Euuugh, I want an iPad. I waaaaant one.
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mklutzGuys, I dreamt I had the chance to date Nathan Fillion. All I had to do to win was make a 30 second speech about why we would be awesome together. Except my speech sucked and all I could think of were reasons it would be a bad idea and reasons we would be amazing BFFs. Also my hover-style craft thing kept floating away and he had to keep pulling it back.
Links
Saddest and funniest video in ages -- single ladies.
Maru, you adorable thing you!
The continuing adventures of what I want to call “Kate Beaton, you are my HERO (Let’s be friends)
Zach Morris is back! Just as he was in the 90s!
Viaghostdrive: Loco Roco themed nursery - adorable.
It’s everything I could have wanted in an Easter post from Cute Overload.
Kate Beaton + Penny Arcade = homoeroticism? Wait, what? Also Not Kate Beaton, but XKCD about earthquake notification via Twitter is dead accurate. See what I did there? Ha.
Things of interest to me on![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fangasmic this week: TFLN, Doctor Who post I agree with almost entirely, an explanation for what the hell happened on ANTM this week (PS: I now enjoy just watching Nigel’s face while Tyra hands out photos. Hilarious.).
Canada doesn’t have iPads yet but this might be relevant to your interests if your country does -- how to convert other file formats to ePub. (On a mac, a PC, or a linux machine!)
I love these kids and their musical theory.
OTW decides to make fanart archive; AO3 still sucks balls. I just feel this is a very bad idea until the AO3 has reached a level I might call “passable”. Right now I don’t read anything on there. Ever. That’s how bad it is.
Like Kate Hewlett needed inserts, please. Have you seen her rack?
Save space on your iPhone without deleting anything.
Hell, I imagine, is always some frustration or thing you do not enjoy, for eternity. Like this un-winable game of Tetris. Check the alt text. Just thinking about the theoretical Katamari and Mario games made me tense.
Good news: Canadians flying to the states can take two carry on bags again or something. Whatever.
Heads up, people do this all the time. Before you visit a foreign country, you should probably exchange your currency. We actually get a tonne of Americans trying to use American money here.
Well, shit. There were a lot of good things in the iPhone/Pad 4.0 release (though not as many as I’d hoped) and then there was this, which is basically a deal-breaker. Apple, not cool. Not cool ever.
Maru, still adorable, still needs boxhab.
TELL CANADA WHAT THE IPAD DEAL IS, APPLE. TELL US NOW. I don’t want to have to drive to the freaking states to buy one since our dollars are basically par, and then return here to a horrible 3G plan offered by the hell hole that is Rogers. DON’T RUIN THIS FOR ME.
Fic Recs
Merlin
The One Where Arthur is Turned Into a Girl by Misswinterhill [Merlin/Arthur]
Arthur offends a travelling goddess who turns him into a girl for a week. Lovely.
Guys I have been reading some epic Star Trek fic all week. Sorry I haven’t had time to read anything else! It is honestly all I do. I read it, and read it, and sometimes paste bits of it or describe it to some friends and then they all ask me why I am so terrible inside and tell me they hate me. But it is amazing. In related news: I only have one Merlin rec for you this week. Sorry?
Links
Saddest and funniest video in ages -- single ladies.
Maru, you adorable thing you!
The continuing adventures of what I want to call “Kate Beaton, you are my HERO (Let’s be friends)
Zach Morris is back! Just as he was in the 90s!
Via
ghostdrive: Loco Roco themed nursery - adorable. It’s everything I could have wanted in an Easter post from Cute Overload.
Kate Beaton + Penny Arcade = homoeroticism? Wait, what? Also Not Kate Beaton, but XKCD about earthquake notification via Twitter is dead accurate. See what I did there? Ha.
Things of interest to me on
fangasmic this week: TFLN, Doctor Who post I agree with almost entirely, an explanation for what the hell happened on ANTM this week (PS: I now enjoy just watching Nigel’s face while Tyra hands out photos. Hilarious.).Canada doesn’t have iPads yet but this might be relevant to your interests if your country does -- how to convert other file formats to ePub. (On a mac, a PC, or a linux machine!)
I love these kids and their musical theory.
OTW decides to make fanart archive; AO3 still sucks balls. I just feel this is a very bad idea until the AO3 has reached a level I might call “passable”. Right now I don’t read anything on there. Ever. That’s how bad it is.
Like Kate Hewlett needed inserts, please. Have you seen her rack?
Save space on your iPhone without deleting anything.
Hell, I imagine, is always some frustration or thing you do not enjoy, for eternity. Like this un-winable game of Tetris. Check the alt text. Just thinking about the theoretical Katamari and Mario games made me tense.
Good news: Canadians flying to the states can take two carry on bags again or something. Whatever.
Heads up, people do this all the time. Before you visit a foreign country, you should probably exchange your currency. We actually get a tonne of Americans trying to use American money here.
Well, shit. There were a lot of good things in the iPhone/Pad 4.0 release (though not as many as I’d hoped) and then there was this, which is basically a deal-breaker. Apple, not cool. Not cool ever.
Maru, still adorable, still needs boxhab.
TELL CANADA WHAT THE IPAD DEAL IS, APPLE. TELL US NOW. I don’t want to have to drive to the freaking states to buy one since our dollars are basically par, and then return here to a horrible 3G plan offered by the hell hole that is Rogers. DON’T RUIN THIS FOR ME.
Fic Recs
Merlin
The One Where Arthur is Turned Into a Girl by Misswinterhill [Merlin/Arthur]
Arthur offends a travelling goddess who turns him into a girl for a week. Lovely.
Guys I have been reading some epic Star Trek fic all week. Sorry I haven’t had time to read anything else! It is honestly all I do. I read it, and read it, and sometimes paste bits of it or describe it to some friends and then they all ask me why I am so terrible inside and tell me they hate me. But it is amazing. In related news: I only have one Merlin rec for you this week. Sorry?
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Date: 2010-04-09 01:33 am (UTC)Also, heee! Can we has Trek recs, pretty please? There's only so many times I can obsessively reread War Games before it becomes a bit weird, you know? :P
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Date: 2010-04-09 01:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-09 01:42 am (UTC)Lucky Star (not the one I mentioned before) and
Secret Vulcan Mating Rituals (my previous comment). I warned you, man. This is an indulgence for me.
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Date: 2010-04-09 01:54 am (UTC)o_0 *cries*
The sad thing is, I will probably end up keeping these tabs opened, I am getting that desperate. fsfdshgfvncjjkfdsag
I WOULD THANK YOU EXCEPT I KINDA HATE YOU RIGHT NOW.
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Date: 2010-04-09 01:55 am (UTC)Yes you will. SUCKER.
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Date: 2010-04-09 07:09 am (UTC)Also good job on reading trek fic. Come to the dark side. IDK about Lucky Star but I'm totally reading Vulcan Mating Rituals and it's the most BDSM fic I've ever actually read past the point where I figured out it was BDSM, and I like it in a shameless way.
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Date: 2010-04-09 11:40 am (UTC)But an archive shouldn't require a third party modification to make it reach my minimum standard of usability. I consider the AO3 a failure or completely broken, which is why I'm upset that they're looking into a fanart archive. It's like trying to build a house when you can't even build a chair.
Haha, true story: I am weak to the right kind of BDSM AUs. In a big way. This one has some points where I get a little uncomfortable but I'm still reading!
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Date: 2010-04-09 07:19 pm (UTC)In any case, I'm sorry you're running into problems, because I totally adore all the tag filtering options on AO3, and I've spent many happy hours reading the fic there. I don't have an iPhone, though, so can't comment about possible problems that way.
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Date: 2010-04-10 03:15 am (UTC)Everyone else seems to really like the AO3, but between the visual issues I have with physically being unable to bring myself to read on there and the search function not actually finding anything, I've basically given up on it. Especially since I contacted them about it and no one responded or even seems to care over there.
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Date: 2010-04-10 01:34 pm (UTC)Grrr, reading problems.
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Date: 2010-04-10 03:02 pm (UTC)I hope you won't mind my dropping a note here: your friend linked us to your conversation via a support request on the Archive. I have responded to her in detail, but I wanted to assure you personally that we do consider accessibility issues a high priority on the Archive, and we also try to respond to everyone who contacts us about the Archive within a week or less. I'm not sure what happened in your case, but it seems that something went wrong (possibly your request didn't get through to us) and we're very sorry that you were left feeling that we don't care.
We're working on more viewing options for the Archive, which we hope will resolve the problems you've been experiencing. In the meantime, please do contact us via our support and feedback form with any questions or concerns - we endeavour to respond to support requests in a clear and timely manner.
Thanks - and apologies for your bad experience in this case.
Zooey
Chair of Accessibility, Design and Technology Committee, OTW
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Date: 2010-04-09 01:38 am (UTC)The Trek fic I am reading-- I mean, listen. I think it is amazing. I love it. But I am also under no delusions that anyone sane would probably think this is a terrible idea. But oh god, I can't get enough and I'm chapter like, 16 of unknown. I just hesitate to say HEY, EVERYONE. READ THIS AND NEVER JUDGE ME.
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Date: 2010-04-09 06:22 am (UTC)Star Trek recs, you say? *perks up* *reads comments* *clicks!*
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Date: 2010-04-09 11:48 am (UTC)I'm fine with ?style=mine'ing things on livejournal because at least then I know that my journal is easy to read, high contrast, and has a smaller paragraph width so it loads really nicely on my phone. Whenever I change journal styles that's half my decision making right there. AO3 doesn't need customizable layouts, they need a button that adjusts paragraph width! That's all!
It drives me insane that they haven't done it yet! I filled out a support form on their site telling them this ages ago, but apparently no one there cares. Which means I'll just continue to never read anything on their site-- it's unusable for me. Completely.
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Date: 2010-04-09 01:55 pm (UTC)Oh, I'm not complaining about AO3's choice of customizable layouts or lack thereof—it's people's far too variable styles on LJ that annoy me. *grins*
Well, you could always try filling out the form again!
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Date: 2010-04-10 03:11 am (UTC)The varied LJ styles bother me, too! Thank goodness for ?style=mine.
Man, I don't think it will make a difference. They really don't seem to care.