...and finally I have time to tell LJ about it all

[danohu]

It's another "too lazy to write properly, but don't want to forget what I've been doing" update.

Yesterday was writinghawk's barbeque, in which I learnt to play Go very very badly, discovered yet again that mjg59's geek-talk is stunningly incomprehensible, met claerwen, remet James (not something I had expected to ever happen), whinged at far too many people, and was unnecessarily nasty to at least one (sorry!). This may have some connection to me going home afterwards and deciding to create an angst filter. Beforehand, I spent the afternoon having one of those incredible dreams that makes you reconsider great swathes of your life. I may write a separate post about it if I can do it justice.

The previous day was the great atreic/emperor wedding ceilidh. Not having been to a ceilidh [1], I had the usual feeling of "How have I been alive 22 years and not got involved in this?". All that was interspersed with simont-like musings about the social-engineering aspects of organised dance. writinghawk: your rant about music makes a lot more sense when transposed to be about dancing, no?

This is getting long - I want to write about Friday and Thursday too, and about that dream, but I'll leave it at this for now

1: well, I think I remember one barndance, but that was almost a decade ago and I wasn't paying attention

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

You forgot footnote 1!

[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

Thanks for pointing that out!

I was trying to abuse the acronym tag to make an unobtrusive footnote, but it didn't work. I've put it in at the bottom now.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I see the acronym footnote; I quite like the effect, it saves scrolling, except that (a) I have a limit on how long a sentence can go there and (b) I think acronym mouseovers are not underlined in Internet Exporer which makes it hard to see them. Of course, having both is the best of both worlds :)

[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

The lack of footnotes in html has often irritated me, not least because I kept decent chunks of my university notes in an HTML-like format, and had lots of faff with footnotes whenever I wanted to turn them into an essay. I shall continue the research (or more likely keep an eye out for better solutions that other people have already dreamt up)

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

I had a quick look, and you may be able to do something with styles, but I'm not sure how much styles you can put in livejournal, and all the examples had javascript which is hopefully overkill, and I didn't have time to look further.

[fiona-kitty.livejournal.com]

mjg59's geek-talk is stunningly incomprehensible

You just have to keep listening and then turn it into something more amusing like eyeliner patches.

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

in which I learnt to play Go very very badly,

You leave it deliberately vague as to whether you had hitherto known how to play go well or not ;)

[atreic.livejournal.com]

You could come to the Round on Thursday and do even more dancing :-)

(Seriously, there is a weekly small dance club, and twice termly Big Fun Ceilidhs, although there's a bit of a lull in those at the moment for e**ms)