Visit the kelpforest....

Since my friendlist has gotten a bit bare, @zimon66 suggested this friendzy currently going on:



spring fling friending frenzy!

And according to the rules, I'm spreading the word...

(Edit: Oops, I guess this should be public, hmm?)

(because it popped up when I opened the LJ post page instead of Semagic - I must have written it and then closed the page...)

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You mean I don't have that right right now? When did it become illegal to bore all my LJ friends with endless pictures of my progeny? Actually you don't get that unless you look at my Flickr account, which you won't look at unless you're nuts.

Seriously though. It seems to me that everyone posting that no one should post any pictures on the internet at all are being a trifle paranoid. Does this apply to school yearbooks? Pictures in the paper? A crowd shot on television? For god's sake, anyone can see your face any time you go to the store. Are you going to put a paper bag over your head every time you leave the house? Fears of photos "getting into the wrong hands"? Yeah, creepy, but it's a file or a piece of paper; it's not my child. Pedophiles have always been around; they just get more media coverage now, and we can find out better where they are. There is no personal or locational information except for first names (I haven't gone as far as making up nicknames for them, like some people do) attached to any of them; they may be in a public place, but anyone can be in a public place. And very few people look at my stuff anyway.

I started this journal to remember stuff and I take photos for the same reason. And I reserve the right to embarrass them on any occasion - up to and including the nekkid baby pictures to their first date, except I don't actually have any of those. I thought that was a parent's job. ;p

Huh? What happened to scans_daily? It's been one of more active communities I'm a member of...

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My username is one I've used since the first bulletin board I signed up at. I chose senoritafish because 1)I am female, 2) it's a local marine fish that lives near where I'm located (although really its common name is just señorita, but I thought that might be confusing), 3) I like wrasses, the family of which this fish is a member, 4) I always liked watching señoritas when I used to dive, 5) and it's very rarely taken when I sign up anywhere - because I hate the "use my favorite name but add a bunch of numbers after it" because I can't remember numbers very well.

I'm señoritafish at nearly every website where I'm a member, so I'm pretty easy to find by Googling. Not so much by my real name.

So, got a nifty new phone with one of those text messaging keyboards and (limited) webaccess and was hoping I could use it to read LJ on the bus. While it's better than my old phone as far as screen size, something is haywire; every time I try to log in, I just get returned to the login page. So I can't post or really read much of my friends page. I know I used to be able to. Log in, that is. I posted as support request, but the queue of unresolved posts on that topic goes back 12 weeks, so I'm not holding out much hope there. However I forgot I can post by email so I guess that's a workaround. If I can get around this suddenly weird formatting...posted from the bus, mostly.

Jeez, I think I'm going to have to create some more filters just to get through my friendslist, since it went 'splodey. Since mylife_onceaday was featured on the front page, it went from thirty members to over a thousand! Since everyone has to post an introduction, it's almost too busy to keep up with. It's nice seeing photos from more parts of the world, though. But rather relieved it's not on the front page anymore.

Nice. LJ has done away with free, basic accounts. With the excuse of making the registration process "simpler;" three choices was apparetly too difficult for new users to figure out.

http://news.livejournal.com/106731.html?thread=68484587#t68484587

How simple do they think their users are?

I've had a paid account for going on six years now. Guess what. I started out with a free one - BECAUSE there were no ads, unlike most other sites. Is LJ really so insolvent unpaid accounts have to have ads on them?

And where do I find out about this? In very slow community I belonged to whose owner is converting for a friend's use because of this. Because it was buried in a comment so far down on the news page I didn't see it. Way to go LJ.

Hmm, my subscription here has run out. Dammit, I love having my thirty icons, and I've had an account here going on six years, but I am having my doubts lately. Not only are there now ads here - I joined originally because of the promise there would never be ads - but it seems like every few months the staff gets turned on to some kind of witch hunt. First it was the breastfeeding icons, and lately the whole you-have-a-certain-few-key-words-in-your-interest-list-therefore-you-are-a-purveyor-of-child-porn hysteria has really made me mislike giving Six Apart anymore of my money. Granted they admitted they screwed up big time, and did their best to fix it and amend their TOS; however, it's just left a bad taste in my mouth.

I realize I'm making a statement about these things way after the fact.

(Yes, I know - it's properly spelled "Damn it" - but that's not how I say it, and when I see it spelled "Damnit" my brain sees it as "Dam Nit!" - which would be appropriate if the school sent my kids home with head lice. But they haven't. )

I made a bunch of replies to comments here yesterday through Gmail, but silly me, I ignored it when I got a little pop-up blocker warning from the Google toolbar. On looking at my page later, I realized none of them went though. Grrr, stupid Google, blocking its own email. Gah!

Hopefully, finishing up the semi-annual IFA report today - had to do it all myself, but KO usually only contributed a couple of paragraphs anyway, so not that much more. However, I just realized that while I got a new computer recently, the program I had done all the previous graphs in (Sigmaplot) isn't on it, so I'm hunting around for the installation disk. Wonderful. I can do it in Excel, but it just makes ugly graphs that aren't as easy to manipulate. Blah.

And I am way behind in reading mackerel otoliths; I have about 60 samples (1500 pairs!) to read in the next couple of weeks, so once I'm done with this report, I'm going be spending a lot of time in the microscope room. La Jolla is going to need them for the biomass assessment soonish.

( Here's an otolith for you: )

Oh, and lots of time out at the docks in February, too. More on that later.

You know, I am really looking forward to menopause. Or at least afterward.

A SQUID layout!