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[cleolinda]

WHEEEEEE KRISPY KREMES! SURRRRRGE!

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I made the icon just for the occasion. For those of you who have long wondered about my ethnic makeup (SUCH! BURNING! QUESTIONS!), I am your standard white Southerner mutt mix of Scottish, Irish, and English with a dash of French and German. There's some Dutch on the other side the family, but I think they married in.

No, I am not wearing green. If you pinch me I will SHANK YOU.

I had some Very Important Links for you, but Semagic crashed and I lost them, so I'll have to go hunt them down again. Fnarrr.

GoPets update: I cannae make the client work. I want a kitty! Woe. Nonetheless, until the particular bug affecting me is worked out, it's probably for the best, as I don't need help procrastinating just this second. Meanwhile, there's still the Friendster-style applications of the site, and I'll friend anyone who sends over a request. Re: another question, Erin also says that Mac and Linux clients are on the way, and in the meantime, there's also gopets, where she's gopets_erin, if you need help.

(I enjoyed this from the comments on the last entry: "I have joined and am the proud owner of a wee red kitty girl called Paddington. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with her though, and just now a pink & teal doggeh came walking onto my screen and growled at me. O_o Heh.")

Best! Virtual Pets! Ever!: GoPets aren't content to hang out on their owners' desktops, however. They freely roam the net, visiting other owners and making friends along the way. In their travels, GoPets establish and strengthen social networks among Owners, bringing together people with similar interests. Of course, while delivering messages between Owners, they do a bit of personal networking on the side -- you may notice that your GoPet seems to spend a lot of time with one particular feline friend. Break out the cigars -- there may be baby GoPets in your future!

Linkspamorama, continued:

Wonder Whedon!

STAB.

Interesting dish on Aarongate at TWOP (cannot vouch for its truthfulness, however).

So THAT'S where the icon of the cartoon lion chewing on the giraffe leg comes from!

The Onion: Corpse of Real Michael Jackson Found at Neverland Ranch.

Everything Is Illuminated.

Sin City: a near-religious experience. (Mild spoilers.) The reviewer gives it only "nine and a half out of ten stars" because 1) "Michael Madsen is kinda wasted" and Jessica Alba, of all the women in the movie, won't get naked. Of course, these are the people who also said that The Matrix Reloaded would, and this is a rough paraphrase, make you come until you couldn't come no more, and... not so much with that, no.

Back to the comedy mines it is, heigh ho.

Comments

[zhai.livejournal.com]

I'll help you out if I can, or put you in touch with our uber tech guy. =) Can you describe the error that you're getting? =) I'm answering questions over on gopets, too. =)

[ktnb]

When I try to run the install program, it loads a bunch of temporary files, and then tries to install Pulse. When I try to install it, it says it can't install pulse.ex_ into the directory, and shuts down, and without installing that, I can't seem to find a way to install the actual GoPets program.

(I thought the problem might have been that I already run Pulse, but I shut it down and completely uninstalled it, and the install still didn't work.)

[zhai.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that sounds tricky. I'm not familiar with Pulse, so I will probably have to pass this along to our tech guy... first, though, can you try putting the GoPets executable that you downloaded into a separate folder, all by itself? It almost sounds like it's going through its batch file and then executing the wrong setup.exe. I'm not sure, though.

[ktnb]

The good news is, that totally worked - I guess it was seeing an uninstall or setup file in my temp folder (that's where I put everything I download, so...) but I put it in its own folder and it installed!

Of course, now I'm getting a "Failed to initialize the rendering engine.: 0" error. But hey, this is progress. :D

[zhai.livejournal.com]

Woohoo! Hooray for the success of a shot in the dark. ;)

Sorry about the rendering engine error. >.< That's our bugbear of the day, and it kind of sounds like it could be nasty. I will post updates from the tech team as soon as I hear anything about it. Thanks for your patience, and for helping us out!