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Azure Jane Lunatic (Azz) 🌺 ([personal profile] azurelunatic) wrote2025-07-08 02:58 pm

July has already been busy

Susan visited!

Thorn didn't get carjacked by a Bigfoot.
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Ian ([personal profile] lovingboth) wrote2025-07-07 09:32 am

Oooh, a new (to me) scam email

This one invites me to join in a contract selling computers etc to Dubai. I was going to file it in the 'wrong Ian' folder when I look a bit further and see what the carrot they're dangling in front of me is:

Total Approved Over-Invoiced Amount: €24,923,362.00
Estimated Cost to Supply: €4,923,362.00.
Estimated Profit: €20,000,000.00

... with that profit split three ways.

I'm wondering if the invoice amount, exactly 20 million more than the supply cost, is a way to screen for gullible people. If it had been

Total Approved Over-Invoiced Amount: €25,000,000
Estimated Cost to Supply: €21,923,362
Estimated Profit: €3,076,638

... it'd still have been worthwhile joining in (a million Euro each!) and a lot more realistic.
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jadelennox ([personal profile] jadelennox) wrote2025-07-04 10:33 pm
Entry tags:

BOOM

I've been trying very hard to cheerful!post this week because I'm frequently struggling to breathe, as one does these days. You all know how it is. I was planning on posting from the perfect 4 July book (The Westing Game). But when I looked at the exact words of the quotation, it felt much too on the nose:

The sun has set on your Uncle Sam. Happy birthday, Crow. And to all of my heirs, a very happy Fourth of July.

So, okay, I thinks to myself. I'll quote my other favorite Fourth of July bit from the end. But when I looked it up, uh. That didn't feel any less apropos to the moment?

Turtle?"

"I'm right here, Sandy." She took his hand.

"Turtle, tell Crow to pray for me."

His hands turned cold, not smooth, not waxy, just very, very cold.

Turtle turned to the window. The sun was rising out of Lake Michigan. It was tomorrow. It was the Fourth of July.

Ah, well. Ready for a nice game of chess?

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jadelennox ([personal profile] jadelennox) wrote2025-07-03 08:27 pm

the station that speaks your language (broken english)

The full case name is "City of Eugene v. Debutante Society of Oregon", but the abbreviated version is fine too.

-- [personal profile] tahnan

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alierak ([personal profile] alierak) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2025-06-30 03:18 pm

Rebuilding journal search again

We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
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jadelennox ([personal profile] jadelennox) wrote2025-06-30 03:39 pm

pick-n-mix

Poll #33308 choices of varying difficulty
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 50


pick one science!

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space
30 (61.2%)

dinosaurs
19 (38.8%)

pick one plastic pal who's fun to be with!

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murderbot
12 (24.5%)

lieutenant commander data
19 (38.8%)

lieutenant commander murderbot
6 (12.2%)

murderdata
12 (24.5%)

pick one cat!

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a cat who does crimes
1 (2.0%)

a cat who does naps
3 (6.0%)

trick question, they're the same cat
46 (92.0%)

pick one poll type!

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radio button
10 (20.0%)

ticky boxes
24 (48.0%)

free text answer
2 (4.0%)

scientifically constructed and balanced poll with an IRB approval and crosstabs
14 (28.0%)

pick one brassica!

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brussels sprouts
10 (20.0%)

box choy
5 (10.0%)

cauliflower
7 (14.0%)

turnip
2 (4.0%)

kohlrabi
4 (8.0%)

mustard
5 (10.0%)

sauerkraut
4 (8.0%)

candytuft
1 (2.0%)

horseradish
9 (18.0%)

purple pickled horseradish, maybe with a little charoset
3 (6.0%)

pick one way to feel better!

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petting the cat
9 (18.0%)

eating cheese
1 (2.0%)

throwing your phone into the fires of mount doom
2 (4.0%)

medication
1 (2.0%)

looking at pictures of nebulas
1 (2.0%)

throwing the technology of your choice into the fires of mount doom
1 (2.0%)

petting this other cat
7 (14.0%)

doing crimes
5 (10.0%)

reading
6 (12.0%)

writing
2 (4.0%)

'rithmetic
0 (0.0%)

digging in the dirt
1 (2.0%)

listening to music
2 (4.0%)

being in the ocean
5 (10.0%)

throwing mount doom into the fires of mount doom, just to see if you can create a singularity via recursive destruction
7 (14.0%)

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puppetmaker ([personal profile] puppetmaker) wrote2025-06-30 02:30 pm

This That and the Other Thing

 I am still here. I am still grieving for Peter.

 

However, I am doing things and getting out of the house more. My therapist says that this is a good thing.

 

I saw George and Brad Takei. That was special. They expressed their sympathies and George told me that Peter will always live in his heart. Then Friday I went in and saw the children’s author Sachiko Kashiwaba who wrote “The Village beyond the Mist” which is one of the books that inspired “Spirited Away”. Then Saturday I had lunch with a friend and then marched as an advocate in the Lesbian parade. 

 

Today is paperwork day. All the calls and paperwork that gets stacked up from Friday and the weekend.

 

I am taking care of myself which is also good. The only thing I must remind myself is to eat. I’m not hungry.  Thirsty yea, hungry no. I do eat at least two meals a day.

 

I am still working on puppets and keeping up with the house.

 

It’s bits and pieces but they are healing bits and pieces.

 

I am still in paperwork hell and will be probably for a couple of years. I don’t understand why filling a will is such hell. I own the estate. I am the executer of the will. But it must wind its way through the court. I am guessing two years and that is both a long and short time.

 

The house is in puppet mode which means I have fur, fabric, and other puppet making supplies everywhere. I plan a clean-up for tomorrow after I get back from work. The truck has moved to Tuesday, so my early morning workday has moved and gone to once every two weeks rather than once a week. 

 

Got conventions coming up. I will be at Shoreleave, GalaxyCon Raleigh, IL Who and DragonCon. There might be one or two later in the autumn like NYCC but that is not a solid yet. Please feel free to say “Hi” I love meeting people and I love meeting Peter’s fans.

 

Now off for another round of sewing and laundry.

 

I am grateful for that which makes me feel better.

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jadelennox ([personal profile] jadelennox) wrote2025-06-28 05:53 pm

it's chopped onions all the way down

"Academia: Staying Afloat" by Timothy Burke from the end of January made me feel warmer. It's about everything. AI slop. Fascism. Modern employment. Greed. The broad gesture at everything. Hope. Determination.

You are the right person to do what you do, know what you know, study what you’re going to study. You do it.

You are a lifeboat.

You are not the passenger being rescued from a shipwreck. You are the rescuer. Your skills, your knowledge, your experience reside in you. You have pulled them from the cold ocean where cruel and careless captains have set them adrift.

You are a lifeboat.

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Krait ([personal profile] krait) wrote2025-06-28 01:55 pm

Firefox AI Removal

Firefox, my web browser of choice, just updated and dumped a bunch of new "AI features" that are enabled by default.

If you, like me, hate this nonsense, I found this very helpful guide to removing it. It took about one minute, and seems to be working - I no longer see the 'AI link preview' popup window when I hover over a link, for instance.

Please feel free to pass this on!