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"Word is that Brad Fitzpatrick, the founder of LiveJournal and chief architect of Six Apart, is leaving the troubled blog-software company. And the fact that you're hearing about from a gossip blog rather than the transparency-loving company is itself a sign of how deep the problems run. Fitzpatrick, who sold his company, Danga Interactive, to Six Apart two years ago, has vested his shares, declared his boredom with Six Apart, and after weighing offers from Google and Facebook, has chosen to head to Google, a source close to Fitzpatrick says. The only reason that Six Apart management hasn't announced it, the source adds, is that they can't figure out how to spin it. Here, let me help, guys! It's bad."

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"Word is that Brad Fitzpatrick, the founder of LiveJournal and chief architect of Six Apart, is leaving the troubled blog-software company. And the fact that you're hearing about from a gossip blog rather than the transparency-loving company is itself a sign of how deep the problems run. Fitzpatrick, who sold his company, Danga Interactive, to Six Apart two years ago, has vested his shares, declared his boredom with Six Apart, and after weighing offers from Google and Facebook, has chosen to head to Google, a source close to Fitzpatrick says. The only reason that Six Apart management hasn't announced it, the source adds, is that they can't figure out how to spin it. Here, let me help, guys! It's bad."

the other one I never knew, that I grieved

I figured out who I was talking about in this post last night, who was the other one I had grieved for. Let me press rewind on the tape here:

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*lying in bed at about 3:45 AM, pondering* (ain't that always when things come to you?)

*goes over lists of characters from books and movies, briefly mind-touching on each one, as if looking for something*

"Can't be anyone from Red Dwarf. *touch* Rimmer being dead is milked for a lot of jokes, and it's not like he's not there anyway. LotR? *touch* *touch* That's impossible. Too mythic and remote. ElfQuest? *touch* What? No. Hitchhiker's? Did anyone really die in that? *touch* Can't be Marvin (although that was a bit of a sniffler)."

*puzzled*

*a strange idea occurs, almost laughable*

"I can't have been thinking of a real person, can I?"

*name comes totally blindside, without reaching out for it; eyes snap open and gut clenches*

HOLYCRAPIWASTHINKINGOFDOUGLASADAMS.

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I knew when I thought of the right name that I would get that feeling, and know the correctness; that reaction was what I was looking for in tapping everyone on the metaphorical shoulder. I thought I had made a post on LJ about it at the time, but as that was in 2001 (I didn't start this journal til 2002), I must have been thinking of an email or something (or maybe I mentioned it again in a later year -- I dunno, I might try to go looking for it).

I can only suppose that the common thread, and the reason I thought the other incident must also have been a fictional character, was that I never knew either one of them, and I do recall it taking me a bit of time to figure it out about Adams as well (I have never grieved for the deaths of anyone I actually knew, you see). I remember being shocked, feeling a cold vacancy in the field of my consciousness. This one is more fiery, at least for now.

I feel a bit funny about this under the light of day. Does it somehow cheapen or belittle the emotion real people feel for real people they were actually close to, friends or relatives? Do I have any right?

Must keep telling self: Must not feel ashamed just for having feelings, even if they may be a bit off-center. Must not fear ridicule.

the other one I never knew, that I grieved

I figured out who I was talking about in this post last night, who was the other one I had grieved for. Let me press rewind on the tape here:

---------------

*lying in bed at about 3:45 AM, pondering* (ain't that always when things come to you?)

*goes over lists of characters from books and movies, briefly mind-touching on each one, as if looking for something*

"Can't be anyone from Red Dwarf. *touch* Rimmer being dead is milked for a lot of jokes, and it's not like he's not there anyway. LotR? *touch* *touch* That's impossible. Too mythic and remote. ElfQuest? *touch* What? No. Hitchhiker's? Did anyone really die in that? *touch* Can't be Marvin (although that was a bit of a sniffler)."

*puzzled*

*a strange idea occurs, almost laughable*

"I can't have been thinking of a real person, can I?"

*name comes totally blindside, without reaching out for it; eyes snap open and gut clenches*

HOLYCRAPIWASTHINKINGOFDOUGLASADAMS.

-----------

I knew when I thought of the right name that I would get that feeling, and know the correctness; that reaction was what I was looking for in tapping everyone on the metaphorical shoulder. I thought I had made a post on LJ about it at the time, but as that was in 2001 (I didn't start this journal til 2002), I must have been thinking of an email or something (or maybe I mentioned it again in a later year -- I dunno, I might try to go looking for it).

I can only suppose that the common thread, and the reason I thought the other incident must also have been a fictional character, was that I never knew either one of them, and I do recall it taking me a bit of time to figure it out about Adams as well (I have never grieved for the deaths of anyone I actually knew, you see). I remember being shocked, feeling a cold vacancy in the field of my consciousness. This one is more fiery, at least for now.

I feel a bit funny about this under the light of day. Does it somehow cheapen or belittle the emotion real people feel for real people they were actually close to, friends or relatives? Do I have any right?

Must keep telling self: Must not feel ashamed just for having feelings, even if they may be a bit off-center. Must not fear ridicule.

backup option

If you have trouble with ljarchive, you may be able to get ljmigrate to work. (You don't have to migrate; you can just set that config option to false.) For me it keeps quitting with no apparent error message after fetching only so many entries (not the same number each time), but I'll keep trying.

backup option

If you have trouble with ljarchive, you may be able to get ljmigrate to work. (You don't have to migrate; you can just set that config option to false.) For me it keeps quitting with no apparent error message after fetching only so many entries (not the same number each time), but I'll keep trying.