This is very important, so I want to say it as clearly as I can

Some comments several people have made recently (on- and off-line) about online footprints have got me thinking. And I have thought about it, and decided that there is really only one answer:


xkcd #137: Dreams

Yes, I know this LJ perhaps isn't as anonymous as it could be. But the path of censoring every possible hint as to my actual identity ultimately leads to firing this journal into the sun (along with everything else from my own domain name to my Facebook account, because all of them have ties to my identity - some unintentionally, some because that's the entire point). Because by then I'll have stripped out all the actual content and what's left, if anything, won't be worth keeping.

And I like this journal. It's a place to post photos, a place for musing on games, a place to rant, a place to post the odd tech tip that someone somewhere may find useful, a place to post real life happenings, even a place for fanfic. And it's also a place to interact with others, a place to make friends, a place to discover new things, even a place that results in such crazy randomness as receiving a postcard all the way from Antarctica.

So. This journal is staying, the rants are staying, the fanfic is staying, and the current vague level of pseudo-anonymity is staying.

Name that webcomic, round 1!

And now for something entirely different! Yes, it's another name-that-whatever quiz, and today's theme is... webcomics!

To be honest I've no idea if anyone else on my friends list still reads any webcomics (or followed them in the first place)... but I'm sure I'll find out. Anyway, this more-or-less follows the usual rules (except I'm not striking out guessed entries because that makes them hard to read):

1. Pick some of your favourite webcomics.
2. Find a quote from each webcomics.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed.
5. Screen comments and wait a few days (preferably not months) before posting the answers to give everyone a chance at guessing.
6. Oh, and no Googling! Or Binging, or using any other search engine.

Bring on the quotes!

1. Can't sleep. Future will eat me.
   
2. I'm with the Vorstellen Police, and before you do or say anything you might regret. I direct your attention to the badge and the gun.
   
3. Really, Hepzibah? Losing your hold on me over hair?
   
4. Daryl? With a grenade? Is there video? Please tell me somebody got some video.
   
5. It's... uh... I roll for Bluff!
   There aren't enough dice in the world.
   
6. So I slipped out a window and bought myself a bottle of liquid boredom-killer.
   Out a window? We're on the fifth floor.
   You guys hired me for my talents. But you're surprised when I actually use them?
   
7. Intruders!
   Nope.
   False alarm!
   
8. My choices also didn't include which nostril you want a fire extinguisher poked in, so I believe it would be best if we limited our options to the first two.
   
9. Tower of Power!
   
10. Instead of office chair package contained bobcat. Would not buy again.
    Guessed by pleaseremove

Remember, comments are screened until I get round to revealing the answers.