Okay, rare political post

[gement]

I really hope that you (yes, you. YOU.) are registered to vote. It is embarrassing to me how many people never even bother to register, let alone vote. In voter turnout, America is 35th in the world [cite]. 56% of eligible voters participated in the last presidential election, which means almost half of us didn't vote. This is embarrassing.

Are you registered? Deadline's October 4th. Are you sure? Please check here. If it turns out you're not, that link will also help you fix that.*

I'm not kidding around here.

Anyway, in other news, this video made me laugh out loud at work. I haven't seen so many celebrity cameos since the David Duchovny video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vtHwWReGU0

* Edit: the previous link is paid for by the Obama campaign, but is the user-friendliest I could find and doesn't say anything about how you should vote, just gets you signed up. If you want the non-partisan (as if registration is partisan), more DIY version, try http://www.votersunite.org/info/RegInfo.asp

Comments

[maribou]

I am disenfranchised and mayn't vote. But I've had people with clipboards try to register me about 10 times so far, which is kind of nice actually - I don't remember anyone working this hard to register voters last election.

[gement.livejournal.com]

After I posted, I realized I had used the imperialist "we are all Americans," We. Sorry about that. I wish you could vote! I'm glad you've been assaulted by clipboards. You're in one of the swing states.

[ursuscelticus.livejournal.com]

David Duchovny video? What David Duchovny video? I must see! Show me!

[gement.livejournal.com]

The compression is horrid, because only one copy ever made it out of the Fox employees VHS circle and onto the Internet. And yet, it is still a classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLwrjRj-q5s

To kiss and to hug me, debrief and debug me...

[ursuscelticus.livejournal.com]

Yay! I've heard Vixy do this song, but I didn't know there was a video for it. Thanks! :)

[gement.livejournal.com]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMa6KREX7gY seems to have better sound synch.

[adularia.livejournal.com]

I had JUST succeeded in getting that song out of my head.

*frowns at you*

*frowns*

*frowns*

gah.

Also, the Web 2.0tacular voter registration app is charming, but it's uncanny how "friendly" ends up referencing "Fisher-Price." I am going to send in my registration again, because I'm not sure the people at the DMV are to be trusted.

[gement.livejournal.com]

Hooray and thank you!

Yeah, it IS Fisher-Price! I was trying to figure out what it reminded me of. On the other hand, I can make none of the usual accessibility complaints about text size or obscurity. Sometimes that's what it takes.

For the song, I am unrepentant.

[hesperide.livejournal.com]

Dearheart - This is a quickie note and has very little to do with voting. I am registered to vote, and I am very concerned that everyone human needs to not just register, but vote this time, or we are fucked in a very unhappy way.

That said - If you haven't already seen it, you need to request a film from the library titled "The Libertine", for story research. With Johnny Dep and John Malkovitch, it is well done and well acted. It may have some significance to research for your manuscript. };>

[artdreams1.livejournal.com]

okay. I'm still so in love with Dustin.

could he ever love a duck?

Glad you found the DD vid. Last time I checked, it was nowhere

The little brown box.

[bossiballs.livejournal.com]

Hiya.
Tracked the little brown box thing back to yourgoodself here.
Just fantastic.
Best bit of an entire years worth of being inside livejournal.
Easily the best bit. No question.
Which brings up the question....how do I adopt that facility
into my own dronings on?

Plus, love the tone.

Best wishes, Schroedingers other cat, Cheshire.

Re: The little brown box.

[gement.livejournal.com]

I don't know what you mean by this, as I don't recall ever mentioning a "little brown box" of any kind.

Glancing at your journal, you appear to be trying to drum up readers for some kind of campaign that involves incoherent rambling and posting non-worksafe pictures without cut tags or justification.

Because I could be hallucinating and you might have a good reason, you get one more comment to explain yourself. Otherwise your comment gets deleted so you do not get further exposure from my journal.

Re: The little brown box.

[bossiballs.livejournal.com]

Whoops.
Go ahead and delete, I have no intention of offending.

The "litte brown box" is a reference to a small two inch(ish) square,
I thaught I had traced back to its origional source, which features
text appearing as one looks at it.

Incoherent rambling undoubtedly.

No idea what non-worksafe pictures, or cut tags might be.

Justification, hmmm; you got me there. Is justification neccesary?

Anywhichway, sorry for the unwarranted intrusion, just delete and dont
give it another thaught. I must have made some error.

Re: The little brown box.

[gement.livejournal.com]

Ah! You mean my politics icon! Now we're all on the same page. Yes, you found me, and thank you for the compliment. My apologies for the confusion, and I am sorry that I misjudged your intentions.

So you know what I'm talking about, a non-worksafe image is something that is likely to get someone in trouble if they open it in a standard office workplace, usually because of nudity, profanity, or violence. There was a pornographic picture on your journal, so I had to close that window very quickly.

Cut tags are a way for LJ users to hide the body of long posts or posts that contain non-worksafe material, so other users skimming their friends list or your journal multiple entries at a time have to click a link to read the full piece.

To make a cut in an entry, type <lj-cut text="Here's the cut tag!"> and then type whatever the long part is. To end the cut, type </lj-cut> and after that point stuff will display in the short form of the entry again.

What I just typed would display as:

To make a cut in an entry, type ( Here's the cut tag! ) and after that point stuff will display in the short form of the entry again.

Except the bold part would be a link. I hope you find this useful.

Feel free to friend me and follow along if you like! My apologies again for being so short with you. It's been a long week.

Re: Your politics icon.

[bossiballs.livejournal.com]

Oh.

Goody goody.

Roger all of that.

Every bit of it is clear as a bell.

In fact I now feel empowered to attempt my first bit of coding ever.

Depending on skill, the other image; (with the brown star) may soon dissappear.

I still would like to know how to insert a dynamic icon, similar to your own political icon; (but with my own content): I really love it.

That can wait.

Thanx for the friend invitation also, that has been another stumbling block, which it is high time I brokethrough regarding. That'll happen.

Right now I am shutting down for the night.

No apologies neccessary, I regard anger as a healthy dynamic.

Thanx again.

Re: Your politics icon.

[gement.livejournal.com]

http://wigflip.com/minifesto/ is where I made my icon. No skill required! (I don't have a gif animation program anywhere on my computer.)

Re: Your politics icon./My Politics icon.

[bossiballs.livejournal.com]

Fantastic.