Randomness
Problems with the router kept me off the 'Net for a couple of days; now Netscape crashes every time I sign into LJ. I'm using IE instead, though I hate to.
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I've been using the free time to catch up on some of the TV I've taped, including The Dresden Files. It's a moderately enjoyable example of the genre, given the constraints of the format. Oh, and I <3 Bob (though I doubt regular readers of this journal needed to be told that).
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But watching so much TV in a row has made me realize just how much storytelling power has been lost by carving out another five or six minutes for commercials over the last twenty-odd years. That's enough time in TV land for a whole 'nother subplot. And with that loss comes the need for better writing, which we don't often get (again, because of format constraints). It's a rare show when I can't tell whodunit the first time they show up on the screen.
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I've come up with what I think is a workable written outline for my remix fic. Now I only hope that I can get it done on time, and that it meets the wordcount.
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The current crop of meta on 'harshing the squee' has me angry. Nearly enough to meta myself, but I have so many thoughts on the matter that I'm afraid I'd be incoherent. In a nutshell: Controlling your own LJ space isn't a difficult thing to do. Make your rules for your own space explicit, and don't try to control the rest of the internet. Because that ain't gonna happen, nor should it.
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BTW, am I the only one that thinks "tl;dr" is about the rudest abbreviation on the 'Net? Why respond to something you didn't read? And why tell the person about it? Seems like the height of arrogance to me.