The strange state of LJ...

[fajrdrako]

This wonderful post by thefourthvine, mentioned by beck_liz, clarifies a lot.

I'm not sure whether I'm relieved or befuddled.

Maybe both.

Comments

[tavella.livejournal.com]

There's no link to the post?

[trialia]

I noticed that. I'd assume it's the top post on thefourthvine's journal, which looks pretty cool...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, it was. http://thefourthvine.livejournal.com/103444.html

...Haven't we all wondered, from time to time, 'where is everyone today'? The moments when you're bored, and there seems to be no one to talk to? Days when everyone in our fandoms seems to have gone fishing, gone AWOL, gone away?

[trialia]

Yep! All the time, sigh. Like the day I posted my one and only Vorkosiverse drabble and you didn't comment ;)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

You did? And I didn't? I must have missed it... Hold on while I toddle over to your LJ and try to find it.

[beck-liz.livejournal.com]

It is the top post, like trialia said. Here: http://thefourthvine.livejournal.com/103444.html?style=mine

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Thanks for adding the link I omitted!

...That's a really nice icon.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Oops, sorry, I thought her name would be enough for the link. Here it is:
http://thefourthvine.livejournal.com/103444.html

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

Been busy, moving, settling in, trying to sell old house. Mark most of LMB read unjustifiably. But I have appreciated your April poems (April is almost gone :<( ) And your Buffy posts. Haven't watched any, mind you, but I have good intentions there, too. And your Potts pictures. Glad to see him and you. Actually listened to the performance, after reading your post.

So - just a quick post to let you know that your posts are very much appreciated, and I apologize for not saying so more regularly.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Aww, bless you. I really wasn't complaining about lack of comments, but I do always enjoy hearing from you. And everyone. My flist is comprised of some incredibly interesting people and I always want to hear more from and about them - not to mention the back-and-forth of comments.

But it's hard to keep up with everything and everyone, and fate keeps interfering my making other things happen.

I'm overdue on another Buffy post. "Maybe today", I keep thinking, but then don't find time. Maybe tomorrow.

One more April poem to do - and I've no idea yet what it will be.

I think Paul Potts is amazing. And heartening.

And.. *hugs*... thanks for commenting!

[walkingowl.livejournal.com]

I love that someone took the time to write something like that. I love LJ people.

And what she says about the Captcha is true. I have trouble with half of those that I have to decipher. It's just a visual thing. (Read the USA Today story this past week about the Russian hacker websites that advertise for people to sit at keyboards and type the Captchas so they can then use them to create fake social-networking-site profiles so as to launch all sorts of captialistic stuff? These typists get paid half a cent a Captcha, and do it for eight hours at a stretch. I was boggled.)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I love that someone took the time to write something like that. I love LJ people.<./i>

Me too. And I'm sure everyone with a large friendslist wonders this from time to time: the "where is everyone today?" bafflement.

Then there's another phenomenon: I slave over an in-depth post and no one has anything to say. I toss off a random inconsequential comment and everyone has a reply. Such is life.

Capcha is a real pain. I suspect aliens would have less trouble with it than I do.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Heh, perfect.

[benet.livejournal.com]

Oh man..

"5% of the people who read you are still pissed off about the comment you didn't reply to. You know the one."

This is a morbid fear of mine, actually.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

LOL - yup, you just never know what evil lurks.... I once learned that an acquaintance of mine held a grudge for eight years because I'd once asked her to leave her coat on my bed at a party I held, rather than hanging it in my closet. I had no idea.

And especially in print, people sometimes... misinterpret.

It's just one of those hazards.