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thefourthvine) wrote2007-06-04 02:37 pm
thefourthvine) wrote2007-06-04 02:37 pm
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Me, Myself, and I
This is one of my periodic attempts to keep my various internet selves all organized and accounted for. (It doesn't work, but I think the effort is what counts, don't you?) So, if for some reason you want to find me somewhere else:
I'm thefourthvine on InsaneJournal.
I'm thefourthvine (just for variety) on GreatestJournal, and I'm also keeping an off-site backup of my LJ posts there. (Thanks for the kick in the ass to do that,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
brown_betty. And if anyone else is wondering how to do it, and do it easily, I used Betty's helpful instructions.)
I'm thefourthvine (Look, I don't like change, okay?) on GoodReads, where I'm experimenting with reviewing some of the published stuff I read. Notes: these are not considered, thoughtful reviews, they are not consistently positive reviews (or even consistently not frothing at the mouth reviews), and at this point they're also pretty haphazard; I've just been clicking around until I feel the urge to review coming over me. Also, I'm brand-new to the GR thing, and I'm making mistakes; people who have already friended me there have been spammed with reviews of older books. I've figured out how not to do that now. But other mistakes are inevitable. Join me now and you can point and laugh! (And tell me what to read, too. That would be nice.) ETA: I really am entertainingly new to this. Apparently I'm TFV, not thefourthvine, on GoodReads. Perhaps I should change my name to "easily confused by text boxes."
I'm thefourthvine (Consistency is a virtue. It's a foolish consistency that's the hobgoblin of little minds, thank you very much.) on IMEEM, too.
And I'm sometimeslittera_abactor right here on LJ. (Well, I had to have one different name. It's a rule. I think. I, uh, kind of lost the Official Internets Rulebook, v. 3897.144. Please don't tell on me.)
...And I think that's all of me. I'll look around and see if I've got any more of me lying on a virtual shelf somewhere, though.
Soon: a return to actual recommending! Probably! Or maybe meta! Content, is my point. (Oh, content, how I've missed you.)
ETA2: Andcofax7 and bluevsgrey have reminded me that I'm TFV on del.icio.us. Apparently I need skilled professionals to help me keep track of myselves. This can't be a good sign.
I'm thefourthvine on InsaneJournal.
I'm thefourthvine (just for variety) on GreatestJournal, and I'm also keeping an off-site backup of my LJ posts there. (Thanks for the kick in the ass to do that,
brown_betty. And if anyone else is wondering how to do it, and do it easily, I used Betty's helpful instructions.) I'm thefourthvine (Look, I don't like change, okay?) on GoodReads, where I'm experimenting with reviewing some of the published stuff I read. Notes: these are not considered, thoughtful reviews, they are not consistently positive reviews (or even consistently not frothing at the mouth reviews), and at this point they're also pretty haphazard; I've just been clicking around until I feel the urge to review coming over me. Also, I'm brand-new to the GR thing, and I'm making mistakes; people who have already friended me there have been spammed with reviews of older books. I've figured out how not to do that now. But other mistakes are inevitable. Join me now and you can point and laugh! (And tell me what to read, too. That would be nice.) ETA: I really am entertainingly new to this. Apparently I'm TFV, not thefourthvine, on GoodReads. Perhaps I should change my name to "easily confused by text boxes."
I'm thefourthvine (Consistency is a virtue. It's a foolish consistency that's the hobgoblin of little minds, thank you very much.) on IMEEM, too.
And I'm sometimes
littera_abactor right here on LJ. (Well, I had to have one different name. It's a rule. I think. I, uh, kind of lost the Official Internets Rulebook, v. 3897.144. Please don't tell on me.)...And I think that's all of me. I'll look around and see if I've got any more of me lying on a virtual shelf somewhere, though.
Soon: a return to actual recommending! Probably! Or maybe meta! Content, is my point. (Oh, content, how I've missed you.)
ETA2: And
cofax7 and bluevsgrey have reminded me that I'm TFV on del.icio.us. Apparently I need skilled professionals to help me keep track of myselves. This can't be a good sign.
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Apparently I need skilled professionals to help me keep track of myselves. This can't be a good sign.
You need to read Set this house in order (http://www.amazon.com/Set-This-House-Order-Romance/dp/006095485X/ref=sr_1_1/002-8308869-7677633?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181068647&sr=1-1) by Matt Ruff.
Also,
a lame name that is nonetheless so inextricably welded to your internet identity that you can't even imagine changing it.
Near the end of The Big Con (http://www.amazon.com/Big-Con-Story-Confidence-Man/dp/0385495382/ref=pd_bbs_1/002-8308869-7677633?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1181068867&sr=1-1) (which you should also read -- it's the source for most of the really fun stuff in the script of "The Sting"), David Maurer talks about con-men's monikers. The gist of his argument is that once a moniker is suggested and accepted, it sticks to the bearer far more than a mere legal name.