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May. 16th, 2012 12:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Folks:
Today is my ten year lj-versary.
isilya just mentioned that she's been around these parts for more than a decade, and I checked my calendar- only to realize that I too have been hanging out here for ten years.
Ten years ago, at this time, I was psuedo-interning for Noam Chompski, harassing people of varying importance at the Pentagon, testing out search engines to see what dogpile/google/yahoo considered the best results, learning how to hard code html, getting my heart broken by college admissions boards, and generally not being a whole lot younger than I feel today.
I sort of understand intellectually that it's been a long time. And when I add up the things I have done since then, I guess it has been a while. But I remember riding my bike to the IRC, sitting in that squeaky chair in the only room without a window, and compiling lists of bizarrely specific data- like it was yesterday. (Maybe even better than yesterday, because I can still cite you statistics on what percentage of GDP goes to weapons acquisition in ten countries, but I can not tell you what the 4th line treatments for hypertension are.)
Ten years! I know many people are migrating away to other social networks- and it's true that I spend more time on tumblr than I do here- but I love this space we've built, and I love you all for sharing it with me. Thanks for the good times, folks. Thanks for teaching me, and telling me.Thanks for growing up along with me.
Here's to ten more years of whatever's coming next.
(In this post, the banana represents time, and the old woman represents me, shocked and astonished that time is catching up to me. You'll never take me without a fight, banana!)
Today is my ten year lj-versary.
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Ten years ago, at this time, I was psuedo-interning for Noam Chompski, harassing people of varying importance at the Pentagon, testing out search engines to see what dogpile/google/yahoo considered the best results, learning how to hard code html, getting my heart broken by college admissions boards, and generally not being a whole lot younger than I feel today.
I sort of understand intellectually that it's been a long time. And when I add up the things I have done since then, I guess it has been a while. But I remember riding my bike to the IRC, sitting in that squeaky chair in the only room without a window, and compiling lists of bizarrely specific data- like it was yesterday. (Maybe even better than yesterday, because I can still cite you statistics on what percentage of GDP goes to weapons acquisition in ten countries, but I can not tell you what the 4th line treatments for hypertension are.)
Ten years! I know many people are migrating away to other social networks- and it's true that I spend more time on tumblr than I do here- but I love this space we've built, and I love you all for sharing it with me. Thanks for the good times, folks. Thanks for teaching me, and telling me.Thanks for growing up along with me.
Here's to ten more years of whatever's coming next.
(In this post, the banana represents time, and the old woman represents me, shocked and astonished that time is catching up to me. You'll never take me without a fight, banana!)
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Date: 2012-05-29 06:29 pm (UTC)My biggest beef with G+ is the difficulty of merging my two google identities. I have my default not-associated-with-my-whole-name email, and my firstnamelastname email, and I would really like google to understand that those are the same person, and if someone invites me to edit a doc in one, the other should also be able to edit, or read G+ posts or something. I can send email from both identities from the same screen! But somehow all other integrated googlings require me to sign out and sign back in. Or, conversely, I want a way to be able to follow locked LJ post and friends only G+ thru RSS. All I want, Echo, is the entire world to conform to my convenience. That doesn't really seem like much to ask, frankly.
Ten years ago I was a high school senior equivalent!
I played Anne Frank in a traveling show (I have nothing pithy to say about that, except that I still don't actually like Anne much as a person),
Got my heart broken by college admissions boards (why would you admit me and give me inadequate financial aid? extra cruel!),
Slammed into the world of "Dyslexia is a learning disability," (true story: not actually an issue until university chemistry which made me cry a lot)
Had my first boooooyfriend (who is and was a delightful person)
And interned at a political think tank (True story: I wandered in because I liked their sign and had no idea what they did. I volunteered for them for a few years, and then they offered me a paid internship, where I internet-gofur'd for Noam Chompski and other luminaries of political thought.)
In as much as I have always been a stoic who didn't like feelings- it was a big year, full of big feelings.