perldiver

I was chatting on IM, and trying to ask someone how voluble they tended to be on LJ.  I needed a concise, non-connotated-purely-factual way to say that, and I was struggling a bit.  I finally hit the Eject With Extreme Prejudice button on brevity in preference for non-connotated. 

Now I'm hoping I can turn this into a meme:

First, imagine a unit which describes how voluminously one posts to LJ (or DW, or...), on average.  For obvious reasons, the baseline of this unit is "1 'song", abbreviated 1ss.  And, just as obviously, the 'song is a unit like the bel -- a bit too large for everyday use under most circumstances.  So we usually talk about "millisongs" (1000 mss == 1ss).

So, the next time you want to know if adding someone to your friends list is going to deluge you, you can just say "by the way, how many millisongs are you?"

Personally, I think I'm about 10mss; the length of my posts is more than offset by their infrequent appearance.