Some provisional conclusions

(context)

1. Kofi Anan has (at least) six stunt doubles who read this journal.
2. Ten of my friends freely admit to being involved in a scandal involving legislators and bonobos. I wonder if they're all in on the same scandal? I hope you're all having fun, anyway.
3. The Pope's phone number is widely known among my friends. [Poll #212598]

(no subject)

I finally figured out why I don't like the idea of reading webcomics as part of my livejournal friends list, something that until now seemed like a vaguely bad idea without any firm idea of why. I read a comic once a day, and don't expect to revisit that day of the comic again, and only expect to revisit that comic at all 24 hours later. But other entries on my friends list I scan back through to see if there are new comments (yes, LJ's web interface sucks for keeping track of ongoing discussions, and I've not yet got an automated workaround for this); if I read comics through LJ then this scan would be clogged up with a dozen or so redundant entries per day.

(Even ignoring this objection there remains a nontrivial inertial factor; my current mechanism for reading comics regularly works fine and scales well, and furthermore would continue to be necessary unless I could read all of them through LJ, which won't happen, since some of them take active measures to ensure you read them via their own website.)

Foot latest

Having spent the last couple of days hobbling round with the assistance of a stick I now seem to be able to walk unaided without my foot actually hurting. It still feels pretty weak though so I'm very tempted to work from home for at least the first day or two of the week.