renaissance poisson

Rasfc is my conversation place, or Making Light when I have the energy for it. LJ is my thinking out loud place, and also the place for keeping track.

I'd like an intersection, but I can't figure out what it would look like.

One thing LJ does for me, which may or may not be as much of an advantage as I think it is, is keep me from discussing so many "dangerous" things in rasfc. Notice I no longer subscribe to any of the newsgroups where people consider those things to be anywhere near on-topic. And in rasfc, I've carefully killfiled the people who are dangerous for me to talk to, including at least one person who might be an interesting conversationalist if he wasn't obsessive about redbaiting me. Yes, I'm a coward, but really, if I'm going to be redbaited, I want it to be because I did something worthwhile, and not just because I let an unguarded comment go by in a conversation.

Anyway, I love usenet, and I agree with you about its virtues, in spite of the annoying presence of people who like to accuse me of complicity in mass murder whenever I express an opinion about traffic management or water policy (I am not kidding, and I am not exaggerating).