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[serene]

So I gather that a number of my friends are participating in the LJ strike. I'm not.

Happy things today:

A beautiful, almost-full moon

Thai noodles with organic veggies

Getting to lounge around in bed this morning until I was ready to get up

Finished the manuscript in plenty of time (she was hoping for a week's turnaround; I did in in a little less than six days, and could have done it sooner if I hadn't had a couple of really-low-energy days this week)

Getting a new manuscript tomorrow

Just basically happy today, with relatively low pain and stuff. Life is good.

Comments

Re: parody? whoa, apologies.

[snippy]

Well, it's true that paid users and advertisers are what allows basic accounts to exist. But basic accounts are what draw people to LJ, and I don't mind paying extra so other people can play in this sandbox. If I didn't like what I was getting, I wouldn't pay!

But I parodied it from the other side because the adolescent quality of the strike struck my funny bone. Rather like the adolescent whinging "You'll miss me when I'm gone!"

I suppose I shouldn't be surprised nobody got it, face to face nobody ever gets that I'm being funny either (when it's sarcasm or irony or parody, at least).

Re: parody? whoa, apologies.

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

purely coincidentally i just saw http://cahwyguy.livejournal.com/702106.html?thread=2459034#t2459034 (he is wrong, btw; livejournal was more than self-sustaining before the sale to 6A. brad sold because he couldn't care less about business matters, didn't want to deal with them anymore, and sucked at delegating. selling was how he thought he could get back to just playing around, it had nothing to do with not being able to pay the bills, not even close.)

was your reply there also a parody or sarcasm? (i'm trying to suss out why it's not working for me.)

Re: parody? whoa, apologies.

[snippy]

Yeah, I was trying harder to mark the humor with the "so there!" comment. Still not successful? Maybe I should use those mock tags [sarcasm]...[/sarcasm] like some people do.