Carlin's Tid Bits

Calling all friends and friends of friends and aquaintences.  I need a favour.  A colonoscopy discovered that my grandpa has cancer.  So I need lots of prayers and thoughts and begging to all dieties and whatever it is you do when a really great person is in trouble.  He's going to go under the knife and probably have some chemo.  So far I've only talked to my grandma over the phone and she tried to make it sound like nothing is wrong (failed) and didn't tell me if it was benign or anything.  I'm being really selfish but I don't want him to die.  I still need him, to talk to him.  I didn't fucking waste 4 years of time I could have spent with him to lose him now.  Especially not in such a horrible way as cancer.   HE'S SUPPOSED TO WALK ME DOWN THE ISLE FOR GOD'S SAKE!  His Name is Carl.  That's his actual first name.  (I'm sure by now you all have realized my given name isn't carlin and my boyfriend's name isn't Cale but if a real first name is what you need to help us I'll give it to you.  I won't have internet for the time that I'm visiting him But I'll get online to email homework on Sunday if not earlier. 

OMFG!!!  I'm watching Raechal Ray and she has some animal guy on the set and he brought baby animals onto the set. 

I so desperately want an Asian small-clawed otter!!  And then he brought a Liger on the set you know, tiger lion mix.  I heard they were like mules where you can breed babies, but the babies are sterile.  I t was so adorable.  I wish she had pictures of them on her website so I could share them with you!

Just wanted to congratulate </a>eruditefics</b></a> on another year of posting, friending and providing entertainment!</span>

It's official, the new hacking trend is targeting social networking sites more than ever (from Facebook to LJ). Thing is, they are not just taking your password and spamming your flist, especially with LJ, they use it to take over your flist's journals also by whatever means possible.

I've been seeing this stuff crop up more and more, and since it's a little scary (especially for those who have a lot more than fics/art/other stuff on their LJ) decided to warn the lovely flist. Though you may have already heard of this from other LJ users.

So here's some information I've ran across in the past couple of months since the first bot friended me:

* If you get friended by a journal in Cyrillic only that seems to have links and random pictures or was recently created, don't respond or add. Report to LJ Abuse immediately and they'll deal with it.
o I've done this a couple of times and most of the journals are suspended within a week
o I've linked to some great posts by [info]nympholept before. She has more information on the bots and how to avoid them
* If you have or had a Hotmail address (that you used to start up LJ) sign in to it and make sure you still have full control of it. (By the way, don't delete your old Hotmail addresses, they recycle them and hackers can use them to fool LJ's servers into letting them through).
o Check LJ's Email Management and delete your old email addresses.
o If you have problems with this, check out this wonderful post by [info]wistfuljane on how to bypass that.
* One of the scariest aspects of this hack system is that they can easily take over any communities you moderate/maintain and spam them too.
o The worst thing is that these hackers seem to prefer completely emptying out your journal and community entries (see [info]shoebox_project's warning about that).
o Then they post an entry that links to a key-logging site while posing as you. This seems to be the most common way of getting to your flist and hacking their journals.
o Here's an example by [info]upstart_crow who was affected.
o Make sure to report any hacking. Additionally, if you moderate any communities or you are listed as a maintainer make sure to notify any co-mods and have them remove you as co-mod. Also try and warn members to avoid clicking any links (especially those that link to a so-called "new archive").
* Do you have a security question? No? That's dangerous.
o Enable Security Questions as this may put off your hacker or keep them out of your journal when you attempt to retake it.
* BACK UP YOUR LJ!!
o I'm guilty of not doing this, it's a bother, but it's worth it. I'd hate to lose all my work because I got hacked.

SINCE I'M NOT AN EXPERT, BY ANY MEANING OF THE WORD, HERE'S SOME MORE LINKS BY PEOPLE WHO'VE POSTED ABOUT THIS AND HAVE BEEN AFFECTED.

* [info]copperbadge was affected and has a great set of posts on this.
* One of the most informative posts is by [info]acari , definitely check it out as she seems more coherent than I am

Also, please remember that they are not LJ staff and don't have all the answers.

CONTACT LJ ABUSE AND TECH SUPPORT, HECK EVEN GOOGLE FOR MORE INFORMATION.

REMEMBER TO RUN YOUR SPY DETECTION AND ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE ON THE REGULAR TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVEN'T BEEN INFECTED.

CAPS LOCK OUT.

Sidenote: Yahoo had a recent article about the Facebook hacks if you're interested.

ETA: LJ has a comprehensive FAQ sheet if you've been hacked, refer to this if you suspect you've been a victim.

Hey guys, I just wanted to update you on my dragons so you can see how pretty they are. Problem is, if the eggs don't hatch in .25 days, they die, so please clicky? Oh, and the hatchling will die in 5 days if it doesn't mature. I like what it says about the little baby!

Hey Sarcastro,
I won't beable to wish you a happy birthday on your birthday because it's my sister's birthday so I'll say it now. I haven't read the stories you sent me yet because it's finals coming up, but I can't wait to read them!

Ok, so I got as many as I could, mostly because I don't want to start on my tax homework yet. So here's all that I have please clicky! Obviously, I was given the hatchling.
I also need a name for the hatchling, I don't know if it'll be male of female yet though but if anyone thinks of some names, tell me! I can't wait to see what they look like!

Another one because it was blue...

Ok so now that Kitty has taught me how to properly post, and gave me a second dragon, here they are, please click on them so they don't die...

I need a name for this one and he's my original


Thank you!

Yeah, so Akishathekitty got me interested so I decided to try out the whole Dragon egg thing, please clicky?
<a href="http://dragcave.net/viewdragon/Tzak"><img src="http://dragcave.net/image/Tzak.gif" style="border-width: 0" alt="Adopt one today!"/></a>
I hope this worked this time...

<a href="http://www.the-n.com/quizzes/quiz/3414"><img src="http://www.the-n.com/media/quiz/badges/pastlife_quiz/healer.gif" border="0" /></a>


Ok so I took this quiz and it said in a past life I was probably a Native American Healer because of my closeness to nature and wanting to heal people and animals.  In all reality I was probably the Vet because I'm not very good at healing people....

Hi to all of my friends!  I've decided to help with the Veela fest and here is the list of events:
Schedual of the First Ever All Veela Fest

November 1st 2008 - Prompt submissions become open @ </a></font></b></a>do_me_veela

November 24th 2008 - Prompt submissions ends so that is almost a month of prompting.

November 27th 2008 - Prompts will become available to pick, just in time for Thanksgiving.

Christmas 2008 - Sneak preview of the fics that have been submitted by then, if there are any :D

February 14th - Posting proper shall begin, to celebrate Valentines day the Veela love way and all that :D
 

So anyone who likes to write about or draw Veela... come join the fun, the last Creature fest at HP_creatures was a lot of fun and I really hope this will be as well!

I know this is odd, but I'm doing my homework and I have the PoA playing on the tv, is it just me, or did Stan Shunpike not seem like such a prick in the book?  In the book, I read him to be a nice jolly school drop-out, not rude boy who was making fun of "Nevelle Longbottom."  I've thought this everytime I watch the movie.

WHO ARE YOU SCREWING AT HOGWARTS?? created with QuizFarm.com

You scored as Draco Malfoy If you went to Hogwarts Draco Malfoy would be doing you...not the other way around. He's mean, rich, and dark. But those aren't the only parts parts of him you love. He had you on your back the second he threw you down and had his way with you. And you loved every minute of it. The two of you have fucked just about on every surface of Hogwarts...including that rediculus Harry Potter's bed. Go head girl go head get down. Draco Malfoy 90% Ron Weasley 85% Victor Krum 80% Cedric Diggory 80% Harry Potter 65% Fred and George Weasley 55% Percy Weasley 40% No one, your a prude 25%

Snagged from </a></b></a>ceirdwenfc ;).

Leave a comment and I will:

a) tell you why I friended you,
b) associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, etc.,
c) tell you something I like about you,
d) tell you a memory I have of you,
e) ask something I've always wanted to know about you,
f) tell you my favorite user pic of yours,
g) in return, you must post this in your LJ.

I got this from Elie_kat89
I may not beable to do this immediately but I will do my best if you comment!

I MAY BE A NEW STEP AUNTIE BEFORE THE DAY IS OUT!!!!!
I just called my dad to tell him that I aced (got a 100%) on an exam, and he said he got a call that my step brother took his girlfriend to the hospital this morning and she may have the baby before today is over.  It's WEIRD!  I graduated with this girl and now she's having a baby?  We aren't old enough for kids yet.

First off, it is Petite's birthday, one week from today so happy birthday!  Anyone wanting to wish her a happy birthday as well you can find her on my f list!  She is a lovely Ravenclaw with a couple Slytherin tendencies and the person who swears I'm a Hufflepuff.  I admit I have the 'Puff's loyalty when I make a friend, but the majority of quizzes I've taken call me a Gryf, one called me a Puff and the others call me Ravenclaw... not that I'm smart I just think to much!  Mostly about the stupid stuff helping people/kittens brought upon.  Like trying to save my guy from drowning and getting ran over by an ATV while doing it (the ATV was on him in the water hole) Or getting stepped on by the horse trying to buck off my sister, or saving my kitten from two Rottweilers.  I knew the one Rotty, but never met the other before but damn it they sent little Spooky up a tree, and apparently pulling a dog's chain/leash between his back legs doesn't effect them the way it would a human male.  I apologize for rambling, I'm getting the biting butterflies back.  You know the ones that cramp your stomach?  I have a doctor's appointment concerning my wisdom teeth (will I be healthy enough to have them removed) This Saturday the First and then, seven days, one hour, and 48 minutes from now I'll be going to sleep by some sort of chemicals and will hopefully awake about an hour after that missing four teeth, none of which have actually appeared above the gumline but attempting to enough that it really hurts most of the time.  My future-hubby will be in the waiting room for me to take me back to my apartment.  I'm getting nervous, I didn't do well after the last time I was put to sleep.  It scared me to death and in the process I scared a poor older nurse to near-hysteria.  The machines I was hooked up to told her I was awake, but if I don't know where I am when I first wake I don't open my eyes until I recognize the place.  So I didn't respond to her when she tried talking to me, but I didn't know her or where I was so I let her get upset, not a very Hufflepuff thing to do but I was thinking of ways to get "home".  Finally, I decided she wasn't going to hurt me, so I tried to ask her where I was so I could figure out how to get away once I found the exit.  I couldn't talk, I didn't know why.  I had to fight my own throat and pain to untold times to ask the simple question.  She said the fifth floor.  I don't think I will ever forget that her only responce was the fifth bloody floor.  The fifth floor of what!  Where is the fifth floor located and if she said between the 4th and 6th floor I would poke her with my I.V. drip needle (poke, not stab, I'm not evil)  I attempted not to panic, the machines said my pulse went up and I was losing oxygen in my red blood cells anyway.  I asked a few more times, my head cloudy enough to not know how to word the question differently.  Finally, my Ravenclaw kicked in and I asked, "The fifth floor of where?"  Then the silly broad told me the name of the hospital and everything came flooding back including the wondrous nurse who actually saw the fear I was hiding and gave me a motherly kiss on the cheek.  At that point I saw my pulse skyrocket with worry over wondering if my grandma knew I was out of surgery and when could I show her I was awake, and well.  I asked the nurse where she was, she looked confused as to why I asked for my grandma and not my mother.  I didn't have the heart to tell her my mother only acts as such when she has something to gave from it... in this case the praise for being a doting mother while her baby was under the knife.  The nurse's answer, "the third floor," made since, the first time.  I'll tell you, nothing heals a tear in the skin like a lack of nourishment and a disgruntled, noisy, complaining hospital roommate.  It was thought previously that I may spend the night in the hospital.  I spent three hours post-surgery tops.  It may have been two or less, I do not remember.  My Ideal Lady made beef stew for me.  My mother picked the celery out of it; good for flavouring, not for eating; and my grandma put it in the blender for me.  That was the best beef stew created in the history of any life-holding planet in any galaxy, I'm sure.  At that time it tasted better than deer steaks and squirrell gravy, but since then I realized that if I were on death row, I would still want the steak and gravy for my final supper.  Maybe the stew for lunch.  Which reminds me, I need to borrow that blender this week so I'll have it next Thursday when my guy takes care of me.  Hmm, I'm getting hungry.  I may see what the school has in the cafe before I go back to the apt.  Funny if they have their delicious beef stew, wouldn't it?  I pales in comapirson but still tastey.  I don't want to go into surgey next week and I don't want another post surgey check up Saturday either.  May I pout?  No, I shall call on my Slytherinness and refuse. I'm just going to go feed my rumbling stomach.  Love you all, thanks for reading.

I've been looking up local organizations at work (and yes that is what I was assigned to do today) for the past hour and three quarters and realized I don't know what my boss actually wants on this topic.  I actually like this job so I hate wasting time.  I thought a quick post might clear my mind while I wait for him to email me back.  I may post the great news I had the night before last before disaster struck if he doesn't email me soon.