Now is the winter of our discontent

Trimming again...

2011-11-02T16:46:43Z

I dropped some people from my LJ flist who either crosspost from DW or who haven't updated in over a year or who I don't really talk with anymore. I'm very very close to deleting my LJ; I only crosspost about half my entries these days, the majority of my community is on Dreamwidth, and I hate LJ's user relations attitude with a violent passion. It's going to happen eventually, it's just a matter of when. I am happy to grant access on DW to LJ OpenIDs, and I may request OpenID access here from some of you eventually.

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Note to self

2010-10-26T09:09:51Z

NOTE: Comments may include spoilers for I Shall Wear Midnight, the fourth Tiffany book.

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References for Sekrit Project!

2010-10-04T03:33:25Z

Some possibilities for a Sekrit Project! Approximately 1 zillion portraits below the cut, mostly 16th century. Stickied for future reference.

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Is it just me...

2010-09-01T22:44:21Z

...or in LJ's latest code push of instant privacy concerns, did they also remove the ticky box that allowed one to comment and log in at the same time? I sure can't find it anymore, although I CAN find the stupid x-post to Facebook and Twitter buttons they added.

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Time to ask my brilliant reading lists for recs again!

2010-08-10T03:00:01Z

I am rereading Lloyd Alexander's Westmark (followed by The Kestrel and The Beggar Queen). They are honestly the only fantasy* novels I can think of which are about common people bringing down the monarchy. (They're short YA novels, and I recommend them if you haven't read them.)

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Exciting new DW features, a test

2010-06-08T18:41:33Z

OMG, inline cut expansion. I am in LOVE.

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Fragments of Chronicles from South East Asia as It Might Have Been

2010-03-28T17:11:38Z

steampunk_nusantara is a brilliant project. It is building a steampunk alternate-history Southeast Asia, at present framed as a catalogue of objects, with entries describing the objects from the point of view of either a cataloger or the creator of the object.

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Administrative stuff

2010-03-19T17:03:46Z

I'm getting kind of tired of reading redundant posts, and I want to see how many people I'm actually reading on LJ, so I'm going to be removing people who cross-post from my LJ friendslist. If you really want to be able to continue reading me on LJ, let me know and I'll add you back in a non-default filter.

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Dreamwidth invite codes

2010-03-07T18:08:45Z

Take them. Use them.

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Brief thoughts on books

2010-03-02T01:11:28Z

I have a lot of book reviews to catch up on. Some quick thoughts on what I've read lately:

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Found on the Internet, Volume 5

2010-01-25T05:58:55Z

Hilarious Dog Stories

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Book (and movie) reviews and places for recs

2010-01-21T09:11:09Z

50books_poc - A community for reviewing books by people of color (some people are doing a formal challenge, some are not)

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Books of 2009!

2010-01-03T02:02:01Z

This year I actually kept pretty good track of the books I read, although there were also a bunch of nerdy history books I didn't read straight through which didn't make it on here. I am several months behind on reviews, which I'll have to catch up on, and a lot of the books were comfort-rereads (or self-torment rereads, in the case of Anne McCaffrey). Unfortunately, LivingSocial doesn't date when you add a book, so I may have accidentally added a few from the end of 2008 or left off a few from the beginning of 2009. Otherwise, it's pretty accurate.

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Linkdump!

2009-08-03T23:52:46Z

This is me closing a bunch of tabs. A lot of these have to do with International Blog Against Racism Week--I haven't read everything linked at ibarw yet, and I don't necessarily recommend everything linked there (there are definitely some...really racist posts linked, written by people who probably think they're not racist but are missing some major points).

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Recipe: Pineapple Chicken Curry

2009-04-29T19:03:08Z

I actually came up with a new recipe for the first time in a long time this week. It's based on a pineapple ginger curry I had at a local Thai restaurant; I didn't put ginger in mine this time, but probably would in the future. I'm estimating the measurements because I rarely measure when I cook. In choosing flavors, I went with the hot-sour-salty-sweet combination typical of Thai food: in this case, curry paste; lime and rice vinegar; fish sauce and salt; and pineapple and coconut.

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Asian Women's Blog Carnival #1

2009-04-07T23:22:32Z

One of the awesome projects that was sparked by discussion during RaceFail.

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A cool thing!

2009-01-15T05:52:55Z

Lecture by Jennifer 8 Lee on the history of fake Chinese food, and its sometimes not-so-amusing cultural associations. Did you know fortune cookies were originally miso-flavored Japanese crispy snacks? She has written a book, which is totally on my to-read list now.

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Transgender Day of Remembrance

2008-11-20T22:27:49Z

International Transgender Day of Remembrance

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Protect Gmail from hacking

2008-08-19T22:23:46Z

A hacking tool that enables one to automatically steal Gmail IDs has been released (see http://www.hungry-hackers.com/2008/08/gmail-account-hacking-tool.html). That is, however, not a reason to panic, as protecting oneself is easy. Follow the steps below:

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Oooh, sexy

2008-06-28T17:50:30Z

I find the existence of independent scholars in the medieval textiles field reassuring.

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More pet food recall info

2007-03-31T20:17:31Z

List of companies and their manufacturers--some unpleasant surprises.

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PET FOOD RECALL

2007-03-17T18:12:13Z

DO YOU HAVE A DOG OR CAT?

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Hee!

2006-11-01T17:13:01Z

This is me and Daylight Savings Time, heh.

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Obligatory "Buy These CDs" Post

2006-11-01T02:03:59Z

The ever-awesome Sooj has not one, but TWO new CDs out. Visit her long and informative post about the matter or her website to buy them. There are a few sample tracks available for download:

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Cutting down the flist

2006-05-22T05:29:00Z

My schedule is looking very tight for the coming year, and I'm also trying to pare my flist down to people I know pretty well. I removed people I don't know well, and it's nothing personal. I'm also in SCA burnout right now and don't really want to read about SCA stuff so much. (And I left a lot of communities, as well.)

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