Miscellaneous updates and announcements

[cleolinda]

So, today: another rainy-ass day. Also, a couple of weeks ago when it rained really hard as well, our pool turned green and murky overnight. You know how Dracula infiltrates people's bedrooms and shit by turning into mist? I think Pthoolhu returned to town in the form of a sudden outbreak of "mustard algae," whatever that is. So Pool Guy came and dumped a bunch of chemicals in, meaning that either Pthoolhu will flee again, or we'll be the first to be eaten when the apocalypse comes. Either way.

(Best. Christmas wreath. Ever.)

So we watched movies again--I can't remember what the first one was (maybe it was just a TV show? No, I remember, it was Monster House. God, I can't wait to get my nice B-complex vitamins tomorrow), but then we watched Hot Fuzz, which Sister Girl ended up not being very interested in. I think it's because--by her own admission--she didn't really know the buddy-cop action-movie clichés well enough to get most of the jokes, which weren't even jokes with punchlines per se, just all the action-movie clichés put in the context of a sleepy English village. Although I don't think she got "Forget it, Nick... it's Sandford," either. Me, I spent most of the movie trying not to howl with laughter since she didn't seem to be into it. "FOR THE GREATER GOOOOOOOD. CRUSTY JUGGLERRRRRRRRS..."

("An early draft of the script included a love interest for Nicholas named Victoria. She was cut from later drafts, but her dialog was given to Danny, often without any changes." I am so incredibly not surprised by this. Particularly about the time Danny takes Nicholas home to watch movies. "Uh... are they going to start making out now?")

Oh, and quick PSA from elbales: If you see a "Career Cruising" meme going around, please don't participate or pass it on. It's not a free quiz--it's on a pay site, and by using whoever's login/password it is, you're going to get them into a huge amount of trouble. As wendymr has pointed out, it's a site for professional career counselors and their clients, and my suspicion is that one of those clients leaked the password, probably to their friends, and it went wild from there. So, you know, for the sake of this poor counselor, please tell people to delete or lock their meme entries or not participate at all. I don't know if the counselor can change his/her password, either.

Update: It was a Wine Opener Thing.

Also, wow: Barak Berkowitz has stepped down as Six Apart Chairman and CEO. Related to Strikethrough '07 (Parts 1 and 2)? I don't know. If it was related to Strikethrough, though, I'd guess it was because the whole thing was botched all around and got way more tech-blog media attention than the company wanted, not because someone at the company feels bad for fandom or anything.

Linkspam will be back in a day or so, by the way. At the moment I'm just trying to take a couple of days off, write a little more, and catch up on things.

Comments

[editornia.livejournal.com]

I did the meme last night, but I also posted the warning (along with credit to cleo) as soon as I saw it.

I'm just wondering/worrying, though... it can't just be circluating on LJ, right? It's gotta be doing the whole circling-of-the-internets thingy, so... maybe if you/they ever find out whose password etc. it was, maybe they (the original owner of said password) should be given a kind of "internets-for-beginner-with-no-common-sense" warning, to not ever give out their username and password, not even to close friends or members of their family... what do you think? :\

[elbales]

The original owner is a career counseling agency; my friend Wendy knows exactly which one, which is part of the problem, as it clearly identifies them to anyone in the know, including Career Cruising. If they're anything like my friend's agency, they give out their password to their clients, who are supposed to be responsible about it. I very much doubt they are internet beginners with no common sense.

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

It seems then that the likely scenario is that the counseling agency gave the password to a client, who then sent it to a friend/family member and it spiraled from there. Probably without anyone realizing what was going on

[elbales]

Yes, exactly. Thank you for the clarification. :)

[prozacnation.livejournal.com]

It is all over the internet. But no one has mentioned "oh HAI! I just contacted them to see if this is in fact a privacy issue for the account holder." Am I the only one that emailed them?

[editornia.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know there was an e-mail address! Well done for letting them know. :) It's not something I thought of doing. :/