| Friend amnesty |
[May. 20th, 2009|08:37 am] |
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| | The Ballet - I'm Not Gonna Tell You Anything | ] |
If anyone would feel more comfortable with my Livejournal off their friends list - whether due to current dramallamas or any other reason - this post is to encourage you to give me the boot, no hard feelings.
I find it slightly odd that permission may be needed to stop reading something one no longer wishes to read, but I understand that it can be a delicate topic for some and the "friends" terminology adds some difficulty to the situation. |
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| Show Me Yr Contact Details |
[Apr. 25th, 2009|12:30 pm] |
Hello, Livejournal!
I am updating my address book (a long-overdue task), and discovering that thanks to a couple of deceased mobile telephones and hard drives I am missing up-to-date details for a great many people.
All comments on this entry are screened, so please comment with any contact details that you would like me to have - phone numbers if you want me to be able to ring/SMS you, email addresses if the possibility of being harangued and/or recommended things intrigues you, postal addresses if you think I could conceivably want to send you some kind of something in the mail from me (Hint: I probably could).
What other things do people have? I do not even know. (Edit: oh yes, instant messaging. I use such things little enough at present that you had better not mind not talking to me if you give me your IM details.)
If you tell me when your birthday is I will even share your contact details with the birthday fairy!
On a tangentially-related note, I would like to mention that despite my general silence on the subject I am still not especially well, which means I am still not usually able to socialise or go on adventures unless I have a nice big chunk of time set aside afterwards for feeling exhausted and ill. I realise that this makes me a poor friend by some measures, and for that I tender my apologies. I hope that after trawling for contact details I can do a better job of staying in touch without running myself into the ground in the process. |
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| An Update |
[Apr. 1st, 2009|09:12 am] |
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For the benefit of those who do not read The Adventures of Chifley, I have moved back to Melbourne. The deliciousness of the tap water here almost makes the emotional difficulty worthwhile.
Also, I am thinking about getting a haircut. |
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| CONTROVERSY |
[Mar. 17th, 2009|02:55 pm] |
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| | GET OFF MY LAND | ] |
Here is what I think about Twitter: I really like it and I enjoy using it!
Here is what I think about people crossposting automatically from Twitter to Livejournal and/or Facebook and/or your face: I HATE IT.
Anyone who cares about what you are writing in different places - like I do - will follow you in those different places. Anyone who is not following you elsewhere probably doesn't care that much about what you are writing there. So by crossposting automatically you are:- Preventing people from opting out of only your uninteresting-to-them, non-LJ content, and
- Punishing interested people like me, who have to see all your output two or three times while other people's unique content gets submerged beneath the flood.
Of course, your argument that goes "it's my Livejournal! I can do what I want with it!" is a valid one. So is my argument that goes like this: "You are destroying the signal to noise ratio of the things I like to read, so I am going to stop reading your stupid Livejournal."
I do not spend much time on LJ these days, and scrolling past pages' worth of Twitter reposts (complete with the @replies I didn't read the first time because I don't care about your half-conversations) is not an enjoyable pastime. For this reason, I have created a default friends list view excluding LJ accounts which consist entirely or primarily of reposted content that I already see elsewhere. My definition of "primarily" may vary over time. Just so you know.
(This rant is also kind of applicable to other crossposting nonsense, like republished blog feeds and whatnot, but this "let's put Twitter all over Livejournal!" thing has really been taking off recently and so that is what is really bugging me. STOP DOING IT.)
Edit: As the owner of a paid account, I hereby offer my syndicated-feed-creation services to anybody who would like to provide a feed of their Twitter activities for LJ that people can opt into. |
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| Post the 2009 |
[Jan. 8th, 2009|08:36 am] |
| [ | hearing |
| | The Mountain Goats - Sept 15th 1983 | ] |
It's 2009. Merry 2009!
Yesterday, thinking that I should really be making an effort to put down some roots in Brisbane (as opposed to floating about and wondering why I still don't feel like I live here), I asked ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) drjon to tell me who I should LJ-friend, "or just make a post telling everyone to friend me!". Of course, the literal implementation of the latter suggestion does not lead to particularly Brisbane-centric results, but who am I to say no to new e-friends?
(It could be suggested that my efforts should extend beyond Livejournal. Fear not, for they shall.)
In other news, I have a new job starting next week. This is quite exciting, as I believe I am now un-sick enough to go there and do work without dying horribly.
And in not really news at all news, this will be the first of not-many livejournal posts for the year. Those of you who wish to read what I blather should friend ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) insomniurss or go to http://insomnius.org/blog and subscribe with your feed readers of choice. Or just bookmark the site if, I don't know, you like clicking on things and then not seeing anything new.
So. How's your 2009 so far? |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 17th, 2008|06:29 pm] |
 Last Tuesday I went to Melbourne Zoo.  I took lots of pictures.  Many more of the pictures are here. (But these three are my favourites.) |
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| Happy |
[Dec. 11th, 2008|12:27 am] |
They say that sometimes the faithful are Touched by the Hand of God.
Well, tonight it happened to me, and the Hand of God clutched me to His Sweaty Shirt while the Mouth of God sang a Nothing Painted Blue song.
And there was me thinking all along that hero-worship was its own reward.
<3!
gea2, I think this means I am winning. |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 19th, 2008|01:36 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | meme | ] |
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| | The Mountain Goats - Game Shows Touch Our Lives | ] |
There was a meme that I fell for the other day. It goes like this:
Comment on this post and I'll give you a band. Don't worry, I'll try to make it one you know and love. You put your ten favourite songs by that band on your LJ and in reply to the comment, challenge others to do the same.
I was given The Mountain Goats by clappamungus (after some initial wrangling), and The Postal Service by vox_diabolica (despite my complaining). I've put my answers over here, but am posting here as well so that the more foolhardy among you can easily request bands of your very own.
In other news, I am getting better (albeit annoyingly slowly). |
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| He was sucking his trousers, and laughing. |
[Aug. 29th, 2008|09:20 pm] |
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I was rickrolled in a record store tonight. |
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| Halp! |
[Aug. 5th, 2008|05:21 pm] |
| [ | hearing |
| | Okkervil River - No Key, No Plan | ] |
Dear Melbourne folks,
lukeii, who is awesome, is in need of some temporary accommodation and his cats are in need of adoptive parents.
If you might be able to help, please go here and help a brother out, as they say.
A thousand blessings* upon you,
insomnius
*Void where prohibited. No rainchecks.
P.S. [17:26:25 ] splatchtrock: Are you pimping Lukeii?
[17:26:28 ] insomnius: Yes. |
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| State of the insomnius |
[Jul. 31st, 2008|03:05 pm] |
Been in Brisbane for a week, not yet stabbed or mouldy or deported back to Melbourne.
Dreadful misunderstandings yet to arise from frequent use of phonetically equivalent names.
Impressed by books and oppressed by daleks.
Still getting used to the lack of familiar place names in the weather forecast (p.s. all maximums in the 7-day forecast >=20°C, ha ha ha) and the impossibility of recruiting from a ready supply of beloved fellow-adventurers for last-minute dumpling conquests.
Taking bad pictures with great glee and giving the least worst to the intertubes.
Observing the approach of the future with interest. |
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| I am just going up north and may be some time. |
[Jul. 23rd, 2008|04:44 pm] |
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| | ADJECTIVES | ] |
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| | The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) | ] |
So, I'm off to Brisbane tomorrow.
It's been a strange old year for me so far, what with getting back into the swing of Melbourne life and then all of a sudden becoming sick and useless and back out of the swing of it again. In a way, having been mostly out of circulation for so long (longer, if you count the time I spent overseas) makes this easier; most of the things I will miss are things that I have already been missing for a while now.
Still not a decision I made lightly. I'm sad and excited and uncertain all at once.
I would like to say thank you to everyone who has visited me or talked to me or sent me amusing messages on the internets or otherwise generally helped me not to feel completely isolated and irrelevant over the last few months. And an especial thank you to those who have made the herculean effort to visit while I have been out in the wilds of Glen Waverley. It all means a lot to me, and I hope that I am not suggesting otherwise by running away now.
And a thunderstruck double especial thank you to everyone who had a hand in the best and most amazing going-away present I could possibly have received. I have had a very very brief experimental play with it, evidence of which is under the cut below, and expect to be using it as much as humanly possible once the current upheaval has settled down a little. So awesome.
( Photatoes! )
I guess that's about all from me for now. Feels like I should be saying something more. Oh well. |
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| Working on my backwards walk. |
[Jul. 10th, 2008|10:05 pm] |
| [ | hearing |
| | The Proclaimers - I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) | ] |
Dear Livejournal (particularly the Melbourne faction),
I am currently in the middle of nowhere Glen Waverley, being mollycoddled staying with family for a bit (in a house with ducted heating ... mmm ...). Despite being several light years from anywhere that is good to go, this is working out pretty well; being sick and pathetic is less of a problem when warmth and food are more readily available than they are in the wilds of Coburg.
HOWEVER, that is not really why I am posting.
I am posting because in a couple of weeks (Thursday after next, in fact), I will be running away to join the circus fleeing the country leaving the state for warmer climes and Awesomeness, so the next couple of weeks are your last chance for a while to bask in my Awesomeness.
I'm in two minds about whether or not to have a Going Away Thing; I don't want to disappear without seeing people, but on the other hand organising a Thing seems like a prohibitively painful and potentially doomed task. So, I don't know.
I present the following poll in an attempt to both disseminate and gather information, without drowning the internet in oceans of awkward prose:
Poll #1220899 The Mysterious Disappearance Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: AllWhatever could be to blame for the impending departure of insomnius? Should insomnius have a Going Away Thing? Did you know that Steamband is awesome?
I think there was something else I was going to say as well, but then I got distracted by reading about thetans on Wikipedia and now I've forgotten.
Anyway, if you have something of mine or I have something of yours, or if you just want to catch up despite my current impediments (sick, far away, mildly obsessed with Steamband), give me a hoy. And if you just want to hurl insults and sharp objects at me, I recommend waiting a couple of weeks first.
Yours in Christ Yrs,
insomnius |
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| And the student was enlightened. |
[Jun. 9th, 2008|08:20 pm] |
So I have a couple of months left until my paid Livejournal account runs out and I recede happily back into the freeloading ranks of those who only use LJ to read their friends lists. I figure I might as well make the most of some of these paid features while I still have them.
(But how on earth am I going to decide which six icons to keep? Erp.)
Here is a poll! Your answers are SECRET so you can divulge SECRETS if you wish. (NB: They will not be secret in the sense that I will not know them, because I will know them. If you divulge them.)
Poll #1201892 The Choose My Own Adventure Poll
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: NoneWhat should I do next? Now you have to stop being indecisive. What should I do next? Tell me something that's made you happy recently. So what's with Scottish indie rock music lately? Is it awesome or what?
The probability of my obeying the will of the masses as expressed in the answers to the first two questions is between 0 and 1.
Edit: Woe, my poll is broken. Stupid Livejournal. Never mind, anyone who is not impossibly silly will be able to work out what I meant. As for the rest of you, well ... sorry. |
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| VERBATIM (well, almost) |
[Jun. 3rd, 2008|04:20 pm] |
Dear internet, I am still sick and it is boring, but I continue to hone my brainwashing techniques on myself and also make plots so it is not too bad.
In an effort to entertain myself (as well as garner some delicious delicious attention), I have stolen the following almost-verbatim from brucenstein and I urge you to respond however you see fit.
I realized that there's a lot of different people that "know" me in a lot of different ways. I figured it'd be interesting to see how those varying notions translate into real-world professions. Hence, I am asking the following question(s) of you guyses.
When insomnius grows up she should be a: ______________.
Also: Why?
Feel free to take liberties and interpret that non-literally.
Ready. Set. Go.
Yrs,
insomnius
Edit: Why did I think people would take this seriously? I need my head read.
P.S. For those who have not already succumbed to my subtle internet advertising: there is some very serious discussion of the very serious matter that is Zombies and Skeletons here. If you are not already reading that blog then I respectfully suggest that some soul-searching is in order to discover why you are such a terrible person. |
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| As promised: Cat Things |
[May. 31st, 2008|11:00 am] |
There is a webcomic written by a cat (true fact), and this is my most recent favourite episode (most favourite recent episode? recent episode most favourite?): Things I Can Do While The Guy Is Gone.
There is also a video about a cat and a crow who are friends. There are some humans in the video but they are mostly boring; the crow and the cat are the good parts.
In other news, yesterday the vegetable lady sold me a $1.50 cauliflower for $1 and I went out at night and had a really good time. What a great day. I seem to have caught some kind of something, but oh well. |
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| IRC is Good for the Soul |
[May. 28th, 2008|07:39 pm] |
<insomnius> if I pretend not to be an old2ndfloorer do I get kicked out? :D
<Zarina> well if ur the rachel??? person who the oldietypes love, then no
Naturally, I expressed my surprise. [edit: and my displeasure at the misspelling of my name]
<Zarina> well they all adore you, otherwise i wouldnt know wtf u are
I'm so famous. |
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