update of updateness
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elisi: it appears the recent LJ modifications may not be as disastrous as they first appeared? As summarized here, there will be some customizability, including the ability to switch off infinite scroll (thank goodness). Also, paid accounts aren't really going away--if you have one, you'll still have one, it looks like, and if you don't have one yet, you'll be able to just buy the features you want, instead of a bundle. If you have a paid account when that happens, it looks like you may also get some special privileges?
So that's good. I think? I hope.
In other news: I am very excited to get my Yuletide assignment, I don't understand permutation groups so I expect that at least one of the proofs I wrote up for my homework makes no sense (oh well), and I have once again gotten overly ambitious with the borrowing of library books and comics. (Batgirl! Batman! The Great Gatsby! Wait, what? Who thought it was a good idea to give me library cards?)
Oh! And I started poking at the nearly-infinite Doctor Who backlog. I started watching in 2010, so I've seen all of Moffat Who, somewhere between half and two thirds of RTD Who, and two Fourth Doctor serials. But I read Classic and Multi-era fanfic sometimes, and I was on an Ace/Hex fanfic binge the other day, and I thought, hmm, maybe I should, you know, actually watch some Seven-era. So I watched Ghost Light, and I didn't understand a lick of the plot, but it was fun and spooky and Seven was great. He is much calmer than the Doctors I am used to, and also very scary when he wants to be. And Ace! She was actually less big and tough, somehow, than I expected her to be, but she seems like a good companion. Although--were the TV acting guidelines different in the 80s? It seemed a bit melodramatic to me. But the school library had Remembrance of the Daleks, so that's on my desk, waiting and hoping for my legendarily poor TV attention span to return to it. :P
elisi: it appears the recent LJ modifications may not be as disastrous as they first appeared? As summarized here, there will be some customizability, including the ability to switch off infinite scroll (thank goodness). Also, paid accounts aren't really going away--if you have one, you'll still have one, it looks like, and if you don't have one yet, you'll be able to just buy the features you want, instead of a bundle. If you have a paid account when that happens, it looks like you may also get some special privileges?So that's good. I think? I hope.
In other news: I am very excited to get my Yuletide assignment, I don't understand permutation groups so I expect that at least one of the proofs I wrote up for my homework makes no sense (oh well), and I have once again gotten overly ambitious with the borrowing of library books and comics. (Batgirl! Batman! The Great Gatsby! Wait, what? Who thought it was a good idea to give me library cards?)
Oh! And I started poking at the nearly-infinite Doctor Who backlog. I started watching in 2010, so I've seen all of Moffat Who, somewhere between half and two thirds of RTD Who, and two Fourth Doctor serials. But I read Classic and Multi-era fanfic sometimes, and I was on an Ace/Hex fanfic binge the other day, and I thought, hmm, maybe I should, you know, actually watch some Seven-era. So I watched Ghost Light, and I didn't understand a lick of the plot, but it was fun and spooky and Seven was great. He is much calmer than the Doctors I am used to, and also very scary when he wants to be. And Ace! She was actually less big and tough, somehow, than I expected her to be, but she seems like a good companion. Although--were the TV acting guidelines different in the 80s? It seemed a bit melodramatic to me. But the school library had Remembrance of the Daleks, so that's on my desk, waiting and hoping for my legendarily poor TV attention span to return to it. :P
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Date: 2012-11-02 01:30 pm (UTC)I think that's just a Doctor thing. My favourite thing about Seven is the fact that is a goddamn adult, though. Not a scrap of selfpity anywhere. Mmmmmm. Remembrance of the Daleks. You'll see. (Ten would have been chewing the scenery ALL OVER THE PLACE with that story - mind you, he is VERY good at it - but Seven. Damn. *waves hands*)
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Date: 2012-11-02 04:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-03 06:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-03 09:57 am (UTC)Mmmmmmm. *loves* And encrypted, so as not to spoil others (key here: http://www.rot13.com):
Gung fprar va gur pnsr vf bar bs zl snibhevgr rire - fb dhvrg, fb haqrefgngrq, naq lbh jbaqre rknpgyl jung ur'f gnyxvat nobhg... Naq gura, nf uvf cyna vf erirnyrq V whfg tbg tbbfrohzcf. Va nyy gur orfg jnlf. *unaqf* Nznmvat fghss. (V ybir gung gurer'f fb zhpu bs Frira va Ryrira - ur'yy whfg trg ba jvgu uvf bja cynaf, oyvguryl ylvat gb rirelbar va gur cebprff. ::ybirf vg::)
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Date: 2012-11-03 04:50 pm (UTC)Jung Ryrira qvq gb gur Fvyrapr jnf fb irel Frira-yvxr, va zl bcvavba. N fvatyr oybj hfvat abguvat ohg jbeqf, naq gura hggre qrinfgngvba.
And that's all I'll say about that, because we are on someone else's journal and she hasn't seen "Remembrance" yet. :)
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Date: 2012-11-03 04:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-03 07:05 pm (UTC)P.S. At first I thought they were Russian spambot comments, and I was confused as to how a Russian spambot had gotten hold of your name, ahaha.
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Date: 2012-11-03 07:02 pm (UTC)