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The next time you hear from me may be via my new i-book. It has finally arrived at t'h's office address, and t'h is on his way in the car to fetch it as I type. Wheee! Well, it'll make absolutely no difference to you, of course, but it'll make loads to me, whee! I imagine untold speeds and ease of use, and being able to see things on websites I'd never seen before (this happens to me when I use the office computer and look at websites that I normally only see from home; I'm always 'hey, what the.. alles so schön bunt hier'. There seem to be buttons and menu bars all over the place, buttons that I never see on OS 8.6!!).
I may also finally start togging tigs as I will be able to access my yahoo email! Amazing. I haven't been able to see my yahoo intray for months now.
So, lest I bore on about this for another half an hour or until the i-book arrives and I will finally be free of the tyranny of the study desk and move about the house, roaming freely with my wireless router... *has bliss attack*
Well, let's hope it all unpacks well.
Anyway, lest I bore on (which, lest you hadn't noticed, I have already managed to do for the past few paragraphs, and I have also just used the word 'lest' three times in one sentence, including parentheses), why not get back to the issue of metafandom strangers tigging one's LJ? Or columnists, for that matter. Or British English mavens.
I have been pondering this. Of course, I could simply say 'hey, it's Ell Jay. It is not world politics. Chill and just scroll on and never look at that post again and just don't reply to all those people.' But, being a woman and having those double X-chromosomes, I have to angst about this. So I've been wondering what strategy best to adopt to deal with this. (Hah! And I'll just bet a million pounds that this particular post will not elicit anywhere near the same volume because it's only when one dares to pronounce on men or some such thing that the metafanners come out of the woodwork. On second thoughts, I take the bet back because knowing my volatile Friends, hah, they'll possibly gang up on me and tig me seventeen times each, much as I once did to the lovely![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
eyebrowofdoom in a long one-word-per-tig thread. This was also before I started using the word 'tig' because I didn't use to know what it meant and it irritated me but now, that lotrips is a thing of the past for many (not for all! *winks at msilverstar) the word has taken on quaint and lovesomely nostalgic overtones for me. And I have re-defined 'tog' to mean 'a comment posted in reply to a comment' but perhaps this is what it meant all along, and ack, no, I am daring to define again, oh no no, *slaps wrist*, there may be other definitions out there and they may be the 'standard' ones or the way that these terms are 'commonly understood' (ah, but who wants to be common, eh?).
Um, where was I before I started rambling in an i-book-expecting feverish way?
Oh dear, this post is becoming very long, isn't it? Should I lj-cut it?
Or not.
Not.
So: I thought I could have auto-replies. Each time a stranger tigs me with something upsetting or annoying, I could reply with 'Thank you for your comment. We have not met or been introduced and I'm afraid my mother told me never to speak to strangers...' No, that's too rude, isn't it? Perhaps: 'Thank you for your kind comment and for your interest in this debate. You are so right and I bow to your superior wisdom. Kindly feel free to tig me copiously in future, in particular, when I am posting fic.'
I feel so rude even thinking about doing this! But also strangely gleeful! I have been brought up to be such a polite good little girl! I also think that well, I did post this publicly and I didn't disable the comments function so was I not waving a flag, saying 'Hey, all comers, tig away!' And I don't like locking (unless it's something very personally sensitive or has to do with my rl research which I do lock but so rarely) because I like the semi-public forum of LJ. I actually like the potential of strangers wafting by, but I generally like it when these strangers have been recced to me by a mutual Friend or if they behave politely and go 'hey, cool icon, I see you love Shahrukh Khan and wow, so do I'. I did that to someone the other day and I'd never heard of her before.
I am as convoluted as a bloody teeny slasher. (And don't ask me to define that or to list the ways this is 'commonly understood'. And don't ask me to turn off the sarcasm, either. Cuz i wont, so there. 111)
So how's this library thing going? Is it worth it?sheldrake??
I may also finally start togging tigs as I will be able to access my yahoo email! Amazing. I haven't been able to see my yahoo intray for months now.
So, lest I bore on about this for another half an hour or until the i-book arrives and I will finally be free of the tyranny of the study desk and move about the house, roaming freely with my wireless router... *has bliss attack*
Well, let's hope it all unpacks well.
Anyway, lest I bore on (which, lest you hadn't noticed, I have already managed to do for the past few paragraphs, and I have also just used the word 'lest' three times in one sentence, including parentheses), why not get back to the issue of metafandom strangers tigging one's LJ? Or columnists, for that matter. Or British English mavens.
I have been pondering this. Of course, I could simply say 'hey, it's Ell Jay. It is not world politics. Chill and just scroll on and never look at that post again and just don't reply to all those people.' But, being a woman and having those double X-chromosomes, I have to angst about this. So I've been wondering what strategy best to adopt to deal with this. (Hah! And I'll just bet a million pounds that this particular post will not elicit anywhere near the same volume because it's only when one dares to pronounce on men or some such thing that the metafanners come out of the woodwork. On second thoughts, I take the bet back because knowing my volatile Friends, hah, they'll possibly gang up on me and tig me seventeen times each, much as I once did to the lovely
eyebrowofdoom in a long one-word-per-tig thread. This was also before I started using the word 'tig' because I didn't use to know what it meant and it irritated me but now, that lotrips is a thing of the past for many (not for all! *winks at msilverstar) the word has taken on quaint and lovesomely nostalgic overtones for me. And I have re-defined 'tog' to mean 'a comment posted in reply to a comment' but perhaps this is what it meant all along, and ack, no, I am daring to define again, oh no no, *slaps wrist*, there may be other definitions out there and they may be the 'standard' ones or the way that these terms are 'commonly understood' (ah, but who wants to be common, eh?).Um, where was I before I started rambling in an i-book-expecting feverish way?
Oh dear, this post is becoming very long, isn't it? Should I lj-cut it?
Or not.
Not.
So: I thought I could have auto-replies. Each time a stranger tigs me with something upsetting or annoying, I could reply with 'Thank you for your comment. We have not met or been introduced and I'm afraid my mother told me never to speak to strangers...' No, that's too rude, isn't it? Perhaps: 'Thank you for your kind comment and for your interest in this debate. You are so right and I bow to your superior wisdom. Kindly feel free to tig me copiously in future, in particular, when I am posting fic.'
I feel so rude even thinking about doing this! But also strangely gleeful! I have been brought up to be such a polite good little girl! I also think that well, I did post this publicly and I didn't disable the comments function so was I not waving a flag, saying 'Hey, all comers, tig away!' And I don't like locking (unless it's something very personally sensitive or has to do with my rl research which I do lock but so rarely) because I like the semi-public forum of LJ. I actually like the potential of strangers wafting by, but I generally like it when these strangers have been recced to me by a mutual Friend or if they behave politely and go 'hey, cool icon, I see you love Shahrukh Khan and wow, so do I'. I did that to someone the other day and I'd never heard of her before.
I am as convoluted as a bloody teeny slasher. (And don't ask me to define that or to list the ways this is 'commonly understood'. And don't ask me to turn off the sarcasm, either. Cuz i wont, so there. 111)
So how's this library thing going? Is it worth it?
sheldrake??