September 2002 Archives
1. Would you say that you're good at keeping in touch with people? Moderate to indifferent, I would say. It depends on the people.
2. Which communication method do you usually prefer/use: e-mail, telephone, snail mail, blog comments, or meeting in person? LiveJournal comments (sometimes even Open Diary comments, but never, never blog comments. Ghastly word.), IM, and e-mail, in roughly that order.
Why? Comments because they're time-irrelevant and convenient, IM for reasons given below, and e-mail for longer things or those requiring Much Thought, or that happen to occur to me when people are Away. In person is tricky (see 4 below) much of the time, although it's good when I can, and I avoid the telephone except when I really need to talk to someone Right Now. Interrupting their life is just *so* rude.
3. Do you have an instant messenger program? Trillian.
How many? The one that is four, the four that are one.
Why/why not? Er... to keep in touch with people. It has the immediacy of the telephone with the ignorability of e-mail, and that's an unbeatable combination.
How often do you use it? Every day, sometimes quace at once.
4. Do most of your close friends live nearby or far away? Most far away, alas.
5. Are you an "out of sight, out of mind" person, or do you believe that "distance makes the heart grow fonder"? Mostly the former, but again, it depends on the people.
2. Which communication method do you usually prefer/use: e-mail, telephone, snail mail, blog comments, or meeting in person? LiveJournal comments (sometimes even Open Diary comments, but never, never blog comments. Ghastly word.), IM, and e-mail, in roughly that order.
Why? Comments because they're time-irrelevant and convenient, IM for reasons given below, and e-mail for longer things or those requiring Much Thought, or that happen to occur to me when people are Away. In person is tricky (see 4 below) much of the time, although it's good when I can, and I avoid the telephone except when I really need to talk to someone Right Now. Interrupting their life is just *so* rude.
3. Do you have an instant messenger program? Trillian.
How many? The one that is four, the four that are one.
Why/why not? Er... to keep in touch with people. It has the immediacy of the telephone with the ignorability of e-mail, and that's an unbeatable combination.
How often do you use it? Every day, sometimes quace at once.
4. Do most of your close friends live nearby or far away? Most far away, alas.
5. Are you an "out of sight, out of mind" person, or do you believe that "distance makes the heart grow fonder"? Mostly the former, but again, it depends on the people.
Well, that's another life experience to cross off my list.
Not that I actually felt anything much - despite being up and around at 0056 when the tremor tremorred - beyond a rumble similar to that of a large low-loader passing outside and the rattling of my china. And all the Californians, et. al., would probably sneer at a pissant little 4.8 anyway, even if one was at the epicentre rather than the relative outskirts...
...but still, a moment of interest in an otherwise dull week.
[More details here.]
Not that I actually felt anything much - despite being up and around at 0056 when the tremor tremorred - beyond a rumble similar to that of a large low-loader passing outside and the rattling of my china. And all the Californians, et. al., would probably sneer at a pissant little 4.8 anyway, even if one was at the epicentre rather than the relative outskirts...
...but still, a moment of interest in an otherwise dull week.
[More details here.]
Is it just me, or is the chorus of that song of theirs that was playing on the radio as I drove to work today really: "Grace, save your modified children."?
Eugenetic engineering goes mainstream. Who'd have thought.
Eugenetic engineering goes mainstream. Who'd have thought.
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