Guardians

"Guardians", Nokia 6600, Boston, 2005

I am really enjoying snapping and sending my dippy little campics this way. I still need to work on framing, though. I feel I am not trying hard enough.

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The appropriateness of leavng comments in blogs has not been settled for me. On the one hand there's the fact that using an open forum on the public Internet can be seen as an agreement to be open to anything, even if you do have the power to delete the comments you do not like. On the other hand, people view their blogs as their living rooms, and my involvement with computing puts a premium on what people actually feel over what the technology affords -- but that really is because of where I am coming from. I have read many viewpoints on this issue, and I respect very many of them, even before it was blogs and still group fora, and I am still dealing with what I am comfortable with. It is all about me, after all, and not all about me is rational.

Whatever I think of other people's living rooms, I really feel it appropriate to comment on them only when they ask for it. Every time I comment in a journal that hasn't friended me, I feel I am transgressing in some way, and I am not always as comfortable transgressing as the mythology around me says I am. I try to keep the transgression positive, but that sometimes stumps me. But friend me and I have no qualms: you signed up for the FJ!! experience after all.

I now have to drop a person who did not sign up for the FJ!! experience, but I signed up for hirs. I find hir work so evocative I constantly want to make comments on it. Commenting is one thing, commenting on art, which people do take personally is another. I feel intrusive every time I do it, whether anyone thinks my interaction is appropriate or not. I am sure s/he would wonder what thell I am on about should s/he see this, but I can't deal with this anxiety. It's got to stop. I need to stop exposing myself to the Big Red Comment Button that hir journal is.

One question, though: am I the only who has started to completly antropomorphisize that chair? Now that it has started watching pictures of itself, I expect it to turn around and start waving at us. I've got to stop watching Miyzaki movies.

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Ok people, there is an issue with the code generated by the friends pairs meme. It seems to be a malformed closing </select> tag, that instead is written out as &lt;select&gt;. If you must do this meme, fix it, or put it behind a cut.

BTW, my best matched pair was rscjwg. Yeah, I am shocked too.