LEFT TO MY OWN DEVICES
May. 21st, 2009 05:25 pmAnd we’re back.
The bridal unit and her mom boarded a plane for Beijing this morning for a few days of R&R. I’d go with them but (1) I don’t have time this month, which was the only time they could get a good deal on a tour package and (2) I’m still persona non grata in mainland China. Or at least I was last time I looked. Admittedly that was in October. And George Bush was still Grand Moff then. So who knows?
Still, I wish I could have gone. I haven’t been to Beijing since 1996. I hear it’s changed a little since then. I have fond memories of insane taxi drivers, elderly women fan-dancing to Peking opera percussionists under a bridge, and being waylaid by aggressive t-shirt salesgirls at the base of the Great Wall (which, believe me, is indeed great).
In the meantime, it’s just you, me and the Internet for the next four days. So let’s turn up the houselights and get some admin/audience participation stuff out of the way.
ITEM 1: I’ve picked up some new readers, thanks to some kind pimpage from![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
darkbay and either popfiend or puffdoggydaddy (I forget which – sorry, I’m behind on these things). So welcome to ayoub , corporatebeach , misskitten77 , speedingslug , themacguffin , wiredwizard , wookiemonster and ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
emo_snal . Thanks for tuning in. You won’t be sorry for long.
ITEM 2: Birthday shoutouts tobedsitter23 and stacyjill . If yr ever going to start a radio station, you’ll want them on yr side Trust me.
ITEM 3: I’m on Dreamwidth, thanks to the generosity offigmentj , though I haven’t done anything with it yet. All you’ll find there at the moment is my old LJ blog, which I imported, with mixed results (i.e. it doesn’t import any of the photos in the LJ gallery, though I may have left that box unticked).
In any case, I’ve been issued two (2) invite codes. I’m keeping one for myself to start a second account. My idea is that I’ll create a mirror site for this LJ, and start a second blog with a more specific focus. Details forthcoming.
In the meantime, I still have one invite code for Dreamwidth. Be the first caller in the space provided below and it’s yrs.
ITEM 4: This weekend, I’ll be initiating the most ambitious, shocking and paradigm-shifting mission ever undertaken by a Def Agent. The stakes are high. The risk is incalculable. There will be blood. There will be no going back. And the Internet will never, EVER be the same again.
Stay tuned. If you dare.
Class dismissed,
This is dF
The bridal unit and her mom boarded a plane for Beijing this morning for a few days of R&R. I’d go with them but (1) I don’t have time this month, which was the only time they could get a good deal on a tour package and (2) I’m still persona non grata in mainland China. Or at least I was last time I looked. Admittedly that was in October. And George Bush was still Grand Moff then. So who knows?
Still, I wish I could have gone. I haven’t been to Beijing since 1996. I hear it’s changed a little since then. I have fond memories of insane taxi drivers, elderly women fan-dancing to Peking opera percussionists under a bridge, and being waylaid by aggressive t-shirt salesgirls at the base of the Great Wall (which, believe me, is indeed great).
In the meantime, it’s just you, me and the Internet for the next four days. So let’s turn up the houselights and get some admin/audience participation stuff out of the way.
ITEM 1: I’ve picked up some new readers, thanks to some kind pimpage from
darkbay and either popfiend or puffdoggydaddy (I forget which – sorry, I’m behind on these things). So welcome to ayoub , corporatebeach , misskitten77 , speedingslug , themacguffin , wiredwizard , wookiemonster and emo_snal . Thanks for tuning in. You won’t be sorry for long. ITEM 2: Birthday shoutouts to
bedsitter23 and stacyjill . If yr ever going to start a radio station, you’ll want them on yr side Trust me. ITEM 3: I’m on Dreamwidth, thanks to the generosity of
figmentj , though I haven’t done anything with it yet. All you’ll find there at the moment is my old LJ blog, which I imported, with mixed results (i.e. it doesn’t import any of the photos in the LJ gallery, though I may have left that box unticked). In any case, I’ve been issued two (2) invite codes. I’m keeping one for myself to start a second account. My idea is that I’ll create a mirror site for this LJ, and start a second blog with a more specific focus. Details forthcoming.
In the meantime, I still have one invite code for Dreamwidth. Be the first caller in the space provided below and it’s yrs.
ITEM 4: This weekend, I’ll be initiating the most ambitious, shocking and paradigm-shifting mission ever undertaken by a Def Agent. The stakes are high. The risk is incalculable. There will be blood. There will be no going back. And the Internet will never, EVER be the same again.
Stay tuned. If you dare.
Class dismissed,
This is dF
