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pyesetzI copied this from some other fur's journal, but theirs was friends-only so I won't mention them here =:)
Age? 52. There are furs active in the fandom who are young enough to be my grandkids!
Myers-Briggs? ISTJ, the "most abundant" personality type. Cold-hearted logician.
How long have you had your LJ? 12 years. I got it because "everyone" was abandoning the alt.lifestyle.furry group on USENET, which was sinking beneath the waves of spam.
What does your username mean? It means arctic fox in Russian. A professor once told me it was a good name for me.
What is your favorite thing about LJ? The comment system here is better than anywhere else.
What is your least favorite thing about LJ? It's dead, Jim. The furs have mostly moved on to other pastures.
What is your motivation on LiveJournal? I try to avoid thinking about motivation.
Have you ever met anyone on your F List in real life? Yes.
Do you have a paid subscription? I used to, but money got tight so I dropped it.
Is you LJ private/friends only? No. I post writings at LJ so people can see them.
Where do you live? Ontario now, New Jersey when I started at LJ.
Do you have an accent? Yes.
Who do you live with? Wife, kids, and dog. There is no need for me to mention that this question should have begun with "whom".
Do you have pets? This question is redundant.
Did you go to University? Yes. I got a Bachelor's and Master's in Computer Science, plus another bachelor's in Russian+Linguistics.
Do you work? Not at the moment.
Where/What do you do? Software engineering.
Do you have more drama at home or at work? My home is thankfully almost free of drama. Rising drama at the office is generally a sign that I should leave.
Who do you often write about? Who(m)? Shouldn't this question be "What do I write about?" I don't write about people all that much.
What else should readers know? How to tie their shoes, change a baby, disarm a time bomb, etc.
Age? 52. There are furs active in the fandom who are young enough to be my grandkids!
Myers-Briggs? ISTJ, the "most abundant" personality type. Cold-hearted logician.
How long have you had your LJ? 12 years. I got it because "everyone" was abandoning the alt.lifestyle.furry group on USENET, which was sinking beneath the waves of spam.
What does your username mean? It means arctic fox in Russian. A professor once told me it was a good name for me.
What is your favorite thing about LJ? The comment system here is better than anywhere else.
What is your least favorite thing about LJ? It's dead, Jim. The furs have mostly moved on to other pastures.
What is your motivation on LiveJournal? I try to avoid thinking about motivation.
Have you ever met anyone on your F List in real life? Yes.
Do you have a paid subscription? I used to, but money got tight so I dropped it.
Is you LJ private/friends only? No. I post writings at LJ so people can see them.
Where do you live? Ontario now, New Jersey when I started at LJ.
Do you have an accent? Yes.
Who do you live with? Wife, kids, and dog. There is no need for me to mention that this question should have begun with "whom".
Do you have pets? This question is redundant.
Did you go to University? Yes. I got a Bachelor's and Master's in Computer Science, plus another bachelor's in Russian+Linguistics.
Do you work? Not at the moment.
Where/What do you do? Software engineering.
Do you have more drama at home or at work? My home is thankfully almost free of drama. Rising drama at the office is generally a sign that I should leave.
Who do you often write about? Who(m)? Shouldn't this question be "What do I write about?" I don't write about people all that much.
What else should readers know? How to tie their shoes, change a baby, disarm a time bomb, etc.
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Date: 2015-08-21 01:43 pm (UTC)What about knowing how to disarm their shoes, or tie a time bomb? Aren't those skills useful anymore?!
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Date: 2015-08-21 04:27 pm (UTC)In a sense, "changing" a baby involves "disarming" the stink bomb and then "tying" the diaper.
In the 90's we used to think that, someday when the Internet finally took off, then everyone would need to know how to code. Things didn't work out that way. Still, some basic knowledge of JavaScript seems like it should be part of cultural literacy today.
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Date: 2015-08-22 08:14 pm (UTC)I ought to poke my nose into a.f.f and a.l.f sometime, and see who's still around. ISTR it'd turned into something of a wasteland by 2000 or so, though. Rather a shame, as Usenet in its heyday was a superb system - completely decentralised, operating over a standard protocol, so anyone could take their pick of a wealth of clients, from trn to MacSOUP and ya-newsreader. No datamining (other than any being run on the feed, I suppose), no fees, no advertising. alt.sex.bondage was absolutely superb, though I'd mostly left before it became soc.subculture.bondage-bdsm. And I helped create alt.lycra. ^_^
LJ isn't even remotely dead, but there's a lot of introversion, with so many folks staying in their own journals and seldom commenting elsewhere.
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Date: 2015-08-23 12:10 am (UTC)There's a lot of oldsters on Reddit, but the age distribution for every subreddit seems to be centred upon University (because who else has enough time to keep up with Reddit?).
Yeah, a.l.f. was already a wasteland when I showed up in 2003. But
The "USENET death penalty" never seemed to work very well, and USENET had no other method for policing — so once people found out that spamming cost zero and had a non-zero hit rate on the ads, the system was a dead man walking. USENET showed the limits of anarchy as a governmental form: it works great until somebody figures out how to make money from annoying others.
LJ seems dead to me. I no longer meet anyone new here. I think the last furiend I added was
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Date: 2015-08-23 12:37 am (UTC)I did spend quite some time helping with the creation of uk.sport.motorsport, but it was created too late to make much impact.