I do, I hate it because no one reads the posts from Fridays and I really want people to read this...LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE! I put it on Facebook and I'm going to put it a couple of other places, but I really want someone to be angry with me on this one.

So, the story...I was coming home through Southlake today (a very swank city) and I was behind this nice, white business truck. It was a truck that you would go and do estimates with, not the one of the ones the workers would use. It had decals on it to advertise the business. Well, you know, when you are behind a truck like that and you are at a red light you read the ads. Well I noticed on the upper right hand side of the tailgate, in a decal mind you, NOT a bumper sticker, but the same decal style of the name of the company was, "OBAMA! Leave our children alone!" which made me pause a bit. I mean, this is a company truck. This is what you want posted next to your website? Well, OK, I wouldn't but to each his own...THEN, THEN I looked to the left and this is what it said:

"Hey Democrats, I am not a female, you can't shove anything down my throat."

So take a second there...just mull that over in your mind. Don't worry, I'll wait, I know, it's strange. There are any number of things wrong with that. Let's think about the type of person who would have that on just a personal vehicle, then think about the type of person who would have that on his BUSINESS truck. A truck you would take to nice homes and possibly have to talk to women about your product. Now think about what that's really saying...Does this guy not have a mother, sister, grandmother, aunt, kindergarten teacher? Really? I am kind of beside myself----still. STILL beside myself. I am just not sure what to do with it. However, I will say, they DO want all your comments and suggestions Just sayin'.

Sadly, this isn't the only thing like this I saw today today. On a veterinarian's sign (where there would usually be some kind of cute saying) it said, "Tell the government to leave our freedoms and liberties alone!" What the HELL is going on in Southlake? In America?

Fucking white people.

There is a festival at Discovery Green dedicated to fans of the Big Lebowski tonight with human bowling, costume contests, and a showing of the movie at 10pm.

http://lebowskihouston.wordpress.com/

Tomorrow I going on a coffee crawl with Houston Chowhounds.

I really love the Autumn Faerie Items at Pet Society...

Notes augmented

We've enhanced and de-bugged Notes. If you haven't tried it yet, now's the time! You can create a private note when you ban multiple users. You can also delete multiple notes at once. Lastly, paid users have the option to add a note (visible only to you) whenever you add or remove a friend (guaranteed to avoid embarrassing social mishaps). If you don't currently have a paid account, you can upgrade now! It only takes a few minutes and costs less than a bad shopping mall haircut (plus, it's way more fashionable)!

Product tweaks and bug kill

1. In another effort to zap spam, comments containing links from domains LiveJournal deems untrustworthy are now automatically screened
2. If you sign up to get notifications of the Writer's Block question of the day, you'll now see the daily question in the email notification, so you'll have a little extra time to ponder before you post. You can subscribe to Writers Block notifications here
3. The issue causing random comments to vanish has been fixed!
4. If you visit a LiveJournal page and get prompted to log in, you'll be returned to the same page after you sign in (Thanks, Dreamwidth)!
5. If you don't edit the timestamp for an entry at all, the entry timestamp will indicate the time the entry was posted instead of the time the Update Journal page was loaded
6. Comments with paddings/backgrounds render correctly within the comment box (and will no longer wrap outside the box and break frames/margins)

New FCK fixes rich text editor!

1. We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5
2. When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds are no longer broken
3. RTE now functions properly in Safari 4.0
4. An extra line/space will not be auto-inserted whenever you switch from RTE to HTML editor
5. The insert image link now works correctly in all browsers

LiveJournal Cares

We’re pleased to introduce you to lj_cares, a new LiveJournal community dedicated to raising awareness and funds for U.S. charitable organizations that improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Each month, we’ll spotlight a nonprofit that is making a significant global impact through medical research, public outreach, and/or humanitarian social programs. Charities will be selected in accordance with the U.S. calendar of national health observances based on a high rating (of over 60%) on Charity Navigator and global scope of impact.

In this, our inaugural month of November, we will celebrate national adoption month by offering a charitable virtual gift (priced at $2.99) to support Love Without Boundaries, an organization that saves the lives of orphans with life-threatening diseases and places them in loving homes around the world. LiveJournal will donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of charitable vgifts (we'll cover the cost of credit card transaction fees). To learn more about Love Without Boundaries, please visit lj_cares and read about how they helped save Baby Kang and the Rainbow Twins from fatal illnesses, who are now thriving in nurturing families. You can purchase your Love Without Boundaries gifts in the Virtual Gift shop.

Papered in postcards

A couple of weeks ago, we asked you to send in postcards to surround us with LiveJournal community. Thanks for coming through! We've received postcards all the way from Germany, Finland, and Canada and from all over the US, including Texas, Florida, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Indiana, Hawaii, and Oklahoma just to name just a handful. We're thrilled with our improved decor.

Please keep the love coming for one more week by writing to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be drawing the names of ten random contributors next Thursday to win paid account credits!

Photos of the week

We have more dazzling images posted by talented LiveJournal photographers from around the world. We're hoping to span the entire globe, so please continue posting and tagging. Of course, you can also sit back and enjoy the view at lj_photophile.

You can see a sample of this week's gorgeous photos and check out spotlight communities and awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

We thank you, once again, for joining us. See you next week!

I am starting to get Doomling's stuff together for the holidays. So my friends... I would love to know what toys you think one of the awesome-est kids in the world should have.

Links and pictures = lurv.
Why would be great to know
If it a fav, would love to know if it was your fav, sibling etc...

I plan on adding to his Amazon list, so older age appropriate toys are okay to suggest :D

Also, here's your chance, find what you think is the best holiday outfit and post me a link :D What makes it the best holiday outfit for Dooling (18 months is a good size currently ;-) )

(I play the oxycodone for me being a wee bit silly :D )

PENDANT PRODUCTIONS PROUDLY PRESENTS:

Original art by Adam Bell for Pendant Productions

Batman: The Ace of Detectives, Issue 46 - "Appointment in Bludhaven"

A Hush descends on Gotham and ensnares Bruce while fate seizes Oracle!

Batman: The Ace of Detectives is a serialized, full-cast audio adventure with one new episode every month! Available for FREE download in .mp3 format or as a Podcast!

Also available - a commentary track with the writer and director!

iTunes link:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=207999046

Podcast feed:
http://www.pendantaudio.com/batman_podcast.xml

Download link:
http://www.pendantaudio.com/batman.php

 

PENDANT PRODUCTIONS PROUDLY PRESENTS:

Original artwork by Paul Leclerc for Pendant Productions

Catwoman: Queen of Thieves, Issue 15 - "Mixed Signals"

Selina fights to stop a vicious bank robbery from turning deadly!

Catwoman: Queen of Thieves is a serialized, full-cast audio adventure with one new episode every month! Available for free download in .mp3 format or as a Podcast.

Also available - a commentary track with the writers and director!

iTunes link:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=290869317

Podcast feed:
http://www.pendantaudio.com/catwoman_podcast.xml

Download link:
http://www.pendantaudio.com/catwoman.php

( Tears and Team-work )

EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP.

Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!!

Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out!

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On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice.

Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials.

We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait!

As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work.

I broke 30,000 words just now. It was like pulling teeth today, but I managed. There is turtle cheesecake in my very near future.

Stolen from:

sobloodycute

• Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper on their LiveJournal. (Not in comments! On YOUR LJ!)
• Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
• Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!



I fell in love with this wallpaper when I saw it under "downloads" on Tinkerbell's facebook page.  Iridessa is a character from the Tinkerbell movies which I adore..  It is from an early scene in the new movie "Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure" which is an instant fave of mine.  I love it also because it is perfect for fall.  I love it because it is bright and cheery.  I love it because it has a fairy in it.  Enough said.

Iridessa's bio

What songs make you happy?

Due to a massive USPS screw-up, the Dirty South Will Call didn't receive their Raven Moon and testers in time for Will Call. So, they're holding a second Raven Moon Will Call!

GA Will Call will be at Whole Foods Market, aka Harry’s Farmer’s Market, in Roswell, GA.

They will be holding Will Call on Sunday, November 15th from 5 to 8pm, inside Salud (which is inside the store.)

Whole Foods Market is located at 1180 Upper Hembree Road, Roswell, GA, 30076.

They will be holding an auction to benefit flood damaged farms in GA. Everyone who donates will receive an imp of Daya.


They will have all of the current LE’s available, along with their extensive selection of GC scents and all of the Retail-only Salon series as well.

Whole Foods accepts Visa, Master Card, Discover, American Express and cash. They will not be able to accept any preorders.

Image (c) Whuddleworld, Inc./Nuco Partners, LLC All Rights Reserved
http://www.whuddleworld.com/

To see full animations of current whuddle go here: http://www.whuddleworld.com/profile.php?id=pixiew

To join:
http://www.whuddleworld.com/reg/register.php?referredby=pi

PENDANT PRODUCTIONS PROUDLY PRESENTS:

Original art by Daniel Chon for Pendant Productions

Red Sands Investigations, episode 2 - "Keep it Hidden"

A robbery investigation leads Carla to deadly truths about Red Sands!

"Red Sands Investigations" is a full-cast, fantasy maxi-series serial drama. Available for free download in .mp3 format, or as a Podcast!

Also available -- a commentary track with the director and writer along with the script editor!

iTunes link:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=334638962

Podcast feed:
http://www.pendantaudio.com/rsi-podcast.xml

Download link:
http://pendantaudio.com/redsands.php

( The plot thickens )