User:	schnee
	Date:	2008-09-05 10:44
	Subject:	Spam auto-replies
	Security:	Public
	Mood:	chipper
	Music:	Heather Alexander - Priestess of Tryblith

One of the most annoying things about spam is not so much the spam itself but the mailer daemon messages and auto-replies from people who're out of office etc. you get when spammers decide to abuse your own addresses.

Sometimes, it can be interesting, though - I actually got my first Icelandic auto-reply to a spam message someone sent yesterday:

Ég er komin í veikindaleyfi og fer í fæðingarorlof í framhaldi af því. Kveðja, Ásdís

This made me smile. :)

	User:	gamma_romeo
	Date:	2008-09-05 09:33
	Subject:	Memuriyetteki Şikâyetler
	Security:	Public

Memuriyetteki insanlar bana görüyorlar, çünkü çok meşgulum. Çoğu zaman, masamda oturum, ama bugün tam buroların çevresine gidiyorum. Bir hafta daha Nottingham’a gidiyorum. (Bir haftada daha çalişBu hafta Ezgi Londra’daydı, ama telefonum bozuk – onu telefon edemiyorum! Onu öfkeli olacak – şiddetli huysuzluğu var, ama acayip kız kardeşi çok şirin ve yumuşak. O ketenhelva gibidir. Burada hava çok bulutlu ve her dakiki yağmur yağır hâlâ. Şimdi Eylül, böylece bu yağmur Hazirana dek durmayacak. Ben güneşin yüzü unuttum. Görünüşte onun yüzü çok güzelmiş, altın ışınlarla, lütufu herkese isidiyor, ve hazinesi herkese tarafından beğenilebilecek*. Zaten, 13üncü Eylül’e bekleyemiyorum :-)

Anyway, everyday this week I have received a lovely letter from abroad – which has been lovely. Norway, Two from Turkey, Two from Finland: eatmysadness what on earth was the second postcard about? Were you high? :-) I loved them all though, so thankyou kill_the_onions, tricours and eatmysadness!

* This is the wierdest verb to try and translate. Is this the right order? Beğen-il-ebil-ecek? Beğen-ebil-il-ecek? Grr.

	User:	tigermilkshake
	Date:	2008-09-05 11:19
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	Music:	kira kira / kittens in his pockets

I'm a bit shaky with all the anticipation. So many things happening. It's nearly Autumn. Lovely wonderful Autumn, how I have waited for you to arrive.

	User:	e_traveller
	Date:	2008-09-05 14:31
	Subject:	Поучаствуем во флэшмобе
	Security:	Public

Создайте свой билборд

	User:	vampyresheep
	Date:	2008-09-05 09:05
	Subject:	Weekend already?
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Every week should have a Wednesday off, makes the week go so fast! :-)

However, currently not in Friday mode at all today. Not sure what I plan to do this evening, the sofa and a good DVD is calling to me.

Tomorrow, off to Slimes (boo!) for System:FX and 32Crash (yay!). Other than that, a quiet weekend I think.

	User:	e_traveller
	Date:	2008-09-05 13:27
	Subject:	Кто будет третьим?
	Security:	Public

	04 СЕНТЯБРЯ, 14:12
	Пробное признание Россия, наконец, получила поддержку своих действий на Кавказе. Вслед за Никарагуа независимость Абхазии и Южной Осетии, возможно, признают и другие «боливарианские» страны Латинской Америки. http://www.gazeta.ru/comments/2008/09/04_a_2830977.shtml

	User:	baby_goat
	Date:	2008-09-05 00:03
	Subject:	mccain's speech
	Security:	Public

I thought McCain's speech was okay but not particularly inspiring. The one thing I did agree with him on is general education restructuring. He didn't mention vouchers, but he did talk about opening up the availability of private and charter schools, and I think he correctly stated that access to education is, or will be, the great social/class struggle of this century.

Also I hate a lot of unions, especially teachers' unions, so I'm generally going to support most things that curtail their mob tyranny. I live in California, and most of the children here are empty-brained morons. I've been impressed by a small number of teachers I've met, and the rest come across as ineffectual, uninspiring dullards who should step up or find another line of work.

If you think I'm being too soft on McCain, think about this: other than Palin, the three other big speakers from last night could have been the Republican candidate. Rudy Giuliani? Mike Huckabee? Mitt Romney? Holy shit. I'd slaughter a hecatomb of bulls to have McCain over any of those jerks. Then again, Sarah Palin is genuinely terrible, too. Basically, they're all worse than McCain. So while I certainly don't want him to win, I just try to keep perspective on the spectrum of morons arrayed around his party.

	User:	heretu
	Date:	2008-09-05 08:32
	Subject:
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	Mood:	excited
	Music:	German teenagers arguing

I'm not homeless! I went to view a second WG yesterday and have decided to live there. I move in next Wednesday, but am taking some stuff there on Monday. It's in Bergedorf, which means I have to get the bus to Geesthacht, and is a little more expensive than the place I saw here. BUT I have a room with a door (in WG1 the bathroom led off the bedroom I would have to use), and there's a balcony and space to store a bike and the guy seems friendly. And it's only 20mins from Hamburg Hbf by S-Bahn/tram.

I explored Geesthacht a little yesterday but had seen it all noon, so I went into the city. I'm heading back there today and will explore it a bit more/find American Apparel.

	User:	sjor
	Date:	2008-09-05 00:03
	Subject:	From the deep ocean depths:
	Security:	Public

20:30 So. Many. Passwords!!! D: Also, when I get out on the floor and have my own cubicle, I would like a red Swingline stapler. #

	User:	evergrey
	Date:	2008-09-04 22:19
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Not big on politics, but this made me laugh.
A republican national convention bus, blocking my friend's bus stop up in Minnesota.
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/fadetopurple/0902081531a.jpg

	User:	schoolnight
	Date:	2008-09-05 01:14
	Subject:	it's so easy, are you kidding
	Security:	Public

 

all it takes to keep my heart:






this is -- and it continues to amaze me -- the second time a ladybug has flown into your hands by mistake, gotten confused, walked around for a moment, before leaving softly & swiftly as it arrived.



i told you before; you're the kind of person stray things trust. even ladybugs.

	User:	dearbrains
	Date:	2008-09-04 23:29
	Subject:
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Jonathan,
You'd been dreaming.
Were there whales
or a holocaust
or any lovely birds?
When you dream is there your rolling Hebrew
or my small German?
While you dreamt
the night sweat nested in your shirt
like three and twenty blackbirds
in the place where
my cheek-side face
belongs just so.
Upon your backbone
your tongue clicked along
composing some unfamiliar song
and in my body
I felt a grace
I might have met once while wondering
through a dream.

User:	jenthesuperone
Date:	2008-09-05 00:11
Subject:	Tweets for Today
Security:	Public

• 11:03 Helped Jen move to Toronto yesterday. She's found a very nice place and I am jealous. #
• 13:27 Did Londoners suddenly shrink? I feel like I'm towering over everyone. #
• 14:38 @billdeys Perhaps! Or maybe I just grew. Either way, it was nice to feel a bit tall! #
• 14:51 Found (& bought!) a fantastic scrap album of movie stars of the late 1940s today! :D #

	User:	schoolnight
	Date:	2008-09-05 00:01
	Subject:	it's always sunny inside with my rainy day boys
	Security:	Public
	Music:	snow patrol, "you will" (bright eyes cover)

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(september 1st, morris manor, nikon d40)

" We all have the potential to fall in love a thousand times in our lifetime. It’s easy. The first girl I ever loved was someone I knew in sixth grade. Her name was Missy; we talked about horses. The last girl I love will be someone I haven’t even met yet, probably. They all count. But there are certain people you love who do something else; they define how you classify what love is supposed to feel like. These are the most important people in your life, and you’ll meet maybe four or five of these people over the span of 80 years. But there’s still one more tier to all this; there is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually happens retrospectively, but it happens eventually. This is the person who unknowingly sets the template for what you will always love about other people, even if some of these loveable qualities are self-destructive and unreasonable. The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different than anyone else, and they’re often just the person you happen to meet the first time you really, really, want to love someone. But that person still wins. They win, and you lose. Because for the rest of your life, they will control how you feel about everyone else. "

-- Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live

	User:	xb95
	Date:	2008-09-04 22:45
	Subject:	neat
	Security:	Public

Moose looks pretty rad. Been reading through the tutorials to get an idea of what it can do.

I think it's a natural fit to drop into the Dreamwidth code and take over a lot of the manually done stuff as well as provide a lot more flexibility with regards to mix-ins and the like.

I'm also mentally toying with what it would take to rip out BML and use something like TT. Or continue to use BML and instead of having all of the logic in the pages, move logic out to modules and then make the pages only do display stuff. (I.e, getting closer to true MVC separation.)

It seems like a huge project, of course, but it's definitely the kind of thing that can be done bit by bit. Setup the underlying components to support TT, then start porting old pages over bit by bit. Granted it's a long, long project, and I'm not sure if the things it would buy us would be something work doing or not.

Mostly I'm thinking about how to lower the barrier to entry for people to work on the code. Realistically, it's very much impossible to expect someone to walk in and want to learn all of the crazy ways the LJ code does things. Sure, it made sense back when LJ was started and since nothing out there did what we needed... but this is 2008 now, and the various modules out there have come so far, I really think that we can implement modern sites with modern utilities.

(Plus, the more work you offload to third party modules like Moose, TT, etc, the less work you have to do in the long run. They are working on DW whether they know it or not!)

Just kind of rambling tonight... don't mind me...

	User:	cuter_than_you
	Date:	2008-09-04 23:29
	Subject:	Here's the story:
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	User:	trains
	Date:	2008-09-05 04:23
	Subject:
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	User:	sebastian
	Date:	2008-09-04 21:53
	Subject:
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i know that i seem terribly excitable these days, but someone just sent me TWO )2( invitations to be a john mccain supporter within a space of a quarter of an hour . why ? does a semi-socialist crazy-hair hispafrican guy seem like a potential john mccain supporter, RLY .

i'm in such a mockingbird mood to-day and i wish it would stop .

	User:	evergrey
	Date:	2008-09-04 18:06
	Subject:	But I'm the Juggernaut, Bitch!
	Security:	Public

Warning: offensive. But amusing.

	User:	charm_less
	Date:	2008-09-04 20:40
	Subject:
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	Mood:	mehhhh
	Music:	Bob Dylan-Visions of Johanna

This happens at least once a week:  I log onto commonapp, go straight to supplements fully determined to answer some of those why X college questions, stare at them and make deathly gurgling noises in the computer's general direction.  And that is that.  I head off to facebook and pretend I don't constantly have that neaseous feeling in the bottom of my stomach.

My newest revision of Hampshire's diversity question leaves me saying that I live in a "delightful mishmash of humanity" and I know that's not exactly college vocabulary, but I like that a lot and I think that's the only way to describe the midwest.  I'm pretty sure I'm keeping it.