Party pooper LJ!
Oct. 7th, 2012 12:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartWell, folks, it seems that LJ has decided to crash our birthday party - the original post is no longer visible. But I still have most of the comments in my inbox, and will re-post the original entry and list the available comments with the simple mentioning of the names, if it's all right with you. If not, tell me, and I'll delete yours.
We won't allow LJ to crash our party!
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Hi folks! *waves*
Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 56 on October 9, which means I'd have been retired for a year already, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and have considered myself retired for the last year, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 6 or 7 or only God knows how many years.
So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 943 comments on 7 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 1000-COMMENT-BARRIER! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!
You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.
Cheers!
Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp.
Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it.
Last count was 1328 comments on 6 pages.
NB: Shoud the original party post mysteriously reappear, I'll delete this one.
We won't allow LJ to crash our party!
Original post
Hi folks! *waves*
Time is flying by, isn't it? It's that time of a year again - I'm getting older. In this case, I'm turning 56 on October 9, which means I'd have been retired for a year already, back under the old regime. Women could retire at the age of 55 back then. So I've decided to ignore all that fantastic headway we've supposedly made towards democracy in the last two decades and have considered myself retired for the last year, blithley overlooking the fact that I'll have to work another 6 or 7 or only God knows how many years.
So, let's party! Last years virtual birthday party yielded 943 comments on 7 pages, which won't be easy to top, but we're good, aren't we? WE CAN DO IT! WE CAN BREAK THE 1000-COMMENT-BARRIER! So, let's give it a try! In the recent years, it has always been great fun, so let's have fun again!
You're all cordially invited to help yourself to a slice of virtual cake of your choice. If you want to post your favourite recipe in a comment, be my guest. If not, just drop by and say hello.
Cheers!
Note: The party will be closed on October 9, at midnight, sharp.
Join us and have fun! Feel free to start any thread, any topic you want; we can discuss it, mock the general stupidity of life and laugh at it.
Last count was 1328 comments on 6 pages.
NB: Shoud the original party post mysteriously reappear, I'll delete this one.
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Date: 2012-10-07 08:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 09:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 08:26 am (UTC)I'm gonna bake some walnut buns with the 6th-term kids tomorrow. Want me
> to bring a few virtual ones?
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Date: 2012-10-07 08:27 am (UTC)Yes, please!
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Date: 2012-10-07 08:32 am (UTC)re posting of the cake recipe
Cake
•3/4 C (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temperature
•2 cups sugar
•4 extra-large eggs, at room temperature
•3/4 cup sour cream, at room temperature
•1/2 teaspoon grated lemon zest
•1/2 teaspoon grated orange zest
•1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
•2 cups all-purpose flour
•1/4 cup cornstarch
•1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
•1 teaspoon baking soda
Topping
•1 cup (1/2 pint) heavy cream, chilled
•3 tablespoons sugar
•1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
•1 pint fresh strawberries, hulled and sliced
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
Butter and flour two 8″ round cake pans.
Cream the butter and sugar on high speed in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment until light and fluffy. On medium speed, add the eggs, 1 at a time, then the sour cream, zests, and vanilla, scraping down the bowl as needed. Mix well. Sift together the flour, cornstarch, salt, and baking soda. On low speed, slowly add the flour mixture to the butter mixture and combine just until smooth.
Pour the batter evenly into the pans, smooth the tops, and bake in the center of the oven for 40 to 45 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean. Let cool in the pans for 30 minutes, then remove to wire racks and let cool to room temperature.
To make the filling for one cake, whip the cream, sugar, and vanilla in a mixer fitted with the whisk attachment until firm. Slice one of the cakes in half with a long, sharp knife. Place the bottom slice of the cake on a serving platter, spread with 1/2 the whipped cream and scatter with sliced strawberries.
Cover with the top slice of the cake and spread with the remaining cream. Decorate with strawberries.
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Date: 2012-10-07 08:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-10-07 08:43 am (UTC)Cheery topic #1 - cause
> We have place in the kitchen cupboard! Yay! No, seriously. Once in a
> year, the city organizes a big clean-up action. Each district marks the
> places where you can dump all the things you no longer need but that are
> too large for the garbage chute or the containers. Like old furniture and
> stuff. After a couple of days, a big pickup with a huge garbage container
> comes, the guys load up everything and take it away.
> By this occasion, we finally took the effort to clean out the kitchen
> cupboard. Several huge pots and bowls that hadn't been used since
> Granny's death (1996) have been dragged out and thrown onto the garbage
> dump. Now we can get the stuff we actually do use on a daily basis
> without throwing half of our household items into the middle of the
> kitchen first.
> It's a wonderful thing, even though the action cost us all afternoon.
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Date: 2012-10-07 03:15 pm (UTC)Sounds good. Cupboard space is nice indeed. My impending move is a good
occation for a cleanout of my own when it comes to stuff I don´t use.
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Date: 2012-10-07 08:49 am (UTC)That sounds really useful! Yay for cupboard space! We don't have anything
like that here, though we do have a car so it's easier to take stuff to
the tip ourselves.
My cheery topic -- the new (reconditioned) laptop successfully records
audio files without glitches! I might be able to do some podficcing
without hanging my head in shame. At least when my cold alleviates.
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Date: 2012-10-07 02:59 pm (UTC)And yay, this was the hundredth reply! I claim a slice of cake :)
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Date: 2012-10-07 08:59 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-10-07 10:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-10-07 10:40 am (UTC)Happy early birthday
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Date: 2012-10-07 03:55 pm (UTC)And many, many thanks for helping with the party reconstruction effort, both you and
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Date: 2012-10-07 10:47 am (UTC)Is this a new type of collapsing threads on LJ?
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Edited because I can't spell...
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Date: 2012-10-07 12:49 pm (UTC)I have never seen the "...and 15 more comments... from " variety of collapsing threads before. However, your birthday party is where I see the most comments in collapsing threads on LJ so it is entirely possible that it isn't very new, I just haven't seen it before. Still having threads collapse in two different ways within the first two days is worthy of celebrating, right? :-)
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There's a new comment interface, which I'm guessing that's a 'feature' of. I avoid it by viewing comments in my style, which doesn't contract them like that. It might be a paid user trick, tho'.
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Date: 2012-10-07 10:58 am (UTC)I would recommend the Tiffany Aching books. They are definitely Discworld, but (technically) young adult fiction. Very much my favourites though, with a tough, clever and capable young girl as the central characther (i.e. Tiffany). The first book with her is called The Wee Free Men. My second favourite subset of Discworld books are the Watch books. As you I found the first couple of Discworld books not very good -- I read The Colour of Magic and The Light Fantastic and while the satire is fine, the characters feel very much like only caricatures with no depth and the story is thin too. After that I for some reason still gave Terry Pratchett another chance, reading Night Watch which I found much better with a proper story and characters you can relate to. I have since read plenty more and found a deep appreciation of Pratchett's writing even enjoying the earlier ones; however, that is partly for the contrast and seeing how however, that is partly for the contrast and seeing how he developed his craft.however, that is partly for the contrast and seeing how he developed his craft.
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:19 am (UTC)Someone else recommended Night Watch; it sounds like a good bet. I hadn't thought of the Tiffany Aching books, partly because I find the fanfiction isn't as interesting, but I'll look out for them. Perhaps my local Oxfam bookshop will oblige.
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:01 am (UTC)This is just because we need more primary comments, as these determine
when the next page is reached.
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Date: 2012-10-07 03:11 pm (UTC)True. We need more guests with more topics.
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:02 am (UTC)How about a books thread?
I've put off reading Pratchett for ages, after not much enjoying the very
early Discworld novels, but picked up Going Postal on holiday
(when it rained for two days straight) and quite enjoyed it. Can anyone
recommend another Discworld novel I might like? Or suggest another
fantasy novelist that might be more to my taste?
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Date: 2012-10-07 06:08 pm (UTC)> It depends why you think you liked Going Postal - the early
> Discworld books are by far the weakest, but the humour is mostly the
> same. The later books mostly have a more coherent plot and feel more like
> books (the early ones feel to me like they might have been better as
> separate episodes or something...)
> My favourite for ages has been Carpe Jugulum, but I haven't read
> it in ages. Generally, I'd recommend the Watch books (Guards,
> Guards is the first) and those lead into the other Ankh-Morpork books
> (Monstrous Regiment is another great one)
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:03 am (UTC)Cheery topic #2 - birthday presents
So, this year I actually wanted to get myself an e-reader... or rather
Mum wanted to get it for me. Instead, I got myself a new bed and Mum got
me 3 new cases for the new mattress and 3 long-sleeved t-shirts. Still,
I'm rather content with the outcome.
Has the same ever happened to you? Getting something completely different
and still being happy about it? Come, tell me.
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:04 am (UTC)Hm, fantasy books are hard. I always compare them with Tolkien, and so
far every single one of them lost.*g*
Ursula K. L Guin is fantastic where worldbuilding is considered, but I
find her incredibly depressing. And Larry Alexander's stories, lovely
though they are, are clearly meant for children. So is Narnia; only that
I don't really like Narnia.
I own an anthology titled "Tales Before Tolkien", which is very
interesting, but the tales themselves are, well, mediocre at best. I
positively hated George R.R. Martin's stuff; tried the first volume but
never got any further than 1/3 of it. Ever since then, I've been
extremely wary when it comes to give a fantasy book a try.
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:05 am (UTC)Five more threads needed to reach Page 2 if I have counted correctly. So
here is Nr 1: my Norton is evil. The newest version is so advanced it
always does something in the background, slowing down both my laptop and
my main PC beyond endurance and screwing up my mailing programme.
Apparetly, it also keeps the comps safe, but so did the previous version,
without laming them. *sighs* Ain't progress a beautiful thing?
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Date: 2012-10-07 03:22 pm (UTC)Norton was the first thing to become untenable on the old laptop. I
replaced it with a product called Vipre, which protected just as well,
but wasn't as processor heavy.
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:06 am (UTC)And we've passed the 150-comment mark, too! Yay!
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Date: 2012-10-07 03:20 pm (UTC)yay!
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:06 am (UTC)Yay -you've passed the 170 comment mark
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Date: 2012-10-07 03:27 pm (UTC)Going for two hundred now! [Icon love!]
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:07 am (UTC)I am going to go to bed now and dream of all the new comments, new pages
and collapsing threads that will occur at this fabulous party. So much
fun chatting with you all!
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:08 am (UTC)Except having counted the top level comments, I couldn't resist adding
one more, because I believe this should start a new page...
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Date: 2012-10-07 01:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:09 am (UTC)And this should be the 200th comment, unless someone beats me to it! I
was going to raise the First Doctor? question which got mentioned
upthread with Solanpolarn.
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Date: 2012-10-07 01:04 pm (UTC)As mentioned above Ten was my first Doctor. In Sweden were I grew up Doctor Who wasn't broadcast until after I had moved to Britain in 2006. I knew I was sold on the series at the moment depicted in my icon, when Ten says "You want weapons? We are in a library! Books! Best weapons in the world." This occurs in the second episode of Ten's first season, which is the Queen Victoria in the Highlands episode with the werewolves. I did see the first episode in this series as well and liked it well enough -- I did watch the next episode after all. But that ringing endorsement of books is what won my heart for all time. Of course the fact that they later on did a double episode set in a planet-sized library is just proof that my love and faith was well-placed. :-)
After becoming a fan, I have watched all of Ten's episodes and continue to watch Eleven; I have also caught up on New Doctor Who by watching Nine. Some friends have helped me to see a couple of episodes of Seven, but I haven't got further than that.
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Ah, yes, the Victorian werewolf episode. I'd forgotten it had that line. Your icon is brilliant!
Me again, with a new comment: I didn't actually make this icon, but I did go out looking for one of this particular scene and choose the one I liked the best. It seems more people than me liked it enough to think it worthy of an icon. :-)
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:10 am (UTC)I have to ask - how do you know exactly how many posts are here? Is there
a magic invisible elf that tells you?
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Date: 2012-10-07 03:40 pm (UTC)In the style I'm using, the number of existing comments is right next to
the Reply button: currently '234 replies | Reply'
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:10 am (UTC)Happy birthday thread! I hope it reaches 1000. That would be fun.
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Date: 2012-10-07 03:53 pm (UTC)Indeed! :)
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:11 am (UTC)Sammy cat wanted to make sure everyone had enough cake
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Date: 2012-10-07 03:54 pm (UTC)Oh, yummy! Thanks!
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:13 am (UTC)Thanks for the numerous comments and interesting threads so far. Off to
work now. I'll give you a detailed report about the big baking adventure
with the kids when I'm back.
Feel free to use the space to chat in my absence. Our aim is now Page 3.
:)
*waves*
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Date: 2012-10-07 04:22 pm (UTC)Have a good day! Hopefully there will be 300 comments on your return!
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:13 am (UTC)Anyone watching "A Game of Thrones" here? Any opinions? (Wiseheart, stop
me if you don't want to hear about this!)
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:14 am (UTC)Happy Birthday wishes! Hope you have a brilliant day!
How many more comments are needed to reach the magical 1000?
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Date: 2012-10-09 02:46 pm (UTC)Me:
> So 8 more to reach 300 comments? :)
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Date: 2012-10-07 11:15 am (UTC)I don't check LJ for a few days, and not only do I find a birthday party
in progress, but nearly 300 comments!
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Date: 2012-10-07 04:28 pm (UTC)Hail & welcome!
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