Quick Note to Self

[handful_ofdust]

The fun thing about today's 'Net-enabled hive-mind is that you can use other people's reactions to make decisions like: "Ah, I see that now Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay is out, the Powers That Be have dropped The Hunger Games to ten bucks as a cheap gateway drug. Are the other books worth it, after that? No? Okay: Hunger Games alone it will be."

Because I can easily make that choice, since an open-ended story that doesn't end on a total cliffhanger (Gemma Files, I'm lookin' at you!) allows for me to make up whatever eventual conclusion I want, without having to see the actual conclusion spelled out for me. Sort of like how I can still enjoy The Matrix (or, indeed, The Matrix: Reloaded, if I'm feeling silly).

In other news, I don't much care about the whole LJ/Facebook thing. I messed with my settings some and feel fairly secure, to the extent you can feel secure about anything. Dreamwidth remains not a place I want to frequent. Worst-case scenario, I'll go to Blogger for everything or stop blogging generally, which would probably be best for my output. Yet seems unlikely.;)

Anyhoo. Today the fridge supposedly arrives, so I must run to the CIBC and get a new debit card, because mine has finally worn down to the point where it won't work anymore. This caused much embarrassment at Starbuck's yesterday, a state of affairs I don't feel like repeating.

Comments

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Totally dickish. Yet possibly not eeeevil, as so many seem to be assuming.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yeah, not evil. Annoying, and the comments thing is just dumb (because why would people on other sites want to know your random comments on topics they're not following. Like, look at any one comment from this entry and imagine it going out to someone who hadn't read the entry). But people forget that there are other people on LJ who use and love Facebook--not me, but they exist--who will be glad to be able to post using their Facebook ID and all that. There are more people on LJ than just the writing community.

[intertribal.livejournal.com]

What, you mean, I wouldn't want people on FB to know that "Clearly I'm a Satanist or something"?

:)

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

On the contrary, that's probably the must-publish comment of this entry :D That or that you're a Jadist ;D