sealie

Hi flist,

I just came across this thing social media platform called Pillowfort. It's currently in closed beta

Any one else clocked this, have an opinion?

https://www.pillowfort.io/

from the info pages (https://www.pillowfort.io/about):

The founders of Pillowfort want to create a site that takes the best features from popular blogging platforms and discards the bad. We are aiming for a site that is user-friendly, community-friendly, efficient, and fun. We aim to give users more privacy and more control over their content, while offering better ways to hold conversations. (Such as threaded comments!)

We want Pillowfort to be everything we love about online communities. Build your home here!

Hi flist,

any recommendations for a 14 year old, sensitive boy, who is just starting to get into manga? I appreciate that he'll delve in and find stuff any rate, but recs would be good -- graphic art and tv/movies -- but also things to avoid?

He's super excited about the new world he's found.

ta

S

I did enjoy BSG – a lot. We didn’t get it televised on my side of the Pond for a good long while. But during one long school summer holiday, the film (aka TV movie) was shown at a wee, local cinema for pennies during a Sci-Fi festival. As I had been thoroughly brainwashed as a young child to be a sci-fi fan, being weaned on Star Trek and Star Wars, I might have possibly (likely) lost count of the number of times I watched that movie over the festival. I managed to get my grubby little mitts on the TV adaptation books, and I do have a photobook of the TV movie, and I do recall, getting a Sci-Fi TV Encyclopaedia out of the local library, and I might have cut a picture out of one of the pages… might have….

I still hadn’t seen any of the episodes, but boy did I like Apollo. Gosh, did I like Apollo. I wrote fanfic, albeit I didn’t know the term, but indeedy did I write fanfic, longhand and bashing on my dad’s old typewriter. Whilst I’m fairly sure my first long opus was a Star Trek: TNG ode to Riker, which is another story, I did learn a lot of the art of whumping by whumping Apollo. I recall a fic whereby I put the poor sod in a coma, head injury. After some space shenanigans, he and Starbuck crashed on a jungle-type plant, and poor old Starbuck ended up dragging Apollo on a travois over hill and dale. Poor old Starbuck because he had actually been wounded by some kind of disintergrating projectile laser weapon that refused to heal and wouldn’t stop bleeding. This story went on ad infinitum as our intrepid heroes were chased – tow, tow, tow, Apollo gently through the jungle!

I recall thinking that it was bloody boring having your favourite hero lying inertly on a stretcher, thoroughly hurt but just whumped, that it was more interesting when people were interacting – the comfort part of our favourite equation. I pretty much stopped writing the fic at that point. But I had learned an important thing, for me, about my favourite genre – hurt/Comfort, which I have carried forwards since.

So thank you, Apollo -- you were awesome.

so I have to go to a friend's fancy dress birthday party.

And I thought to wear a sleeved dress with a hood -- this is pretty standard fantasy fare. I've got a lightsabre. You can picture what I am after -- I want swish.

I am *stunned* that I haven't been able to find a pattern.

Albeit Google I've noticed recently is much less helpful with searches.

Anyone got any ideas? Have already bookmarked a helpful site?

okay, a mate pointed this out and laughed out loud a lot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZfASiJVXCE

[I can't do the embedded vidoes as I have the most basic free account]

FYI - don't watch at work! NSFW, albeit not massively, but do err on the side of caution.


hilarious.

I did indeed rather enjoy this film. Intelligent plot, folk working together positively. Me and my mate coming out summed it up as Nice -- nice as in it was positive and brilliant.

(  More thoughts under the cut. )

There are a couple of questions at the end of this narrative. But my nature is to tell stories. Ask anyone who has met me.

So this morning my primary computer died. Dell latitude D830

Last night it was working fine(ish --it's been a wee bit buggy for a while), but Norton said there possibly suspicious activity was happening and recommended using Norton Power Eraser. I ran it and it found nothing. And everything seemed to be okay. I ran malwarebytes and it found nothing.

This morning windows refused to load, and nothing worked I couldn’t run it in safe mode or return it to a previous working configuration. Just cycled to a blue screen of death for a millisecond (too short to read), tried to load windows, blue screen of flashing death, and took me back to a DOS screen telling me windows wouldn’t load…. Round and round the garden like a teddy bear.

It’s an old computer. I got it in early 2008. And it was running windows XP because I figured it couldn’t handle Windows 8. Yes, I know, but Windows 8 would have cacked it.

But was a virus responsible? Age? Software issue? Is the hard drive all right? Taking it to a specialist is very expensive. So I googled a lot and, subsequently, learnt 1) how to remove a laptop hard drive, 2) you can hook up a hard drive to another laptop -- don’t laugh!learning experience, and 3) SATA/IDE to USB connection via a lot of cables.

So I took myself off to PC World and with the help of a very nice assistant bought a self-contained enclosure which I could put my hard drive in, rather than a bunch of cables.

Long story short. My secondary computer did not recognise the hard drive. It told me that a parameter is missing on one attempt, and two other attempts it simply did not recognise the device.

My three incredibly naïve questions are:
1) Is the hard drive likely to be dead?
2) I now have a shell of a laptop, and apparently, you can buy laptop hard drives and they’re really easy to install! I know, I know – learning experience. So can I buy a new hard drive and install an operating system and use it?
3) Do you think that linux would be a good choice?

So as folk who read this journal know I write stuff in long hand sometimes (http://jimandblair.livejournal.com/175243.html) and then type it into the wip Word.doc. I’m currently working on the next story in the ‘Uhane series – yes, I know, I was supposedly finished with it.

Today, I had the opportunity to pull out my notebook and pen some text. I also went back and read some of the previous scribbles.

Interestingly, whilst I had written some earlier text, I had forgot to transcribe it into the Word.doc. And in the meantime, I had (previously) revisited that part of the story in my Word.doc. Does that make sense?

Compare and contrast? FYI, Danny’s suffering from hypothermia

( two separate paragraphs of the same thing. )

Honestly, it's glorious out there. and I'm stuck on the sofa sneezing my head off. if i go out I'll probably cough up a lung. Also if I scratch my skin off people might notice.

I want a space suit.

*sulks*