Conglomoration of Stuff

[heidi]

Haven't posted since we left for Disney last week. MEEP! Sigh, I really like the iphone 90% of the time but I hate that safari crashes far too often, whether I am on LJ or somewhere else, and the lack of a cache makes it impossible to "hold" pages for me to read offline. The browser on my sidekick never crashed so even though I am loving the iPhone, I am considering getting rid of it - my dad would buy it off me to replace his 1G iphone - and getting the new Android. Anyone have one? Anyone know someone who does? Would love to see some reviews of it before I make the leap back to tmobile.

Disney was fantastic - we went with another family and managed to make it to all four parks in three days - saw Nemo, rode on the new and fantastic Toy Story ride, took the girls on Soarin' because they were finally tall enough to go and the expression on their faces when we took off was absolutely magical - a perfect "O" of the mouth and the eyes and a squeek of glee! We did the lunch at Norway where the girls got to meet a slew of princesses, and my friend and I went back Saturday night for the fantastic Festival of the Senses. One negative - last year there were cocktails and not just wine, and ths year there was only wine, beer and scotch. The rest was entirely positive. We sampled about 15 different restaurants and my favourite was probably a tamarind-infused pork made by the exec chef from the Sci Fi Dine In - the truffles were wonderful and randomly, we ended up sharing our table with one of hte chefs from the California Grill and his extremely adorably supportive wife - and for a few minutes, the exec chef for all of Disney came and joined us and we talked about the variety this year and some things they may try to do next year. We will be back!

Partly Bouncy (remember her?) has created a new bot-scraping thing for the fanhistory wiki (no, I will not link to it because I don't want people going directly from my LJ to hers but you can google your way there) that pulls information from livejournal. Click here to learn how to block the bot. If you're new here and don't know about my history with Partly Bouncy and her wiki, ask and I will give you links to the backstory.

nekkio27 has a well-written summary of why taxes exist and what they mean for our economy here. I still remember the first day of tax law back in my 3rd year of law school, when we discussed how taxes can be used to set social policy. Wish I still had my notes from back then, but they're lost on some floppy disk in a box in the back a closet that is otherwise filled with Husband's comic books.

For giandujakiss - 23/6 gives you eight ways to survive the next eight six days without losing your mind. Top of the list? "There's a reason it's not called 'Every Five Minutes Kos'" Admission: I have a constant refresh too! And I don't feel guilty about it!

Did Jensen really say something about sexual favours in the context of his roommate in an interview? I've seen mention of this in fic summaries but since I wasn't reading any communities this weekend while traveling I must've missed the initial post(s). They're just teasing everyone now, aren't they?

deirdre_c, I have vid bunnies! I am, yes, working on the one for last week's SPN episode but I want to do a political vid to One Week but I wanted it to be finished yesterday and I need a lot of political footage to do it and I don't know where to get any! Does anyone know where one can download avis from the conventions and of speeches and ads and stuff? Or will I just storyboard this from stills and have it exist mostly in my mind? DAMNED BUNNY!

Speaking of bunnies, this last ep of Heroes finally gave me some fantastic vidding footage to work with! I may try to get something done before the next ep, but part of me *really* wants to wait for the flashbacks we'll get in (OMG do we have to wait?) two weeks...

MoveOn sent me a slew of Obama pins, finally, but most of my friends and family locally already have at least one, so I want to send some of these into the wild. The first 10 - 15 responses will get one:
[Poll #1287282]


Off to doctor for the Annual. More catch-up stuff later...

Comments

[rachet.livejournal.com]

Duh...would you like my addie, too?

I'll email it.

Reading about Disney makes me nostalgic. I haven't been in 4 years. It's time to go back!

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Yes, you definitely should! (this is the answer to both topics.)

[schmoo999.livejournal.com]

No Heroes for two weeks? Meep.

Also it sounds like you had a kick A time at Disney.

[nekiko27.livejournal.com]

I want a button! But I live in Japan... can I still get one?

And thanks for the plug! I usually flock my entries, but I made that one public since you linked it.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Definitely! Zap me your address! And thanks for posting it!

[nekiko27.livejournal.com]

Put my address in the box thing above!

Political campaigns always make me want to go to grad school for Poli Sci...

[dream-wia-dream.livejournal.com]

Jensen joking about Jared asking for sexual favors...I saw it here:
http://keepaofthecheez.livejournal.com/728159.html with a reference to the scanned originals.
But my french is craptastic...so I'm trusting that the translation is true. :D
They really are just taunting us. I love it.

[hllangel]

MoveOn has yet to send me the pin I ordered, so I would love one. Even after last week's email that the post office was stalling them, and my re-order of it.

ARGH!

At this rate, though, I won't even have it before the Election.

[chaneen.livejournal.com]

Same thing for me except that when I tried to reorder, they said they were sold out. And it took forever to get my sticker too. Epic fail, moveon.org.

[hllangel]

I re-ordered right away, but still haven't gotten it.

It's also massive USPS fail.

[chaneen.livejournal.com]

Oh it definitely is, you're right. But I am just annoyed that they suggested you wait a couple of days from when they sent the e-mail to re-order. I did that, and they said they were sold out. :\

[ancarett]

Your trip to Disney sounds magnificent! *plots for the eventual day of her return there*

I put in my name and addy for a button, if you're willing to send one to Canada. It's been impossible to order campaign stuff up to here as they're worried about out-of-country contributions being from non-citizens. *whines*

[flourish.livejournal.com]

Ughhh, thank you for telling me about the bot. I don't want anything to do with that wiki.

[gestaltrose.livejournal.com]

Whoot!!! For Disney and great food. Bunnies can be a good thing... *loves*

[momebie.livejournal.com]

Er...It's okay if the mail comes to KL. We know who that is. And it's not like it isn't what people call me anyway. ♥

[ashavah]

I emailed you my details like you said in your comment on my journal. Thank you! ♥

[effervescent.livejournal.com]

I'd love a button, if you don't mind sending to Canada! *g* If you can't, though, no worries.

[scoreboard.livejournal.com]

Don't know for sure of a good offline reader for the iPhone, although I've been using NetNewsWire to read RSS and it does hold articles offline, so depending on what you're trying to get at that may be a partial substitute. Would love to have offline storage but I don't see any sign of it in the forthcoming firmware update (although you may get onboard podcast downloads).

I actually played with a G1 Saturday night (that belongs to one of the engineers on Google's Android team!) and it looks very promising, but it also looks and feels like a version 1.0 product. However, the general form and function (complete with rollerball) does resemble a Sidekick in some respects, so they've obviously gone to school on what's already out there.

I am scheduling everything I can think of between now and Tuesday to distract me, up to and including Monday Night Football at a bar and a chiropractor appt on Tuesday. If there's one thing I've learned to hate since moving out here, it's trying to run out the clock with less than a two-touchdown lead...and I am NOT a patient person.

(Two years ago was Hue & Cry's "Late In The Day" - hopefully time to cue it up again?)

[deirdre-c.livejournal.com]

YAY! Vid bunnies! But alas, I have no idea where to get good-quality political footage. :\

Doooo itttt!

(I already have a huge heap of Obama buttons! Gobama!)

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Tell me about moments that you think should be included from the first half of the year? Until I got my iphone I read most of my political coverage and didn't watch as much as I could have...

[hedwig-snowy.livejournal.com]

Need to install that chip to see when you sneak into town!

Should've come this week. Although you mentioned you've seen him before, Obama (and Bill Clinton) are in town tonight. Should be rocking. :-)

[chickadilly.livejournal.com]

Wah. *Is jealous* I haven't been to Disney in three years!

[airemay.livejournal.com]

What is this bot thing?

I loved the food at DisneyWorld! I'm jealous. :D

[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Already have my pin. VOTED YESTERDAY!!! *spins happily*

And yet, somehow, I have no Obama bumpersticker OR magnet. How did this happen?! I thought Barack (or at least David Plouffe) was sending me one as thanks for a donation I made 2 months ago. It has never arrived. Waaah. So...any spare bumperstickers? I was going to buy one from a street vendor today but she wanted $5 and all I had was 2 bucks. (Yes, I guess people do make money selling Obamagear.)

[femmequixotic]

My G1 should arrive in a week and a half from T-Mobile. I'm planning on putting up a review of it after I play with it for a day or so. *g* I've a Sidekick right now that I'm about to throttle (although to its credit it's almost 2 years old). :D

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Very looking forward to your take on it. I miss my tactile keyboard! But I won't switch to it if it doesn't interface with gmail as well as the iphone does (but being google, I assume it will have to).

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I'm not new here, but I miss a lot of posts. Don't tell me you have history with partlybouncy, too.

[heidi8.livejournal.com]

Oh my gosh, where do I begin?
It's a very long story, going back to the spring of 2001 but to sum up, (a) she's spent a lot of time telling stories about me, (b) she started using my real name on her fanhstory website back in 2006 after all the msscribe crap so that if you googled my real name, one of the first entries was her page which said that I was (among other things) a plagiarist and she wouldn't take it down (although some of the other fnhestory mods removed a lot of it this past summer, there's still a few inclusions of my full name up there), and she (c) registered my full name as a domain name and pointed the page to the fanhstry page about me. And that's not even including the massive Why The Inner Circle Is Ev0l treatise which contained a lot of bullshit about me that she started posting back in 2006 on bad-penny until (as I understand it) they made her take it down because it was so error riddled.

There's more details to each of these topics, but the links should help to give more info; let me know if you have any questions.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

... she (c) registered my full name as a domain name and pointed the page to the fanhstry page about me

Holy fuck. Vindictive much?

[stormwynd.livejournal.com]

Glad to hear Disney went well. TSM is indeed fantastic. It's one of the few attractions at WDW that I think has genuine "re-rideability" for everyone -- the moment you get off, you want to get back on and try to better your score.

I'm completely jealous that you made it to Festival of the Senses and to Food and Wine in general. WDW always seems to hold these awesome things while school is in session. :-(

*twirls you for no reason*

[misscake]

The button came today! Thank you!!!