Matchmaking

[liv]

I've been meaning to do this for ages: match up everyone on my friends list with someone I think they'd enjoy reading, but who isn't on their friends list. I have no vested interested in whether you want to follow my recommendations or not; I'm hoping that curiosity will prompt people to at least have a look, but I'm mainly doing this for my own amusement. And yes, I do realize that some of you have deliberately restricted friends lists and aren't looking for new people etc. I just wanted to play matchmaking (though not in the couple sense!)

Of course, my friends list includes some of my best friends and some people I've barely interacted with at all but whose journals I enjoy reading, and every level of acquaintance in between. That's part of the fun. Also, some of these jumped out at me instantly, others I really had to think about it, others I more or less picked cool journals at random. That's the main reason why I'm not providing justifications for my choices. Most of these are not commutative; if I've recommended you to read someone, I haven't usually recommended them to read you. But clearly I'm not going to stop you from looking at the people I've recommended to read you!

And don't be offended if you don't get recommended very much; it should be obvious that everyone who is on my friends list is there because I find their journal worth reading!

791point43 – darcydodo
angelsk – ixwin
blackherring – baraita
casby – greengolux
chickenfeet2003 – rysmiel
chocaholic7 – lethargic_man
coalescent – rysmiel
compilerbitch – redbird
daegaer – blackherring
darcydodo – naomichana
doseybat – loreid
elemy – mummimamma
fivemack – elemy
fluffymark – sampiano
forthright – lisekit
greengolux – redbird
henriksdal – doseybat
hmw26 – fluffymark
ixwin – loreid
j4 – redbird
jacquic – ixwin
jonnynexus – forthright
karen2205 – chickenfeet2003
kathrid – fluffymark
kemelios – j4
khalidz0r – pseudomonas
ktsqueak – j4
lethargic_man – coalescent
lisekit – truepenny
loreid – greengolux
mazarin – pw201
midnightmelody – daegaer
monanotlisa – naomichana
mummimamma – oompalumpa
naomichana – daegaer
neonchameleon – pw201
oompalumpa – pseudomonas
paulbo_garvins – jonnynexus
pseudomonas – rysmiel
puzzlering – thewildrose
pw201 – lethargic_man
redbird – blackherring
ruakh – darcydodo
rysmiel – compilerbitch
sampiano – fivemack
shreena – truepenny
taimatsu – mummimamma
terriem – loreid
thalassius – rysmiel
thewildrose – yvesilena
timeplease – pseudomonas
truepenny – lisekit
wychwood – monanotlisa
yvesilena – kathrid

So, if anyone wants to recommend me someone from their friends list whom I should be reading, that would be cool too. And please feel free to propagate this as a meme, though it's long-ish to do, I admit.

Comments

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

jupitah

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

Shidduch-meister :)

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

Oooooh, quite a fabulous idea! Am actually sort of a fan of naomichana but haven't gotten around to friending her. It'll all have to wait till after India, but thanks for the recommendation (and my recommendee status). & ;-)

[loreid.livejournal.com]

What a lovely idea! greengolux's journal looks like an extremely interesting read.
Not sure whom I would recommend to you, but I'll think about it. Thanks again!

[shreena.livejournal.com]

I agree greengolux's journal looks like much fun. I rather suspect that you've already friended everyone on my friends' list whom you would find interesting but, if I think of anyone else, I'll let you know.

[darcydodo]

penmage. Most of her stuff is friends-only, though, so see if she'll friend you. She keeps posting things that I'm like, oh, I should point livredor to this post, and then I remember that it's locked.

Thanks for the rec (and the reccing). A note to 791point43 and ruakh: I'm happy to friend you if you decide you do want to read my journal; just let me know.

[darcydodo]

By the way, I've been considering some of your pairings, and they all make much of a muchness of sense to me. I just hope the people who are on your friends list but haven't friended you back see this too, somehow, because otherwise they'll be missing out. (e.g., daegaer really does need to read blackherring's journal, it's so very true.)

You're like our very own trust-meme. ;)

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Great work!

I can think of someone I'd like to introduce you to, but she is not on LJ, more's the pity. Maybe next time you're in Newcastle, if it crosses over with a time I could happen to end up there, we could go out for food or something...

(PS Bat's now safely on a plane headed for China)

[lisekit.livejournal.com]

Cool!

I'm on it.

[ixwin.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend gnimmel to anyone.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Seconded. Also addedentry, if you don't mind cartophiles.

[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten you were in here :-)

And thirded.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Oh, now there's a question. How to pick just one ?

I'll go for recommending misia, whose way with the English language I think you would like a lot.

[liv]

Ooh, fun journal. Thank you!

[liv]

Well, it's fairly harmless in this context, I think.

Linguistically speaking, is shidduch-meister different from shadchan?

[liv]

Obviously going to India is more exciting than reading LJ. Glad you liked the idea, and sorry for picking someone you knew about already.

[liv]

Yay, I'm pleased it worked, from your point of view at least. It was a lot of fun to do.

[liv]

Ooh, thank you, she looks really interesting! This is so much fun!

[liv]

I've been considering some of your pairings, and they all make much of a muchness of sense to me
Does 'much of a muchness' mean something different in American from English, then? Cos to me, it means, not very interesting / don't have a strong opinion about it / samey. And that really doesn't make sense in this context.

[liv]

Great work!
*bows* Thanks!

I can think of someone I'd like to introduce you to, but she is not on LJ, more's the pity.
I know, there are lots of separate groups of friends I want to introduce to eachother. That isn't quite what this particular game was about, though. I may try to do that at some point, at least within the subset of my circle who have been enticed onto LJ, but I need to work out a way to do it tactfully.

(PS Bat's now safely on a plane headed for China)
Oooh ooh oooh! I'm all excited to hear the Bat updates! Thanks for mentioning that.

[liv]

Ooh, good idea! Thanks, ixwin; I'd kind of been looking for an excuse to friend her.

[liv]

if you don't mind cartophiles
What can I say? I'm going out with one, so I can't afford to object too much...

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

I like introducing people, especially where I know them from completely unrelated routes. It opens up possibilities that would otherwise be missed.

On the Bat front, I got email from her this morning. She is fine, busy plant staring, and gets to go on a side trip by plane to some other city in China tomorrow in order to see an interesting plant. More news at the weekend, assuming I get to a web browser somewhere in Paris!

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Oh, and welcome to my friends list, by the way! livredor has recommended you before, so it's about time I got around to saying hello. :)

[darcydodo]

This is very true. However, being ornery, I was using it entirely differently. See, I figure that if the girls in the Dormouse's story could draw a muchness, then it's a substantive, and I want it to mean much of something. So much of a muchness would, in my strange strange head, be a very large lot indeed. I knew you'd either understand me or ask. ;)

[timeplease.livejournal.com]

Oddly, I was already on pseudomonas' friends list. I've added him to mine.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

*waves*

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Only Humpty Dumpty can do that!

not quite a match

[(Anonymous)]

ok, so this isn't right, i know, but y'know i'm not on this thing.. well often when i look at this girl's stuff i think you would like it. i think it's one of the best 'homes'. to the extent that it can make me just want to give it all up.. but anyway, i thought it was a suitable place to put you in touch. www.lomohomes.com/NATALIE.ZWILLINGER xH