Seeming as it's currently saving me, the all-new Livejournal meme!
1. Your LiveJournal username:
kolaqube Explain what it means: Kola Qube was a character I used to do comic strips for back at 6th form when I had the time for such things. She was rather like me - on acid. I like cola cube sweets (but not Cola! I love the smell of it, I like Cola-flavoured things, but I don't touch the drink! Weird, huh.) and it looks pretty grooveh as one word, so there ye go. And we've learnt that I don't take kindly to kolaqube@aol.com nicking my until-now unique name. And having her sweary friends rant at me due to Identity Confusion.
2. The display name that you chose to use: "Computer Says No". I'm not even a particularly avid Little Britain fan or anything, but that one character cracks me up. I loves me some comedy quotes.
3. Explain how you picked / why you selected the user picture(s) that you have: All of my icons are currently made by myself, and are generally fangirly silliness. My default is Teh Olde now, isn't it? One year I've kept it! Because I have the only Todhunter icon on LJ. Because it's Red Dwarf. Because it's slash. And because it's daft. And some people like it, apparently. My other ones currently are: my favourite men, lovely miss Claire Grogan, Bathurst!arse, and myself.
?? THE STATS ??
4. Date of survey (because things will change as soon as you finish it): 1st Febuary, 2006.
• Account type: Free (neeeeed paid. Medically.)
• Friends (#): 34.
• Mutual Friends (#): 30.
lord_alexander didn't friend me back (Wah!),
hells_dark_rose has for some reason abandoned me, and
robotnik_1 has for whatever reason vanished. Twice.
• Also Friends of (#): Non, I've friended everyone back so far. And while I'm here, how come my userinfo friends page is phrased differently to some others?
• Communities (#): Member of 27.
• Memories (#): 31 Er, I was supposed to add some more, but the tags took over.
• Journal entries: 257
• Comments posted: 778
• Received: 981. Yeah, I know.
?? YOUR JOURNAL ??
5. Why do you have a Journal page? For every fanthomable reason. To squee, to rant, to vent, to pimp, to...babble. To practise Teh Writing Skills, and to find impossibly groovy people who like the same obscure things.
Do you have a Journal page for yourself, your friends, strangers to know you, and/or everyone? All of the above. Actually, a lot of offline friends don't know about it, so I guess it's more for online friends.
6. Why did you pick LiveJournal (LJ) over another service or handwriting? I always had my eye on Livejournal, back in the days where you had to pester another user for an account or pay. As you may or may not know, I started out on Mindsay (kolaqube.mindsay.com) before it went shite. It was simple, easy and funky. But then they started fiddling with it. When livejournal 'improves' it changes for the better. I migrated over here permanently mainly because I have a lot more friends on here and there's Teh Communities. I have had a handwritten diary, but it's updated once a century due to the fact I can never find a pen. And I live for comments because I'm an attention seeker or something.
7. On a scale of 1-10 (10 being the highest) how well does your LiveJournal represent who you actually are? A curly 9, I think. You get all the best bits of me, with the whiny angsty bitchy bits scraped off. Mostly. I don't actually *know* how I really come across, though. I dread to think :p
8. How do you think your LJ represents you the most?
• Factually: I never lie, and I'm very open in such a public space, so very well. Plus I do Teh Personal Memes.
• Emotionally: A fair bit. I don't tend to post serious stuff on here too often, and it's usually Friends-Only, but again I'm generally very open about such things.
• Intellectually: Given that I do a lot of fangirly squeeing, and with my constant pisstaking of Netspeak, I have no idea about this one.
• Sexually: I'm not one to post about all the ins and outs (OOH. ER.) and gory detail, but then my life doesn't have that anyway. But I'm very open about my sexuality on here, and you do have my constant smut to contend with.
• Religiously: Do I ever talk about my religion? I don't think I've evr particularly talked about my religion on here, although you probably wouldn't want me to. I have a very complicated belief system.
• Artistically: I like to be creative, but I don't think I've posted much on LJ at all, unless you count my actual writing. My icons have never been too popular comments-wise, and I wouldn't want to blind your brain with my fiction attempts.
9. How much about your life do you post to LJ? About 70% perhaps. Probably less. I only post the stuff that particularly amused me or gripped me in some way, rather the majority of the mundane everyday monotony. I think it's mostly fangirly then. Again, I'm starting to *really* worry about my self image on here, lol!
Is there anything you refuse to post about? I don't really get all political on anyone's ass (can you guess my leanings though? Can ya?). Or any societal debate for that matter. I have very concentrated controversy :p I rarely post about specific offline people either. Because you never know!
10. On a scale of 1-10 how interesting do you think your own journal is to others? A 7? Hey, I dunno! I don't post anything I wouldn't find interesting.....but then that's very subjective. I think it's mildly interesting.
11. From who/how did you find out about LJ? I stumbled across it many moons ago. Possibly 2001. :p
12. Has anyone ever joined LJ because of you? I don't know. I think I might have inspired some people I've known from elsewhere but....I dunno.
13. How long have you been a member of LJ? Two years in April. I have no idea how long I was on Mindsay.
14. How often do you post to LJ? Rather frequently. Usually every other day now I'm at work. And three times in a day if you're lucky unlucky.
15. What proportion of your posts are friends only? About 10%. I reserve it for any really personal stuff. I don't actually like Friends-Only because a) I can't read them on my mobile or anywhere else where I can't sign in, and b) I like to draw in more people TEH ATTENTION SEEK.
16. What is your favorite interest on LJ? Coo, that's a tricky one. Possibly Red Dwarf, that's how I've found a lot of people. The 80s, fashion, FRUiTS and make up interests always bring up some groovy communities too.
One day I'll get Robert Bathurst's interest total up to 10 so he won't be so 'rare' ;)
17. What is your favorite community on LJ? Well
slacken_ties is the only LJ community to be namechecked in a live concert on Radio 1, baby. And we all lament the passing of
rightclicklick.
18. Have you ever learned anything new on LJ? Where do I begin?
19. Has anything on LJ ever caused you to establish, rethink, or even change your belief or position on something? I wouldn't go that far. But it's a great place for seeing both sides of the story when it comes to debates, and realising that no matter how weird your views on something, there's probably at least one person out there who agrees. Or even understands.
20. How often do you respond / comment on other peoples journals? As often as possible, as long as a post stirs anyw=thing within me. And the same for responses, as I love comments. I try to do it more often, but me so forgetful.
21. Do you prefer to write in your Journal, read other Journals, respond to others entries, or get responses to your entries? Ooh, all. I love to write, andMy F-List usually post good stuff that's a joy to read. But most of all I likes the interaction.
22. What's the longest you've gone without posting to LJ since the day you signed up? About six weeks. TEH DARKE WINTER OF 2005. *pokes old computer*
23. What's the longest you've gone without reading LJ since you discovered it? The very same 6 weeks. *takes moment to poke old computer again*
24. What is your favorite post you've ever made to LJ? Hmm. I think my Flist should vote really. My favourites don't really get much in terms of comments. Personally, looking back I liked my
celebrity dream adventures (currently M.I.A),
my bathroom picspam (even though tuxedos was more popular), my
Actor Random 10 for research purposes, my
Manchester Bomb story, and
this post for the fact that I was clearly rather excitable and more drunk than I realised.
25. What is your favorite post you've ever read on LJ? Oh, where do I begin? There's been so much gold from my flist.
slacken_ties have often provided pure comedy gold, especially when they combined Nick McCarthy and 'My Humps'. At last I was able to enjoy that song because of the wonderous mental image.
26. What's the weirdest or funniest thing you've seen on LJ? Oh, the same.
27. Have you ever specifically asked a question for people to reply to in your Journal? Yes. Ironically a no-commenter. The universe backlashed that day.
28. Have you ever tried to play the "trace yourself back through friends from a random LJ user"? Sort of. I always find it so weird when you're on a random journal and it links back to someone you know.
29. Have you ever played the "add a sentence to my post" game? Eeh, I don't know what it is!
30. Have you ever lied/fibbed in your journal? No, there's no point. LIEK OMG FAKERS.
31. Have you ever had something mean said to you or been stalked, harassed, or got into an argument/flame war on LJ (or did it to someone else)? Thankfully not. There was one strange moment on
red_dwarf once, but that was just some asshat who had a problem where there wasn't one and everyone was on my side anyway. They deleted their comments. Sign o'Coward.
32. Have you ever banned someone from your Journal? No. Don't make me.
33. Has LiveJournal had any significant impact on your life? I'd say. I've met awesome people through it.
?? YOUR FRIENDS ??
34. Who are your favorite LJ friend(s) and why? Oh gosh, I hate favouritism. Still, the LJ friends I know the most, or the longest, or interact with/stalk most are:
dracothelizard (first to friend me, yay!),
liz_duncalf,
melusinesara,
miss_lancing,
mysticheaven,
roxulasbride,
xylona, and
yayster. But I genuinely love you all, Flist, I do!
35. How many of your LJ friends are your friends in real life? That depends on how you define 'real life'. Just the one -
animalraw. But he's not really on LJ anyway :p
36. How many of your LJ friends have you actually met? Alas, none, otherwise the previous answer would have been longer.
37. Have you ever e-mailed or IM'ed someone you found on LJ? Of course, many times.
38. Of all of the people on LJ you know of, who is the most like you? Do I really want to taint anyone with the Me brush? The aforementioned favourites have similar likes and views I guess.
39. Who is the most intelligent or insightful person you know on LJ? Bloody 'ell, all of them.
40. Who is the most fun person you know on LJ?
mysticheaven, go on, have this win on me.
41. Who is your least favorite/most annoying LJ user or community? Well no one and nothing really because I avoid them like the plague if they irk me. Boringness is the only crime I ever really encounter on LJ.
42. How do you usually find new friends on LJ? I've been fortunate enough that many have added *me* because they already knew me when they joined, but I tend to find tnew LJ buddies through RD communities or suchforth. I love adding a weird interest to find someone else likes it too, that's a good way of finding yer soulmates.
43. Why are you most likely to add someone to your friends list? Usually because they share the same interests (the rarer the better!), and I like their journal entries. A lot of my friends list have great personalities that I'm very drawn to!
44. Do you automatically add friends to your journal if they add you first? I wouldn't say automatically, I check them out first. But I usually always add right back.
What is the most likely reason you wouldn't add someone to your friends list? If we had nothing in common.
45. Do you care if someone adds you to his or her friends list if you add him or her first? I rarely add, so when I do I particularly like that person and probably would want them to add back. But, hey, it's LJ and these things happen, we don't all have to like oneanother.
Would you remove them from yours if they didn't? No, unless their journal became rubbish anyway.
46. Are there any peoples' journals, communities, interests, or searches you frequent on LiveJournal that you don't or will not list in your user info page? A few interests and communities, but only because I have many listed anyway.
?? MORE THAN FRIENDS? ??
47. Is your "Significant Other" on LJ? I don't have one. Any takers? :p
48. Other than your S.O., who are you the most attracted to on LJ? Er...heh.
49. Who is the sexiest person you know on LJ? My Flist are all sexy biatches.
50. Have you ever fantasized about someone on LJ? ! I've dreamt about several members of my flist, but fantasise.....?
51. Would you want to know if someone fantasized about you on LJ? Well, now you have me all curious.
52. Would you date someone you met on LJ? Possibly.
53. Have you ever wanted to meet someone on LJ? Yes, totoalley :p. There's a long list and one day....
54. Have you ever actually met someone from LJ romantically (or otherwise) and hit it off (or not)? Not that I'm aware of :p
55. Have you ever posted a naughty picture / post / story on LJ? Define naughty :p
?? TECHNICAL LIVEJOURNAL ??
56. Do you prefer to post from a Client or the Web Interface? Teh Web. Can't be bothered with clients.
57. Do you use HTML to add extras to your entries? A fair bit. 'Speshially when I picspam.
58. Is your LJ page customized, template, or default? A slightly tweaked template. It's nowt fancy, but I likes it.
59. Do you usually use the Winamp music detector, add you music manually, or none at all? Can I be really dim and say I didn't realise you could use a detector? I always do it manually - i.e hardly ever.
60. How well do you know the LJ features and how to use it? Pretty well, but there's obviously one or two I'm not even aware of.
61. What is your favorite LJ feature? Hmm, I'm on free account so there's not that many, but the tag feature is organised and grooveh.
62. What is your least favorite LJ feature (one that you would change or delete if you could)? I don't really bother with the Memories at the moment, but only because I keep getting Error Message of Doom.
63. What feature would you most like to see added to LJ? EDIT COMMENTS DAMNIT.
64. What moods would you most like to see added to LJ? None, I just want a customised mood theme.
65. "One day the directory will work again." How long until you believe until that day will come? Until Satan says "Ere, pass me that Thermos."
All done. Ooh, 40 minutes left.