Comments | stoney321: Bullet points for the busy

stoney321

Bullet points for the busy

Feb 17, 2012 08:38

It is dancetomato's birthday! Oh, DT, you are one of those people online that makes me happy knowing you're alive. Keep having birthdays, please. <3 <3
I want to reiterate the purpose of Hey, Don't Judge Me: fannish love. If you want to make fun of shows or bitch about how horrible something has become, that's what ONTD and TWoP are for, not Hey, Don't ( Read more... )

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mpoetess February 17 2012, 14:48:06 UTC

There had damn well better be an update on EPIC SMACKDOWN later, ladycakes!

stoney321 February 17 2012, 16:23:17 UTC

DONE.

mpoetess February 17 2012, 16:25:54 UTC

ROCKSTAR. RAWWWWR.

stoney321 February 17 2012, 16:26:47 UTC

OMG, I love when my husband is all "stands tall and pwns someone" it is when he is his most handsome. LOL.

kuzu_no_ha February 17 2012, 15:07:45 UTC

I miss typewriters sometimes, but not correcting mistakes. I have a hard time not doing two spaces.

stoney321 February 17 2012, 16:24:39 UTC

Oh my god, how awful was it to correct a mistake? I had a part time job typing invoices in triplicate on typewriters, and you couldn't White Out over a mistake in that case. GAH.

I had to backspace over the extra space I put in the paragraph above. It's hard because the comment window is Courier, but it displays in Arial on my screen. KERNING OMG.

kuzu_no_ha February 17 2012, 16:45:43 UTC

Oh hateful!
I remember the day my parents bought a new FANCY typewriter that had white out tape installed INSIDE the machine. It would automatically fix your mistakes! Truly, the future had arrived!

Yeah...no.

Is it wrong that I'm really looking forward to hearing how this meeting turns out? Because I totally am.

tabaqui February 17 2012, 17:06:46 UTC

Oh! My parents got me a 'Brother' typewriter for my...fifteenth birthday, i think, it and i would correct itself back like twenty characters. That was *so awesome*. I was in love. :)

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stoney321 February 17 2012, 16:26:15 UTC

Gah, ME, TOO. Two after a full stop for me, too, and it's because we typed in Courier - everything is equal so you needed the visual of a bigger space. I'm trying to force myself into it, and it's so hard. I never think when I type - my fingers have been trained for years! Boo.

(It's added!)

jenbooks February 17 2012, 17:05:43 UTC

I refuse to not double space after a period. It just feels WRONG! :D

Although, for school papers, before I print it I just go back and do a find replace all [two spaces] with [one space] a few times and all is well. :D

stoney321 February 17 2012, 17:08:09 UTC

...why have I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT?!?

THIS IS REVOLUTIONARY!!!

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stoney321 February 17 2012, 17:09:38 UTC

But you LOVE THE SHOW. That's the difference. It's okay to be a fan of something and want an aspect to be different, etc., but character bashing (like the chick on Southland's comments - she's done it for two or three recaps now) is TOTALLY DIFFERENT.

I mean, I hated on The Situation in the Jersey SHore recaps. Because he deserved it. I still loved the show/everyone else. THAT IS OKAY, SAM. <3

tabaqui February 17 2012, 17:05:53 UTC

Good to hear the principal didn't try to twist it around or play it down. Sucks that she wasn't paying attention and getting the full story *yesterday*. But good on you guys.

And re: your comments up there - when you put a period in, you double-space after. That is all. I don't care what the internetz says - one stop is not *enough*. It looks weird and crowds everything.

stoney321 February 17 2012, 17:12:48 UTC

Oh, if she had tried, we would have shut that down fast. There's a reason my husband has been zooming up the ladder at his job - he doesn't take shit from anyone and is charming enough to not piss people off when he pwns them. :D

Well, every single typesetter in the world is going to disagree with you. :D The only reason the double space after a period was added was when typing as a profession became widespread in the 50s. Before that, the rule (for when typewriters were invented) was one space. Now that people use fonts that aren't mono-spaced, there's no reason for the double space after the period. I'm not the one making the rules, I'm just trying to follow them.

(Do you know that your comment appears with only one space after a period? And it looks fine. If it was in Courier or another mono-spaced font, it wouldn't, I agree.)

tabaqui February 17 2012, 17:20:43 UTC

Yeah, and it looks *weird*. I'm used to two. It's two when i type in Word and it's definitely what my hands do when i type. Trying to stop myself from doing two is just sort of pointless and would take way too much effort - i'd be backspacing all over the place.