Unique! Yes! Really!

Oh, LOL! I send a care package for twindouble to Germany; Special brand of hygiene products, the bags that you can use for roasting meat in the owen, and Finnish coffee. But! No wonder it took like two weeks for the package to arrive, since it looks like the customs had had a field day with it. They had opened the package and even sliced open one of the vacuumed coffee packages! They were looking for drugs for sure, and explosives were also a small possibility. But at lest it arrived eventually. In some countries it might have been just disappeared.

And, here is a pic of the front of my jean jacket as of this morning. Yes, I'm a magpie.


With the added weight, and people automatically looking at my jewelry, it feels like I would have a metal armor covering my chest. With, like, butterflies and flowers and shit. A strangely empowering feeling, that.

I had a totally non-stop day at work, and then at home I used two and a half intense hours for a lecture structure which deadline was yesterday, and a little over nine I got a text message for changed plans and a meeting point for tomorrow from my boss and then I used and hour to fix tomorrow's media reports (i.e. making sure that they were done by someone else than me) and figuring out how to get myself to the said meeting point tomorrow morning.

And now I should go to sleep and I can't. It feels like something major is still to be done, and I just can't wind down. Damn.

Maybe I'll just give up and find a 10 000 word fic to read.

This I have not seen before: Using Del.icio.us to diss fics

Shitty story by a good writer - Pete fucks Patrick goodbye after asking Ashlee to marry him. Because he's the biggest asshole EVER! Cheating on Ashlee, using Patrick...gosh! Isn't that peachy?! *stabs*

'Hello, my name is Ryan Ross and I'm Mute.' Hello, my name is iamthatgirl, and I wish I was blind. "Author Notes: I do need a beta" TRUFAX

Well written crap. No seriously. Technically proficient but the author felt a need to make it as depressing an ending as she could. Fuck that.

In my opinion, that's a pretty shitty thing to do, since there are no means to comment or respond. And who actually uses their time to especially bookmark fics that she/he hates? With special (admittedly somewhat hilarious) "crap level" tags? I know people diss fics and writers, I have done it, too, but the common sense etiquette should tell to post them locked and in your own journal. Another common sense thing should be showing your face when dissing. A way to go, to throw shit and run.

But, on the lighter side of things, miserylovedme has now compeled her fic With the Moon in His Arms (Patrick/Pete NC-17). Go! Read!

Buying stuff makes one happy. At least in theory.

Here is a necklace that I commissioned from our assistant at work, who happens also to be a just-graduated jewelry designer. Not that there would have been a lot of designing in this piece since I straight away gave her the form for this. (of course which I had stolen from Disney..) Big, stylish, pure silver, with a not-so-little hint of kitch. Just what I like. I love this piece :)



This is the newest hoodie that I bought from eBay. It fits, but it ended out looking so much a wannabe rapper gear that it's totally off from my comfort zone. (I originally planned to post a pic of me wearing it, but I look so ridiculous with it that no way I'm publishing that pic. So, eBay image it is.) If anyone in Finland wants to buy this from me, I'm willing to sell it for 25EUR, plus postage if you live outside Helsinki. Heavy duty cotton, size mens XXL, lenght 76cm, chest width from the front 67cm.

While dining with the Helsinki slashas on Friday, we talked about how one should always hare links if one bumps into something interesting. Well, these aren't *interesting*, per se, but I hope that they are funny.

The soon-to-be-classic, mean con crit to a twelve-year-old. Also known as the critic we all have wanted to give at some point but then just let it slide. (Follow the Hey Everybody!-link)

Next, a LolCat that actually made me laugh out loud:




( The War of The Notes etc. )

Two signs that tell that it's springtime:


A view from my sis' back yard, a forest full of small white spring flowers.


A view to my 1st of May carnival balloon that I bought to myself just for fun. My workmates thought I was nuts.

Also, GIP.

Holy..!!

The new video of Fall Out Boy covering Beat it, with a zillion 80s and Michael Jackson references

Go! Watch! Even those who don't know who the hell they are! (I'm looking at you, 2ndbs)

Went to lorem’s excellent food, vine & singing –party last Saturday. It was also a costume party with “Evil/Bad” as the theme. I won the costume contest because following the theme of evil, I bribed the staff ;) (And my costume wasn't bad, I was a OZ prisoner) I had a merry time, thanks, lorem!

Unfortunately I was not in a full capacity while choosing a place for my inflatable mattress (I stayed the night) and ended up with a cold breeze from a kitchen cooling device blowing to my legs the whole night. Now, almost two days after, my legs are so cramped I can hardly walk. I’m competing with little old ladies with walking aids.

Now I feel like shit and I look like shit, and now I’m taking two hours off from work and leaving early. Oh joy.

So. Since it looks like there is no bandom storyfinder community existing, I kind of created one. (Or if there already is one, please tell me since there is point on creating a competing one.)

Would anyone be interested in joining as a maintainer partner?

Am I the only one with a bad eye sight? Reading fics like this one really make my eyes bleed. I don't think that grey-on-grey has never been a hit concerning a good resolution. So okay, it's your style and you can make it so that it looks pretty in your computer and in your settings and people can read you stuff with the style=light if they want, but if no-one reads ever your stuff through your lj-style, what is the point of it? Outside, you know, you personally liking it.


Question of the day: What is the most expensive single piece of clothing that you have bought in the last two years? Did you buy it because you had to, or because you wanted to, or both? (my answer in comments)


P.S. go check the excellent A Straight Geek Male's Guide to Interaction with Females by timjr

( Guess where I'll go when I die )

Well. How surprising. /sarcasm.

Walking home from Sörnäinen metro station in a bright, crisp weather, with my iPod blasting The Verve's Bittersweet Symphony as playback?

Priceless.


At home the Amazon.UK package with FOB Live in Phoenix was waiting for me! Finally! :) I got some kind of two dvd deluxe edition, for some reason. ...Thank you? Is there even a regular one for sale? Are all dvds nowadays "limited deluxe" editions?

Edit: Watched the dvd. Loved it, but that was hardly a surprise. Will have to take it to sister's place to watch it again from a gig flat screen and stereo sound. Favorite song: Golden. The abrupt ending is marvelous, almost a screeching halt. Pitäkää tunkkinne!

And who could rip me the cracktastic lounge version of Dance Dance that plays during the end credits?

bandomsecrets has been deleted. The maintainer got an abuse warning for copyright infringement, but I guess she waited too long for an answer to her question to the abuse team. (Note to self: If you ever receive an abuse warning, do not think that communicating with the abuse team would put the ticking time limit on hold.) Now, she has 30 days to get the account back, which I hope she does, because I really liked that community, more than fandomsecrets :(

Ah. Saturday morning. To wake up, brew coffee and saw that there were new fic from both linzeems and megyal, and the latest Torchwood episode waiting. Joy.

Also managed yesterday to talk myself a permission to apply to an employer-sponsored Communications Manager education program :)

Russian Parliament accepted last Wednesday a law, that will limit foreign ownerships in Russian companies that are listed as critical to the country’s security and infrastructure. Foreign companies wishing to raise their ownerships to over 50% would need a special permission from a administrative commission set to this purpose. The list of strategic business sectors was changed several times and now it consists of sectors like energy, nuclear technology, air transport, space technology and radio- and telecommunication.

But what is interesting is that in the last meeting, internet operating was pulled from the list. An opposition had previously stated their fear that the law would be used to limit the freedom of speech in the net.

Personally, I’m thinking that when it comes to limiting the freedom of speech in the net, the Russians really don’t need any foreign owners to do so…

OMG I have now a puppy! A pomeranian (not show quality) named Pitkäkosken Rianna Bella (yeah, haven't come up with her real name yet). but! Puppy! And thank goodnes that I live so near that I can take her to pee in my luch hour :) Also, the cat stays in the bathroom...

( Cute puppy pictue spam! )

A little bit about the LJ's latest news post, and particularly about the upcoming "sponsored" account..

The owners of paid/sponsored accounts will not see advertisements in other people's journals, while existing paid users will not see banners in a sponsored users' profiles.

So, this means that the paid (with actual money!) users still have to see the branded lj´s? You don't think that branded layouts count as advertising? What is the point in paying money for not seeing adds if the paid users end up seeing ads anyway? And haven't we already had this same conversation with the Pepsi Max-thingy?

Users will be offered paid accounts that are supported by sponsors. Users will be able to choose accounts from a range of brands supporting this program. Should the sponsor stop supporting this arrangement, the account will revert back to its previous type.

With this, I have an issue. A big, personal issue, even when the problem is still completely hypothetical at this point. Let's say a paid account is a big damn thing to the user. She/he has her entire picture library or something there. And let's say that the sponsoring party has a right to withdraw it's support at any giving moment, thus reverting the account. Would this lead the user to modify her content to fit the sponsor's needs? Admittedly, every user entering this scheme will do it voluntarily, but do they all realize what the deal is when they start? I don't think that your Pepsi sponsor would look your Coca Cola opinions with a good eye. And I don't think that World Vision would be delighted to see their ad next to your real people slash porn.


On completely other things, I got my iPod Classic yesterday. It's... big. Really big. And heavy. It's bigger and heavier than my cell phone, and *that one* has a camera and a phone and internet along with the nice "plays music!"-feature. iPod Classic is nothing that a girl could carry around in a jeans' pocket. On the other hand, I dumped there my whole mp3 collection and a few videos as a test (I have always been avoiding mp4's and it's the only format that iPod plays, duh) and a couple of audio books and interviews when I wasn't paying attention, and the used memory -bar went up, like, a one notch. So, yay, but if I would had a chance to actually hold the Classic in my hands before the purchasing decision, I would had brought Nano, hands down. And yes, I named it Patrick. There are probably thousands of iPod named Patrick in the World. Because us fans are so unique.

I'm now officially addicted to over-priced, over-appreciated, over-sized hoodies. My Clandestine Stay Gold-hoodie arrived today and I love it, even when it's obviously fitted for men, or people with really long arms and no hips. It's too casual to wear at work, but still! Loving it. Also, I got really over-proportioned glee for dropping out of bidding on this Baby Phat hoodie when the bid was still in 61 dollars and then bought the same item from the same seller in Buy It Now-price of 67 dollars, while the original item price rose to 153 dollars. That's like saving money! Or, uh, something.

My next Visa bill will probably cure me from the addiction, but now I'm feeling a little shop'aholic.

(Also, I have a nagging feeling that something will go wrong in the whole FOB-plays-in-Antarctica-gig. Better them to fail than to kill themselves trying. And I mean this literally.)