the links of autumn

[jazzfish]

Oh, that's interesting (he said with distaste): if I set a userpic for a post on Dreamwidth, it shows up properly on DW, and on my individual journal page on LJ, but on "friends" pages on LJ it just shows up as the default fish. Grr. (ETA: and half an hour later, it's working fine. Database cache problem, maybe.)

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I take it back; I've missed autumn. The leaves scuffled delightfully yesterevening, and Cardero Park (a wide grassy tree-lined avenue) has come over all yellowgreen. Stanley Park looks about the same, being mostly cedars, except for the patches of color here and there. And I have fuzzy slippers and a gas fireplace, and a little cat that wants to curl up next to me while I'm writing on the couch. I'm good with this.

Meanwhile, have some random stuff I found on the internet:

I cannot tell whether these writer's dice are awesome or dippy. Good thing I have a week to decide.

The always delightful nineweaving and her amazing commenters [and now I sound like I'm advertising a circus act] take down what sounds like a very bad movie indeed: "Wouldn't it be cool if Shakespeare wasn't Shakespeare?" (See also MGK: I come to bury Snooki, not praise her.)

In it for the money: $150 cash: "I'm gonna level with you: I'm writing this because I need $150 this month."

Thirteen observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a discreet distance. I'm partial to #11, myself.

Along similar lines, Duncan "Atrios" Black on Twitter last week: "'Shit Is Fucked Up And Bullshit' is a much better slogan than my generation's 'Where's The Beef?'" (Context, if required.)

Jim Hines writes an open letter to the BSA.

Game Design, New-School: "In short, it was amazing to see just how much game play, and sense of mechanics, is hard-coded into kids by (I assume) video games now. I kind of want to bottle my nephew and squeeze him out for some intro RPG rules."

And mariness watches (and masterfully snarks) The Three Musketeers (2011): "For reasons that DEFY PHYSICS and CHEMISTRY, I have decided to GO SCUBA DIVING in Venice WHILE WEARING STEEL ALL OVER MY HEAD and some of my body. Those of you hoping that this is an INTELLIGENT REFERENCE to The Man in the Iron Mask should probably quell those hopes."

Right. Work.

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[silmaril.livejournal.com]

I had that icon problem too. The solution is somewhat irritating but it works: Make sure the keywords to the icons are exactly the same, case-sensitively, in both sites.