Well, it is typical that someone like me who came here by various steps from LiveJournal (and there from KeenSpot) - my account on LiveJournal, a blogging site first, social-networking site second, was set up on December 31, 2001 while I was in the middle of a New Years' Eve get-together with some people from CalvinChat (IRCish but not using IRC software)...
(I really need to write that far less confuzzlingly)
It's typical that my first thought in some situations is "I should blog that". Write in my journal. People do mean different things by this, as has been said so often as not to
need further explanation; I do this both to explain the subject I'm writing about better to myself, and to explain it to several people at once, rather than talk about it to them individually one by one and say the same thing to each in messengers, shouts, e-mails- it's more efficient to give all of them access to a blog in which I say that same thing once. And I am, above all, a lazy bugger- I have Larry Wall's* bit down pat there (it's one of the rules of good programming, laziness is, though there are others listed I haven't mastered. :) )
Hrm. I had a point, I had a point somewhere, to borrow the
SuperGuy writer
ShadowyWriter's phrasing... here point point point, plot want a cracker?...
(And the CalvinChat was the gatheringplace for the SuperGuy writers and their fans, and I recommend reading the SG archives for superhero humor parody, if that's as much up your line as it is up mine; it's very funny stuff. Just a thought.)
Ah yes. Briefly put, hopefully to be expanded on later- I hope so, it's a very brief point to append to a lengthier digression ;^) like that!... - if I've added you to one of my lists, you're most likely to stay on in the long term (assuming you don't decide to drop me, I mean) if we maintain a conversation. Yes, I'm as interested in image, photos, music (I'm obsessed with classical and interested in other kinds), this that other, as the next person somewhat like me... - but if we don't keep in touch with one another once in awhile, then even if we don't "drop from each others' lists" then we've dropped from each others' minds.
I have people I think of as friends I haven't contacted in much too long, and then much too briefly- something I really need to think about; has the nature of our friendship changed, is it a period in my life, am I just a distractable person (well, I know the answer to that one anyway), do I worry that too much contact feels like bludgeoning and badgering (I
know the answer to that one, and doesn't that belong under the autism blog list)...
That starts getting too personal, to the extent that I'm tempted to restrict access to it- there are people who I wouldn't want happening on that, if they have accounts on this site (I don't know if they do) and if they still remember arguments I had with them (years back, which ring painfully in my mind but which I suspect they've forgotten quite entirely)- but I think public is the way to go on this. This is, however, more rumination than anything else- if it feels like whining I really will have to rewrite it, not so much for content as for - connotation I suppose, because that's not the intention.
*More or less the inventor of the computer language PERL, I guess!
