So my big bang is finally ready to go to beta. I don't have to post until August 8th, which is a long way off, so yay.
Husband has to go in for cardiac exploratory surgery tomorrow, so I may well be gone for a while depending on how he is when I get him back. /whine
I am trying to get a cracky J2 together to help kick off the new comm, j2_crack, and if I get it finished it's the crackiest thing I've ever done - even worse than the marauding broccoli army. I'm going to take it to the hospital with me tomorrow and try and get a good run at it.
In the meantime, go here and knock some teddy bears over!
I am grumpy. Someone succeeded in hacking and deleting my j2hurricane community, and LJ tells me there is no way to get it back, tough luck, goodbye. Hmph! That has made me cross. It's gone and now I am going to have to find some way of recreating it because I have the next installment ready to go.
And in other news, go to this site for a really good laugh.
I loved last night's episode. That's the third time in a row that show has given me my brothers back. I like. Please keep it up with the bromance, show. That's why I've been glued to it from the Pilot, and that's why I keep coming back.
No, I don't really read the sort of stuff that these people are talking about, and I sure don't write it, but I also don't want a private company to determine for me what I should read. This smacks of the kind of censorship that even the Federal Government cannot impose. Are we going to let a private company make that decision for us? It seems to me to be the thin end of the wedge. Please think about this. I'd love you to join in and fight for the individual's right to choose.
I have been waiting for close to a year for the surgery to remove cataracts from my eyes, and of course, they called me at home, despite the fact that they have my work number AND my cellphone number to tell me I can have the surgery on March 1st.
So I am on my way to Burbank for the con on March 1st, and I've spent way too much unrefundable dosh to not go to Burbank.
By the time I actually get them on the phone tomorrow, you can bet it'll be too late, and I'll have to wait another 6 months or so, and no doubt they'll offer it to me just in time to miss Vancon.
I am just choked. I want to be able to see properly again. *weeps*
What is ACTA? ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. A new intellectual property enforcement treaty being negotiated by the United States, the European Community, Switzerland, and Japan, with Australia, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Mexico, Jordan, Morocco, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, and Canada recently announcing that they will join in as well.
Why should you care about ACTA? Initial reports indicate that the treaty will have a very broad scope and will involve new tools targeting “Internet distribution and information technology.”
What is the goal of ACTA? Reportedly the goal is to create new legal standards of intellectual property enforcement, as well as increased international cooperation, an example of which would be an increase in information sharing between signatory countries’ law enforcement agencies.
Read the authentic version of the ACTA text as of 15 April 2011, as finalized by participating countries here: ACTA Finalized Text
Follow the history of the treaty’s formation here: ACTA history
Read letters from U.S. Senator Ron Wyden wherein he challenges the constitutionality of ACTA: Letter 1 | Letter 2 | Read the Administration’s Response to Wyden’s First Letter here: Response
Watch a short informative video on ACTA: ACTA Video
I posted this in response to something in a friend's LJ, but I think I need to repeat it, because I feel incredibly strongly about it.
See, I don't ever buy something if I don't know for sure that I want it. These days, radio stations have incredibly restrictive playlists and most of them are the same anyway. They consist of the stuff that's being pushed at the moment, and most of it is (IMO) crap. About once a year I find something that made it onto the payola list that is actually bearable, but I can't hear the kinds of music I want to hear without paying for something I don't know if I like - unless I download it to listen first. Why would I buy a pig in a poke?
I buy CDs, I do. I own around 2,000 of them and counting. If I really like something I buy it. Often I'll give the artist the benefit of the doubt later and buy their new stuff without downloading first, but all that will stop if I can't hear what they do first.
I have a rec blog for indie music. IF I can't download and listen to stuff, there will be a lot of artists that will be at least one rec lighter.
Then we have TV. Canada is a third world country as far as TV is concerned. Americans have their genre shows and so on (and cancel them) often long before they air in Canada, because so much Canadian TV has to contain Canadian content... and no, SPN is not Canadian content. Canadian content is mostly real and earnest, humourless bilge that is loved by only the pretentious, or amateurish stuff that is very poorly written. There have been exceptions, but guess what! They were canceled. Bah! well, mostly. I sympathise with you guys because your plight is worse than mine.
Let's look at a show like Leverage. I love that show. When they finally started to air it in Canada - on a channel people have to pay extra for - it was starting its third season. Burn Notice is another one. If I hadn't actually seen them (by downloading them) and been caught up in them, they'd have missed out on those Blu Ray sales. They wouldn't have had my money for the merchandise, and the conventions etc.
Make them available to me for download, and it won't stop me buying them. I am not alone. I'm one of many.
And I watch Supernatural twice on a Friday, then I download it and watch it some more, and I have it all on my hard drive, but I also own all the DVDs AND the Blu Rays, and T-shirts and books and comics and I go to cons when I can, and it's what I do. I vote. I promote, I hook my friends and colleagues and I provide huge PR for the shows I love.
You too. We need to make this known to the media owning freaks that think they are missing out on cash. They'll miss out on so much more if they cut us off. However most of the time I can't even see the goddamned trailers until some kind soul takes pity and uploads them to Youtube to snare them.
The PCA aired last night, and SPN won two categories, including best network drama, except I hear that the boys weren't invited to the awards show, and they didn't even bother to announce it on the damned show that they won. I am really cranky. I have emailed PCA to express my frustration with this, and am asking that you do the same. It looks like they were blown off because they weren't the show that the PTB wanted to win. All I can say is that it is the PEOPLES' CHOICE, and their preferences don't count.
So please go to the PCA site and login, then write them to complain, tweet, and generally make our feelings known. The show could have gotten a boost from their appearance, and it looks as if that was screwed by the suits. Oddly, all the crappy little shows on that particular network got their moment in the sun.
Also, what the hell was wrong with Demi Lovato? She couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.
j2_crack, and if I get it finished it's the crackiest thing I've ever done - even worse than the marauding broccoli army. I'm going to take it to the hospital with me tomorrow and try and get a good run at it.