LL's . . el*jay

I know it's a little bit late, but Happy Birthday, Seaseme Street. ^_^





I still sing this sometimes when I count to 12.





Also, for tearcreek:

I might think twice, but if it was really the home of my dreams and I could live there rent-free, I would probably at least give it a go. My imagination would probably do me in though if I lived there alone.

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Hello, everyone. I'm really excited to be posting my VERY FIRST AFTER PICTURES! My home is 1950 cypress built. When I got the house, pretty much everything was pink (including the molding). What started out as a little project became a pain in the neck for me and my dad and a gut job.

In the end, I wanted something relaxing that would not overwhelm such a small space. I added a touch of royalty for my little girl, and voila.



( before & after! )

Thanks for looking!

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.

Yes, more MuteMath. Found an old performance of "Chaos" on the Craig Ferguson show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzyfVKS5mhs

and not that you asked, but here is how I discovered Tally Hall, also on the Craig Ferguson show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=626c9RgWa3o

Hello DW Cosplayers,

 

Let me start by saying I have been a long time viewer of this community and have found the people and resources here to be absolutely amazing. Also let me say HELLO to everyone. Well I thought I would post a large general question that can bring all the floating answers out there together, make it easier to find the answer. The questions is: What is the best option for obtaining the 10^th Doctor Suit? Is it:

A) Magnoli

B) Baron Boutique

C) Make your own…

 

I have spent the past months search and digging through many threads and communities seeking out information on David Tennant’s suit, both blue and brown. And there are some wonderful threads that people have started that give detail upon detail comparisons of those out there who sell suits. I wish I had found this site before I went out and bought my first suit from honestdragon. Good people and very well constructed suit but terrible material, I purchased there blue suit, but this was before I knew all the facts.

 

So what I have learned is that there are really only three options. Each having major pro’s and con’s.

• Magnoli and Baron have good quality but dark brown material.
• Magnoli is more pricy then Baron.
• There cuts have both pro’s and con’s as well and different people have strong points about there accuracy and experience working with them.
• Both companies are the best to go to when it comes to ordering a 10 suit online.

 

Many awesome skilled people make there own suits but its also hard at tracking down the elusive material.

 

So what is the best? If you have the money to spend and maybe you can’t build your own, who do you go with? I would love to gather the answers so newbies, like me, have a HQ for these answers. If you wanna supply just a link to reviews or answer the question go for it cause any little bit helps. Well thank you all so much for your time and thank you for the help you have given many of us DW fans.

When I got my poppy from the veteran standing outside the grocery store, it occurred to me that he couldn't possibly be a WWII vet. He was the age I always remember poppy sellers being -- but I'm a lot older now so I'm guessing Korea. My father fought in Korea.

According to Wikipedia, of the 65,038,810 people who were members of the armed forces of one of the combat nations, there are three verified World War I veterans still living -- two are 108, one is 109 -- as well as a 106 year old from England they haven't been able to verify. Four all together.

World War II veterans are all over eighty and, while there are still millions left, I don't doubt there's fewer every day.

Korea. Viet Nam. Bosnia. Afghanistan. The problem is, there will always be new veterans. New men and women to stand outside grocery stores in Legion jackets and caps in early November.

New men and women to remember.

Since 2002, 133 Canadian soldiers have been killed serving in Afghanistan. The CBC maintains a list, here. And the overpasses are still filled from Trenton to Toronto, every time one of them comes home.


This link is to the video for John McDermott's Bringing Buddy Home.

Smoky woke me up early this morning, when she decided half the stuff on my table should be on the floor. I woke up and I couldn't get back to sleep

Then I bawled my eyes out.

I'm tired of being alone and I'm tired of getting hurt.

I can't get Firefox to open.

Grrrrr.

I don't like IE.

And now I have to dash off, dash it all. Why must computers confound me when I'm in a hurry?

Since today is November 11 and I am procrastinating my last two bits of Uni work, I thought I would post about an ancestor of mine who fought in WW1 and WW2. His name was Raymond Harrison Funnell. He was my great grandfather on my mother's side. Several male family members of mine on that side of my family have Raymond as their middle name, and I have a cousin named Harrison.

I went online to try to look up information about him, and here is what I found: (along with a family tree that has myself, my mom and dad, and my mom's family in it. I didn't know that this was online, and I was a little freaked out to see my name there!)

Ray was apprenticed to Boots, the English firm of chemists (pharmacists), and was with them for about a year before he joined the British army in 1914 (?Sussex Regiment, and later the Norfolk Regiment). He saw service in WWI in France, where he was wounded, and in Palestine, and was awarded the Order of the Nile by Egypt. He was discharged with the rank of Captain, having served as Embarcation Officer at Alexandria after the conclusion of hostilities. He contracted malaria, and it was to seek a better climate that he came to Canada in 1922.

Through his friend Cyril Chalke he got a job with the Empire Coal Company in Winnipeg working the weigh scale. At that time he went to night school to learn accounting and the Canadian way of keeping business records. He didn't stay very long with Empire Coal because he got an accounting job with Bowman Coal Company (which was owned by the Richardsons) and not long afterwards with the Ideal Aluminium Company, which was also owned by the Richardsons. He was with that firm until it folded (?) (probably around 1930) after which he joined W. S. Newton & Co., Trustees in Bankruptcy, as an accountant.

In 1940 he enlisted in the Canadian Army as an Auxiliary Services Officer with the rank of Captain. He was overseas for about three years (November 1942-May 1945) and landed in Normandy on D Day +6. While in Europe he contracted pneumonia and was sent home in May 1945 for medical reasons. He was discharged with the rank of Major and had been Mentioned in Dispatches.

Following WWII he joined the Department of Veteran's Affairs and retired in 1959 as Assistant District Administrator in Winnipeg, where he was in charge of non-medical matters affecting veterans in the District.

Celebrated his 50th, 60th, and 65th wedding anniversaries.

Yeah, that's probably not very interesting to you guys and gals, but this is my journal and I can post what I want. :P

Here is a photo of what he looked like in World War 1:



I think he looks very handsome.

Also, I attached the Christmas penguin cross stitch to a card and uploaded a better photo of it.


Caroling Christmas Penguins by ~canadiankazz on deviantART

Nick has lent me some more terry Pratchett books. I'm working my way through Equal Rites right now.

Guess I'll go back to studying / procrastinating now...

Random Quote:

"War will not end until all of the violent people are killed." - Roger Langbecker, in Czarmangis

It's shaping up to be one of those weeks months years. And sometimes, in all of that, you just need to take a moment to watch some baby animals.

Elk calf plays in the mud!


WHEN PUPPIES ATTACK


BABY ANIMAL IZ WIN.

Word count: 22,461

Am too tired to write more tonight, although I want to.

Am also too busy and too feeling insane in preparation for vacation to focus on either NaNo or my writer's group, which technically is due this weekend, but I really, really doubt i'll be able to finish it before I leave. Oops.

I have one suitcase packed with all my fancy duds; I have to go buy See's for Mom and decide on all of the casual duds I need to bring (this, that, the kitchen sink, etc., etc.).

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Luke: Dear heart, just because your last paci "broke" (my kitchen scissors may have been involved in "tasy break his head!"... Maybe.) doesn't mean you have to wake up and demand to sleep in my bed. And by "sleep" you mean watch Mommy like a hawk until it seems like she's FINALLY going to get back to sleep and then rearrange the entire population of the blankets. Yes, there are such things as blanket populations if you've been awakened at 4:36am. Or shove my stuffed sea turtle (otherwise known as "Mommy's Turgle") in my face since I couldn't find it after Blanket Migration 2009. You ARE staying in your bed tonight. Loud and short-lived is easier to deal with then quiet yet fretful.

The Helicopter Overhead: Hi, single mom down here. Alone with my sleeping toddler. Could you please stop circling my house as if you're looking for an escaped con? You're freaking me out. kthxbai

My Motivation: Hey you! Get back here! I'm not done with you yet! NaNoWriMo is NOT over yet, and we are nowhere NEAR finished. I don't know that we've properly started yet! If I have to duct tape you to that chair, I will! I haven't even got to the fun parts yet. If I have to, I'll skip to an action scene (Consults muse: IS there an action scene?), will that make you happy?!

Stephen King: I thought you'd retired! Doesn't that mean you DON'T put out short story collections that through being awesome (though- so far- not as awesome as Everything's Eventual) put a crimp in my NaNo'ing? :P *shakes fist*

Hello all, I hope you had a great Halloween!

I am still working on collecting all my halloween decoration photos, but in the meantime I have written up instructables for two of my projects:

How to build your own bat cave: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Build-a-Batcave/

A light-up "toxic waste" drink dispenser: http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Build-a-Toxic-Waste-Drum-Drink-Dispenser/


Please enjoy!



...and if you are so inclined, vote for them in the Halloween contest... ;)

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After my last post, telynor posted a link to the lj post on the Facebook wall. Yay! Proactive interaction! This seems to be the best way for me to talk directly to these fen without actually getting a Facebook account. Which I'd rather not do.

So, if those of you with Facebook accounts and the time would post links to this, I'd really appreciate it.

TIA

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Dear Spanish Fans:

First, I appreciate fansites. Thank you for your interest. But, could you please set it up so that it's clearly a fansite. As it is now, people think it's actually me and that makes me look bad when they expect interaction and I don't respond.

Second, if you are linking to free online downloads of my books, please stop. This isn't like lending your copy of a book to a friend, it's a copyright violation.

Thank you.
Tanya Huff

(translation provided by jonquil)

A Mis Fans Hispánicos Queridos:

Primero, me gustan fansites. Gracias para sus interéses. Podrían ustédes márquenlos "fansite", por favor? Otra vez, la gente piensa que yo esté ignorándoles cuando no respondo.

Además, favor de no ligar a los transferencias en linea de mis libros; esta no es prestar un libro a un amigo, es violación de los derechos de autor.


Gracias.
Tanya Huff

Happy with your thrift find, proud of a paint job, want to show off pictures of your new saucy sofa? Inspired by something you saw or just want to leave a show-me-your... request?



You can show it here... have fun!

I finished a chapter today. I actually liked how this one ended. It's got some zazz that's been missing in some of the more recent chapters. I actually felt inspired for a brief bit, and 700 words just flew out of me. I wish the whole book was like that.

I went to the training session for the SPCA. I do a shadowing session next Monday, and then I officially start volunteering. It seems pretty easy. Should be interesting, and a way to meet people. Maybe.

I miss her. I don't want to, but I do.