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We're trying another experiment with cross-posting from Dreamwidth. I will always love LJ, but I've been getting twitchy about not having any way to back up my entries, and now that I'm up to date on my import to Dreamwidth (with a little manual work to catch up all the way), I'm going to try to keep up from now on. Which means either cross-posting from Dreamwidth, or copying entries by hand, which, frankly, is a bit of a pain.

I have no intention of giving up my LJ, just for the record. I love it, and I've had it for almost ten years. I am just regarding this as the best way to get a back-up going.

Short version: This entry is basically just a test to see if cross-posting works. ♥

Current Mood: cheerful

Hope all my East Coast friends are doing okay with the earthquake and aftershocks.

5.9 is a pretty respectable earthquake, especially in a region that's not very used to them! Anybody have any good stories from it?

Sometimes I feel like all I do on the internet lately is signal-boost. Sorry for that, guys - I promise I'll be around for some actual updates sometime soon.

* A quick post with links to Help Japan, and the Seattle PI's current update on the situation with the nuclear reactors over there. Related to this: Phil Plait's take-down of the overreaction and downright asshattery going along with the problems over there.

* A post by Phil Plait, the Bad Astronomer, dealing with congressional climate change denial.

* Link to Forbes (yes, Forbes) gacked from from

seachanges, discussing how the Governor of Michigan is setting dangerous new precedents in his actions against unions. An excerpt:

Snyder’s law gives the state government the power not only to break up unions, but to dissolve entire local governments and place appointed “Emergency Managers” in their stead. But that’s not all – whole cities could be eliminated if Emergency Managers and the governor choose to do so. And Snyder can fire elected officials unilaterally, without any input from voters. It doesn’t get much more anti-Democratic than that.

Except it does. The governor simply has to declare a financial emergency to invoke these powers – or he can hire a private company to declare financial emergency and take over oversight of the city. That’s right, a private corporation can declare your city in a state of financial emergency and send in its Emergency Manager, fire your elected officials, and reap the benefits of the ensuing state contracts.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go stick my head under the sand for the last twenty minutes of my lunch break, and hope that things around the world start settling down and getting less awful soon.

Doctors Without Borders / MSF's current news from the field in Japan.

Particularly for Japan because, hell, I've been there, I have friends who live there. More than anything, I remember how absolutely kind and understanding everyone in Japan was, from the waiters and baristas and shopkeepers and hostel and museum staff who very kindly put up with my six-word vocabulary and probably-abominable accent, to the old woman who was absolutely determined to make me understand that someone had refilled the teapot I'd just found to be empty (after asking if I spoke Japanese and receiving a negative answer she made a little huff and just grabbed my elbow and led me over to it to show me) to the security guard at Narita airport who made sure that I actually got to my flight home (the gate had changed, and I was utterly lost) - everybody we met in Japan was wonderful, polite, and patient. Nobody deserves the stuff we're seeing out of Sendai the last few days, but this one does hurt me particularly, I admit, because I remember how wonderful Japan was to me.

More links about how to help Japan via the Huffington Post.

Note: Doctors Without Borders / MSF is always my choice for giving in times of disaster, largely because I'm leery of the fact that a lot of relief organizations are (overtly or covertly) faith-based - that doesn't necessarily mean anything about whether or not they're giving fairly at the right times in the right places (I think most of them are), but as a person who is not Christian, I feel like it's my duty to try to help out the alternative organizations, if only because I think people need to know that it's not just Christian groups who want to do good things and help the world. More about Doctors Without Borders / MSF, who they are and what they do. As always, what works for me might not be what works for you - there's plenty of options.

Current Mood: thoughtful

Seattle folks, please check out this Seattle Times article about a missing UW student, and spread the word to other locals.

Co-workers may have seen signs in the ID this morning - the girl (18) "was last seen in the Rainier Beach neighborhood, where she lives, heading to a library on the UW campus." The investigation's just starting (they're hoping the security cams at the on-campus libraries will show if she made it that far), but she was reported missing on Saturday. She's non-local, and her family's all the way across the country.

There's a lot of variables here, but it's worth getting a good look at her picture and passing it on.

Update: The land of the internet is indeed small - thanks to

dreamstrifer for pointing out that a friend of the missing girl is here on LJ. You can see the friend's post here, with more details about Marizela and more complete contact info if you've seen her or have any information that might help.

Current Mood: concerned

Short notice because I'm dumb and forgot to tell everyone this even though I repeated it to myself the whole way home from the bookstore last weekend:

Syne Mitchell and Eric Nylund (and someone else... William Dietz, I think?) will be at U-Books tonight for a talk and signing related to a collection of sf/f stories benefiting Katrina victims. Dragon's Pen folks will remember Syne and Eric from our lecture series several years ago. These are two of the sweetest human beings living, for those who don't know them - they both gave so generously of their time and wisdom, all for a bunch of wide-eyed would-be-writer college students. If anybody gets out there, be sure to congratulate Syne on her new book, the first in a series (trilogy?) called Immortals. It's another medical/tech thriller, researched right here with the UW's own nanotechnology experts. ♥

Yay, a new and thrilling piece of junkmail that Hotmail hasn't figured out how to handle.

Last night I got an email that seemed 'off,' but didn't immediately set as junk and delete it 'cause... well, I was fairly tipsy and I didn't want to do anything drastic while in that state. But this morning, when I went to check my inbox, I had a new copy of the same exact email from the same exact address. So, lo and behold, JUNK. Just as I'd originally predicted.

Since they seem to be hitting LJers, I figured I'd post it here for the general good. The address it came from both times was empiresfall06@yahoo.com, with "none" (pointy-brackets instead of quotations, but they turn into html when I try to write them out, of course) in the actual subject heading.

( The text. )

Current Mood: aggravated

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