If you're looking for me, you might as well go to Facebook.  I have drunk the cool-aid so-to-speak, and very rarely come here.  It's not because I don't love you, I'm just lazy, like a cat.

I sent my daughter in to clean her room, and overheard her singing a parody of this song along the lines of "I've just swept..." It planted the seed in my head, and as she stomped about sullenly seething at the intolerable burdens we place upon her, I fleshed it out in the full.

I suspect she'll be pissed at me, but she does get half-credit for helping write this one.

"I've Just Cleaned My Room"

Sung to the tune of I've Just Seen A Face by The Beatles

     I’ve just cleaned my room,
     I can’t forget the dark and gloom
     That I had left. It’s just my room, you see
     And I want just my mom to see it’s clean
     ee ee ee ee een.

     Had it been another day
     She might have died if it had stayed
     A mess; had never been quite seen
     And as it is I clean it up tonight
     ii ii ii ii ite.

     Cleaning, yes I am cleaning
     And mom keeps calling me back again

     I’d have never known my underwear
     Had been tossed under a chair, my
     Things lost left out of sight,
     But all my life I’ve always left a mess!
     ss ss ss ss ess.

     CHORUS

     INTERLUDE

     CHORUS

     I’ve just cleaned my room,
     There is no more the dark and gloom
     And now I’ve done, I’ll take a bath; you'll see
     I’ll leave my clothes under a towel that’s wet
     et et et et et.

     Alt. CHORUS
     Cleaning, yes I’ll be cleaning
     When mom keeps calling me back again

Ricardo Montalban dead at 88. Will be buried in casket of rich Corinthian leather [Sad]
-Fark

I haven't a clue at this moment how to tell you to do it, but I know there are tools out there. Appears LJ is going under...

The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network
Courtesy snackpants

Update:
Changes at LJ HQ
Courtesy alice_bunnie

Finding a good backup tool and using it might still be a good idea, if you're particularly partial to your journal and the loss of which might cause you some misery. Of course, saying you should keep backups is like saying "water is wet" or "air is nice to breathe", so you can officially file this journal post under D for "duh!"

We had a false start, but we are back on our way now.

Michael Crichton died today of cancer. He was 66. Jurassic Park is, of course, a favorite of my kids. Sphere was the first book I read cover-to-cover without putting down once. He will be missed.

Today, on Woot, the original deal-a-day website...

“Ralph, you look so sad! What is it?” “Aw, Pete, it’s… well, you remember Maggie?” “The woman you met at DragonCon?” “Yeah! Last week she came over, and we were talking about Kirk and Picard, and I said that if Kirk was on the SDF-1 he would have been able to get them home faster and in better condition so that the later Protoculture invasion would have failed, but Maggie said that Picard, in the same situation, would have negotiated a treaty with Breetai that allowed the Invid access to Monument City and so made it easier for the Expeditionary Force to directly attack the Masters.”

I just wanted to say how nice it is to have a wife who gets every word of that, and I love you, alice_bunnie!

Yeah, that was really on Woot. There's more, go read.

Happy 9th Anniversary, alice_bunnie! Plus the 6 1/2 years before that. :) ;) >;)

Imagine The Sound of Music reimagined by Alfred Hitchcock if he’d been force-fed a sheet of acid and unleashed on rural Japan. But with a karaoke sing-a-long. And dancing corpses. It’s like that. But weirder.

[And things get even stranger below the fold...]

via Tor

This discussion over IM was prompted by Engadget, and was filmed in front of a live studio audience. This post has been edited for content, and to try make it read like an episode of Mary Tyler Moore.

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jingoro This one's pretty wild — recent research in the UK finds that people who grew up in the era of black and white media dream in monochrome about a quarter of the time, while those of us raised with color TV almost always dream in full-on Technicolor.
alice_bunnie Wow, interesting.
jingoro The research suggests that exposure to media between the ages of three and ten is when the switch is set, since that's when the ability to dream kicks in -- which means we're suddenly terrified our kids are going to wind up dreaming in heavily-compressed SD stretched to the wrong aspect ratio, buffering endlessly before failing out due to a missing plugin. Here's to the future.
alice_bunnie LOL!
jingoro Our kids dreams will be PlayStation 2 games.
alice_bunnie What did the people who were raised before TV dream in?
jingoro Transistor Radio.
alice_bunnie Sound only!
jingoro And before that, a dream was a single still photograph.
alice_bunnie And people never dreamed before photography?
jingoro Oh no... the neanderthals dreamed in cave paintings. Dreams have been around forever.
alice_bunnie LOL!