| | AngryAsianMan has a decent readership. Maybe this will launch at least a little bit more outrage at those who are responsible. | comments: Leave a comment   |
| "Coooooooooore!"
This is the battle cry @Unicorness and I have whenever there's a movie, like The Core, that is so overtly ridiculous, so obviously over-the-top silly that the movie achieves a special charm before it even starts.
Every year there's such a movie and for 2009, that movie is 2012.
2012 delivers exactly what's promised: Disaster porn in a strictly formula wrapper. If you've seen any disaster film in your lifetime you know what's in store—except there is no Doubting Thomas. Oddly, in this film, everyone is ready to believe that mutant neutrinos are going to destroy the Earth (by super heating the Earth's core, no less).
Yes. Mutant neutrinos. That is an actual quote from the movie. Mutant neutrinos from the Sun.
Does that, or should that, bother one's enjoyment of the film? Don't be ridiculous—of course not. To raise such an objection is to miss the point of the genre.
The point of the genre is two words: Disaster Porn. And, baby, this film delivers like a ripped and tank-topped pizza boy here to fix the cable.
Oh, and in case you forgot, here's a homebrew trailer for the movie that's easily in the top five of all trailers ever:
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| The level of suck in this article is enraging. Why do I link to it? Because I can't help but to cathartically point out the colossal amount of awful and rage that things like this are actually published.
There are lots of good writers and editors out there who'd love to write about this topic, yet this is what gets published?
Gah! | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| I'm now a homeowner, having closed the deal today on Friday the 13th. :D
Everything worked out great! And my monitor is working again fully, so no worries there. I survived the 13th.
And here's a picture of my new house (I'll be moving sometime end of Dec / early-mid January).
And tonight I'll be writing on my latest Paizo project and going to see the new Milla Jovovich flick The 4th Kind with Sarah and Andy. Fun stuff. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| So in theory I'm closing on my new house today, and yes I intentionally chose Friday 13th just because I could. One problem. I have to have certified funds for the closing, so I had to move a rather large amount of cash from an online only bank to a checking account at a physical bank so I could go to the counter and have that done. A week later the cash hasn't fully cleared the flaming hoops of the US financial system so it remains in the air if I'll be able to access my own damn money to pay for the 10% down plus lawyers and other associated fees for the closing.
It's finally in the account this morning, but not in the posted balance. We'll see in three hours if I can actually close today.
Secondly, my monitor is less than a year old and it may have just started to die. The pressure sensitive touch buttons on the side to control the on-screen display no longer work. I can't turn the monitor off or control any of the monitor settings like contrast, etc. Lovely. Westinghouse's online support is considerably lacking, so going to have to call them and see if I can get this replaced since it's under a year (not that I can find any confirmation of the registration though I'm positive I did, and God help me if I have to try to find the original receipt). | | comments: 8 comments or Leave a comment |
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Notes augmented
We've enhanced and de-bugged Notes. If you haven't tried it yet, now's the time! You can create a private note when you ban multiple users. You can also delete multiple notes at once. Lastly, paid users have the option to add a note (visible only to you) whenever you add or remove a friend (guaranteed to avoid embarrassing social mishaps). If you don't currently have a paid account, you can upgrade now! It only takes a few minutes and costs less than a bad shopping mall haircut (plus, it's way more fashionable)!
Product tweaks and bug kill
- In another effort to zap spam, comments containing links from domains LiveJournal deems untrustworthy are now automatically screened
- If you sign up to get notifications of the Writer's Block question of the day, you'll now see the daily question in the email notification, so you'll have a little extra time to ponder before you post. You can subscribe to Writers Block notifications here
- The issue causing random comments to vanish has been fixed!
- If you visit a LiveJournal page and get prompted to log in, you'll be returned to the same page after you sign in (Thanks, Dreamwidth)!
- If you don't edit the timestamp for an entry at all, the entry timestamp will indicate the time the entry was posted instead of the time the Update Journal page was loaded
- Comments with paddings/backgrounds render correctly within the comment box (and will no longer wrap outside the box and break frames/margins)
New FCK fixes rich text editor!
- We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5
- When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds are no longer broken
- RTE now functions properly in Safari 4.0
- An extra line/space will not be auto-inserted whenever you switch from RTE to HTML editor
- The insert image link now works correctly in all browsers
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In this, our inaugural month of November, we will celebrate national adoption month by offering a charitable virtual gift (priced at $2.99) to support Love Without Boundaries, an organization that saves the lives of orphans with life-threatening diseases and places them in loving homes around the world. LiveJournal will donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of charitable vgifts (we'll cover the cost of credit card transaction fees). To learn more about Love Without Boundaries, please visit lj_cares and read about how they helped save Baby Kang and the Rainbow Twins from fatal illnesses, who are now thriving in nurturing families. You can purchase your Love Without Boundaries gifts in the Virtual Gift shop.
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Please keep the love coming for one more week by writing to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be drawing the names of ten random contributors next Thursday to win paid account credits!
Photos of the week
We have more dazzling images posted by talented LiveJournal photographers from around the world. We're hoping to span the entire globe, so please continue posting and tagging. Of course, you can also sit back and enjoy the view at lj_photophile.
You can see a sample of this week's gorgeous photos and check out spotlight communities and awesome user content after the jump!
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We thank you, once again, for joining us. See you next week! | | comments: 113 comments or Leave a comment |
| | The fact that this reporter seems outraged by this shows that he's a dolt. I'm not even from here and I get that this is something one would expect from the late Mr Haglund--that it's something very old Seattle and very awesome. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.
Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!
Thanks ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!
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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.
Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.
We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!
As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work. | | comments: 39 comments or Leave a comment |
| Last night we ran but did not finish ToC 10. Therein we did the Faction Champions battle in Trial of the Crusader which has prompted me—for a variety of reasons—to name it my most hated encounter in all of World of Warcraft by a margin so wide I can scarcely think of another encounter supplanting it.
Atop the pile of multitudinous reasons is the fact that no other encounter seems to cause as much strife or grief. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| So as followers of my Twitter feed will note, I've had ... well, it's not really a cold, per se.
Instead what I've had is quite isolated sinus congestion. I say isolated because that's the sole affliction. I'm not feverish or chilly or run down in the slightest.
However, the sinus pressure I had last night was so severe that it not only caused me a headache (which never happens) but when I went to bed the pressure was causing me to weep continuously, tears just streaming down my face. Not from pain, just from something affecting my tear ducts. That was crazy.
My throat/voice are scratchy due to the ever-popular post nasal drip, but aside from making me sound like Regan in The Exorcist (post Pazuzu possession, mind you) there would be no sign that anything's wrong.
I think this is a new one for me. In the past when I've been stuffed up it has been because of a cold.
Weird. | | comments: 1 comment or Leave a comment |
| Been too busy to write up that joke submission fully, but... Curse you furanocoumarin in grapefruit juice! Stupid CYP450 3A4 inhibitor!
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I bought two sticks of Fresca the other day, and realized today that I can't drink them because I'm on lipitor and the soda has a small amount of grapefruit juice concentrate which will happily interact with the liver enzyme that breaks down lipitor's active compound. So no Fresca for me. >.<
It's probably too low of a concentration to matter, but I drink soda so much and so quickly that I'm just going to give it away rather than risking a fatal drug interaction. Probably wise. ;)
And Prism, you were asleep already so I offered it to Sarah first. You may fight her in the Thunderdome on Saturday if you want dibs on it too. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| Here's a video tour of the lich lair that's going to be in play tonight, if there's quorum for tonight's D&D session. I don't know why I made this video, but here it is:
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