Wednesday Afternoon Rambly Bits

[gnomi]

-- An observation: A cold, windy, rainy day is the worst time for there to be no working traffic lights at the intersection of Broadway and Third Street in Kendall Square.

-- A question (for those of you who do such things): In comments/IM/whatever, do you tend to set action descriptions off in asterisks or double-colons (thus, are you more likely to type *hugs* or ::hugs::)? Incredibly geeky Nomis want to know.

ETA: All this talk of asterisks in comments reminds me of a ditty I believe I first learned from my father when I was a kid (hey, beckyfeld, do you remember it, too?):

Mary had a little Porsche
She drove it very brisk
Wasn't she a silly sort?
She had her *

-- A statement: The official U.S. time - clock is massively cool.

Comments

[beckyfeld.livejournal.com]

As an old-time geek, I usually *asterisk* actions and _underscore_ emphasis. As for the time site, it's a really cool site but I can't use it at work because we block port 80 ;-<

Oh yeah, that leads me to another geek question - when using emoticons, do you use parentheses or angle brackets for the mouth, and why? As you can tell, I usually use angle brackets because I find that the emoticon is frequently _inside_ parentheses and "looks wrong" if it's
(;-))
instead of
(;->)

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

As an old-time geek, I usually *asterisk* actions and _underscore_ emphasis. As for the time site, it's a really cool site but I can't use it at work because we block port 80 ;-<

Yeah -- I think it's the old-time-geek thing for me, too. Muscles are used to doing _underscored_ emphasis and *starred* actions. But since I see ::actions:: a lot, I've started using it in some contexts.

Sorry to hear you can't use the time site at work. But maybe at home... :-)

Oh yeah, that leads me to another geek question - when using emoticons, do you use parentheses or angle brackets for the mouth, and why? As you can tell, I usually use angle brackets because I find that the emoticon is frequently _inside_ parentheses and "looks wrong" if it's
(;-))
instead of
(;->)

As you can see above, I use parens for smiles. If I put a nose in my smilies (which I do most often), ket-smiles look like arrows to me, and I get confuffled. <--- me big dork. If I'm putting the smiley in parens, then I put a space between the smile-paren and the close-paren (like this :-) ). 'Cause, y'know, I'm a dork.

Of course, then I get into the odd mouths:

:-P :-S :-| :-o etc.