...all those wordy entries on your Friends Page will automatically be cut at the 140-character sweet spot.

Hmmm... 140 characters.... where have I heard that before?

Now LJ will look like Twitter, too!

Edit: The link above is dated 3/31 but I'm hoping for April Fools.

After weekly blood draws for five weeks, MD went back to the hematologist ( Read more... )

bibliofile posted a link to a NY Times article on digital intimacy that makes me understand a little more why Twitter is the big thing. It also mentions "parasocial relationships" which I couldn't help but connect up with fandom, e.g. that otaku who wants to marry Mikuru Asahina ( Read more... )

I guess I'm still stuck in the last millenium because I do not get TwitterI can understand voyeuring out on celebrities and why they would twit but I don't understand why regular folks, and by regular folks I mean me, would post their daily minutia and follow other people's ( Read more... )

I bit the bullet and signed up for Facebook this week. I really don't like it. I always have the urge to write something graffiti-esque on the "Wall".

However, I have connected up with one of pilgham's cousins and that's probably a good thing.

( I have cut this merely to maintain the mystery regarding my result on the Super Villain Quiz. No courtesy is implied. )

abraxas_ren introduced me to Topless Robot where I saw the awesomeness that is the Imperial March played on Tesla coils:

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Have I mentioned MD made the dean's list for last fall?

She looked at the letter and said, "They write like it's a good thing?"

With my job, you'd think I know DST started today but I didn't realize it until I logged into a 'puter at work which told me it was 8 when I thought it was 7. On the off chance that box was on ET, checked my own machine. Normally this wouldn't be an issue but it is both laundry day and Anime Shin-Gen day so I'm time boxed ( Read more... )

This year, in my cube, I have up a Naruto Shippuuden, a Bleach and a One Piece calendar. Looking at them, I was struck by how much fun the pirates were having in comparison to the ninjas and the Shinigami. This makes sense. Being a pirate is a selfish profession while nin and shinigami supposedly serve the greater good ( Read more... )