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December 29th, 2011
09:33 pm - the continuing saga of making my tag necessary
This post is one of the many reasons why I love...really, it's geeks in general, and the determination (which I'm beginning to take for granted) that if the people in charge of whatever won't give us what we want, we'll damn well figure out how to make it do what we want.
The fixes provided and linked obviously don't fix everything on the LJ default comment pages, but they have a significant enough impact (actual margins! my preview button! no crazy fonts and sizes!) that I totally just did a little dance of joy.
Oh, and because I don't know who's seen what -- if you're in Firefox and are still having the troubles that I was the other day (not able to comment and/or not able to change usericons) AND if you have the Greasemonkey DisConnect script running...disable it. Um, if you don't have that script, maybe check some of your other scripts, but that's the one that did it for me and that other people have mentioned.
And for happiness for people who don't care about code but do care about cute: the most adorable fiercest kitten EVAR.
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December 22nd, 2011
07:59 pm - still here. really.
Yuletide posted. Phew.
Other things:
* Have all next week off, thank goodness. So tired. So very tired.
* Want these boots. In the brown.
* Mission Impossible 4 (no, I'm not going to figure out the punctuation and extra words) was far far more fun than I expected. And Jeremy Renner continues to be hotter than he should be.
* New LJ comment pages are weird and I need to figure out something to make the font size not be wacko, but my only real complaint is that in Firefox I can't change the usericon I want to use with my comments. That is not at all helpful. Is it just me? I refuse (REFUSE) to use IE, so don't tell me that's the solution. (Neither is switching to DW, btw, thanks.) ETA of WTF: scratch that, I also can't respond to other people's comments. What? If someone has figured that one out, I'm actually more interested in THAT answer than the icon one. AND ANOTHER ETA: After experimenting, I think I can conclude that MY Firefox problems (I can't guarantee for everyone) stem from the new LJ not playing nice with the Greasemonkey add-on. I've left a comment at the LJ fixit post to that effect, and hopefully someone is paying attention and doesn't just think well, turn greasemonkey off, then.
* TV-wise, gave up on Once Upon a Time two epsiodes in. Mostly enjoying Top Chef Texas. Not sure if I'm prepared to actually SEE Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me on my television. Want more Justified to be here now. Also missing SYTYCD, why did Australia and Canada give up, wah.
* Hi. I think I'm going to make my new years resolution be that I post at least once a week, because it's not like I don't have things to say/share. Come January, you all are welcome to poke me if I don't.
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August 18th, 2011
08:18 pm - it's been a Very Long Day
Someone needs to explain to me why clicking on the comments link for LJ posts now takes me to the comments, instead of the post itself. Or, like, how to actually get to the post now. Even if you could argue that the comments link now lives up to its name, what exactly am I supposed to use as the permanent link for a post? Without erasing stuff out of the URL, I mean, because how is that user friendly? This was/is/who knows one of my least favorite features of DW, and now it's HERE. Gnargh. How do I make it STOP DOING THAT?
ETA: since I don't have the patience right now to figure out what I'm doing wrong in the code that I can't add a "link" link to the "X comments | leave a comment" options, I have decided to make the post subject lines the permalink, which makes things linked-colored instead of black, but that is currently the less irritating option.
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June 18th, 2011
09:58 am - weekend, wheeee!
Off shortly for travel craziness and fun. Not that you all will notice. :)
A couple of things, though.
( Top Chef Masters & SYTYCD )
And non-spoilery -- LJ has been randomly logging me out over the last month or so, but when it does, it's only...after. I mean, I can see my flist with all the locked posts, but when I click on one is when it says I'm not logged in. That's weird, but whatever. My problem comes in that when I do log in at that point, instead of taking me back to where I was, it takes me out to the generic front page. Is that just me? If anyone else has encountered it, do you know how to make that stop happening?
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August 23rd, 2009
10:57 am - Can it be September time now?
Yesterday there was pretty pretty museum exhibit, followed by yummy yummy tapas and sangria, and topped off with shiny shiny VVC vids for the part of the crew who did not go to Chicago. We did not watch everything due to time and interest, but there were several that I'm glad that I've seen again now, because they make much more sense going in knowing what in hell is going on.
This morning there were not fresh bagels. I guess everyone has to go on vacation, sure, but ::sigh:: The sight of the stream of regulars who walked/drove up only to trudge away pouting was kind of hilarious, though. And on the way back home there was an adult red-tailed hawk flying less than a foot away from my car, after we startled it on the side of the street (where it had a kill, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif) jenlev thought; all I knew was, HOLY HELL, REALLY CLOSE BIRD).
For the last day, LJ has been doing that thing again where it's making every post I click through to ?style=light, which I hate. It needs to stop doing that.
And since it's actually possible to breathe out there right now, I'm trying to decide whether to go out on my bike with my new biking gloves in the time we have left before it's apparently going to start raining again. (stop writing about it, and do it, you idiot)
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April 21st, 2009
01:57 pm - thingies
1) If you're still looking to get a VVC DVD set, I have one extra left that
I can procure.
2) The thing that sticks with me about the cross-posting interface at DW is
that it assumes, a) you want to use a Web interface to post, and b) that DW
is your starting point. As far as I could tell after poking around some, it
doesn't take into account those of us who plan to continue using LJ as our
journal, and are posting to DW nine times out of ten only to maintain an
up-to-date backup (the tenth time being all the "how do I get this to work?"
stuff I don't want to bug LJ-only people with). NOTE: not a complaint; an
observation.
2a) It's occurring to me that if I e-mail post, it is not going to
cross-post. Ah well.
3) Does anyone else read Cute Overload through Google Reader? Has anyone
else found that CO's new RSS feed does not include the full post like the
old one did? Has anyone found a way around this? Is it just me? Should I
just put in a note at CO asking them to pretty please let me see the
cuteness again, pleeeeeeease.
4) I found a Very Hungry Caterpillar card at Target today. With
stickers! That is totally making this grey crap of a day worthwhile.
5) Just to round this out: what happened to the Orioles this weekend? Not
that I'm complaining, because yay! Wins! But did they forget how to catch
balls? That's gonna be a problem.
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February 26th, 2009
07:59 am - DO NOT WANT
I have to run to work, but question:
I have LJ set to automatically show everything in my own style. I like this. That would be why I ticked that tickybox. If I want to see what someone has done to their layout, I go look at it in a different browser where I'm not logged in. But this morning I go to skim the flist and answer comments on my post from yesterday, and when I click through to posts, I don't get the LJ default comment page -- I get style=light. WHICH I HATE. I log out, and that doesn't happen; I log back in, and it does.
Is anyone else experiencing this? It is not happymaking, and I want it to be gone by the time I get home. (You hearing me, LJ?)
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November 29th, 2007
11:54 pm - slightly tipsy-sleepy-attempting-to-think-ishness
The idea of "I'm so tired, I can't fall asleep" is crap. I am asleep. I am just also functional, kind of.
And not that I'm using you all as a sleep aid or anything, but I thought I'd run through the last day or so, and maybe get a glimpse of the locked and cut stuff that GReader doesn't see. Which reminds me of, and I should leave for later, my flail about why OH WHY can't people just put CLEAR and CONCISE subject lines on their posts that tell me whether or not I want to be expanding what you've said on an Internet connection that goes through my company? I KNOW. I'M BEING IRRATIONAL. PARANOIA MAKES FOR DREAMS OF THE WORLD BEING VERY ORGANIZED, OKAY.
Anyway. What do I run across first? Oh yeah, LJ's newest Thing. For which I have a big old, EH. Someone wants to throw up a barrier around anything on their own journal by formally declaring it adult or explicit, go for it. Have a blast. It's your journal. The thing that had me on edge until I read further and saw that LJ found themselves a person who's capable of communicating! Congratulations, and about time, guys! She's doing a fairly stand-up job so far in the comments on the lj_biz post; look for marla...and I've lost track of where I was. Okay, the thing of worry. It was, naturally, the ability to flag other people's posts. But upon reading further, as far as I can tell, random overzealous/crazypot/hater person can flag a post(er) all they want, but that's not what sticks stuff behind the auto-tag. There is no automatic auto-tagging of anything of yours by anyone who is not you. There is auto-tagging after review, but one hopes with all one's might that LJ will work out a notification and appeals process before anyone has a legitimate case for beating the company over the head again.
So, yes, everything about the flagging of others (oy, I am tired enough for that to sound really dirty) is dependent on the LJ Abuse Prevention Team being people of sound mind, common sense, and relative freedom from dumbass directives from on high. High hopes and past performance are eyeing me, and snickering, but I'm going with positive thoughts for the time being.
...which may be another sign that I need to find a sledgehammer and be done with this ridiculous thing called "wakefulness," but I'd like to think of happiness right now, thanks to Ray Toro and Australia. I just. This is why MCR makes me grin, people. They're like pocket sources of dork-filled awesome, all of them.
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November 8th, 2007
10:55 am - up down around
Not that this helps with the fact that I spend most of every day unable to
comment at all, but LJ finally lets you edit comments! Only before they're
responded to, and I hope they keep it that way, because
1) that's when they reeeeeeally need editing, in the "What the--? That
wasn't me, I SWEAR" kind of way, and
2) even with the little "edited by..." note, it still keeps people on the
more honest side of life whenever all and sundry point out a raging case of
foot-in-mouth. No total takebacks, folks, and that's how it should
be.
I woke up last night with Sam curled up warm against me, and then I woke up.
Life is better now than it was before, but damn, this sucks. (and please
don't say, "but she'll be with you soon!", because I don't know when "soon"
is going to be and that sucks more than anything else right now.)
Along those lines, one of the things I meant to mention before: you know how
you have to be when you're at work or out among non-fannish friends? Not
entirely yourself, always keeping at least one eye on the link between your
thoughts and your mouth, and all the other fun that comes with people who
you don't ever want to know about fandom or LJ. And you know how nice it is
to get home and not have to worry or stress about all that?
I don't have that free-to-be-me space right now. To say that I really miss
that space shorts the way I'm feeling by about a gajillion points. It's like
stress, but with more guilt.
To end on a better note: while we all saw Papelbon and some of his bullpen
cohorts dancing, I'm pretty sure most people missed Beckett
coming through with at least part of his promise to show off some happy
feet. And now we know why he wasn't on the flatbed, oh my.
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November 6th, 2007
12:49 pm - return of the bullet points
There are a gazillion other things I've meant to post about, but
these are the ones I remember right now.
* Is there a study, scientific or otherwise, that examines the correlation
between precipitation and idiocy on the road? I haven't done anything
approaching organized collection of data, but anecdotal evidence has to
count for something, right?
* Pats won a real game! I was pretty sure for a while, there, that the heart
palpitations I was experiencing for the majority of the game were
retribution for the Sox joy, but despite the worst home-crowd officiating
I've seen since the Auerbach days in the Garden, they pulled it out.
Frankly, I'm not sure that the refs pissing Brady off that much wasn't the
reason they won. Anyway, the national sports media's bias in the ongoing
Pats-Colts saga still makes me want to give some people a good talking to,
but this should keep things quiet until the real AFC championship.
* I think I've learned another quirk of e-mail posting: no lj-ifying of
names. If that's just LJ hating on me, and others know better, let me know.
* Mostly for Barkley: Numbered
tabs that make me go oooooh, before collapsing in laughter. I
mean, wow, I know there are people out there who always keep their tab-count
under nine, but HA. So close to helpful, extension-writer person!
* My backlogged media looks like this now:
- 2 SPN [picspams will be coming; please don't ask "when?"]
- 3 4 Chuck
- 3 CSINY
- 3 1 Life
- 4 Spooks [or is it 5? should I look for another tonight?]
- 5 My Name is Earl
I should get a cookie for that.
* The amount of code in this post, when combined with my inability to
preview or to edit post-posting, terrifies me.
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October 25th, 2007
12:06 pm - state of the being
I'm feeling very detached. Between the new job and the Red Sox back in the
World Series, media fannishness hasn't just gone by the wayside; it's been
ditched and buried for the duration. Which is to be expected, but that
doesn't make me feel any less off.
Detail type things:
* I'm still fighting with LJ and RSS readers. There has been some success;
there have been some... It's a good thing, for both it and my toes, that LJ
isn't a physical object that can be kicked, that's all I'm saying.
* I didn't get to watch SPN 303 until Tuesday. Heck, it's the only non-Sox
thing I've watched, live or otherwise, in almost two weeks, so let's have a
big WOO! for watching it happening at all. But then last night was for
recovering from a nail-in-the-head headache so I could watch
Rockies-whomping (that I am not gloating about, because I've been on the
other side too often, but still, \o/), and tonight is for more of the fandom
that's pretty much owned my heart from birth. The specific upshot: my goal
of getting every picspam done in the week of the episode has failed already.
The general upshot: see the opening statement up there.
* I do expect to get back into the swing of things after the World Series
stops happening. Then, at least, I'll have a better shot of staying caught
up within a week of anything airing. I've also acquired a new USB wireless
adapter that lets me steal access the internet while in my own room
with its closeable door, and the only reason that I'm not typing that
development in allcaps is that I'm afraid to declare victory until it's
worked for more than 48 hours.
So, you know, HI. ::waves:: I won't say, "Tell me what you're up to!"
because that's not fair, but...you could tell me one good thing that's
happened to you in the last week, I'd like that.
eta: So okay, that didn't quite work. I gather the "lj-raw" command needs to come AFTER the commands for userpic and tags? Anyway, I'll try to be back after I have dinner.
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August 27th, 2007
10:23 am - wherein our subject is still settling in
What the hell, LJ? Why is it that every single time I check my flist in the past week -- at which point I am clearly logged in, what with all the locked entries I'm seeing -- do I then click through to an entry and come face to face with NO, NOT FOR YOU, YOU RANDOM UN-LOGGED-IN PERSON. What is that, LJ? Is it that I'm not checking you often enough? Because OMG NOT MY FAULT.
Um, hi. ::waves:: My internet access post-move is, to put it mildly, sporadic. Which means that "catching up" is mostly happening in tabs that I'm opening while online, and then reading offline. So, not much commenting happening, there. I haven't the faintest how to change this situation, but believe me, it is an issue that is right behind figuring out where and how to set up my tv on my Don't Go Crazy Before You Solve This list.
That getting logged out thing is on there, too. Is there an answer? I'm sure that LJ doesn't actually care, but has there been any indication that I can pretend like it's going to get fixed?
Other than that, I love having so many people nearby that I haven't had time to see them all yet and not freaking about that because, hey, I'm here now! I feel, however, like my life is currently centered around learning how living in Boston as person-with-car is the more complicated up-front choice; I'm in a holding pattern, boggling at all the dominoes that are going to tip (with great speed, one hopes) as soon as the bank delivers onto me the little perforated pieces of numbered paper that the RMV allows to be sufficient proof that I have re-established residency in this great commonwealth.
Picspams and VVC reporting and owed-ficlets aren't getting done simply because my brain can handle only so many things at once, and I'm sorry, but fannishness is stuck at a midpoint on that particular list. If there's anything that I should see of others' productiveness in the fannish realm, though, please to be pointing it out so I can do the offline admiration some more, thanks.
In conclusion, oh, abundant white pine trees, how I have missed you and your sap. No, seriously, you make things smell right.
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July 19th, 2007
08:33 pm - next we're going to be hearing about a secret plan to fight inflation
Oh for--
Here I was, ready to joke that my only interest in HP is a vague hope that Potterdammerung will result in zombies. But now?
STOP TALKING, LJ. Just. Ignore everything I've ever said about praying for you to please communicate wtf you're up to like you're an actual service provider instead of a three-person volunteer organization, and for the sake of all hopes for sanity, STOP.
I'm honestly half tempted to try to convince them to hire me as communications manager, because it hurts to see them fuck up this horrifically every time they open their mouths, and they need someone who can listen to what they're saying and
a) pass on to the masses what they mean to say, or
b) tell them, "Yeah, no, here are some questions, and we're not publicly saying a damn thing until I have the answers to at least a good majority of them."
That, my dears, is what a communications manager is for: not only serving as the voice of the organization, but also communicating to the higher ups when they should maybe put a little more thought into this before making any statements. The position is not the same as a public relations manager and is nothing like an executive vice president of marketing. Having one won't guarantee a complete lack of messiness and flailing, especially not unless you give the position more than a title (see: the Bush administration). Still, think of it as a good-sized weight on the side of risk management and as anything being better than nothing, which from all evidence on the table at this point is what LJ/6A currently has, and you'll see the main reason why LJ makes me cry.
As much as I need a job, though, I so don't need that headache.
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May 31st, 2007
08:46 am - as I keep reminding myself, everyone's human
Other than my confusion earlier this week at coming home to find my flist gone bonkers, I've been staying out of the LJ mess. I also don't get automatic updates from the LJ news feed. So, thanks to fabu for pointing out that Six Apart CEO Barak Berkowitz finally provided the best response to LJ users -- all of them -- that I think he could have.
Read it all the way through. Then, even if you've read it already, check what's new here, too.
And that's all I'm going to say on that. Later, however, if the day cooperates, there will be either kissing or picspam.
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May 29th, 2007
11:02 pm - eh?
Been offline...pretty much since noon. Am now three five posts into my flist, and WTF IS GOING ON, PEOPLE? EXPLAIN IN SMALL WORDS, PLS.
eta: Oh for fuck's sake. There is not enought OY in the world. (And poor LJ, screwed at both ends. This is every online service provider's worst nightmare.)
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March 7th, 2007
09:56 pm - FYI
I'd noticed the changes to the Edit Friends page when I went to change my Fanaticize community membership, but turns out LJ has been working on other things, too. Winner of the "most likely to interest the most people on my flist" award: the soon-to-be-live Edit Journal Privacy feature, the gist of which is, will allow Paid users to change a bunch of posts in their journal from one basic privacy level to another.
So, yay. But more and more, LJ is reminding me of Microsoft -- happily rolling out as a feature something for which the rest of the world had first kludged, and then designed a solution in order to fill the demand that reached critical volume at least two years back.
And in other ::headdesk:: technology service news, the USPS's Automated Postal Center looks handy, and probably is for some folks, but even the Postal Service worker who suggested that I use it instead of standing in line was gobsmacked to discover that it won't let you get postage on more than one item per transaction. We went through the process twice, just to make sure, because she couldn't believe that whoever designed it was that dumb.
Oh, and because it's a fascinating read and I want people to be able to access it before it disappears into the archives: this New York Times Sunday Magazine piece, Darwin's God (registration required, but give bugmenot a try if you need). What I'd normally call the nut graf:
Lost in the hullabaloo over the neo-atheists is a quieter and potentially more illuminating debate. It is taking place not between science and religion but within science itself, specifically among the scientists studying the evolution of religion. These scholars tend to agree on one point: that religious belief is an outgrowth of brain architecture that evolved during early human history. What they disagree about is why a tendency to believe evolved, whether it was because belief itself was adaptive or because it was just an evolutionary byproduct, a mere consequence of some other adaptation in the evolution of the human brain.
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January 10th, 2007
08:50 pm - somehow, I doubt Merriam-Webster thinks "his-tree-AH-nik" is Long Island for "drama"
1) What-the hell-ever, San Diego. Not that Auerbach wouldn't have pulled this at some point (and maybe did), and other teams are doing it, too, apparently, but really, inadequacy issues, much? I will say, though, that I simply wanted to win before. Now, even fond memories of Tony Gwynn and a pretty sunset can't keep me from wanting the Patriots to leave the field with the Chargers nothing but a broad bloody smear on the turf.
2) So clearly I was right to leave the DA story in the "wtf?" pile. I'm thinking everything else in there can go straight to the trash. Why did Microsoft ever rename that the recycle bin, anyway? I miss DOS, sometimes.
3) Is the promo for tomorrow's new SPN anywhere other than Youtube? i.e., does someone have it in downloadable form? Because I cannot quantify how much I abhor streaming video, but after watching the episode, I'd like to finally see what caused the squee this time. (If I say right now that Johnny Cash in of himself doesn't do a damn thing for me, is that going to get me lynched?) [eta: Destina to the rescue, yay.]
4) I'm contemplating a wholesale revamp of my icons. Start from scratch on the images. And also move to a naming convention that would use something resembling logic. Contemplating. One moment, it seems like the best idea ever; the next, I'm slapping myself out of trauma-induced hysteria. We'll see.
4a) I'd never seen Eva Green before, so given the first half of Casino Royale, I had no idea that she is so incredibly naturally pretty. I spent much of the second half wanting to scrub her face clean.
5) There is no five, but we've been conditioned and who am I to rebel?
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October 15th, 2006
09:53 pm - so there's something besides silence
The short version:
life = upheaval, tears, avoidance, frustration.
tv = BSG out, The Nine tentatively in, SPN continues to win but needs to be rewatched.
flist and comments = ha, right, not in the mood I've been in.
books = nine for $9.50, proving once more that library sales rock.
trees = finally getting with the program and the season.
site = updated, because a) tripoli8 makes gorgeous covers, and b) June was a long time and seven stories ago.
LJ = you're still rolling out new features, good, but how about you NOT make slower-loading pages something I have to opt-OUT of, hm? (Here is where to unticky their "helpfulness." See: contextual popup.)
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September 25th, 2006
01:44 pm - polka dots and stripes
Good article in yesterday's Washington Post about the non-sexual take on man-love/buddies in media, [here].
Changed to the new LJ default view, whatever it's called. Menu bar usefulness = good, better than before. Overall design = oh, why'd they have to do that?
My post on the mainstreaming-of-fandom fun turned out really not very sympathetic. It can be boiled down to: I'm not any happier than you are, but stop flailing and get out and affect the change that's happening, or learn to cope with whatever the world hands you. I'm not sure I should put it up. [eta: "not sure," because what I mean to say is, "Don't get stuck/lost in the flailing," and that went missing.]
I still owe some five things. They are coming, promise.
New toy for cat: magic DVD player screen saver. Yes, it works on cats, too.
Finally, I'm not bitching about anyone on my flist, but WTF, fandom? How do you not understand that employing a cut-tag is not the be all and end all of your responsibilities in not spilling information about unaired episodes? Posts that contain the equivalent of "OMG, two + two = [cut-tag]" are BAD. Post that go something like "Guess who's back in Episode Z! [cut-tag]" with an icon of a guest character are ALSO BAD. I'm responsible for not clicking on things that say "spoiler," yes, but I'm capable of wielding logic, too. How is this confusing?
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March 31st, 2006
11:44 am - my new Thursday is *dangerous*
Oh, Earl. My freaking INSANE happy show. "We do not grab the bullhorn." I have no clue why that's my favorite moment. Whatever. "Not cool, man."
But the scary thing? I am apparently so easy. Or at least I was last night, because I actually laughed harder at SPN. Considering that Earl usually reduces me to wheezing at least once, I didn't think that was possible.
( Hell House )
BTW, after yesterday's display by my flist, I'm tempted to start handing out a daily shiny gold star for the Most Cracktastic "Whateva, LJ" Location.
...what? Those of us who update through Semagic have to make our own fun.
Now wish me luck! We're braving the tourists. We're going in. There will be trees. I have a DC license and I'm not afraid to wield it!
Dude. Next day and I'm still loopy. It's a good thing SPN isn't usually funny, or I'd be worried.
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