Eccentric Flower:199806/experimenting with ICQ
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twenty-six june ninety eight ten a m experimenting with ICQ No entry yesterday? Well, I wrote the cat entry early in the morning. I generally do write at least one new thing every day, but often it's dated the day before. Yesterday I was online for a phenomenal amount of time, doing various useful and non-useful things. It's nice to be on the MUCKs long enough that you can actually have a conversation with someone, without needing to break it off for lunch or an interruption or time for bed. Time for bed is usually the worst because, for some reason, the people I most want to talk to don't come on until I'm very tired. Maybe most of them are on the West Coast. Among other things, I downloaded ICQ, because I wanted to try talking to lanalee and Dianne this way. The Mac version of ICQ is pretty stable - it has a few minor bugs, like not updating who's active or inactive frequently enough, so I sent lanalee about seven messages last night, thinking she was active when she really wasn't. The MUCK people can't stand ICQ for the most part. They think it's slow, and apparently the Windows versions crash a lot. I wouldn't know. I think it's kinda fun, but you can't really find anyone - searching for email addresses is buggy, and it gets to the point where you have to know someone's number in advance in order to find them. So mostly it stayed open all afternoon with nothing going on in the window. I still like MUCKs better, since they're set up as tangible "places" where people can wander in and out, convey physical movements, and all those little nuances. I have been ruined by them, I guess - while sending ICQ messages yesterday, I found myself indicating actions like [giggles] or [scratches head in confusion] a lot. That's a MUCK thing. I'll probably play with ICQ some more. I'd give you my number, but I can't remember it - another liability. © columbine |
