Whoa, Twitter just got hacked!

.... Dara doublechecked by trying to get data off of Twitter’s nameservers, and yeah, they were reporting bad hosts and everything before Twitter just dropped completely off the net. Anyway, y’all, if you can’t get through to Twitter tonight, this is very probably why. I don’t envy Twitter’s support team right now; they must be having a very stressful night! Mirrored from annathepiper.org .

And now: December Ebookapalooza!

...: Three Winter’s Tales , by Greer Gilman. Fantasy. WHEW. That’s eight in Round 1, five in Round 2, three in 3, 1 in 4, and two in 5, for a grand total of 19 books purchased for just over fifty dollars. Not bad if I do say so myself. And this brings my 2009 book purchase tally up to 192! Any bets on whether I’m going to hit 200 by the end of the year? ;) Mirrored from annathepiper.org .

Two weeks in, so far so good

... how many more calories I have to blow in a day has already led me to decide against snacks when previously I would have had them; as I type this, I am stoically resisting cake. Because I don’t have enough of a calorie surplus yet, and I won’t until I get on the treadmill Saturday morning! Long story short, I love this plan! I’m proud to be a part of it! Mirrored from annathepiper.org .

...morning of the 17th of April. And I get visitors in January and February! In the next two months, I get to have ljtourist , ctseawa , Monica, Ben, solarbird , and annathepiper visiting. Plus maybe sonatine and Cody for New Years, if Brooke and I can sufficiently convince them of the awesomeness of homemade eggnog, delicious poutine, plus! pancakes in the ...

LJ about to make Gender field mandatory

... and genderqueer friends, I find this generally displeasing, especially when coupled with the likelihood that this’ll lead to gender-targeted ads for non-paying users of the system. As per synecdochic ’s post, I’ll be sending in some feedback on this to (politely) express my displeasure. I recommend any of y’all who feel likewise do the same. Mirrored from annathepiper.org .

Steinbeck! Hemingway! SCUZZBOPPER!

If you happen to be like me and am crossposting these days over to LJ and LJ-related sites off of Wordpress, you might want to give a look to the shiny new version of the JournalPress plugin. It just upgraded to version 0.3 and includes, finally, support for letting you choose what userpic you want when the post shows up on LJ! This gives me a Happy, since it takes a few extra steps out of ...

Books and readings and signings FTW!

... Blood yet now would be a REALLY GOOD TIME, not like I’m hinting or anything okay yeah well I am), I’m probably about to do another e-book run. A good chunk of this will be buying stuff by Morgan Howell, because I just read Book 1 of his Queen of the Orcs trilogy and liked it quite a bit. Until then, the yearly books purchased tally is now up to 173. Mirrored from annathepiper.org .

Jam Report #97–12/6/09: Very Tiny Jam Edition

... of passes through this one as well, and Callie and Glenn both liked it, so yay. By then though Callie had to scoot for another engagement, so we called Pie. This Jam’s flavor: apple, and I’d made a point of getting a small one, but even so we still had about half left. Next time we’re going to go for a special evening Jam on the 20th. See y’all then! Mirrored from annathepiper.org .

For those of you not on Twitter

... it suddenly had extra points on the end. Oops! Meanwhile, the cats have gotten very fond of parking on the windowsill in the kitchen and staring out to the walkway just behind the house. I still don’t know what they think they see back there. And by “they” I mean “Fred”, because George is clearly a slacker when it comes to being a watchcat. Mirrored from annathepiper.org .

Wayfound logs

... Tefin finds Wayfound on watch over the Vraeyan camp by night, and the two elves share something of their childhoods with each other and make plans to head to Lostholt; “Of Babies and Gold” is a log fragment in which Wayfound and Tefin hang out with the human youth Maerro and the baby Jorrico, and learn a little about human babies and Maerro’s own history. Mirrored from annathepiper.org .