(Old stuff: January 14, Friday) Roomba shenanigans, and the Book of Wholesome Hobbies

[azurelunatic]

Came back from shopping, and R. Daneel was charged again. Set him to Roombulating. Had to run away from IRC for a few moments because he'd started chewing on someone else's charger cable, and was attempting to run away with it.

[00:19] azurelunatic OH GOD R DANEEL
[00:19] azurelunatic BRB
[00:19] cme ?
[00:21] azurelunatic it's like toddlers, in a way.
[00:21] azurelunatic you think you have made the area sufficiently safe, and then you set them loose, and you're keeping half an eye on them and chatting with your friends
[00:22] azurelunatic and suddenly it's R. DANEEL, STOP EATING THAT ELECTRICAL CORD THIS INSTANT
[00:22] azurelunatic YOU NAUGHTY ROOMBA
[00:23] cme oooooooooooooooh
[00:23] cme yes! I have had this roomba experience as well!

[00:24] azurelunatic: (and R. Daneel started eating electrical cords. :D )
[00:24] niqaeli: a cannibal, huh?
[00:24] niqaeli: *g*
[00:25] azurelunatic: I won't start fearing that until he noms a bluetooth headset or something
[00:26] niqaeli: heh
[00:26] niqaeli: that's fair
[00:27] azurelunatic: (because, I mean, it's not like he doesn't try to eat his OWN power cord.)
[00:27] niqaeli: heh.
[00:42] * azurelunatic has pinned him in my closet-hallway
[00:46] niqaeli: aw, no more freedom for roomba?
[00:47] azurelunatic: Less freedom, more deep vacuuming of the closet.
[00:47] niqaeli: ahhh
[00:48] azurelunatic: (I got a bathrobe. the bathrobe is black microplush. my apartment is carpeted in industrial beige.)
[01:11] azurelunatic: aww, he's herded all my shoes into a pile.



5:23 AM
An excerpt from The Book of Wholesome Hobbies That Denise Has Forbidden Her Volunteers From Taking Part In:

• Deleting every single comment that an ex-friend has left in your journal and marking it as spam. (It's the marking it as spam part that's forbidden. Delete to your heart's content.)
• Feeding the trolls.
• Hanging out with that guy who points AK-47s at you.
• Making a large number of completely outlandish suggestions in dw_suggestions for the sole purpose of making the person handling the moderation queue crack up.
• http://qdb.dreamwidth.net/dw/258

On Julian Assange ending sentences with two spaces after the period, me: "Of all the things one could judge him for, that sounds amazingly nitpicking/petty. I'm not above a good spelling flame, but that's sort of like telling George W. Bush his ears are big."

5:47 PM
suggestion: allow moderator to report-as-spam in a comm as well, given that they can do it from the moderation queue?

I learned about spontaneous pistachio combustion.

Comments

[sara]

That's actually one of the few reasonable things I've heard of Julian Assange doing. I'm almost charmed by it, except that it's Julian Assange, and ew.

[azurelunatic]

It's reasonable for a typewriter. And monospaced fonts that are not subject to HTML rendering.

And yes. Julian Assange is icky.

[sara]

*shrug* I'll quit when I'm dead.

[azurelunatic]

Probably more trouble to train oneself out of, in any case! It's not like it's hurting anything.

[adelheid]

That's my issue. I'm well-trained in two spaces after a full stop, and it's muscle memory now.

[azurelunatic]

I was informed that word processors handle spacing adequately now at age fifteen, and cared enough about the good opinion of the person complaining, and it was early enough in my typing career that I was able to change. I'm pretty sure that I've written my million plus words now, and I don't think I'd be able to go back.

[hopefulnebula]

I had double-space-after-periods drilled into me repeatedly up through my last semester of college. Then I got an internship at a newspaper. Three articles later, I'd changed my habits out of pure "Nebby is sick of going back and fixing things." Somehow, it wasn't a very difficult transition.

(Also, hi there. How had I never subscribed to you here before?)

[azurelunatic]

Never underestimate the motivation of "oh crap I'll have to change this". That powers a lot of my spelling improvements.

[niqaeli]

Yes, it is. I actually trained myself into it years ago for reasons that I cannot even fucking recall. It's long-term muscle memory now and stopping myself from doing it is incredibly difficult. In most contexts, it doesn't even get parsed. And it's sufficiently minor that when it does, who cares? And if for some unfathomable reason someone who matters actually care, fine, I'll just do a search and replace.

Someday I might get around to forcing myself to unlearn the habit. But in the meantime, whatever. Seriously, people actually complain about that?

[azurelunatic]

People do! And unless someone's editing someone else's electronic document and it's against the local standards and the editor or proofreader has to fix it, it's a thoroughly petty complaint.

[arkeiryn]

... curse you Azz, now I really want a Roomba to herd my shoes into little piles and be all cute and cannibalistic with cables! :P

[azurelunatic]

They are adorable! I recommend it, when it's in your budget! Plus, less vacuuming for you.

[synecdochic]

An excerpt from The Book of Wholesome Hobbies That Denise Has Forbidden Her Volunteers From Taking Part In:
Deleting every single comment that an ex-friend has left in your journal and marking it as spam. (It's the marking it as spam part that's forbidden. Delete to your heart's content.)
Feeding the trolls.
Hanging out with that guy who points AK-47s at you.
Making a large number of completely outlandish suggestions in [site community profile] dw_suggestions for the sole purpose of making the person handling the moderation queue crack up.

http://qdb.dreamwidth.net/dw/258

May I metaquotes?

[azurelunatic]

Now that I've got it in an unordered list like I'd meant to but was too lazy to last night, yes. ^_^

[synecdochic]

Tada!

[pauamma]

Making a large number of completely outlandish suggestions in dw_suggestions for the sole purpose of making the person handling the moderation queue crack up.

I do hope trying to make said person (and hapless DW users reading code tours) spray drink through nose never gets added to that list.

And I'm curious: did those outlandish suggestions get collected for posterity?

[azurelunatic]

I think by now the tradition of drinks-through-nose moments in code tours is in the Book of Unwholesome Hobbies Volunteers are Permitted and/or Encouraged In.

[pauamma]

Is too wholesome! :-)

[delight]

I love that your roomba is named R. Daneel. So is my car. Well, A. Daneel. Because he is, you know, a car.

[azurelunatic]

Naturally!

[silverflight8]

Spontaneous pistachio combustion? There has to be a story there!

[azurelunatic]

Not a particularly entertaining one: I was at my aunt's house, she had pistachios, and I wound up on Wikipedia.

Further Forbidden Wholesome Hobbies:

[azurelunatic]

Fall over and injure themselves
Stuff parmesan cheese up their noses

Re: Further Forbidden Wholesome Hobbies:

[azurelunatic]

Turn Random Word hEll into a mutant supervillian (via gamma ray exposure, or any other method)
Summon Rah like an Elder God: http://qdb.dreamwidth.net/dw/488

Re: Further Forbidden Wholesome Hobbies:

[azurelunatic]

http://wiki.dwscoalition.org/notes/Book_of_Wholesome_Hobbies

[azurelunatic]

Certainly! In fact, since this was automatically locked on the crosspost, not because it's at all personal, I can unlock too.

[azurelunatic]

Hee!

[azurelunatic]

R. Daneel is dear to me, and so helpful.