busy weekend

[sofiaviolet]

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Ellie and I were going to have a roast for dinner last night, but it had gone off. We wound up getting Indian food at Ghazal instead, along with Courtney. And as we were settling the bill, other people we knew walked by. So we wound up following Cid, Jason, Daly, and Scarlet to JP Licks for ice cream (and then everybody got to say hi to Brashani and Christian too, when they stopped by), and then went back to Cid and Jason's apartment - in theory to play Clue, but we actually wound up watching Crank 2 and yelling at the shenanigans.

Then Ellie wanted to get some stuff from Woodcraft today, so I went with her because I wanted to get out of the house. I wound up getting some turning blanks: black and white ebony, rosewood, lignum vitae, and olivewood. (Not a new hobby! I make little wire trees in addition to jewelry, and thought it would be awesome to attach the wire trees to small pieces of actual wood.) I'm going to have to cut some of the blanks into smaller pieces, and probably surface them a little.

Links

• charmian: The circus has come to town again! No, that's just LJ news

  The head of Abuse Prevention at LJ suddenly starts to discuss issues of privacy/publicity with the disgruntled users, as well as criticizing DW's comment imports policy. And then Brenden, editor of ONTD, also begins to argue with users, but in a much less polite way.

• charmian: for Bell and others who asked

  Re: last entry

• holyschist: Comment import

  I'm beginning to think that while OpenID is a neat ID, it's too complicated for the average user. Then again, the average LJ user seems to be pretty unaware of industry standards in blogging, hence all the backlash to DW for something that--like it or not--is industry standard.

• ursamajor: OpenID How-To: Identifying, Commenting, Gaining Access

  So I'm centralizing comments on one platform. You're coming over from an entry I crossposted to LJ and want to comment on said entries, but you don't have a Dreamwidth account! You do, however, have a LiveJournal account, so you can set up your LJ OpenID to be able to comment on my journal. Here's how; it takes five minutes!

• charmian: thought experiment on importing [poll]


• ninetydegrees: Getting Started: Styles

  This is for LiveJournal users who would like to use Dreamwidth styles but are a little lost when it comes to finding one or customizing it. I hope you'll find it useful. Suggestions and corrections are welcome.

Comments

[gianna]

It was good to see you guys! We should hang out again soon. =)

And Crank and Crank 2 are such insanely cracked out movies, omfg. Whenever I see them though, I think of my ex's friend who's basically got a giant man-crush on Jason Statham, and thereby is in love with both Cranks. xD

[sofiaviolet]

Oh god lol. I would only watch them in a room full of people willing to yell at the screen along with me. The social atmosphere is necessary for my enjoyment.