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lethargic_man

Don't expect me to devote a lot of time to this, though.

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From:

liv

Greetings! Good to see you. (Although your userpic looks nothing like you at all, which is scary. I literally wouldn't have recognized you from it.)

This is partly a test to see if you've got the comment emailing thing set up properly.

From:

compilerbitch.livejournal.com

Looks like I am first from the welcoming comittee. We did meet, albeit briefly, during the attempted rescue-from-train in London a few months ago.

~~waves~~

From:

neonchameleon.livejournal.com

*joins the welcome wagon*

Francis

From:

lethargic-man.livejournal.com

This any better?

From: (Anonymous)

That is one freaky-assed picture. The second one makes you look like you're trying out for Santa Claus.

Moadim l'simcha.

livredor's "J"

From: (Anonymous)

Well, I'd have recognised you, and I haven't seen you in - how many years? Does this just mean it's an old picture?

Very pretty apricot background.

Arghhhh, am I the only one holding out against LJ now? I will resist...I will resist...I'm picking up Livre Dor's mannerisms anyway, which is scary enough without further conversions.

will now go and bury my nose in a book in order to recover from the terrifying thought of all this geekishness.

best
EM

From:

liv

Noooo, that will simply serve to perpetuate the myth that you look like my dad! I know you have a better picture of you somewhere. Or you could doctor a roadrunner? The reflection one is cool, though, I admit.

From:

liv

Ooh, badger! Cool to see you. But what kind of expression is freaky-assed? Anyone would think you'd been hanging out [sic] with Americans.

Anyway, you've met

lethargic_man so you know he doesn't look like any of his userpics.

You haven't met EM, though. Since you're both commenting on the same post, can I take this opportunity to introduce you? Dunno if this counts, but anyway, J, meet EM at least virtually.

From:

liv

I'm picking up Livre Dor's mannerisms anyway
*cackles* They're catching, aren't they?!

By the way, it's livredor /

livredor / Livre d'Or. Not Livre Dor, that just doesn't make sense.

From:

lethargic-man.livejournal.com

EM wrote:

Well, I'd have recognised you,

But you've seen me with a beard and livredor hasn't.

and I haven't seen you in - how many years? Does this just mean it's an old picture?

Yes; I got rid of my beard in 1998, but I like the photo.

Arghhhh, am I the only one holding out against LJ now? I will resist...I will resist...

Resistance is futile. (I speak from experience.)

will now go and bury my nose in a book in order to recover from the terrifying thought of all this geekishness.

I notice you're marking up italics with . Surely would be more appropriate? ;^b

From:

lethargic-man.livejournal.com

Livredor wrote:

Noooo, that will simply serve to perpetuate the myth that you look like my dad!

*snort*

I know you have a better picture of you somewhere. Or you could doctor a roadrunner?

In my Copious Free Time, sometime later this century.

The reflection one is cool, though, I admit.

It's a cut-down version of this (http://www.michael-grant.me.uk/images/me.jpg), which is what I saw one day when I looked up from my desk, and was sufficiently moved by to record.

I must find a more convenient way to distinguish comment from original...

From:

lethargic-man.livejournal.com

EM wrote:

Very pretty apricot background.

It's a cut-down version of the one from http://www.vatican.va (http://www.vatican.va). Mine's a tenth of the size of the Pope's, though (which meant a lot in 1997, when I started the first page I used it on.)

From:

doseybat.livejournal.com

hi!
*friendlywaves*
i believe i am due to meet you next friday!
it is strange to think that you have been to my house and met pretty much everybody surrounding me, and i am pleased the gap shall shortly be filled.

From:

rysmiel.livejournal.com

Further welcomes, and you shall be added to my friends list forthwith, so that in addtion to the large volumes of grumbling about writing and work you may also have access to the negligibly small volume of grumbling about health I do. Or something.

From: (Anonymous)

And I trust you realise I have no idea what all that HTML (assuming it actually was HTML) stuff was, I'm still proud of myself for managing italics at all.

EM

From: (Anonymous)

oh be nice. I was tired. How do I do the middle one, anyway?

There are happening far too many moments like the one last night, where I turned to Pseudomonas in alarm and said, "Was that just like Livre d'Or [well, actually I used your real name, oddly enough] or am I imagining things?" and he grinned smugly. And the nice little dyke from my Chaucer class, who was also there, just stared at us blankly.

EM

From:

ewx.livejournal.com

*wave*

From:

lethargic-man.livejournal.com

*wave*

<waves back> (By 'eck, but it's a ~~small~~ highly interconnected web.)

From:

lethargic-man.livejournal.com

WHAT'S A NICE JEWISH BOY LIKE YOU BORROWING BACKGROUNDS FROM THE POPE FOR?

*giggle* It's the first step down a slippery slope. Next think you know I'll be writing him new websites.

And I trust you realise I have no idea what all that HTML (assuming it actually was HTML) stuff was, I'm still proud of myself for managing italics at all.

 for italics; for emphasis (the idea being you let the web-browser or stylesheet decide how to represent emphasis (italics, underlining, bold, etc).

Can I ask how you did manage italics, then, if not with tag?

From: (Anonymous)

Just because I now want to see what the tag does.

Yes, I was using the tag, and I don't even know how to put it in the text in such a way that it isn't taken as a command. Another reason for holding out against a LJ (the main one is a) I think I'd spend too much time on it and b) I've kept diaries before and I end up thinking in the past tense), since someone would have to set the thing up for me.

EM

From:

liv

In my Copious Free Time, sometime later this century.
Sarcasm not called for, I think. But point taken. You could possibly use your monogram for one of the three, as it's obviously small enough and you have the picture anyway?

It's a cut-down version of this, which is what I saw one day when I looked up from my desk, and was sufficiently moved by to record.
What's really amazing is that you managed to get a photo of it. Actually the icon version works rather well, in a different way from the full sized picture. Cool, anyway.

From:

liv

How do I do the middle one, anyway?
< lj user="livredor" >

There are happening far too many moments like the one last night
Hah, who needs clones when you have infectious mannerisms?! My plot to take over the world is fomenting *cackles*. (

lethargic_man says he's turning into me also...)

the nice little dyke from my Chaucer class
You really need to stop referring to all and sundry as 'the little dyke'. I actually know whom you mean, but there are too many lesbians with similar epithets.

From: (Anonymous)

fomenting, noch.

At least when I call someone a lesbian they're going to be female...

Well, I was trying to be moderately discreet. She's on LJ somewhere, don't know where yet. But I very much doubt she's closeted. We sit there muttering about patriarchy and latching on to any suggestions of homoeroticism in the Chaucer class together. It's quite nice to have back-up, last year I couldn't spot any other students in my seminars who were queer. And she's borrowed Christa Wolf's Medea and is loving it. Shall I have another try at getting it for your birthday this year, by the way?

Oh, it was quite funny, someone asked how erotic the Knight's Tale actually gets, and I pointed out all that flower/garden stuff concerning Emelye. One of the boys said airily, "Personally I don't think flowers have anything to do with sex," so I advised him to go and read the Song of Songs. And thought of what you'd have said!

testing testing...

doseybat and her pet mould.

EM

From:

liv

That's really rather a gorgeous concept. Any particular reason? (And yeah, file-shrinking is good; I need to get better at it!)

From:

liv

I think I'd spend too much time on it
You'll probably still spend too much time on it even if you don't get an account, it'll just be less convenient. At least on the evidence of how you've been acting up till now!

I've kept diaries before and I end up thinking in the past tense
If this is a problem for you then I suppose it's a reasonable excuse. I tend to do that anyway, so getting an LJ made no difference.

someone would have to set the thing up for me
Actually no; LJ is set up to be usable by people who are far less computer-literate (I hardly need to mention far less intelligent) than you are. It has the functionality if you want to mess with HTML or even programming, but if not, the basic structure is all web-based forms with little patronizing messages saying, don't worry if you don't understand, most users can ignore these options.

From:

lethargic-man.livejournal.com

There's been a lot on the news recently about the Pope and how Popes are chosen, it being the current Pope's silver jubilee, and there having been worries about him dying recently.

Someone at work said when they come to choose a new Pope, they'd have to do it on TV, with Pope Idol. To which I replied (plagiarising Nicky Campbell) the new one would then presumably be Pope John Paul George Ringo I.

From:

lethargic-man.livejournal.com

in my Copious Free Time, sometime later this century.

Sarcasm not called for, I think. But point taken. You could possibly use your monogram for one of the three, as it's obviously small enough and you have the picture anyway?

The sarcasm wasn't directed at you. As it happens, I did then doctor a roadrunner image, but hadn't realised you could only have three images. So I'll probably keep it, along with the monogram, until I get bored of the ones I have a present.