| Monday, May 12th, 2008 |
damnportlanders
[ shithaus ]
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3:52a |
a joke from a friend how do you get a gresham girl to sick your dick? ( answer ) Current Music: Catherine Wheel - I Want to Touch You |
ibm
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5:03a |
Plantation, FL - Monday morning coming down... Sleep don’t pacify us until
Daybreak sky lights up the grid we live in
Dizzy when we talk so fast
Fields of numbers streaming past
May is a purgatory month for me this time around. Peru happens in June, and July will be a blur before the inevitability of school in August sets in. I have a nontrivial-sized to-do to chisel away at, but none of it really requires me to be present or awake during the majority of business hours. As such, I'm usually awake until 5am, fucking around or otherwise finding innovative ways to hide from the world. It makes me sad to realize that this is the last True Downtime I'll likely have until medical school is a distant memory. I appreciate the downtime, I just wish I had better things to do with it than sit on my ass in Greater Suburbistan. I'm attempting to fill this void with geeky projects. Last night, I got inspired and set up Virtualbox on my linux laptop (thinkpad x61 tablet), and installed Vista as a VM. Paradoxically (and thankfully) enough, this is the smoothest I've ever seen Vista run. I'll be needing this setup for school, so this wasn't a purely masturbatory exercise. Not having a job, local community, or function in society, even temporarily, is rather fucking with my head. I'm doing my best to mediate this without succumbing to South Florida Consumer Culture, instead trying to focus on more positive things like a kickass adventure in Peru and throwing myself into a challenge like school. Also, trying to get my body dialed in and tuned up, and taking care of nagging things like renter's insurance and writing down stories of adventures past, and plans for future ones. Apparently downtime is just as toxic to me as overcommitment, but with different mechanisms of action. This is worth noting for the future. Current Mood: sleeplessCurrent Music: Metric - Calculation (theme) |
| Saturday, May 10th, 2008 |
lj_dev
[ shamangirl ]
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1:13a |
Multiple videos in one post
I have noticed that the code patch that allows a user to post more than one video in a post doesn't seem to have been ported to the open-source code.
Does anyone have a code patch for that and/or know what routine handles it? Thanks. |
| Monday, May 12th, 2008 |
lj_dev
[ professormass ]
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1:09a |
Adding comments via a client with XML-RPC? Hi! I'm writing a LiveJournal client using the XML-RPC interface. What I can't seem to find in the documentation (and it may not exist) is a way to use XML-RPC to add comments to Friends entries, or even the authenticated user's own journal. The latter is actually more interesting to me -- to be able to reply to comments in your own journal. Is that possible? Am I missing something? The only other way I could see to do this would be to basically do a POST request to talkpost_do.bml, but that seems clumsy. Any thoughts or help would be appreciated. Current Mood:  chipper |
goulo
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1:06a |
Das Glasperlenspiel de Hermann Hesse
longa spertaro
kies fino surprize
melankolias |
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| Sunday, May 11th, 2008 |
damnportlanders
[ haddassah ]
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11:25p |
Puppy School Reccomendations, Please.
This week, I will most likely be getting a mini Dachsund. I have an indoor cat who is almost 7 years old and has lived with only one dog, a hyper pomeranian. Luckily, that was for only a couple of months but she was not happy.
Since this dog will be a member of our house, I would like to make the transition as easy as possible. I am wanting to find a good obidience school for the puppy.
I live in Saint Johns but would be able to drive for puppy school.....Reccomendations?
Also, any suggestions for making this easier on my kitty? I don't want her to feel like we are replacing her or don't love her anymore. |
| Monday, May 12th, 2008 |
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5:00a |
Donovan http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/4257 Donovan must have done something... [ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<a [...] ;>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] <p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/4257">http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/4257</a></p>Donovan must have done something...<p><a href="http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/4257";
title="Donovan"><img src="http://www.foundmagazine.com/images/finds/thumb/donovan.gif"
alt="Donovan" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /></a></p> |
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findoftheweek
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5:00a |
Hank the Camel http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/1779 Found this on yet another walk with the dog.... it took me back to my childhood when I was forced into photo ops that I'd rather never happened. [ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<a [...] ;>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] <p class="ljsyndicationlink"><a href="http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/1779">http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/1779</a></p>Found this on yet another walk with the dog.... it took me back to my childhood when I was forced into photo ops that I'd rather never happened.<p><a href="http://www.foundmagazine.com/find/1779";
title="Hank the Camel"><img src="http://www.foundmagazine.com/images/finds/thumb/hankthecamel.jpg"
alt="Hank the Camel" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /></a></p> |
| Sunday, May 11th, 2008 |
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alexisnryan_rss
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11:45p |
6 1/2 years... http://alexisandryan.blogspot.com/2008/05/6-12.html Last week we went to Green Pastures to celebrate our anniversary. We went there 6 years ago when Ryan proposed. Here we are then...  And here we are last week, 6 1/2 years later. Just little bit different!  And Happy Mother's Day too! |
| Monday, May 12th, 2008 |
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| Sunday, May 11th, 2008 |
damnportlanders
[ tragerstreit ]
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10:44p |
Last call is my BITCH.
So who else went to Kids in the Hall tonight?
Amazing, yes? |
damnportlanders
[ rogueonca ]
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10:28p |
Mrow.
Hello, my name is ______ and I would love to provide a home for your cat, Cairo!
No, seriously guys. My ex has given me 24 hours before he throws my cat outside, and the humane society has a 4 week waiting list. Can anyone house my sweet little siamese male, or know someone who can, or at least know an inexpensive cat boarder? I loooove my cat, but I have nowhere for him to go. Email me, please. I'm panicking.
ariaonca at gmail dot com. |
bovineone
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11:46p |
Free basketball backboard hoop
Any local Austinites interested in an old basketball backboard hoop with chain net? You'll just need to install some kind of permanent vertical post in your ground someplace, and then you can mount this backboard to it.
Cowhouse came with one installed in the front driveway, but I have no use for it so I took it down.
I'll probably post this on Craigslist in a few days if no one's interested, but I wanted to give the people who know me a chance to claim it first. |
| Monday, May 12th, 2008 |
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apod
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4:19a |
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| Sunday, May 11th, 2008 |
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randomdream
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10:10p |
twitter from a nitwit Automatically shipped by LoudTwitter |
mongo42
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9:19p |
Taking Stock
Ahhh, a bit of quiet time at the end of the weekend. Just the thing.
Saturday was my last welding class. I finished my Zirconian Officer's War Helmet and I'll be posting a picture soon. It's very shiny and kind of dangerous. I ripped my shirt on it during final assembly, and it almost poked me in the neck as well. And then Susan almost cut herself on it when I brought it home.
Susan and I hit IKEA that evening, looking for pillows for the radio lounge couches. On our way out the door she spotted just the thing -- a futon split into two unequal parts, one exactly the size of the seat and the other exactly the size of the back. Score!
Sunday we did a test assembly of our new shade structure. Not ideal for quick assembly and take down, but it'll do. And all of the roof seams are heat sealed so it doesn't need any waterproofing. We also repaired the tent fly that was punctured at Flipside last year and folded up a heap of bandanas for tie-dying.
And now, bed. |
damnportlanders
[ plaidpineapple ]
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7:44p |
Fried pickles
Where in this damn city can a girl go to get fried pickles besides Hooters (which are actually decent) and Applebees (gross)? Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
Also, I just wanted to give a huge thumbs up to the Tiger Tiger Salon. Someone recommended it in another post, and I just got a great haircut from a really nice stylist. Yay! |
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7:12p |
marriage, love, divorce http://junkmenudo.blogspot.com/2008/05/marriage-love-divorce.html marriage is love is not divorce is and it's all life and death they are the idea that we can be non-harming is a potent and potentially harmful idea, as ideas go the idea that I love you is sweet when I have the idea that I no longer love you, that sucks, for both of us so, I love you all, forever and since you don't exist, I can be lying, and it doesn't suck! why should I do tomorrow? Other than that I have no crystal ball. Brighton? A young man named for a town by the sea. I thought for so long it was oneith by land, twoith by sea revered the story actually I was more of a Civil War guy, partly I guess 'cause my dad worked at Gettysburg for awhile and there are pictures of him at the scene of Pickett's Charge. I feel like trying Pickett's Charge right now. But I'm not out of ammunition and I'm just not quite that crazy, at least not in that way. Plus I feel all out of shape from this prolonged laryngitis. Hard to yell "Damn Yankees!" |
damnportlanders
[ vwsandcoffee ]
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7:19p |
Go Fish!
So, the wife and I picked up some of my old fishing gear this weekend with dreams of drowning some worms this year. Just finished restringing the lines and inventorying the tackle box...
Anyone on DP willing to give me some suggestions on where to go? She's used to fishing off the shore, and i'm used to docks or boats. So, if it's got a dock that'd be a bonus in my book. Have light weight gear, so we're just looking for trout and bass for the most part (though we've had plenty of fun C&R'ing panfish...) |
damnportlanders
[ adventure_girl ]
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6:44p |
Fill in the blanks:
The best hotel in Portland is ___________________, because ______________________.
The best house sitter in Portland is __________________________.
thanks! |
jumpingpictures
[ firmament ]
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6:42p |
this is about jumping Submitted for your consideration: ( Read more... ) Current Mood:  amused |
cratermoon
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6:17p |
Green Thumbing I planted the garden today. First up was a soil chemistry test, just for fun mostly.  Then I planted my annual in memory of mom sunflowers, and then some basil and jalapeno peppers. Finally, I cut the grass in the front yard. |
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5:17p |
analyzed http://overheardinpdx.blogspot.com/2008/05/analyzed.html Two female college students on the 44 bus: Girl one: we gonna hang out later? Girl two: i don't know, i have to talk to my english professor. he said my analytical essays aren't like, analytical enough. - Overheard by Emily |
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foolishegosyn
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12:00a |
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tmbg
[ farmanimalsrock ]
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8:14p |
So, I don't know if anyone remembers, but a while ago on the TMBW website there were a whole bunch of tour dates. And now they're all gone. Does anyone know what happened? I was going to check the Rounder Records website, but it wouldn't load for me =/. |
artnchicken
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4:54p |
Beer and Stuff Last night was fun. Me and a few peeps went to the new Deschutes Brewery out in the Pearrrrllll (say it in a snobby voice) District. Good food and good beer for all! I might take my mom there when she visits; hopefully the hype will have died down a little by then. ( Weezer Red Album leak. ) |
damnportlanders
[ cuervolinda ]
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4:44p |
Portland Health Insurance for Small Businesses
I am a freelance artist/independent contractor in Portland who is currently uninsured. I had insurance through the Freelancers Union a few years ago in NYC. Does anyone know of an affiliation for artists/small business owners that I could obtain health insurance through here? I don't want a $1000 deductible, or a $400/month premium. I am looking for group insurance rates, not individual. HMO or PPO is fine. Any leads? |
| Monday, May 12th, 2008 |
ghewgill
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11:39a |
hailstorm I've been home sick with a cold all weekend. Yesterday morning it was bright and sunny and I was grumbling about how it always seems to be nice weather outside when I'm feeling under the weather inside. A friend who was out for a walk stopped by for a cup of tea. Just minutes after she left, I heard some raindrops on the roof. It quickly got stronger, and suddenly exploded into a full-blown downpour mixed with pea-sized hail. Amy jumped in the car to go find our friend (who we knew didn't have a hat or umbrella with her) and gave her a ride the rest of the way home.
Later on I looked back at my temperature logger for the day:
That's a sudden drop from about 14°C (57°F) to 8°C (46°F) in a matter of minutes. The surprising thing was how quickly the temperature recovered after the storm cloud passed over. If you remove the section from 12pm to 2pm, it's as though the storm never happened! |
| Sunday, May 11th, 2008 |
xacat
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6:35p |
oooh. i think i managed to win the weirdest sunburn ever award. mid to lower arms and top of the legs and feet from the knees down. just the top. :/ Current Mood:  ouch |
damnportlanders
[ ambi ]
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4:33p |
What can you tell me about shuttles to the coast? |
damnportlanders
[ nimue_obscure ]
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3:31p |
registering pets....
So i am a bit confused about registering pets in Oregon. I moved here from out of state with an unregistered cat. He is indoors only, healthy and well taken care of but never been registered anywhere except with my landlord. After moving here i adopted a kitten from Multnomah county shelter who was chipped and registered. I just got a card from the county to renew his license. The question being: do i have to, and/or why should I? Very short on cash right now, and kitten is also indoor only. Why pay to renew a pet license? Do i need to? Is there a law, or are they just trying to get more money out of me? It doesn't cost much, but i'd rather put the money towards updating rabies vaccinations! |
damnportlanders
[ lovedayisland ]
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2:50p |
Stereo repair in North Portland?
My Dennon receiver needs to be looked at. I used to take it to Inner Sound on 13th and SE Morrison when I lived in the area but now that I'm up here in North Portland I'd like to find someplace closer. Any suggestions? Thanks!! |
shublog
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4:37p |
Sunday.
Date: 05/11/2008
Time: 2:58pm
Duration: 0:30:07
Location: Quarry Lake
Sport: Swimming
Workout: 30min recovery swim
Distance: 1640 yds
Weather: Nice, around 77, sunny, windy
People: Matt
Comments:
We joined Pure Austin a couple weeks ago, but hadn't actually been yet. We really liked Body Business, but a large part of the reason we belonged to a gym is to swim, and BB's pool wasn't really fantastic. It was only 50ft, and it was often completely inaccessible because of classes in the pool. Pure Austin has both a lap pool and access to Quarry Lake, so we decided to give it a try.
Today was our first swim out there, and it was fantastic. A little windy, but the water, while incredibly murky, seemed very clean and didn't taste funny, and it wasn't too cold, but also wasn't bathwater. We didn't wear wetsuits, but we could have comfortably. They have buoys laid out such that you can swim a circuit around the lake, and it's 750m (we did that twice). You can also swim from the dock out directly to the buoys to get 77m, 125m or 230m.
We may try going there instead of BS some Tuesdays, except we have no idea what they have for lights out there that early. |
damnportlanders
[ intimidorable ]
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2:25p |
Are there any places in Portland that have (funny) stand up comedy shows that happen pretty regularly? Bars? Restaurants? On the east side is preferable, but downtown is doable. |
zuleikhajami
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4:23p |
If All Your Friends Jumped Off a Bridge... or at least if all your friends posted Flipside ticket requests. :) I don't need a Flipside ticket for myself, but my friend ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) ripresa needs one for herself and her sweetie. She's on !Bob's list and has posted her own request, but so far to no avail. Since I have a slightly broader circle of Flipside connected people, I'm trying to find one for her, too. She and her bf are both performers--she's a dancer and he's Mr. Improv Comedy. It'd be awesome to have them out there. Current Mood:  optimistic |
randomdream
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4:12p |
an observation
I'm studying for my Anglo-American Folksong exam tomorrow, and two things jumped out at me in the following passage from an article in my course packet. First, it's one of the most convoluted and obtuse statements I've read since my last philosophy course. Second, my prof gets a mention. Huh.
"The proposed substantiation of this axiological unity in the repertoire relies to come extent on the techniques and even the very analyses perfected by Roger DeV. Renwick in English Folk Poetry (1980)." |
damnportlanders
[ shelbxcore ]
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2:00p |
I have more things I don't need I need these out of my room! Help me out! CD Power Tower 100 (x2), Colorku, Microwave, PS2, digital camera (x2)... ( view these items! ) |
damnportlanders
[ _bang_bang_ ]
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1:33p |
travel advice?? I've got myself a bit of a problem... I am flying up to Portland on Monday, May 19th and staying until Saturday, May 24th. I'm coming from San Francisco(if that matters). My problem is that my friend who has recently moved up there has proved to be one of the worst hosts ever.... so I'm pretty much going to be by myself the entire time. I have never been to Portland so I have no idea what I'm in for. My friend actually lives in Vancouver, WA and he says it's just a hop, skip and jump away from Portland. So here are my questions: 1. How useful is the public transportation? Will it be easy to get from Vancouver to Portland? From the airport to Vancouver? 2. Is there any kind of public transportation to get me to Seattle? Canada? 3. Please suggest things to do and see. I enjoy art museums, really good coffee, and bargain shopping.... also any really good restaurants to check out? Thanks for your help!! Current Mood:  creative |
damnportlanders
[ moondog186 ]
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12:42p |
Happy Mother's Day I hope all of you are honoring your mothers for not only having to put up with delivering you but raising you snarky bunch. *toasts* On a side note, does anyone know of a good t-shirt company? I'm looking for a local company that would be able to create about 20-25 t-shirts for one of my school clubs. The design is really simple line art; it's under the cut. The cheaper the company the better, as long as it's reasonably good quality. ( Read more... ) Current Mood:  cheerful |
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chaithedog
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12:14p |
Oregon Tile 2008 Wrap-Up Oregon Tile was tons o' fun. I had two consecutive 509 games. I had NANDINAS as a playable bingo twice-- and missed it the second time! Guess it's easier to spot through an A than through an N. I ate at the Red Robin three times. I remembered to bring my camera. I remembered not to forget my scorecard like I did at the last Portland event. I only had one creepy dream about Abbey that entire weekend.
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aeryn42
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damnportlanders
[ crunchyredhead ]
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12:09p |
camping
Where are some good places to camp around here?
We want the site to be not too much further than an hour away and it to have water spigots and flushing toilets a short hike away would be snazz. On any sort of water would be rad. Really just looking for a pretty place where we can chill out, maybe do some little hikes.
There will be about 10 of us.
Suggestions?
Thanks! |
damnportlanders
[ statedintent ]
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10:15a |
where do i find......? a sound machine alarm clock like this in portland rather than online? or just a sound machine that is not an alarm clock? thanks! |
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charlies_diary
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5:13p |
Why your internet experience is slow http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2008/05/why_your_internet_experience_i.html Here is a random-ish URL from Salon.com, a not too unusual online magazine: http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2008/05/09/askthepilot276/.
This HTML page contains the first chunk of a piece of journalism by Patrick Smith; the actual body copy runs to approximately 950 words of text. The average word in English is 5.5 characters long; add 1 character for punctuation or whitespace and we would reasonably expect this file to be on the close order of 6.5Kb in size.
(Patrick, if you're reading this, I am not picking on you; I just decided to do some digging when I got annoyed by how long my browser was taking to load your words.)
In actual fact, the web page my browser was downloading turned out to be 68.4Kb in size. The bulk of the extra content consists of HTML tags and links. It's difficult to say how much cruft there is — much of it is Javascript, and I used a non-Javascript web browser for some of this analysis — but a naive dump of the content reveals 128 URLs.
So, we now have an order of magnitude bloat, courtesy of the salon.com content management system adding in links and other cruft. But that's just the text, and as we all know, no web page is complete without an animated GIF image. So how big is this article, really?
I stared at it for some time while it loaded over a 10mbps cable modem connection. Then I switched off my browser anti-advertising plugins (AbBlock and NoScript), hit "reload", and then saved the web page. Inline in the page are: 4 JPEG images, 4 Shockwave FLASH animations, 4 PNG images, 8 GIF images (of which no less than five are single-pixel web bugs), 4 HTML sub-documents, 6 CSS (style sheet) files, 22 separate Javascript files ... and a bunch of other crap.
The grand total of extras comes to 860Kb by dry weight, meaning that in order to read 950 words by Patrick Smith my cable modem had to pull in 948Kb, of which 942Kb was in no way related to the stuff I wanted to actually read.
With AdBlock and Noscript switched back on, the cruft dropped off considerably, but not completely — the core HTML file squished down to 52Kb (after a bunch of Javascript extensions failed to load) and the hairball of advertising cruft dropped from 62 to 41 included files, for a grand total of 372Kb of crap (from 840Kb). Finally, I updated my /etc/hosts file to include this blacklist of advertising sites, redirecting all requests for objects hosted on them into the bit bucket: the final download came to 40Kb of HTML in the main file and 208Kb of unwanted crap.
Let me put this in perspective:
This is a novel in HTML, with three small image files (totaling about 10Kb). "Accelerando" runs to 145,000 words; it fits in about 400 pages, typeset as a book, using very small print. It is 949Kb in size, or about 10Kb larger than a Salon.com feature containing 950-odd words.
Here's another novel, available for download in HTML. "Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom" runs to 328Kb in HTML; it's about 180 pages in book form, and it's still 40Kb smaller than the hairball you get from Salon.com after you switch AdBlock and NoScript on.
If content is king, why is there so little of it on the web? And why are content providers like Salon always whining about their huge bandwidth costs, given that 99% of what they ship — and that is an exact measurement, not hyperbole — is spam?
(Note: these are rhetorical questions. Despite the burning certainty that someone on the internet is wrong, you don't need to try and explain how the advertising industry works to me. Really and truly. I'm just taking my sense of indignation for a Sunday walk.)
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aeryn42
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tmbg
[ carvinkeeper12 ]
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12:15p |
Essay! Hey guys, I finished my essay about Them! It's posted in here in my journal. Let me know what you think! I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Sadly, only one quote from my interview made it in, but it was still a good interview that I should find a real place to publish so other people can use/see it. X-posted in the fangirl comms. |
damnportlanders
[ fvinnash ]
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9:09a |
Smoker Manners? So. Being a non-smoker, and frankly having little-to-no patience for people forcing me to smoke around them when they light up, I've been wondering if maybe manners and rules of ettiquette for smokers are completely different from non-smokers. A situation: I recently moved out of a downstairs condo where the upstairs neighbors chain-smoked. Badly enough that in the summer I simply couldn't open the windows because our kitchen and living room would fill with cigarette smoke and everything would smell like my husband and I smoke ourselves. I ignored that, because, well, while I didn't necessarily have a right to breathe fresh air, they certainly had a right to smoke where they wanted, right? Didn't say anything, just quietly closed the sliding glass door and the windows. Dealt with it. And then my husband and I would go out on our patio later and find cigarette butts everywhere. And ash. Like, they were out on their deck, and instead of using a coffee can or ashtray or even garbage, they were flicking ashes down on our patio (which was OURS, not common) and then dropping the butts. So, we spent 3.5 years of picking up *their* cigarette butts and sweeping *their* ashes off *our* patio (which, frankly, I thought was beyond gross). I thought that was completely unacceptable, but, then in those years, I noticed more and more people just flicking cigarette butts whereever they felt like it - in someone's yard as they're passing along on a walk, in a park, in a parking lot, along the sidewalks, in front of businesses, on the streets, etc. How, dear DamnedPortlanders, is this considered even remotely civil and acceptable? I'm at a loss. I don't flick my chewed gum at other people's yards or patios (I find garbages, or carry the gum in a piece of paper until a garbage comes along). I don't toss food wrappers on the ground as I walk. Is this behavior born out of some complete disrespect for people around, or is simply a matter of not thinking about people it may be affecting? Current Mood:  curious |
philoticjane
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10:51a |
happy your moms' day call your mom. tell her i said she was great last night. Current Mood: amusedCurrent Music: into the west |
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