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kittenscribble ([personal profile] kittenscribble) wrote2004-11-02 06:37 pm

an act of citizenship

Everyone's voted by now, I suppose? If not, what are you doing here? Get out of my country, shoo.

I kind of miss the old punch card, you know, hanging chad and all. It felt a lot more permanent: stab! you've made a hole in the paper! Not only is your vote made, but there's a physical record: you've made an impact. Nowadays they have colorful touch screens that leave a trail of giant red X's wherever your fingers have traveled, and although I'm more than comfortable with the medium, I couldn't help but feel as if I were playing a rather basic video game. It feels a lot more trivial, this touching of screens; it lacks drama. And I kept being nervous that the system hadn't saved my game.

Wordcount thus far (accomplished / tonight's goal): 2125 / 3800, almost all of which is absolutely worthless. But that's the glory of Nano, right? To avoid spamming the uninterested, I'm thinking of posting the Nanocrap to a filter as I go; comment and tell me if you're interested in reading it. (The usual suspects need not apply; Tsu, m&, claybird, Hemingway fils, you guys are included whether you like it nor not.)

(Anonymous) 2004-11-02 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Isn't it strange whose path we cross on the internet?

betippens

Me!

[identity profile] noblessa.livejournal.com 2004-11-02 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll read anything! ::grin::

Re: Me!

[identity profile] bouncygryphon.livejournal.com 2004-11-03 06:40 am (UTC)(link)
And I, for one, am quite thankful for that!

I'm game...

[identity profile] terebinth.livejournal.com 2004-11-02 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
But I'll probably only read when I'm procrastinating against my own Nano. But that may be rather often, come to think of it.

[identity profile] melindaloquita.livejournal.com 2004-11-02 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
*waves* I want to play!!

*hugs*

[identity profile] geekkitty.livejournal.com 2004-11-02 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Oooh Oooh! Me too?

Nanoword 1750

[identity profile] melindaloquita.livejournal.com 2004-11-02 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
are you doing it too? [*cry* I can't deal with these election returns.]

Me too!

[identity profile] paleotheist.livejournal.com 2004-11-03 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
I'd like to read what you come up with. I'm sure it's better than you insist it is!

[identity profile] bouncygryphon.livejournal.com 2004-11-03 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
I was hoping to find my "Chad Happens" tshirt (that I got after the last election) shirt to wear to work today. It's run away and hidden itself somewhere in the house...

[identity profile] kittenscribble.livejournal.com 2004-11-03 07:14 pm (UTC)(link)
The chad is indeed an amazing cultural phenomenon. I'm even sort of sad that they'll be extinct soon.