Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.

Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'


Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork  

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.


brenda m - Apr 05, 2011 6:49:20 am PDT #1767 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

Is LJ down too? I couldn't get pages to load on the phone las night and it doesn't seem to be loading from my laptop today either.

ETA: except now it seems okay from the computer. Still nothing on the phone. "The server failed to communicate."


§ ita § - Apr 05, 2011 6:51:07 am PDT #1768 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

This site says it's just you, brenda. But it's been getting DDoSed a lot recently.


Gudanov - Apr 05, 2011 6:58:05 am PDT #1769 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping

I see the Republican plan for the 2012 and beyond budget is tax cuts for the highest incomes and covering fewer poor via Medicaid and pretty much dismantling Medicare. Awesome.

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Vortex - Apr 05, 2011 7:08:54 am PDT #1770 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman

Brenda, LJ was acting strangely for me yesterday as well. It seems okay today, though.


Sophia Brooks - Apr 05, 2011 7:13:52 am PDT #1771 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I seem OK on the computer, but not on the phone. This is seriously hampering my ability to read fic.


Amy - Apr 05, 2011 7:17:53 am PDT #1772 of 30001
Because books.

I think it's Nonian's birthday ... if so, happy day, Nonian!


Consuela - Apr 05, 2011 7:26:21 am PDT #1773 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

LJ was acting strangely for me yesterday as well.

There's some indication about the DDOS being something about an assault on some of the Russian bloggers; whether it's the Russian government or just some hackers pissed off, nobody seems to know.

I understand that in Russia, the word for "blogging" is the word for LJ: that's how big LJ is in Russia. And, tangentially, that's why the LJ customer service on the English-speaking side has slipped. They don't actually care if we walk off to Wordpress or Dreamwidth: they've got an enormous market in Russia and don't really need the English-language part of the site.

Or so I hear, anyway.


Ginger - Apr 05, 2011 7:29:22 am PDT #1774 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Many, many people are wrong on the internet.

Last night's storm finished destroying a trellis that a branch partially squashed a few months ago. It's going to take a while to undo the tangled mess of vines. Blerg.


Consuela - Apr 05, 2011 7:32:37 am PDT #1775 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I am so tired of being sick. I was nearly asleep at my desk yesterday afternoon: I ended up standing at my desk for some time to keep from just nodding off. When I got home, I forced myself to stay awake long enough to finish a book I was reading, and then went to bed at 9. And I slept through to 7:30.

And I'm still tired, and I think I have a sinus infection again. And because of the job change, I don't have a doctor I can call.

Bah.


§ ita § - Apr 05, 2011 7:37:43 am PDT #1776 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Okay, so is Angel S5 better than S2? I'm a little disgruntled at the suggestion, but maybe I should rewatch.