Green Room - Week 5 - Day 5

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

It's nice to be here today through the series of interconnected tubes and lifts that power the so-called "internet connection" that brings us all together so we can post pictures of our favorite cartoon characters.

Which of course brings change.

Giant Tubes + cartoons = a sudden awareness of great social ills and solutions on how to fix them!

Excellent.

Um. . . what do you mean that's not it?

Man. OK - if you know so much, YOU tell me about.

Internets - How does it work?

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The only thing that I do know for sure is that there is a poll going on - http://community.livejournal.com/therealljidol/396159.html and the results of that poll will change the fate of mankind as we know it!! (Either that or decide who is making it into Week 6, I get those two confused sometimes!)

So make sure to vote so that large land masses don't tumble into the sea and/or you're favorites end up going home, which amounts to pretty much the same thing.

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I almost forgot the most important thing: Welcome to the World Owen Michael Idol chicky! (I assume that's his last name too. :P

Comments

[i-17bingo.livejournal.com]

I always assumed that the Internet functioned with the help of millions of tiny imps with Post-its (Terry Pratchett style).

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

So what is the Internet carried on the back of? LOLcats?

[sra33.livejournal.com]

Well I dunno about the Internets, but I agree with you, soooo....

HELLO LJI! :D I haven't looked at the polls yet. I need to get 70 more quests in WoW for the Seeker, then I need to build a model house for class tomorrow, THEN I'll be able to read.

Worst case scenario I get it all done tomorrow after class, because tomorrow night is MIDNIGHT CATA PREMIERE! So I'll be doing that all day Tuesday.

Hopefully I get to read them all!

[worldofcharlie.livejournal.com]

I'll probably spend the bulk of tomorrow reading/commenting/voting on entries

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

I want to admit something: these past couple of weeks I haven't been moved to comment as much as I'd like. I'll read, and react at least to the level of "Yeah I'll vote for that"/"No I won't vote for that," but I keep having trouble thinking of comments. I'm trying to be better about that, though. And at going into the Green Rooms, where I haven't been as much.

We can always do this game better...

[oberonia.livejournal.com]

Happens to me every year. I feel like I have nothing to contribute, so I don't say anything....then I feel like a douche for never commenting. *LAUGH*

This is something I've learned after my multiple seasons.....people DO like to simply know you've read it and liked it. It feels good when you realize peopl actually read what you write...AND THEN COME BACK AGAIN! :)

[oberonia.livejournal.com]

I was actually given the option of coffee and bagel in bed this morning, but I got up :)

I'd have had the pups bouncing on my head if I took my noms in bed. hehe

[drjeff.livejournal.com]

"Pups bouncing on my head" sounds like some sort of euphemism. heh

[worldofcharlie.livejournal.com]

*waves*

It's mid morning and I don't feel alive yet

I've been seeing that thing around on facebook - I dunno if you post using your favorite childhood cartoon character will spread awareness of child abuse (Which is something I hold pretty tightly to the chest). I think that just by spreading awareness period is all we need (be a foster parent, volunteer!)

*needs to get off soapbox* or get breakfast going - whichever happens first

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

I think you should stay on the soapbox - isn't the view nice from up there? *wink*

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

IT IS A SERIES OF TUBES, GARY.

[phoenixejc.livejournal.com]

indeed, it is a series of tubes!

[drjeff.livejournal.com]

I just remember when we cured cancer with those ribbon thingies. Or did we stop the war? Hmm.

I'm old enough to remember when people actually left their houses to protest things. How quaint.

In other news, sistermaryeris and I are bound and determined to run 3 miles today, to make a 5-mile weekend. We're getting there, little by little by little...

Or maybe I just WISH she was bound. Mwahahahahahahaaaa!

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Depends on the colors of the ribbons as to whether they cured cancer, stopped the war, or prevented child abuse. Each color resonates on a different frequency, ya know.

People LEFT THEIR HOUSES? How scary!

[beautyofgrey.livejournal.com]

*pokes Gary* I work to keep large land masses from slipping into the sea daily! Stop putting pressure on me!

I am trying to work from home and decide on flowers for my wedding. Joy! It actually snowed here yesterday - just enough for a dusting, which melted away this morning. I can handle that...of course, I cannot handle that it was 80 degrees two weeks ago and it's 40 degrees today. Brrr. But we went out anyway and ate a huge dinner that I will be wearing for the remainder of the year.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

Maybe you should just get into real estate instead. Buy up some land in the Midwest, knowing that you would end up with some prime coastal real estate!

[roina-arwen.livejournal.com]

Internets = hampsters + electricity + randomosity.

Or something like that.

I made the hubby and I some cheese & sauteed onion omelettes, topped with leftover chili for breakfast, along with a side of hash browns. Nom nom nom!

Otherwise, I'm just doing some laundry and chilling out with My Friend Facebook, and later on I'll read more entries. Hubby is wanting to know what to get me for Christmas and my impending birthday (18 days from now), but there's really nothing that I want. I've added a few books and DVDs to my Amazon wishlist, but there's no "big" present that I want. *shrug*

[lawchicky.livejournal.com]

That sounds really good!! I had a hard boiled egg and a banana for breakfast. Hospital food- blah!

[lilycobalt.livejournal.com]

Hello everyone. Still studying. Yesterday was a reminder of why I don't do study groups. If you put two nervous people in a room, you get more nervous, not less nervous (at least in my experience). On the other hand, I did start watching Battlestar Galactica last night, and I'm enjoying it so far.

I'm trying to read in my study breaks, but in practice, I wind up refreshing the poll. My tribe is frighteningly close.

[applespicy.livejournal.com]

Battlestar Galactica!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry, sorry, got carried away there. But it is so excellent. I'm glad you're liking it so far!

[agirlnamedluna.livejournal.com]

I know I said I'd comment on everything I read this week, but daughter is still very sick and since I had worried about her being rather bad about the concept of sharing (she's an only child) she proved me wrong by passing me the crud.

Let's just keep it at I now know why she was crying and whining all the time, because honestly I'd do the same if I wasn't supposed to be the adult here >.<

I hope everyone else is doing better.

[lilycobalt.livejournal.com]

I hope you and your daughter get better soon! Hopefully she learns about sharing in a less infectious way soon :)

[barrelofrain.livejournal.com]

Haven't baked my tart yet as I started feeling super sick last night, but my partner says he'll help "as soon as he puts up the Christmas lights." Uhoh.

Really wanted to do some yoga today, but I'm having one of those fibro days where it's tiring just to wash your hair, sooooo we'll see. LJ+couch+tea may be more my speed.

[lawchicky.livejournal.com]

No reading for me today. I'm too busy fussing over and snuggling my new baby. Poor little guy was circumcised this morning and is still on a hunger strike.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Shoot: too young to appreciate LOLcats...

(Seriously, at least he'll get better.)

[theafaye.livejournal.com]

CARTOONS CURE CANCER, ERASE CHILD ABUSE AND GIVE YOU PUPPIES.

That is all.

[clauderainsrm.livejournal.com]

As long as they don't give you cancer of the puppy. That would be the saddest cancer of them all.

[alephz.livejournal.com]

No one -really- knows how the Internets works. It's all just a massive magic box connected with wires. If we ever examined the wires, they'd be just inert bits of plastic and silver paint. So long as we don't know how it works, it will continue to do so.

To look too closely will bring only madness and the end of our current 'net-immersed existence.

[serpentpixie.livejournal.com]

Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to present to you, The Internet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAUyaELfwBo

[sra33.livejournal.com]

THE ELDERS OF THE INTERNET KNOW MY NAME?!?!!?

[applespicy.livejournal.com]

I'm sooo behind on reading posts this week. I don't know what happened to me! Usually I read as the week goes on, then do a cleanup read of everyone I missed when the poll goes up. This week, though, I've only read a dozen or so posts so far. I guess I'll be spending today catching up!

[puppetmaker40.livejournal.com]

Today is Caroline's 8th Birthday so I am occupied with my daughter.

She is wishing hard for at least some flurries here so her "it snows on my birthday" streak doesn't break

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Does Caroline ever read any of your entries? How much (if any) Net access does she get?

[teenagewitch.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I am tired and cranky and sore. I think I am getting a cold and general whineyness Eating lightly butter toast and trying not to scream at anyone. It might be time to go back to bed.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

Let's see if this works...

8sends massage vibes over the Net*

Shit. The series of tubes are tough on limbs.

[tigrkittn.livejournal.com]

Hello Green Room!

Just got back from running errands after church (sound-tech training, yay!) and now I've got five hours to curl up on the couch and read entries and watch a Harry Potter marathon on tv before hubby gets home from work tonight. The pretty snow is gone but I've got my tiny holiday tree strung with popcorn and cranberries (my hippie mom would be so proud!) to keep me in the ChanuChristmaYule spirit :)

[drjeff.livejournal.com]

One of my first big-city TV gigs was in sound.. LOVED it.

[drjeff.livejournal.com]

I have one more thing to say, and that is that WE COMPLETED OUR COUCH TO 5K GOAL TODAY! Our first 5k run was about an hour ago.

Yay!

[lawchicky.livejournal.com]

Yay and congratulations!! I was so proud if the hubby earlier this year for getting through his first half marathon. I'm pretty determined to do one myself, but am hoping to train up to 5k first :) Actually, first the gall bladder needs to come out, but then I'll start training!

[angelic-mystic.livejournal.com]

I always thought it was a bunch of little fairies flying around with magic wands. Hmmm

Excited for Tuesday. The new WoW expansion is coming out. I have to make sure my reading is done before my husband gets ahold of the computer otherwise I'll be stuck using my phone to read and vote.

[cobycaroline.livejournal.com]

I'm still waiting for Al Gore to fill me in on the interwebs.

I read through my tribe and voted. I gotta tell you, I am not aces with commenting this season. I should rectify that speedily.

Other than that, I am off to the grocery store to purchase my food for the week. Who knew I needed to do that rather than fly by the seat of my pants with Christmas cookies and cocktails and luncheons, oh my?

[rattsu.livejournal.com]

The internet works because we believe it will work. Just like gravity!

[vaguelyclear.livejournal.com]

What internet? The internet is completely over. Duh. Prince says so.