the weekly report

[kaizoku]

Check out the new beta navigation system LJ is talking about launching and give 'em hell feedback. Myself, I think the organization is actually a lot better but the look and useability are crap.

It's been a while. Last week my car broke down while I was trying to get down to Boston, find a room, and go visit people (all within two days.) I ended up hitchhiking - which was a lot easier than I expected. The longest ride I got was with a band on a bus driving to play a show. They were very nice if a bit of a cliche and they dropped me off not five minutes walk from my friend's house. It was pretty sweet. Unfortunately I found out on Sunday that my car needs a new engine... which may cost on the order of $2500. So, I guess I may get good at the hitchhiking thing. :-\

Things I've done this week:
- Moved into my new digs
- Got lost multiple times in the city at night
- Ate lots of Chinese food (including noodles with something in it that made my mouth numb - the hell?)
- Had my first class at summer school
- Got wireless internet working... and if I'd known it was as easy as flipping a switch on my computer, I'd have done it ages ago.
- Due to that last, downloaded a bunch of vids and porn (I watched gay porn! For the first time in my life! Except for that time at the gay club in Quebec but I was trying not to watch it cuz I was there with my cousin.)
- Capped Boa vs. Python and made some icons. Am I the only one who noticed the slash potential in BvP? There may be picspam later on...

Also, I'm pimping the Classificathon. If you're interested at all in Classical (Greco-Roman) mythology/languages/culture/whatnot, you might like this. It's a multifandom ficathon for fanfic inspired by or related to such. To paraphrase the mods: Want to read a fic modeled on Ovid's Metamorphoses? A fic wherein Jack and Teal'c have to decline nouns? Request it. Have the Doctor and Rose go back to ancient Rome, Atlantis's translators suddenly translate into solely ancient Greek, Jim and Blair go undercover at a high-school certamen, compare Fraser's life to Pandora's, anything that is classical works. (A couple people have also requested historical RPF, if you're into that.)

Sign-ups have been extended until Sunday, July 2nd, and fics are due August 15th. Come on, you know you want to!

Comments

[windiain.livejournal.com]

(including noodles with something in it that made my mouth numb - the hell?)

Sesame oil? I have a friend who gets that reaction from sesame oil, and I know they use it in chinese food.

[kaizoku.livejournal.com]

I don't think so, it was something solid, not all through it. Tasted kind of bitter too. Interesting though - I've never heard of someone having that reaction to sesame oil before.

[delurker.livejournal.com]

I went and looked at the beta navigation system, but I couldn't find a link to let me read my flist via my filters, so it's useless for me. (I like to read my flist divided into type, like friends and fic communities and recs and so forth.) I did like the handy link for posting a poll, though - I always have to find the link through the faq.

How'd things work out with your car?

[kaizoku.livejournal.com]

Huh. How do you usually get to your flist filters? Because you can also see your filters by adding the name of the filter to the end of the web address. So, for example, my "communities only" filter is at http://kaizoku.livejournal.com/friends/communities+only - so if you wanted to go to beta navigation, you put the links on your journal sidebar or something (though you might not want to do that if they're private since they'd be dead links for everybody else. I guess you can always do the locked future post at the top of the page thing.)

Things with the car are going surprisingly well, actually. We're getting the engine replaced, and fortunately my folks are helping me pay for it. It's supposed to be fixed pretty soon!

[delurker.livejournal.com]

Using XColibur, I usually go the ellipses after "Friends" under "Journal", and that takes me to the filter page. I could type in http://www.livejournal.com/friends/filter.bml to get there too, but I prefer to use the mouse to navigate the internet rather than typing things in. Although I guess I could change for a day or two, and try it out. Hmm.

Yay!

[kaizoku.livejournal.com]

Ah, I see. I kind of like having everything linked from my journal page. Though I haven't quite gotten there yet, still stumbling blindly through layout code...