Eye on LJ

Earlier this month, I'd been wondering about how to post more regularly. It turns out that a good cure for that is to have nearly sixty people start reading the journal. It's really got me looking at my LJ a bit more.

I just went through my archives to see what entries were in my sex filter. I've created a tag for those entries, for those who want to catch up. The post I wanted to write remains on my home computer, and the filter-signup post remains open. I think I'll probably modify it (or create a new one) that can be a general add-me-to-filters-please post. It turns out that screened comments are a much more effective way of managing things than a poll.

Going back over my archives, I see I'd forgotten how much I've written in this thign over six years. I'm glad I always used evocative titles, but I really should go through with a tag pencil and get things organized. I shouldn't be this surprised at myself. I'd also forgotten how I'd created some unusual filters that I no longer use. The two main ones were designed to shield exes from my later dating escapades, but I never really thought about adding anyone to those filters later on. I won't worry about it until I have the tags set up (why worry about them when they're still hard to find), but I should do something about that eventually.

Trying to get a handle on my friends list, I'm also noticing how many people I have on my list who haven't posted in years. LiveJournal doesn't really provide any incentive to drop those journals. I mean, since they're not posting, they aren't showing up on my friends page. And maybe they'll come back and post. You never know.

Finally, here's a little puzzle I found in an old post (links updated):

Yesterday in the NPL chatroom, we were playing the NPL's own particular brand of $25,000 Pyramid. (Hey, someone rewrote the intro to that page. Great!) Anyway, I've found myself particularly haunted by a series of clues I gave yesterday, based on a category by Treesong:

• Our heroes encounter a logic problem that does have enough information to solve it.
• Harry is shocked to discover that he killed James and slept with Lily.
• Hagrid fortuitously raises a strangely footed beast in the Forbidden Forest.
• The challenge turns out to be Tom Marvolo himself.

Divining the category is left as an exercise to the reader.

The answer can be found in the original entry.

WedNYTX: 6. Also, I was the sixth person to register a correct answer for last night's medium Heyawake at Nikoli.com.

Coming Home.

When I got near my house, I noticed there was some odd congestion.

Then I heard the helicopters in formation.

Then I smelled smoke.

Then I started running to ojouchan.

It wasn't anything big. There was a fire nearby, but it was pretty far from us, and was already under control. Still, after Christmas Eve, I'm a little touchy about it.

Pardon Our Dust.

Things are a little bizarre at the moment.

If anyone knows how to use CSS to modify META tags to get Google to recognize me as the owner of this blog, I'd love to hear from them. Done.