After Eleanor played Johnny Brenda's , I asked how it had gone. She told me, "It was great! I broke my guitar pick!"

"I've got more important things to worry about [than] BOYFRIENDS! " (Thanks, boutell !)

Wow, everything really is available on the Internet, even 15 years later . Looks as though Hampf's Brian Robinson has been kind and generous enough to share the band's entire catalog, including songs from Zerohead, a 1995 musical they put on starring the then-host of the Seattle Slam, Paul Grajnert. boutell , you're welcome! You will now have "Ratchet" going through your head for the next...

Thanks boutell for learnin' me about Aretha Franklin's Inaugural Hat!

I do this end-year wrap up every year, though normally I post it o'er at my [grossly neglected] llij.net blog.  I ganked this, as always, from the awesome fatherbingo . 1. What did you do in 2008 that you'd never done before? Started my own company and had a profitable year, spent Easter at Frank Lloyd Wright's family estate in Malibu for a beautiful, warm party, officiated a wedding...

First time ljdump user here, but experienced geek; thought I'd try filling in some gaps in the instructions. First: on Windows, I use ljArchive , a normal Windows program that does pretty much what ljdump does, but has pretty mousey-menuy-windowy features. I recommend it, except for one problem, which is this: once your LJ gets to a certain size, ljArchive randomly fails. I'm in the middle of helping...

Ganked from boutell cuz he rocks the casbah: Man Likes Woman So Much He Marries Her | The Onion - America's Finest News Source "WELLTON, AZ—Henry Leighty, a 32-year-old Arizona native and insurance claims adjuster, reportedly had such a huge crush on his girlfriend, Stacy Tompkins, 29, that he just had to marry her in a small ceremony Sunday which he totally dreams about every night when...

Short update: I'm refactoring the code into submodules, so I can debug it better. In the process I'm discovering bugs and weirdnesses, and taking note of things I'd like to adjust. I think one good trick would be to separate out the UI from the LJ-handling logic, turning the latter into a class that will do all the clever operations on the LJ database that boutell has written into the software...

Working on debugging boutell 's Tags From 10,000 Feet, the unwieldily-named but relatively simple LJ tagging program that seems to stop working once you reach a certain unstated limit of entries and tags. Unfortunately, I don't have the idiomatic knowledge of Python 2.x to allow me to be maximally efficient, so I'm working gingerly, making changes in small steps and hoping not to mess anything...

I heard from boutell , the author of Tag10k, and he said he'd run into the same problem, the program randomly ceasing to work once some internal limit was crossed, that indicated a problem in the LJ API. He invited me to examine the source code and see what I could figure out, so given that I'd already begin doing that, I've decided to continue! My first thought was: if other LJ client programs...