Very lame Friday Five

Friday Five is slacking off a bit this week...

1. Where are you right now? At work, bored.
2. What time is it? 9:45am
3. What are you wearing? Sounds like a bad chat... I'm wearing baggy jeans and a polo shirt.
4. Any people or animals around you? Describe them. None in sight. I hear Bill down the trailer. He's a tall skinny guy, looks like the guy in the Curious George books.
5. What are your plans for the weekend? Hang out with enygma and The Boy, try to avoid strangling him when he asks, "What's that?" for the 100th time in an hour.

Wacky

For those that don't have lj_maintenance as a friend, free users cannot post.

If not for the ease of aggregating many weblogs on one "friends" page, I'd jump to a straight Movable Type weblog. Good thing I'm not a free user, I guess.

Air Travel

Anyone flown United lately? They've changed the layout of their planes to better serve their "premium" members, giving them more legroom. They did this without changing the number of seats on the plane, though. You know how? By pushing all the seats in the back half of the plane a couple inches closer together. Now, when they guy in the seat in front of you reclines the 3 degrees permissible, his seatback ends up bumping your forehead. If you're over 5'7", you will hate being past row 10 on these things. Ick.

Meanwhile, my coworker Paul has just returned from the most arduous flight I've heard of to take place on only one continent. He was traveling for over 20 hours yesterday, just to get from DC to Tucson. He spent 8 hours on tarmacs waiting for gates. Don't you love air travel today?

Weblogs and communities

I know I've made mention of this before, but I am really curious and very much wonder if it is possible to do some of LJ's unique functions away from LJ. With little further ado, my query:

Is there a simple RSS/RDF aggregator I can put on my personal website that would be able to act as the LJ "friends" page does? I want to be able to continue to read all these journals as well as the RSS feeds that I have on my friends page, but avoid the central server problem that LJ has.

Just pondering the possibility of maybe someday moving my journal to Movable Type and still maintaining a "friends page" type thing to make weblog-reading easier.