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[moominmuppet]

Citation Needed (link from Marn)

et tu, Amsterdam?

fascinating -- an emergent gender-neutral pronoun? (link from heron61)

Apparently I'm in need of fidgety, obsessive little projects. Now that I've finished the basic catalogging of my library, and reorganized all the quick calls in our Helpdesk database, I'm working on consolidating all the email from all my old emails accounts into my current account. Oy. I've cleared out the three that had the least built up. I'm slowly tackling two more that aren't too horrible. And then there's my main old hotmail account. More than a decade of email. And from what I can find, since it's really not in their interests to make it simple for me to abandon their service, there doesn't seem to be a simple way to do this, given that my main account now is also web-based (although if anyone has ideas, I'm certainly open to them!). I've forwarded about a thousand emails so far. I figure I've got at least three times that much left to do. I'm also being extra-obsessive about chronicling what I'm watching recently. I wonder where this is all coming from?

I also made my uber-To Do List today. "Catch up on LJ" is indeed on there.

Comments

[winterknight.livejournal.com]

I rather like 'yo'. What's disrespectful about it? I think that's a rather race/class-charged thing to say. Really, people.

re: Amsterdam -- woe. That's not good news.

'Citation Needed' is fabulous.

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

'Citation Needed' is fabulous.

*grin* Isn't it, though?

[marnanel.livejournal.com]

Here are two possibilities about Hotmail:

http://search.cpan.org/~xantus/WWW-Hotmail-0.10/Hotmail.pm

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gotmail

They'll both probably require knocking around a bit with perl and a fairly long-running batch job to do the actual download somewhere with a decent connection. If you want a hand with either I'm all yours.

[ajollypyruvate]

I have mixed feelings about the Amsterdam article. Yes, it would be great if things remained "free-spirited" but there are people living there who are seeing their loved city fall apart.

I think their situation is akin to the Deadheads in San Francisco two decades ago. (Albeit ours was on a much smaller scale, of course.) Outsiders thought they were cool. Residents saw the serious damage they caused in Golden Gate Park (some parts were so badly trashed they had to be completely re-landscaped), the escalating crime related to theft and drug use (with possibly more serious crimes, such as rape,) and garbage, with its rodent and insect followers, everywhere they went. It was disgusting. I think my mom felt the same way when all those hippies arrived in the 1960s.

[moominmuppet.livejournal.com]

*nod* It's a tricky issue in some ways. My frustration is that much of the problem is that the reason everyone goes there (and then misbehaves in concentrated numbers) is that the rest of us are behind on these kinds of policies, not because I think Amsterdam was wrong to take their approach. It creates a sort of scarce habitat while at the same time giving people who are traveling there a tendency to behave in the worst sort of ways because it feels like such a release of rules. Initially, that tends to cause a decent number of people to act like irresponsible, rude teenagers, I think.