sheldrake

So, I did the LJ strike, did you notice? It was partly just to see how staying away from LJ for 24 hours would affect my astounding lack of productivity. Turns out... not so much. I just hung out on the rest of the internets instead.

Then I tried to buy tickets to see Simon Amstell, but it's already sold out, which is sad. :(

I have done some knitting, though.

Dont you wish I'd stayed away longer?

ETA: Also listened to Tariq Ali on Desert Island Discs. Also watched the Paul O'Grady Show!? Life without LJ... it's weird.

So I've been seeing various reports that LJ is censoring various search terms from the 'most popular interests page', including the following: Sex, Boys, Guys, Girls, Fanfiction, Yaoi, Hardcore, Porn, Bondage, Faeries, Pain, Depression, and Bisexuality.

Obviously this, if true, is a valid cause for concern -- particularly for someone who writes Christopher Biggins slash. It's also pretty damn weird, if you ask me, but then I write Christopher Biggins slash, so it's probably best you don't ask me. So, anyway, I just went and looked at the most popular interests page to check it out. But all those search terms appear now to be included.

Were they gone at some point? Did they get put back? Or am I missing something (always a distinct possibility!)

Anyway, I just thought peeps might like to know, as I haven't seen this particular development (if it is a development) mentioned anywhere else yet.

Reply to your comments promptly, young lady, lest they grow cold and past their sell-by-date, and thence become unreplyable-to.

OH GOD WHY IS IS SUNDAY EVENING?

So, yeah. I was under the impression that I'd been answering all these nice comments that people keep leaving me. I've just realised that I was only doing that IN MY BRAIN.

Sorry. I will, um, try and get onto that.

justeeyore, I am watching Springwatch - they just mentioned the Shelduck family! And, er, cannibalism. And tragedy. Hm.

LJ YOU UTTER ARSE!

Stop it.

Well, after whining that I had nothing to say yesterday, today I've got lots!

1. No breakfast again.

2. I am quite annoyed. Semagic refuses to work on this computer. No matter how many times I uninstall/reinstall/re-download etc, it WILL NOT WORK. So I'm posting this from LJ itself, which feels all weird and I don't like it.

3. One of the things I need to do is focus and stop faffing around constantly. The other day I thought I'd like to decide on something to knit, so I got all my stash out and spent an entire evening picking up balls of yarn and going, 'This is a ball of wool. It is blue.' And then I put them all away again.

4. The retired editor of the magazine I work for writes a column of confused ramblings and rantings for us every month. He likes to stick a joke at the end, under the heading 'And finally...' Many of the jokes are at the expense of John Prescott, with whom retired-Ed. is apparently slightly obsessed. I took one and rewrote it to see whether it could be made funny, or failing that, just odd.

( The original joke )


( My version )

I love this community - found thanks to blythely!

day_on_earth

curiousworld or whatever yer name is now - you'd like this, I think.

I feel as though I've been driving around LJ, randomly dropping comments on people and then driving off again. Only not driving, because I still can't drive properly, even though I've been learning for sixty million years. So, basically getting the bus around LJ, dropping comments on people, and then waiting at the bus-stop for 15 to 20 minutes for the next bus, getting on and trying not to sit next to a weirdo doing furtive things and talking to himself.

So yeah, I do that, but then I don't post in my own journal so people can come along and randomly drop comments on me. So that's what I'm doing. Only I haven't got anything to say. But maybe you'll talk to me anyway, because you like me? Come on, humour me, willya?

I watched an episode of Star Trek today. It was very gripping, although counselling for victims of sexual assault on the Enterprise leaves something to be desired, I feel. But Kirk discovered lots about himself, so that's ok. And there was a very funny dog thing with antennae.

And if that's not enough, here are some incredibly bad pictures I took with my phone at work!

( my tardis )

( my other tardis )

( my smiley face and womble that isn't really a womble )

( my knights )

( my weapons of power )

( the kitten who controls everything )

Sorry I haven't posted for so long. Sometimes I think of things to say, but then I realise that these things are not very interesting, after all. Sometimes I think of things to say, but then I realise that, to say what I want to say properly, I need to do lots of finding and copying and pasting and linking, and then it's bedtime, and stuff.

So instead, I've been lurking, and reading, and occasionally commenting. I shall now commence to ramble.

( Musical musings )

( Musical rantings )

( Musical demandings )

( Musical memeings )

Oh yeah, and I meant to announce the fact that my website has upped and moved. It is now here:
www.tadorna.net
Please to be updating of your links and bookmarks if you so desire.

I will now go away and be quiet.

almostnever has declared today "comment to everyone on your friendslist" day. I like this idea, but I am a bit crap, so will probably be doing it very badly and sporadically, I expect. An opportunity to give those friendslist neighbours of yours a cheery wave on your way to the next injection of pornographic literature.

(I put the porn bit in because I felt it was all going a bit Waltons. Please forgive me -- I've not had enough sleep this week.)

Um. Yes. Where am I again?

Doctor Who is on tomorrow, you know.