Dear Dr. LJ,

Are you suddenly getting a ton of spam comments? A cursory glance through Help didn't provide any suggestions, but it's driving me nuts. Did some setting change its default a la Facebook or something and I need to go fix it?

Thanks!

I suppose I don't really need to go through step-by-step here. I'm voting a straight Democratic ticket, despite wanting to vote for Nathanael Alexander Fortune because "Auditor Fortune" sounds awesome, and wanting to vote for Jill Stein so I could say the Governor gave me a medical exam. Jadelennox did better research than me, so I'm basing this ( Read more... )

Hey folks! I'm moving over to Dreamwidth. Mostly this is because certain of my friends (you know who you are) made me feel guilty about how disability-inaccessible LJ is, and I want to be on the side of ad-free, all-inclusive, open source Truth and Justice. If you'd like to head that way too, let me know and I'll do what I can to help you out ( Read more... )

I have had a phone that pretty much stores numbers and makes phone calls for 8 years, but I long to have the internet in my pocket like all the cool kids. I am totally overwhelmed by all the smartphone options, though. Help me, Dr. LJ ( Read more... )

I knew I needed to switch my PCP because her office staff was incompetent, but I put it off because I never go to the doctor. Today I discovered that she moved without bothering to inform her patients; now her office staff is incompetent and in Malden and Arlington. To add some urgency, I hurt my foot and need to see a podiatrist ASAP (which of ( Read more... )

From a vendor's sales rep, after a very polite email from me requesting more information about a product:

Yea,
I have had a lot of issues and communiqué today so ole Sam will have to be a little more patience.
I will get to him later today.

This was followed by automated "Recall! Recall!" messages, but it was too late because that's not how the ( Read more... )

I just watched the Y2K episode of Sports Night, in which Jeremy claims that the complete system failure during his Y2K test is "a metaphor for the new millenium ( Read more... )

The mother of one of my all-time favorite kids -- one of the 8th-grade founders of the much-vaunted Writing Club, aka My Favorite Hour of the Week -- waited outside the library this morning until I opened it, just so she could meet me. "Thank you so much for being such a mentor to E____. She is just in love with you ( Read more... )

You know what? I'm changing my mind. When I get home tonight, I'm voting for Capuano. I thought more about experience vs. ideals, and proven record vs. nebulous "hope." Some of my friends made good points -- like martini_corona's that Khazei should start smaller if he really wants to get into elected office.

And then I read this story, which sealed the deal ( Read more... )

I've been putting this post off, because the decision was hard. The primary for the special election to fill Ted Kennedy's seat is tomorrow. There are a bunch of people running in the Dem primary, but three who seem to count: Rep. Michael Capuano, Attorney General Martha Coakley, and City Year founder/national service & education reformer Alan ( Read more... )