How I hate when people intentionally write journals with comments disabled! Especially when it's something I want to respond about, like this thing which claims that the Uplift Series by David Brin is an unfunny joke.

People all around me write journals about how fun it is to be in love, and how they enjoy the winter kisses or stuff like that. I feel like marking them all as foes.

Hmm.. does this mean I'm a negative person? Nope. Wait till I get a girlfriend and I doubt anyone would be able to stand the sappiness flowing from my journal!

I tried singing near one dog and 3 cats. They all ran away. Does it mean I should avoid doing it in public?

And another thing: I totally hate the singers who sing about how bad their childhood was and how nasty their parents were. I don't care about you, Eminem and Pink! The best solution will be to involve you with some sort of kiddie-porn scandal which will prevent anyone from putting your songs ever again.

About 4 years ago, I particiapted in an fidonet-based echomail network [their site isn't useful - don't bother visiting]. Those networks used to flourish during the days before the internet.

What's echomail? The thing that resembles echomail the most is Usenet, or the newsgroups, besides that when you post a message in echomail, it doesn't have to be adressed to ALL (or to the one you're replying to), unlike in the newsgroups. Another difference is that people usually read messages in the order of the creation, instead of the thread order (similar to flat mode here). And another thing: echomail is typically read using a dedicated DOS or console program, using a fixed-mode font, and not using a browser. Using that program you can move between messages using the arrows, so no mouse is involved.

Echomail was spreaded using BBSs and modems, and it had an offline nature. You usually downloaded all the messages through compressed packets, and after that the modem got disconnected and you could sit and read the messages. It required some technical knowledge, so it typically didn't have a lot of girls.. and when I first got into the 'net, I was surprised to see so many girls on IRC.

But enough of this history lesson. The thing that matters most is that it had one "folder" called I_IDLECHAT, where people wrote nonsense, like what they ate today, what people they met, how their tooth aches and other stuff like that. And this is what I wish to recreate.

You see, there's something similar to Idlechat here, which is Trolltalk. You can write about nonsense there and usually you won't get moderator warnings (like in echomail) or downmods (like here), but it's a bad place. People do crapflooding or just write rotten stuff there. So, I wish to recreate Idlechat, and it will be recreated here, in my journal. I will add as friends people who tend to write in the same manner as me (Com2Kid is the first to come in mind, although I'm going to be much worse), and we'll have a network of Idlechatters.

Hurray for us!