.com |
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fandom_lounge [ jkefka ] |
3:36p | Charitable Schadenfreude So, many of you have probably heard of this or saw last year's, but I thought I'd share it all the same. Desert Bus for Hope is a charity event for Penny Arcade's Child's Play charity. It goes like this: They play the most monotonous video game ever, the legendary Desert Bus for a certain number of hours, with the number of hours based on the donations they get. The donations continue while they play, adding more time. Each hour costs more. They have live streams of the bus, the drivers, and a chat where you can talk to them. Every thousand dollars there's a bit of macrospam on the site in celebration. As of when I'm posting this, they've been playing for almost 22 hours, out of 101 currently paid for with over $13,000 in donations, and have one point, working on 2. Last year they got $22,800 and six points, the world record. They're looking to break both. It's good fun for us, torturous for them, and hey, if you're going to contribute to the suffering of others, might as well do it charitably. ETA: Well, they broke the important record. They just broke $25,000 and counting, committed to 110 hours, of which they've played about 64. They haven't gotten more than 6 points though. They keep crashing. ETA2: So Gabe and Tycho decided to match the next $10,000 that came in after about $25,500. Current count since the announcement? $5000 has already been donated, bringing them up to 30K and something like 113 hours. There will be at least $5000 coming from PA, probably more as more donations come in. The boys almost cried when Tycho called and told them about it. |
| Sunday, November 30th, 2008 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ napalmnacey ] |
2:12a | Does anyone here watch The IT Crowd? It's a very, very funny show that's on British TV and is currently in its third season. The second episode aired tonight and I laughed so hard, I nearly broke something. Here's the link of the new episode. This has been an incredibly funny series. That there episode? Pushed it into "legendary" status for me. Apparently a lot of other people feel the same way. Just wondering if any of my favourite wankas share this special love? Current Mood: Amazed |
| Friday, November 28th, 2008 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ onyxnoir ] |
11:26p | Nooooooooooooooooo WTF? Why would you do this to Batman? |
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fandom_wank [ wtf ] |
5:49p | "So long, suckers!" Zac, aka Anime News Network's Answerman, has announced his retirement in the form of an epic flounce. As a crusty old douchenozzle myself, I gotta say - I LOL'd. |
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otf_wank [ llama_treats ] |
6:25p | Welcome to the "Least Intelligent Student Union in the Country" The student council at Carleton University in Ottawa has made a shocking discovery*: Cystic Fibrosis only affects white men, and is therefore not an "inclusive enough" disease to raise money for. Needless to say, this causes a leeeetle backlash. In response, the person who originally made the motion to remove CF from their charity list is "currently not able to live happily." How sad. :( ETA: *And by "shocking", I mean "completely false". Current Mood: S-M-R-T |
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threegoldfish |
4:49p | All of my favorite sites are having sales Sarracenia Northwest is having their holiday sale now. Most items are marked 15% off but some are marked as high as 30% off. (I can't find the 50% off items they mention in their banner but I don't mind much.) ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} txtriffidranch recs these guys all the time and I have to rec them as well. I've gotten carnivores from them and then gotten what are basically rescue carnivores from Lowe's and let me tell you, the difference is amazing. Even the pitcher plant I got from a local nursey can't hold a candle to the plants these guys send out, even after being shipped across the country. So if you're looking to try something a little different, I reccommend picking up a Cape Sundew. They're really attractive, super easy to keep (mine live in an Ikea glass thing with gravel on the bottom and peat on the top and catch lots of gnats that bounce off the window they sit in.) and just plain interesting. I got these and some Asian pitcher plants as gifts for people last year. |
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threegoldfish |
12:53p | My house smells really good right now. Too bad it's because I'm seasoning my cast iron skillet instead of making food. Actually, I think while the oven's on anyway, I'm going to go make those cider cupcakes. |
| Thursday, November 27th, 2008 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ luthe ] |
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fandom_lounge [ supersyncspaz7 ] |
11:42a | in case you missed it... The entire country was Rickrolled during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Current Mood: Spiffy |
| Wednesday, November 26th, 2008 | ||
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fandom_wank [ gusty ] |
9:46p | A little Thanksgiving-themed wank for those celebrating the holiday! And heck, I guess those who don't can enjoy it too. I'd like to think of myself as a fair gal. So Furaffinity, a website for furry-themed art, changed its top banner for the holiday. Rather than the usual theme for these sorts of things like some character chasing a turkey/a bunch of people sitting down to a meal/a disappointed dude watching the Lions lose game number 5 million, they decide to instead go a different route. Namely by having their two mascot characters laying on a couch looking morbidly obese. On the original artist's upload there are both positive and negative comments along with much proclaiming that their fetish is NOT OK. Within minutes there are many journals on the subject. Some displaying total disgust about the subject manner while others tell everyone to (pun intended) lighten up. In one journal the head of the site, Dragoneer, mocks the people who are complaining about the banner: "Thousands of angry furries who can not take a joke are lining up!" He also edits the news post announcing the banner change to have what is supposed to be a link to a forum post discussing the subject, but is instead our old friend the Rickroll. There IS an actual discussion thread in the forums however, with the title "New Banner is tastless and disgusting". The poster of this thread, Rilvor, wants to start a petition to have the banner removed. Rilvor: "I would like to start a petition to have it removed. That banner makes me physically ill every time I see it. I do not appreciate having such content in this fandom, which I make a point to avoid, thrust into my face." The thread so far contains five pages of arguing over whether the banner is disgusting or not and people reminding others that it's only going to be up for 24 hours. ETA: Thanksgiving is over, and as expected, the banner is gone. However journals about it continue to appear! "All this pissing and moaning about the banner. I like the banner. I don't like the banner. Journals and forums and fucking petitions. You know what? People in DR Congo and Somalia are being attacked by rape gangs and war lords, their families are being murdered. People in North Korea are starving to death on the street. Massive terrorist attack in India. Etc." |
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pishbadlarr |
1:09p | Fun facts: - Minnesota is cold. - I can in fact drive fifteen hours in one day. - North Dakota is boring. - Montana is huge. - My now-ex is pretty bad at gun safety. - Bullets can lodge in femurs. - Army hospitals are pretty much unhelpful. I've been here less than twelve hours and I'm already annoyed at parents. I guess things never change XD |
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threegoldfish |
11:41a | Invert picspam Man the internet is dead today. I guess everyone's traveling and such. I'm at work and we haven't gotten the "Bail out at 3pm!" email yet. Probably because the only people in today are the peon's who don't have the Bail Out Power and upper management is out doing their thing. Ah well. Good thing I spent an hour taking pictures of shrimp last night so I can do a picspam.  I took the cories out of the tank just the other night and already the shrimp are much bolder and bright red. I guess that's why you shouldn't keep them with their predators. I did also see one of the dwarf cray babies last night but I didn't get a good picture. It was probably about half a cm long already. The female is in berry again so I should see some more in a couple of weeks. ( Snails, crayfish and more shrimp under the cut ) |
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otf_wank [ llama_treats ] |
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fandom_lounge [ jar ] |
6:49p | LJ appears to be down. Or is it just me? Right when I was doing something important, too. (Comment fic is important, it really is). [ETA]: It's back for me! |
| Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 | ||
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fandom_lounge [ esclaramonde ] |
9:39p | Twilight I see that there have been many posts about Twilight lately! I'd just like to point out that I created a comm a little while ago, ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif){kind=small} sparklefield, which is not part of the F_W network and is therefore not mandatory, but might keep people from getting fed up from an overload of Twilight-related posts. |
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otf_wank [ llama_treats ] |
10:03a | Zed's dead, baby. Zed's dead. A rocket scientist over in techsupport seems to think that Americans invented the English language and that people in the UK and Australia don't speak English.Good times. |
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fandom_lounge [ caito ] |
11:20p | His hair is like an anus that way 'Twilight' vampire Pattinson considers stakes of fame Q: What is all this talk about you not washing your hair for months on end? |
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fandom_lounge [ mariem_1 ] |
7:55a | SVA gave a new interview, in which he spoke about Lexicongate in details and claimed that he had been misled, misrepresented etc. - Steve Vander Ark wants an agreement with J.K. Rowling. |
| Monday, November 24th, 2008 | ||
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otf_wank [ beejium ] |
1:07a | The Lotus Boob! It does haunt my dreams! Over at PostSecret, Frank posts a postcard from someone containing a photo of the "Lotus Boob." (For those who aren't in the know, it's a picture of a breast that was clearly photoshopped together with a lotus flower and passed around the 'net as some sort of new horrible disease. Denounced by Snopes in 19-diggity-2.) Whingeing follows immediately. (See Frank's email picks near and around the offending secret.) Hilarious quote from front page: "This picture has destroyed my day and will haunt me for months if not years. My hair is standing on end and I haven't been able to stop shivering. I can't concentrate on anything now, my mind always returns to that horrific image. I am saddened that I can no longer view postsecret, but I am too worried about being assailed with another photo that will severely harm my psyche." Hordes of young girls are scarred for life and "kept up half the night shivering!" A thread is started on PostSecret Chat to determine whether the secret should be taken down. Some (read: most) dissenters claim that taking down secrets would completely ruin the spirit of PostSecret, and that there have been secrets that have been far more disturbing, like ones about rape and abuse. But it's a boob! With stuff in it! And now they'll never sleep again, and probably die and I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, POSTSECRET. Ahem... 101 pages of flouncing and crying in less than a day, and all I really have to say is, if your constitution is too weak to handle a little lotus boob, you may want to reconsider this whole "internet" thing. ETA: Bonus LOL: The random-lettered link to the secret includes the phrase "AAAAAAAAH." |
| Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 | ||
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threegoldfish |
9:38p | Some good fishkeeping news since I don't have much of that lately Moved the pygmy cories to the rasbora tank and they seem to be ecstatic. They've got the zoomies and are schooling back and forth and up and down the tank. This is really good. These cories are actually supposed to do that more than the bigger cories. In the wild, they actually form large shoals with tetras and spend a lot of their time in mid-water instead of on the bottom. The rasboras don't quite know what to make of these energetic newcomers, but they're so full of bloodworms that they can't really do much anyway. So yay. I totally want to beef up their school now. I just have six of the cories and I probably could double that without any problem. |
