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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
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9:30 pm
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It's snowing. It's the end of March, and it's snowing.
I can't believe it's snowing. D:
I'm going to be trapped here tomorrow, aren't I? I hate that.
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| Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
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5:53 pm - Okay, I'm not really laughing so hard I can hardly breathe...
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But give me time.
Seriously, the latest LJ outrage!!1!!11 is killing me.
We must protect future users from the horrors of advertising!
How dare they censor the interests! I'm outraged! [They put them back.] I'm still outraged! (Seeing as I removed all of my interests during the last LJ interest idiocy, my sole interest at this point is "not listing interests." I don't particularly care who shares it.)
OMG, SUP hired a prostitute to try to blackmail Brad. Or maybe to sweeten the deal. Or maybe there wasn't a prostitute at all, but, still! It's just like something they'd do.
Now, the interview in Russian: translation 1 translation 2 Is translation 1 overly inflammatory? Who cares? Time for more outrage at the sudden realization that, in either translation, SUP really doesn't care much about the user base! But, really, we're all incompetent after the fact mourners -- thanks for the link, ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) kill_the_spare.
Also (my personal favorite): SUP should have known that everyone would plug the interview into babelfish/google translations, get a bad translation, and get outraged about it! (Quite possibly true, but what's the solution? Sounds like this is a cry to "do things without ever saying anything about them lest they be misinterpreted," and isn't that the primary problem, here?)
It just wouldn't be a LJ protest without ataniell93 bringing up the colossal importance of her 300 RP journals, now would it?
I'm sure I will boycott LJ on Friday, just like I do almost every other day of the year. I don't really think that the interest filtering was a mistake, and I don't like ads (which, BTW, means I'm not going to InsaneJournal, either). I'm not entirely unsympathetic, but I have to say-- if you're really outraged, you're a lot more convincing if you pick up and leave and stay gone.
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| Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
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10:11 pm - Ah, dog shows...
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I am suddenly reminded of the glorious Shiloh ShepherdTM club split. (I was linked to this many years ago by someone who thought that the Shiloh ShepherdTM was a shining example of protecting rare breeds from the destruction caused by AKC recognition.)
Anyway, I so desperately wish I had copies of these letters:
Her first article was rejected, forcing her to write a letter to the membership again reiterating the differences between a club and a registry. This in turn caused the ISSDC president to send out his rebuttal and these were followed by long, mostly personal attacks between both parties. "Best in Show" is a funny movie, but it just doesn't capture the real craziness in purebred dog fandoms.
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| Friday, November 9th, 2007
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4:27 pm
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For the curious, the actual text on the WB timeline (through the end of Year 2), contrasted with the text on the Lexicon's timeline and the text in the books, as well as notes on how the dates of events can be calculated.
For clarity, all year calculations are based on the fact that Halloween in CoS is Nearly Headless Nick's 500th death day party, and he died in 1492.
All bolding is mine. I've removed carriage returns from the official timeline (it was easiest to put this together in Excel, then copy it into an HTML table). I usually replaced linebreaks from the Lexicon's timeline with /, and I tried to clean those up. I may have missed a couple.
Lexicon MT: Information on the Lexicon Master Timeline for the series
Lexicon SS: Information on the Lexicon day calendar for Book 1, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Lexicon CS: Information on the Lexicon day calendar for Book 2, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Note that I'm pulling these out of the Wayback machine, so that I can compare the DVD timeline text with Lexicon timelines which predate the DVD release. The first timeline appeared on the Chamber of Secrets DVD, which was released in 4/2003. Therefore, the timelines I'm using are from the last Wayback save prior to that DVD release, which is 12/2002. This date is noted by each Lexicon timeline reference.
Books are referenced by similar abbreviations, along with chapter number (e.g., SS1 = Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Chapter 1.)
The timeline is taken from the Prisoner of Azkaban DVD; I've done the "History," "Year 1", and "Year 2" timelines.
( snip )
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| Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
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4:27 pm - That stupid Lexicon timeline thing.
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| Friday, October 19th, 2007
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5:35 pm - The dreaded icon meme, from puipui
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And when I said my icons weren't interesting? I totally meant that.
Since you said you picked things where you didn't recognize the bases, expect more detail on that.
User pics - we use them, we love them, and love to admire others'. Let's dig a little bit deeper into this...
Comment on this post. I will choose seven userpics from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are using them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.
( moving on )
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| Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
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5:14 pm - Yes, I have noticed the wiki is wacky.
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Woe... on the upside, this means no spambots to ban for a little while. Yay?
In an attempt to justify the space taken up by this post:
I like the new JF code quite a bit, but I've noticed there's an extra / on the end of communities sometimes. So, for example, if I click on a poster's username on my friendslist, I go to their journal. However, for fandom_wank, I see www.journalfen.net/users/fandom_wank in the browser's status bar. If I click on it, it tries to take me to www.journalfen.net/community/fandom_wank// (the same thing happens if I am logged in as a community and click on "Recent" in the navigation bar, which is how I first noticed this).
I've found the same problem with links in memories. Memories from individual user's journals take me to the correct post; memories from communities add an extra slash in before the post number.
I think the extra slash is added during the redirect from www.journalfen.net/users/[community name] (and www.journalfen.net/~[community name]) to www.journalfen.net/community/[community name], because the same thing happens if I type the "users" (and ~) version of the community name directly into my browser.
It's easy enough to work around, of course, but it's a bit odd. I might possibly have panicked the first time-- OMG! What do you mean the post doesn't exist???
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| Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
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10:31 pm - Happy Birthday, puipui!
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| Monday, September 24th, 2007
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10:29 pm - From the "actually funny ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/community.gif) otf_wank posts" file
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We bring you Demonboy.
All of the posts on otf_wank should now be categorized in memories-- which isn't to say some of the categories shouldn't be collapsed.
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| Friday, September 21st, 2007
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11:53 am - WTF?
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| Thursday, September 20th, 2007
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11:25 am - Okay, I don't post a lot of these memes...
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... but this one amused me.
Take the quiz at dicepool.com
No use trying to fight it, you're an eight-sided die, a d8. A fine example of simple elegance, the d8 is one of the least appreciated types of dice, and is often neglected. You are known to be quiet and shy, outward traits that conceal viscous sarcasm and mean wit. You are very smart, yet wise enough to hide your intelligence the quicker they found out how smart you are, the sooner they'll put you to work, which is something you can do without. People call you dark and pessimistic, or moody and cynical. You find little point in arguing.
It gets me! It really, really gets me! (Well, except the part where it wrote "viscous" instead of "vicious" and expected me not to notice.)
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| Friday, September 7th, 2007
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9:42 am - What interests me about the fights in fandom_lounge...
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If we strip them down, these fights have gone like this:
post -> Warning that the post may not get the desired response -> IS IT AGAINST THE RULES? -> Statement that it would get a better response in a different community -> IS IT AGAINST THE RULES? BECAUSE THE RULES DON'T SAY IT IS, SO STFU. AND YOU'RE NOT A MOD. YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TELL ME ANYTHING. -> flamewar
The operative point is not that much of anything is technically against the rules (including, for example, staroverthebay's cat posts). Because, obviously, there aren't a lot of rules in fandom_lounge.
It's just that the environment in other communities tends to be more welcoming to certain sorts of posts. On fandom_discuss, you're not (simplified) allowed to derail the discussion in comments-- which everyone does in fandom_lounge all the time. In shywank, people are just not going to be as snarky.
Actually, no one ever starts out saying that the post is against the rules of fandom_lounge. I'm curious if the flamewar would erupt if people didn't immediately become defensive about what's in the rules/community info.
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| Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
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11:33 pm - Happy early (in my time zone) birthday, Sep.
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Aha! At last I understand: disabling the wiki was your first step toward world domination.
(Kidding. Happy birthday anyway.)
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| Sunday, August 12th, 2007
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1:13 am - Swiped from wank_report
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| Saturday, August 11th, 2007
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10:19 pm - That was quick.
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I thought it would take a few more days for the implosion to hit.
Anyway, like I said on wankitywank, I was around when AOL hit usenet. I'd been around on usenet for a bit over six months at the time, as I recall. And, yeah, I lurked. A lot. The earliest post of mine I can find in a quick google search was dated 8/7/93-- argument on abortion (Note: I don't entirely trust the google search).
I remember the usenet culture being a lot like F_W culture, probably meaner (you don't see STFUADFM with the same regularity on F_W-- though the sentiment is definitely there). The AOL influx was huge; it didn't really matter if the majority of AOLers lurked, there were so damned many of them that even a small proportion of them posting increased volume. It wasn't helped by the fact that for the first day or so, there was a bug that made every AOLer's post duplicate four times. (I'm always bewildered that no one else mentions that.) I also had the joy of seeing the Canter and Siegel Green Card posts-- well, mostly the responses flaming the Green Card posts.
Never occurred to me at the time that these would be great historic landmarks. They were just damned irritating.
Personally, I like things more rough-and-tumble, which is why I like it over here. I liked usenet, too. I abandoned it back in '95 (last post of mine I can find is March 23, 1995), when I realized I could spend hours paging through groups, reading debates, and bitching about how stupid people were, and I would never get a damned thing done.
Not much has changed in that regard.
I've not had high hopes that people migrating over from LJ was going to go smoothly. Now, of course, it could... but it probably involves the creation of spaces that are more similar to those on LJ. I suspect we don't really want to give up our safe spaces for snark.
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