I was surprised

Wondering about the existence of Hitler/Anne Frank real person fic was too dark or offensive for gamers who used to bond via dead baby jokes.

For the record a cursory search didn't find any, though I did see a couple of one-panel cartoons along those lines.


Tonight's big activity: greatly expanding my filk website, with recently acquired (or typed) music and lyrics from 1980s albums. I went the lazy way, with simple directories; I don't know if Google will index those. If not, I suppose a bit of Perl would help. The toplevel probably needs a re-organization but eh, I'm more interested in learning how to sing the songs. Be nice to add new blood to the next song circle.

I have an offer of a room for FilkOntario this weekend. Last minute plane ticket Boston-Toronto would be $600 wtfbbq. Greyhound would be $160, for 15 hour rides. I am torn between "new experience" and "$1000 and 15 hours would get me to *Tokyo*".

God damn all walled gardens

So I've posted messages to this filk discussion list. I seem subscribed; I got my messages. But after the second one the list owner sent me an invitation suggesting I join so my messages go through faster. Ok. I click on the link and it says I'm subscribed now. I click again, and it says I'm already subscribed. So maybe I only saw my messages as a side-effect of manual approval.

But I can't access the list home page. It's all on Google Groups, and the mail address I'm signed up with is not my Google account, and there seems no way of interacting sensibly with Google Groups without a Google account. You WILL use gmail to use Google mailing lists, like it or not, I guess.

*checks*

No, I guess you can associate other addresses with your account, too, like Yahoo. Hrmph. I don't feel like canceling this rant.