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Posting to LiveJournal

janinedog — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:29:39 GMT

Well, I kind of went past the end date of Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, and in fact haven't been crossposting my entries to LJ for an entire month now. I've found this to be an interesting exercise...and in fact, I've decided that it was much easier than I thought it'd be for me to not post my entries on LJ.

So, I expect this to be my last entry posted to my personal journal on LiveJournal. Maybe there will be certain LJ PSAs that I will want to crosspost, but those will be few and far between. If anyone on the LJ side wants to continue reading my entries, you're more than welcome on the Dreamwidth side. I have a whole bunch of invite codes (just let me know if you'd like one), or you can use OpenID--I should have the OpenID account of everyone I'm friends with on LJ also friended on DW. Or you're welcome to create a syndicated account on LJ of my DW feed ( http://janinedog.dreamwidth.org/data/rss )--though that will only show public entries. Oh, and you can also track my posts if you have a DW account.

That said, I totally understand if you don't want to bother with coming over to DW to read my entries. I am okay with this--I've been doing it for a month now and haven't felt like I've been missing too much. Don't feel like you need to justify yourself to me or anything--it's okay, really.

Also, I will continue to read my friends page on LJ (and comment as appropriate, though I don't comment too often). I may cut down on my friends list a little bit (not sure about that yet), but I still do and will continue to read LJ every day, just as I do with DW (and Facebook). So I would like to continue to be friended by those of you who currently friend me, so that I can still read your locked entries. Obviously, if you'd like to defriend me, you can, but I wanted to make sure it was clear that I do still want to be friended because I still want to read everyone's entries.

I haven't yet decided what I'm doing with my current entries on LJ. I'm thinking I'll make everything private at some point. Not yet, though. I'll figure it out later.

As an aside, some of you may or may not have already noticed that I'm not in the LJ IRC channels anymore. I randomly got disconnected one day, and then when I reconnected, I found out that my nick had become unregistered. If I wanted to go back into the (one) private channel I was in, I would have had to re-register and then contact someone about it. In the end, I decided that I wasn't doing much in LJ IRC anyway, besides reading the conversations sometimes. So, I took it as a sign and just logged off for good. I'm still around on various IM services, on DW (and DW IRC), on Facebook, and in email--so feel free to contact me if you need/want to.

Also, I did want to say that this decision has nothing to do with any of you, if that wasn't obvious. It only has to do with where I'm comfortable having my online presence be now. I've slowly grown apart from LJ ever since I was laid off, and I'm okay with that. I don't really want to be on a ton of different sites anyway. :)

Anyway, I suppose that's it. Feel free to contact me privately if you want to.

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Three Weeks for Dreamwidth

janinedog — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:54:41 GMT

I'm slightly late on this, but I decided that I want to do Three Weeks for Dreamwidth, which starts today (see three_weeks_for_dw). Basically, it means for three weeks, content I write in here will only be on Dreamwidth, and not posted anywhere else. I'm crossposting this entry to LiveJournal just so those of you over there are aware of this, but after this entry, I won't be crossposting for the next three weeks. Remember, you can easily log into your OpenID account here on DW to read and comment on my entries. Just go here and use yourusername.livejournal.com as your OpenID URL (using your LJ username in there, of course). If you want, you can even track my posts so you get emailed whenever I post here.

In the interest of hopefully having me post here more, please comment here if you have anything you'd like me to write about. Questions about my life (past, present, or future), my hobbies, whatever. I'm open to ideas! I won't guarantee that everything I post will be public, but I'll post something, at least! :)

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Book Meme

janinedog — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:41:33 GMT

Bold the ones you've read COMPLETELY, italicize the ones you've read part of. Watching the movie or the cartoon doesn't count. Abridged versions don't count either. BTW, according to the BBC if you've read 7 of these, you are above the average.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings-JRR Tolkein
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter Series- J.K. Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Ubervilles-Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy- Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland-Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner-Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi-Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (though I'm not sure if it was the abridged version or not)
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Inferno - Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madam Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down -Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

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lol wat

janinedog — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:37:20 GMT

I got an awesome email that I believe is probably a virus (it has an attachment). But the text of the email is amazing:

To: Wittenberg Jock <baiyin@netrophic.com>
From: Lisa Watley <tomograms@desteracs.com>
Subject: Pumpkin-Glory, and the Little Pig that took the Poison Pills, and the Proud
Body:

Cess rather better than most Princes and
Princesses were brought up, and so she said that the only thing
they should be allowed to do different from other people
was to make a mess.
If any other persons were caught making a

mess they were banished; and there was another law that was perfectly
awful." "What-was-it-go-ahead?" said the nephew, running all his words
together,

he was so anxious to know. "Why, if any person was found clearing up
anywhere, and it turned out to be a mess that the royal twins had made,
the person was thrown from a tower." "Did it kill them?" the niece
inquired, rather faintly. "Well, no, it didn't _kill_ them exactly, but
it bounced them up pretty high. You see, they fell on a bed of
India-rubber
about twenty feet deep. It gave them a good scare; and that's the great
thing in throwing persons
from a

high tower." The

Then it cuts off, and the attachment is called "plies.zip".

Awesome, yes?

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Ugh

janinedog — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:21:28 GMT

So apparently LiveJournal has implemented a Classifieds section on the site, which appears to just be OLX embedded into the site. That's fine--I have nothing against classified ads on there, even if I will never use it.

However, almost the first link you see is the Animals link. I click it, and I see a bunch of ads for puppy mill and backyard breeder puppies and kittens. Some examples:

* T-Cup Size Yorkshire-Terrier puppies - "You can easily put them in your pocket and go shopping or something, no one will notice they are there." And they're so small that they have tons of health issues.

* RAZORS EDGE PIT BULL PUPPIES - "NOT FOR FIGHTING" Right, with a name like "Razor's Edge"?

* CKC Bull Terrier Puppies *** Must Sell Fast*** Shipping Available - "Registered w/ CKC" This is the "Continental Kennel Club", which is basically a dog registry for puppy mills, and doesn't actually hold any merit. A nice way to make more money on dogs that aren't bred well.

There's so much evidence that buying puppies (and kittens, but I think it happens more with puppies) online is a really really bad idea--they tend to be sickly and have lots of genetic problems. The people selling them almost always are doing it just to make money. The conditions they're raised in tend to be horrible, too.

I really don't think LiveJournal wants to be supporting this industry, even indirectly. I hope that they will consider at least removing that category from their classifieds page.

Some information about puppy mills:

HSUS's puppy mills page
ASPCA's puppy mills page
What YOU Can Do To Help Make Pet Shops and Puppymills Go Away for Good
Hate, fear and the politics of puppy-mills

Edit: LJ is following up on this. Good to know that people there care about this issue. :)

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Yay! :D

janinedog — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:16:38 GMT

We got tickets to see Lady Gaga in concert on August 17. It's going to be awesome--her concert is supposedly more like a musical than a traditional concert. I can't wait! :)

And thanks to Mark for waking up to buy the tickets! :D

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Friending meme

janinedog — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:39:10 GMT

liv started a non-fandom friending meme. If you're on Dreamwidth and not very fannish (or don't write about it much), or if you want to find people not very fannish on the site, take a look! I've already added a few people. :)

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Today's page on my desk calendar should have Trigger in the picture.

janinedog — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:35:09 GMT

Sleepy puppy #2

janinedog — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:41:34 GMT

Sleepy puppy #1

janinedog — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:40:53 GMT

Go Giants?

janinedog — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:32:08 GMT

Trigger with a toy twice as big as him.

janinedog — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:17:17 GMT

How much is that doggie in the window?

janinedog — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:52:02 GMT

Dragon that I made!

janinedog — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:39:52 GMT

WTF water

janinedog — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:46:11 GMT

Trigger is hungry too.

janinedog — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:50:13 GMT

Please feed me, Mommy!

janinedog — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:36:36 GMT

Bed sharing. <3

janinedog — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 08:37:20 GMT

I looked over and Trigger had his head on Fudge's butt. Omg cute!

janinedog — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:45:48 GMT

<3

janinedog — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 06:01:11 GMT

Sleepy puppy!

janinedog — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:04:15 GMT

Birthday!

janinedog — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:37:18 GMT

Happy Birthday Staceyyyyyy! This video is for you:

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I guess he's comfortable?

janinedog — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:37:35 GMT

This is how Fudge feels about American Idol auditions.

janinedog — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:09:33 GMT

Trigger made a cave. <3

janinedog — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:01:45 GMT