brother, can you spare a paradigm?

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:25:20 GMT

OKAY SO JUST IN CASE EVERYONE WASN'T ALREADY AWARE

THERE IS A REALLY FOR REALSIES RELEASE DATE FOR KORRA

AND IT IS SATURDAY 14TH APRIL, 11:00 AM

shaking & crying, etc.

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Tue, 13 Mar 2012 06:18:42 GMT

sophistry: Merc
sophistry: tell me I'm not allowed keyword the making-out-on-the-table icon as, 'get IN angel'.
ladysingsthe: f;lskf;lsdkf
ladysingsthe: i'm sorry
ladysingsthe: i cannot
sophistry: welp.

This has been a post about the productive things I do when sick on a Monday night.

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Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:38:58 GMT

This episode is a real thing that is happening on my screen.

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Powering through Fringe S3...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:06:02 GMT

...and I just felt the urge to let the world know that Anna Torv's Leonard Nimoy impression is causing me to lose it in possibly permanently damaging ways.

This show has gone completely bananas, and I love it.

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Like Leslie Knope, I will not rest until this is a national holiday

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:22:40 GMT

Happy Galentine's Day

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Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:31:54 GMT

Happy Galentine's Day

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this is a PSA

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 20:28:40 GMT

Ben Wyatt and Leslie Knope are my life now.

That is all.

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DreamCatcher - a filtering tool for DW and LJ

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 03:26:00 GMT

I did another thing! For Chrome and Firefox this time.

Good: Via a bit of URL wizardry, both Dreamwidth and LiveJournal allow you to filter entries by multiple tags, and - in communities - by poster. Awesome!

Bad: The only place these functions are noted on either site is in the FAQs, where you have to go and look up the formulae every time you want to use them. Boo!

Solution?DreamCatcher

DreamCatcher is a filtering tool for Dreamwidth and LiveJournal. It allows you to filter journal entries on either site by:

poster

multiple tags (and) - all posts tagged with both tag1 and tag2

multiple tags (or) - all posts tagged with either tag1 or tag2

CHROME: Chrome users can install the DreamCatcher extension by clicking here.

FIREFOX: Firefox users can use DreamCatcher by snagging the bookmarklets on this page, and dragging them onto their bookmarks toolbar.

Filter on, my fellow geeks, vexed no more by the trials of awkward copy-pasting.

I should note at this point that I know nothing about Javascript, Chrome extensions, or, indeed, anything. At all. So if you spot a bug, please let me know, and I'll do my best to figure out where I messed up.

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Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:27:45 GMT

In ~~non-geeky~~ slightly less geeky news, apologies to everyone I was chatting with last night when I vanished! My internets crapped out, and after several rather cross attempts to reconnect, I instead decided to take it as a sign and went to bed.

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LJ Hook for Chrome (sort of) - Dreamwidth compatible

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:17:00 GMT

I did a thing!

So, Firefox has an excellent extension called LiveJournal Hook, which adds a right-click menu to the update/comment boxes on LJ, for easy insertion of HTML and site-specific tags. It's compatible with Dreamwidth, and includes the ability to save your own custom bits of text or code to add to the menu.

Chrome, alas, does not have LJ Hook, and there are at present no plans to port it. What Chrome does have is the Insert Text extension, which, similar to LJ Hook, allows you to save custom snippets to a right-click menu and drop them into any text area.

What it also does, is allow you to import pre-configured text snippets.

Take one free afternoon, a cup of common HTML tags, and a liberal dash of LJ & DW-specific markup, mix well, and let set.

( LJ Chook )

And voila! I hope this is useful for people; if you find that it is, feel free to link other needy Chrome users back here at will. And if there are any glaring omissions, or you catch a mistake in any of the code snippets, please comment and let me know!

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my day in haiku

Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:27:10 GMT

unfucked the bathroom
(though cupboard can wait for now);
one load of laundry

Tumblr-drying thoughts
on 'The Woman' and last words —
still lots to go there

beef, noodles, cashews:
things that wilt symbolically
in the microwave

invited abroad
to reheat for a few weeks,
(wilt, melt, crisp, unwind)

but without wifi,
a room of one's own ( — The Woman),
I'd murder them all

no time for a nap,
laundry's done and so's this post
terpsichore beatnik

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2012 so far

Mon, 02 Jan 2012 18:40:29 GMT

The Good:

→ Finally finishing unpacking! Look, shut up, I am constitutionally incapable of throwing away useless crap in case I need it some day, so finding space for everything I brought home and chucking out as much as I did is a big achievement! Also, ALL MY BOOKS ARE NOW ON BOOKSHELVES ~~or satisfactory approximations thereof~~. THIS IS A STATE OF AFFAIRS THAT HAS NOT EXISTED FOR SOME YEARS.

→ Somewhat relatedly: packages! Specifically, ones from silveraspen and unravels. Thank you guys so much. I may or may not have gotten a little verklempt in a seasonally-appropriate manner; what is certain is that I am currently keeping my ears warm with a silly hat, and that Full Dark, No Stars has just jumped up to the next spot in my reading list.

→ T-minus 3 days until the premiere of Eternal Law. A genial Good Omens rip-off with Tobias Menzies, Sam West, silly wigs and shitty special effects? BE STILL MY BEATING HEART. I don't know why fandom isn't all over this show - as it is, the entire '#eternal law' tag on Tumblr is basically elb and I screaming joyfully at each other. Get on this, fandom!

The Bad:

→ Finally finishing unpacking. I'm just saying, there's a reason it took me so long. Depressing process, depressing symbolism, depressing drawers full of depressing relics, etc.

→ Family. Never change. Or... do. Yeah.

The Ugly:

→ I am still spitting mad over the Sherlock premiere. Without spoiling anything, it was made all the more bitter by the fact that it was actually amazing!... right up until it plowed head-on into the iceberg of Steven Moffat's misogyny and sank straight to the ocean floor of fail. It's like he and Julian Fellowes had a competition to see who could make the most egregiously offensive holiday special, and oust Ryan Murphy from his throne of prime-time insensitivity. I... I'm so angry, I am mixing metaphors!

I've already spent quite some time ranting about this over on Tumblr (as those of you who follow me are no doubt painfully aware /o\); if I can manage to assemble all my thoughts into a coherent whole, I may post about it here, but, uh. Since I keep devolving into keysmashing and capslock whenever I talk about it, I wouldn't necessarily hold out much hope.

(If you want to talk about it in the comments, though, that is another story altogether. Just saying.)

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Sat, 24 Dec 2011 05:24:55 GMT

SO HEY, YEAH.

HI.

I'm still figuring out filters and shit over here on Dreamwidth, but this seems as good a time as any to resolve to try and post more often. Or at least, you know, attempt to figure out how to divide up my occasional word-vomit between here and Tumblr without making every single person of my acquaintance want to murder me.

ARE YOU ON DREAMWIDTH? TUMBLR?

sophistry
sophistory

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Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:50:01 GMT

YES. It is I, copinggoggles! I know, I know, I am not using the same moniker as on LJ, and that is Not Done, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, I HAVE WANTED THIS USERNAME FOREVER, SO SCREW YOU. YOU'RE NOT MY MOTHER.

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