beccastareyes

I finished the second draft of a paper I'm working on for work. Well, I still need to revise some figures and add one more from the modeling I had the laptop churn out* while I was messing around on the Intertubes on Wednesday. The nice thing is that I can do this from home, especially since I am much less easily distracted when not around a Wifi signal -- I have a router, but it's down because it tends to drop the signal more than just hooking the desktop to the modem.

Bit bummed after reading a story about how the DevART mods refused to remove a stamp (little icon expressing support for something) proclaiming that the maker was a proud homophobe. Apparently it doesn't qualify as hate speech. I left a long email to the site mods, and then posted it to my journal there, saying that I'm leaving if stuff doesn't happen within 10 days. Well, mostly -- I'd have to close off loose ends, like transfer modship of the groups I run. Which sucks, because I liked the people I met there, and there doesn't seem to be a good alternative for art communities.

It's really kind of a bummer.

There was a third thing, but I forget what it was. But it was a happy thing, I think. Oh, yes! I have a boatload of Dreamwidth codes, for anyone who needs them. Also I learned that apparently the mods will give out multi-use invites for RPG admins. Dreamwidth still doesn't compare to IJ when it comes to... well, MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF ICONS, but I hear talk that they are trying to build in a sort of internalized LJ-Login that will let you link multiple journals together so you don't have to log out and in to post. No idea about when they are coming up with this.

* Basically, I tell the laptop 'calculate what face of Hyperion will point at Saturn three months from this time and how fast it's spinning, compare it to the observations we have of Hyperion, and then do it 27,000 times, with different assumptions about what's going on in the interior'. Computers are good at doing repetitive things over and over.

In honor of me finally spending the money I got for my birthday, I declare December the Month of Things that Make Becca Squee. As part of this month, every day (or, you know, when I think about it, since it is Christmas and I have a Yuletide fic due), I will make a post about a book or manga series that makes me squee with fannish glee.

So, if, you know you want new stuff to read, keep reading. Keep in mind, my tastes run to fantasy and science fiction.

So, I really would like a better layout than the default + funny colors one I have now. And this layout is pretty customizable even for a freebie account like mine. The two journal layouts I've had so far have been astronomy-related, and now I'm tempted to do a fannish one for a change. Any suggestions? I'm this close to drawing it out of a hat of my favorite fandoms.

Also if anyone knows a Mac OSX journaling client that lets you set the server (or multiple servers), instead of defaulting to LJ, that would be great.

Also, hello! This is my first entry -- finally I can get rid of that 'never update' look here.