'Tis the Season for Open Letters

[active_apathy]

Dear, um, you¹,

Merry Christmas / Xmas / Xmas Substitute / I Can't Believe It's Not Xmas / Other.

Love,
active_apathy


Also, this xkcd comic, it speaks truth.

1. That link will only work properly from your friends page, but I'm still kind of geekily proud of it. Hooray!

Comments

[matgb]

Xmas starting 11 hours before us civilised folks is CHEATING damnit.

But, y'know, happy wossname anyway. Sir Isaac's birthday starts early in Aus.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Well, kind of. It may or may not seem more unfair in a week, though. :D

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

Happy Day Off Work, but is it worth the suffering that came beforehand? I think perhaps not!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

It depends! I rather hope it does turn out to be worth it, though I do pity retail employees for tomorrow. (And for yesterday. And for the last month or so.)

[lilacsigil.livejournal.com]

As a sort-of retail employee (I work in the office but go do the retailing in busy times) I accept your pity with gratitude and rub it on my aching feet.

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

*is suitably impressed by self-linkness*

It's so much easier to stay up for Christmas after a few years' studenting starts playing the bongos over your circadian rhythm :).

Happy Wossboss to you, too!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Circadian rhythms? How quaint. :)

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

It's daytime somewhere, right?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Yes, but only in places where it's still yesterday.

[photosinensis.livejournal.com]

I've got to ask how you did that link thing.

xkcd always speaks the truth. Unless it's talking about cake. The cake is a lie.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

The source for that link tag is <a href="/../profile">...</a> - the ../ refers to the parent directory, like using cd .. on a command line. So, from http://username.livejournal.com/friends the browser reads the relative URL as a link to http://username.livejournal.com/friends/../profile, which it knows it can simplify to http://username.livejournal.com/profile.


It came from one of those "I wonder if that would work..." kind of moments.

[arib.livejournal.com]

Argh! Now I have Fabio in my head intoning "I Can't Believe it's Not Christmas... Spray!"

(A commercial here in the US, it's probably somewhere in the intertoobs if you look hard enough.)

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Eek; sorry. :|

(I don't think I will; the idea seems vaguely horrifying.)

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

Ooh, made of win XD MERRY CHRISTMAS!

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Whereas from here it looks like you're wishing yourself a merry christmas XP