Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

"These days, there are certain people who think that a writing implement is a weapon of mass destruction.

"Since these people are also the ones who come from a world of closed minds, brittle logic, and ideas that are soluble in water... they're actually right. ;-7"

-- redsonja, 2004-07-21 (comment)

Perrine just jumped into my lap with bits of lint/cobwebs/dust-bunny stuck to her whiskers that point up, so she looks like she's wearing Deely-Boppers.

Argh. I figured I'd start catching up on my friends list while gathering my awakeness and energy for anything else, and I popped open a big pile o' windows containing views out to around "?skip=300" so I could read more-or-less oldest to newest (though still reading within each set of twenty from newest to oldest, of course). The expected side effect of my having slept until dinnertime yesterday (which obviously meant not getting back to Darkover to hang out with people for the end of it) was that I'd have to skip back that far. It wasn't until I got to posts from this morning that I realized what the second side effect was.

I knew that LJ logins expire after some period ot inactivity (a couple of days, I think), but had completely lost track of the fact that it had actually been that long since I'd looked at LJ from this machine. Eventually I realized why all the polls that I hadn't already filled out were showing me answers instead of places to click to submit answers.

So any friends-locked entries my friends have made since sometime very early Saturday, I'll have to scroll back through all of this all over again to read. Feh.

Too bad I can't just submit an SQL query like "(entrydate>$friday) and (security<>public)" to get just the locked posts that I'd missed, without all the ones I'd just read. (Then again, with that kind of feature, I could filter based on the topic idenitifiers some people prefix their subject lines with in square brackets, which strikes me as a better solution than topic-based friends-filters. (It would make the filters reader-managed instead of poster-managed and would not require that all filterable posts be friends-locked.))