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The guy who just came to deliver my groceries said, "what's going on down there?" I trotted out to learn that my block was blocked off at both ends, and six police helicopters with search lights were circling, shouting things through megaphones that I couldn't quite make out.
I called the police station, mostly because I wanted to know if there was a crazy meth-head on the loose who might climb through my bedroom window (only to learn I have absolutely nothing but this computer worth stealing, and I'd kill him before he could do that) -- the police said, "it's probably for the protest against prop 8." He looked it up and confirmed, "yeah, the Sunset end of your block is a main staging area."
"Oh," I said. "Then no problem. I totally support the protest against prop 8."
"Exactly," said the cop. "Me too. We're trying not to get in their way too much."
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That was a heartening story.
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I find wallpapers really hard to track down. Does anyone know anyone who makes them? Well and on a regular basis? Or, primarily, does anyone know where I might find a (good) House-related wallpaper? My usual icon-maker suspects have some gorgeous icons but I also need a WALLPAPER. Time to replace this Doctor and his TARDIS with that Doctor and his Vicodin.
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Oh and ETA, I really legitimately don't like the new LJ userinfo. My LJ related bookmarks -- including my browser home page -- are peoples' userinfos, and mine. I go to people's LJs by way of their userinfo, because I liked the quick visual snapshot of a person's friends and interests and fandoms &c.
The new layout is first of all too non-contrasty, the blue text rather than the bold/underlined text is much harder to read and to distinguish. Also, with a widescreen monitor, the text is too wide and therefore I need to turn my head to read it; I much prefer a narrower snapshot. And third, the information that's centered and that first meets your eye when you check the page is the least useful info, the number of comments posted, for example, or the number of memories and tags. Even the basic info and bio are too far down on the page, and the interests and friends' lists take vertical scrolling to get to (and are then, with the blue vs. black non-bolded non-underlined text, too hard to read).
I changed my bookmarks to peoples' actual journals, and have changed my browser home page to MSNBC, and will certainly learn to browse and use LJ without relying so much on the userinfo page, but for seven years I've used that page as a portal, reverting to the previous version (Horizon, or whatever it was) every time there was a layout change because it's such a major part of my navigating.
This new userinfo page is too hard to see. Or maybe it's true and when I turned 30 my eyes got even worse. Be kind to the old folks, people!
I called the police station, mostly because I wanted to know if there was a crazy meth-head on the loose who might climb through my bedroom window (only to learn I have absolutely nothing but this computer worth stealing, and I'd kill him before he could do that) -- the police said, "it's probably for the protest against prop 8." He looked it up and confirmed, "yeah, the Sunset end of your block is a main staging area."
"Oh," I said. "Then no problem. I totally support the protest against prop 8."
"Exactly," said the cop. "Me too. We're trying not to get in their way too much."
#
That was a heartening story.
#
I find wallpapers really hard to track down. Does anyone know anyone who makes them? Well and on a regular basis? Or, primarily, does anyone know where I might find a (good) House-related wallpaper? My usual icon-maker suspects have some gorgeous icons but I also need a WALLPAPER. Time to replace this Doctor and his TARDIS with that Doctor and his Vicodin.
#
Oh and ETA, I really legitimately don't like the new LJ userinfo. My LJ related bookmarks -- including my browser home page -- are peoples' userinfos, and mine. I go to people's LJs by way of their userinfo, because I liked the quick visual snapshot of a person's friends and interests and fandoms &c.
The new layout is first of all too non-contrasty, the blue text rather than the bold/underlined text is much harder to read and to distinguish. Also, with a widescreen monitor, the text is too wide and therefore I need to turn my head to read it; I much prefer a narrower snapshot. And third, the information that's centered and that first meets your eye when you check the page is the least useful info, the number of comments posted, for example, or the number of memories and tags. Even the basic info and bio are too far down on the page, and the interests and friends' lists take vertical scrolling to get to (and are then, with the blue vs. black non-bolded non-underlined text, too hard to read).
I changed my bookmarks to peoples' actual journals, and have changed my browser home page to MSNBC, and will certainly learn to browse and use LJ without relying so much on the userinfo page, but for seven years I've used that page as a portal, reverting to the previous version (Horizon, or whatever it was) every time there was a layout change because it's such a major part of my navigating.
This new userinfo page is too hard to see. Or maybe it's true and when I turned 30 my eyes got even worse. Be kind to the old folks, people!
