Some of them are subdomains of other sites and others have their own domains.

Well it is indeed a pain in the ass to publish outside of one's main domain and yet remember every minute detail of the history of various blogs going back almost 8 years now.

That's what part of my trouble was.

If I had started from a blank slate, with no content, it'd be easy. However, because there's so much historical baggage in content and permissions and restrictions, things are bound to get f'd up.

And that's exactly what's been happening.

Now, with this issue resolved, I can go about redoing Plastic Crack.

It'll take a while for me to reimplement my TF-based theme and I'll have to use a shitty default for a bit but there's a lot to be improved with upgrading.

Livejournal users and Open ID users will automatically authenticate if they so choose. Commenters can actually register interally at the site to comment.

And... the best part... in preparation for the eventual sell off of crack... I can convert the my collection data pages to ones that can be commented on!

So. Things'll be a bit fugly here for a bit.

But the infrastructure benefits? Oh la la!

The geek in me really wants to see and really wants to like that Jumper movie.

However, the geek in me also knows it will suck horrible balls of nastiness.

Versions previous to 4 were fairly understandable, especially if you had basic html skills.

This new version?

Ugh... you gotta be a programmer or scripter to understand this shit.

The default templates are now files that just pull in modular code here and there.

This is definitely not the simple system it used to be.

If you don't use their templates than there's a massive learning curve.

And me?

I barely have time for any of that anymore.

Alas, I ended up buying him.

I had two of the Real Gear repaints but put them back. Maybe if I find them on clearance later.

Transformers Movie Stockage is the 2019h Transformer that I've acquired.

Mark? Is it true?

Walking up into the Domicile of Love's attic stairwell...

Sure as hell isn't as awesome as walking up into the Attic of Love's stairwell...

Even back in only 2005.

I liked the way the reissue looked in the package so much that I've never taken him out.

And ya know... after watching the video I'm inclined not to.

Still... life will never be complete without the brick that is Grandus.

(And a Tako Tank!)

Mister H. has a great post about him over at Shadowbot.

So after catching a bit of The Grammy's the other night. I realized that Beyoncé actually has some curves.

Now Howard was complaining that she was fat yesterday and I just couldn't disagree more.

I'm really rather sick of girls and women who seem to want to have the physiques of 11-year-old boys.

I'm finding that the "Golden Age of Hollywood" female form, regardless of how fake and propagandist it is, is really what I find attractive on a woman.

Lauren Bacall had it. Rita Hayworth had it. Betty Grable (above) had it. Ann Miller had it.

Many others had it.

There's some T. There's some A. And quite frankly... it is all woman!

Now I'm not implying there's anything wrong with being skinny or even plump if that's where your body tends to be. I mean, I live my life in a constant battle with the size of my gut and ass!

But the pop culture of the late 1960s gave us the almost emaciated girl as the standard and for 30 years girls and women have been way too heavily influenced by it. (Though Audry Hepburn, while skinny, totally had it in a different way!)

I demand curves on my women dammit!

Though I'd like 'em to be as sultry as Grace Kelly in Rear Window too!

Man did she ooze the sult!

If you're good I'll tell you how this guy just magically appeared in The Domicile of Love the other day.

He's not actually a future resident of the collection.

But this kind of thing has been known to happen before.

Well... it is actually making small modest improvements episode-by-episode.

We finally get some Torchwood history, however minor, and that was a welcome addition.

Surprisingly, I think I would be interested in watching the adventures of the 1918 Torchwood group than the 2008 one. It'd cost a shitload to shoot a period show like that but damn if that wouldn't be the balls over this series!

Of course, this being Torchwood, we had to have a brief quaint face sucking scene between Jack and Ianto.

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Transformers Animated, while extremely well scripted, doesn't really hold much interest for me anymore.

If Megatron isn't making an appearance, or they go the route of human villains, I pretty much lose interest immediately.

All in all, I'm still happy that they haven't focused on Optimus Prime all that much. He's definitely the most boring character on the show.

He's also the toy I like least from what I've seen.

Not surprising though. I've never been that into Convoys and Primes outside of the Car Robots series.

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If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend The Prestige.

Damn that was a good film!

Christopher Nolan is a damn fine director.

The original book's plot sounds a lot different but I think the film works better than what I've read so far.

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Also watched Eddie Izzard's Unrepeatable.

I still wish he did stand up.

Alas, it is not done dirt cheap though.

At least I can be happy that there's no airfare to pay this year.

Look what I found today.

Actual new crack non-repaint crack that I've wanted.

I'm thinking that once the toyroom is remodeled that some of these jets, planes, and helicopter TFs might best be served suspended from the ceiling.

Transformers Movie Incinerator 2018th Transformer that I've acquired.

Hell... a human-sized statue of that would almost make a great centerpiece to the future landscaping of the Domicile of Love's garden.

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In other news, while perusing a bunch of comments that got junked and filtered, I found one stating that "You are all nerds!".

Alas, no. I am no nerd.

I am a geek. That much is certain.

I don't know about the other readers and commenters but I suspect at least 50% of them are geeks with a high, though unknown, probability that there are some nerds in there. Probably some nerd-geeks in there too.

The thing is... how would one really find Plastic Crack and an old entry too boot without looking for something TF geek-related?

I mean, other than the occasional parents that have found the site and have asked me questions on how to find a toy their kid is looking for, it is pretty much a geek jack off fest here and you'd need to be searching the internets for something geek-related to begin with to end up here. No?

Unless you were in fact doing research on cracks in plastic or other PVC materials. I get a lot of that.

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I've noticed I've gotten a lot of traffic from here. I think it is a Portuguese blogger but my Portuguese, like my Spanish, isn't what is used to be 20 years ago.

Then again, throw my Polish, French, and Ancient Greek into that mix as well.

Back in the long long ago I could pass adequately well in several other languages than English. While I was never fluent vocally, especially in Ancient Greek, I could read and write all of them to various degrees.

That lingering knowledge of Spanish and French still pops up at the most odd places too.

I wish I had had others to speak with. It would have made it possible to still be vocally and aurally fluent.

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Some recent search terms that let geeks to this here site?

transformers don figueroa
marvin cobain
jin saotome custom bots
crack de transformers
transformers hentai
micron densetsu

Unfortunately, not a lot of people are searching for "gay robot convention".

Dammit!

Apparently, in his net wanderings, he came across this custom repaint of Classics Jetfire done up as Wing Saber.

Dare I say... nicer than that Botcon repaint last year.

I would so love Hasbro to official introduce Wing Saber, Victory Leo, and Dai Atlas into the new American continuity somehow.

I mean... c'mon!

That shows gonna get imported back into Japan and they loves them more than we do!

Well...

...and tentacled-tongued Megatron look-a-likes non-nom-noming of prepubescent girls.