Hold me tight

Gates are open!

If everything goes right I'll be on tomorrow at 1pm central time. 
My info is:
Alica in Ho'ville
4726-6961-0814

Off to Mexico in a few hours. Wow. I can't begin to imagine how good it's going to be. I'll take pictures.

I'll be back in eight days, you all have fun with whatever you're doing this week<3




OMG OMG OMG \o/

How do you furnish your home?

The game has all these furniture sets, but I don't like doing a room in all one theme-- I like to pick and choose which pieces look good together, from different themes, to make something unique and personal.

It seems that most people like working on complete sets, though.

Do you do one or the other? Does it depend on the set? I don't even bother collecting most of the Mushroom set because most of the pieces will just sit in my drawers. :P

The empire strikes back

In recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal.

RSS feeds again

If you're addicted to xkcd_rss, icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience.

Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests!

c_s_i

If you're a gamer who loves CSI, have Wii got news for you! c_s_i is sponsoring killer contests. Simply post a question to a member of the CSI crew. The winner will get a free copy of CSI: Deadly Intent for Nintendo Wii (with a retail value of $39.99) and get their question answered by a member of the CSI writing team! There's also a fantastic monthly contest. To enter, join c_s_i, play the online version of CSI: Deadly Intent, and respond to a two-part query for a chance to win a Wii! Entries will be judged on composition and originality. Sorry, but you must be a U.S. resident and over 18 years old to participate. Check out the rules here.

Enveloped in postcards

Last week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be giving ten random users paid account credits.

Photos of the week

If you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too!
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Today was a landmark day in Mtn Park. I've been through every townie that the game generates and got a picture from the last one.

However, I'm missing two pictures. Sally was one of my original townies and she escaped before I knew how to beg her to stay. Nan left when I forgot about her.

If you have either Sally or Nan, can wifi, and are willing to let either one of them go, please let me know. Name your price, I'm prepared to pay.

Whoa, what is this? I am almost alone in the library and it's after midnight and I'm listening to Britney Spears remixes for some reason and it's making me slightly horny. It might be because I've been reading and writing about sex and sexuality all day. I hope it's not the sheer power of relatively bad music. Damn.

OMG, Tegan and Sara, one of my favourite bands, are playing LITERALLY 40 METERS AWAY FROM MY ROOM. There is a concert hall in the building next to this one.



This of course happens while I am in Mexico.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ.


( So many of these books are in my bookshelves but far down on my to-read-list because my to-read-list is extremely long. )

StarB612 Heidi♥ 5370-6507-0740

Katrina is in town, so come by and get your fortune told!

(I time-traveled to the next day just to keep things interesting for me while I do landscaping, etc.)

Jasmine - Provence - 5455 7171 2354

Gates are open and will stay that way overnight (if possible). The town's going into hibernation so come and take anything you want. If you want to pick things up and take them to Nook for the bells, that's fine. If you want to run, that's fine. If you want to chop down all the trees, that's fine.

Leave an answer to this post with your friend code and I'll add you. Tomorrow you can take Provence's code off your list.

I came home from University this weekend, so Yay! No University Wireless! (Home wireless is much more reliable! :D) So my gates are open for as long as wi-fi holds up! (They were open earlier too while I was napping, but no one came over. I didn't have the energy to make a post.)

By the way, it's Yay Day in my town, so if a townie asks you what you think of them, be honest, and tell them whatever you want! >3 (Heh, heh... lol.)

StarB612 Heidi♥ 5370-6507-0740

I may be on sometime tomorrow from anywhere betwen 12pm and 6 pm central time.  If you may be on then and wanna come to my town or want me to come to yours, lets be friends then!
I have a bunch of stuff hidden in my town too(gotta dig for em).

My info is:
Alica in Ho'ville
FC: 4726-6961-0814

( LOTS OF CITY FOLK PICTURES. ) HOPE YOU ENJOYED MY TOWN AND HOUSE.

In response to user comments from last week, we want to let you know that we'll remain LJ cut-free for the next month in order to get more eyeballs on our evolving newsletter. As for product coverage, that continues to be our top priority. For more granular detail, however, we recommend you join lj_releases.

Super-tweak for Yandex search

Some of our beta testers expressed privacy concerns using the Yandex search engine. Here's why: Last week, when you ran a search, you could see the usernames (and only the usernames) of everyone who commented on an entry, even if that entry was switched to Private or Friends Only after it was originally indexed. You could NOT see the actual comments from Friends Only or Private posts. In response to your input, we've implemented a fix to keep all user activity currently marked Friends Only or Private completely hidden. If you'd prefer your public content not to be indexed by Yandex, click here and use the settings labeled Search Inclusion (this covers your entire journal) and/or Comment Search Inclusion (which covers comments only). To test drive Yandex search now, click here.

Postcards from the edge

Several years ago, we asked LiveJournal users to send postcards to help us decorate our dull, white-washed offices. Since a good idea warrants repetition, we're at it again (same issue, new address). We hope you'll surround us with LiveJournal love by sending your postcards to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. We'll post snapshots right here. Be sure to include your username, since we'll randomly pick 10 lucky recipients to win free paid account time.

Conquer Writer's Block

Here are some excerpts from this week's most popular question of the day:

If a friend or relative makes a racist or homophobic remark, do you tend to confront them or let it slide? Are you more likely to confront them if it offends you directly or someone else who seems reluctant to speak up?

1. I find it easier to stand up for other people, and i wouldn't let it slide if they made a rude or hurtful comment.
2. Usually if a friend makes a racist or homophobic remark, I tend to let it slide. I think that while i would not say such things myself, I have no right to censor those around me.
3. This happens all of the time. I confront some relatives, but I refuse to if they are drunk or watch Fox News.
4. I'd let it slide if it was just a private remark... As much as I despise bigotry and intolerance, I know that you can't change people-they have to change themselves ...
5. Confront! confront! confront! Politely, but without equivocation.
6. SPEAK UP. Always, always, always speak up. Letting something slide lets ignorance win. No matter if it offends me directly, or someone else, I will confront the speaker and let them know that's not ok.
7. I don't get offended personally. As an immigrant, woman, gay and person of color if I took every single potentially offensive remark seriously I wouldn't get anything done.
8. I punch them in the balls. With my mind.
9. I do speak up, but often very timidly because I feel that I'm white and therefore I don't really have any authority to lecture someone on what's racist and what isn't...
10. Generally speaking, I do not let this shit fly, because it reduces me as a person, to this non-person and it replicates the destructive discourse that makes sure that sexual minorities, racial minorities, women, people with disabilities, trans people and every intersection thereof into something other than human... And sometimes... I'm just too tired to deal with it, so I roll my eyes, make a sarcastic remark and hope the conversation moves on quickly.

For more daily questions and user comments, join writersblock. FYI, we don't want to invade your privacy, so we haven't credited individual users for their responses. We'd appreciate your feedback on this!

Spotlight community of the week

We can't resist making one last midnight trip to the ol' pumpkin patch. If you adore crazy costumes, fiendish festivities, and bottomless candy consumption as much as we do, this community has just what it takes to light up your jack-o-lantern.


halloween_fan

Photos of the week

We received so many incredible photos, we had to close our eyes and point. We uploaded a selection of awesome images at our new lj_photophile community. Please join and start posting (try to keep the width at around 625 for the sake of consistency)! We'd love for you to tell us more about your photos! You can help us select spotlight photos by commenting on your favorites. Once again, we thank you for making our online world more beautiful!

shutter	pancetta	ilya_gorokhov

Curtains

Thanks, again, for tuning in. We look forward to seeing you next week.

Stole yet another meme from secondratestar

( A little long, but omg I love questions )

Holy fuck that was a waste of precious time.

The world loves me. Jut when I really needed those three extra hours tonight reading for my midterm, my Comp. Lit. class was canceled. I got my English midterm back, and I got an A on that one, too. My adapter broke and I had to go downtown and that was a little bleh, BUT I got a new one for free AND I found my near-dream coat for 40 dollar. I also found striped wrist warmers and striped tights for my emo/scene halloween costume (that was the only thing I had to buy - I already have a My Chemical Romance shirt, black hair and lip rings;D). I bought cheap surprise bags and got so much cute stuff I'll probably never use. My coughing has almost stopped. I don't know why, but I'm almost looking forward to my midterm tomorrow (I shouldn't, because I started revising ca. 24 hours ago). And then to HALLOWEEN WEEKEND! And after that a few days of intense writing and then Mexico.Sheeeet.

I'm studying for my midterm in Middle Eastern and African studies right now, and I wanted to re-read the passage about how the Ottomans took young men from other religions and made them sort of "elite slaves" and I looked through the index and couldn't find it, of course, because where was I looking?

Under "C" for "Christian slave boys". Naughty mind.

Hi :)
Name: Dre
Sex:female
Age:24
Sexual orientation:les-bee-ah-nah lol
Been on lj since the age of 16 but started a new one since I left for over 2 years. Looking for friends who have something interesting to say or not lol. So add me leave a nice little message :)