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Just a disassociated etching...

...some shards of thoughts

...or things to just rattle about in a fruitcake tin...

Remark to disclaimer on his “Serious Rant” :

Seriousness is seriously overvalued. My advice: In your philosophy and thoughts, be as ponderous as the planets circling the sun. But in your actions, be as light as a feather dropped from the wing of a soaring eagle.

LOL...ah, Love--what is it...but the sweetest of all ways to never say goodbye? Or the most bittersweet way to say “let’s die” ?   *sighs*

If someone walked up to you and said “May you die a good death!” , would you thank them or retaliate with a pre-emptive strike?

What is a cyber-year , that is, cyber-time scaled up to the human life expectancy?   Well, seeing that the corporately-considered “lifetime” of a PC is about 3 years or so (most typical warranties extend to that—some more, some less—and it seems that versions of software and operating systems more than 3 years become *unsupported*), then each year of a typical human life would match up with ½ month in cyber-time. By such reckoning, I’m a 20-year-old Xangaroo.

Seeing that I’m almost 20-cyber-years old here, I’m starting in my post–Xangadolescence to forget what the “good ole times” on Xanga were like. LOL   So here are some “reminiscences” of dubious accuracy:

It used to be at the start of Xanga that the “Featured Content”, i.e., Most-Read list, recycled not daily but weekly and featured authors, not individual blogs, on the basis of their running weekly cumulative eProps attainment. Yes it was a very competitive popularity contest where a hundred eProps or so a week could easily push you to the tip of the iceblog.

We were once able to browse members by member names from an A-B-C…. type list. I liked that since it panoramically portrayed the imaginativeness of the user community in self-appellating. But Xanga removed that feature without any explanation!   wtf!   That was in the days of the Xanga founders’ secret shyness period LOL and I also think they were trying to make it difficult at that time to conduct a total member-count since viewing that list was the easiest way to do that. But who knows??!!

You used also to be able to search Xanga for the overall most popular (most ePropped) blogs ever. This feature disappeared—unexplained--amidst the “Bianca-disappearance-coverup” hahaha

The first recognizable eProp queen/king of Xanga was holly_green (still around), followed by Jewels (gone), then James (not a queen—still around), someone called ‘nfp” (rumored to be lurking hereabouts), and finally now her VeryModern!! Jewels and James may have gone back and forth—it was very not a bloodless ascension to that eProp crown. Now VeryModern looks firm for the foreseeable on the throne—unless she decides to take a hiatus to write an encyclopedia! But someday a change? PostModern?!! LMFAO

btw, Crim and freddy, someone nameless plans never to leave--not even to become the bloggyman! However, the rights to publish under said name may be re-sold again to the highest bidder!