Demian, the SPN recapper, attacked a member's comment and someone posted in the mod forum asking if that was okay. I posted saying I wanted to know too, since the SPN mod (whom I previously had no issues with) had just gone after someone for being 'dismissive'. Except the member said "shrugs" in her comment. Demian? Used profanity to respond to someone's opinion.
I've posted on TWOP for years (several of those as an established spoiler source). I don't have anything on my record at all. And yet apparently, that post of mine was enough to get me banned.
This is kind of awesome, you guys. I've never been banned from anything before!
What kills me is that she says to follow up with her via email or PM and apparently if you're banned, you can't do that. Ah, well.
It seems my flist is holding a competition to see who can be the most depressing. It makes me feel like I'm the only happy person in the room.
When my newspaper, the Rocky Mountain News, died recently, I was hit with a mixture of shock, anger and sadness. It felt like I'd lost a member of the family.
But today, at a press conference (at, of all places, my college campus), 30 staff members from the Rocky announced a new venture: an online news source called INDenverTimes.com. Basically they're putting their toe in the water and if 50,000 people pledge to subscribe (the most expensive option is a mere $7 a month) I CAN HAVE MY PAPER BACK.
Okay, as on online version, which means my favorite after-class-Rocky-and-Chinese-buffet-Mondays can't happen. But still. Given the alternative, I'd subscribe 100 times to get them back.
I know there a lot of journalism/PR folks on my flist. Check it out, and see samples of what they're going to continue with at the old Rocky site and their interim portal, which has already scooped the Denver Post more than once. And then join the pledge. BECAUSE OMG, I MISS MY PAPER, YOU GUYS! AND THIS MEANS I CAN (ALMOST) GET IT BACK!
Carrie is now back home (we're skyping), but this entry was started a couple days ago, while she was still here and sitting behind me on my bed. That still counts as a trip update, right?
Stupid LJ and their buggy scrapbook. It took me 3 days to get it to upload pictures!
But now, with no further ado, the update:
Been busy!
I have seen parts of my state I've never seen before (or was too little to remember). We've toured Coors Field (and walked on the warning track!), the Molly Brown House, and the Capital. We've also dropped in Tattered Cover bookstore, the Denver Art Museum, 16th St. Mall, Quebec Square & Northfield Stapleton shopping and countless other spots. We've done 5 major cities in one day (Georgetown, Idaho Springs, Golden, including driving through Central City and Blackhawk). We hiked up to Buffalo Bill's grave.
And we've seen 11 libraries in 5 major cities (plus, I updated my Denver card).
We've eaten out more times in a week than I do in a month (or 6 months), at Cracker Barrel, Beau Jo's Pizza (a CO classic), Old Spaghetti Factory, Famous Dave's and the incomparable Chick-Fil-A. Carrie even experienced Pizza Hut pizza delivery for the very first time (it's amazing when they come right to the door, ay kikiduck?
Carrie brought her wii, which eventually led to by brothers indulging in a highly entertaining trash-fest talk and my parents bemusedly competing against each other in bowling (Mom won, barely).
But perhaps most importantly, we baked. A lot.
Exhibit A:
It's a vegetable garden! Peas = lime tootsie rolls and chocolate M&Ms, radishes = frosting leaves and red and white tootsie rolls and carrots = orange starbursts. Carrie is the best candy reshaper ever! They even had signs:
OMG SO CUTE. We dropped them off at my work (how many Kohl's did we visit, Carrie? I'm thinking 5).
Then we (mostly I) did these for my family (exhibit B):
They're PANDAS. With tiny mini cupcake heads, a giant mound of frosting topped with crushed Oreos and little white piped frosting decoration. They were also probably more edible than the garden cupcakes. SO CUTE, MAN.
So another Jinnie/Carrie trip is over. Who knows where we'll end up next!
PS: More pics here! These are mine, Carrie has much, much more on her LJ.
So. Back in my Alias days, when there was a 750 friend limit, I eventually learned an easy way to make room for people: I'd do a political rant. Ta-da, I'd suddenly have empty slots! It was fantastic.
As Howard Zinn said a couple years ago, “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.” That statement was often cited by my liberal friends when criticizing the past administration. (Though it was occasionally, and erroneously attributed to Thomas Jefferson, even by ACLU talking heads). Now it appears it's my turn to feel out of touch with the current government.
My arguments against President Obama will never ever reach the same level of vitriol I've seen directed against the former President. I will never refer to him as less as what he is, which is President of the United States and by extension, whether I like it or not, my President. But frankly, I'm not a fan of the man. And it appears that every time I express my opinion, some of my flisters just can't tolerate that viewpoint.
It saddens me to lose some flisters that I once regarded as first friends amongst all the (750+) others. I trusted them the most and I admired them for having lives and careers that I would love to have someday. I even met up with some in real life. But now, that esteem has been tarnished by disappointment over their lack of returning the same courtesy I once gave to them.
So. This is for you (yes, you!). You have every right to say whatever the heck you want in your journal. Please remember that I have that same right. Some of my friends have special Republican filters, but I think we're all grown up enough to read even stuff we disagree with, right?
If you dislike or can't handle a conservative's opinion on the current administration, please unfriend me and I will do the same. I have never hidden my political leanings and I have known some of you for years, we've grown up together and I will be sad to see you go. But not sad enough to censor myself in my own LJ.
(This does not include those who politely ignore me as I once did them, or those interested in respectful debate, of course, which is always fun!)
I'm the first one up, but only because I wussed out about 1:30am. Man, I haven't crashed that early in a while.
I'm leaving today in about 8 hours. First on the agenda: (after Carrie wakes up) finishing HIMYM S2. Then: packing.
I get in about midnight and then tomorrow, I'm meeting my new NDK lead for lunch. I'm thinking I'm gonna make it a late one. Then we have the huge guest dinner and Friday morning, 10am, con begins! Sigh. I'll be able to sleep in next Tuesday.
Yesterday, after a couple years or so of trying, I finally managed to waste time on the working monorail! Woo! It is seriously the most pointless thing ever, but possibly also the awesomest. We also went on a ferryboat and wandered around Bainbridge, where I found Rocky Road fudge (for Dad) and sugar free milk and walnut fudge (for grandparents). Mmmm, fudge.
Then we went to Wendy's and drove under a bridge that Elvis had filmed on (I've never seen Carrie so excited while I was so clueless. Very entertaining!)
Then we came home and the cat fell asleep on me, which is probably why I barely made it past 1.
That Ky's laptop lasted this long. Longtime flisters know that I borrow it whenever I go on vaca, and it always has a crisis of some kind wherein I think it's broken forever and ever. This is one of those times.
I accidently apilled a seriously tiny amount of water on it, and then it was blue screen error galore. Something about memory parity errors? + loud computer beeping. Then I tried restarting and it came up with a new one which told me to restart. So I did. Then it was a DOS grey screen asking for a password. Tried putting in Ky's, but it just made it beep really loudly. So I tried restarting again. It'll go through the first 3 seconds of starting; begins to spin the fan, etc, but then turns itself off immediately before anything shows on screen.
Any ideas?
Yesterday, we did IKEA. I spent $96 and bought the rest of the black-rod-kitchen line thing for my new giant kitchen. yay! Then Carrie and I made dinner for the family: breaded fried chicken, scalloped potatoes (Carrie, from scratch) and a blackberry cobbler. Mmmm. We also had to have used every single cooking/baking dish/pan they had. Seriously, the entire counter was filled. I think that's the most impressive mess I've ever seen, and I grew up with 3 brothers.
Today was a lazy day. I slept until noonish (Carrie beat me by about 15 minutes), came out and spent the day on the couch with the cat sleeping on my arm. We went to her sister's and I made dinner while they built an Ikea shelf, but otherwise, I did absolutely nothing but cuddle with the cat. Yay!
Tomorrow: Seattle. Anna is joining us. I suggested we tell her 11 so she'll come around 1. *whistles*
Amy (Carrie's sister, newspaper journalist): PR just seems like the least rewarding profession. Jinnie: That's what I'm in school for. Amy: (pause) Um, forget I said that. Carrie: (in the background) *dies laughing*
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