The League of Me and the Cheat Ice Cream Socials

[robotnik2004]

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
—Herbert Simon, way back in 1971

When I admitted to jeregenest that I still haven't read word one of the Harry Potter books or seen any of the movies, this poll occurred to me. There's actually a number of geek culture touchstones that have slipped by me. Not because I'm avoiding them, just because I haven't gotten around to them yet. But time and attention are scarce: so I invite you to help me be a better, more efficient geek in 2005. (I've given you check boxes rather than radio buttons, but please use them judiciously. If you just click on everything, you haven't made my life much easier at all.)

[Poll #412488]

Thank you for your support.

Comments

[crisper.livejournal.com]

I feel some shame in confessing this, but FIREFLY is the only thing I have seen in many many years that made me think about writing fan-fic.

[peaseblossom.livejournal.com]

Was it Kaylee/Inara fic? Because if it was, I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.

[crisper.livejournal.com]

Heh. Not slash. Not even so fully-formed an urge as, like, "Serenity crashes on a planet caught up in a Fissionables Rush and, one poker game later, the crew finds themselves part owners of the biggest land swindle on the continent..." or something like that.

More like, "I should find out which comics publisher has the license and pitch them something." Which, until such time as I have a work for hire contract, counts as thinking about fan-fic.