A PVC Harp?

.....Something I saw on the harp list. Check this out...

.....When played by itself it doesn't sound bad at all really. Doesn't have quite the same warm tones as a wood harp, but not bad. Probably would NOT want to play it right next to a wood harp. But for price and portability, I could really see people picking up something like this.

.....I could just imagine what people at an SCA event would say. :-) Although we get away with playing plastic recorders all the time, is this any different? :-)

.....Aaron / Arontius.

Live Journal Ettiquette?

.....I wonder if Emily Post has started a new chapter on ettiquette in the land of Live Journal? :-)

.....Here's the background: I was looking for an e-mail address for someone (or even just a way to contact them) and I was at work. I don't have access to my personal e-mail at work, so I was rifling through Live Journal. I went through my Friends List and thought, 'Hmmm, this person might have them friended.' So I went there and as I was looking I saw another Live Journal name that made me stop and think, 'Hmmm, that name sounds like a creation of someone I know.' So, I went and looked at the journal, and just as I thought it was that person.

.....So, I was curious and started reading the journal and catching up with them. Feeling rather like a voyeur, and just a little guilty. I finally confessed to them in a note to one of their entries and waited to see what they said. Nothing has been said so far. But I do feel better now that I'm not covertly stalking them.

.....So, here are the questions:

.....1.) Is it O.K. for one person to go through another's Friends Listing to see who is there?

.....2.) If you find someone on another's Friends List, is it O.K. to go and read THEIR journal? Is it O.K. to continue reading their journal over a length of time and not acknowledge that you are doing so? Is it considered as a form of 'stalking' for doing so?

.....3.) What should be the rules for friending someone? Is it O.K. to friend someone first without asking?

.....I think that I am a closet catholic. It doesn't take much at all to make me feel the guilt! :-)

.....Aaron / Arontius.