Wednesday morning.

[azurelunatic]

This lawyer is no longer an inhabitant of reality. One way or another, he needs to re-join it or completely get out of it.

Point to rant on somewhat later: LJ is technically a blogging/content site, not a social networking site; this is why people keep wanting to get LJ to implement a remove friends thing and LJ is probably never going to do it. Places like MySpace, which are for saying who your friends are and aren't, have to have things like that. Places like LJ, though they're very similar in a lot of functions, are all about the content, and while it's called "friends", you'd better not think that anyone who wants to read you has to want to be your friend. If they're not compatible with you friend-wise, assume they want to read you, unless they're an obvious troll, in which case you can ban them.

More Duck Penis. Just when you thought the 2001-ish research by McCracken was an old meme, it pops up in the news again. Now with more researchers!

http://www.kiva.org/

http://xkcd.com/c256.html

hcolleen is beating me with a pool noodle because I am plotting.

Comments

[lady-angelina.livejournal.com]

When I first signed onto LJ almost two years ago, I felt somewhat intimidated by the fact that it's unconditionally called "friending." Because of that, I was reluctant for a long time to add people whom I didn't know but whose journals made for interesting reading.

Even today, I'm still edgy about adding peple (even those who already know me and aren't -- hopefully, LOL -- weirded out by me XD), unless I have a way to contact them first to warn them beforehand. ;) I KNOW that's not necessary, but... ^^;;

[azurelunatic]

And you're Support, too!

It would be really nice to switch over to reads/read by. I have no particular attachment to the phrasing "friends", though it's worked its way into the site jargon and would be near-impossible to extract.