techie question: gmail

Here's a dumb question: How do I get a gmail account? Is it not the case that a person who has a gmail account needs to invite me? Now, my son has a gmail account but has no clue how to invite me, and cruising around on the gmail help page, I couldn't find any hint on how to do it.

Does anybody know what t'son should do???

cheat sheets

You know, I love this new convention going round, where people post cheat sheets, explaining the fandom of their fic to the uninitiated and clue-less.

This new thing (or relatively new to me, anyway) seems to betoken a change in reading habits, that people aren't just reading in their own fandoms anymore but are branching out all over the place, and that people are reading for fanon rather than canon.

In fact, it seems to betoken that people are turning into me. Or, to put it the other way round, that I am totally un-unique and part of a big crest of surging fic-reader vogue.

As the crowd chanted, We are all individuals.

But yes, I love the cheat sheets! I love reading them even for fandoms about which I know a bit. Like looking in from the outside. Also, it's like a nudge-nudge to posterity. To the future people who have no clue about what happened to be showing on TV in the year 2005 or what premiere pics were making the rounds in December 2001. Insta-fandom!