Whhaaaaaaaaaaaaat?? Flickr has videos now?

Had to try it, of course...



WHOOSH. 360 degree "long photo" of Washington's Skykomish River at max flood stage. Been holding onto this vid for just such an eventuality, it seems. When I first got my camera I used to take bunches of these long panning shots, sometimes accidentally. Wish I'd saved more of them now.

Okay, briefly: This is Mike Kelley of Bellingham, Washington. I'm "RoguePoet" on E2, among other places.

I've been very, very reluctant to get an account on LiveJournal thus far. For one, I already have a blog at BeyondMetamora.net. For another, I'm still active on Everything2, which has blogging features. For a third, using the Web already devours large chunks of my time. In fact, I've been intentionally trying to unwire my life lately. I don't need another blog. I do like to stay connected with my often far-away friends, though.

I'd been reading other folks' LiveJournals on a semi-frequent basis anyway. The big majority of these bloggers are people I'd met via Everything. I kept track of a bookmark list via my del.icio.us account, and that worked well enough (though it lacks the killer app that is the LJ Friends Page). I'd get burned by the occasional "WHAT YOU HADN'T HEARD THE BIG NEWS?! Oh that's right you don't use LJ..." and that's annoying but whatev. Most of the noders I care about still logged-on to the E2 server from time to time.

sun_doth_burn leaving E2 for LJ was pretty much the last straw, though. So... screw it. I'm making an account, finally. (and my username was already taken, as I pretty much goddamn expected. One of these days I'm gonna need one of those untranslatable nonsense handles like all the cool kids have got.)

Feel free to friend me-- or don't, it won't bother me. I kind of resent the notion that "friendship" is a concept that can be reduced to a check-box on a website, but I'm sure that conversation is already a long-dead horse among LJ users. Either way, I'll continue to randomly read & comment on your blog like the scary internet stalker I am. :)

If you seriously haven't a clue as to who I am, you can always drop me an email at mwkelley@gmail.com and I can try to explain.

Not much more to see here. Move along... move along...