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now that I've had some sleep and time to think about it...
LJ bought by 6A; world fails to implode (despite much insistence that it has).
Seriously. I admit to some amount of skepticism as with any buyout/merger, but I see no evidence yet to think that anything horrible and terrible and awful is going to happen. Most of the things I was most worried about myself (like, are we going to have to move to Typepad-like pricing, which would suck much ass) seem to have been addressed; sure, not completely thoroughly yet, but ferchrissakes it's been less than 24 hours since the announcement. The one thing I haven't seen yet is what happens if 6A decides it wants to be bought by Microsoft or Apple or some other large corporate entity, but it's been asked often enough I'd be at least a little surprised if that doesn't get addressed at some point.
I wouldn't have paid for my accounts for four-plus years if I didn't have some amount of faith in the folks running this company, so I'm giving Brad the benefit of the doubt and believing that he really does have the best interests of this site that he built in mind and sticking around until at least the end of my paid membership in November. I'll re-evaluate then, as I always do. If things have started to suck, I won't renew my paid account. I honestly don't get the rash of panic and threatening to flee for the hills right now I'm seeing in various places. The reason I'm with LJ rather than hosting my own blog is because I enjoy the sense of community; if everyone jumps ship pre-emptively because of what "might" happen someday, that will pretty much destroy what makes LJ special withoutour new corporate overlords 6A having had to do a damn thing. No?
[Edit:] For those who care, here's the diff of the TOS versions 1.4 and 1.5. (Found in a comment to a locked post elsewhere.)
Seriously. I admit to some amount of skepticism as with any buyout/merger, but I see no evidence yet to think that anything horrible and terrible and awful is going to happen. Most of the things I was most worried about myself (like, are we going to have to move to Typepad-like pricing, which would suck much ass) seem to have been addressed; sure, not completely thoroughly yet, but ferchrissakes it's been less than 24 hours since the announcement. The one thing I haven't seen yet is what happens if 6A decides it wants to be bought by Microsoft or Apple or some other large corporate entity, but it's been asked often enough I'd be at least a little surprised if that doesn't get addressed at some point.
I wouldn't have paid for my accounts for four-plus years if I didn't have some amount of faith in the folks running this company, so I'm giving Brad the benefit of the doubt and believing that he really does have the best interests of this site that he built in mind and sticking around until at least the end of my paid membership in November. I'll re-evaluate then, as I always do. If things have started to suck, I won't renew my paid account. I honestly don't get the rash of panic and threatening to flee for the hills right now I'm seeing in various places. The reason I'm with LJ rather than hosting my own blog is because I enjoy the sense of community; if everyone jumps ship pre-emptively because of what "might" happen someday, that will pretty much destroy what makes LJ special without
[Edit:] For those who care, here's the diff of the TOS versions 1.4 and 1.5. (Found in a comment to a locked post elsewhere.)
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It is silly, really; what gets me is that almost no one seems to be doing due diligence on one side or the other, and yet almost everyone (again, present company excepted) is scrambling to portray themselves as the most sensible, realistic, and basically coolest party.
It's not what side people are taking, really, it's the way in which most people are choosing sides.
(But now I've ranted in my own journal and feel better, yay.)
Very belatedly, how was Wegmans'?
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(Man, do I have people fooled or what?) *ahem* I mean, "thank you". ;)
Wegman's was fabulous, although there was just too much food. 22 pieces of sushi is a whole honkin' lot, even if you don't eat the three rather odd bacon/chestnut rolls. I think I've finally found a food that is not improved by the addition of bacon.
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Because man, I was going to ask how those were. I mean... bacon chesnut?
Now, mind you, my favorite roll of all time is tuna + ginger + cilantro + jalapeno in combo seaweed, followed closely by the unagi + tamago + fish eggs in cucumber wrap, followed even more closely by the shrimp + tomato + onion + jalepeno, but that's... um... yeah.
I. Just. ... BACON?