Or, in my case, when I brought meatspace friends into the internet.

Like me! Vortex got me to try TableTalk, way way back in 1999! Thanks, Vortex!!

One of the things that I love about the internet is that no matter where I am, I have a friend in 50 miles. When I first started doing a lot of work travel, I would bring work to do so I wouldn't get bored at night. I quickly stopped doing that because it was useless since I was always meeting/getting reacquainted with people from my threads.

Amen to this also. I've occasionally had bosses/coworkers who were very confused as to why, no matter where we went, I'd be like "Oh, sure, I have friends there!" They always are like "Uh, from school?"

How many of you who don't consider yourselves computer geeks know what RSS is and use it at least once a week? If you use a feed in LJ, this may be you.

This is me. I have several feeds on LJ. But every time I do it, i have to figure out/remember how. I've heard of RSS readers but don't know what they are. (I mean, I can figure out what they DO, but I couldn't name one, or work it)

It tastes like how I imagine satan's armpit would taste.

Ok, you are crazy! But sane, sleepseeking mom. STILL CRAZY...but I'll never offer you root beer. And not a bad mom. Stop that.

jesseh is a wonderful, cat-seducing (DEVI SLEPT WITH HER OMG), entertaining (and hopefully not lost in the wilds of B'more) houseguest, btw.

paperdol, my so-not-getting-it parents are (now, finally) entertained by your book. They get my life online so much more now(even as I've tried to explain over years and years [apparently, I'm not very articulate], and then as I invite online people to my family home over xmas....they don't quite get it. Love the people entirely, not sure of the connections that they came from.)

From my parents outsider perspective, one of the most powerful to the-do-not-get-its was the Internet Wants Your Daughter.

Though they found something familiar ( I love you, but I'm going to Albertsons ALONE said sara ) in Together, Alone. Which they already knew, but always need reinforcements. Believe me.

But rootbeer likes and dislikes are new, msbelle! And I shall not state my preference to keep it fresh for next time.

Your RSS responses sound about where I expected. It's not a commodity, but people who don't understand it are getting value from it. That article struck me as a bit doomsaying. Okay, no, very. My super-scientific poll totally beats it.

you, dearheart, are a troublemaker.

plush Anomalocaris [link]

One of my favorite prehistoric... sea creature thingies....

For the record, Chez Zmayhem not only drinks root beer, but we drink a wide variety of them and rate them and prefer the fancy ones.

word question because my brain is fried -- what's another word for breakdown, as in "the breakdown of color group b is red, yellow and green" I can't use breakdown because I already used it in the sentence before with color group a.

Decomposition?

Not sure that sounds right....

Or just 'composition'?

Distribution could also work.

can someone just make up a chart at this point?

No, but here's a list. I was thinking about waiting until the next round, but since you predicted that joke...

Cilantro Yay/Grapefruit Yay

Liese S.
lisah (rr)
Kat
Bobbi
SuziQ
sumi
Hil R (rr, p)
ND
megan walker
KristinT
Aimee
Tom Scola
Nora Deirdre
Laura
beth b
Megan E
JZ (rr)
P.M. Marcontell Lee
Laga

Cilantro Boo/Grapefruit Boo

JenP
billytea
Zenkitty

Cilantro Yay/Grapefruit Boo

Susan W.
amych
Chikat
ita
MFNlaw
Theodosia
Sue
Daisy Jane
Vortex

Cilantro Boo/Grapefruit Yay

DavidS (rr)
meara (rr)
brenda m (gf juice) Toddson

Cilantro Yay/Grapefruit ?

Cash
Jessica
Nilly
Jesse

Cilantro Boo/Grapefruit ?

Grapefruit Yay/Cilantro?

Laga
MM
Laura

Grapefruit Boo/Cilantro?

Kathy A
Ailleann

Oh - rr after grapefruit means and expressed preference for ruby red.

Y'all didn't think I was going to do it, did you?