Wordpress

For the life of me I can't understand why my blog on wordpress gets far more hits and responses than my blog on the livejournal site, especially considering that livejournal is supposed to be the more 'community oriented' one.

My own writing habit might be able to provide the answer here, I think. I mostly use wordpress blog to write long dedicated essays and discussions on things that really interest me. Livejournal on the other hand, I use for one of those sporadic 'writing moments' where you feel like writing a random stuff about the day or some topis that suddenly popped into my head. The writings are usually very jumbled up and relatively without focus, although some kind of gem emerged here now and then which I transcribe to the wordpress blog again.

Which is to say, no one in their sane mind would spend their time reading through a freewrite of a total stranger, unless of course that person is really, realy bored. The community aspect of the livejournal actually hurts possible readership in this case, since whatever the little posts of substance I make in livejournal would inevitably be buried in a whole sea of community-related articles that comes online, what, every five minutes? Likely to be less. Oh well, c'est la vie. I guess I should go join up a specific community or something, maybe something related to transhumanism, to which I'm taking quite an interest in these days in parallel with my study in artificial life? Although I must say, I'm not sure if the transhumanism crowd is the kind of people I want to converse with. Many of them felt like they had the officious prickishness of (thanks Stephen King) of scientists without the specialized knowledge or years of experience... Which would actually make them the worst possible speciments of humanity one can encounter on the web, where the distinction between truth and falsehood is easily blurred. Maybe I'm better off joining the steampunk crowd or Lovecraftian horror lovers.

I recently heard, on the penny-arcade website, that the Professor Layton and the Curious Village had been released state side, and is so far taking much chunk of time away from Tycho, the writer for the penny-arcade webcomic (which is quite a work. If you are not familiar with them, I suggest taking a short look) . According to his impression (however short it was) this Professor Layton iteration was everything I would have dreamed it to be, and maybe more. I haven't bought a DS cart in months. Maybe it's time I put the system to a good use other then Phoenix Wright, NYT crosswords, and Brain training...
The combination of the unique game play of puzzle and the rustic yet delicate aesthetics looks really fantastic. And that little tune of music I heard in the English trailer for the game really caught my ears, and I can't really seem to forget its enchanting effect. A curious little town with a secret (that everyone's a puzzle maniac?) and a professor and his sidekick with a flair for trouble and mystery. Only the ones with heart of ice, the icy block from the deepest layers of cocytus would be able to resist the allure of such magnificent creation!