| what happened to my userpic? |
[Feb. 12th, 2009|12:36 pm] |
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I just noticed that my userpic changed from my rosebud nebula image to the pretty pink rose.
It's pretty, but wasn't anything I uploaded.
Does anyone know why it should suddenly change? |
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| Balticon roomshare |
[May. 14th, 2008|10:52 pm] |
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This is last minute, but is anyone looking to share a room at Balticon? I have a reservation for Friday-Monday... |
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| Cool Nerd Queen |
[Feb. 25th, 2008|07:27 pm] |
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Thanks to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) smofbabe
update: I took the previous test again:
This is a nerdier score than when I took it the first time! |
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| new phone, no memory |
[Feb. 25th, 2008|05:26 pm] |
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So I decided that since I was happy enough with my AT&T plan, I would stick with them and see what they could do for me. The first attempt was trying a new battery, but that didn't work. Then they tried a new sim card, but that also failed. So I got a new phone. A basic Nokia, but the basic now has a built-in camera!
But they were also unable to transfer the stored phone numbers from my old phone to my new one.
So if you think I should have your cell/home/work number in my cell phone, please email me or post here (I've screened all comments.)
If you don't have my cell and you think you should, please mention that also and I'll either send you a note or give you a call.
Thanks! |
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| New phone plan? |
[Feb. 19th, 2008|03:54 pm] |
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As many people may have heard, my cell phone died during ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) boskone. paradoox loaned me a temp cell phone in case someone needed to call me (or for me to make occasional calls.) I got into my old cell's setup menu and created an extended "away" message with the new number...
But now I have several decisions to make...
1) Stick with ATT and see what sort of phone they will offer me for getting another 2-year contract?
2) Switch to another carrier, get a contract (or not?) and a new phone?
3) Find a cheap phone online, and see about getting my sim card transferred to that?
Some researched I've already done discovered that both ATT & Verizon have basic voice plans for $40. My only extra expense has been for the occasional text messages sent/received. I've never had enough to warrant paying $5 or $10 for unlimited text.
T-Mobile has a plan for $30, plus IIRC, T-Mobile is AAA's current partner so that should mean a 5-10% discount, though looking at the AAA website it seems all they are offering is a waiver on the activation fee. I don't know if I "renew" my contract at an ATT store, if that will continue the "Cingular/AAA" discount I currently have.
So my question is advise as to whether I should switch plans (and to what), and what phone people recommend that I get (or stay away from.)
My only real requirement is that I don't pay for roaming charges.
(please don't send me "replacement" cell numbers yet. I'll create another posting with screened comments if I need to do that.) |
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| My mother's war story |
[Feb. 13th, 2008|03:53 pm] |
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Bruce Schneier posts about female suicide bomber warnings. This reminded me of a story my mother told me about the first time she was living in Israel.
She and my father were Zionists and they intended to emigrate to Israel to live on a Kibbutz. The year was 1946, and it wasn't exactly easy to get there at the time. My mother took a ship to Athens and got off when it reached Haifa. She gave up her passport to help someone else get in.
My father worked as crew on a ship that went via France to pickup refugees, but then got stopped by the British and was in a camp on Cyprus for several months (as in the movie Exodus.)
They released him and he finally got to Palestine. Skip ahead a year or so, it was early 1948, my mother was pregnant, but my father was having blackouts, so they decided to come back the the US. My mother needed to get a replacement passport. She took a bus to Jerusalem, which was expected to be uneventful. However, the bus was stopped by British military to be searched. She had noticed a woman at the back of the bus with a lapful of knitting; the woman went up to my mother and revealed that under her knitting were gun/bomb parts. She asked my mother to place them above her pregnant belly. The British soldiers were gentlemen, and as the woman predicted, did not search my mother.
Neither my mother, nor the woman were suicide bombers or terrorists, but they cared deeply for what they believed in: The State of Israel.
60 years later a lot has changed. I really hate what the world has become, but I also wonder whether there would be an Israel at all if the security measures in the world today were in effect 60 years ago,
Please no rants in the comments. My mother died five years ago, and this posting is a partial memorial for her. She would have been 87 on February 24. |
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| Double Feature |
[Dec. 26th, 2007|05:11 pm] |
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I was getting my typical Christmas Bah Humbugs... It really didn't help that there was no power at work on Monday, since that meant it was harder to do what I needed to get done at home. (better connection, software, etc. at work.) It was mostly done, all but an e-letter to configure and send and I told the project manager that I thought I could get it out on Tuesday. We had the day off, but I was already behind, so I didn't mind doing a bit extra. I finished my part and sent the preview out, was just waiting on any correction. So I decided to check the movie times at the Framingham multiplex. I was in the mood to see one more movie, so I went back to the box office to decide what to see next... |
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| Political meme |
[Dec. 13th, 2007|02:00 pm] |
This was sent around at work today: glassbooth.org
You divide up twenty points on issues that are most important to you. Based on those points you are asked how strongly you feel about certain questions. i.e.:
I support or oppose gay marriage
I support or oppose civil unions
I support or oppose allowing gays to serve openly in the military
I support or oppose extending federal rights and benefits to same-sex couples
There is usually a Wikipedia link for commentary.
Then the top three candidates with similar views are presented.
I don't know how accurate this is, but the site at least gets people thinking and learning about the issues and encourages people to vote. |
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| Drupal discussions |
[Dec. 3rd, 2007|07:19 pm] |
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So the CMS we decided to use at work is Drupal. See JVibe.com. It is better and worse than the proprietary CMS that other sites at JFL have been using (and which requires $$$ for major updates...)
I'm creating a private list to discuss questions I have, mainly to let me be honest about some of the problems without worrying on who at work is reading my posts. Please let me know if you want to be added to the list. (whether you can help or think it is useful to learn something...) Until this list gets started, I may post some friends-only comments... |
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| mailing lists down |
[Dec. 29th, 2006|11:09 pm] |
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There has been an unexpected ISP change to where the NESFA, MCFI, SFLOVERS (smofs, smofcon & timebinders) and other fannish groups (Arisia, Albacon and others) have their mailing lists hosted. See xdaemon's post for more details.
DNS changes and propagation is/may be necessary before things start to work again. I'm posting this to my LJ since many people on my flist are on some of these lists. Please excuse the bandwidth if you aren't.
In the mean time enjoy the relative quietness. :-)
I'll post updates as I know them
(cross-posted to the nesfa Community.) |
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| Chanukah and other December musings... |
[Dec. 22nd, 2006|03:28 pm] |
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Happy Chanukah!
I hope that everyone is having a good holiday. I've always liked Chanukah since it's always been close to my birthday (last year was one of the few that it was late enough to be on my birthday! I did feel a little bit gypped, but my parents always made sure that I got the "big" present on my birthday, and I also usually got a few extras with the post-Christmas sales. Over Thanksgiving, my brother gave me the second "family" menorah that we had. This one had a music box built in and a separable shamash holder so that you didn't need to hold the candle to light the others. But I've been using the other menorah that my mother gave me years ago (with 9 Maccabees in a row) so far this year. Perhaps tonight, I'll switch.
Smofcon 24 was fun at the beginning of the month. I'm sorry that there were a few organizational problems. I suspect that those didn't help the KC in 2009 bid very much. It is always a bit dangerous for a bid to be too much in a spotlight... It is a bit ironic that the theme/focus was "Improving Our Communications."
Pre-Smofcon (and during and after!) I've was working on the new website for Smofcon 25. gerisullivan and I swapped a bunch of emails, and I stayed over her house before Thanksgiving for some more work. I was pleased that we had a working site that I was able to push live during the Smofcon selection session. And when debgeisler sent me the initial membership list that night, I immediately updated the membership page. I was told that people were impressed that we had a membership list live so fast, and some were disappointed that five seconds after they joined on Sunday there wasn't a Real Time update. ;-)
I'm pretty please with this website since I always try to make each site I do a bit better than previous ones. And learn new skills along the way. I'm also happy with the redesign of the NESFA Press website that I worked on last spring/summer/fall.
I'm always glad to get passed Winter Soltice since I like seeing the days getting longer again.
I don't have any special plans this weekend, I was thinking of going to a movie on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. I wanted to see Stranger Than Fiction, but it only seems to be playing in Kendall Sq or Danvers. Is any one on my flist interested in that? Or another movie? I might also be interested in another "chick flick" The Holiday or something else. |
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| Combat Card |
[Nov. 29th, 2006|03:52 pm] |
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Not really sure what this does, but a number of people on my flist have one...
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| yeah, I'm back, but not at home |
[Nov. 25th, 2006|05:22 pm] |
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OK, I've been gone for a while. Post-LA-con I really did try to catch up on journals and communities to read reports, etc. And almost made it by the end of September, but then I fell behind again. :-(
So, I finally gave up and will start fresh, so whatever that acronym is, don't expect that I've read any postings unless you tell me about them.
Oh, and Belated Hippos Birdies to all that I missed! perhaps a post edit will include LJ IDs...
I'm in White Plains at present. Seth and I will be meeting some friends for sushi soon. We were supposed to have dinner with his parents, but his father has pneumonia and isn't sure yet whether infectious or not.
But back-tracking a bit... Wednesday night I went to gerisullivan and say Furniture Mayhem in person. (And I hope that she repeats the Chocolate Cabbage Cake at a time when I can enjoy the final product!)
Thursday I got a later start than I wanted (duh!) and with a Nor'easter blowing through Connecticut and various traffic delays (plus reports of future delays) I decided to do something that I never did before since moving to Massachusetts... Take the Long Island Ferry! While looking at the map while I was going back and forth between I-95 and the Merritt I realized that I was close to Bridgeport. The road sign said Bridgeport, next five exists and I wasn't about to start driving around in search of the Ferry, so I told myself that if one of the exit signs looked like it would point the way I would try it. The second exit did so and I arrived at the dock at 2:45 PM at which point they said that I would be on the 2:30 Ferry! (the Ferry was running behind schedule...)
The trip (including loading and unloading) took over an hour, the ship rocked around a lot, but it was still much less stressful than if I continued into NY, Throgs Neck Bridge, and then back east on Long Island. Instead I just drove south to my cousins house and arrived there by 5:00 PM! (after getting directions while on the Ferry...)
Thursday night I stayed with sandial and we called jcbemis who is still in a hospital in Hawaii...
Yesterday, was my brother's wedding party. The official part was by a judge in the morning, but they repeated the vows etc. in the afternoon. It was in a small Italian restaurant in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn. Seth met me at the restaurant and it was an enjoyable event. Afterwards we picked up his luggage from his brother's and checked into the hotel in White Plains. And then went to see Casino Royale in a local theater. We may go see another movie later tonight. |
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