My parents will never get a link to my lj. Never, ever. God, no.

However, I did show my 80 year old dad how to use Amazon.com to find all those out of print books that he's been trying to get his hands on. And Dad was all, "Being forgetfull's great! By the time these get here I won't have any idea why some stranger in Iowa's sending me used books. It'll be like a really confusing Christmas. Also, don't bookmark this thing if you want to have any inheritance left."

Timelies. And Hippo Birdies to Plei. That is all.

And Dad was all, "Being forgetfull's great! By the time these get here I won't have any idea why some stranger in Iowa's sending me used books. It'll be like a really confusing Christmas. Also, don't bookmark this thing if you want to have any inheritance left."

Heh. My dad took to Amazon like a duck to water. He's dangerous with it.

This is my mother and ebay. Though she goes in spurts.

Most of my old friends just aren't very web-oriented. Nobody would be interested in spending 8 hours at day at b.org the way I do. Several read my LJ every couple of weeks, because it's a good way to keep in touch with what's up with me and the family and of course I never call or write, but they aren't interested/can't be arsed to start their own.

Current local acquaintances/friends don't get the LJ link, because there's too much about work/my neighborhood/etc.

My mother knows about b.org, because Nutty occasionally leaves herself logged in of mother's computer. This is bad, IMO. She MUST NOT learn about LJ. Oh, the filtering there'd be. Nobody else in my family cares or knows, as far as I know.

My parents know I have a lot of online friends, but they aren't interested enough to ask about a link. Which they wouldn't get anyway. Also, my mom just learned how to send email this year.

Meatspace friends, for the most part, have no idea how much, or where, I'm online, and I'd rather keep it that way. Also, knowing them, it's not something they'd be interested in doing.

My parents and grandparents know about my Invisible Friends: I'm not sure about the more extended bits of the family. I anticipate that my brother will eventually get a log-in here and/or on lj, but he's not there yet. My grandparents don't really Internet, and Mom and Dad raised me around theatre people, so they don't get to object (although I did explain about "It's not really like other places on the Internet. Everyone I've met after the first meeting had already met someone I'd met in person. And there are pictures! It's all verifyable! None of them are elderly Dutch Women! Oh, you guys really aren't that worried, are you?")

My family knows about the concept, but they've never asked where they were or how to find them. Probably because they know that I'd never tell them. My brother, maybe, SOME of my online groups. This one, however, he wouldn't be interested in.

he wouldn't be interested in

Is it similar to the way in which groups of friends, of a certain person, may not inter-mingle between themselves, or do you (um, in the plural sense) think there's something unique about the whole thing, being conducted online, or on a specific virtual space, or something?

(Current and belated hippo birdies!)

I almost always refer to us as "that message board that I read," which makes it all feel very clandestine. They don't mock, and I linked once, but I doubt that any of them will make it much past the front page.

I don't have any idea how to explain the fanfic, especially the slash. Particularly to my close male friends. I mentioned it once to my best friend (male), and he gave me a very funny look, and we never spoke of it again. A few female friends get it, and one's in HP fandom, so it's nice to have someone else who gets the lingo.

Vampire Slayer Act of 2006 Approved by California Assembly No really - that's the name of the act.

The Vampire Slayer Act of 2006 has been approved by the California Assembly. AB1970, a bill proposed by Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, would force companies to put labels on devices that tell consumers how much energy is being used while the device is in standby mode. AB1970 supporters claim that the average household will pay an additional $200 per year due to electronics on standby. However, not everyone is pleased with the Vampire Slayer Act -- the Consumer Electronics Association, Electronic Industries Alliance and the American Electronic Association believe the bill will ultimately confuse consumers.