thedeadparrot

Man, I have this weird inability to avoid reading posts about the OTW as they fly through metafandom and such, and I am so sick of "blah blah blah the womens are oppressing me" wank and "blah blah blah we're being outed to TPTB" wank.

Why can't we have some good Slashdot-style wank over what license we're going to be using for the archive? I mean, we should get some GPLv3 haters, of course, and some rabid BSDers involved. Plus, we could invite FSF groupies to the party. They're always a riot.

Oooooh, how about a long MySQL vs. ProtegreSQL flamewar? I love those.

Seriously, people. I need a change of pace here. You all should get on this right away.


Aaaaaaaaaaaaanyway, I am finding Flickr's The Commons project ridiculously cool. Lookit all the gorgeous pictures! I know that it seems like a sort of half-assed attempt at crowd-sourcing by the Library of Congress, but seriously, I think it's awesome.


I also have this desire to talk about myself my fic. So, poll! It's approval voting, so choose as many or as few as you like.

[Poll #1124469]

For caecilia, ( the cutest thing in my room )
For hannahrorlove, ( the most fannish thing I have )
( non-human animals in my house )
For stars_inthe_sky, ( something broken )
For roga, ( something that reminds me of football AU )
( a view of nature )
For bironic, ( something on a wall that makes me smile )
For cyber_commie, ( himself )

As a bonus, the cover I made for Open Your Eyes while I was bored:
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I saw Superman Returns again in a nearby drive-in with dryadinthewood last night, and a few of the things that were bothering me about it bothered me much less. Namely Lex Luthor and Lois Lane. Other things that were bothering me, still bothered me. Namely, the pacing.

But I still love it lots.

(Though not as much as Batman Begins, but that's just me.)

I will probably ramble about them both again some other time.

At the moment, I'm kind of working on this odd Clark gen piece that I don't think anyone will read.

I also managed to get XGL/Compiz working with GNOME. (They're shiny Mac-like window/desktop effects, for the uninformed.) I am digging it muchly. It seems to have a tendency to crash however, so I'm looking for solutions for that. Also, it sometimes likes my right Alt key, sometimes it doesn't.

Rar. Bad mood. I know I lost points for some stupid shit on my test. And that's just the ones I know I screwed up. Fuck. Rar. OMG. May go see a student-written play tonight with stars_inthe_sky, we'll see. Am contemplating watching the Office and getting Chinese food. I miss eating lots and lots of take-out.

I realized that if I do yuletide, I'll have to get it done really early, because I will most likely be away in Hong Kong and Shanghai with my parents and other assorted relatives for that entire last week of December. I will have to remember that. Unfortunately, that means I'll miss squeeing over any fic I may receive. 'Tis sad.



(It wouldn't take thedeadparrot, phooey)