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I was one of the first group of people on LiveJournal, back when it was invite only and you had to get a code from someone, and then I started paying for my account so I could have a lot of icons - that I never actually used because I prefer to be known as me by a standard icon. Now I'm making the transition to DreamWidth and have decided to let my LiveJournal account expire. Today, for the first time, I saw an ad at the bottom of someone's page, and was sort of confused by it. Well, mostly confused because it was so unobtrusive, actually; far less intrusive than FaceBook's ads, which people don't seem to complain about. I find it weird that people get so annoyed by their being ads on unpaid accounts on LJ. Although I know that the ads one gets when one is not a member and wishes to comment are far more annoying, because I've tried to comment on things when I was not logged in. :)
I only made a DW account, originally, because I like to get in early and get my name tied up so nobody else takes it. That's why I have as many accounts as I do, all over the place. I've had a thing about this ever since someone stole my first nick, ages ago, on IRC. IRC had this system where you could log on with someone else's nick, you just got a message, repeatedly, telling you that it was already in use, but she just ignored the message like a stealing bitch. I was forced to make the nick 'derien' and re-contact all my friends, and within a few months she decided she was done with my nick and moved on to another, but she'd already destroyed that identity for me. Eor makes fun of me for having so many different accounts, but maybe he's not as attached to his nick as I am. I thought maybe few people steal his nick, but someone in Australia already took the nick 'Eor' on Blogger. And then that guy only made two posts, the last one six years ago. He used my sweetheart's nick to make two posts and then abandoned it. This makes me really annoyed for my Eor, even though he's probably not annoyed by it. I want our nicks to be representative only of us, everywhere online, and if he'd made a Blogger account before 2005 he could have had that nick. Now there's probably no way I can wrest it from the grip of this person who's no longer even using it. Well, maybe if I offered him some money? They probably aren't even receiving email from that account, anymore. Hm, he's also made more posts under the same nick at Blogspot (I can't tell how Blogger differs from Blogspot, but apparently it does.), but nothing since last year. Should I try to track him down and buy the nick off him?
I really never foresaw DreamWidth taking over from LJ, and I'm still not sure that I do. People complain that LJ is quiet, but DW still seems even more so, to me. Maybe it's just that I haven't signed up to twenty zillion different communities on DW, but the twenty zillion communities don't exist, yet.
It's my weekend, now, and I did finally get a break at work on Thursday afternoon. There's plenty more craziness coming up, so I took the opportunity to roust out some old class materials and shred them, freeing up some space in the cabinet. Shredding is so cathartic. :)
Today I've been reading (short) plays, something I normally don't do, and, completely coincidentally, reading Stephen Fry's stories about writing plays, and re-writing other people's plays and musicals. It's been edifying. We were thinking of inviting people over to read the parts of a play, but I feel that I should try to find something that won't take long and has only four or five characters. I wish I were the sort of person who usually read plays and had a storehouse of thoughts on the matter of plays to draw from in order to find something appropriate, but I'm not - I actually hate reading plays, for the most part. Especially with the older ones they often tell at the outset and closing, and sometimes all through, the feeling that the audience should be feeling. we may be sure that he will soon be bland again. We have a comfortable feeling, you and I, that there is nothing of Harry Sims in us. I understand that they are giving a sort of stage direction "this is what you, the actor, should be striving to get from the audience," but if the play is working I don't think we should need this, or it could be stated differently so that I'm not being given an order to feel a certain way.
Does anyone have any plays they'd like to recommend to me? I mean, that I'm likely to be able to find scripts for.
I only made a DW account, originally, because I like to get in early and get my name tied up so nobody else takes it. That's why I have as many accounts as I do, all over the place. I've had a thing about this ever since someone stole my first nick, ages ago, on IRC. IRC had this system where you could log on with someone else's nick, you just got a message, repeatedly, telling you that it was already in use, but she just ignored the message like a stealing bitch. I was forced to make the nick 'derien' and re-contact all my friends, and within a few months she decided she was done with my nick and moved on to another, but she'd already destroyed that identity for me. Eor makes fun of me for having so many different accounts, but maybe he's not as attached to his nick as I am. I thought maybe few people steal his nick, but someone in Australia already took the nick 'Eor' on Blogger. And then that guy only made two posts, the last one six years ago. He used my sweetheart's nick to make two posts and then abandoned it. This makes me really annoyed for my Eor, even though he's probably not annoyed by it. I want our nicks to be representative only of us, everywhere online, and if he'd made a Blogger account before 2005 he could have had that nick. Now there's probably no way I can wrest it from the grip of this person who's no longer even using it. Well, maybe if I offered him some money? They probably aren't even receiving email from that account, anymore. Hm, he's also made more posts under the same nick at Blogspot (I can't tell how Blogger differs from Blogspot, but apparently it does.), but nothing since last year. Should I try to track him down and buy the nick off him?
I really never foresaw DreamWidth taking over from LJ, and I'm still not sure that I do. People complain that LJ is quiet, but DW still seems even more so, to me. Maybe it's just that I haven't signed up to twenty zillion different communities on DW, but the twenty zillion communities don't exist, yet.
It's my weekend, now, and I did finally get a break at work on Thursday afternoon. There's plenty more craziness coming up, so I took the opportunity to roust out some old class materials and shred them, freeing up some space in the cabinet. Shredding is so cathartic. :)
Today I've been reading (short) plays, something I normally don't do, and, completely coincidentally, reading Stephen Fry's stories about writing plays, and re-writing other people's plays and musicals. It's been edifying. We were thinking of inviting people over to read the parts of a play, but I feel that I should try to find something that won't take long and has only four or five characters. I wish I were the sort of person who usually read plays and had a storehouse of thoughts on the matter of plays to draw from in order to find something appropriate, but I'm not - I actually hate reading plays, for the most part. Especially with the older ones they often tell at the outset and closing, and sometimes all through, the feeling that the audience should be feeling. we may be sure that he will soon be bland again. We have a comfortable feeling, you and I, that there is nothing of Harry Sims in us. I understand that they are giving a sort of stage direction "this is what you, the actor, should be striving to get from the audience," but if the play is working I don't think we should need this, or it could be stated differently so that I'm not being given an order to feel a certain way.
Does anyone have any plays they'd like to recommend to me? I mean, that I'm likely to be able to find scripts for.