Archive for June, 2003


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I had been wanting to do this little status crawl thing for a while. Statistics are mostly accurate as of 10:45 am (PST) today.

The damage: is the total number of posts made through LJ
1st degree is me
2nd degree are Journals that I sponsored.

My Personal Damage…

Had evening tea (of my own making) at shaktiqueen & giaxcomo‘ s place last night. shimmeringjemmy and I got there at about 8pm while they were in the nightly ritual of trying to settle in the Pook for bed. Meanwhile, I was trying to coordinate future plans with schnookiemuffin via the ever geeky t-mobile sidekick. I have since my last visit to casadeclover decided to merely revel in my geekdom.

Sadly, the sidekick, which I’d forgotten to charge the previous night, died (amidst a horrible groaning sound) mid conversation.

Yummy carrot cake was served and we had many pleasant conversations. I was ‘virtually’ introduced to ame_chan who is a tea maven and as J tells me, will “spank my ass” when it comes to tea. Ironically, as if by invocational magick, the second that I typed her user name into my journal posting program, she messaged me my first hello.

(I do believe in magick! I do believe in magick)

The first conversation has already become tea geeking on a level that would make Trekkies run and hide.

Conversation 1 underway… evaluation… “Yes P! I like her.” 😉

A quiet evening followed by Heather and I going home and looking over Pandemonium pictures (which shall be posted soon). More later!

Shameless self-plug

For those who’ve been wondering why my life has been a living hell the last month (and those who haven’t)

I can officially say that we release this month!

Now I can stop being on call on weekends and holidays.

This past Friday I made a post about the geek test. The wonderful tydestra who I had the privilege of meeting on an 80’s web site and have since summarily addicted to LiveJournal (83ypfaaajmxg) left me a comment about an ongoing debate that she’d eventually been pulled into (sadly partially by a troll) about whether Wicca was a viable religion.

I found myself curious about the debate that had spurred this thread. I read it and this morning began typing my response. Sadly, due to the limitations of LiveJournal’s commenting system, I was greeted with the ever annoying: Sorry, but your comment of 8263 characters exceeds the maximum character length of 4300. Please go back, shorten it, and try posting it again.(Since then, through refinement and editing I have added some 400 characters and 80 words. Thank you shimmeringjemmy!)

So, I will leave you to read the debate entry that was made if it is up to you. I will wonder if the simple statement of the above will lead the questioner back to this journal to see my response… Personally, the below is just my response in answer to their comments… I really haven’t stated my personal opinion on the topic one way or another…

Ah, an exercise in attempting to not let one’s opinion cloud the logical analysis of someone else’s opinion.

My response to the debate topic (8674 char, 1500 words)