Elric looked at the pit. It was ragged and deep and the earth in it seemed freshly turned as if it had been but lately dug.
“What must we wait for, Friend Corum?”
“For the Tower,” said Prince Corum. “I would guess that this is where it appears when it is in this plane.”
“And when will it appear?”
“At no particular time. We must wait. And then, as soon as we see it, we must rush it and attempt to enter before it vanishes again, moving on to the next plane.”

— Michael Moorcock, The Vanishing Tower

That’s what it feels like when your internet is unreliable… or when LJ is playing games with the servers.

Users on the Madcow cluster (where am I?) will be temporarily unable to log in or view their journals. This problem should be brief, and will be resolved as quickly as possible. Because of this, users on other clusters may experience some slowdowns in accessing LiveJournal as well.

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I gushed enough about to Danny about Shaun of the Dead that we may go see it in the theater this weekend. (Either that, or Sky Captain.)

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Yesterday was rough.. almost all hardware issues, interrupting my regular workday.

Printer fuser, two network cards, and a video card all pooped out the same day. What’re the odds?

At least I got the website up to date and started stats.

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Tracey Gold’s Mugshot.

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Michael Andrews and Gary Jules: Mad World – Watch from above as schoolchildren create montages of moving figures in this heartfelt video.

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Archives:

1 year ago – Hurricane Isabel, More Frankie the Mooch, St. John’s Wort.

2 years ago – Bonnie’s Boy Steals from FMM, and is caught on video, Newt bawls out a spaniel

3 years ago – music to my ears, LJ observations, handy word reference guide

4 years ago – Sesame Street Day!, Lower-case N song, We are all Earthlings, Ernie questions his existence. Wubba Wubba Song, Joel Reprimanded for surfing porn at work