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How can you be in two places at once
when you're not anywhere at all?
I dunno. I put jokes and memes on FB. I put my pictures on Tumblr and DeviantArt. I don't really post new content on Reddit, I just comment on other peoples' stuff.
What to do with LJ? Everyone who's connected to me here is connected to me in at least one of those platforms, so it's a dumb idea to post My Secret ( Read more... ) -
About what I thought.
So, what does LJ offer that I don't already do on FB, Tumblr, and Reddit? I can't offhand think of anyone here who I'm not seeing on one or more of those platforms. What do you do to make this worth using?
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One ping, Vasily.
After a long, long time, got the LJ password reset to work. Bojemoi.
Anybody still here?
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Backstage
Spending the long weekend working backstage at the Dickens Christmas Fair. And by 'working', I mean 'taking pictures of new costumes and doorwarding the Costume Shop ( Read more... ) -
breaking even is better than breaking bad or breaking wind
We got the check from the insurance company for the car that got totaled August 2012, when a real estate agent on her way to a deal pushed my son off the road (with my wife and her two-months-out-of-surgery ankle in the passenger seat). Two and a half years of the agents for four different companies playing circle jerk, and we got $616 for the car ( Read more... ) -
Why I Am Not In Mourning For Leonard Nimoy.
The truth: I did all my grieving for Spock when 'Wrath of Khan' came out ( Read more... ) -
Useful Lies
A lie can be a short-term way of handling the world until you're ready to deal with the truth. "F*ck it all, I don't care any more" is just such a lie. You care, you know you care, and you know that lying about it isn't going to work very long. But the utility of the lie is that maybe it will let you keep going until you are ready to deal with ( Read more... ) -
It's a larger world now
I have just come to grips with how little-experienced I am, even after this many decades.
I have been to many hotels, and all of them provided soap and shampoo. Most of them had conditioner, too. Some of them had lotion or scent.
I have never before been to a hotel where you got a complimentary tube of Vaseline.
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working vacation or something
The Office has decided that all of us sysadmins need training in a vendor product that is used on systems that maybe three of us ever touch. The overt theory is that since we carry the on-call phone on rotation, the affected servers may go down when one of us ignorant ones is responsible, and the mail will not go through. The conspiracy theory is ( Read more... )