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...the more it feels like the LJ I used to know.

And sadly, the people who used to use LJ that I read it for? Are already gone, rage-quitted to hell and breakfast.

Well. Here's hoping. Come on over. It's friendly and sweet and nice over here.

When you finally operate normally again, I might be able to actually post something of substance. Until then, not so much.

So LJ is going to be managed by a Russian company. Wait - watch me show my age again.

Lessee. Let's assume for the moment the average age of an LJ user is around 23. Just - hang with me a moment.

When I was 23 - that would be 1984. The wall had not come down yet, we had Reagan in office with his finger on The Button, we were warned not to watch "The Day After" alone, and "Testament" was in the theaters.

I tried to take Russian as a foreign language, and was refused because the only time I could get it in, only the intermediate classes were available - one, mind, ONE - and I was scrutinized VERY closely. Why do you want to learn RUSSIAN, hmmmmmm?

Seriously. No, way. Very much way, dude. I could learn all the French I wanted. Spanish, natch. German...still got some strange looks, but okay. Itallian? Oh, that. Well, maybe. Hebrew? You're not Jewish. You don't need that. And English got a lot more attention - you actually had to be able to read and write it legitimately, or they flunked you.

(Really need a memory jog? Go listen to this again.)

1984.

I was still buying music on vinyl records then. I picked up a Genesis collection over the weekend, and listening to it I was remembering how many of the cuts I'd actually bought as 45 rpm vinyl. (I probably still have them, too.)

Wasn't that long ago. Except that if you were born that year, you're legal to drink already. Whee.

The fact that this lovely bastion of "I WANNA ROCK" is going to be managed by the people I knew the least about, when I was the age of the average user today - is ironic in the extreme.

Cliff would be delighted to see what his beloved Yeltsin has wrought.

So LJ is going to be managed by a Russian company. Wait - watch me show my age again.

Lessee. Let's assume for the moment the average age of an LJ user is around 23. Just - hang with me a moment.

When I was 23 - that would be 1984. The wall had not come down yet, we had Reagan in office with his finger on The Button, we were warned not to watch "The Day After" alone, and "Testament" was in the theaters.

I tried to take Russian as a foreign language, and was refused because the only time I could get it in, only the intermediate classes were available - one, mind, ONE - and I was scrutinized VERY closely. Why do you want to learn RUSSIAN, hmmmmmm?

Seriously. No, way. Very much way, dude. I could learn all the French I wanted. Spanish, natch. German...still got some strange looks, but okay. Itallian? Oh, that. Well, maybe. Hebrew? You're not Jewish. You don't need that. And English got a lot more attention - you actually had to be able to read and write it legitimately, or they flunked you.

(Really need a memory jog? Go listen to this again.)

1984.

I was still buying music on vinyl records then. I picked up a Genesis collection over the weekend, and listening to it I was remembering how many of the cuts I'd actually bought as 45 rpm vinyl. (I probably still have them, too.)

Wasn't that long ago. Except that if you were born that year, you're legal to drink already. Whee.

The fact that this lovely bastion of "I WANNA ROCK" is going to be managed by the people I knew the least about, when I was the age of the average user today - is ironic in the extreme.

Cliff would be delighted to see what his beloved Yeltsin has wrought.