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How do you make money from piracy of your work? Copy the pirates.
Wine 1.0 is coming out soon. Please check your apps against the release candidate
Transgender wish fulfilment. Characters randomly switching gender and having sex. The Wotch does this with the drawing skills of a child. Who can't draw. They ruthlessly plunder the wallets of their hapless devotees. And it's not even porn!
Furry porn. Arkady has already considered this. She has a massive advantage over most furry artists by knowing a damn thing about anatomy and perspective.
Furry transgender wish fulfilment porn. The "plot" should be Mills and Boon level soap opera. Just enough to make the hopelessly exploited and addicted fans feel it's not evil to follow avidly. Emotional wank fodder. DONATIONS NEEDED! HELP US KEEP UP THE SCHEDULE!
Furry transgender wish fulfilment gamer porn. This might be pushing it.
| Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 | ||
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valhenson |
3:17p | Coincidences I live near a used book store in the Mission, Dog-Eared books. In the window, they have little hand-drawn obituaries for various people, mostly famous writers and revolutionaries. I really like them and usually read one or two when I walk by. A couple of weeks ago, I stopped to read one and realized that it was not about a famous writer or a revolutionary. It was for one of my college math professors, Dr. Curtis Barefoot.  Dr. Barefoot taught me how to prove theorems; I remember in particular that proof by induction was kicking my ass until he sat down and explained to me that I could only change one side of the equation at a time. I remember spending a great summer competing with a friend to get the highest grade in his combinatorics class (I won by .01 percent). San Francisco is full of coincidences and chance meetings, but so far this is the least explicable. |
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brrm |
9:54p | Now-and-then photos of people with their cars, which they keep for long periods of time Give me 30 years, and I'll post some of my own here. ;-) Via Kottke |
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emperor |
6:26p | Once was woefully inept. I'm running out of printable words to describe the repeat performance. Readers with long memories may recall Nationwide's woefully incompetent mishandling of our previous house move. We moved house recently, I printed off the change-of-address form and sent it in to Nationwide (my other bank let me do this all online, but never mind that for now). Today I get a letter saying "...unfortunately, as we do not hold your signature on our system I have been unable to validate your request.". I've given them my signature twice, now. Once in person in Cambridge, and once by post. What the heck are they doing with them? I fear someone is going to get an earful from me tomorrow, as I am really deeply unimpressed. Current Mood:  enraged |
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ewx |
1:24p | “neatly spatchcocked and self-served with lashings of smugness” Excellent hatchet-job. |
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davyd |
7:41p | make me an offer  Becky: my grandparents' golden retriever. There are 4 more photos if you follow the link. We put an offer in to buy a townhouse in Highgate this morning. Now we have to play the patience game until we hear back. Fingers crossed. I'm not very good at being patient! |
| jerkcity | 9:02a | complex marketplace  |
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reddragdiva |
6:12a | From the Sports Desk. I think this'll be the last LoudTwitter from me. People are right — these aren't LJ entries, just the pieces for them. |
| Monday, May 12th, 2008 | ||
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damerell |
10:33p | |
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rejs |
6:30p | Cheese shop G&Ds had run out of ice cream! Feh! |
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sunflowerinrain |
8:27p | Byebye The car is packed. Stuff is left over. I have my passport, ticket, credit cards, driving licence, and a collection of phone numbers and addresses. There is a sleeping mat and a sleeping bag and pillows and a cushion and a canvas chair and pans and cutlery and a borrowed laptop and just a few books. I think there are no plates or bowls. There was no room for the keyboard/synth, but a bag of sheet music and a tin whistle and bodhran fitted in somehow. Leaving soon. No internets... for aaages... Current Mood:  indescribable |
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ewx |
7:24p | Poll #1186664 Open to: All, results viewable to: All |
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debian [ 1k ] |
11:50p | 10 причин освоить Linux сегодня  © Photo courtesy of Larry Ewing, Simon Budig and Anja Gerwinski. Disclaimer: Цель данного поста — дать людям возможность попробовать что-то новое, а вовсе не начать новую волну флейма linux vs. windows. 1. Linux бесплатен Это значит, что за большинство дистрибутивов не надо платить. Вообще. Их можно абсолютно легально скачать в Интернете или купить на рынке и установить на любое количество компьютеров. Лицензия GNU GPL, распространяющаяся на Linux, предоставляет следующие права: (читать полностью...) |
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oml404 |
5:10p | The Rage Leeds vs Carlisle tonight (leg one). I'm really quite nervous as our form has been all over the place this season. Here's hoping they can actually reverse the downward spiral of the last few years and make a strong challenge for promotion. Current Mood: filled with trepidation Current Music: Death Riders - Suffer |
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brrm |
3:38p | After an utterly fabulous weekend which included a coworker's leaving do, some automotive fun with ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} p_a_r_a and antinomy, j4 & addedentry's birthday party, and the MGOC Regency Run from Brooklands to Brighton as well as a smattering of motorcycling and sitting in pub gardens...I bring you Fun Ways to Die, 1910 edition: Auto Polo! [via Nothing to do with Arbroath] |
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brrm |
3:20p | Oh look! A meme! ( Under the cut... ) |
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sphyg |
1:30p | BBC in science competence shocker A couple of hours ago, I mailed Auntie Beeb to point out that 2-methoxyoestradiol is a compound not a protein (8th para) and now it's been fixed. Hurrah! |
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reddragdiva |
12:57p | If only my cosplay could bring you back to life. Good Lord I got smashed at the Pembury last night. That's where the best bad ideas come from. London has gone straight from winter to summer with a week of spring somewhere in there. MY GOODNESS today's commute was eyecandyriffic. Attending Bisexual Underground, tomorrow evening 6pm on, upstairs at Blue Posts W1T 3EU (I'll get there around 7ish) — who else is going? ( |
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oml404 |
9:56a | Will Someone Shoot That Fucking Snake? Life is pretty good at the moment, things seem to be looking up on almost every front which either means I'm getting better at this crazy thing called life or there's some kind of tumour dissolving the part of my brain that allows me to accurately perceive reality. Life is less rosy for Gordon Brown. He's rolled out a plan to deal with the aging population and the press pause in their mud-slinging to note that this is probably a good thing. Then they go back to cackling about back bench rebellions over the embryology bill and printing opinions from far and wide including former minister Frank Field. Field offers one of the most surreal criticisms of Gordon Brown by describing him as "so unhappy inside his own body" which suggests that Brown harbours a secret desire to become a woman (or more likely some kind of android killing machine). In fact with Cherie Blair and John Prescott providing eerily similar descriptions of Gordon Brown as a soulless monster given to strangling kittens and setting fire to orphanages it's almost heartwarming to see David Milliband break ranks to describe Gordon Brown as a figure of almost Christlike composure and limitless charm. Or at least it would be were Milliband not the bookie's favourite (2-1) to take the leadership from Brown's still twitching corpse. There's nothing quite like the Judas kiss. Current Mood: rigid Current Music: The Crimson Ghosts - Patchwork Fuckface |
| jerkcity | 7:59a | elves wanted!  |
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airlied |
4:28p | running X as non-root - almost like the future or something... So X servers run as root, and this isn't good, for many many reason, and it wasn't always this way on other UNIXes. So as part of my quick hacks work I got an accelerated X server on intel hw that ran as a user today. The hacked up patches were around 300 lines total, one bit in the xserver, lots of non-root ioctl hacks to the drm and the intel driver had to register it wasn't a hw driver with X, and then fix up its buffer allocations to be non-evicted. Surprisingly it mostly seems to work, I can start the server + gnome-session + DRI2 + compiz + glxgears on a cube, granted it oopses soon afterwards but it does show we are very close to realising the dream. The xserver patch is in master, the drm patches are in modesetting-101 and the intel hacks are in the intel-kernelmode branch of my personal repo, as they are very hacky. Lots of things need to be fixed so this can be done properly but it nice to just see what it looked like e.g. the frontbuffer isn't pinned properly or the cursors etc. I have to log in on the console on vt2 and then run the following. /opt/xorg/bin/Xorg -logfile ~/xorglog -sharevts -novtswitch vt02 Granted I'm not sure how reproducible this is, it was afternoon hacks to get over the F9 bugfixing :) |
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reddragdiva |
6:06a | From the Sports Desk. . |
| Sunday, May 11th, 2008 | ||
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debian [ simbab ] |
7:04p | Pidgin 2.4.x on Etch? I have a friend whom I am supporting on Etch (I myself run Sid). I build a few programs for him as they are updated, Wine being the major one. Wine hasn't been a problem, it's a matter of firing up QEMU and compiling the packages from Unstable. Pidgin however, is throwing obscure linker errors when I try to compile it. I don't have the error readily available to me, so I decided I'd just ask here if anyone knows if it's possible to compile Pidgin 2.4.x using the toolchain and libraries in Etch (they have 2.3.1 at backports.org) or if I should just give up. If it's worth my time, though, I can post the output here and pursue it from there. Thanks! Current Mood:  annoyed |
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rmc28 |
10:56p | Weekend Party in Oxford; very nice to see j4 and addedentry and their many lovely guests, some of whom I did manage to remember meeting before. We drove over in james_r's car, so he could go on to see a friend in Abingdon, and managed to fit fivemack in as well. Less good was Charles's travelsickness, causing a lengthy roadside delay next to the house of a very rude person and a rather ... fragrant ... car for the rest of the day. I am now rapidly revising any journey plans which involve me driving alone long-distance with Charles, because it's clear that I couldn't safely do that kind of roadside cleanup alone. We had originally planned to leave early and hit a housewarming in Cambridge, but in the end it was just too good to leave until rather later. After doing the driving back, I was so tired I went straight to bed. Today has been fairly mellow: a couple of laundry loads drying in the sun, getting Tony to open his post before the letter rack exploded, a fair bit of Freecycle-related faff which included a nice walk with Charles, and I gather the boys were playing with water pistols in the garden. Charles having got the hang of soft toys, I dug out several we were given when he was much younger and put away when he didn't appreciate them. He now seems charmed, and is being very cute with them, especially when encouraged to give them rides in his toy buggy. |
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pavanne |
9:40p | Re-emerging from the wilderness B has been sailing me round the Norfolk Broads on a large, old-fashioned yacht. He negotiated the huge mass of ropes and cleats and nautical stuff like that on the boat, plus reedy channels, uncertain winds, and the odd drunken motorboat pilot. Meanwhile I pulled a few ropes (usually the wrong ones), skinned my finger on the mainsail, and helpfully shouted things like "Look, goslings! Baby grebe! Marsh harrier!" It has been epically good weather for May, we are both sunburned as proper sailors, and full of pub food and Norfolk ale. Many of the villages are based around "The Street", which sums them up really. It was very exciting to find a showering opportunity: even more exciting to find somewhere which sold toilet paper. So, I am back, and B is gone. Unfortunately in my absence my city has become Conservative. (Don't blame me. I voted for Ken before I left). So far as I understand it, they haven't sobered up enough to actually make any changes, which is probably for the best. Oh, and debateable millions of people are drowned or starving in Burma, which I guess puts political problems in London into perspective... Current Mood:  contemplative |
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reddragdiva |
9:32p | A crackin' fine pair of nerd girl boobs. I have been reading both the best and worst web comics. So. How to make a GODDAMN FORTUNE on the web from PURE EVIL: push EMOTIONAL FETISH PORN. How will we sleep at night? On a huge, soft, comfy pile of MONEY. It's probably less evil than starting a cult, which she has also considered. I've told her often enough that she won't be happy until she's running her own church, and today's service only reinforced this. |
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