dancing gets her higher than anything else she knows

[musesfool]

This is one of those posts I'd have probably made on Saturday if technology hadn't been messing with me, and it's something I thought about all weekend, so I just need to get it out

Comments

[merryish]

It only takes a minute or two to Google the players you are planning to use, to make sure you have their positions correct, etc.

I'm off on a tangent here. I'm totally in agreement about making the little details work, but you know what annoys me almost more than seeing a writer get the little details wrong?

Seeing a writer ask on LJ about a little detail that they could totally Google in like, five minutes. Wtf? You are too lazy to take five minutes with your browser to find the answer to your question, but not too lazy to take five minutes to post your question and make me (or whoever knows the answer) take five minutes to be your library? Especially when it's something that is totally online, like legal information, or government processes, or sports statistics, or as you said, what song was on which album. What is with that? Are people afraid they might accidentally be exposed to more information than they need?

I mean, I'm a slacker, I know from slack, but that? That is downright slothful.

[musesfool]

OMG! What's even worse than that is when people come to MY LJ and ask me in my comments if I can answer their really freaking random questions. When, let's face it, I am frequently not the quickest responder to comments. By the time I respond, generally, they could have looked up the information and finished whatever the hell it was they needed it for, especially as those are comments I tend to let sit because I am annoyed.

[tsuki_no_bara]

i admit to doing that occasionally, but it's because i don't know what to google to get the info i need, or how to sift thru all the links that it would throw out. it's a lot easier for me to ask my flist what kind of education/experience you need to be a paralegal than it is for me to try and google it. i have some lawyers and people who work in law offices on the flist, so it's not like i'm asking a question that everyone else will have to look up in order to answer. (plus which, i got some useful extra info that way.)

but if i wanted to know, say, the capital of south dakota, or the square mileage of venice, or the title and track listing of bruce springsteen's second album, or if the '65 mustang came in two-door or four-door versions, or both, and what kind of engine it had, yeah, that's a google search. i can find that out on my own a lot easier than polling lj.

[musesfool]

Well, yes, like I asked my flist for information about Newark, because it is someplace I've only really ever passed through, and I wasn't finding the kind of information I needed via googling.

But basic information, like the driving distance between Duluth and Milwaukee, or what year The English Patient came out - those I look up myself and expect other people to do so.

[tsuki_no_bara]

oh, absolutely. there's no excuse for getting that kind of thing wrong.

dear fanficcers,

google is your friend. learn it, love it, live it.

thanks,

your readers

[isiscolo]

Word to the wordth power.

[saeva]

It really depends, doesn't it? If it's something that's just a random detail, like what album(s) and track number(s) The Man Comes Around are in a Johnny Cash discography -- which is something John Sheppard would know, but I don't off the top of my head -- then, of course, it makes sense to JFGI (just fucking google it