The Open Source LJ client that Ginger uses fails to log in under MacOSX Lion.

Since it's Open Source, I made a quick fix. If anyone needs it, it's available. No warranty, naturally. And hopefully someone else will release an official, signed fix that can be auto-updated for the rest of the users.

Experimental XJournal for Lion (only)

Please only use this if you need it. I'm making it available for people to test. If you can't use XJournal because of the -1 problem, it's worth a shot. This version is marked 1.0.6b6a and is NOT in the svn repository.

Install by downloading the disk image, opening it, dragging the XJournal bundle to your Applications Folder, and launching it.

Notes:
1: I can't sign it, so it's not updatable via Sparkle.
2: I can't tell if it's slower because I'm using a slower method or it's just LJ flakiness. Login in particular seems to be slow.
3: We've tested most functions on two Lion MBPs. There could be surprises or things that don't work that I may not be able to easily diagnose.

That being said, this version...
1: runs on Lion on my MBP and my wife's MBP.
2: logs in, gets user pics and tags, allows you to post, checks friends lists, shows history, and does everything else we tried. We don't know if it does things we didn't try.

Comment here if you notice anything, or if the devs want my changes.

via DF, which had the great post title that inspired this...

NB: As most people do, I expect this video to be taken down...


Now Yogi was a bear who never learned to share
He robbed the Jellystone camps
He stole from the campers and he took to their pic-a-nick hampers
He'd a paw and a hat and a brain

Well it was little Boo-Boo Bear who shot him in the rear
I wonder now how he feels
For he slept in Yogi's lair and he ate with him there
And he laid poor Yogi in his grave

Yogi's girl, Cindy Bear, has shed many a tear
Three cubs, now, they were brave
Well the bear that fired the shot, Boo-Boo Bear the little snot
He laid poor Yogi in his grave

Now Yogi he was smarter (and louder and much larger)
Than the average bear, by far
There never was a ranger who ever had a prayer
of taking Yogi Bear in while alive

So Jury duty in district court today, oddly immlass also had jury duty for the same case. She was #21 and disqualified, I was number 82. It was a rough voir dire: #80 was empaneled. I might've been, but I'm pretty glad I wasn't.

Four counts, starting with attempted capital murder, followed by sexual assault of a disabled person, aggravated sexual assault, and aggravated assault.

I don't know the circumstances of the case, but i knew we were really in for it when the defense attorney basically warned us not to be prejudiced against his client if he was tough on the victim on the stand.

Even with the ones he accepted, he needs to be careful about that.

In more exciting news, our charming defendant made the news a few months ago when he allegedly tried to hire another inmate kill his accuser for money, because, yeah, the cops won't think that's at all suspicious. Some details in the link for the morbidly curious. If proven, I would not have felt an impulse to be particularly lenient.

I mentioned on Facebook that we were getting rid of some RPG books. Turns out, about 185 of them.

For friends, I'll sell them at a fair price, but it's gotta be this week. Contact us if you're interested.

List is here: http://www.whiterose.org/gamelist.pdf

Camera Comparison (via Jay)

I thought this was interesting.

01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal.
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing it! The point is to see what you had on!






"Fear eile airson Eachainn!"
"Fear eile airson Eachainn!"
"Fear eile airson Eachainn!"
"Fear eile airson Eachainn!"
"Fear eile airson Eachainn!"

So, I created a macro for the ihazatardis community, which is for Dr. Who cat macros. There is nothing new under the sun, indeed...

The Big Bang

( At least it's not a leather skullcap )

I liked this more than the mixed reviews might suggest I would.

Now, as I watched this, I was struck by the similarities to the Star Wars Trilogy, so much so that I decided that Clooney was Kenobi, Spacey was Darth Vader, Ewen was Luke (!), and Bridges was Yoda.

On further reflection, I'm pretty sure you could map most of it to Campbell's Hero's Quest and the seventeen phases of the Monomyth, which is why it maps closely to Star Wars.

Recommended. A fun movie.

"What a stupid Pig you are, Pig!," replied the Chicken. "We're both INVOLVED! What we do is we each KILL our CHILDREN. Otherwise, there WOULDN'T be ENOUGH BACON for a SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS MODEL."

--posted here because I accidentally posted it on a co-worker's FB page, and that audience and this one aren't intersecting...

If cats figure out how to charge it and turn it on, we're doomed.