Below are the most recent 3 friends' journal entries.

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
storybookland [ erl_queen ]	1:53p	Girls Underground Hopefully this isn't too off-topic... Thought you all might be interested in my website Girls Underground, which discusses a common story archetype predominantly found in YA fantasy books and films, but originating in fairytales and mythology. "In which a young girl travels to an otherworldly place, far from home, where she is surrounded by strange creatures ~ some helpful and others very dangerous indeed ~ and must navigate her way past obstacles in time to defeat her adversary and reach her goal... gaining wisdom, power, and perhaps even love, along the way." I've recently started up a related blog where I will be showcasing the many examples of the Girls Underground type - and today's entries included The Vege-Men's Revenge, which I posted about here as well. (9 Comments |Comment on this)
storybookland [ erl_queen ]	11:45a	The Vege-Men's Revenge My mom came across this amazing book and was nice enough to pass it on to me. This is the 1987 edition, but it was originally printed in 1897. It tells the story of Poppy, who is out walking one day, planning to harvest some veggies from the garden, when she is accosted by a couple of anthropomorphic vegetables. They sweet talk her into following them down underground to their kingdom, then surprise her with a condemnation of her previous vegetable-eating habits, and begin their revenge. They plant her in the ground, and tend her, and she grows into many different types of vegetable, all of which look like her (clothes and all). Then they pick the Poppy-veggies, cook them, and eat them! After the feast, they have a wild dance that flies around faster and faster until they all sort of explode in a bang - and it turns out to be all Poppy's dream (which kind of says something about the strangeness of Poppy's mind). It is awesomely weird, and kind of gruesome, and entirely relayed in rhyming verse. ( A few more pictures under the cut. ) (13 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 7th, 2009
lj_maintenance [ mhwest ]	1:15p	Notification System **FINAL EDIT Thu Dec 10 02:15:47 UTC 2009** So there is the final update... Over the past day we have processed around 11 million jobs out of the 12 million that were in queue at that time. Please bear in mind that over this past day, more jobs for notifications are also created. So while the queue has been dropping, we are still not fully caught up at this point, due to backlog and new jobs. We have roughly 3 million jobs still pending that involve the notification system in some manner. We had hoped we could have fully cleared the queue in a day, but unfortunately we can't clear it too quickly, since we need the rest of the site to operate normally. From our current perspective on the amount of jobs that are left in queue, and how many it has processed thus far, we believe it will take around another 8 - 12 hours to process everything. And finally some answers to some questions: ( Read More and Get Some Answers... ) Current Mood: grumpy (602 Comments |Comment on this)