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08:26 pm
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Privacy and YouTube.
Quick summary from the site:
"A US court has ruled that Google must divulge the viewing habits of every user who has ever watched any video on YouTube."
Read more in the Questions and Answers.
Whee. Of course Viacom says it wants the log for a reason OTHER than pursuing users individually... but we've already seen how RIAA + Napster went. That's more than enough information for them to start demanding details from ISPs and suing people for bajillions of dollars.
I am suddenly glad I still haven't bothered setting up a YouTube account. :(
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12:08 pm
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Oh noes, adulthood!
Recently my husband has been realizing (with mock horror) that he's doing responsible adult-type things. For example, if he's at a yard sale, he won't just buy a rubber-band gun. Nowadays, he'll buy a rubber-band gun AND clippy clothes hangers! So sad!!
Today's conversation of awesomeosity...
Jen: So what are we doing today?
Andy: We should go put some gasoline in the car.
Jen: Gasp! Oh, our lives are so exciting and exotic! I can't wait!
Andy: I guarantee the rest of the day will be just as interesting! Because then, we're going out to buy pants.
Jen: At last!
Andy: And clean the living room.
Jen: Swoon!
Andy: And buy soup bones.
Jen: Oh, you spoil me!
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07:38 pm
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My rambling take on gasoline prices and the future.
Over in ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) twoflower's journal, shadur brought up the renewed plans for offshore and park drilling.
I ended up going on such a huge riff about inevitability that I figured I'd better post it separately here. I'm no analyst, but here's my layman's guess...( Read more... )
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10:00 pm
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Surgery went well!
Hey folks. I have tried not to make a big deal of this but now that I know how it went (best-case-scenario), I just thought I'd pop online to say the surgery went really well.
( Click for a TMI summary of why surgery... )
So, I'm really relieved to find out it's the best-case-scenario and have this over with. I don't really hurt much unless I sit up, so I'm distance-typing this at arm's length with laptop on my thigh, spellchecking... it's slow and tedious but I just wanted to post something! :)
I'll be well enough for work on Tuesday or Wednesday. twoflower, thanks for the Wii so I can goof off digitally before then! And of course thanks to all the well-wishes I have already received and responses here. :)
P.S.: Some unidentified flowers were delivered today. Handwritten florist card just said, "Our hopes everything comes out ok (wink, wink, nudge, nudge) - Here's to a speedy recovery!" Anybody wanna confess? I'm suspecting it's from work, actually, but I don't recognize the handwriting; maybe the florist transcribed it off the phone.
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10:17 am
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Linksys wireless router = tech support hell.
*twitch* To preface this story, it's mostly resolved now, so don't worry; I'm just letting off steam and rant-summarizing.
( In which Jen attempts to install a wireless router, gets varying degrees of poor tech support... )
And Linksys is supposed to be a top-level namebrand? Gluh.
Moral of the Story: I returned it and got a Belkin instead.
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08:22 pm
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Jen and her godson Danny
To celebrate Mother's Day... Here I am carrying around my godson, Danny, as if he's a baseball bat. :D That kid is so damn cute! We love him so!
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08:03 pm
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Luxury pudding.
It's been a while since I posted, so I thought I'd relay this vital news.
My husband has been laboriously making stovetop chocolate instant pudding, and he has now decanted it into WINE GLASSES and put it in the fridge to finish.
He claims, "You can't put something this special in a BOWL, Jen!"
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05:32 pm
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No more negative feedback for eBay buyers...
Among many other changes, eBay just adjusted its feedback system so sellers can't leave negative feedback for buyers. This has, naturally, caused a huge unhappiness among sellers. Sellers complain about buyers leaving negative feedback and the sellers have no leverage.
But I think I can see why they've done this. I suspect it will actually help the community as a whole.
See, the leverage equation goes both ways. The buyer's feedback has never made a bit of difference to their ability to buy things (not after the first few) and so our prior ability to leave negative feedback hardly mattered. But the seller's feedback makes a HUGE difference.
As a result, leaving negatives for buyers is only really leverage if the buyer is also a seller -- in which case they are SO desperate to maintain their feedback rating, that they aren't likely to report poor sellers. And in turn, that hurts our ability to truly detect who's a responsible seller and who isn't.
( Using myself as an example )
Presumably some of you (especially the artists) are eBayers. What do you think?
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11:54 pm
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Always listen to Kenobi!
From Wikipedia (sourced from Alec Guinness's book):
When [James] Dean introduced himself to Alec Guinness outside a restaurant, he asked him to take a look at the Spyder [his car]. Guinness thought the car appeared "sinister" and told Dean: "If you get in that car you will be found dead in it by this time next week." This encounter took place on September 23, 1955.
And James Dean crashed exactly seven days later on September 30. Eeeee! O_O;
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11:03 pm
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*sizzle*
( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )
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11:22 am
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Memere (grandmother) dying. News elsewhere.
I have no idea what to say myself, so I'll just refer to my brother twoflower's characteristically well-written posts on the same topic. My last grandparent is on her way out. We probably will be heading up to New England for funeral-type activites in a few days.
Thanks for thinking of us... Don't feel like you have to comment though, I know my friends are sympathetic already and I know there's never really anything to say!
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06:41 pm
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Christmas and my movie-geek husband.
Hee hee. Some boxes arrived today, full of presents for flyingcar. He left them next to my desk with a printout of Brad Pitt from Seven shrieking out, "Tell me what's in the box!!!"
I'm going to empty the box out before he gets home, and leave the empty box on his desk with an "OH GOD, OH GOD" printout inside. XD
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12:30 pm
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Free fiction for bio geeks (and everyone else)
Check out Wild Life, a set of bite-size stories written by Daniel Wolff, illustrated by Christopher Baldwin.
With my marine bio background I found them particularly entertaining, but I imagine you don't need a strong bio background to enjoy these. There's a lot of drama out there in nature... just a question of how you look at it.
It's basically anthropomorphized (not in the furry sense) wildlife fiction, sort of a slice-of-life or biographical piece for the animal in question. Not sure how else to describe it! A few are from a human's POV, too.
You can read most of them in any order, though you might want to read the first and last "Beasts of the Field" section stories sequentially.
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02:11 pm
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Post-it breakup poetry?
Found a post-it note on the sidewalk today. In addition to some numbers that looked like locker combos, it said:
how deep is our bond
if that's all It take
to make you gone?
liveintheden
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02:11 pm
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Account for SL stuff: jenshikami
Hey folks. .. sorry so incommunicado! Maybe one of these days I'll learn to post and read my flist more consistently. :/
I've been happily making virtual artwork in Second Life lately.
I've begun posting all my SL-related creativity under a new account name, jenshikami. My most recent post has a link to pics of the super cute fairies I've been working on. :)
I'll keep this, jengagne, as my personal account.
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08:14 am
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Speed Racer movie news: focus...
Apparently the entire frame will always be in focus, cartoon-style.
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06:15 am
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Fairy wings!
Here's a more detailed view of those fairy wings you might've seen faerie_h and Dunan Wilder wearing in Faerie's LJ yesterday. I must admit I'm quite pleased with them!
I have four different packs. Jewel, Jewel Mix, Pastel, and Pastel Mix. To show the difference, here's the blue set from each pack.
(The packs each have lots of colors, not just blue, but presumably you get the idea!)
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10:52 pm
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Recent photos from SL. Fairies and mice and such.
Haven't posted lately, so here's a whole slew of pics! Mostly from Second Life.
Hover your mouse over each picture for a description, and click for a larger
view.
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08:26 pm
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SD Twoflower avatar in Second Life.
Here's a super-tiny little avatar I sculpted up for my brother, twoflower, in Second Life. When he types, the laptop appears. In-game the avatar is under a foot tall. SO CUTE ZOMG.
Click for a larger view.
 
It's meant to basically match the portrait on the right. :) I made his hair purple instead of green since it's purple in-game, and I made the eye-dots a little bigger so they'd be visible from afar.
Edited to add: Thank you everyone! You should see this avatar walking around... *_* so cute... I made a little girl version for myself, too. I'll post pics of that tonight.
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07:36 am
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Faerie Hax in my wings.
Here's a quick unposed pic of Faerie Hax wearing this week's secret freebie wings in our shop, Seven's Selections. Also the Peacock wings; this color combo matches her nicely. I just love her outfit, and the green/peachy skin is very cute. Reminds me of "Wicked." :)
Crampy today! Waah! Bleh! Must... ignore... relax...
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