When I staggered to the window to catch a breath of air

[sovay]

I would have appreciated this evening's lightning snow storm significantly more if I had not had to stand in it for forty minutes after the bus refused to pick me up because I reached its doors just after the light changed; it had just started its engine to pull away from the stop, but the driver honked at me to make sure that I got the point that he was between stops now and I was therefore SOL. I had at that point literally run up a slushy hillside to make the bus, carrying two umbrellas (one for derspatchel, who had not realized when he left for work this morning that the day's overcast was going to turn into freezing rain and then enormous snowflakes that lit up like a disco when the lightning flashed) as well as a computer bag and my hat and gloves and I was not amused. The storm also blew my umbrella inside out, but that was just melodrama.

I hope the death of LJ is not impending, especially since so many people have just started posting long-form again, but I've been backed up to Dreamwidth and crossposting since 2013, so you can find me there if necessary: I use the same name. Was very surprised no one had taken it already, but not complaining. By now I would answer to it if someone yelled it across a room, though it is not mine in the same way as the others.

Links that have taken my interest of late: a critical obituary for Leia Organa, analog hauntology, and a genderqueer sky pirate from 1915. I would love to see this last on something that is not YouTube. Arthouses of Boston, are you listening?

Comments

[thistleingrey]

Aw, crap--I hate when that happens with buses.

[umadoshi]

Ah, asshole bus drivers--nobody's favorite. >.< That really sucks, especially given the weather. I hope you got thoroughly warm when you got home!

[owl]

What's happening with LJ?

[moon_custafer]

I found myself disagreeing with the fundamental premise of the Analog Hauntology article, in that all the examples cited were from the 1970s or earlier, and therefore it seemed to me less a case of analog vs digital but of using the highest technology available to or understood by the average person of the time.

Admittedly, when I first watched The Ring, it occurred to me that the story would not have worked with the then-new home entertainment technology of DVDs, because imagine a menu popping up that read PLAY EVIL CURSED MOVIE? Y/N

Of course that might not have stopped people.

Semi-related -- in a lecture some twenty years ago, my teacher raised the question of whether humans were analogue, or actually digital -- i.e. Is our consciousness continuous, or constantly recreated?

[dhampyresa]

Filibus sounds AWESOME.

About the Organa Obituary

[dewline]

That was something I didn't expect, and yet it hangs together...from a certain point of view.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I was at The Tempest, so I missed the storm. How recursive is that?

This is a really idiotic question: how does crossposting work? I've been backing up to Dreamwidth, but I have no idea how to synchronize live.

Nine

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Should we ever actually meet in the flesh, it is not at all unlikely that I will yell "Sovay!" across a crowded room, I am just sayin'. Not that I do not know your given name, but "Sovay" is how you are known in this household.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

I am sorry you had to experience the thundersnow from such a disadvantageous vantage. I was aware of the storm, in that my Facebook feed briefly turned into multiple posts consisting of just "Thundersnow!" I am glad you got home ok.

I have been using the quiet at work to save old LJ memories, and back up my posts to Dreamwidth. It's possible I ell start cross posting too.

There is some pithy comment or quote that goes here about the political and the personal, as regards the LJ server move, but my brain is not pulling up the reference file this soon after being asleep.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the links! The obituary for Leia was particularly excellent.

I also plan to continue to crossposting to both LJ and DW, but I'm "Brigdh" on DW, if you'd like to add me there as well.