Les Jones

Funny Ha-Ha > Cool. Lore Got a Gig at Wired

Lore Sjöberg is writing at Wired. And there's a picture, so you can now see exactly how many nostrils he has. Somehow I expected him to look more ... foreign. You'd expect a guy with an umlaut in his name to at least wear funny little foreign eyeglasses.

Here's his latest, explaining how to succeed on LiveJournal:

Don't reject friends. Seriously, unless someone has killed someone you know, or said mean things about you personally, it's best to keep them on your friends list at all times. If you started discriminating, you might be known as the person with only 34 LiveJournal friends, and everyone will know the truth about you.

Do speak in code. Once you have your public journal with loads of friends you don't actually know, you may feel strange about revealing all your inner secrets. The best solution? Hide your daily activities behind vague allusions and song lyrics. Bad: "Me and Henry did Whip-Its in the tool shed until I had to feed the dog." Better: "Boy, I had some fun over the weekend. Let's just say Mom can't make strawberry shortcake for a while." Best: "You don't know how it feels/You don't know how it feels/No, you don't know how it feels to be me."

See also:
- Lore Sjöberg on Micropayments
- Lore Reads Dear Abby So I Don't Have To
- Whatever Happened to the Brunching Shuttlecocks?