If it weren't for the honor of the thing I'd just as soon live

[substitute]

Went to Finbar’s with realitylost and devoured capellini pomodoro. Outside a hideous shopping mall band was playing in the hideous shopping mall. They were the classic keyboard+sax+bass+drum rock/R&B bar band nightmare. A few guys with Tommy Bahama silk shirts playing fine tunes such as “Brick House” and “Play That Funky Music, White Boy”. The latter song is a dealbreaker for me. No one can play that song, ever! Or WWIII.

Later, when the shitty band was doing “Oye como va”, I was charmed to see a short wide man dance the cha-cha well with a tall narrow woman who was learning it from him. They were having a genuinely good time.

LJ’s post by email broke again. There is no notice of this on status.livejournal.org and in fact there never is any notice there. In fact, from that page you’d think that LJ had been completely down since Thursday. Why do they even bother having a status page when it’s always outdated and useless? The whole point of the status page is to reduce traffic to your support board by letting people know what’s already being fixed. Sigh.

I am depressed, to the extent that everything is moving in slow motion and crucial things that need doing are not being completed. This sucks.

Comments

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

It's because LJ is run by amateurs.

[bruisedhips.livejournal.com]

finbar's pomodoro is the BEST. I think they put at LEAST one entire garlic clove in each serving.
mmmhm.

[brianenigma.livejournal.com]

In theory, lj_maintenance is supposed to be the "official" source of status information, with the off-site status subdomain only used when LJ is actually offline or DDoS'ed. In practice, there is still no mention of email issues on lj_maintenance.

[substitute.livejournal.com]

status.livejournal.org just mirrors lj user status.

also lj_maintenance is useless.

i was told at one point that they don't put things on status or maintenance unless they know what broke. which made me laugh and laugh!

it's all kind of sad

[brianenigma.livejournal.com]

Even though they do not understand what the issue is or who needs to be around to fix it, they will need you in the office, regardless of whether you can fix it remotely. KTHXBYE.

Oh, and can you send a general email to the AllStaff alias asking who is in charge of this release?