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One of the things I learned at Open Source Bridge was that the idea of having a private quotes database was a novel idea to many projects. Some people asked after the source for the one which Dreamwidth is using. [personal profile] sophie hasn't (yet?) put that up, but there are various open quotes database projects out there (note that I have not used any of these myself):

Open Source Quotes DataBase: http://sourceforge.net/projects/osqdb/ (et al)
miniqdb: https://code.google.com/p/miniqdb/ (uses .htaccess for authentication)
rash-qdb-fork: https://github.com/paxed/rash-qdb-fork (this seems to be the actively developed fork)
t3quotes: http://typo3.org/extensions/repository/view/t3quotes
QuoteBoat QDB: http://www.ohloh.net/p/quoteboatqdb
Chirpy!: http://chirpy.sourceforge.net/

If you're looking to get your project set up with a quotes database, check some of those out and see if they have what your project needs.
azurelunatic: A glowing blue planet with the outline of a fist with thumb extended to hitchhike. H2G2 logo. (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
Further to last night's inquiry about mood tracking services, I'm putting together a Google Docs form. Basically it's going to dump things in a spreadsheet and then I can worry about what to do *with* the data later. So far I've got 0-10 scales going on, with some rather more suited to me factors of measurement.

I am also taking the opportunity to, like Hyperbole and a Half, set the definitions of the extreme ends more appropriately.

Anger: None - Thermonuclear
Happiness: None - Best. Ever.
Apprehensiveness: None- DOOM!
Irrationality: None - Jesus Christ is a Lion Get in the CAR
Irritability: None - *explodes*
Focus: None - Holy Timewarp, Scully!
Pain (physical): None - Motherfucking *ow*
Pain (emotional): None - Bring on the Strikethrough*
Gloom: None - Fucking lousy.
Calm: None - Cucumbers are less cool than Dave Strider.
Numbness: None - I have lost the capacity to feel any more of the things.
Paranoia: None - Everyone and everything is out to get me.


I know I'm missing some; any suggestions? (I of course reserve the right to not actually include them, since this is supposed to be useful for me, but I know I've got to be missing things that would be useful.) I may need more good (or at least good-in-moderation) items. (Focus is one of those tricky ones: "None" is bad; missing-time levels is also perhaps not the best thing for actual functionality.)


* Okay, so that one may require a bit of context. Strikethrough was one of the objectively worst times to both be an LJ volunteer and a member of fandom. During that general time, I had events in my personal life blow up such that the DDoS following Strikethrough, and all the attendant woes, were actually a pleasant distraction from my inner state. Given the contempt in which the CEO steering the ship through Strikethrough is still held, this is not a small amount of pain. There are two times in the past ~5 years I haven't been safe to be alone, and that night was one of them.
azurelunatic: Vuvuzela emitting sound waves in a black and yellow road sign style icon (vuvuzela)
I suspect that the ultimate answer to this problem is going to be "lol, code it yourself, Lunatic", but hear me out.

I am looking for a multifacted mood measurement service. I was, up until sometime in the last hour, a member of Moodscope. More about that in a bit. I'm looking for a replacement.

I want to track my mood on a daily basis. I want to be able to look at trends over time. I want to be able to track my mood based on its components, because there is rarely just one thing going on in isolation; this is why DW/LJ mood does not really work to actually get a picture of what's going on with my mood. (Shout-out to [livejournal.com profile] dwell, who could make "horny" say so much.) Numerically rating a select panel of emotions was working reasonably well for me. I need to be able to alter the preset emotions if it is not asking me about the specific thread that has come to my attention. I need to be able to set thresholds for alarm on any given emotion, if it is a numerical scale -- for example, on a scale of 0-10 for alertness, anything under say a 2 is alarming, and a 10 is also alarming, especially in conjunction with a high anger, irritability, excitement, and ambition. Being able to leave a note about why this was going on ("Work was awesome!" "Manager & Overlady are awesome; new email app, much less awesome" "Broke again :(" "FUCKING SHOES.") is also a good plan. Data portability, also excellent.

Now, the squishy bits:

Site should not enforce the gender binary. At a minimum, it should have a "decline to state/other" option, as this lets me judge for myself whether I should pick that, or whether I'm feeling mostly cisgendered today. (Moodscope fails on this axis, and my record low mood of Moodscope 27% is associated directly with this fuckup of theirs.)

Site should not lecture me on what I should do with myself if it thinks my mood needs fixing. I need to be the one to determine that. If I am determined that my mood does not, in fact, need fixing, well-meant advice on how to accomplish that actually piss me the fuck off, elevating my mood in the wrong direction. (Again, Moodscope and I don't get along; my mood was at a nice calm 51% -- all negative factors but one zeroed out, but very few of the positive factors lit up -- braindrained and chilling after work -- it dropped to 37% after reading the condescending advice about how to lift my motherfucking mood and that I would need to gather my friends by me in this time of crisis. Taking the evaluation the second time and seeing how actually much the site pissed me off resulted in my annoyed email to their support becoming a flounce email.)

Site should not use colors in a way that feels wrong to me. I can see using red for happiness. I cannot get behind using blue for anger. (Moodscope had blue swirled cards for the "bad" emotions, which I found pleasant and restful in appearance, and red swirled cards for the "good" emotions, which I found disturbing and unrestful.) Site should not have an obnoxious user interface (tiny checkboxes and radio buttons are irritating; fucking interactive animations replacing a checkbox thing, MORE IRRITATING).

Site needs very much not to congratulate me on dangerously high factors, such as attentiveness (can we spell 'hypervigilance', folks?) or any other thing that I define as a possible danger point. Furthermore, anyone who congratulates an anorexic on their weight loss can please go fuck off and die. (Moodscope did not do that one. Fortunately. Or I'd be even more stabby. But it's in the same family of "all right, does someone have a stiletto I can borrow" rage.)

So. Recommendations?

Mood Panda does not suit -- it is a numeric one-factor thing.
http://www.findingoptimism.com/ looks promising, and has a free 14 day trial.
https://www.trackyourhappiness.org/ didn't look entirely like what I was looking for.
http://belikeben.com/ is the right general idea, but in the wrong direction.
http://moodjam.com/ is not even loading for me right now (which may be not its fault, given my computer and Comcast are conspiring to fuck shit up).
azurelunatic: "Food Pr0n", cherries.  (food pr0n)
[livejournal.com profile] ataniell93 reminded me of the Pizza Arbiter, which is useful for if you ever want to have pizza with me.

This would be more useful for large groups, of course, if you could specify a number of people to share one pie, and it could sort for maximum compatibility (which might be a traveling salesman problem, but it could make a decent guess), but it's a decent tool if you have a small crowd with similar tastes, or you don't happen to remember your buddies' tastes offhand but they've got them stored.

I need to poke [livejournal.com profile] figment0, [livejournal.com profile] dustraven, and [livejournal.com profile] trysan_laryssa to enter their preferences over there, to make [livejournal.com profile] figment0's pizza-ordering experiences easier.

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