once a fender, glossy white

[piranha]

copying all my images down from LJ's scrapbook in preparation for transferring them to another photo hosting site, which i haven't decided on yet. now that i am looking closely at scrapbook's organization, that won't be easy nor fun. i also don't see any way right now to mass-edit all the old posts, and i am sure not looking forward to manually doing it with 600+ of them.

we can't import to DW yet from data we've first exported and edited offline, can we? i've not been paying close attention to new features lately, but i didn't think that one is even on the horizon.

oh man, this will suck.

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but it won't suck as hard as the republicans. arseholes are girding up to fuck with gay marriage in new hampshire too now. i am so angry, i am feeling violent. not like i am actually gonna do anything violent, but i am wishing violence on those people. if i were god, i'd be doing some burning bush appearances. maybe also some gentle smiting.

and even vengeful, i'd still be a better god than theirs.

Comments

[jd]

I don't know if you know about this, but there is http://pics.livejournal.com/manage/export, which will give you an XML file of all your SB image URLs/descriptions. Technically the perl client fotoup.pl is supposed to let you use that file to download local copies for backup purposes, but its login method is broken so it doesn't work for protected images. (Someone's hacked together a better login method, but I haven't tested this so I don't know if it works.)

[piranha]

thanks! who knows but it might help with something,

[zarhooie]

There's a way to download all of your images off of Scrapbook and then Flickr's got a really good program to upload things via the drag-and-drop method. That won't help with your old entries, but it will at least make transferring a little easier.

This is assuming that you'll be using Flickr, of course. I <3 Flickr so hard.

[piranha]

yeah, downloading is easy (and done, all automatically), and uploading to most sites is easy too anywhere that has a decent batch uploader. something i care about there is that i can maintain image naming, so i can keep the connection between the old naming (stupid LJ) and the new.

unfortunately it's the changing of the old entries that's the real problem.

i don't know yet if i'll use flickr; right now i am exploring sites i don't know anything about yet, and i am concentrating on photographer sites rather than social ones since i might want to combine this move with setting up something so people can buy prints of my images, because occasionally somebody expresses interest in that.

[zarhooie]

http://www.imagekind.com/flickr/

[gam0ra.blogspot.com]

I just don't get it. I can't understand how these votes are turning out the way they are, so my mind is creating conspiracy theories about it...and knowing that electronic voting devices have code to change the outcome of elections isn't helping at all.

And I don't understand why people aren't using the information that marriage didn't even start off as a religious ceremony until the middle ages. The jackasses keep going on and on about how gay marriage will ruin traditional marriage when traditional marriage they way they mean it hasn't existed for any serious length of time. Even traditional christian marriage as represented in the bible doesn't fit the description they are using. If only logic actually had anything to do with this...

[piranha]

yeah, i used to argue logic and history with those people, and it just does not fly. you can't even make them look at places that have had same-sex marriage for a while, and where it's had no negative effect on hetero marriage at all. they don't care. it's a lie that they have nothing against glbt people; they've just realized outright dissing them gets them nowhere, so now they're claiming the love the sinner, just hate the sin. uh, no. the hatred oozes from their actions.

for a while, i was ok with giving up the term "marriage" -- i mean, fundamentally i am actually against the state being in the marriage business anyway; the state should only be involved in civil contracts. the whole intermingling of religion, emotion, and law makes me deeply uncomfortable.

but by now i am so angry at people who want to deny others the same civil rights they are enjoying that i'm thinking we need to push same-sex marriage hard, or they'll never get it through their thick heads that certain rights need to be for all people. it's become evident that they're really not ok with giving people the same civil rights either, and marriage is at this point the only way same-sex couples can get all the federal rights in one fell swoop.

after it's pushed through, in a couple decades, most people will have forgotten what had them once so het up. maybe before getting to poly marriage we can then change the whole approach, and really get religion out of this -- they can have their own ceremonies and their own rules for who can religiously get married. i honestly don't care. i want them OUT of the law. i don't want them as representatives of the law either. you want to be married for state rights? civil ceremony; and a priest doesn't get to do it.

[flarenut]

Millions upon millions of dollars being spent, religious leaders exhorting people to vote the right way, sometimes less-than-ideal campaigns by the forces of truth and goodness, misleading wording of initiatives... and the worst economic conditions in 75 years, which gets a lot of people vulnerable to manipulation and scared of change, especially things they don't fully understand.