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livSlightly mutated from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sciolist:
1) Go to my User Info page.
2) Pick one person on my friends list you're curious about.
3) Comment with their username.
4) I will tell you something about them.
5) If you like propagating memes, post this in your journal, see who is curious about whom.
Let's see if I can play this without offending anyone...
sciolist:1) Go to my User Info page.
2) Pick one person on my friends list you're curious about.
3) Comment with their username.
4) I will tell you something about them.
5) If you like propagating memes, post this in your journal, see who is curious about whom.
Let's see if I can play this without offending anyone...
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(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 07:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 07:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 07:05 pm (UTC)beckyzoole
Date: 2005-09-01 07:26 pm (UTC)Mostly because I was interested to see that you friend her, too; I had seen her before in comments on
beckyzoole
Date: 2005-09-01 07:38 pm (UTC)Like you, I do sometimes friend "random" people I have little or no direct connection with. I'm trying to cut back on that cos my flist is getting bigger than I'm comfortable with. But there are too many cool people on LJ to resist it very well.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 08:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 08:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 08:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 08:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 08:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 08:32 pm (UTC)I was really vacillating on whether that would feel the wrong sort of egotistical. It's a peculiar kind of heartening to have other people pick me as worth asking about, though.
And I think I can find more than one thing to say about you (!)
Exclaiming "Fishberries !" doesn't count. *grin*hug*
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 08:36 pm (UTC)Despite being a professional geek,
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 08:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 08:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 08:42 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 08:43 pm (UTC)fwiw, part of gender-obscuring comes from having a first name that is uncommon enough in the kind of UK/NorAm dominated corners of cyberspace I mostly hang out in that it does not immediately say female or male to many people, and having been read by some people, sometimes quite insistently, as of different chromosomal configurations to that which I actually am, and thinking about it for a bit and deciding that it matters that it should not matter.
I suppose that's "something about rysmiel"
Failed ideas for dumb teen comedies, #24: "There's Something About Rysmiel".
Despite being a professional geek, rysmiel lives somewhere that is less well equipped with computers than the houses of just about any of my friends.
Primarily in order to get some reading done, too.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 08:45 pm (UTC)pronouns
Date: 2005-09-01 08:48 pm (UTC)Re: pronouns
Date: 2005-09-01 08:52 pm (UTC)On which, for completeness' sake, my position is that if it's good enough for Chaucer and Shakespeare it's good enough for me.
BTW, every time your mood comes up as "chipper" I want a mood for "sushi bar".
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 08:59 pm (UTC)Re: pronouns
Date: 2005-09-01 09:00 pm (UTC)By the way, I've noticed an oddity in the HTML for your comment style.
1. Hover the mouse over the name of the commenter, to the right of their icon.
2. Move the mouse down slightly to hover over the date.
Result: the bottom border of the comment section header collapses away.
3. Move the mouse away from the comment section header.
Result: the aforementioned border reappears.
This is using IE 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519, on Windows XP Pro SP2.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 09:02 pm (UTC)Despite being a professional geek, rysmiel lives somewhere that is less well equipped with computers than the houses of just about any of my friends.
Primarily in order to get some reading done, too.
Despite being a professional geek myself, I let my home computer atrophy for about seven years, and for similar reasons.
Re: pronouns
Date: 2005-09-01 09:04 pm (UTC)Sushi bar is very cute, though!
Re: pronouns
Date: 2005-09-01 09:05 pm (UTC)1. Note how the icons in the comment header bars have nice borders below them.
2. Move the mouse to hover over the date in one comment header.
Result: the bottom border collapses away.
3. Move the mouse anywhere else on the page, other than another comment header, or the user name adjacent to the date.
Result: no change.
4. Move the mouse over the user name adjacent to the date.
Result: the border reappears.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 09:11 pm (UTC)Actually, I thought it would be a very special, tear-jerker, we've-all-learned-a-lesson-and-matured, Hallmark After-School Special: "There's Something About Rysmiel".
Probably made in the 70s, with Bill Bixby as the Dad.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 09:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 09:13 pm (UTC)Yeah, I probably would have hesitated to pick myself on a meme like this, for similar reasons. I do sympathize with that line of argument.
You are definitely worth asking about and worth talking about. I could argue that I've picked up from
If I did that, I would have to explain what on earth I was on about, and that would spoil the fun.
darcydodo
Date: 2005-09-01 09:18 pm (UTC)Re: pronouns
Date: 2005-09-01 09:26 pm (UTC)I may use them for God if I'm talking about God with people who are likely to be familiar with the concept, but if I'm talking in a more general context (for example when I'm giving sermons) I'm hesitant. I don't want my services or discussions about religion to get derailed into arguments about gender-neutral language, which can very easily happen, Jews being what they are. Or at least, I don't mind if that happens occasionally, but if it happened every time I mentioned God, it would get annoying. So it's more subtle to recast my sentences so there simply aren't any pronouns at all, if I possibly can.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 09:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 09:35 pm (UTC)Re: pronouns
Date: 2005-09-01 09:50 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 09:52 pm (UTC)Now which of these two habits would you prefer the average person to pick up? :o)
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-01 10:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-02 02:10 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-02 02:59 am (UTC)Whereas I have to keep an eye on her lest she start shouting about "knobbly fruit!" ;)
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-02 04:56 am (UTC)Fortunately for me and my most common browser, ?style=mine is my friend, but still.
(ISTR reading that you specifically did not put any effort into having it work on Opera and that you were aware of strange effects.)
791.43
Date: 2005-09-02 05:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-02 08:59 am (UTC)In the past I didn't bother with Opera because the underlying layout, which I didn't write, broke badly in versions lower than 8.0. Now Opera 8 can render my basic layout ok, so it's only the CSS which needs attention. If you're using an old version of Opera I can't help you, but when I start fiddling with my stylesheets again, I will try to fix it for Opera 8 as well as IE.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-02 09:02 am (UTC)monanotlisa
Date: 2005-09-02 09:20 am (UTC)Opera
Date: 2005-09-02 10:59 am (UTC)*nods* 7.23 (home) / 7.54 (work) at the moment. May have to go to 8.x soon, though, anyway.
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-02 01:52 pm (UTC)*blush*
I could argue that I've picked up from lethargic_man the habit of talking about you all the time, just as he's picked up my elongated vowels. But more seriously I think people ask about you because I do talk about you quite often, or possibly because we end up having a lot of conversations in my comments.
which, while it makes sense on an intellectual level, still doesn;t click for me as an emotional reality.
Exclaiming "Fishberries !" doesn't count.
If I did that, I would have to explain what on earth I was on about, and that would spoil the fun.
I suppose it is less self-explanatory than "Penguins !"
*hug*
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-02 01:56 pm (UTC)Oh dear. The thought of hacking such a format to fit around a life lesson I actually approve of is twisted enough to be almost tempting.
Probably made in the 70s, with Bill Bixby as the Dad.
It has been suggested that in The Rysmiel Story I should be played alternately by Drew Barrymore, Jeff Goldblum, Jamie Lee Curtis, Rutger Hauer, Tim Curry and Jessica Rabbit. [ I'm not bad, I'm just badly drawn. ]
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-03 11:45 am (UTC)Unfortunately it's usually the first name on many alphabetic lists of LJ friends or interests, so I'm still not quite as inconspicuous as I want. *g*
(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-03 10:44 pm (UTC)My username doesn't have immediate associations with my name, gender, or nationality (I don't have a specific fandom in the sense that I think you're using that term), but that's just luck, and it's probably much too late for me to obscure any of those things online.
Well, I suppose I could get a new email address and LJ account and not put my real name or face on either.
Icon Love
Date: 2005-09-06 05:46 am (UTC)