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So on a whim I googled my LJ name. Catystorm. It's something personal to me.

It returned 2,740,000 hits.

OVER. TWO. MILLION.

Wha-wha-what.

Argh, I am beset by The Migraine That Just Won't Die.

In an attempt to distract myself from it (and the fact that I've taken more combonations of headache meds than is likely healthy for the lining of my stomach); meme. I'm doing a lot of memes lately. Not due to lack of content but more to keep myself entertained while I lj-squat at work.

Reply to this post, and I will list three things I love about you. Maybe more than three. Then repost to your own journal to spread the love.

Interactivy! 'tis the spice of LJ.

Things that I am grateful for: that my parents did not police my internet activities.

What a weird thing, you know? I was reading over the subpeona issue with MySpace and the SAG's for a couple of states and the line jumped out at me: "However, while this information about sex offenders from MySpace will be helpful, it is not a substitute for parents being vigilant about who their children are dealing with online."

And while I do agree that parents need to be responsible and monitoring their kids, I am again glad that my parents ... really didn't. I was quite possibly the youngest person in several of the e-mail groups I joined when I was twelve and thirteen; however before my parents let me loose on the internet at large they taught me a couple of valuable lessons. Mostly: 'use your head,' and the big one was "do NOT give out your real name." They never minded me using my first name, but I took the opportunity to come up with a working pseudonym that I still use to this day - Catie Storm. They taught me how to be smart and be safe in my dealings with the anonymous faces on the internet and as such didn't NEED to monitor my activities.

I also realize that I was on the internet at a different time - times before net nannies and before the internet was even more of the staple of everyday life that it is now. It was before Columbine, before schools needed to firewall everything. I can still remember my government class attempting to do research for projects and the teacher telling us to go to www.whitehouse.com, the porn portal, instead of www.whitehouse.gov. Things have changed a lot since then. A lot.

I am a big advocate of parents knowing what their children are up to, but in the same breath I also think that they should be educating as well as policing. I also believe their are kids who should loose the privilege because of prior troubles whose actions DO need to be policed. Ultimately it's up to the parents of each individual child as to how the issue is handled. I'm just grateful mine gave me the leniacy that they did.

/random soapboxing.

Watched リング last night; I totally refuse to romanize The Ring with the 'u' on the end to differentiate between the Japanese and American forms of the movie. It was sufficiently different, and the fact that I recognized Sanada Hiroyuki bugged me for most of the movie - turns out he was in The Last Samurai; that's why I recognized him. Win! All the same, after watching the Japanese version I'm even more impressed with the remake; yeah the American version 'gored it up' a bit more, but what they added made the American one even more scary.

Still have to watch リング 2 and ラセン; we already watched リング 0. And peach_jello hasn't seen the American version of The Ring 2.

I'm not entirely sure how I've managed to pick up all these copies of Ring movies; I don't think I have all the Japanese ones but I'm close. This amuses me as I'm not a huge fan of J-horror mostly because I like to sleep at night. I will fully admit my wussitude. xD I will also admit I like to see a lot of movies at least once to see them and that Japanese horror movies are so much more appealing than American ones - a lot of American horror movies are falling into that "pornographic gore" slot anymore where it's just people being butchered for the sake of the audience getting off on it. I'm sorry, but that fact that people get a visceral thrill from seeing other people tortured to death rather bothers me - I won't infringe on people's right to enjoy those movies, just keep them the hell away from me.

What happened to those psychological horror movies, America? The ones that are not gory for the sake of gory and have stomachable plots? We went and saw Disturbia a week or so ago and that was an enjoyable, tense, and yes even scary movie. It was not overly gory. It did have some gross moments but for the most part just made you think about things.

Okay, wow. I wandered off on a tangent, there.

Anyway. Finished watching the Kenshin anime, managed to not stab self in eyeballs at the horror. No wonder the show was dropped before they got to Jinchuu ... still makes me horrifically sad but suddenly I feel Naruto fan's horror at filler episodes now. Oh my god. Although I still wish I could screencap the DVDs better because there were some really funny scenes in the midst of the horror. Also trundled through the movie, didn't pay much attention to it because it's about as bad as the filler episodes. Next up: the GOOD OAVs followed by the pit of evil that is Seisouhen. I can't believe I'm going to sit through Seisouhen again. That requires copious about of alcohol to stomach.

So I just found my original Neopets account. That I signed up for on May 5th, 2000. If you want to be technical about it, I've been on Neopets longer than LJ. Holy crap. o_O;

Granted, it's not the Neopets account I utilize (it's got a baby-blue Uni for chrissakes), but still. Wow. Six years. That, my friends, is an ancient Neopet.