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42nd Meme

posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 12:28am on 2007-07-03 under ,

So there's this meme floating around with the instructions:

  1. Go into the archives of your blog.
  2. Find your 42nd entry ever. Yes, this may require some counting and basic math. Deal with it.
  3. Link to that entry in a new entry. This is the meaning of your life.

(To anyone reading this on GJ, IJ, or Blurty, I'm going to use the 42nd entry from my LJ, since I don't think I'm up to 42 entries elsewhere yet (though this parenthetical comment will look odd ifwhen I get around to backfilling the other sites with backdated entries).)

I don't think I like my answer, posted via SMS from a cell phone in June 2002:

Fixed the car, sort of. Suspect I turned a catastrophic failure into an intermittent -- I'll find out the next time it fails.

I guess deliberately aiming a more optimistic entry at the 42nd spot in GJ or IJ just so I can re-do the meme using that would be cheating, huh? (Well, at least it wasn't the entry right before that one, about the car suddenly dying in the middle of the street.)

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posted by [identity profile] yndy.livejournal.com at 05:27am on 2007-07-03
hey - you're looking at it wrong - that one says that the meaning of your life is to take something that has catastrophically failed and to fix it, even if only part-way...

That's pretty cool by me!! :)
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 07:23am on 2007-07-03
Well yeah, that's better than the "I'm doomed to have unreliable transportation and never be sure whether I've completely fixed things" interpretation ...
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posted by [identity profile] starmalachite.livejournal.com at 07:01am on 2007-07-03
So if you don't have a blog, your life is empty and void of meaning?
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 07:20am on 2007-07-03
Well yeah, as far as anyone [in the blogosphere] can tell ... <innocent look>
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posted by [identity profile] thespian.livejournal.com at 08:17am on 2007-07-03
that would mean that the desitny of my life is to forget what day it is.

Actually, that really is emblematic of me.
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posted by [identity profile] realinterrobang.livejournal.com at 02:05am on 2007-07-04
The 42nd entry ever in my LJ is a meme, directing me to

1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open the book to page 23.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.

The sentence I posted was from Lewis Glinert's The Joy of Hebrew, and it was, "The reward for a mitzvah is one more mitzvah, and the penalty for an avera is a further avera."

My comment was, "Ominous, that, perhaps?!"
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