One thing I do rather wish they'd implement on Hulu - a feature to tell you when a show's first episode is available, and/or the season openers in general. There are several shows they have in rotation that I'm interested in seeing, but from the beginning. They're rotating what seasons are available, or they only have 5 eps at a time, etc, and I ( Read more... )

Email notifications apparently stopped working for me some time around midnight EST (GMT-5). So, if you've replied to something I've said anywhere but my own journal, odds are I don't know about it yet. Your patience is appreciated. :p

Ten long years.

Ten years ago this November, while I was living in Germany, I was awoken several times in the middle of the bloody night by German friends calling to tell me the election was undecided, and I had no president, and ach, the world was ending. Four different people I had to reassure that we had months to figure it out, because the ( Read more... )

Just had to frog 720 stitches because I screwed up 7 of them and couldn't manage to pick backward to undo the mistake.

I don't generally follow British politics, because the home-grown variety more than suffices to raise my blood pressure and make me ranty. However, on hearing that Labor was planning to use Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" as a campaign song, my immediate thought is "If I were running against, cheesy as it is, I'd try to grab Fleetwood Mac's 'Don't ( Read more... )

I know now why I had loose stitches all along the sides of the swatch I posted the other day. Apparently, as I go along, I work slack to the loop on the left needle - so instead of having any loose stitches, I just have all the extra yarn on the last loop.

Yet another interesting side effect of my early "the only uniform tension is as tight as ( Read more... )

... but they can't use the words "vagina"... or even "down there". So, yeah. Still funny, just also funny in unintended ways.

So, there were two Craft Nights in a row in the local shire. Last night, one of the ladies showed ragnvaeig some fingerpuppets she'd wanted to show me, which seemed to be knitted. But I don't knit. ragnvaeig mentioned the universal agreement that learning to knit out of a book is hard. That registered in my brain as a challenge. So somewhere between 2:30 and 3:00 pm ( Read more... )

So, you remember when I mentioned how LJ installed some third-party code to rummage through all the links you include in your posts, and stick affiliate links on them to earn cash? But the coders were horribly amateur and didn't know how to filter URLs, so they broke a bunch of links, overwrote people's own affiliate IDs, and generally made a dog's ( Read more... )

Sonoma County CA separates elderly gay couple and sells their homeI started to write a short form of this story. I can't. Anything longer than the headline fills me with too much rage and turns into a long rant. The details are at the link, and it's despicable. These men did everything they could to protect their rights, and the county just walked ( Read more... )