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[azurelunatic]

I have "gay boyfriend" stuck in my head.

How is it that I have never heard of this artist before? However, El Reg has cured this disturbing lack of knowledge. http://www.pricasso.com/ (NSFW; he paints using as his brush what you think he might based on the name.)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081126/music_nm/us_judge -- Barney theme & Barry Manilow for noise offenders

We have acquired gameboyguy13 from the airport. He is now installed on the couch.

The intermittent pages-on-lj-not-loading thing is really getting old, and it causes me woe. I know it has got to be causing Ops far more woe, because this is only my addiction; it's their job (and some of them, probably their addiction as well).

The delayed notification emails seem to be one of those purely technological cascading woebuckets that is no one's individual fault (much) but nevertheless causes buckets and buckets and buckets of woe. And, like most technological cascading woebuckets, it is best explained in dialog format.

[Edit 2008 11 26: now including information from here on the downtime suckage!]

LJ: BRB, moving servers to Montana!
6A Ops: Take good care of my baby!!
LJ: BTW, changing IP addresses, k guys? ♥
All 3 people pointing their domains to their LJs: K!
Yahoo, AOL: K!
LJ: *goes down*
LJ Addicts: *were prepared for this*
Twitter, IJ, and GJ: *cave under the load*
LJ Addicts: NOOOOO!
LJ: *comes back up*
LJ Addicts: Yaaaay!
LJ: *slowly*
LJ Addicts: Nooo!
LJ Support: It's memcache, people. Chill while the cache fills up.
LJ Users: *comment away merrily*
LJ email servers: *send out comment notifications merrily*
Almost every other email server in the world: Who the frak are these spammers in Montana? *bancakes*
AOL Users: Eww, my ex is commenting to me. *spamflag*
AOL Admins: Gee, our users are sending in a lot of spam reports about this IP. *bancakes*
Hotmail: WTF SPAMMERS. *BANCAKES*
LJ Admins: Guys? Hey, guys? *headdesk*
LJ Users Not Getting Notification Emails: WTF?!
LJ Support: Srsly.
Most Email Server Admins: Oh, it's you guys, you're cool. Hey, why didn't you tell us you were moving to Montana?
Hotmail: Yeah, you can send us mail ... two messages at a time.
LJ Admins: WTF!!
Notification Emails to Hotmail Addresses: Are we there yet?
LJ Email Server: Siddown, shaddup, you'll get sent as soon as they say we can send you.
Notification Emails to Everywhere Else: Are we there yet?
LJ Email Server: You, settle down, back of the line like you belong. You'll get there in the right order or no one gets there!
Notification Emails: *stack up while everyone is waiting for Hotmail notifications to get sent*
LJ Admins: O HELL NO. *dequeue Hotmail notifications*
Hotmail: We swear we'll let you send email to us ... sometime within the next 24 hours. (Maybe.)
LJ Email Server: *sends at a normal rate*
LJ Addicts: WHERE ARE MY EMAILS?!
Notification Emails: Sorry. Traffic jam.
LJ Addicts Using Hotmail: *go into withdrawal*
LJ Notification Queue: *overloads again*
LJ Admins: *bang on queue to try and fix*
LJ: *doesn't like that much* *dies*
LJ Admins: *%#$@!!
LJ Addicts: %#&*@!!
LJ Support: *starts the Thanksgiving drinking early*

Comments

[onyxrising.livejournal.com]

That judge is copying something the City of Anchorage actually started.
Anchorage found that Barney and children's songs were most effective to punish teenagers, while Opera is the most effective on adult offenders.

[azurelunatic]

I'm afraid I'd be unlikely to be deterred by opera. Well, depends on the opera. Could I bring a book? I would probably be deterred by very bad rap.

[onyxrising.livejournal.com]

No, they do not allow books.
They did have a problem with one guy who developed a taste for opera, and then became a repeat offender with that instead.

[azurelunatic]

No books would be kinda bad.

[nekosensei.livejournal.com]

I'm the same. Opera is okay, but I hate rap and country.

Oh, by the way, I'm hear because hakeber posted a link to this entry...

[owl]

You rock. I love your dialogue thingies. May link flist to it, fortunately flist small enough not to cause /. effect.

[azurelunatic]

/. itself is not large enough to cause /. effect on LJ.

[owl]

Go LJ!

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

I think every active member of the LJ support team deserves their own personal bottle of wine. With a long bendy straw.

[azurelunatic]

And then there's the following IRC outtake, names obscured to shield those who know who they are anyway:

[01:46] beloved ex-employee: ta, all. good luck with getting LJ pining for the fjords again
[01:46] beloved ex-employee: (and can i just say, at the risk of sounding smug: I love that this is no longer my fucking problem. \o/)
[01:46] current employee: no, you may not
[01:46] current employee: because it's mine
[01:46] beloved ex-employee: too late!
[01:46] current employee: can != may
[01:46] old-school volunteer: hee
[01:47] current employee: not permitted
[01:47] * beloved ex-employee smooches, sends emergency bottle of bushmill's (it still has about half the booze in it)

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

Heh heh heh. I knew who the beloved ex-employee was by the end of the second line. It's no good disguising; the voice is unmistakable! :-)

[azurelunatic]

♥

She is *love*.

[izhilzha.livejournal.com]

OMG. I love you for that succinct version of the the LJ move woes. I might have to link this. *g*

[azurelunatic]

Thank you.

The support team has been pointing to this in IRC to explain what happened to some of the other volunteers, so it's evidently pretty accurate too, which is what I was aiming for. :D

[hakeber.livejournal.com]

Meant to link this earlier (as this is hysterical), so am doing so now.

[azurelunatic]

:D

[hakeber.livejournal.com]

And now that I'm back from the grocery, I see the backlog of regular email notifications is cleared and stuff is once more being delivered almost instantly. I <3 my gmail account. At least they're sane about stuff like LJ moving to a new IP.

[kayshapero]

I wonder - should I be relieved or alarmed that Earthlink appears to have slept through the whole thing and continued to send me LJ forwards without a by your leave?

Reminds me of an experience which seems to have gone roughly:

1 Nyah, hah, hah... I, the Evil Spammer fake your Yahoo return address on my filth.
2 Rejoins the mail handler: Back, oh evil spam to the pits that spawned ye... or whatever your return address is.
3 Oh woe, I, fair Yahoo see a bounce message. That address must be dead. I shall stop sending mailing list mail at once.
4 Me: Hey, Yahoo - I'm Still Here and I'm Still Subscribed so stop sitting on my outbound.
5 Oh, sorry, subscription restored. Read what you missed on line.

Repeat macro until disgusted user stops bothering to have mail forwarded.

[azurelunatic]

Be relieved!

>_< Oh, yes. The ignoble Joe Job.

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

You had me literally laughing out loud. Brianna yelled up from the play room, "What? What?! Mommy, what are you LAUGHING AT?!" To which I had to admit it would be too difficult to explain and she wouldn't grok it anyway.

I did tell her earlier when I was laughing at the virtual present a friend of mine got for her birthday - it's an eye in a jar, and she only has one in RL. So yeah, it was funny. ^_^ She understood that one, though she didn't find it funny. No surprise.

[azurelunatic]

Heeeeeee. Kids are fun.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I'm pointing a domain to my LiveJournal, but I did it by CNAME, so I didn't have to change anything.

I still found it nifty that LiveJournal specifically sent me email telling me "Hey, you're pointing a domain at us, go check whether it's set up correctly". Good service.