...too quiet

[andrewducker]

Is it me, or is LJ dead today?

Is it a US holiday as well as a UK one?

Comments

[wringham.livejournal.com]

I noticed that too. I don't think there is a US holiday though.

In fact, do you think there has been a general quietening of LJ over the past few months? I don't get the epic comments threads I used to. Yah, Boo etc.

[andrewducker]

They're still out there. You're clearly not being controversial enough :->

[wringham.livejournal.com]

Oh really? How about this, then? DEAD BABIES!

[andrewducker]

Thruppence a pound, I hear.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

It's Memorial Day in the states.

And yeah, I am not getting half the poll responses I used to.

[odheirre.livejournal.com]

US: Memorial day, national holiday.

[andrewducker]

Cheers!

[tanyad.livejournal.com]

IT's a US holiday, most people are off work, banks are closed, schools etc. What's the UK holiday?

[andrewducker]

Spring, apparently.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_the_United_Kingdom

[tanyad.livejournal.com]

I want a day off for Spring!

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

It's Pentecost, religio-historically speaking.

[jarkman.livejournal.com]

I'm too busy playing with metal to be typing into a computer.

Oh - wait - that's not quite right....

[andrewducker]

Not _quite_ right - back to the slave pits with ye!

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Memorial Day. =)

[nwhyte]

Yes.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

It's not even a UK-wide holiday..

[andrewducker]

Seems to be according to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_holidays_in_the_United_Kingdom

[cybik.livejournal.com]

Weirdly it's this Monday and next here. Banks are closed this week, but the buses and stuff are taking next Monday off..

[lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com]

Yep and last Monday was a bank holiday too. Pretty muc.h every Monday in May and September are a bank holiday somewhere in Scotland, including the inexplicable 'Edinburgh Holiday' (I believe Glasgow have an equivalent but not, of course, on the same day).

Brilliant.

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

As well as being a national holiday in England and the USA, there's an sf convention here and at least two major events over there.

[cdave]

I heard there was SF cons that weekend if you counted them up worldwide.

[andrewducker]

That would be more convincing with a number in it :->

[cdave]

So it would. 5 was the number I heard. Plokta.con was going to have all the tweets with those hash tags projected, but decided to stick with just the #plokta ones.

[andrewducker]

Five is pretty impressive. Wish I could have been there, to be honest.