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Jul. 29th, 2011 09:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shewhomustWelcome back, LiveJournal! We have missed you so badly...
Lots to catch up with, but first things first: happy birthday,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
samarcand! How very old you are! (I find this even harder to believe than how very, very old I am).
Talking of the very, very old: with no LJ to read, I fall back on old copies of the Guardian, and read about an Italian hairdresser illegally staying open until midnight, in order to cut hair under the full moon (can't find their story online, but it appeared in the New York Times a month earlier). I hadn't previously met the idea that a haircut under the full moon is beneficial; nor do I know whether eleven years on Italy still regulates shop hours. It's a cute story, but the deregulation of shop hours is not the unmixed blessing it suggests.
Wonderful colour pictures of London during the blitz from Life magazine; or put a clothespeg over your nose and see some of them dispplayed larger in the Daily Mail. (Found in the comments to a very interesting post byla_marquise_de_ about treating other people's history as the raw material for your stories).
Still in the wartime spirit, Hank Wangford discovers spam, Hawaiian style: "Along with pineapple, Spam is central to Hawaiian cuisine. Polynesians are generously built people, but Spam pushes many into sumo size. It comes in bizarre combos like Spam-flavoured macadamia nuts or musubi, which is Spam sushi – a white rice-ball with a slice of cooked Spam across the top tied together with nori, Japanese sushi seaweed. The perfect yin and yang, it is an edible oxymoron, the healthy rice and seaweed grappling with the work of the devil. Apparently, it's one of President Obama's favourite foods."
And fifthly: it's pure coincidence that these two items should have cropped up in a week when LiveJournal users have been inconvenienced because LJ has been under attack. I don't know how brave I would have been in the real Blitz, but I do feel angry with the people who are trying to damage LJ by driving away users. I may run backups more conscientiously from now on, but I'm not thinking of relocating. (ETA: Thanks topoliphilo for this explanation of why it matters.)
Lots to catch up with, but first things first: happy birthday,
samarcand! How very old you are! (I find this even harder to believe than how very, very old I am).Talking of the very, very old: with no LJ to read, I fall back on old copies of the Guardian, and read about an Italian hairdresser illegally staying open until midnight, in order to cut hair under the full moon (can't find their story online, but it appeared in the New York Times a month earlier). I hadn't previously met the idea that a haircut under the full moon is beneficial; nor do I know whether eleven years on Italy still regulates shop hours. It's a cute story, but the deregulation of shop hours is not the unmixed blessing it suggests.
Wonderful colour pictures of London during the blitz from Life magazine; or put a clothespeg over your nose and see some of them dispplayed larger in the Daily Mail. (Found in the comments to a very interesting post by
la_marquise_de_ about treating other people's history as the raw material for your stories).Still in the wartime spirit, Hank Wangford discovers spam, Hawaiian style: "Along with pineapple, Spam is central to Hawaiian cuisine. Polynesians are generously built people, but Spam pushes many into sumo size. It comes in bizarre combos like Spam-flavoured macadamia nuts or musubi, which is Spam sushi – a white rice-ball with a slice of cooked Spam across the top tied together with nori, Japanese sushi seaweed. The perfect yin and yang, it is an edible oxymoron, the healthy rice and seaweed grappling with the work of the devil. Apparently, it's one of President Obama's favourite foods."
And fifthly: it's pure coincidence that these two items should have cropped up in a week when LiveJournal users have been inconvenienced because LJ has been under attack. I don't know how brave I would have been in the real Blitz, but I do feel angry with the people who are trying to damage LJ by driving away users. I may run backups more conscientiously from now on, but I'm not thinking of relocating. (ETA: Thanks to
poliphilo for this explanation of why it matters.)
