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Random searching on LJ has so far netted me:

A bunch of teenage angst, which uses lots of runon sentences and netspeak
A bunch of blonde princess drama
Several journals in Finnish, Russian, and Dutch
One ordinary, but rather uninteresting adult's journal
One which was so weird I wondered if it was a Malkavian in-character journal
One geek who I would probably friend if I had, like, known them from a bulletin board or comm or whatever
One deleted journal
One journal which either is trying to do some layout thing Firefox can't handle, or has a huge background picture which I am not going to wait for

Livejournal seems to be like television: Mostly a wasteland.

springtime, geeky plates, and geek help requested

Item the first: We have already got blooming trees around here -- plum/cherry, persimmon, and this thing, which is commonly planted as an ornamental, but the name of which I don't know:

My first thought is "overachieving plants" but my second thought is "winter? hello? what happened?"

Item the second: I saw a license plate today which said simply XUL. I suppose they could have meant something else by this, but to me that just says "Geeky McGeekGeek".

Item the third: Speaking of geeks, computer diagnosis input requested. ( Read more... )

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Bohemia

Authors and actors and artists and such
Never know nothing, and never know much.
Sculptors and singers and those of their kidney
Tell their affairs from Seattle to Sydney.
Playwrights and poets and such horses' necks
Start off from anywhere, end up at sex.
Diarists, critics, and similar roe
Never say nothing, and never say no.
People Who Do Things exceed my endurance;
God, for a man that solicits insurance!

(Dorothy Parker)