Some vaguely timely things
Jul. 13th, 2003 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jlhNimbus! Squee! I can't wait to meet everyone. This will be great! Comment if you're going so I can find you.
In preparation for such, I have finally overcome my shyness and gone on that Pumpkin Pie friending spree that I kept meaning to do but never did. I mean, I am writing them, so. Not that I don't love you slashers, becasue I'm one myself, of course. Just because I don't slash Harry . . .
I've also got a few S/D things in the hopper that I really need to finish up today. Really.
Okay, I know this is a little late but the end of the week was a bit of a blur. As I've been floating around looking at the general response to what went down Tuesday (and dude, that tired me OUT, man) the most interesting bit is the varied response to the original entry having been locked to six people.
--There's the "information wants to be free" camp, who say that you are an idiot if you ever post anything online that you don't want either your worst enemy, your mother, or the FBI to read. I wonder if any of these people write chanslash? Everyone has secrets, everyone has things they don't need everyone to know, and everyone deserves some respect on that.
--There's the "three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead" camp, with whom you can't even converse. Trusting no one is the same as trusting everyone. Take a really good look at Mulder's life before he met Scully. Do you want that life? Get a grip. The government is not monitoring your communication, and even if they are, they have so much backlogged information that they won't be able to read it until 2016 and by then your grand and secret theory about Dumbledore will be moot because JKR will have written the 7th book anyway. (We hope.)
Of course there is a reason my real name isn't on this journal, but I do hope that if I choose to talk about something behind a filter that it stays there. I'm not so much with the general attacks because I agree, it will get out. And I hope that nearly everything I say everywhere I would say to someone's face, because it isn't just filtered posts; I think we've all seen enough chat transcripts passed around like currency to know how secret THEY are. But when I lock a post (usually because it is personal and private, not because I don't want certain people to see it) I carefully select who can see it. And if you can, I mean you, not you and the 37 people you've given your LJ password to. You may trust them, but by doing that you are forcing me to trust them, and I don't even know who they are. It's a very bad practice and I am really quite put out by it.
In preparation for such, I have finally overcome my shyness and gone on that Pumpkin Pie friending spree that I kept meaning to do but never did. I mean, I am writing them, so. Not that I don't love you slashers, becasue I'm one myself, of course. Just because I don't slash Harry . . .
I've also got a few S/D things in the hopper that I really need to finish up today. Really.
Okay, I know this is a little late but the end of the week was a bit of a blur. As I've been floating around looking at the general response to what went down Tuesday (and dude, that tired me OUT, man) the most interesting bit is the varied response to the original entry having been locked to six people.
--There's the "information wants to be free" camp, who say that you are an idiot if you ever post anything online that you don't want either your worst enemy, your mother, or the FBI to read. I wonder if any of these people write chanslash? Everyone has secrets, everyone has things they don't need everyone to know, and everyone deserves some respect on that.
--There's the "three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead" camp, with whom you can't even converse. Trusting no one is the same as trusting everyone. Take a really good look at Mulder's life before he met Scully. Do you want that life? Get a grip. The government is not monitoring your communication, and even if they are, they have so much backlogged information that they won't be able to read it until 2016 and by then your grand and secret theory about Dumbledore will be moot because JKR will have written the 7th book anyway. (We hope.)
Of course there is a reason my real name isn't on this journal, but I do hope that if I choose to talk about something behind a filter that it stays there. I'm not so much with the general attacks because I agree, it will get out. And I hope that nearly everything I say everywhere I would say to someone's face, because it isn't just filtered posts; I think we've all seen enough chat transcripts passed around like currency to know how secret THEY are. But when I lock a post (usually because it is personal and private, not because I don't want certain people to see it) I carefully select who can see it. And if you can, I mean you, not you and the 37 people you've given your LJ password to. You may trust them, but by doing that you are forcing me to trust them, and I don't even know who they are. It's a very bad practice and I am really quite put out by it.
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Date: 2003-07-13 12:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-13 01:51 pm (UTC)But then you knew that ;)
*t00bs off to be annoying elsewhere* :D
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Date: 2003-07-13 03:09 pm (UTC)and yeah, what she said. will be at Nimbus. Cannot wait to meet up. ;)
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Date: 2003-07-13 03:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-13 08:01 pm (UTC)You two are nuts. I think I might be able to recognize you since you have stayed in my apartment and will be sharing my room
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Date: 2003-07-13 02:11 pm (UTC)SQUEE!! Nimbus!!!
I suppose my nametag will say "Mina Sabih" on it and I'm fairly short with curly brown hair and will most likely be accompanied by a short blonde (my mom) and a tall blond (my best friend Kyla). :D
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Date: 2003-07-13 04:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-07-13 06:21 pm (UTC)I agree about the giving of passwords thinger. I can't imagine doing that, ever. I honestly can't imagine a reason to.
:-* Will be thinking of you all.
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Date: 2003-07-13 08:17 pm (UTC)Can't wait to meet you.
Cheers,
Peg
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Date: 2003-07-13 09:29 pm (UTC)I'll try and meet everyone at registration if I'm not doing something in the Exhibitor room. Will be wearing garishly colored tropical clothing and my name tag will say Victoria Powers. In my spare time, (when not working panels 'n such), I hope to be drinking with
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Date: 2003-07-13 10:27 pm (UTC)~Sabs