Wednesday Afternoon Rambly Bits
Dec. 1st, 2004 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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.
-- 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.
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Date: 2004-12-01 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-01 09:45 pm (UTC)I use asterisks most of the time, but sometimes for hugs I use parentheses around the person's name, as so: {{{Nomi}}}.
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Date: 2004-12-01 09:50 pm (UTC)::hugs you and your geekiness::
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Date: 2004-12-01 09:53 pm (UTC)Otherwise I'll use asterisks for actions since it's two keystrokes shorter and I am a lazy Mer.
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Date: 2004-12-01 10:28 pm (UTC)I also noticed the lack of traffic lights as I came through that intersection today, on foot...fun.
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Date: 2004-12-02 01:34 am (UTC)on im, :: tends to end up half a smiley which just confuses me.
*does a little dance*
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Date: 2004-12-02 02:15 am (UTC)You rang? :-)
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Date: 2004-12-02 02:21 am (UTC)*hugs back from the geekiness, too*
:-)
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Date: 2004-12-02 02:22 am (UTC)Interesting use of parentheses for hugs; I don't think I've seen that frequently (though now that you mention it, I know I've seen you use it).
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Date: 2004-12-02 02:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-02 02:56 am (UTC)I use asterisks, never colons. I sometimes do the {hug} thing, which I believe I picked up here on LJ.
In email I'm more likely to use angle brackets, but with the extra cost in keystrokes to render them in HTML, I usually don't on LJ. Though for things closer to "tagging" I do, such as in:
<AOL>Me too.</AOL>
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Date: 2004-12-02 03:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-12-02 03:07 am (UTC)(Incidentally, my mind started to go in the direction of punctuation porn, and then my mind scared itself.)
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Date: 2004-12-02 07:21 am (UTC)Today was weird, weather-wise... the morning was gross and wet, and we were busy. The afternoon was pleasant and sunny, and the store was quiet. I'll never understand people...
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Date: 2004-12-02 05:41 pm (UTC)Ergo...I *really* want to hug you, Nomi. So I think I will. ::hugs::
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Date: 2004-12-02 05:59 pm (UTC)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
(;->)
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Date: 2004-12-02 08:42 pm (UTC)*hugs back* :-)
(_really_)
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Date: 2004-12-02 08:48 pm (UTC)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.