Wednesday morning post . . .

At the beginning of a long day.

Parents; Open House is tonight, so I will not be home until 9:30 p.m. or so.

I have a few things to keep me busy after school.

I am unsure if I will have LJ access. I hate not being able to get it at school, but I understand why the school dos that. I also know I would probably get nothing done during my prep period.

Busy times are these. A lot of things going on.

Looking forward to getting to a couple/three SCA events soon (Falling Leaves, maybe Coronation and EKU).

Does anyone have any recommendations for a day spa in the Cambridge/Somerville/Waltham/etc. area? I have a friend looking for a message, facial, manicure, etc.?

Be well.

Musings on LJ etiquette

This post has been building up, bit-by-bit, for a while, and not everything relates to a specific situation.

Even though my Internet days date back to AOL in 1994, I have always been a student of netiquette. I learned early on to avoid all caps, not highjack threads, not troll, etc. (I think I am mainly successful).

Personally, I also learned that to be taken seriously, you need to sign your posts. (This has nothing to do with LJ, but rather concerns a teacher board I am on where people continually harass others in anonymous postings.

That said, I have seen some questions develop regarding Live Journal etiquette. Some things seem pretty well-established, but others are more vague.

I would be interested in answers to these scenarios.

1. You are reading someone's personal LJ. Let us assume for now that it is locked. THe LJ owner posts something that is negative toward a friend of yours on LJ. Do you tell the person the comment is aimed at? That's a friends-only post. How about if it's not locked and anyone could see it? How about if the comment comes from someone other than the LJ owner.

2. What if the negative comment is in a community? (ie, I whack someone in an sca-snark community they are not in).

3. How about if it's not something negative, but rather something juicy. You're erading a poly community and you see a friend posting that they have a new girlfriend. Say it's a locked sommunity. Do you pass the word? Different if it is unlocked?

4. On a different tangent. Someone once said to a dear friend. "Oh, you mean an LJ "friend." That's not a real friend. That's someone you talk to on the internet." Comment?

5. When you post about bad things happening, is posting *hug* or "Thinking of you" OK. Is that what you want? Or would you rather someone not post unless they have something of substance to say? I would assume if you are posting about something good, you don't mind "Woo-hoo" posts.

6. I have seen instances where folks read someone in an LJ community, then follow to the person's own LJ and whack them there for various things. What do you think?

7. Deleting posts? I might have deleted , maybe two or three posts in my 3+ years on LJ. I have deleted, I think, two comments in my LJ. I do not think I have ever deleted anything in a community. I figure, the posts are there. :eave 'em there. What do you think?

I know I have more.

End of a long day . . .

Open House was underattended, but it went well, and I was home shortly after 9 p.m.

The next two days are gonna be tough because I am going out of town FRiday, and I am really excited about it.

Then, next week, there are all sorts of exciting things happening, including seeing Great Big Sea Thursday in Providence and Saturday in Portalnd. Then, Falling Leaves is Sunday!

My kids did me proud tonight. Administrators need to do almost nothing at these events. The National Honor Society kids and the other kids who volunteer get everything done. They barely need me. ;)

From the "This Pisses Me Off" Department:"

A Kansas-based group that proclaims “God hates fags” plans to picket the funerals of the Amish girls killed in Bart Township.

The Westboro Baptist Church — described as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League — has made a name for itself by picketing the funerals of U.S. troops killed in Iraq. The troops are dying as punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality, the group says.

The Kansas group says the Amish schoolgirls were “killed by a madman in punishment for Gov. Ed Rendell's blasphemous sins against Westboro Baptist Church.