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eyelid)it is so bizarre to me when people are worried about taking a medication because it has a long list of potential side effects.
EVERY medication has a long list of potential side effects. These are not particularly likely to happen just because they are listed.
dwell)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.
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I try to give away or repurpose the things I no longer need. But today I threw some things out:
2 dozen second hand Gingham and eyelet placemats (garrf) given to me by the mother in law who emotionally abuses me.
2 Flamingo placemats and napkins from the superrattiest of superrat exes
2 Snowman placemats given to me by a frenemy
a bunch of bleached out, falling apart old placemats and napkins I bought in another lifetime.
Some of these things would make good rags, but I couldn't save them. I needed to obliterate the reminders of those horrid people and those horrid times. I don't want your scraps. I don't want you.
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cmerun12)Our service men and women:
For those that are working at it...
For those that are MIA...
For those that are POW...
For those that have been wounded...
For those that have died...
For those that stand for all the things I sometimes take for granted...
Thank you for all that you've done.
Thank you for all that you're doing.
lissa_dora)Today, I am thankful for every man and woman who has fought in the U.S. Military.
Because of all of you, this country remains free and safe.
Thank you.
lissa_dora)
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Yesterday, I was thankful for better living through chemistry - the wonders, in specific, of pseudoephedrine and its not-as-cool cousin Phenylephrine.
urbaniak)AOL News has picked up the FoxNews.com story about Peter Vadala. The headline is "Man Fired Over Gay Marriage Comment," which is how the story is being framed. That framing is incorrect.
There's no evidence that Peter Vadala said anything at all about gay marriage. From his account of the incident:
As the end of the day came, this manager from the other store, my superior, was about to leave and she brought up her so-called female fiance for the fourth time, at least the fourth time and I said to her, out of earshot of anybody, you know, not to make a scene or anything, there was no one else around, as I said, "You know, regarding homosexuality, I believe that's, I believe that's bad stuff."He didn't defend traditional marriage, he didn't attack gay marriage. He told the woman that her homosexuality was wrong. He knew she was gay because she'd mentioned the sex of her fiance but Peter Vadala's issue with her was that she was gay, period. Her marriage was so much icing on her gay cake.
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Well, I have some news. I wouldn't call it good news, but I would certainly call it better news than what the news could have been.
We have finally negotiated a settlement with ABC: we will be closed from Monday, January 4th through Thursday, January 28th, and that will basically be the end of it.
As you no doubt recall, they had been trying to revoke our liquor license and put us permanently out of business. So, this is better than that.
There are also a few years of "probation" on top of the suspension (basically meaning that if they hit us with a second accusation of being a "disorderly house injurious to the public welfare and morals", that would be really bad), but this 25 day suspension should be the end of this battle.
As the saying goes, "Our long national nightmare of peace and prosperity is finally over."
We could not have gotten a deal even this good without your help! Your letters and hard work of keeping the pressure on our elected officials were instrumental in facilitating this negotiation. So thank you all so very, very much for backing us in this fight!
Of course, it still cost us a fortune.
This all started in April 2007 when we kicked the hornets' nest by attempting to convert DNA Lounge to an all ages venue; that led directly to the retaliatory "lewdness" charge in August 2008. As I detailed on the Legal Defense Fund page, this fight has cost us well over a hundred twenty thousand dollars so far. That doesn't count all the money we've spent on lawyers and consultants since last February, nor does it count the truly staggering amount of lost revenue we're looking at by losing almost the entire month of January.
I think we've gotten around $25k in donations to our legal defense fund so far, which has been a fantastic and generous outpouring of support! But, obviously, we could still use some help... So if you can, please donate! It's going to be a cold, hungry January this year...
dnalounge updatejwz)DNA Lounge update, wherein the axe falls.
xiombarg)
As I stood in the snow looking at the half-covered corpse, I
remembered that the Neo-Nipponese believe that snow meanss the gods
are so filled with desire for the world, that there's a bukkake party
in Heaven.
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eyelid)Patrick is interviewing for a job this week.
my feelings are very mixed. on the one hand, Raphael is clearly old enough to go to daycare. He's almost a year and a half, and he's ingenious and intrepid and active and destructive. He could use the change of scene. Isaac won't love going to school for longer days, but he'll live. He likes school.
OTOH, it's been so nice having Patrick at home. I can feel safe about everything. Children are taken care of. Patrick is around to do anything emergent.
OTOH, omfg, two incomes. !!
patrickwonders)I have a job interview next week. The head hunter says they are
going to quiz me on C++ basics
. He says that I should study
up because it is all likely stuff that I've forgotten the names of
or never used and would only know if I just graduated from some
school that teaches C++.
I find it hard to get my head around this. I cannot imagine
being stymied by C++ basics
. But, lest I rest on
imagined laurels, I'll browse through some books. And...
I challenge you to stump me.
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urbaniak)A response to Saturday's post:
Sadly, as I'm sure this anonymous commenter will attest, there are still many Christians who refuse to verbally confront and condemn the gay people in their workplaces, communities and families. My parents, for example, go to church every week yet I have never heard them criticize a gay person. Not even their out nephew! Let us pray for their souls, Anonymous!
As noted in the previous post, when he is not telling gay co-workers they engage in "bad stuff," the proudly heterosexual Mr. Vadala composes songs in the American musical theatre tradition. This is all well and good but I would suggest that young Mr. V explore hipper, more modern musical genres so as to reach more members of his generation. I offer herewith a humble "dance track" remix of his YouTube video to get the ball rolling. Sing unto Him a new song!
He was fired for your sins.
xiombarg)Phil hated Metro newbies.
As he watched the woman fumble with her construction of magnetic tape and paper, he considered how much time he was losing.
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