I can upload the pictures fine, but I can't use it to link to a photo/icon. All that shows up is an ? icon.
We can come by between classes. Usually I use that time to copy over my class notes with a system of different colored pens. But it's been pointed out to me that that's, you know...insane.
Willow ,'Showtime'
Natter .38 Special
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Lee - Aug 30, 2005 7:54:01 pm PDT #2934 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
dw - Aug 30, 2005 7:54:06 pm PDT #2935 of 10002
Silence means security silence means approval
Finally saw aerial video of Biloxi and Gulfport tonight.
Oh. My. Fucking. God.
The two towns are just gone; all that's left are piles of debris with an occasional house or building. And casino barges sitting inland. One barge landed on top of a hotel.
I know the mayor has been chided for comparing the destruction to the tsunami, but while the loss of life will be nowhere near the scale of the tsunami, the damage sure is comparable. I mean, the storm surge nearly erased the area from the map.
§ ita § - Aug 30, 2005 7:56:58 pm PDT #2936 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Perkins, this: <a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/serenada/pic/000a7kgd/"> links to this -- the page. And this: <img src="http://pics.livejournal.com/serenada/pic/000a7kgd"> links right to the picture.
The difference isn't large -- the forward slash, but it's key.
Lee - Aug 30, 2005 8:00:07 pm PDT #2937 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Ooooh.
You are SO smart.
Kat - Aug 30, 2005 8:04:51 pm PDT #2938 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Huh. That's good information because I seem to have issues with pics in lj.
I should be asleep, but sadly, I'm awake and trying to finish work. GR.
beth b - Aug 30, 2005 8:46:28 pm PDT #2939 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
We still haven't heard from my aunt. But I sent my mom the info about text messageing,maybe that will help.
Volans - Aug 30, 2005 10:13:35 pm PDT #2940 of 10002
move out and draw fire
Excerpts from an email from another NOLA-based friend (her house is okay so far - when she moved she insisted on the high ground, so it's on a 4' foundation, 4 feet above sea level).
250 million of the funds allocated for levee repair and pumps got diverted to Iraq. That and tax cuts. The Times-Picayune ran eight or nine stories on the funding shortfall in the last two years.
So I wonder if Bush will work that into his speeches?
I go back and forth between pissed and sad, but the number of NOLA vampires suddenly discovering a new meaning for "running water" is almost amusing. Actually that'd make a pretty interesting horror survival game if you got to play the poor soggy vampire, especially as the food supply gets evacuated.
le nubian - Aug 31, 2005 2:36:19 am PDT #2941 of 10002
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
250 million of the funds allocated for levee repair and pumps got diverted to Iraq. That and tax cuts. The Times-Picayune ran eight or nine stories on the funding shortfall in the last two years.
Fuck.
Theodosia - Aug 31, 2005 3:38:02 am PDT #2942 of 10002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Timelies!
It's rainy/humid and ick here. I was sweating in my pajamas, and now that I've showered and dressed for work, it's only a matter of minutes before I get all sweaty again.
Topic!Cindy - Aug 31, 2005 3:48:29 am PDT #2943 of 10002
What is even happening?
Dana, I am so glad your family got in touch with you, and Heather, that all your people are still okay. I wish -t would check in again, but I know her Beep Me posts said she was in Houston, so she's okay.
It feels particularly cruel that there was this feeling of we dodged the bullet, when all that really happened was the bullet was coming from another sniper. The pictures and news out of Biloxi, Gulfport, et al are beyond belief.
Trudy, you conveyed what I think is a universal truth in your post about your family making it through after the fire took your home. I think the same thing you said--that we just keep going--is how we handle all our tragedies, big and small, material and emotional. Thank you so much for posting it.