"Fur is already dead and besides / a name like that doesn't make a good acronym"

[larryhammer]

So. The Dreamwidth thing. I have an account, same name as here (ETA: feed). I've dinked a little with the customizing, but haven't starting crossposting. For the moment, I'm using it to read journals of those who are over there, which is nothing new as this is nominally a for-reading journal anyway. If/when it looks like critical mass has moved, maybe then I'll port posts over, but until then I seem to have turned it into a poetry journal by way of keeping it alive. Feel free to follow along or not, as you will.

Which means I'll be passing along links, such as these, here:

• Most of what you know about Columbine shooters is wrong. Starting with they were bullies, not bullied. (via, um ... er ... )
  
  
• Central banks stepping in to rescue commercial banks is an old, old story.
  
  
• Princes Leia as a kokeshi doll.* Also, ninjas. (via)
  
  
• Twenty-five years of Landsat 5 images of the growth of Las Vegas. (via)
  
  
• This year's Lyttle Lytton contest winners are out: "The mighty frigate Indestructible rounded the Horn of Africa and lurched east’ard."
  
  
• Thirteen things that do not make sense. (via)
  
  
• And finally, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in d minor, played on an accordion and simmered in AWESOMESAUCE. (via)

Even more awesomesauce than hearing the piece played on two hammered dulcimers at a Renn Faire.


* We had a traditional kokeshi when I was growing up (not surprising, given we lived in Sendai, which is so central to their production the name comes from Sendai dialect). I wonder what happened to it.

---L.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

You grew up in Sendai?

Your Dreamwidth journal looks wonderful... I didn't understand what you mean by porting; not sure what stuff you intend to send in what direction--selfishly, I'd love to be able to read your poetry here on LJ, but if for organization (or other) purposes you're organizing it so that the poetry stays over there, I can set up an RSS feed. In fact, what the heck; I'll just set that up now....

[larryhammer]

We lived there for a year when I was a wee one.

By "porting", Dreamwidth runs on the same codebase (with tweaks) as LJ, and offers the ability to import everything from an LJ account over to a DW account. They also have a widget that lets you crosspost everything in LJ/DW, and direct which account to point people to comment in. They've also split "friends" into "trusted people" and "people you read," which I've been wanting for AGES.

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I agree with you about the trusted people/people you read thing.

Thanks for the link to your great reminiscences. You and my two older children share the experience of a Japanese preschool, then--well, for them it was a daycare, but very much like a preschool. I was so happy they got to experience that. They used to come home singing "Arukô, arukô"--that song at the beginning of Totoro. And if you were tow-headed, you must have looked like my oldest :-) I imagine you're close to my age, though, so back when you were in Japan, you must have been even more of a novelty than my son was.

[larryhammer]

We were there in 1971-72.

---L.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

twenty years before us, then.