Unexplained disappearances

[sanpaku_backup]

You use this thing for so long, you take stuff for granted. Then all of a sudden, things change. Like flw and librarygrrl changed their userpics. And now hungrymadchen and satori1970, who are sisters, both deleted their journals. What is going on?

What is going on with me is this: we had a Giant Moquito Invasion last night, when the window was left open -- they get in through the screen. The bedroom is littered with at least a dozen mosquito corpses. This was while trying to watch Gangs of New York, though it would seem that we didn't miss much. Gorgeous to look at, probably generally sort of accurate to what it was trying to show (though the many historical inaccuracies have been related elsewhere). But Martin, Martin... what the heck was up with that "plot"?

I am also finally reading A. H. W. O. S. G., after waiting about as long as I could not to, I suppose.

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[librarygrrl.livejournal.com]

Then I changed my userpic AGAIN! twice in two days. Freaky. I have a couple more lined up but I see that I can only store three. Only three? Am I going to have to pull out my credit card?

What I want to know is this: how do you make those neato links to other people's lj? I look at the code and it baffles me. Is there an LJ shortcut?

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[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

The LJ FAQ has descriptions of all the LJ-specific HTML tags. In this case it's lj user="[username]" (surrounded by the greater than and less than signs, of course). Took me a whole to figure that out too.

Your new LJ userpic looks a lot like one for someone else on my friendslist. Where'd you nick it from?

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[librarygrrl.livejournal.com]

thanks!

I can't remember where I got it but I found it using the good ol' google image search.

I should change it back. Don't want to be confused with anyone...

[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

Don't change it back. Hey, we can't ALL be clever enough to have userpics with references to movies no one has ever watched and books no one has ever heard of. The pic, by the way, is reminiscent of the one on verbminx's pictures page (http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=verbminx). Entitled -- heh, heh -- "Librarygirl." You guys probably found them off of the same source or something.

I really should pony up some money to LJ so I can make more than 6 images. It's really a sort of minor art form, as with so much in this medium...

[librarygrrl.livejournal.com]

6? I can only have three. Perhaps you are getting early adopter perks? Anyway dude, you are scaring me just a little bit. How do you access someone else's pictures page? I mean, I don't really care that much, I just don't see how you get thaih from here. (did you ever see that saturday night live skit? Hoo, the New England humor.)

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[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

I do have scary LJ skills. You look at someone's LJ user info, then click on the main pic they have selected, and you can see all their pix. Nifty and useful. Now, you do it! You're trapped here now, I tell you! Trapped! Soon you will be idly checking to see who else has "skinnydipping (http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=skinnydipping)" listed as an interest, because you have nothing better to do! [Evil laughter echoing across the ether...]

As far as images, I do have early adopter perks, and that's one. Though I would have more if I shelled out and paid.

Like most SNL skits, that one wore out pretty quickly, but it certainly was apropo, for metro Boston, anyway.

It's too late baby now, it's too late.

[librarygrrl.livejournal.com]

Oh Fuck. I am in Trou-ble. I gotta get outta this room. I know there's a good book waiting for me down the hall I just. can't. get there.

oh and speaking of skinnydipping? It is almost half past July and I've not yet taken a dip. Damnit!

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[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

We might have tried today, but there were too many damn people around at the lake. Chatty family. Probably for the best, since as we were leaving a YMCA tour group with about 50 kids showed up.

You will probably be sick of Maine ponds by the time we see you, but if you want to see a nifty one right next to a mountain, that would be a nice trip not far from us. (Not far=25 min.)

impossible

[librarygrrl.livejournal.com]

I get sick of driving to work. I get sick of cleaning my kitchen. I promise you I won't be sick of Maine ponds.

I used to go to a somewhat public nudie beach in Burlington, but my big city ways have brought back the old inhibitions. Not sure I'd be up for that at this point. There must be some very isolated Maine ponds for swimming the way nature intended, no? Free yourself from the tyranny of bathing suits!

This real time LJ is almost like slo-mo IM...

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[sanpaku.livejournal.com]

You caught me on a night when I am combing my old email looking for Ron's phone number. Do you have it handy, by chance?

There are millions of ponds here, mostly glimpsed through trees as you drive past. As in most places, the ponds here are owned by Private Property Abutters who try like crazy to keep everyone out. I do think that someone with a canoe, however, can go just about anywhere; if we ever lived up here permanently it would really be a great thing to do. Anyway, anything small and isolated would be full of mosquitos, anyway. As it was I got bit by mosquitos and/or horseflies more than half a dozen times today, mostly on the inside of my knees. After this summer, you know what? I have decided that I REALLY don't like mosquitos.

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[librarygrrl.livejournal.com]

nope, sorry I don't have the number. You're headed out there soon, right? Hope you make all of your connections...

That was the great thing about VT. People just don't tend to post their land up there. Not yet, anyway. You just go swim when you see a pond, and you just walk across a field when you see a big glacial rock just made for sitting. If people see you on their land they just wave at you. It takes some getting used to.