Friends

dear family,

See me on my laptop?

It means I'm not watching tv. which means I'm not paying attention. which means no, I cannot comment on what's going on. I'm not watching it.

Also, if you are going to have a conversation? Have it next to each other. Please don't SCREAM over me in order to talk. it's irritating.

no love ever,

Mu

ps: shut up

...I need a girlfriend.

Anyway, finals are next week! I have 2 on Monday, 1 on Tuesday and a couple papers to turn in on Thursday. After that, it's 5 weeks of break.

homestar: http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t217/larissa_j/tw1.jpg
chakramchucker: .....
homestar: it gets better
homestar: you know how panties have like a liner
homestar: in it
homestar: http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t217/larissa_j/tw2.jpg
chakramchucker: where are you finding th...
chakramchucker: ................
chakramchucker: .............................................................
homestar: I'll let that sink in for a while.

LiveJournal: The First Decade

Just in time for holiday shopping, we're thrilled to announce the release of our ten-year anniversary anthology. Published by Blurb.com, the book showcases a decade of extraordinary talent drawn from LiveJournal users around the world. This must-read compilation features stories, memes, photos, comics, editorials, graphic content, and more, including:

1. Excerpts from Oh No They Didn't (a/k/a ohnotheydidnt), the largest community on LiveJournal, covering celebrity gossip, entertainment news, and pop culture
2. A look at post-Katrina New Orleans from the journal of Poppy Z. Brite
3. Gripping narratives, including a poignant reverie on a blind date
4. Photography that spans the globe, ranging from old-fashioned Polaroids to underwater photography
5. Mouthwatering dishes from food_porn

What began as a late-night inspiration back in Brad Fitzpatrick's college dorm in 1999 has grown to encompass nearly 25 million users worldwide, with journals and communities covering every conceivable hobby, passion, and topic. To get your copy, please visit the Blurb Bookstore. For updates and entries from book contributors, please join lj_turns10.

Tweaks and enhancements

• You can now ban a user from all of your communities and journals at once. To access this feature, hover over the person's userpic and choose Ban user everywhere from the drop-down menu.
• Follow LiveJournal on Twitter!

Give a little to help a lot!

In honor of National AIDS Awareness month, we've added a new charitable vgift. For each red ribbon you purchase for $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of gross proceeds to IAVI.org (the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) to support the development and global distribution of an affordable HIV vaccine (we'll cover credit card fees). You can read more about IAVI at lj_cares. While we're on the subject, we raised $740 from our November fundraiser for Love Without Boundaries, which supports emergency healthcare and adoption of Chinese orphans. We thank you for helping us help others.

Photos of the week

We're back with more incredible pictures from our super-talented LiveJournal photographers. Congratulations to ilya_gorokhov, who is the winner of our very first lj_photophile poll.

We hope you'll continue to post, vote, and comment! A gentle request: Please post only one photo at a time and limit size to 350x350 (so images display properly on friends pages). And now, without further ado, get ready to cast your ballot and view more awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay safe and snug out there!

• 19:50 Dear Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, You stop sucking right now. I had so much faith in you! Not love, Me #

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So this is a fairly significant event for me, as it's my first ever video with an actual honest-to-god professional voice actor performing in it. That's right, Jon St. John, AKA the voice of Big The Cat and Duke Nukem, offered to provide a voice for any promotional stuff we did for MAGFest 8 (January 1st to the 4th in Alexandria, VA) and I jumped at the chance to do a YGOTAS video that involved his character.

Regarding MAGFest, I will indeed be showing up there as a guest, alongside the people mentioned in the video - and, as it turns out, MasakoX! Yep, I'll be celebrating the new year by partying with my fellow British homeboy. Really quite excited for that. And then a little over a month later, I'll be heading down to London for another event where I'll be bumping into Masako again. I feel extremely lucky to get to hang out with the guy so much these days.

Anyway, hope you all enjoy the video! New episode is just around the corner. Give it a week or so.

... Looney Tunes? On Cartoon Network?

... <3

Dear Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,

You have ADD. No, seriously. I went to go pee and now Dick van Dyke is giving peptalks to imprisoned children.

I like you a lot, but seriously. You? You need to focus.

Love, Mu

ps. Mr. Potts, why are you children and father British, but you are not? I mean, if that was your step-father, I could blame the mother. But that is your father.

... though, I've heard your British accent, Dick van Dyke. Perhaps this is for the best.

pps. I still want to marry Dick van Dyke circa the 1960s.

I fell asleep in the basement~ and am only now waking up.

I guess I will WoW. Ikuze is at 75 and on her way to Zul'Darrak or however it's spelled. Man I can't wait until I hit 80 so I can go back to Azeroth and work on various reps.

Today our school had this assembly on "cyberbullying." This short fat guy came in, pulled us out of our second and third period classes, and we got to sit in the gym for an hour and a half listening to him narrate his PowerPoint presentation. I've got to say, it was one of the worst assemblies I've ever had to attend. Then again, it did provide some conversation fodder for the rest of the day.

The PowerPoint was especially terrible because most of it was misspelled and weirdly worded. If you're trying to be serious, having the word "HATRID" emblazoned across the top of your PowerPoint slide doesn't really help. Also, a lot of his "can't"s and "don't"s were missing apostrophes. It was just a train wreck. But the actual content of the presentation was pretty stupid, too. It completely missed the mark.

Besides failing to connect with teenagers who actually use technology (using such phrases as "phone text messages"- as if there's any other kind!) a lot of what the guy was trying to say just didn't make any sense. There are people these days who want to distinguish between face-to-face bullying and "cyberbullying" (that's a great buzzword because, OMG, kids these days are so high-tech! and tuned in to the VIRTUAL WORLD!) but the fact is, it doesn't matter whether you're saying something to someone's face or using technology to do it. It's the same thing.

I went shopping with my mom today. We were supposed to get a dress for me to wear to the football dinner next week, but I really didn't want to. I mean, I like buying clothes, but not with my parents. Besides, I have enough dresses; my mom seems to think that none of mine are "nice" enough. Anyway, she was also trying to find an outfit for herself to wear to this important dinner on Friday. I've got to say, my mom's bad taste in clothing combined with the terrible selection in the Macy's plus-size department made for a catastrophe of a shopping trip.

It really isn't fair that all the clothes there look matronly and terrible. It's like they're telling my mom that it's okay to wear silk leisure jackets with sheer sleeves. Don't plus-size women deserve non-awful clothing, too?

• 21:12 Why are there like ... five new characters on Scrubs. #
• 13:25 Doo doo doo... boring day. #
• 13:35 Come on dude let us go on break... :( #
• 13:49 *yawn* #
• 13:56 Someone turned the pony drawings I did on this desk into killer unicorns with penises for horns :( That is just inappropriate. #
• 14:50 God why are there so many fucking Yankee fans at CCP? Fair weather fuckers. #

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**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

I have been marathoning The Vneture Bros. I've always liked the series, but I never sat down and watched it in order, you know?

So I rented it on Netflix and it's about 50x more amazing than I ever thought possible.

Late for the party, yeah yeah.

Hank is my favorite.

... well 21 is actually my favorite.

But Hank is a close second.

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