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Happy Birthday! Today would be J.R.R. Tolkien’s eleventy-first birthday. http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/books/01/03/film.hobbit.reut/

I wrote this in response to Pixel’s post. It is a suggested reply to someone who is “offended” at a web site. Apologies for the duplication, but I wanted to save it in my own journal too for future reference.

A friend of mine pointed me to this (as a cool party game) http://www.princeton.edu/~mafia/

Christmas was good. Went to see M’s grandmother on Tuesday. Her parents and a couple cousins and other friends dropped by. My mom also came down (she lives further North so it is a good halfway meeting point) so that was good to see her too. Drove back really late Tuesday night, stopping by to see J and A, finally getting home at 1:30. Went to bed about 2:00. Wednesday, got up and went to see my grandparents. This was only a 35 minute drive so that was good. ...

Today’s poll: What else should gconnor write about Please answer. If you want to hear about something not listed here, please reply to the post. (If you are not a LJ user, you will not be able to submit the poll, but you can add a reply comment to the entry). Results of the referendum are not legally binding and by participating (or not) you agree that gconnor will continue to write about whatever he pleases.

I posted the following as a response in someone else’s journal, but it seems to be good writing and somewhat relevant and revealing. So, I will reproduce most of it here. I have pretty excellent communication skills, so in general I’m a pretty good mid-level manager. I seem to have avoided getting promoted into uselessness (“reaching my level” as students of the Peter Principle would have it) and I now have about the right balance of Doing Things and Other Stuff. Life is pretty good. ...

Spent some time with the southpark character maker which looks like it has improved a bit since the first time I played with it. Revised userpics are here (added three). The 100x100 userpic size doesn’t show the full detail but the larger image is here on my server. I managed to make two of the t-shirts readable, the third one was just hopeless at the 100x100 size, so it remains a blur… but hopefully my homies will know what it’s supposed to say when they see it.

For the sports fans on your Christmas list, behold Jesus Inspirational Sport Statues.

have you seen this syndication feed: theonering_net

The Friends’ Friends page is an interesting way to waste time reading posts from random people you probably don’t know. (The link here is for my friends’ friends, but you can substitute your own name I think. Might work for paid members and not others, I’m not sure. The problem with this feature is that if you have any communities at all in your friends list, those community members show up as “your friends’ friends”. Bah, this is next to useless, because I have bookmarked groups with huge numbers of users like paidmembers, polyamory, etc. Even if I wanted to temporarily remove those communities from my friends list and enjoy the friendsfriends for a while, now I’m stuck reading community entries (because my friends have bookmarked those communities as well). I don’t think the filter feature works with friendsfriends at all. ...