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cosmic_elephant @ 08:24 pm: Ask me anything...
I have a Formspring account. Go on, ask me a question.

son_of_7less @ 08:04 pm: Formspring
Ax me a question!


www.formspring.me/sonof7less

catch_the_light @ 07:15 pm: Small worlds


Tags: canon 50d, peak district, uk

thedinster @ 04:07 pm: I saw this, and it reminded me of those I encountered within my lifetime who are fickle, narrow-minded, selfish, unkind, judgemental, prejudiced, incapable of understanding anyone different than themselves and incapable of caring about anyone but themselves:



I may be a freak but at least I have a big heart.

That is all.

faithinfire @ 02:07 pm: [Wrestling wramblings] Monday Night Wars! ^_^
( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

thenunt, posting in rocksoc @ 12:33 am: Rocksoc Annual General Meeting
If you want to be involved in Cambridge's rock scene you should come to the Annual General Meeting at the beginning of next term to:

a) Run for a committee position
b) Have your say on the new committee
c) Voice any concerns or ideas to the new committee

Being on the committee is not as scary as it might sound, some positions are more work than others, but you will always have the help and support of the rest of the committee and past committee members. If you are at all interested in any of the positions then talk to the relevant current committee member or e-mail committee@rocksoc.org.uk.

Available positions are:

PRESIDENT (currently Nick Jackson):
Chairs and coordinates committee meetings, keeps track of committee activities and assists or directs as required. If a committee member is ill/unavailable, acts as or arranges for a temporary replacement. Should try and attend as many Rocksoc organised events as possible!

WUS OFFICER(S) (Currently John Holman):
Runs the Wake Up Screaming club nights, organises DJ's and people to be on the door. Is in charge of making sure things go smoothly on Tuesday nights, the Kambar gets paid, DJ's know what to do, etc. This year we're encouraging two people to run for this, but it's not necessary, it just means you have to go to most WUS's, so we'd like to spread the load.

SECRETARY (Currently Natalie Dixon):
Takes minutes at meetings, is Keeper Of The Membership Database, which must be kept up to date, makes and distributes membership cards

JUNIOR TREASURER (Currently Rich Miller):
Keep track of the Rocksoc finances throughout the year, so we have an idea of what we can afford to spend. Trying to keep a record of where money is going to and coming from (mostly via WUS reports and event reports from relevant committee members). Summarising the yearly accounts and submitting them to the senior treasurer. Basically not too much work, and not at all scary, but does involve dealing with banks...

PUBLICITY OFFICER (currently Martin Lugton):
organise freshers' fair stall and its staffing; send emails and facebook messages reminding members about WUS and other events, working with events and WUS officers; distribute WUS flyers and event flyers; create events flyers, working with events officer; manage web presence beyond rocksoc.org.uk; attempt to resurrect the Street Team; maintain links with AMS.

WEBMASTER (Currently Jennifer Berry):
Keeping the website up to date with all alternative events happening in Cambridge. Publicising rocksoc events such as gigs on the front page. Managing access to the website by the committee. All this can be done through the online django interface - some knowledge of html would be beneficial. Also looking after the mailing lists, checking the spam filter at least once a week, and figuring out how to fix the website when something goes wrong - experience of working at a linux command line would be beneficial. Not much effort to keep the website running day-to-day, but if you want to delve any deeper it might take some work.

EVENTS OFFICER (Currently Andy Towler):
Co-ordinate gigs across the year which mainly involve numerous emails and telephone calls. You will be buying food and beer for the bands as well dealing with paying them directly alongside hiring the venue so some organistational skill are required, especially if a band cancels at the last minute for example. You will need to also diversify the styles of bands that are put on to cater to the wide tastes that both members and non-members have as the overall goal is to put on gigs that everyone enjoys. Don't worry if you are told to make a loss as you're not some patsy in an embezzlement scheme, just that RockSoc is a non-profit organisation.

thedinster @ 08:01 pm: "Alice in Wonderland" is such an amazing movie! I watched it with Laine last night, it's awesome - the story is not the traditional Alice story - it's a story of what happens when Alice revisits Wonderland, aged 19. And Johnny Depp as the mad hatter with insane eyes, bushy ginger eyebrows and slipping in and out of a comical Scottish accent is incredible.

Anyway, a quiz, stolen from kris_ether...

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Seventh Level of Hell!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	Low
Level 2 (Lustful)	Very High
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Low
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Very Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	Very High
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Very High
Level 7 (Violent)	Extreme
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	High
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	High

Take the Dante's Inferno Test

Seventh Level of Hell
Guarded by the Minotaur, who snarls in fury, and encircled within the river Phlegethon, filled with boiling blood, is the Seventh Level of Hell. The violent, the assasins, the tyrants, and the war-mongers lament their pitiless mischiefs in the river, while centaurs armed with bows and arrows shoot those who try to escape their punishment. The stench here is overpowering. This level is also home to the wood of the suicides- stunted and gnarled trees with twisting branches and poisoned fruit. At the time of final judgement, their bodies will hang from their branches. In those branches the Harpies, foul birdlike creatures with human faces, make their nests. Beyond the wood is scorching sand where those who committed violence against God and nature are showered with flakes of fire that rain down against their naked bodies. Blasphemers and sodomites writhe in pain, their tongues more loosed to lamentation, and out of their eyes gushes forth their woe. Usurers, who followed neither nature nor art, also share company in the Seventh Level.

theljstaff, posting in news @ 03:33 pm: LiveJournal Major Notes: Global navigation, Mobile, Bug fixes

We're going to keep this short and sweet (Frank and birthday vgifts will be back next week). You've probably seen the updates to our main menu. Don't be alarmed. You'll find everything you need, just in slightly shifted format. Just so you know, we based these changes on input from both experienced and new users who were not familiar with LiveJournal. Our goal was to reduce barriers to usability and make LiveJournal more accessible and easy to navigate. Please note that this is a work in progress. We welcome your detailed suggestions in feedback. We thank you, in advance, for helping us improve your LiveJournal experience.

We've updated the global navigation menu:

Here's a quick breakdown of what you'll find where:

• Scrapbook can now be found under Profile (thanks for your feedback, btw), along with Settings, Stats, and Edit Profile.
• You'll find all the tools you need to post and update entries under Journal, which includes posting and editing entries, managing comments and tags, and customizing your journal's style.
• Friends contains all of your friend settings, from filtering your Friends page to adding, removing, and finding new and existing friends on LiveJournal.
• Under Communities, you'll find links to manage your communities, accept community invites, and create new communities.
• Explore includes search features, RSS feeds, Question of the Day, and FRNK radio.
• Under Shop, you'll find links to upgrade or give a paid account, buy virtual gifts, purchase LiveJournal merchandise (like T-shirts), and view your payment history.

LiveJournal Mobile update:

We've enhanced LiveJournal's mobile site to improve usability and load times. We've made more of LiveJournal's features accessible via mobile, including posting comments, uploading photos, reading and commenting on friends' posts, finding and messaging friends, and more. We look forward to reviewing your feedback and recommendations for future improvements.

Other important changes:

• You can lock comments to prevent further commenting on a post, while leaving existing comments visible.
• We replaced the "Tell a friend" link with a new "Share This" widget that lets you share LiveJournal posts on other social media sites, including Facebook, Digg, Twitter, etc.
• We changed some of the icons on entries (you can hover over the icons to view descriptions).
• You'll see a Tag count on your Tag management page.
• You'll now see the 10 most recent vgifts on your profile page. To remove vgifts, left-click on the vgift and choose whether you want to remove the vgift from your profile or delete it entirely.
• We've added options to help you control receipt of vgifts, which you'll find in My Stuff under Edit Profile. You can now enable vgifts from friends or everyone and disable anonymous vgifts.

We've got your fix:

• UPDATE: Rolling several updates into one listing here -- 1) Scrapbook should be back and working again. 2) The problem with the Update Journal page in IE6 and IE7 should be fixed now. 3) The problem with the userpic add-on package pricing has been fixed and refunds issued to anyone who was overcharged while the erroneous prices were in place.
• Non-conforming images will now be automatically resized for custom mood themes.
• Line breaks no longer count as two characters against your entry's character limit.
• We fixed a bug on the Manage Tags page so you can clear all tags and add new tags.
• We corrected the UI for the update.bml page so it displays properly in IE8.

Thanks again for joining us. Frank and company will be back next week!

Tags: custom mood themes, global navigation, mobile app, tags, vgifts

lonescorpion @ 03:30 pm:  For those of you able to see it, Mick Foley did another cameo on the Daily Show - presumably because he had so much fun the first time round.

Tags: politics

dj_slingshot, posting in rocksoc @ 08:19 am: Interstellar Overdrive - Classic Rock Night @ Q Club, 2/4/10

ljspotlight, posting in lj_spotlight @ 09:41 am: Homepage Spotlight: 3/15/10
wordy_icons
Searching for words to the wise? Come celebrate the joy of witty userpics in this creative, sharing community. A great place to strut your stuff or hunt down the perfect turn of phrase to complement your mood du jour. If you love the art of snark, you'll find inspiration, admiration, and entertaining jubilation.

Tags: wordy_icons

ljspotlight, posting in lj_spotlight @ 09:40 am: Homepage Spotlight: 3/15/10
corrupted_wish
Ever dream you'd find a genie in a bottle to grant your fondest wish? Granted!! Simply post your ardent desire and an alternative reality will materialize before your weary eyes. Quirky, creative, and oddly cathartic, a place where fantasies come true, but never in quite the manner you imagined. Shooting star meets Murphy's Law.

Tags: corrupted_wish

ljspotlight, posting in lj_spotlight @ 09:40 am: Homepage Spotlight: 3/15/10
cookingfailures
Whether you're a wizard or a passionate novice in the kitchen, we've all had our share of recipe disasters. From the fallen souffle to the runny chocolate mousse to the lasagna that looks (and/or tastes) like it's been eaten before, come embrace your epic fails through photos and stories. Help others learn from your cooking calamities or simply revel in the fun of failure.

Tags: cookingfailures

thedinster @ 04:30 pm: Merci beaucoup!
Can I just say a big, BIG thank you to everyone who has been there for me in the past 2 weeks. I really appreciate all your messages, emails, and people spending hours talking to me on MSN, and of course the few friends I have in Cologne offering to spend time with me and stuff. I honestly was not expecting this amount of support, and believed myself to be worthless and dislikeable because of what happened, and because of my generally awful luck with relationships and the countless scars left on my self-esteem by all of the men I've been with.

Thank you so much everyone, without you guys, I'd have become a self-harming, alcoholic mess and doubt I'd be able to cope. ♥

Tags: friends, relationships

catch_the_light @ 07:55 pm: What I talk about when I talk about quirkyness

Model: Ellery Chu


My work is oftentimes described as "quirky". It's a description that I most agree with. Recently I've been asked what I mean by the word, so I thought I'd explain.

Quirky, to me, means authentically different. Idiosyncratic, eccentric, peculiar, unusual. Experimental. Funky, whacky. Amusing, and fun. It's also exciting. It's trying to elicit a reaction. It's trying to make people think. It's trying to surprise.

And if I can achieve any of that with my work, then I am a happy photographer indeed:-)

Tags: canon 50d, nottingham, portrait, primates, studio, uk

thedinster @ 08:43 pm: The most painful and destructive thing is thinking about and missing someone who you know most probably never thinks of you and doesn't miss you at all.



Stupid me, to believe that I could trust in stupid you.

******

Anyway, my couple of days with George were fantastic and much much fun! They involved raving to Scooter while very, very very drunk, art galleries, wine, laughing, in-jokes and movies. Definitely very very happy days :) and George = legend! But now I'm back to being alone with my mind and its thoughts and memories. Bah.

cosmic_elephant @ 04:50 pm: "You know, it's not easy being me. You should try it. I bet that after just five minutes, you'll then have an incredible healthy respect for how amazing I am."

The man took the words straight out of my mouth;-)

alixandrea, posting in gothsoc @ 05:13 pm: New Goth night, coming soon!

raggedy_man, posting in rocksoc @ 02:59 pm:

theljstaff, posting in news @ 04:11 pm: LiveJournal Major Notes: March header, Charitable vgift, Squirrels in love

We're finishing up a few odds and ends before our next major release. Our mighty Ops guys continue to slay spambots and balance load times on a highwire without a safety net (which is kind of tough dressed in full ninja gear). Down on solid ground, we're celebrating this week's virtual birthday party with a warm toast to pants. If you can rearrange the letters of your favorite city, state, and/or country (feel free to combine these elements) to spell one of Frank's favorite treats (e.g., pants, wire, paper, etc.), he'll send you over a can of whipped cream to top it all off (provided you return the empty can for his midnight snack)! And, with that, let the word scrambling commence!

Stuff you should know:

We're still working on the delayed/missing notifications issue. Sorry, we're frustrated too. We'll keep you posted. Last week, we became aware that a recently-implemented script was overwriting affiliate referral fees for some of our users. Once we confirmed this, our Ops team quickly removed the script. Please be aware that, while we may beta-test other affiliate scripts down the line, we will take greater measures to ensure that no existing user-referral arrangements are impacted in any way. While we plan to stick to a weekly news schedule, if we have a release in between regular newsletters, we'll post here to keep you informed. You can also check lj_releases for current release information.

To our paid users, we send squirrels in love!

If you have a paid or permanent account, you can send five free Squirrels in love vgifts through Monday, March 15th at 4pm, PST! You'll see both the free and the $0.99 squirrels displayed until they've scurried off to their new homes. Please send only one vgift at a time. In other words, you'll need to complete check-out and start a new order for each vgift you send. If you're not receiving vgifts (from friends and/or Frank), you may have disabled them. To enable vgifts, visit Edit profile (under Profile), scroll down to the bottom of the page, and select 'Do not disable' from the drop-down menu. Have fun!

Help is on the way!

We're pleased to announce the winner of our first charitable vgift poll, Doctors without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières, which provides critical medical care to under-served populations around the world. Priced at $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of the proceeds we raise from the sale of this vgift (we'll cover credit card fees). We invite you to start recommending nonprofits for our next fundraising drive at ljnewscontests. We'll take suggestions through the month and post a poll in the news during the first week of April to let you choose the recipient. We thank you, again, for your passion and generosity.

We've crowned a header

Congratulations to ohterlus for submitting the winning header, which will go live next week and keep us leafy through mid-April! You can submit designs for our next header contest at ljnewscontests now until March 31st. We'll post a poll in the news to let you decide which header will sit at the top of LiveJournal from mid-April to mid-May. All artistic interpretations are welcome. The winner will get a $25 LiveJournal gift certificate. All other contributors will receive $5 gift certificates. Our heartfelt appreciation for sharing your talent and creativity!

For this week's winning photo and more adventures with Frank & Meme, we'll catch you under the cut!

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Tags: charitable vgift drive, frank & meme, lj_photophile, march header contest, notifications, squirrels in love, tinyurls