minervacat: (i could bring love back into my life)
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  1. i went to see the decemberists last night. (entry backdated to save your flist from spam.) [livejournal.com profile] cindyjade, the decemberists are playing in asheville in september! we should go.

  2. yesterday afternoon there was a bench-clearing brawl during the tigers/royals game. very very early this morning i tivoed sportscenter. slightly less early this morning, i spent fifteen minutes watching the same ten second clip of kyle farnsworth, aka the best ass in baseball, bodyslam one of the royals' relievers. if there's a better way to start a monday, i think it probably involves not having to go to work.


  3. [Poll #534605]

  4. i am ridiculously in love with tags on livejournal. they appeal to my crazy obsessive organizational nature, and i've seen a lot of people ask "what's the point? can't i just use memories to do the same thing?", to which i reply: yeah, you can. but while i'd love to be able to find every post i've made about college basketball, i'm also against clutter and i never wanted to clutter up my memories with them, because they weren't important enough.

    tags, though - tags i can apply to just about anything i ever posted in my journal, right down to the specific kind of meta that the post was, or the specific book i'm talking about, and it's neat and clean (although i must say that it took far too much effort to MAKE tags look nice and clean in my journal, which is annoying) and easy to access. and to be perfectly honest, i find them easier to view than memories - i can tag all my links posts based on what fandoms i recced, and instead of having to click through 85 posts, you can just go to my journal, click "recs:hp" in the side bar, and only have to search through posts in which i recced hp to find the story you want.

    it isn't perfect, but nothing ever is when it's first developed; it takes trial and error to figure out how to do things right.

    here's how i see tags: they're a cataloguing system. memories is a bookmarks system, tags are for cataloguing. cataloguing is about breaking down content and marking it with relevant keywords; a thorough, complex tags system should work, essentially, as a card catalog in a library. i've never found anyone's memories who did that for me, with the possible exception of [livejournal.com profile] makesmewannadie.

    i know that pretty much everyone reads my journal through their flist, but if you check out my journal main page and scroll down, you'll see a nested list of all the tags that i've used in my journal. the list, of course, is incomplete, as i'm still in the process of back-tagging the 2+ years of archives i have, but if you're looking for something from the last six months, it's probably somewhere in there. i put the list there for you guys, not for me, and as i add more of the links posts to the recs categories, it should be helpful. at least i hope it will be helpful.

    the final thing i have to say about tags is this: i wish i could easily integrate my flickr tags with my livejournal tags. two community-based sites, both using tags, but there's no way to integrate them. i could, of course, create a text box and add my tags by hand, but then i'd have to edit it every time i want to change my flickr tags, and that's annoying. but tags! two sites with tags! why can't i integrate my flickr tags into my livejournal? i have no idea. but i wish i could.

    my brain is overflowing with meta about the development and application of new technologies in the information world that i can't figure where to start talking about it.

  5. i am so exhausted and loopy today.
eight days left at work! EIGHT DAYS! *wild flailing*
Music:: who love you now and loved you then
There are 28 comments on this entry. (Reply.)
 
posted by [identity profile] serialkarma.livejournal.com at 02:37pm on 18/07/2005
I totally would have picked Connor/Murphy as my third choice, but you made *monkeys* an option. How could I not pick monkeys!
 
posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 02:42pm on 18/07/2005
i have to admit that when i first wrote the poll, it said "pick two" but i was afraid that ticky box/monkeys and kyle farnsworth/beating the shit out of people would beat out all the real pairings, and i couldn't have that. how else am i supposed to make you guys decide what story i should work on next?
 
posted by [identity profile] serialkarma.livejournal.com at 02:47pm on 18/07/2005
Well, thank god you didn't make us only pick two! I mean, how could I have chosen between ray kowalski/chicago and ticky box/monkeys?

Also, re: tags. I see you have put up links on your sidebar, which is excellent, thank you. But am I missing something as far as tags go? I just went through and tagged all my fic (which is the only thing I'm planning on tagging for the time being), in case memories go down again. However, once I've tagged something, is there a way on LJ for me to search by tags? Am I missing something really obvious here?
 
posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 02:50pm on 18/07/2005
if you go here (http://www.livejournal.com/manage/tags.bml) and click on one of your tags in the interface, you'll get an option that says something like "open all entries with this tag" or "show all entries with this tag" and then you can see them. but otherwise, unless you add a sidebar like i did, there isn't a good way to view other people's tags in component (which is, i think, the layout you're using?).

which is another annoying thing i should have mentioned. there are some newer layouts than component that make it easy to enable a viewable tags list, but in component i had to muck around with the code by hand to get something to show, which was frustrating, to say the least.
 
posted by [identity profile] serialkarma.livejournal.com at 02:55pm on 18/07/2005
you'll get an option that says something like "open all entries with this tag" or "show all entries with this tag" and then you can see them. but otherwise, unless you add a sidebar like i did, there isn't a good way to view other people's tags in component (which is, i think, the layout you're using?).

Yes, it is my layout, and okay, that makes sense. I knew there had to be some way for me at least to get to them, I just couldn't figure it out. I'm probably not going to bother with doing something viewable for other people since, in theory, I'm going to get my own webspace up relatively soon.

Thanks, darling!
starfishchick: (sam - iamdumb - thefakeheadline)
posted by [personal profile] starfishchick at 04:40pm on 18/07/2005
I can't figure out how to make my tags all pretty, so have avoided doing them. I want to start, though. *pout*
 
posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 04:58pm on 18/07/2005
if we have time when you're here, i'll try and help you fix it, okay? it's a lot easier to do in person than via email, if you're not comfortable or familiar with the coding and the theme layers and stuff beforehand.
starfishchick: (facepalm - voleuse)
posted by [personal profile] starfishchick at 05:02pm on 18/07/2005
Will it work if I've already started tagging things?

Maybe I should try a couple and see how I like it...

<3
 
posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 05:11pm on 18/07/2005
it'll work. all it will change is how the tags display in your journal, not what they are or anything. and you can always edit your tags later in the tag manager, that page i linked sk to up above in the thread. change what they're called, delete them, things like that.

my biggest problem wasn't that i disliked how tags worked, but rather how they looked in my journal. you can look at my journal, or jaci's, or [livejournal.com profile] makesmewannadie's for good examples of what kind of things you can call them, depending on what you want them to do for you.
starfishchick: (sam - iamdumb - thefakeheadline)
posted by [personal profile] starfishchick at 05:20pm on 18/07/2005
I like yours and Jaci's, but yeah, figuring out how to do THAT was difficult. For me, at least.
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posted by [identity profile] traveller.livejournal.com at 02:39pm on 18/07/2005
you were missing an essential pairing, so i had to pick two and abstain on the third.
 
posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 02:47pm on 18/07/2005
if you give me words, i'll add viggo and orlando to the to-write list. i just don't have anything cooking for them right now.
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posted by [identity profile] traveller.livejournal.com at 03:27pm on 18/07/2005
fruit jar

or

fruit, jar

your choice. :D
 
posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 03:29pm on 18/07/2005
consider that little poll box ticked, then.
ext_9649: (have I missed the big reveal?)
posted by [identity profile] traveller.livejournal.com at 03:34pm on 18/07/2005
if there can be moonshine in that fruit jar, the better for it.
 
posted by [identity profile] pearl-o.livejournal.com at 03:11pm on 18/07/2005
The fact that only two of us have voted for F/K wounds my soul! My vote should count for, like, ten other people.
 
posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 03:30pm on 18/07/2005
i know! where are all my due south fannish types? voting seems to be heavy on the lotrips this morning.
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posted by [identity profile] traveller.livejournal.com at 03:35pm on 18/07/2005
i'm retired.
starfishchick: (Default)
posted by [personal profile] starfishchick at 04:38pm on 18/07/2005
Here. (You know I love Dom/Billy, but Fraser/Kowalski has eaten my brain.)

Also, I'm so glad you got the highlights TiVo'd. Make sure Sid sees it too, yeah? I couldn't find her number last night.
 
posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 04:57pm on 18/07/2005
well, she was with me, so i told her about it. she's going to come over and watch the highlights tonight.
starfishchick: (love nothing so well as you - marginalia)
posted by [personal profile] starfishchick at 05:20pm on 18/07/2005
Yay!

It is not seriously the best highlight ever? *dies laughing*
 
posted by [identity profile] cindyjade.livejournal.com at 05:48pm on 18/07/2005
re: #1 - YES LET'S OMG! do you know when in september? *bounces in your lap*
 
posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 05:53pm on 18/07/2005
september 30. it's a friday! i have no classes on friday! *tickles you*
 
posted by [identity profile] cindyjade.livejournal.com at 07:04pm on 18/07/2005
purrrrrrrfect. *rolls around with you*
 
posted by [identity profile] borrowedwings.livejournal.com at 06:30pm on 18/07/2005
Remus/Sirius FOREVER. Tonks is dead to me.
 
posted by [identity profile] bear.livejournal.com at 06:40pm on 18/07/2005
MIN MIN MIN LOOK WHAT I FOUND:

library career romances (http://www.jenw.org/home.htm).
 
posted by [identity profile] minervacat.livejournal.com at 07:20pm on 18/07/2005
OH BEAR THOSE ARE SO FUNNY.

i want to start collecting them!
 
posted by [identity profile] jkirk.livejournal.com at 08:05pm on 18/07/2005
You were the first person I thought of when I saw the Farnsworth clip on Sportscenter last night. Good to know you can watch it over and over and over.

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