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soldiers_heartA passionate community for veterans of all ages (mostly American), plus families, friends, and supporters. View poignant snapshots detailing life in combat and back on civilian soil in the form of original artwork, personal narratives, poetry, and photos. Be forewarned that members don't shy away from describing their disappointments, disabilities, and struggles. Tags: soldiers_heart, veteran's day, veterans
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Saw Battle League Horumo ( Kamogawa Horumo) tonight @ Viz Cinema. It was light hearted fun. Seeing Kyoto made me kind of nostalgiac. Also, the idea that Ryukoku Daigaku has a Horumo club really gave me a kick. Suzaku club! I liked seeing Kuriyama Chiaki in the film. The way she played her character was intresting. Different from other roles I've seen her in. --- Today is Dia de los Muertos, Day of the Dead. It is also All Hallow's Day. A candle is lit in honor. Current Music: Base Ball Bear - KamiGami LOOKS YOU
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EDIT: If you're reading this, our maintenance is OVER! The problem was not found on our equipment, which means we'll have to work with our ISP to fix this small problem -- which also means another maintenance window in the future -- but at least we have eliminated our side. Thank you everyone, and a special shout out to rekoil for giving me a great suggestion AND also the opportunity to feel like I've just called in to a local radio station. Have a great day, night or afternoon wherever you may be. --- Hi everyone, sorry for the late notice but I'm going to have to do some testing on 1 of our 4 internet circuits TONIGHT; Friday night or Saturday morning depending on which time zone you're in. Most of us shouldn't notice any impact, though there may be some slowness or lag when I switch traffic on to our other ISP circuits and then another hit when I stop the tests. If a page won't load or times out, try hitting refresh 1 or 2 times and it should load then. If it doesn't work at all... trust me, I'll be typing really really really fast to try to undo whatever I just did. Hopefully you'll have some Halloween candy (if you're in the USA and celebrate that kind of thing) nearby to take away the bitterness of a small site outage. :( Here's the handy-dandy Website That I Always Use to get a feel for when the maintenance will start in your area. Our site traffic historically dips on Friday afternoons until Saturday morning which is why we tend to pick this time for maintenance work. ( tech details )status.livejournal.org will, of course be updated before and after the maintenance window. Or else marta will get mad at me. :D bt
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 In response to user comments from last week, we want to let you know that we'll remain LJ cut-free for the next month in order to get more eyeballs on our evolving newsletter. As for product coverage, that continues to be our top priority. For more granular detail, however, we recommend you join lj_releases. Super-tweak for Yandex searchSome of our beta testers expressed privacy concerns using the Yandex search engine. Here's why: Last week, when you ran a search, you could see the usernames (and only the usernames) of everyone who commented on an entry, even if that entry was switched to Private or Friends Only after it was originally indexed. You could NOT see the actual comments from Friends Only or Private posts. In response to your input, we've implemented a fix to keep all user activity currently marked Friends Only or Private completely hidden. If you'd prefer your public content not to be indexed by Yandex, click here and use the settings labeled Search Inclusion (this covers your entire journal) and/or Comment Search Inclusion (which covers comments only). To test drive Yandex search now, click here. Postcards from the edgeSeveral years ago, we asked LiveJournal users to send postcards to help us decorate our dull, white-washed offices. Since a good idea warrants repetition, we're at it again (same issue, new address). We hope you'll surround us with LiveJournal love by sending your postcards to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. We'll post snapshots right here. Be sure to include your username, since we'll randomly pick 10 lucky recipients to win free paid account time. Conquer Writer's BlockHere are some excerpts from this week's most popular question of the day: If a friend or relative makes a racist or homophobic remark, do you tend to confront them or let it slide? Are you more likely to confront them if it offends you directly or someone else who seems reluctant to speak up?- I find it easier to stand up for other people, and i wouldn't let it slide if they made a rude or hurtful comment.
- Usually if a friend makes a racist or homophobic remark, I tend to let it slide. I think that while i would not say such things myself, I have no right to censor those around me.
- This happens all of the time. I confront some relatives, but I refuse to if they are drunk or watch Fox News.
- I'd let it slide if it was just a private remark... As much as I despise bigotry and intolerance, I know that you can't change people-they have to change themselves ...
- Confront! confront! confront! Politely, but without equivocation.
- SPEAK UP. Always, always, always speak up. Letting something slide lets ignorance win. No matter if it offends me directly, or someone else, I will confront the speaker and let them know that's not ok.
- I don't get offended personally. As an immigrant, woman, gay and person of color if I took every single potentially offensive remark seriously I wouldn't get anything done.
- I punch them in the balls. With my mind.
- I do speak up, but often very timidly because I feel that I'm white and therefore I don't really have any authority to lecture someone on what's racist and what isn't...
- Generally speaking, I do not let this shit fly, because it reduces me as a person, to this non-person and it replicates the destructive discourse that makes sure that sexual minorities, racial minorities, women, people with disabilities, trans people and every intersection thereof into something other than human... And sometimes... I'm just too tired to deal with it, so I roll my eyes, make a sarcastic remark and hope the conversation moves on quickly.
For more daily questions and user comments, join writersblock. FYI, we don't want to invade your privacy, so we haven't credited individual users for their responses. We'd appreciate your feedback on this! Spotlight community of the weekWe can't resist making one last midnight trip to the ol' pumpkin patch. If you adore crazy costumes, fiendish festivities, and bottomless candy consumption as much as we do, this community has just what it takes to light up your jack-o-lantern.  halloween_fanPhotos of the weekWe received so many incredible photos, we had to close our eyes and point. We uploaded a selection of awesome images at our new lj_photophile community. Please join and start posting (try to keep the width at around 625 for the sake of consistency)! We'd love for you to tell us more about your photos! You can help us select spotlight photos by commenting on your favorites. Once again, we thank you for making our online world more beautiful! CurtainsThanks, again, for tuning in. We look forward to seeing you next week. Tags: lj_photophile, photos, postcards, qotd, spotlight, writer's block, yandex
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D&D 3.5/Pathfinder game tonight. We are using the Paizo modules for Legacy of Fire. Party was a Druid, a Sorceror, a Paladin and a Scout. We had infiltrated the abandonned temple, moving into the darkness. We approached a spot where two reflecting pools once stood when we ran into something sticky. Webbing. And where there is web, there are spiders. Big spiders. The size of people. They attacked us and we fought back, slaying them. But we took some poison damage. We explored deeper into the temple. We heard a strange fluting melody upon the wind but did not find where it came from. We found an underground alter and triggered something. A big serpent attacked up and cast a cloud of magic darkness. Burning Hands took care of it, though. We reached level 5. to be continued... --- Atelier Annie is out for the DS tomorrow. I love Gust 2D sprite RPGs. I hope this one is as fun as previous ones released here. Current Music: YUI - Rolling Star (Bleach TV OP5)
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new robert jordan book came out today. It's bittersweet, because it's not actually jordan. It's a fan retelling of a book that never came out. Brandon Sanderson is an excellent writer, and easily my favorite of the new crop of fantasistas out there, but he writes like Sanderson, not Jordan. Jordan had a very distinct manner of speaking in his books, and a very military idiom. Sanderson is far more...modern in his tone--much more snark, and active voice, and less visual metaphor. And Sanderson, rightly so, makes no attempt at writing like Jordan. He knows damn well that his voice can never sound like the old man's, so rather than risk artistic integrity and insult the fans of the series, Sanderson is like the best of cover musicians--taking the soul of the melody and the spirit of the lyrics, and transporting it into his own experience. Reading the text is like listening to your favorite trumpet solo, or violin concerto, as played by an accordion or sitar. The notes are the same, and the music, were you to transcribe it, would be identical, but the sound is still very very different and unique.
On the one hand, it is absolutely heartbreaking, because Jordan was such a skilled world builder, and had such a lovely, sonorous voice, and he will never sing to us again. And on the other, it's tremendously exciting, as Sanderson is a virtuoso interpreting the final, lost works of a master composer, and when he performs correctly, you hear the original soul of the story--and when he improvises, you feel encouraged rather than dismayed.
I've been reading wheel of time since my 7th grade year, when my dad accidentally bought me the Dragon Reborn, thinking it was a dragonlance book. I've read every book since 6 onwards on the day of release, and have the entire collection signed by jordan, whom i had the pleasure of meeting once, during a reading he did. I froze up that day, when i went to shake his hand. I couldnt ask him the questions i wanted, or do more than express my deep gratitude, if that. I was like a deer in headlights. And each subsequent tour he came on, i had to miss for whatever reason, sending my brother in my stead. And now, I'll never be able to truly thank him for his world. I count myself deeply lucky that i've been able to forge relationships with all of my other favorite authors, game designers, and musicians, yet Mr Jordan will forever elude me.
All i can do is thank Sanderson for picking up the mantel when i go to his signing next month.
But for now, i curl up with The Gathering Storm, and I go home again, to one of the greatest worlds i've had the pleasure of residing in.
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