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A couple of months ago I was talking to a friend about some disappointment I was feeling, and she responded by drawing a comic strip on a napkin. The title of the strip was "The Cycle of Jmac". It started out with a stick figure representation of Y.T., looking blank. Suddendly, an idea strikes! His head expands with manic glee as he shouts and cavorts. But then, another stick figure approaches him, saying "One small problem..." And stick-jmac deflates back into looking blank.

Usenettish LJ

Anyone encountered an app (Web- or desktop-based) that refactors LJ content into a Usenet-like view, so that (for example) all posts and comments on one's Friends page can be viewed as a flat list of siblings, sorted by time? Or treating all posts as threads, with with each post's last-modified timestamp based on the time of its most recent comment (or the post itself if it has no comments)? That would be interesting to see.

"Super Milk-Chan" micro-review

It's probably much funnier if you're

a) fluent with Japanese language and culture, and optimally watching the show in Japanese-language form (though the apparently fanboy-controlled machine that distributes this show in the U.S. leaves half of the terms and titles untranslated anyway), or

b) desperately wanting to find humor in everything that the Japanese find funny