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"Also, there's not a tactful way to translate lyrics like 'nature's body lotion'"

looking thru craigslist all the time, all the decent apts seem to be in or close to Harlem...I sooo don't want to live anywhere near harlem. anyone moving out of the city or know of anyone moving out whose apt wil now be available for rent..moderatley priced(under 1200/month)no brokers, no basement apts...north of houston, south of harlem, and not on the UES???? not looking for roommates either

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Changes to User Subdomains
Starting tonight, you can now reach your journal and community at a new, shorter user subdomain. No action is needed on your part.

All journals will now be located at http://username.livejournal.com. All communities will now be located at http://community.livejournal.com/username.

• Subdomains were one of the handier perks of a paid account, I think.
• The extra voice posts being given to paid users to offset the domain thing are of no use to me (and lots of people outside of the US, or without local voice posting phone numbers).  I don't care about being able to make more S2 styles, either, but I'm probably actually bitter about not knowing how to make them.
• The comments on that post show that as usual, people either loathe or love the change.  I'm a bit more in the middle, though I have taken sides on the many small issues that been raised between this post and the one about the nudge feature, which I hypocritically  used and then proceeded to disable on my account.  The new syndication icon is wrong, I say.
  
• Where is the ability to edit comments, as opposed to deleting and re-posting?  That should have been here ages ago.  If Flickr does it, why can't LJ?  (Maybe I'm naive, but it can't be that hard if you know what you're doing).
• This new subdomain stuff may mess with people who use RSS feeds, even if the old links still work.
• People who rely on the memories feature are right to be unhappy that it doesn't work well.
• For better or worse, I really have become on of those LiveJournal people.  I probably wouldn't go back to my own blog, though we will be using one for the website portion of gimpgirl. It will be a custom thing, however.  No MT or WordPress, so we may not hate it.
• So, I like LJ.  I do hope it doesn't "get all MySpace-y" or "Facebook-ish" as some have complained.  But it's a product, and they have to stay competitive... even if the competition causes eyeballs to bleed.

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Or someone who posts in a language community with dreams of being an interpreter after college.  Talks about Romance languages, gets told that actually there are more than 5 that are in that category... has a "really?  you must be talking about dialects." kind of response.  Also throws into original post a question about a Spanish phrase in a Christina Aguilera song (for chrissakes).  Without much detail given,  and having never heard the song, someone (who happens to be a federally certified English/Spanish interpreter) takes a stab at the unclear song snippet, provides translation as well.  To which original poster is all "I speak Spanish so I didn't need a translation, and that's not what it said but thanks anyway." (That was almost the exact response)

Yeah, they speak Spanish all right.  Except that in posting what they wanted clarified from the song, they wrote "puertoricano" (for Puerto Rican), which the commenter helpfully pointed out, should be puertorriqueño.  But hey, he/she speaks Spanish, so it's all good.

Someone in a book community wanted book recommendations.

I was wondering if you can recommend me any books. Since im really picky, its hard for me to find books. I do ocassionally read books that dont seem to interest me at first but they turn out good. But this week, i want to read a book that I would find really interesting.

. . .

I like books that are realistic, psychological (sometimes), and/or romantic. But im not a big fan of romance novels. I also like historical fiction. Anything really but I dont want a depressing book.

Oh, there was also a happy little "free iPod" post where it didn't belong, and ensuing backlash, and the usual always off-topic posting (no one EVER posts about actual FREE things) in nyc_for_free.

Maybe it's time for me to go to bed, when I am rambling and angry at the internet.