Below are the most recent 24 friends' journal entries.

Monday, November 16th, 2009
hi_4 [ el_wereturkey ]	7:14p	On consecutive days in early December Hi-4 has been invited to two Santa Claus themed community and Charity events. Time: December 5th Approx 10AM to 1PM with the possibility of additional volunteering. Place: Secuacus NJ For: Secuacus Kiwanis Club/Township of Secaucus We've been requested to join Santa Claus in the Secaucus Christmas celebration. This is a new event for Hi-4 but I believe it's mostly an open air event. I do not know the exact size or scale but it must have been a big thing at one time because Santa used to arrive on a helicopter. This year there will be a horse drawn trolley and some of us will be riding with him. A break/changing area has been arranged and I will be driving a carpool over from the New York City. There's also a train you can catch and I can shuttle anyone from the Secaucus train station to the event site. After the Christmas Celebration we might be following Santa to cheer up a local children's hospital. Time: December 6th Approx 9:30AM to 11AM Place: Uniondale NY, (East Long Island) For: United Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau Due to budget restructuring most of Hi-4's usual UCPN volunteer dates have been canceled this year but we still have this year's Breakfast with Santa event. This indoor event held in a nice hotel conference room attracts a crowd of parents with young, enthusiastic kids. It's a nice, easy-to-perform event with very good, very convenient accommodations. I will also be driving a carpool from New York City for this event. (Comment on this)
fursuit_gigs [ el_wereturkey ]	7:13p	Two Christmas Type Events in a Few Weeks. On consecutive days in early December Hi-4 has been invited to two Santa Claus themed community and Charity events. Time: December 5th Approx 10AM to 1PM with the possibility of additional volunteering. Place: Secuacus NJ For: Secuacus Kiwanis Club/Township of Secaucus We've been requested to join Santa Claus in the Secaucus Christmas celebration. This is a new event for Hi-4 but I believe it's mostly an open air event. I do not know the exact size or scale but it must have been a big thing at one time because Santa used to arrive on a helicopter. This year there will be a horse drawn trolley and some of us will be riding with him. A break/changing area has been arranged and I will be driving a carpool over from the New York City. There's also a train you can catch and I can shuttle anyone from the Secaucus train station to the event site. After the Christmas Celebration we might be following Santa to cheer up a local children's hospital. Time: December 6th Approx 9:30AM to 11AM Place: Uniondale NY, (East Long Island) For: United Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau Due to budget restructuring most of Hi-4's usual UCPN volunteer dates have been canceled this year but we still have this year's Breakfast with Santa event. This indoor event held in a nice hotel conference room attracts a crowd of parents with young, enthusiastic kids. It's a nice, easy-to-perform event with very good, very convenient accommodations. I will also be driving a carpool from New York City for this event. This is a great time to join Hi-4 Entertainment Please contact me personally or reply to this post if you're interested. (Comment on this)
madamecrystal	5:14p	kitty being a nerdy girl today, the super mario rpg challenge I challenge anyone to prove to me that there are teams better then either peach, mario, geno or peach bowser mario for boss battles I don't mean order changes btw I just mean general (person) mario (person) teams btw bunni, mario, geno bowser fails due to lack of healing :p Current Mood: geeky (2 Comments |Comment on this)
misterkitty	12:46a	Zero Update It's Sunday and the newest Zero Fighter page is now up! (Comment on this)
Friday, November 13th, 2009
freakylynx	10:50a	(9 Comments |Comment on this)
misterkitty	1:50a	Me Caveman We learn something about primitive peoples at tonight's Stupid Comics! (Comment on this)
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
freakylynx	8:35p	Lowlife ghetto-trash This city is full of such disgusting self-centered people. I decided to stop off in Manhattan to pick some picture hangars up for my apartment, I head to the F/V train for the ride back. The V pulls up and even though it's a longer ride, I bought a sandwich so I figure it'll give me time to just sit back and eat and since the train isn't crowded I can definitely get a seat. So a few stops go by and these four people get on, a young boy, a child of maybe six (couldn't tell if it was a boy or girl), a woman, and what I first thought was a man but then from the conversation found it was a woman (dressed like a real obnoxious rapper, pants hanging below the ass, lots of leather, bandanna and wide brimmed hat...). Before the doors close the small child starts the pee-pee dance, the woman tries to get them to get off the train (assuming to find a bathroom for the kid) but the manly woman refuses and so they watch the doors close. Then the child says he (gonna assume a he) really has to pee, so the manly woman starts telling the kid to pee right there by the door of the train while we're moving. Has the kid face the door and pull down his pants, then starts this insistent "Let it out. Let it out. Let it out." Meanwhile the other woman starts telling the kid not to do it, for the other woman to "stop playin'" and then starts to threaten to smack the kid if he does pee. The manly-woman yells to this other woman (who I think they were sisters, or at least family of some sort) that the kid needs to pee so he's going to pee, then starts the whole 'let it out' again. They don't get off at the next stop, even though the woman tries to say it would be better to pee in the station than on the train, the manly woman argues "But you said we have to stay on the train a couple more stops, I ain't gettin' off!" Quite a bit of back and forth, with the manly woman taking the position that the child's needs override any of those from the people around them (the train wasn't packed but it was close to full a stop after they got on), that I guess the fact that they didn't address this sooner overrides any concerns over hygiene or decency or what have you - the kid had to pee and that was that. The boy who was with them a couple times says almost to himself, "I wish we had a bottle!" Oh and before you say, well at least one of them knew it was wrong - that woman at no point used the argument that there were other people on the train who would have to deal with a stream of piss contaminating the floor around them. No, all she did was say "don't do it," wouldn't you fucking think a better argument against pissing on the train could be made? Throughout all of this I'm just staring at them from my seat, luckily opposite the door they're at. Finally, I think the fourth stop from where they got on, they get off. They go to the wall right by some stairs and it's clear the kid is attempting to pee on the wall. Before the doors close I see a couple people walking past them with a "What the hell are they doing look?" on their faces. The manly woman gets this angry tone and says something like, "You don't want to see then don't look!" I mean, what kind of sick fucking self-centered asshole thinks like this? Excuse me you piece of shit, your child's need to pee does not give you the right to piss in public. Take your fucking kid off the train and to a bathroom - it's that fucking simple. Or have him piss his pants, at least that'll soak up some of it. I kept thinking to myself, if they piss in the train I'm going to yell "What the fuck?!?" but looking at the mother, I think it'd start a ruckus... at least she had her pants down so I could get her off balance. Oh, and I should also state that most people were trying their hardest not to pay attention to any of this going on right by the freakin' train doors - despite the fact that there were a few people sitting in the seats that would probably be splattered by piss had the kid listened to the moron egging him on. Seriously, what is wrong with people??? Current Mood: pissed off (23 Comments |Comment on this)
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
lj_maintenance [ dwell ]	2:00p	Network Maintenance: Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 04:00-06:00 UTC/GMT EDIT@08:16 UTC/GMT. Wow. That was ugly. I expected it to go for 30 minutes and have maybe 1 minute of broken connectivity. Instead it lasted over 4 hours and we had 10 minutes of downtime directly related to the load balancer upgrades and then another 5-10 minutes of downtime when our primary Pingback database server crashed and the secondary couldn't take over; which could have been indirectly caused by the network upgrade missing a self-VIP. Anyways, we're up, we're working, the load balancers are barely breaking a sweat right now and I need some food and a shot of whiskey. I don't even *like* whiskey!! Thanks mhwest and dnewhall for helping out! --- On Saturday the 14th at 4AM UTC/GMT we will be upgrading the operating system of our network load balancers to a newer version, one that will allow us to use both CPUs! Nifty, because multiprocessing is nice. Since we have 2 load balancers, the plan is to upgrade 1 at a time, and there really should be very little impact to our website. Hopefully you won't notice a thing and I'll get to go back to the hotel and watch some wonderful late night infomercials. We've got a lot of exciting projects coming up for 2010 and we're hoping that we'll be able to deliver them all to you, that you will find it useful/cool/lovely and then you will use the site even more. Behind-the-scenes work like this will give us the capacity to handle the anticipated traffic, so expect a few more maintenance windows especially in the beginning of next year as we've got some neat ideas to improve performance around here! We had the recent 30-45 minute outage yesterday due to one of our logging databases filling up disk space -- not so great design coupled with my human error in handling the initial problem -- and it looks like we're going to finally have some resources to eliminate stuff like that. I can't wait! As usual, I will be updating status.livejournal.org before and after, just in case you are not able to reach our main website during the work. (39 Comments |Comment on this)
misterkitty	1:36p	Sponsored by Glico The newest Element of Surprise strip is up, along with some vintage theme music at Found Sound! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
freakylynx	11:28p	Guess which book I am currently reading... ... based on the below passage. First correct answer gets a virtual gold star! " For an appetizer I ordered radicchio with some kind of free-range squid. Anne and Scott both had the monkfish ragout with violets. Courtney almost fell asleep when she had to exert the energy to read the menu, but before she slid off her chair I grabbed both shoulders, propping her up, and Anne ordered for her, something simple and light like Cajun popcorn perhaps, which wasn't on the menu but since Anne knows Noj, the chef, he made up a special little batch... just for Courtney! Scott and Anne insisted that we all order some kind of blackened medium-rare redfish, a Deck Chairs specialty which was, luckily for them, an entree on one of the mock menus that Jean made up for me. If it hadn't, and if they nevertheless insisted on my ordering it, the odds were pretty good that after dinner tonight I would have broken into Scott and Anne's studio at around two this morning - after Late Night with David Letterman - and with an ax chopped them to pieces, first making Anne watch Scott bleed to death from gaping chest wounds, and then I would have found a way to get to Exeter where I would pour a bottle of acid all over their son's slanty-eyed zipperhead face. Our waitress is a little hardbody who is wearing gold faux-pearl tasseled lizard sling-back pumps. I forgot to return my videotapes to the store tonight and I curse myself silently while Scott orders two large bottles of San Pellegrino." (5 Comments |Comment on this)
octavius_rodens	11:25p	Speaking Platform Wow. It's been a while since I entered anything on here. For some reason, I find myself with a little extra time tonight, possibly because I'm not playing platformers that suck up all my focus. I've finished Kingdom Hearts 358/2 days, Psychonauts and the first two Ratchet and Clanks since the last entry. I'm finding that I really do enjoy platformers more than I thought I would and I'm looking forward to when I can start the PS3 Ratchet and Clanks. Of course, the Ratchet and Clank games are also run and gun types so all the explosions are good as well. I've been trying a few demos of different genres as well to see what other games I would like. Resistance: Fall of Man and Uncharted don't seem to do it for me. I keep dying and I guess I want to be way too accurate for these games when I'm gunning things down. I keep trying to accurately aim my shots, but the enemies keep killing me when I do so. I guess I'm not that kind of gamer yet. I guess my reaction times need to improve because I mostly RPG when I do my vidgame fix. It doesn't help that the Ratchet and Clank weapons tend to be so overpowered I cackle with insane glee when I get a new one. (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, November 9th, 2009
freakylynx	11:03p	Soon to be back to cold weather So I'm sitting at this hotel lobby computer probably for the last time before catching my flight, tomorrow at 6am. I got the news Friday morning from my mom of my grandfather's passing, got everything ready and arrived at my parent's house that night and we caught the flight saturday afternoon - arriving that night. Sunday we spent most of the day at my grandmother's house and then that night we ate at the Oyster Bar. This is a bit of deja vu because we visited this area of Florida back in May for my grandmother's birthday, stayed at the same hotel, ate at the same restaurant. I wanted to take pics of most of the weekend, I'll edit this post tomorrow when I get home to add some photos. After we departed I managed to talk my family into going to a movie, finally got to see WTWTA. And then today there was a bit of a service around lunch time at the main compound area of Alligator Park, where my grandmother is living (a lot of retirees living there). Some nice words said by some neighbors then a lot of good food. We did some swimming in the local pool (which is a world better than our hotel pool - this one is actually warm, and uses salt rather than chlorine). Back at the house we ate some leftovers for dinner, stayed and chatted for a bit and then headed out. I wanted to play some mini-golf at a place we passed the night before, a couple drops of rain feel when we got out of the car - when we were about to pay it started to really come down so we skipped it and headed over to the movie theater again. When we got there... completely dry outside, no rain at all. Wanted to see Zombieland but already started fifteen minutes before we arrived - ended up seeing Men Who Stare At Goats. And now back and all packed for tomorrow. I and my sister will be flying back, drive to the train station and she'll drive the rest of the way home - parents will be driving my sister's new used car home. I'll be more available for chatting when I get home. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 8th, 2009
misterkitty	11:17p	Sunday comic update! The newest Zero Fighter page is now up! (Comment on this)
freakylynx	9:33p	I am on a hotel computer in the lobby and a raccoon is wandering just outside the glass door, not five feet from where I sit ^.^;;; I wish I had my camera on me. (5 Comments |Comment on this)
madamecrystal	6:32p	Have you no modesty, no maiden same, no touch of bashfulness! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
fursuit_gigs [ el_wereturkey ]	11:35a	December 5th. Holiday Event in Secaucus. Hi-4 has been invited to a new event on the 5th of December. My Contact with the Kiwanis Club called me and we have a new event on the fifth, a community Christmas festival in Secaucus. We will be riding into town on horse trolley with Santa Claus before mingling and entertaining. The event starts at 9 but my contact said we should probably arrive a bit later, around ten. This seems to be a pretty major event and we could probably use a large compliment of performers. The event ends at 1PM but me might be tagging along with Santa for a visit to a children's hospital afterward. Please reply soon so I can start planning. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
hi_4 [ el_wereturkey ]	11:17a	December 5th. Holiday Event in Secaucus. We've been invited to a new event on the 5th of December. My Contact with the Kiwanis Club called me and we have a new event on the fifth, a community Christmas festival in Secaucus. We will be riding into town on horse trolley with Santa Claus before mingling and entertaining. The event starts at 9 but my contact said we should probably arrive a bit later, around ten. This seems to be a pretty major event and we could probably use a large compliment of performers. The event ends at 1PM but me might be tagging along with Santa for a visit to a children's hospital afterward. Please reply soon so I can start planning. (Comment on this)
Friday, November 6th, 2009
fursuit_gigs [ yargo ]	7:48p	fursuit music video pictures The fursuit music video was a lot of fun, I am glad to have met so many new faces and seen a lot of faces I recognize also. I posted many of thepictures I took, you can all view them on my livejournal if you want. I hope the video is completed soon, I think good chance to see a lot of fursuiting in it :) http://yargo.livejournal.com/16956.html (Comment on this)
freakylynx	8:52a	My grandfather died last night :/ I'm going to be heading down to Florida tomorrow, I'll probably be back Monday or Tuesday. Current Mood: blank (31 Comments |Comment on this)
misterkitty	1:44a	Rule Britannia It's British Invasion night tonight at Stupid Comics! (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
news [ theljstaff ]	1:15p	LiveJournal Major Notes: Spam counter-attack, RSS feeds again, CSI Deadly Intent contest The empire strikes back In recent weeks, we've taken huge steps towards blocking spam accounts on LiveJournal. In fact, we've suspended as many as 30,000 accounts in a single day! We've implemented several pre-emptive measures to prevent the creation of spam accounts, and we've honed our detection of suspicious content. Spam bots are a crafty lot, so we'll continue to refine our tactics and keep up the good fight to keep you safe from spam attacks on LiveJournal. RSS feeds again If you're addicted to xkcd_rss, icanhaschzbrgr, or other syndicated feeds, we're pleased to report that we've resolved the update error that was mucking up your RSS feeds. While content was being pulled correctly, it wasn't being posted to the feeds themselves. Late last week, we finally nailed down what we hope was the root problem, so content should post properly. We thank you for your patience. Wii have killer CSI Deadly Intent contests! c_s_i If you're a gamer who loves CSI, have Wii got news for you! c_s_i is sponsoring killer contests. Simply post a question to a member of the CSI crew. The winner will get a free copy of CSI: Deadly Intent for Nintendo Wii (with a retail value of $39.99) and get their question answered by a member of the CSI writing team! There's also a fantastic monthly contest. To enter, join c_s_i, play the online version of CSI: Deadly Intent, and respond to a two-part query for a chance to win a Wii! Entries will be judged on composition and originality. Sorry, but you must be a U.S. resident and over 18 years old to participate. Check out the rules here. Enveloped in postcards Last week, we asked you to send in postcards to help us decorate our drab concrete walls. Here's a photo of the results so far! Thank you so much and please keep them coming! You can mail them to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be giving ten random users paid account credits. Photos of the week If you haven't visited our new LiveJournal photo community, you're in for an amazing visual trip. LiveJournal users from around the world will take you on a scenic journey to everywhere. Post your own pictures or kick back and enjoy at lj_photophile. You can view some of this week's awesome photos after the jump. Please start tagging with geographic location, since we'd like to track all the places around the world represented in this community. Keep on commenting too! ( Read more... ) (234 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
misterkitty	12:05p	Ironic Wednesday The increasingly gay (even though it started out pretty gay to begin with) Element of Surprise is updated with a new strip, and at Found Sound Anita Bryant squeezes a bird for its bodily juices. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
fursuit_gigs [ freakylynx ]	7:23p	Penguin Plunge 2010 I got the heads up from our contact at the Penguin Plunge that we'll be welcomed back, what is this... our fifth year attending? The event will be at Crystal Lake in Middletown, CT. Takes place on February 20, 2010. I've reposted the details we used last year, if anything changes I'll put up an update. ( Details From Last Year ) (Comment on this)