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I've been away from the group/LJ for a little while...5ish years maybe.

Anyway; here is the thing about Obama I can't figure out:

Is President Obama turning his back on the ideals set out by Candidate Obama? (Not talking about Afghanistan because he said he wanted more troops there while campaigning.)

OR...

Has President Obama come face to face with the true limitations placed on him as only 1/3rd of the government?

OR...

Has the press just focused so much on the bad and unaccomplished that the good things are being ignored and glossed over? (Because he has real accomplishments.)

I don't get to use the word schadenfreude anywhere near enough, because I just don't usually get my kicks out of someone else's misfortune, but I can genuinely say that this bit of news made me giggle like a schoolgirl! It really couldn't happen to a more deserving guy than John McCain's BFF!

I believe this is what farmers would call a case of chickens coming home to roost!

It's been a momentous 12 months here at LiveJournal. We crossed a capital T at Ten years young. And, like most precocious pubescents, we celebrated turning double digits by publishing our first book! Needless to say, we've experienced some major changes, both inside and out. Before we recap, we'd like to thank you for bearing with us as we've struggled through ungainly growth spurts, identity pangs, and, yes, the occasional blemish. We hope you'll continue to stand by us: We're gaining wisdom with maturity.

Stuff you liked

• Back in February, we placed a call for entries for our ten-year anniversary anthology in lj_turns10. In December (less than a year later!), we officially announced the publication of Live Journal: The First Decade. Featuring an inspired collection of writing, photographs, and artwork from the pages of LiveJournal history, the book has been selected by Blurb.com as a top staff pick! We are proud to have played host to so much talent over the years, and we thank our contributors for sharing their extraordinary work.
• We all love quirky surprises, but not when it comes to managing our account settings. This year we streamlined settings into one central account management area. No more pouring through FAQs to figure out how to control privacy settings, modify notifications, adjust mobile settings, or update contact information!
• Being users ourselves, we realize our own mothers couldn't find us on LiveJournal based on our usernames and userpics alone (*heaves heavy sigh of relief*). But since there are times when we actually want to be found, we created a search tool--Find Your Friends--to help locate people by email address (it's in the Friends drop-down menu).
• Spam counter-attack: The war against vicious malware and spambots reigns eternal, but we've been making serious inroads to ensure your online security. We've established new protocols, such as requiring email address validations. We've grown more savvy about ferreting out suspicious behavior. We've added features, like whitelisting, to help you protect your communities. Our valiant (i.e., overworked) spam avengers (a/k/a the LiveJournal ops team) are standing on red alert so you can sleep safely at night.
• After an intensive beta, we launched My Guests at the end of the year, which lets you see who's been hanging around your journal. A number of you have even discovered secret admirers (not all of whom are creepy)!
• Last, but by no means least, we want to thank our volunteers for providing invaluable support and feedback. Their Herculean efforts enable us to answer your questions more efficiently, identify spammers, reduce abuse, and deliver better features (through tireless testing). On behalf of the staff and the larger LiveJournal community, we are truly grateful for their diligence, intelligence, loyalty, and passion.

You got your fix

• We recently debugged a number of the oustanding issues with the rich text editor so your entries look great regardless of whether you know html. You can read more about text editors here.
• In response to user demand, we brought back international voice posting. For more info on voice posting, read here.
• At long last, we revived TxtLJ with Verizon. For more info on TxtLJ, check out the FAQ.

Paid features you enjoyed

• In December, we introduced My Stats, which provides detailed data on who's been viewing your entries as well as statistics on commenting, RSS requests, friending history, and more. Despite a few early glitches, the response has been extremely favorable.
• This year, we launched and improved Notes (i.e., the feature formerly known as Alias), which lets you add private comments on friends and commenters (it's in the Profile drop-down menu). This way you won't be caught red-faced when you strain to remember details about that wonderful LiveJournal friend who sent you a birthday vGift. For more info, read the FAQ.
• When we first announced View friends pages by date, we thought it would be a quiet, minor enhancement. The rave reaction floored us, which made us all very happy. We gave it a fine tuning in February of 2009, so it's even better!
• How embarrassing! It appears pingbacks have gone back to the shop for service. We’ll keep you posted. We didn't know just much you liked pingbacks until it went in for service. It's back and, judging by your irritation when it wasn't available, this is good news. FYI, pingbacks send instant notifications (via screened comments) whenever someone links to one of your entries on LiveJournal. For more info, read this entry in paidmembers or check out the FAQ.

Mixed reviews

• The search is still on. Some of you have reported getting more comprehensive results for keyword searches using the new Yandex search engine and like the ability to search within content categories (like entries or comments). Others have not been satisfied with the relevancy of search results. Please be patient. We're still tweaking this product.
• This past December, we wanted to try out a new holiday promotion. Given the crap economy, we decided to offer our Paid/Permanent users a stack of $10 coupons to send to Basic/Plus users for paid account upgrades. We hoped you would like it. And some of you did, but many were disappointed that we didn't offer Give More as well. We want to thank you so much for letting us know. Your input will help us plan better in the future. Just FYI, Paid/Permanent users can continue to send out coupons through January 15th. Coupons can be redeemed through January 31, 2010.
• We were pretty excited about Your Journal Your Money, which allows Paid/Permanent users to earn extra cash by displaying Google ads to Basic/Plus and logged out users. A number of you tried it. Some of you really like it. Others, not so much. (Just FYI, Paid/Permanent users who do not participate in this program will not view ads on journals. Participants will see ads on their own journal, but won't see them on other journals unless they specifically opt in.) For additional details, visit here.
• We relaunched m.livejournal.com, our mobile app. While it offers a nicer UI and enhanced functionality, some of you think we can do better on load times. Like most of us, it's a work in progress. You can customize your mobile settings here. For more info, please read the FAQ.

Missing Inaction

• We shudder to bring up the neon purple elephant squatting on our heads, but, yes, we didn't give you those a la carte userpics. We've been making radical improvements to our backend in order to support them. But no excuses. We know you want them. We cringe every time you mention them. We're sorry we dropped the ball on this, and we promise to do our best to get them to you in 2010.

Stumbling points

• Back in early August, we experienced outages related to a series of DDoS attacks. We are proud to report that we were down a total of one hour over the course of a few days. We thank our heroic ops guys for getting us up sooner and more consistently than any of our less fortunate social networking friends. We apologize for leaving you temporarily stranded.
• A couple of months back, we offered a free, unrestricted vGift, which induced a snowflake cookie avalanche. This resulted in backed up/delayed notifications, which, in turn, led us to reboot systems, rendering scrapbooks unavailable. It took a while to shovel free. Apologies for the inconvenience. We learned a valuable lesson that should keep us calamity-free in the future (fingers crossed while knocking on wood).
• That darn Best Buy ad. First off, we're sorry about the audio auto-play (we got it turned off as quickly as possible). While it's true that we'll continue to show this type of ad to accounts that normally see them (never to Paid/Permanent accounts), we'll make sure the sound defaults to off moving forward. We promise to do our very best to keep ads to a minimum on LiveJournal, while keeping a roof over Frank's head.

Full steam ahead!

As we plunge headfirst into the next decade, we want to take a moment to look back and thank all of our employees, both past and present, who have worked so hard to create our unique and magical universe. We couldn't have made it this far without you: Your contributions brighten our path everyday. We also want to extend our heartfelt appreciation to each and every one of you. Whether you've been around for ten days or ten years, your humor, intelligence, talent, and creativity are what makes this the most vibrant global community on the Internet (the best place on the Web, in our humble opinion). Here's hoping that 2010 will be the greatest year yet! We thank you for joining us as we embark upon another glorious decade of LiveJournal history!

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We're all going to die!  Well, at least according to local news.  Tonight and tomorrow it's supposed to get down to 18-20 F.  No precipitation.  Just cold.  Therefore the news wants you to prepare for The 2010 Arctic Blast!  Food, water, medications for one week!  Don't forget to buy catheters (yes, it's on the list) and kitty litter, even if you don't have a cat!  Because even though there's no ice storm in the forecast, it doesn't mean you can't prepare for one just in case.  People are also upset because schools aren't closed.  This has been updated advising us all to stay off the roads.  You know.  Because it's cold.  And there might be wind.  But much less than what we typically see over summer.  BUT IT'S GOING TO BE COLD!  COLD, I TELL YOU!

Of course now I'm afraid of people trying to attack me with catheters or something. :-/  

For real LULZ, check out the comment section on each link.  

Brown's position as PM is secure insists Mandelson – reports BBC

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8444782.stm

The latest developments within the Labour party show that transparency is good only to a certain degree. Should the politicians conduct their internal dirty business - ‘washing their dirty laundry on public’?
Moreover, can they do it on a regular basis without damaging their own party?

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I heard/saw this video at the gym and fell in love with it. David Bowie + dance mix + awesome dance moves = win. 
 

Also saw this one at the gym.  The video is full of win. Bonus points for swing dancing/aereals.   :-)

( The workout.... )
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Thing the first.

Back in February, Graham worked on a great show at Diverseworks called Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps, which was a one-man show. Graham worked sound cues during the show and generally helped with production. The other two people working on the show were Matt, the lighting and technical guy, and Scott, the writer, actor, director, and otherwise important person. Graham, Matt and Scott spent a week or so getting ready for the show, and Graham had a genuinely good time working on the show. He got along great with Matt and Scott, and though they'd been on the road with the show together for awhile, Matt and Scott mad Graham feel like part of the team. There are a lot of shows that Graham will do where he doesn't really care all that much about the people he's working with. A gig is a gig, and by and large, he's done so many by now that they sort of run together. But Graham genuinely liked these guys, and even better yet, he loved the hell out of Scott's show. It's laugh at loud funny for a good hunk of it. There are some aerial stunts at the beginning. It involves some audience participation and interaction, but not enough to make any one individual feel uncomfortable or put upon. And it's likely to make you think. I saw it on opening night, and it was wonderful. And Scott and Matt turned out to be a really cool guys at the after-party. I genuinely liked them, and Graham was kind of bummed that he couldn't go to LA for the two week run of the show there because we had a previous commitment in Las Vegas during that run.

Thing the second.

Another awful reality show called Conveyor Belt of Love aired on Sunday. This is how it works:

If a woman is interested in someone, that man will step aside and wait as the rest of the men go by. But if another man comes by on the belt that seems better than that woman’s first choice, she can swap out the man waiting off of the belt as many times as she wants until the last man has passed by. If two or more of the women are interested in the same man, the tables turn and the man on the conveyor belt gets to choose which one he would like to wait for. After all 30 men have made it through the 'Conveyor Belt of Love,' each woman is left with her final choice as they embark on a date in the hope of finding a true connection.

It's sort of on my radar, because someone on my lawyer board mentioned it right before it aired and later reported that it was the trainwreck that everyone though it would be. I kind of got the impression that the show was a souped up version of that old show Studs, but in reverse.

And how they merge.

As I'm sure you've all figured out, Scott was one of the 30 men that ended up on the "Conveyor Belt of Love". And he was picked! Some douche bag-ette (or is that douche baguette?) decided that she liked Scott's description of himself and his play and his physical appearance which she thought was "gorgeous", and she was "interested" in him. Or so said the card she was given. He stepped aside while others were evaluated. One of the other girls said he was "nerdy". Graham had the link up on Hulu when I got home, so I could see Scott's few seconds of national television fame. Fast forwarding through Hulu, I gather that the douche baguette decided on some other guy that came down the conveyor belt of love, so Scott never got to go out with her (unless, of course, they exchanged numbers in the green room after the show).

And so Scott's facebook page is now atwitter with all of his friends laughing their asses off. I think he thought that this show wasn't going to air and/or there was some sort of "never speak of this" clause in his contract.

This is Scott's description of the play when he's trying to woo the ladies on Conveyor Belt of Love.

I spend most of my time teaching at colleges and universities. I go around talking about masculinity. And what it means to be a guy. And how to be different from most of the macho stereotypes. What I do in order to do that is a theater show called Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps and I spend most of my time in that show up in a Cirque du Soleil type fabric which I climb up and do tricks in and all that stuff.

This is Diversework's description of the play on their website, trying to woo audience members to come see it.

Scott Turner Schofield puts his personal journey from female-bodied boy to butch girl to unrecognizable woman to man on display through his performance, Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps. Schofield has created a "Choose Your Own Adventure" solo play, where the audience chooses which of the 127 autobiographical stories he has developed. These stories, conveyed through storytelling, stand-up comedy, fantastical movement sequences and drag routines, explore Schofield's transition from female to male, exploring his origins, childhood and young life as a transgender person. Sometimes funny, sometimes shocking in their frank emotional honesty, these wildly original theatrical performances last from 30 seconds to five minutes and give audiences a view into the many parts of a person that make up the whole.

Both methods of wooing worked! Scott's pitch on the show got a girl to say she was interested in him. And Diverseworks did a damned good job of selling out the play. It was just a question of giving the right pitch.

Way to go Scott! BTW, I don't think the ladies on the show ever knew about Scott's transformation. Maybe not even the producers. Who knows? The internet, of course, knows because Scott's name is all over the place and he's sort of famous in trans circles. Reactions are pretty much mixed, though most people think it's pretty awesome.

At any rate, if you see an advertisement for a show called Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps, by Scott Turner Schofield, I highly recommend it because it's an awesome play. Go see it. And see if you can set Scott up. Obviously, if he's stooping to the doucheois's (pronounced like "bourgeois") stomping grounds, he's obviously desperate for a date.

For anyone interected in foreign policy, Stephen Walt's blog is a must-read.

Here's a particularly sound take on the recent Crotch Bomber controversy:

"In particular, I'm struck by the inability of most Americans to connect the continued risk of global terrorism with America's highly interventionist global policy. One can have a serious debate about whether that policy is the right one or not; my point is that we are kidding ourselves if we think we can behave this way and remain immune from any adverse consequences. As a society, we seem to believe that we can send thousands of troops to invade other countries, send Reapers and Predators to fire missiles at people we think might -- repeat, might -- be terrorists, and underwrite the oppressive policies of a host of "friendly" governments, yet never pay any significant price for it back here at home. We are a nation of swaggering sheep: eager to impose our will on others yet terrified that doing so might inconvenience us, let alone put U.S. civilians in real danger.

I'm not for one minute justifying what groups like al Qaeda do; my point is that we shouldn't be surprised by it. When a very powerful country spends a lot of time interfering in other’s affairs, and sometimes backing obvious injustices like the Gaza War, then it ought to expect some people to be very angry about it. And because there’s no such thing as a perfect defense, sometimes those angry people will hit back. They won’t do as much to us as we’ve done to them because they’re a lot weaker, but occasionally they will draw blood."
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/01/04/a_nation_of_swaggering_sheep

From an older post:

"It is also important to ask why bin Laden called attention to U.S. support for Israel, and to the lobby's role in generating that support. He did this because he understands -- along with plenty of other people -- that the combination of unconditional U.S. support for Israel and Israel's brutal treatment of the Palestinians is a source of great resentment in the Arab and Islamic world. This is hardly an original insight on his part either. The 9/11 Commission reported "it is simply a fact that American policy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ... is [a] dominant staple of popular commentary across the Arab and Muslim world." imilarly, the State Department's Advisory Group on Public Diplomacy for the Arab and Muslim World found that "citizens in these countries are genuinely distressed at the plight of the Palestinians and at the role they perceive the United States to be playing." Not only is Bin Laden personally motivated by this issue -- as his own family and prior statements attest -- he knows it is a good way to attract support."
http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/09/15/bin_ladens_book_club

Americans take a very insular view of their place world. The view from outside of the country sees the United States as overreacting yet again. Using the measures that the United States does to fight terrorism is like using a grenade to kill a fly. And it goes without saying, as Mr. Walt points out, that the root cause of terrorism is America's appalling record in the Middle East and unwavering support for Israel.

 I haven't link spammed in awhile because I'm pissy.  Here's a new one.  Hopefully the pissiness will subside.

Adidas made a new line of shoes inspired by Star Wars.  I don't want any of them...but am amused by the artwork.  I told y'all I was pissy. 

John Barrowman and Neil Patrick Harris are in a battle royale to see who is the "Gay/Bisexual Man of the Decade."  Link includes a bit o' gossip about a potential spoiler for the last ever episode of Dollhouse...oh, and a link to vote. 

IO9 previews (sort of) The 20 Sci Fi movies of 2010 they are excited to see.  I dunno, there's a lot of cheese on that list.  Do we really need a remake of Red Dawn?

Guess where the Tee Shirts are being made in the event of a TU victory over 'Bama.  Give up?  CC Creations, right here in College Station.  One way to beat a rival is to profit from them.  ;-)

Honey in luggage shuts down airport.  What makes this interesting is that several people complained of nausea after opening the bag and were transported to a hospital because of it.  They thought it was a hazardous material and developed symptoms.  I'm sure they're now ever-so-thrilled to learn it was honey.

The Taco Bell Diet.  As lame as the Subway Diet.  Or any other diet that claims anything other than reducing caloric intake will help you lose weight.  The last sentence of the article says it all. 

Speaking of diets, ever wonder how Alton Brown lost 50 lbs?  In case you missed it he discussed it in this week's new Good Eats, Live and Let Diet.  It's summed up in this blog post.  As well as this LJ discussion.  Because it's is so reasonable, I wonder what he was eating before the diet. 

Russ went to do pre-trip maintenance on my car before starting to load it, and it's got another problem: a coolant leak from the intake manifold. This is not a fast fix (although it's a fairly cheap one if he does it), and there's no way he could do that and all the other stuff he still has to do before I leave. Drop back and punt; I'm going to be driving the BHV to GAFilk. This, in turn, entailed getting 2 new front tires on the BHV, which ran about $300. Also, the cruise control on the BHV is currently non-functional, which means I'll be a lot more tired from driving; and it gets much lower gas mileage than my car. But that still beats having car trouble on the road, and at least now I don't have to worry about packing Tetris -- there will be plenty of space for what I'm taking.

I've got my running money for the con, and road snacks, and all my merchandise is packed and ready to go. Packing my personal stuff won't take long. Russ is still printing shirts. We hope to have 1 new filk-related design for the con. As long as I'm on the road by noon, I'll be in very good shape.

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Back in November, a former employee of the Planned Parenthood clinic in Bryan announced that she quit, had a conversion, and joined the other side. She had worked in the clinic for 8 years, and had moved pretty high up the chain at Planned Parenthood. She was the clinic director when she left. She said her conversion came from observing an ultrasound abortion. She also said something about her superiors pressuring her to up revenues by getting more abortions scheduled. This was in the middle of the 40 days of Harrassment.

Fortunately, mainstream media didn't really pick up her story. Except salon.com, which noted that the employee had been put on an Employee Improvement Plan by her superiors two days before she left and was seen removing confidential information from the clinic, and RH Reality Check, which looked at her story with some incredulity. Unfortunately, the whackadoo conservative media ate it all up. She hit the right-wing talk show circuit in October and November, and they loved her. She repeated her conversion story over and over again, describing in detail the ultrasound image she saw of a 13 week pregnant woman's abdomen during a surgical abortion.

The Right Wing Media didn't look too deeply into her story. Texas Monthly did. And their story on the matter hit their website today. On top of the questions about the timing of the Employee Improvement Plan and the conversion, several statements from befuddled friends and co-workers, and Ms. Johnson's own statements on a radio show the day after her supposed conversion, Texas Monthly quickly discovered that Ms. Johnson never heard of the Induced Abortion Report Form that is required to be sent to the Texas Department of State Health Services. It contains data on all abortions performed in the state, including demographic information on the patients, weeks of gestation, type of procedure. This is the form.

The Bryan clinic reported performing fifteen surgical abortions on September 26. Johnson has consistently said that the patient in question was thirteen weeks pregnant, which is plausible, since thirteen weeks is right at the cusp of when physicians will consider using an ultrasound to assist with the procedure. Yet none of the patients listed on the report for that day were thirteen weeks pregnant; in fact, none were beyond ten weeks.

When Texas Monthly pressed Ms. Johnson on the issue,

Johnson volunteered that the patient in question was a black woman, a description that she has never previously included in her account. Only one patient from September 26 was black, according to the Induced Abortion Report Form, and she was in the sixth week of her pregnancy. There would be no medical reason for a doctor to use an ultrasound to guide an abortion performed on a woman at such an early stage. Even if one was used, it’s hard to imagine how Johnson, who said she has seen hundreds of ultrasound pictures in her career, could mistake a one-quarter-inch-long embryo for a three-inch, thirteen-week fetus.

Johnson later suggests that Planned Parenthood doctored the form to discredit her, though apparently she's never disclosed the race of the pregnant woman before so it would have been difficult to pre-determine her statement. I don't know if Texas Monthly got the Induced Abortion Report Form from Planned Parenthood or the Texas Department of State Health Services. I suspect the latter under a public information request, since the form does contain information that could be considered individually identifiable under HIPAA (date of service, for you HIPAA junkies out there). The Texas Administrative Code says the data has to be submitted annually, but facilities can submit the form on a monthly or quarterly basis for greater efficiency. I don't know how often Planned Parenthood submits the form, but the story about the conversion didn't come out until November 4, and the procedure that supposedly triggered the conversion ocurred on September 26th. The end of September tends to be the end of the third quarter, and the end of the month would have been the same. Give a few days to compile data and send it in, it would have hit the State by mid-October, well before Ms. Johnson's story came out.

This story really upset me back in November when it broke. I'm very close to the people who work in this branch of Planned Parenthood. And I'm glad to see a mainstream publication take the story apart piece by piece.

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I read an interesting article today on the ridiculous youtube sensation that is the Muppets.

Now, comfortably middle aged, the zany puppets who came to prominence in the 1970s with "The Muppet Show" have recaptured their youthful bravado.

And they're doing it by popping up all over the Disney corporate matrix, including appearances on ABC and ESPN programs, top billing on the Walt Disney Company's homepage and, soon, in a network special and feature film written by "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" star Jason Segel.

But nothing has brought audiences back into the fold quite like YouTube.

Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fozzie and the rest of the Jim Henson's creatures have become internet sensations with their recent viral video cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody," and their more recently released version of the Christmas carol "Ringing of the Bells." The puppets take on the Queen classic has drawn over 11.5 million viewers.

Versions of "Ode to Joy" and short videos featuring the likes of the Swedish Chef demonstrating pumpkin carving have also attracted hundreds of thousands of viewers to the Muppets' YouTube channel.

The Muppets have been further shaking off their self-imposed seclusion (it's been over 10 years since their last feature film) with a series of strategic cameos on established television shows. Characters are popping up on programs such as "Dancing With the Stars," where Animal banged on the drums as Aaron Carter hoofed it to the theme from "The Muppet Show." Miss Piggy interviewed guests during the series finale.

Graham and I sort of informally watched the hit numbers on the Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody in the first week it was posted. Every day, it seemed, the video got another million viewers.

I have to say that I'm pretty impressed with the way that Disney has gone about relaunching the brand. I suspect that it's no coincidence that they timed the revamp of their youtube channel* shortly after the Sesame Street 40th anniversary. The internet was abuzz with muppet realted nostalgia in September, and I'm certain that the Disney people picked up on that. I've noticed the volunteer commercials on TV, and when I looked for muppet related things on my DVR after the youtube video hit, I was surprised to see the "Letters to Santa" airing for the second year in a row.

I think, though, that the internet is where the muppets really are going to shine, in part because the internet allows for the wacky experimentation that made the original Muppet Show so awesome much better than any other forum. I honestly don't know how the original Muppet Show got past studio execs back in the 70s. The only explanation I can think of was "It was the 70s and it was the Brits." No fucking way an American broadcast network nowadays would greenlight such a weird, wacky and surreal show. We were very lucky CBS agreed to syndication. But on the internet, the guard is let down a little, and there's room for exploration. And stuff like the Bohemian Rhapsody is just pure genius.

I hope they keep doing this good stuff.

*The youtube channel used to be several. Many characters had their own channels, featuring videos staring themselves.