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[kavieshana]

Listen. I always want to start with "listen" so it's like I'm coming in right in the middle and this is a conversation we've been having, have had, will keep having. I've already got you but it can't hurt to hook my finger in a belt loop, pull you closer, and keep you engaged. Listen, this has been a year to talk about and I've barely said anything

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Yep. It's going STRAIGHT BACK to the guy in the meadow I bought it from

[grrgoyl]

Well, it's the double-edged sword of Android -- there are two LJ apps, the "official" one put out by our Russian overlords which is barebones, won't even let you read your F-list, and has a hopelessly glitchy UI (if you scroll up to edit an earlier part of your post, if you pause while typing after three seconds the cursor jumps back down to the bottom. FUN. Also the formatting gets all screwed up, so you need to post, then get yourself to a computer to fix the formatting manually online. CONVENIENT. APP FAIL).

Then there's my current one which is feature-rich, not glitchy, and even lets you use with other LJ servers (IJ, DJ, etc). So I suppose I can live with being forced to use my default icon for comments.

I was a lot more melancholy as a child, which is ironic considering only now in my 40's am I realizing how f**ked up the world truly is and how much work is required to make things better (and the staggering odds against that work being done). I realize you aren't always this glum, but your writing certainly is. I'm not knocking it, it comes off as rather poetic and lyrical.

Just listening to what song?

Probably easier than selling it back to some crackpot internet vendor.

[kavieshana]

You've got the huge tablet - why not navigate the real internet page? It's neat that you do have the option of so many unofficial apps. I'm not sure that's available through Apple.

Maybe I'm always this glum, internally. I'm trying to write something happy and I almost feel like I have to make a list of positive adjectives and intentionally add them in.

Melancholy is appropriate for children, I think. It's what drives them to read. Or maybe it's the other way 'round.

For some reason when I'm responding to your comment it shows my post's current music directly underneath what you've written. I saw that and thought, I don't know, maybe the tablet lets you post your music as a post script to your comments. I know that's ridiculous and that you don't even use last.fm, but last night I thought it the best coincidence in the world that you might have been listening to a song that I remembered having listened to. Smalls, I'm losing my mind.

Re: Probably easier than selling it back to some crackpot internet vendor.

[grrgoyl]

True, internet browsing is much easier on the tablet. However, there's still a fair amount of page resizing, scrolling around, hitting a link unintentionally, etc. None of that mucking about with the app.

I see your "current music" now when responding to a comment, not at other times. Why can't you name the song? Has ACTA already been passed and you're superduper paranoid?