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I’ve dropped back to being a free user. I didn’t notice any real improved performance during my two months as a paid user, even when using the agrumer.livejournal.com URL. (In fact, that URL sometimes failed when the users/agrumer URL worked.) I wasn’t using the polls, and my free user syndication allowance seems more than adequate to what I’m spending it on.

[ buffalo ] I think this means I’m limited to posting some small number of times (three? five?) in a 24-hour period, so I may have to keep an eye on casual posting.

That column-top up there is from the 14th Street station on the PATH, sketched while waiting for a train late Friday night, after watching the Independence Day fireworks on TV in an apartment that had a partial view of the southernmost edge of the real thing. We’d planned to watch from the roof, but the apartment complex security blocked it off.

Today I went out with my family for my grandfather’s birthday. We went to a Brazilian barbecue place, one of those where they bring around freshly grilled meat on skewers and keep bringing it till you tell ’em to stop. It was good, but not as good as I remember it being last time. The stuffed and mounted head of a buffalo, or bison, or something, was hanging over our table, staring down at me the whole time, so I sketched it. Twice, actually, but I didn’t like how the grayscale marker version came out.

Kevin Drum of Calpundit posted about an amusing little difference between the American and British editions of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (minor, shouldn’t be a spoiler, but some of the comments underneath might be), and one of his commentators links to a list of phrases from the book that are somewhat risqué taken out of context. Here’s one from page 9:

He let out a long, slow breath and stared up at the brilliant blue sky. Every day this summer had been the same: the tension, the expectation, the temporary relief, and then mounting tension again...and always, growing more insistent all the time, the question of why nothing had happened yet.

But yeah, you can do this with just about anything.

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