Memetics

[pne]

I am not going to ask you three questions, or seven questions, or turn to page twenty-six of whatever book is exactly eight feet away from me. Neither am I going to ask you to ask me questions, or answer questions, or quote from a book, or be interviewed, or automatically generate a post.

Instead, I am going to not hit the "post" button until I have some actual content [or a rant about not having any actual content], rather than brain-destroying fluff that masquerades as "thought provoking" but really is just an easy way to avoid actually doing any work.

Nobody wants to interview you. Nobody cares. This is the Internet. Memes are boring. I am in a profoundly bad mood because every time I see the "new posts" icon flash, my spirits rise and I think "Oooh, something interesting!" but instead it's just that sodding "ask me three questions hurrr hurrr hurrr" crap and it's old and tired and cut it out.

(I bet this will get the flames rolling in. But really now, surely there are more interesting things to put in the "update" box than text you copied and pasted from another person, who copied and pasted it from another person, who copied and pasted from.... etc.)

ganked from subbes

Comments

[timwi.livejournal.com]

"ganked from subbes"

I was just gonna say. This totally isn't your style.

[entirelysonja.livejournal.com]

Hee!

But in all seriousness, how are things with the baby? I can't remember quite how far along things are -- I think things are at the stage where Stella would be feeling the baby move? Are you having fun planning for life with your new addition?

[pne.livejournal.com]

She's five months pregnant now (IIRC) and the due date is 9/11, written American-style (memorable, no?).

And yes, Stella feels the baby move occasionally... at the moment, it's rather annoying since she wants me to feel it but either (a) the baby calms down again by the time I get there or (b) it's too light to feel from the outside.

Stella's been having a blast planning... especially the furniture, since our study will need to become the nursery, so the computer is going into the bedroom, which means we had to chuck out our three wardrobes in order to make space for a new wardrobe and a new desk (which together just fit along the wall, with about two inches left over).

[entirelysonja.livejournal.com]

Wow, that must be so exciting for her, to feel the baby moving! I'm sure you'll be able to feel it in no time!

We've recently been doing some similar rearranging of stuff in our house; we moved the computer to be in a very small room that also houses the digital piano, which required the purchase of shelves to put everything on, and a new flat-panel monitor so the whole thing would actually fit in the new space. So now the old study has had the ceiling repaired, and is mostly finished being repainted; once that's done, we'll be able to move on and repair the ceiling in the small room next to that one. It's all part of a fairly large-scale effort to make more rational use of the space in our house -- we also recently moved the master bedroom into a smaller room, with the idea of turning the old master bedroom into a dressing room/office. Only without the computer, since we moved the computer elsewhere after we made the original plan!

Rationalizing our clothes storage and other random bedroom storage (suitcases, camping equipment, etc.) is going to be the next real challenge.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Ooh, shelves. I think we'll need lots and lots of shelves as well, to get all of our stuff into the area we have :)

[pthalo]

WORD

[bluewingedcat.livejournal.com]

I generally don't post memes unless the content is profound to me/makes for a funny entry. Sometimes, meme's CAN be real content. *shrugs* at least if it's long or stupid size, I cut tag it!

GOOOOO cut tags!

[pne.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I like the odd meme, too, and I agree with the "it can be content", especially if it provides some insight into me.

So the text of this entry is a bit exaggerated, from my point of view, but I can also see some truth in it.

[sphyg.livejournal.com]

*applause*

[joyitude.livejournal.com]

You had me confused too. This really doesn't sound like you, and until I got to the bottom I kept thinking "is he drunk or something? has he been abducted? has his brain exploded?".

Don't get me wrong, I'm getting a little sick of the memes too, it's just that I could not fathom you writing this.

[sjcarpediem.livejournal.com]

What I find utterly amusing is that your protest agaisnt memes is, in-and-of-itself, a meme.

[pne.livejournal.com]

*thinks about it*

Well... I suppose, in a way it is. Though I rather doubt subbes meant it as a meme when she wrote her entry.

But it is a meme in the sense that it's an idea that reproduced, even if that wasn't the original goal.

[sjcarpediem.livejournal.com]

Indeed.

[pauraque]

Ooh! Good one!

...so good that a couple of people didn't get it, I see. Well, I did. :D

[so-haleza-grise.livejournal.com]

That's hilarious :).