Fan doing fannish things quietly and as per usual

Which is a long time for me. Dude, work kills both my libido and will to post :o(

I thought I had things in my to-post folder, but apparently only (still) the shit-load of to-recs - from three fandoms now (plus the mentally-only folder of vid recs). So I guess I'll whine about LJ being down right when I have time to go online, yeah?

How's you? (I always think people don't really mean it/me, so I rarely answer such throw-out questions. But that doesn't mean I don't actually want to hear, if you want to share :o) !) (In other news, I went a bit overboard with the <em>s and parentheses, eh?)

Poll #2724
Open to: All, results viewable to: None

Is it time for another filtered discussion?

What would you like to discuss?

It feels like I have to scroll more, but I don't actually mind the new layout so much? As long as they don't move the bio off the profile page, that would be idiotic!
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ETA: If you've been forgetting why we love squeaky so much, this is one of endless reasons.

A while back, this meme was making another round: The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious but you have no idea about. Ask away.

The meme assumes everyone on your f-list is just dying to get you to talk about yourself, which I think is rarely the case :oP

I do like to learn things about you people, though, but for me, it's more fun to get as many of you talking in the same place as possible. And everyone loves a poll. So, new meme: 5 Things You Assume/Think I Should Know About You! Basic things! (P.S. I debated on whether to make results viewable to none, in case there's stuff you assume/want me to know, but not necessarily everone else. But locked results are mean, so you'll just have to stick to the not-too-personal-details stuff :o) !)

Poll #2668
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Thing the 1st:

Thing the 2nd:

Thing the 3rd:

Thing the 4th:

Thing the 5th:

Bonus text-field for relevant or random comments!

Probably getting cancer from wireless radiation, but still:

Wireless internets, YAY!

Congrats to Obama supporters on my f-list, Americans and non-Americans alike!


I'm off to install Ubuntu 8.10 over 8.04, wish me luck.

Is anyone on AIM, so I can test if it's working? (Am in the process of doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 8.10.) Ok, that's working.

Uh, any of you know anything about resizing partitions? Making them smaller seems easy - at least I made my windows partition smaller already. But how to make the Ubuntu/Linux partition include that space, now?

⇒ Oh hi, have been away, and am still catching up on f-list and comments - if there's something you want me to comment on, don't hesitate to link.

⇒ Visited a_belladonna on Saturday at her totally awesome student housing. And had very yummy curry, mmmm. And watched Hollywoodland (2006), which I hadn't even heard of. But it was good - beautifully shot!

Thanks for having me over :o)

⇒ I got a not-a-real-job. More like, hey, I get to work for free while receiving unemployment benefits. But it's experience, so… I'll be helping a library create a wiki on local history. And … stuff. It won't be a free-for-all type of wiki - select contributors only. Anyways.

I think most of you are as clueless about laptop hardware as I am, but if you happen to know a thing or two, or have stray opinions, I'd love some input on the choice I'm trying to make.

( Options - Toshiba a bad choice?? )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOXnxmlEkY0

Poll #2504 *Facepalms*
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Did the designer know what he/she (yeah, right) was doing?

⇒ Can anyone point me to a good tutorial on how to reinstall Ubuntu and/or hot to install Ubuntu instead of Xubuntu?

⇒ If you're looking for a simple, easy-to-use paint/image-manip program, I highly recommend KolourPaint. I'm not sure if there's a loss in CPU or whatever from using a KDE program in GNOME, but it's not something I've noticed affecting my system. And I love the interface, and I love that I can do pretty much anything I want to do as far as image-manipping goes. Much, much easier for me to use than GIMP.

ETA ⇒ OT: Log Throwing Fail - it's funny because it's someone else. And he was so cocky.