Jan. 6th, 2008

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[livejournal.com profile] frankie_ecap brought my attention to this earlier today, but that is only because she spends all day on the internet whilst I only log on when I have something to do and I never procrastinate (no sir!) and of course I am highly organised and ...

Anyhow, on Chris Dillow's blog today he makes the following observation:

Traditionally, mankind's self-image has been that we are an intelligent species. This has always been a delusion; if we're so smart, how come we go out to work all hours whilst cats lounge around the house?


This made me smile a lot.
rhythmaning: (cat)
[livejournal.com profile] frankie_ecap brought my attention to this earlier today, but that is only because she spends all day on the internet whilst I only log on when I have something to do and I never procrastinate (no sir!) and of course I am highly organised and ...

Anyhow, on Chris Dillow's blog today he makes the following observation:

Traditionally, mankind's self-image has been that we are an intelligent species. This has always been a delusion; if we're so smart, how come we go out to work all hours whilst cats lounge around the house?


This made me smile a lot.
rhythmaning: (on the beat)
It seems like I haven’t written a post for quite a while, and I haven’t – three weeks or so.

I had a very good Christmas and New Year, and I spent the time in England – in London, Oxford and Somerset, catching up with friends, being (moderately) sociable, and, of course, eating and drinking a lot.

There have been lots of memes going around about reviews of the last year, New Year’s resolutions and so on, and I haven’t done any of them. I really don’t do New Year’s resolutions – I think the dark, damp months of January and February is really no time to set about changing one’s life, and if I thought it needed changing I would (I hope) already have done it.

There was one question on some such meme that did interest me – something like “which LJ people did you meet in real life?”

I seem to have met a lot of people I knew first through LJ in the last year – roughly in order:

[livejournal.com profile] white_hart, [livejournal.com profile] blonde222, [livejournal.com profile] coughingbear, [livejournal.com profile] ankaret, [livejournal.com profile] liadnan, [livejournal.com profile] pashazade, [livejournal.com profile] fiendish_cat, [livejournal.com profile] topicaltim, [livejournal.com profile] unblinkered, [livejournal.com profile] da_lj and [livejournal.com profile] melted_snowball.
rhythmaning: (on the beat)
It seems like I haven’t written a post for quite a while, and I haven’t – three weeks or so.

I had a very good Christmas and New Year, and I spent the time in England – in London, Oxford and Somerset, catching up with friends, being (moderately) sociable, and, of course, eating and drinking a lot.

There have been lots of memes going around about reviews of the last year, New Year’s resolutions and so on, and I haven’t done any of them. I really don’t do New Year’s resolutions – I think the dark, damp months of January and February is really no time to set about changing one’s life, and if I thought it needed changing I would (I hope) already have done it.

There was one question on some such meme that did interest me – something like “which LJ people did you meet in real life?”

I seem to have met a lot of people I knew first through LJ in the last year – roughly in order:

[livejournal.com profile] white_hart, [livejournal.com profile] blonde222, [livejournal.com profile] coughingbear, [livejournal.com profile] ankaret, [livejournal.com profile] liadnan, [livejournal.com profile] pashazade, [livejournal.com profile] fiendish_cat, [livejournal.com profile] topicaltim, [livejournal.com profile] unblinkered, [livejournal.com profile] da_lj and [livejournal.com profile] melted_snowball.
rhythmaning: (Armed Forces)
As well as LJ, I also have a page on Facebook – as you may remember, since I have posted before about how Facebook doesn’t actually make much sense to me – I get a lot of value from LJ, and derive hardly any from Facebook. Clearly, a lot of people do get a lot from it (not least the founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who is now a multi-millionaire).

A lot of people I know are on Facebook – lots of members of my family, even. But it still doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. I simply don’t get it.

I logged on to Facebook this afternoon, and there was something sitting in my inbox: a communication from a long ex girlfriend. One of my earliest girlfriends – someone I haven’t heard from in probably twenty five years, maybe more (though I did see her recently: she was on Dragons’ Den a while back; I wrote a short post about that, but I can’t find it now. I really must remember to tag my posts… Edit: That post is here - found by [livejournal.com profile] franki_ecap!).

I feel rather uncomfortable about this, although it is hard to see why. It was a simple communication – “it is you isn't it?” (of course the answer is yes; it couldn’t possibly be no; and given that people tell me I have hardly changed since I was a student, she could see that anyhow). I really don’t know if I want to get in touch or not – she didn’t send a friends request or anything (indeed, there is no need to respond at all).

I had a look through her friends list – in Facebook, people use their real names, so I wanted to see who else I knew from my teenage years was around. It was strange – I could build a picture of her life: family, children, relationships and so on. (Curiously, she hadn’t picked up on a couple of friends of mine who are on Facebook.)

I don’t think I will get in touch: there is a reason we haven’t kept in touch (I am sure there are lots of ways we could have if we had wanted to).
rhythmaning: (Armed Forces)
As well as LJ, I also have a page on Facebook – as you may remember, since I have posted before about how Facebook doesn’t actually make much sense to me – I get a lot of value from LJ, and derive hardly any from Facebook. Clearly, a lot of people do get a lot from it (not least the founder, Mark Zuckerberg, who is now a multi-millionaire).

A lot of people I know are on Facebook – lots of members of my family, even. But it still doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. I simply don’t get it.

I logged on to Facebook this afternoon, and there was something sitting in my inbox: a communication from a long ex girlfriend. One of my earliest girlfriends – someone I haven’t heard from in probably twenty five years, maybe more (though I did see her recently: she was on Dragons’ Den a while back; I wrote a short post about that, but I can’t find it now. I really must remember to tag my posts… Edit: That post is here - found by [livejournal.com profile] franki_ecap!).

I feel rather uncomfortable about this, although it is hard to see why. It was a simple communication – “it is you isn't it?” (of course the answer is yes; it couldn’t possibly be no; and given that people tell me I have hardly changed since I was a student, she could see that anyhow). I really don’t know if I want to get in touch or not – she didn’t send a friends request or anything (indeed, there is no need to respond at all).

I had a look through her friends list – in Facebook, people use their real names, so I wanted to see who else I knew from my teenage years was around. It was strange – I could build a picture of her life: family, children, relationships and so on. (Curiously, she hadn’t picked up on a couple of friends of mine who are on Facebook.)

I don’t think I will get in touch: there is a reason we haven’t kept in touch (I am sure there are lots of ways we could have if we had wanted to).
rhythmaning: (Armed Forces)
Stolen from [livejournal.com profile] psychochicken... How my views relate to contenders for US presidency:

85% Barack Obama
82% Dennis Kucinich
81% Mike Gravel
80% John Edwards
80% Chris Dodd
80% Bill Richardson
79% Hillary Clinton
77% Joe Biden
42% Rudy Giuliani
36% John McCain
30% Ron Paul
30% Mitt Romney
27% Mike Huckabee
22% Tom Tancredo
17% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
rhythmaning: (Armed Forces)
Stolen from [livejournal.com profile] psychochicken... How my views relate to contenders for US presidency:

85% Barack Obama
82% Dennis Kucinich
81% Mike Gravel
80% John Edwards
80% Chris Dodd
80% Bill Richardson
79% Hillary Clinton
77% Joe Biden
42% Rudy Giuliani
36% John McCain
30% Ron Paul
30% Mitt Romney
27% Mike Huckabee
22% Tom Tancredo
17% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
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In general, I am not one for acquiring things (possibly because I have all the things I think I need), but over the past month I have acquired a couple of new pieces of technology kit.

More details... Plus a request for assistance from any technologically adept readers out there! )
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In general, I am not one for acquiring things (possibly because I have all the things I think I need), but over the past month I have acquired a couple of new pieces of technology kit.

More details... Plus a request for assistance from any technologically adept readers out there! )

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