National delurking week

[gordonzola]

Hmmmm, all these people say it's National Delurking Week so who am I to argue?

Cleary one of the best things about LJ is the social interaction. While that can be problematic if one isn't careful, I definitely prefer it to the alternative. It seems there are a lot of lonely blogs out there.

So Lurkers, leave a comment. Especially if you work in the dairy industry. Heh.

I will also mention two blogs by people I know:

deth_nell is my old downstairs neighbor. I think of cats and bikes when I think of her, but she hasn't written about either yet.

My brother's blog is definitely for the committed cyclist. He's a mountain biker, a bike-to-worker, and new cyclocross racer. He's too good for LJ so you'll have to check him out here: http://ramblings.cyclofiend.com/

Comments

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

is deth_nell your neighbor who lent me books?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

yes!

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

yay - i just added her

[saltypepper.livejournal.com]

I had seen you around on the LJs of our mutual friends but I first started lurking after last year's Stupid Punk Rock Death Amnesty Day. A year of lurking is enough for anyone, I figure.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

oh, and now we're "friends".

[pastels-badge.livejournal.com]

Hi, there.

I like reading your journal but most of the time I don't have much in the way of interesting things to say in response. Especially as regards the dairy industry, which I'm curious about but have little knowledge of.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

these types of posts remind me of facilitating meetings with groups of strangers. "Let's let someone who has spoken go next." welcome. (though I think you have commented once or twice.)

[flipping-hades.livejournal.com]

Jim/Cyclofiend is your brother? It's a small damn world. My bike is the 200th on his gallery website.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

haha. Awesome. Yup, he's been my brother my whole life!

[thearagorn.livejournal.com]

I lurk here because all I appear capable of talking about is anarchy-related-BS and I have a sense of propriety. I'm also one of your vegan readers... (2 strikes)

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

oh anarchy-related BS isn't a strike!

(Being vegan is though. you're right about that.)

Is there a date for the bookfair yet?

[thearagorn.livejournal.com]

Indeed. This year is going to be (and already is) kind of ugly that way. BT decided on a two day event w/o consulting anyone (like the @ conference that happens the next day for the past 6 years). The date for the 2 days of the book fair is March 17th & 18th. You can read on the scandal here http://anarchistnews.org/?q=node/1021

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

omg, I'm sorry I asked. ;)

[trixie-bee.livejournal.com]

I like cheese.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

me too.

[livsmama.livejournal.com]

I delurked the last time you did one of these things. We ahve mutual friends. I enjoy your writing and reading about cheese and SF, but I never feel like I have interesting things to say in return. I will try harder this year.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

awww, well don't let it stress you out. Thanks for reading.

lurkalicious

[artnoose.livejournal.com]

Am I a lurker? I'm not sure. But I'm definitely not in a dairy industry. I'm in the artsy-crafty industry. Or the printing industry if you prefer.

Re: lurkalicious

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

ha. you're no lurker. though I did just discover your LJ. Hi.

[pegsioux.livejournal.com]

Now I must officially come out of the lurkey-turkey closet.

You make me remember some of the greatest shit ever about SF. Thanks.


PSue

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

oh you're not a lurker. but thanks.

[clear-all.livejournal.com]

I'm a devout lurker - I forget the first thing of yours I read, but it hit me well enough to want to keep reading.

I'm an sf almost-native (moved to the city at 3), bike geek, used to go to epicenter way too much, and (the world gets smaller) know jim/cyclofiend through a whole bunch of bike-related mailing lists.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

ha. It's awesome how many folks know my online brother.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Since I have a paid account, I can create an LJ feed for your brother's blog, if that's something you would read in your friends' list.

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

oh I already made one. cyclofiend it's just so ugly in that generic LJ syndication layout.

[cornbreadboi.livejournal.com]

delurking is such a fun word.
in the vein of dairy:
do people know that commercial cream cheese is not really dairy?
& food:
if meringue was a woman she'd be sexy and coy, soft and voluptuous.
and hey, I hear yer living with a friend of mine, "a brother" of sorts...

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

not quite living together yet.... but soon.

and there is dairy in commercial cream cheese! but no, people have no idea that almost all of it has fillers. Up with Sierra Nevada Cream Cheese! I am proud to say we were their first retail account in the city.

[hotelsamurai.livejournal.com]

I don't know if I qualify as a lurker, but it's been too long since I posted a comment here. Plus, I don't know if mine qualifies as a lonely blog, but I want more social interaction on lj. So here's me saying hey. I broke up with my girlfriend this week and it hurts like a motherfucker. How are you?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

I saw that in your LJ but it had been so long since we had "talked" that I didn't know what to say. Sorry for not saying anything. And sorry about the break up.

But I think the Blogger and Typepad blogs are lonlier. not as community oriented as LJ.

I'm ok. I'm on vacation this week and am very relaxed. I am sitting by a space heater and pretending I don't know it's gonna snow tonight.

[whipsmartgirl.livejournal.com]

I don't mean to be a lurker, but that's what I seem to have become lately. I really enjoy reading your posts, and I'm glad you're on my friends list. :)

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

ya know, it's nice to hear from you. But when I say 'lurker' I'm not thinking of someone I'm mutual "friends' with.


I'm thinking of like the cheese distributor who I didn't even know knew how to use the internet who walked up to me at a trade show and said, "so..... how's your blog?"

but hi!

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

your recent series of posts were adorable, btw.

[gleemie.livejournal.com]

I found your blog through evan and stayed for the stories of cheese and the old sf punk rock scene. Last time I went to Rainbow Grocery, I sorta peeked to see if you were there but saw another cheese master who I later saw photographed here.

[gleemie.livejournal.com]

Oh, one day, I might have kids and be a sustenance-economy dairy factory of one. But I currently don't work in the dairy industry. :)

[trista.livejournal.com]

I am mostly lurktabulous, but I may have commented a couple of times. I found your journal through crazyrants, who recommended you during one of my OMG CHEESE YUM! cheese post frenzies, and you commented in one of those posts, explaining that Buttermilk Blue isn't actually made from buttermilk.