iesika | An interesting demographic project

vichan has set up a lj community called

fandom_countsfor the sole purpose of counting how many LJ users are here for fandom. There are no posts, you just go join to get counted. But if it's going to work, everybody has to join, so go join. Come on, aren't you curious? Since LJ was just bragging about having a higher population than most American states? I mean, damn, 13,059,612 people. The com has 25,395 members already. It was founded at 12:30pm EST.

Also, someone I've never met before just ran up the stairs to my office and gave me a free jar of jam from the Strawberry Festival in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. O.o

ETA: Brief conference with my coworkers has led to the revelation of the Mystery Jam Gifter's identity - she's a subject in one of our studies whose son's boy scout troop made the jam for the fest and who has a pantry full of it to get rid of now. It looks good - whole halves of strawberries (yes, I know that's an oxymoron, but I couldn't think of a different way to phrase that). Shame I already ate my bagel.