A random bored at work post
Jan. 5th, 2005 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annathepiper+0: And a welcome goes out to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alg, the latest person to be looking on my journal. Hiya!
+/-1: Rumors are starting to fly fast and furious about Six Apart buying Livejournal. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with Six Apart, they're the folks that do Movable Type, the blogging system several folks of my acquaintance use. I'm seeing some worry about this on my Friends list, primarily in the realm of 'will this make LJ prices go up?' and 'what will this do to the greater LJ community?' I'm not sure what I think about this yet. But I'm hoping it won't impact LJ in a negative way. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
+2: I sent an email last night to the greatbigsea.com site admin, just to give her (and through her, the band) some words of support for what must have been a very difficult decision about shutting down the OKP. It's a sad thing for those of us who have made some great friendships via that board, and I just wanted to let them know that having had it does mean something to GBS fandom. I got a nice reply back from her telling me thank you for the letter, and that she was going to forward it on to the band. *^_^* Those of you who are OKPers on my Friends list, I encourage you all to consider sending Joanne (and the band) appreciation notes for letting us fans have the OKP for so long and to please continue to keep in touch with GBS fandom via the web page (e.g., Alan's From the Road journal and the band newsletters). Without the OKP as an easy way to monitor fan feedback, positive emails to remind the B'ys that the vast majority of their fandom are not idiots will be a Very Good Thing.
-3: Stupid weather.com and its rapidly changing forecasts for the Seattle area. Yesterday, signs of snow all over the place for the next week or so. Today, barely a peep. Which just goes to show you that you can't predict the weather around here till you actually look out the window.
+4: Back at work again this week, and it's pretty much the same routine. We have some new people on our team, though I have yet to really talk to any of them as they sit clear down on the other end of the lab. But I'm sure I'll see more of them in the next team meeting.
+5: This weekend is the anniversary of Elvis' birthday and there is a big ol' Elvis movie marathon scheduled on AMC. :Ddarthhellokitty, I'm looking in your direction, since you were making amused commentary at me before about Elvis movies. ;) Of course, I OWN most of the movies that AMC is going to show, but hey!
+6: I definitely need me some more albums by Altan. Just to prove that I do occasionally listen to bands besides Great Big Sea, I went through my entire Altan playlist yesterday and found myself grooving more than once on several of their instrumentals; plus, when the whole lot of them kick into harmony on the vocals, they make a very nice, full sound. Thanks tostarfallz for originally recommending them to me!
+7: I really, really like today's Get Fuzzy. "I am a walking weasel-beating unit... a living ferret nightmare." HEE. Funny, though, how Bucky's lines in this strip sound almost Tickian. ;)
+8: And now, gakked fromgamera_spinning, a link for whom mamishka is THE target audience: Gungan slave labor.
alg, the latest person to be looking on my journal. Hiya!+/-1: Rumors are starting to fly fast and furious about Six Apart buying Livejournal. For those of you who may be unfamiliar with Six Apart, they're the folks that do Movable Type, the blogging system several folks of my acquaintance use. I'm seeing some worry about this on my Friends list, primarily in the realm of 'will this make LJ prices go up?' and 'what will this do to the greater LJ community?' I'm not sure what I think about this yet. But I'm hoping it won't impact LJ in a negative way. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
+2: I sent an email last night to the greatbigsea.com site admin, just to give her (and through her, the band) some words of support for what must have been a very difficult decision about shutting down the OKP. It's a sad thing for those of us who have made some great friendships via that board, and I just wanted to let them know that having had it does mean something to GBS fandom. I got a nice reply back from her telling me thank you for the letter, and that she was going to forward it on to the band. *^_^* Those of you who are OKPers on my Friends list, I encourage you all to consider sending Joanne (and the band) appreciation notes for letting us fans have the OKP for so long and to please continue to keep in touch with GBS fandom via the web page (e.g., Alan's From the Road journal and the band newsletters). Without the OKP as an easy way to monitor fan feedback, positive emails to remind the B'ys that the vast majority of their fandom are not idiots will be a Very Good Thing.
-3: Stupid weather.com and its rapidly changing forecasts for the Seattle area. Yesterday, signs of snow all over the place for the next week or so. Today, barely a peep. Which just goes to show you that you can't predict the weather around here till you actually look out the window.
+4: Back at work again this week, and it's pretty much the same routine. We have some new people on our team, though I have yet to really talk to any of them as they sit clear down on the other end of the lab. But I'm sure I'll see more of them in the next team meeting.
+5: This weekend is the anniversary of Elvis' birthday and there is a big ol' Elvis movie marathon scheduled on AMC. :D
darthhellokitty, I'm looking in your direction, since you were making amused commentary at me before about Elvis movies. ;) Of course, I OWN most of the movies that AMC is going to show, but hey!+6: I definitely need me some more albums by Altan. Just to prove that I do occasionally listen to bands besides Great Big Sea, I went through my entire Altan playlist yesterday and found myself grooving more than once on several of their instrumentals; plus, when the whole lot of them kick into harmony on the vocals, they make a very nice, full sound. Thanks to
starfallz for originally recommending them to me!+7: I really, really like today's Get Fuzzy. "I am a walking weasel-beating unit... a living ferret nightmare." HEE. Funny, though, how Bucky's lines in this strip sound almost Tickian. ;)
+8: And now, gakked from
gamera_spinning, a link for whom mamishka is THE target audience: Gungan slave labor.