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So somebody I know recently sent me a thingit on Google+ reading as follows.

fyi, you might want to update your user name to your real name.

This individual was involved in the making of Google+, and ze's very gung-ho about it and about getting people to buy into it, and I think this was hir reason for leaving me that thingit. However, I wanted to share my response with the world that knows me by this pseudonym, so here it is.

No actually, I don't want to.

See my recent reshare of Randall Munroe's post and my comment on it. I don't want every friend of friend of friend to know everything about me. Even if I weren't internet unique (go ahead and Google my name, last I checked it took until page 6 to get any hits that weren't me), I still wouldn't want people I know nothing about to be able to stalk me, know my gender/sex (and start treating me differently because of it), have a pretty good guess at my ethnic background, and so on, just because I happened to comment on one of your posts or +1 a celebrity post. I don't want my students to search for me and find out everything about my politics and religion that I currently hide from them in person because if they knew they would dismiss every scientific fact I teach them because I'm a "radical." No, I don't want to put my real name in.

If Google had an option to hide my name from the world, or to only reveal it to certain circles, or even better yet to reveal my real name to some circles and a pseudonym to other circles, then yes, I'd put my full name in (and my pseudonym for the other circles). But as things stand right now, if people can't figure out from my initials and the bird icon who I am, then they don't need to know who I am and should be judging my words on their content, not the name attached to them.

Is there any way to automatically download all the mp3 files from this page, or did the_xtina doom me to an hour of right CTRL clicking?

I tried out TrustFlow II for LiveJournal. The following people not on the friends list for zandperl are close by:

• deadside_legion, ceravana (150 - 200)
• runrunmarch (300 - 350)
• doradora, techdinghy, dreamsofelysium, lostchyld (350 - 400)

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Created by ciphergoth; hosted by LShift.

TrustFlow II: Who is closest to your friends list?

This's just awesome, I'm changing all my credit cards' contact info online, w/o having to wait on hold for hours to talk to a rep on the phone to change them. :)

You Are Austin

A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll. You're totally weird and very proud of it. Artistic and freaky, you still seem to fit in... in your own strange way. Famous Austin residents: Lance Armstrong, Sandra Bullock, Andy Roddick

Funny, I did nearly end up at UT Austin for grad school.

Hello Kitty has a pet cat.

An anthropomorphic cat. Has a cat. As a pet. A cat.


Charmmy Kitty being ridden by Sugar, a hampster.


Sugar is also Hello's pet, and was given to her by her boyfriend. The whore.

Inspired by Oolong, the pancake bunny, here's a couple bird versions.





Images supplied by dragonjaze and captioned by me. X-posted to bird_macros.

A row of bottles on my shelf
Caused me to analyze myself.
One yellow pill I have to pop
Goes to my heart so it won't stop.
A little white one that I take
Goes to my hands so they won't shake
The blue ones that I use a lot
Tell me I'm happy when I'm not.
The purple pill goes to my brain
And tells me that I have no pain.
The capsules tell me not to wheeze
Or cough or choke or even sneeze.
The red ones, smallest of them all
Go to my blood so I won't fall.
The orange ones, very big and bright
Prevent my leg cramps in the night.
Such an array of brilliant pills
Helping to cure all kinds of ills.
But what I'd really like to know..........
Is what tells each one where to go!

http://community.livejournal.com/autoimmune/193401.html