Appease my curiosity, would you?

[featherynscale]

[Poll #928069]

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[liquidfun.livejournal.com]

Metajournaling ... journaling about journaling. Yay!

I know I suppress a lot of stuff that I know nobody, not even me, will want to read about ever again, but at that particular moment has me bouncing with excitement. From today:

• K took me out for lunch, broccoli cheddar soup in a bread bowl!


• Handing on my wall at the office is the most overstable disc golf driver produced by Innova, the VIPER. I love this disc, using it I can make a 90 degree bend around the grove of trees on hole 9 at Rosedale to birdie the hole almost every time.


• Co-worker D has one of those above-the-butt tattoos ... I didn't know that!


• Hobbit called me on my cel, when I answered, he told me he was going to call me right back, but I shouldn't answer this time ... WTF?


• Is Pamela Jones a real person, or fictitious? She seems awfully prolific for just one person, how does she find the time to write all those articles and still have a source of income? Still, I admire the work she does, it's been very educational.

See? Not post-worthy at all, but if I didn't filter there'd be a new bit of drivel every half hour or so.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I tend to post more of that sort of thing than I ought to, actually. I try to keep to some sort of standard of relevance, below which I will refrain from posting, but sometimes I fail at that. I tend to get enthralled with things that are of no consequence.

So I am the sort of person who posts one out of every three or four posts I start. And I still manage to post almost every day. The possibility of what this journal would look like if I posted everything I thought about posting is... alarming.

Also, who is Pamela Jones?

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

I'll often go in and edit my posts after I make them, whether they're public or not. And, if I've written something awful that I later regret, I don't delete it. I make it private, so that I will not forget. I think my LJ boils down to something like 1/3 public, 1/3 private, and 1/3 highly filtered or directed.

[liquidfun.livejournal.com]

Pamela Jones is the chief source of material at Groklaw relating to the SCO vs IBM case claiming that Linux contains Intellectual Property belonging to SCO. She publishes articles detailing her interpretations of nearly every event of note in the case. The service has provided many a geek a lot of insight into what the legal briefs and court statements are actually saying.

SCO has recently tried to subpoena her, only to find her apartment empty and a statement in her blog saying she is going on hiatus for health reasons. There is some scuttlebutt that she may be a paid shill for IBM.

[zylch.livejournal.com]

Occassionally I'll start a post and not finish, mostly because I get distracted by something shiny. I may or may not decide to continue a post if it shows up on the auto-save. I have been known to wait on writing a post with the purpose of getting maximum audience (eg, if I have a question I'll tend to post it in the evening here so people in the States will see it during their work day, when they're more likely to be online than in their evening).

I don't delete old posts, mostly because I forget they're there. And if I've said something awful, chances are that the damage is done.

As for private posts, ehn, that's what I have pen and paper and a personal computer file for. If it's on the internet, it can be hacked, and if I don't want anyone seeing it, it's not going up. Yeah, I'm paranoid.

[fionnabhar.livejournal.com]

You don't have a question for the number of times you edit a post after you've hit send. That would be about 10-12 for me.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I wrote that question, but then I deleted it. :-P
I figured most of us didn't want to count that high.

[chronarchy.livejournal.com]

Everything I write is for my eyes. I can't help that I'm surrounded by narcissistic voyeurs. :)

PJ

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

She posts on a lot more than SCO vs IBM, and was doing it before SCO went on their rampage. So the idea that she's an IBM shill is laughable to me.

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

I'll often go in and edit my posts after I make them, whether they're public or not. And, if I've written something awful that I later regret, I don't delete it. I make it private, so that I will not forget.

Same here, though I haven't yet felt the need to completely privatize anything. Sometimes put something on a more restrictive filter though.

I also contemplate writing a lot more than I actually start to write. If I start to write something, I'll probably finish it (with a noteworthy exception from October still waiting for me to finish), and if I finish it I'm posting it.

This sometimes cuts me off from the world for hours, while I write something (complete with full referencing links!) that nobody else may care about.

[agrnmn.livejournal.com]

I compose posts all day long and then forget them before I get home or get time at a computer (Can't post from either work though). sort of like dreaming for me.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Speaking of narcissistic voyeurism, is that you in the icon? And are you gilded?

postly

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

There are a number of posts that never make it out of my brain. Both because I don't want to commit them and because I never get around to it. I've got ideas for posts floating around as well that will likely never write.

Re: PJ

[liquidfun.livejournal.com]

Maybe PJ would have been worthy of a post! It seems it might have generated some interesting discussion ...

Shy person who shuns interviews and avoids reporters, or not a real person at all ... no good article, but this has come up before.

I'm without a strong opinion either way, myself.

PJ responds to e-mails, with a potent sense of ethics (chastises people for pulling petty stunts for their own ends). On the other hand, reporters have had a heck of a time trying to get interviews.

Best guess? Shy paralegal-trained person with ethics? Probably.

It'll be interesting to see if SCO can find her to serve her with a subpoena, but I hope they don't. I've been dealing with a different tech court case for a year now in which I have to give depositions about once every three months, and it is annoying as all hell.