5 of 30 - I'm a Luddite

[aggienaut]

   I am way behind in my mission to post 30 posts by the end of this month, but I'm confident I'll have much more time to flood your friends lists now than I did while in Davis. I think I'll try to put a lot of them behind lj-cuts to minimize the wrath of shid et al.


Final Days in Davis
   Thursday night while hanging out at a low-key party at Sashie's place (though Sashie never showed up ::Shakes fist::) Kristy found a recipe for Shrimp Scampy on the refridgerator, and we immediately resolved to make it the next day.
   So Friday night we made us a fancy dinner (hey, I chopped some basil) and settled down to watched Pulp Fiction which neither of us had previously seen in its entirety, only... I don't know how to work my TV.
   When I say I don't watch TV you see, I am not kidding. I really haven't the slightest idea how to work the thing. After more than an hour of trying to make it work, I finally had to go downstairs and ask fr3ethinker if he could make it work. He came to our rescue but it seems the thing really was malfunctioning to some degree. We were forced to eat our cheesecake without the movie.

   Just when we had completely given up and resigned ourselves to an evening of tic-tac-toe¹, who should come to our rescue but fr3ethinker again, this time with his magic DVD playing laptop for our movie viewing pleasure.

   In conclusion, (A) I am a ludite who lives in a cave, and (B) everyone should live upstairs from another livejournal user.


   Amtrak report will be out shortly.


Poll of the Day
[Poll #310551]


Livejournal Declared Goal # 17:² I decided its not enough to get comments, I want my commentees to respond to EACHOTHERS comments. Currently plotting on ways to do this. Any suggustions? You know what would really help? If you just DID it. Thats your homework, respond to someone else's comment in one of my entries. (=


Related
   Year Ago Today: On My Roommates (and STILL stuck in Davis much to my dismay)


¹not really
²a randomly chosen number

Comments

[ms-mixtape.livejournal.com]

you're such a comment whore. and, well, i can't help but indulge you.
*comments*

[mister-spooky.livejournal.com]

HaHA, my homework to comment is good! Because I comment to Cayte!

I loves my Caytesybug and I loves my Krissypoo. (The question now is: Am I say I love "Kristy", with no T and a poo, or Kris, with a sypoo? No one will ever know, because I don't either.)

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[ms-mixtape.livejournal.com]

and now i do my homework, too! i love gabi she is like the coolest gabi i've ever met. it's like you wouldn't believe. and kris i don't know so well but i think i am going to lovelovelove. yes.that is all.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Damn you two. ::Shakes fist:: (=

[citizene.livejournal.com]

The best way to get people to comment on each other's entries is to attract insane people. One person writes a completely crackpot comment, another person calls them on it, other people (sane or no) chime in with their own two cents.

Problem — this happens a lot when:
1) You post an entry about something on the national level, something that people have already been bugging each other for days weeks or more, and then a few stray cats come in and say things that we've already heard, and for which we already have a rebuttal-in-a-bottle. Lame — nothing new comes out of this.
2) You write about a third party who might actually come across your entry. Unless you're magically lucky, that third party will probably take your entry personally, take offense, and take the initiative in heckling you and anyone who defends you...forever. Sometimes you get lucky and the person is not insane and does not slay you with his fist, but then sometimes...you get teh flame war.

[emosnail.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I don't want to get a pile of flamers in here though like its ucdavis or something...

The successful paradigm I'm thinking of is the lj of incomple and the other "megabloggers," they all have extensive conversations in eachothers livejournals, I'm jealous )=

[incomple.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a good way to indicate that you have a successful post, if its subject is enough to get people talking and the comments are able to build on what the original post had stated. More often than not, I think the comments are the best part of LiveJournal.