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cblj_backupSAM JOUSTS WITH TECHNOLOGY!
I once, famously, posted about my dislike of DVDs in the same post where I did a meme about "what decade are you" and it turned out I was the 1930s. Go figure. (I still don't like DVDs for a number of reasons, but I have accepted their presence in my life as inevitable.) I've taken a couple of programming courses and failed them miserably; I taught myself basic HTML when I was fourteen and that pretty much gets me where I need to go most of the time. My family has an illustrious history of Not Reading The Directions, and while I do often Read The Directions I understand my mother refuses because a) they won't help her and b) if she can't learn by doing, she won't learn at all. This makes Christmas morning at our house VERY EXCITING.
As a family, our motto could be "Theory is for Losers". Ironically, most of my early non-fanfic writing was applied theory -- in college I made a habit of researching the structure underlying ancient theatre and writing modern plays executed in ancient and medieval structures. I won an award for one of them, so I must have been doing something right.
Anyway, all of this is pure anecdote because I thought you'd like something more interesting to read than "testing, testing" while I tested out a new method for posting. As of right now, I multi-post in Semagic across four platforms, but I'm realising that every time there's an error in a post I have to go into the two that most folks read and alter it. With Dreamwidth's automated multi-post function, I can fix something in one post and it'll update the others.
There should be absolutely no change in reading for people on LJ, DW, or IJ, except that now usernames which were formerly all over the map will be correct and standard, and my DW entries will be tagged. LJ is still my primary platform, and the rare photo and text posts from my phone will still go only to LJ (Dreamwidth doesn't have that functionality yet). Right now I'm just testing to make sure link coding, formatting, usernames, icons, and tags all work as they should.
IN ORDER TO TEST THAT, have some reccs! If they don't work, don't tell me, I'm on all three platforms and already working to fix the problem by the time you read this. Just go have a cup of cocoa or something and refresh in about ten minutes.
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kayliemalinza wrote Calling In Sick ages ago, and it remains one of my favourite Ianto fics of all time.
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blue_soaring's Iron Man fic, Cool Blue Reason, is a Jarvis/Tony fic that makes the best use ever of non-newtonian liquid. (I don't read a lot of Iron Man but I have a soft spot for Jarvis, to nobody's surprise.)
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onyourmark seems to have completed The Elliot 'verse, a White Collar AU wherein Neal Caffrey is a deep-cover alias for a mischief-making FBI agent.
(Hooray. Links and usernames work! Tags and user icons work! Automated edit updates work! "Edit Last Entry" from Semagic doesn't though. Hm.)
I once, famously, posted about my dislike of DVDs in the same post where I did a meme about "what decade are you" and it turned out I was the 1930s. Go figure. (I still don't like DVDs for a number of reasons, but I have accepted their presence in my life as inevitable.) I've taken a couple of programming courses and failed them miserably; I taught myself basic HTML when I was fourteen and that pretty much gets me where I need to go most of the time. My family has an illustrious history of Not Reading The Directions, and while I do often Read The Directions I understand my mother refuses because a) they won't help her and b) if she can't learn by doing, she won't learn at all. This makes Christmas morning at our house VERY EXCITING.
As a family, our motto could be "Theory is for Losers". Ironically, most of my early non-fanfic writing was applied theory -- in college I made a habit of researching the structure underlying ancient theatre and writing modern plays executed in ancient and medieval structures. I won an award for one of them, so I must have been doing something right.
Anyway, all of this is pure anecdote because I thought you'd like something more interesting to read than "testing, testing" while I tested out a new method for posting. As of right now, I multi-post in Semagic across four platforms, but I'm realising that every time there's an error in a post I have to go into the two that most folks read and alter it. With Dreamwidth's automated multi-post function, I can fix something in one post and it'll update the others.
There should be absolutely no change in reading for people on LJ, DW, or IJ, except that now usernames which were formerly all over the map will be correct and standard, and my DW entries will be tagged. LJ is still my primary platform, and the rare photo and text posts from my phone will still go only to LJ (Dreamwidth doesn't have that functionality yet). Right now I'm just testing to make sure link coding, formatting, usernames, icons, and tags all work as they should.
IN ORDER TO TEST THAT, have some reccs! If they don't work, don't tell me, I'm on all three platforms and already working to fix the problem by the time you read this. Just go have a cup of cocoa or something and refresh in about ten minutes.
kayliemalinza wrote Calling In Sick ages ago, and it remains one of my favourite Ianto fics of all time. blue_soaring's Iron Man fic, Cool Blue Reason, is a Jarvis/Tony fic that makes the best use ever of non-newtonian liquid. (I don't read a lot of Iron Man but I have a soft spot for Jarvis, to nobody's surprise.)(Hooray. Links and usernames work! Tags and user icons work! Automated edit updates work! "Edit Last Entry" from Semagic doesn't though. Hm.)
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Date: 2010-11-13 03:31 pm (UTC)Last thanksgiving you posted a recipe for a wonderful brine. As the child of immigrants, I'd never heard of brining a turkey, but I told Mum "Hey! Do this!" and our turkey came out wonderfully. She now thinks that I'm some sort of culinary genius with powers only hinted at, and has put me in charge of the whole shebang. Needless to say, I have NO idea what I'm doing, and cannot find your brine for some reason. Could you please send it to me/repost it? I also have vague memory of a herb rub. If you remember it, I'd love the ingredients for that too. But if you can't off the top of your head, don't worry about it. Thank you in advance!
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Date: 2010-11-13 03:33 pm (UTC)http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/2908948.html
And here's the recipe for the herb rub that goes under the turkey's skin:
http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/2910294.html
I wish you lots of Thanksgiving luck!
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Date: 2010-11-13 04:20 pm (UTC)So in Dreamwidth you can just do [user name=copperbadge] and it'll have a Dreamwidth doodah anywhere you post, as long as you're crossposting from Dreamwidth. If you want to mention someone from LJ, you do [user name=copperbadge site=livejournal.com] and it does the little LJ doodah in front, instead of the Dreamwidth doodah.
It doesn't work for everything -- the delicious.com one is broken -- but it works for LJ, DW, AO3, a couple of other sites too I think.
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Date: 2010-11-13 04:40 pm (UTC)I feel all fortified with extra wisdom now. Thank you!
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Date: 2010-11-13 05:33 pm (UTC)I'd change it to a different rec (I don't think the story's hosted anywhere else) but the point was to test if the AO3 code worked, so. I'll leave it, maybe some people at least will get through :)
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Date: 2010-11-14 01:07 pm (UTC)*runs off to read fic*
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Date: 2010-11-14 02:02 pm (UTC)It didn't occur to me when I was on my Paul Bettany binge earlier this week that the Iron Man movies count as Paul Bettany films. I think I feel a rewatch coming on XD