links of last week^H^H^H^H month

[baratron]

Meeeep - disturbing flash animation of the month: Friendly Pancake. Click on Cartoons. The first two are just introducing the characters, the third one (Butter Hat) contains actual plot. Stolen from epi_lj.

Seen in my random trawls through fansub groups for Pokemon anime: Learning Japanese is about COOL. Well, duh.

Then, the links to other people's livejournals from several weeks ago that I suspected wouldn't get posted for a while. I was right.

How rosefox uses lj. I mostly agree but wish I didn't! Part of me would really like the ability to write clear, concise, eloquent essay-style journal entries and get billions of readers. But I find it quite difficult to write anything other than random chatty posts, so it would necessitate having two journals, and I already have a second supposedly-coherent journal that never gets updated... hmm. Oh well. On a related theme, how elynne uses livejournal interests - this is pretty much what I do, too.

Other people's random entries can be MY LIFE too.

the_siobhan's amazing true-life stories (note one of the stories in "10 stories in 3 sentances or less (part 2)" is unsuitable for people with squicks about eyes).

adjectivemarcus's helpdesk hell of last week some weeks ago. May amuse and/or frustrate pedants.

Call for submissions for a proposed anthology by, for, and about women with chronic illness(es).

Some complete stranger's apparently true-life story about facing a dissertation committee without any trousers on (makes my viva sound like fun, really!).

Comments

Oops

[nitoda]

I've forgotten how to do that null comment thing ... you know, read your post, heard you, but didn't actually want to verbalise anything at you as a result ... sorry.
HUGS! (only if you want them though)

Re: Oops

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

You can use   by itself in an entry to do a null comment.

My problem is that I can never remember who liked the idea and who didn't, and many people seemed to have strong opinions on the matter one way or the other.

[esbat.livejournal.com]

Having had this journal for over a year now, I seem to have settled into using it for three main purposes: a historical record of the important things that happen in my life and my reaction to it, a therapy tool for putting down thoughts, most of which I mark private, and as a means for socialising and keeping up to date with the opinions and lives of my friends. Sometimes that last reason includes asking for advice on something and it's great being able to easily ask so many people at once. If I had many more people reading my journal than do at the moment, I'm quite sure my candour would suffer and it would become less useful for me. As you say, a lot of your posts of late have been short chatty type ones, but I've read a fair few longer, insightful posts in your journal over the last year. Would you really want to put in the effort to make them all frightfully fascinating just for the sake of having lots of readers? I don't think I would.

[epi-lj.livejournal.com]

You know, I know a few people who write "essay" entries, more like weblogs than journals really, and I find their journals dry. I usually skip their entries. I like reading little, chatty, social slices of people's lives. I like to read people's journals at least in part to get to know them or get to know them better, rather than because I want to be informed, per se. (Which is not to say that I dislike information in journals.)

I love the butter hat cartoon, btw. :)

I'm always amazed that people even read my journal. (While being simultaneously convinced that most people who list me as 'friended' don't actually read it.) I can't imagine any of the content I toss in it being all that interesting. Still, I approach it as a form of chat, almost. I talk about stuff going on, things that popped into my head, and I try to comment on my friends' posts when I have something to say.