After 20 years on LiveJournal, in 2022 I transitioned to another blogging platform.

Although you can still find my historical blog entries here, everything from 2022 forward will only appear on the new site.

To continue reading my journal, and see new posts as they are written, point your browser at the following URL:
https://ornoth.dreamwidth. ( Read more... )

Ten years, 700 blogposts covering 1200 different topics. I'm quite pleased with the quality of content, too.

My most frequent topics: Buddhism, humor, PMC, Friday Five, cycling, and DargonZine.

I consider it a success. I'm sure you can expect more of the same.

I joined LJ six years ago, on February 16, 2002.

It’s kind of amusing that my fourth and fifth posts, on February 24th 2002, discussed the first steps I took on the long path of philosophical inquiry I’ve been on in the years since. So this journal is all bound up with my review of my previous Existentialbeliefs, a survey ( Read more... )

Twitter-Pated
Twitter.

Well, I signed up, if only to reserve my username. I don’t expect to ever use it, although that’s kinda how I originally thought about LJ, so let’s use the word “unlikely” rather than “never”.

If you don’t know about Twitter, you’re probably old and out of the loop. It’s a social network, like LJ with ADD.Short posts, ( Read more... )

Okay, I’ve finally gone through and tagged all my old LiveJournal entries.

I haven’t gone back and done a cleanup pass, but at this time I’ve got no less than 1054 tags used 2509 times.

Here’s a list of my top twenty tags, and how often I’ve used them:

Friday Five (68) humor (43) Buddhism (38) cycling (33) DargonZine (31) photographs (30) Boston ( Read more... )

Today’s another anniversary: five years on LiveJournal. I guess I have to say that it’s been a success, since I’ve made over 500 posts between ornoth and in ornoth_cycling, and I’m generally happy with the ( Read more... )

The “first sentence of each month” meme…

So… I want to tag my journal. Okay, I think I can talk about yesterday ( Read more... )

Oh what the heck...
When is the last time you dressed inappropriately for a situation? Pretty much every weekday, when I bike in to work.
  How many friends do you have? According to LJ, I have 33 mutual friends, 5 people who think they're my friend, and 5 more who I think I'm their friend.
  Are you running on time today? I was, until work ( Read more... )

iniren was reading through the Boston Phoenix during her visit last week and came across some self-promotional filler that read:

Be as hip and trendy in real life as you pretend to be on the web.

For some reason, iniren thought that applied directly to me. While I do enjoy putting my life out there for others to “admire”, the more I think about it, the less ( Read more... )

I guess it’s kinda funny that I don’t talk about DargonZine much here, since I’ve always considered DZ my life’s work. I guess I figure most people aren’t interested in the daily travails of running an Internet writing group.

But it’s been a long, long time since I last plugged the zine, and my friends list has turned over quite a bit, so I think ( Read more... )