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I can't believe Twitter is going down, I've had it since 2006. Now looking at my tag cloud on here, and reading tags for things like Heroes, Desperate Housewives, Boston Legal, and Lost, it feels like I've landed in 2006!

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Continued From this twitter conversation

@ wrilliambwest @ _Scorch_ I know, it makes me wonder, are they deliberately trying to choke the networks to death? Feels like networks recently have been almost intentionally putting out lackluster products, and shows that can't last more than two seasons. At the same time many industry leaders seem to lament the fact that they can't program interesting shows on prime time.

Should start trying to get used to this place since LJ seems to quickly be going the way of Myspace. Don't know if I'll be crossposting, but I have ranted enough over on LJ.

According to news LJ has been placed on a spam list, making it so that reply notifications e-mails don't get sent. On my regular LJ it is one thing, on communities it is another. If I post, I want to see replies. There is the option of remembering where I posted and seeing if there are replies, but that is hard on a lot of comms, which get loads of replies.

Debating whether this is the straw that gets me onto Dreamwidth, how does Tumblr work?

Last season most of the shows I watch were canceled, whatever I have been watching is currently on hiatus, and for the first time in a long time, there is nothing I care about on regular TV. And I'm almost out of Guild episodes. I'm watching the last episodes of season four right now with feelings of guilt, as if it is some valuable commodity which should be savored but saved for when I really need it. One day or night I may be bored, and like most nights, there will be nothing but reruns, canned crime drama, bad reality TV and bad sitcoms on, I'll be really dying for something good to watch, but I won't have any fresh unwatched guild episodes to watch.

Hello new friends, I assume you found me via add_me

( Obviously need some content for this journal for people to respond to, I'll admit that I haven't been updating LJ as much as I should, too many folks on Twitter, and Facebook. )

Some fun with The Shat, inspired by vintage_ads these are all pre Shatner revolution of the late 90s/early 2000s where he learned to make fun of himself.

Shatner with a Penguin:



Shatner with the predecessor to the Commodore 64:

Blizzard on You Tube

Tis the season! What are the indicators that it is no longer summer and that fall is upon us? The crisp smell of apples in the air? Nah, no apples to be had where I live. Leaves of various color on the trees, and nice crisp leaves, ripe for stomping covering the sidewalk. Yes they indicate fall is here, but usually we don't see that until at least mid October when retail fall has almost ended, and the stores are preparing for the winter holiday season. Fall starts after Labor Day, when the stores swap out the grilling charcoal, and replace it with Halloween Candy. Starbucks stops promoting those Frappucinos, and brings out the Pumpkin Spice Latte.




While I usually prefer my coffee straight up, the Pumpkin spice latte has become something of an autumn tradition for me. I'll admit that they might be an acquired taste with tastes a bit like raw pumpkin pie batter mixed with coffee. Starbucks does an okay job, even though today mine just wasn't "pumpkin spicy" enough and I ended up augmenting the flavor with some of the complimentary nutmeg and cinnamon provided by Starbucks. I like Starbucks, but honestly yesterday's coffee from 7-11 mixed with some International Mills Pumpkin Flavored coffee creamer was better in terms of pumpkin flavoring. Unfortunately 7-11 doesn't provide pumpkin bread to go with my coffee, as far as I know. Also 7-11 doesn't provide a nice atmosphere where I sit and leisurely sip my coffee mixed with pumpkin spiced creamer.

And apologies for the picture quality, this one was taken via a cell phone.

After a long, extremely hot, sticky yucky summer I'm actually anxiously awaiting October for this year. This summer was bad, the kind of summer which might have well been winter because of the oppressive heat. Hopefully I'll have an apple picking opportunity, or trip to a nice orchard that carries that type of stuff this time of year. I also find myself anxiously awaiting Halloween, and am now trying to think of a costume, and fun things to do on that day. In the past I've dreaded seeing the Halloween stuff out too early, but this year I feel compelled to start buying it a month and ten days early. There is also nostalgia for Halloween past, that several of my favorite bloggers have started with. Now trying to think of nostalgic topics to start penning for Halloween.