C is for Convergence

[the_siobhan]

*deep sigh*

Posted to alt.gothic.

Let the bitching commence.

Comments

[greylock.livejournal.com]

yay!

[ash-pixie.livejournal.com]

Always wanted to go, never did. I suck.

Then again, I haven't read alt.gothic in a long time...but still!

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Never too late to start.

[elusis.livejournal.com]

Oh christ.

Feel free to bend my ear if you need a sympathetic, knowledgable, uninvolved listener.

[meetzemonsta.livejournal.com]

Miss J is trying to convince me to go Ybor.

I am almost convinced.

:D

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Come! It will be fun.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

Don't let the fact that I'm one of the folks throwing the party dissuade you. ;-)

[the_axel]

Come.
Ybor will be full of Win! & beer[1]

When else will you get to see TheOneFonz jump a shark-infested kiddie pool on a bicycle[2]?

[1] Technically a subset of Win!
[2] The originally point of their bid being that Convergence had jumped the shark with C13 and they didn't expect to actually win. Oops!

[ladyclayton.livejournal.com]

I replied to this in my LJ...will figure out how to get it on a.g too. :)

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

Does google groups not work for you?

I'm sure there have been threads about Mac-compatible news readers. No doubt Peter can point to them. :=p

[ladyclayton.livejournal.com]

I went ahead and used it to post, but if I get my login stuff and server info from Peter, I think I can get on using Thunderbird. :)

Thanks! :)

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Yes you can!

Short answer is that you open a terminal window and type the following at it:

ssh -L 9119:abyss.ninehells.com:119 user_id@ninehells.com

where user_id is your user ID. You won't have to do anything in this connection, but it will need to stay open for the news reader to work.

Next, in Thunderbird, you tell it to use a news server on localhost. Change the port number Thunderbird connects to from 119 to 9119.

Enjoy the lifeblood of USENET.

[ladyclayton.livejournal.com]

Thanks, P! Is my pass the same? :)

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

I certainly haven't touched it. So, whatever it was when you last dealt with it, it probably still is.

[peculiaire.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the yearly drama circus! *hug*

What Would Julius Caesar Do?

[http://users.livejournal.com/cincinnatus_c_/]

I was going to say this there, but it doesn't seem useful to say it there, because it doesn't really say anything to the questions posed, but rather to the posing of the questions: I think the C*b*l should do as they see fit, not consult anyone whose opinions they don't have personal reason to care about, and not listen to complaints except, if they so desire, to mock them for fun.

My experience of this sort of small-scale politics is that the more you try to accommodate people, the more people resent you. If you just tell them how it is, then that's just how it is. "Because I said so" doesn't admit a counter-argument.

Re: What Would Julius Caesar Do?

[the_axel]

That's my view of the thing.
That, BTW, is a perfect WWJCD icon.

Re: What Would Julius Caesar Do?

[emzebel.livejournal.com]

Further to yor PS on a.g, the trademark application is progressing nicely:

http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=77246644

(Now understands the strange attractor pulling me toward ag lately. ;)