LiveJournal roll call
Thomas Yan
here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
Do you know of former rassefarians who would be willing to be outed
here? If so, who, and what are their LJ usernames?
My LJ usernames are 'thomasyan' and 'th_r_eadrift'.
Mark Atwood
> Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
> here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
My LJ can be easily found by hitting the link in my .sig to
my personal webpage, which contains a link to my LJ.
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Steven desJardins
stevendj
Randolph Fritz
randwolf
Dan Goodman
See my signature.
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Mark Jones
-0500, did you or did you not state:
Mine, as should be no surprise, is "sinanju", just like my email
address.
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Steve Glover
>Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
>here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
"akicif"
Steve
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David Goldfarb
>Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
>here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
Sort of. I got a code from Jo so that I could comment onymously,
but I have never actually posted anything to my journal. I've chosen
the stunningly original user name "davidgoldfarb".
>Do you know of former rassefarians who would be willing to be outed
>here? If so, who, and what are their LJ usernames?
Jo Walton has been already more-or-less outed, but I'm not sure I
want to just come out and post it. You can find her email easily
enough with Google Groups, and then search on it at LJ....
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Cheryl Martin
<m11xszi...@rcn.com>:
> Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
> here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
>
grumpywitch
Cheryl
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Kate Secor
Mark Atwood <m...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Thomas Yan <tk...@rcn.com> writes:
> > Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
> > here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
>
> My LJ can be easily found by hitting the link in my .sig to
> my personal webpage, which contains a link to my LJ.
This thread has been very enlightening as to who some of these weird
people on my "Friends" list are...
I tend to not pick up on "oh, this LJ user name is this person" until
someone makes it very explicit for me.
I am, as should be expected, "aiglet".
Aiglet
Grammarian nit-pick: I know the . usually goes inside the "", in the
case of ending a sentence with something that's in quotes merely for
emphasis or to mark out that it's a name or command, is it permissable
to put the period outside the quotes for clarity?
Cally Soukup
> In article <m11xszi...@rcn.com>, Thomas Yan <tk...@rcn.com> writes
>>Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
>>here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
> "akicif"
Oooooh, nice one.
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to the death your right to say it." -- Beatrice Hall
Cally Soukup sou...@pobox.com
Feorag NicBhride
> Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
> here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
'feorag' - no surprise there. I also set up a feed for my lfn site
'paganprattle'
bb
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Dave Weingart
>Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
>here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
Filkerdave checking in
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David Dyer-Bennet
> Grammarian nit-pick: I know the . usually goes inside the "", in the
> case of ending a sentence with something that's in quotes merely for
> emphasis or to mark out that it's a name or command, is it permissable
> to put the period outside the quotes for clarity?
That's the UK style. Many of us who have used quotes to delimit
commands to be typed verbatim have found the US style to cause
unacceptable confusion among users :-).
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Pher Reinman
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use...@andyhat.net
>Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
>here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
Not that I post enough is RASFF for anyone to know who I am, but I'm
"andyhat" on LJ.
Andrew
Celtic Ferret
"Thomas Yan" <tk...@rcn.com> wrote in message news:m11xszi...@rcn.com...
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Mark Atwood
>
> I tend to not pick up on "oh, this LJ user name is this person" until
> someone makes it very explicit for me.
A LJ feature I thought of just the other night, that I will suggested
for implementation, is the ability to "gloss" or "annotate" your
friends list. This data would not be shared, be completely private to
your own account, but one of the fields will be "who is this person
really?", and will be displayed under their username when you are
reading while logged in.
Mark Atwood
> Grammarian nit-pick: I know the . usually goes inside the "",
That is the UK style. It makes sense only for making the typography
look a little bit better, but, even given the fact that it is
"correct", it is WRONG WRONG WRONG.
Use the US / computer geek style. Don't mangle the insides of quote marks.
David Dyer-Bennet
> Kate Secor <aig...@nospam.verizon.net> writes:
> > Grammarian nit-pick: I know the . usually goes inside the "",
>
> That is the UK style. It makes sense only for making the typography
> look a little bit better, but, even given the fact that it is
> "correct", it is WRONG WRONG WRONG.
>
> Use the US / computer geek style. Don't mangle the insides of quote marks.
You've got it backwards, though. The US style is punctuation inside
closing quotes; the UK style is punctuation outside unless it's
actually part of the quote.
Kate Gladstone
> the UK style is punctuation outside unless it's
> actually part of the quote.
However, in the USA, the rule of "closing punctuation inside quotes"
applies only to periods and commas not part of the quote -
other punctuation not belonging to the quote
(exclamation/interrogation/colon/semicolon/dash)
goes outside the quote in the USA as in the UK.
Examples:
"You're a Martian!" he said.
"Are you an Earthling?" she replied.
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Kate Secor
Mark Atwood <m...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Kate Secor <aig...@nospam.verizon.net> writes:
> >
> > I tend to not pick up on "oh, this LJ user name is this person" until
> > someone makes it very explicit for me.
>
> A LJ feature I thought of just the other night, that I will suggested
> for implementation, is the ability to "gloss" or "annotate" your
> friends list. This data would not be shared, be completely private to
> your own account, but one of the fields will be "who is this person
> really?", and will be displayed under their username when you are
> reading while logged in.
Oh, that would be *super* useful... I keep meeting people and having
them say that they read my journal (ah, the usefulness of being one of
IIRC two people on the net with my username, and using it everywhere),
and then having to go home and spend hours and hours trying to match
usernames to my memory of their face-picture.
Aiglet
David Dyer-Bennet
> David Dyer-Bennett writes, correctly, that:
>
> > the UK style is punctuation outside unless it's
> > actually part of the quote.
>
> However, in the USA, the rule of "closing punctuation inside quotes"
> applies only to periods and commas not part of the quote -
>
> other punctuation not belonging to the quote
> (exclamation/interrogation/colon/semicolon/dash)
> goes outside the quote in the USA as in the UK.
>
> Examples:
>
> "You're a Martian!" he said.
> "Are you an Earthling?" she replied.
I'm confused. Those two examples are the same in US and UK rules, so
I don't know what you're trying to illustrate.
Kate Gladstone
> > "You're a Martian!" he said.
> > "Are you an Earthling?" she replied.
David Dyer-Bennett feels ...
> ... confused. Those two examples are the same in US and UK rules, so
> I don't know what you're trying to illustrate.
There, I tried to illustrate two cases where USA and UK
punctuation-rules *do* lead to the same result - by contrast to other
cases (already discussed) where the two sets of rules produce differing
results:
e.g.:
(USA rules)
The flying saucer's interplanetary license-plate read "UR1QT RTHLNG."
(UK rules)
The flying saucer's interplanetary license-plate read "UR1QT RTHLNG".
Kate Nepveu
>Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
>here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
I'm one of the rare (along with you) who use their real names as
usernames: kate_nepveu
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Kate Nepveu
>This thread has been very enlightening as to who some of these weird
>people on my "Friends" list are...
>I tend to not pick up on "oh, this LJ user name is this person" until
>someone makes it very explicit for me.
Yeah, Chad recognized someone who showed up on my list by their
writing style, which is utterly distinctive and I can't believe I
missed it at first.
Kate Nepveu
>> I tend to not pick up on "oh, this LJ user name is this person" until
>> someone makes it very explicit for me.
>A LJ feature I thought of just the other night, that I will suggested
>for implementation, is the ability to "gloss" or "annotate" your
>friends list. This data would not be shared, be completely private to
>your own account, but one of the fields will be "who is this person
>really?", and will be displayed under their username when you are
>reading while logged in.
I have friends-of journals bookmarked and use the bookmark names as
notes to myself. My friends list is small enough that it's not really
an issue.
Mishalak
> Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
> here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
I am Mishalak there and here and on lots of other systems. I've not yet
run into annother Mishalak. It is my true fannish name.
Mishalak
LAFF
<tk...@rcn.com> wrote:
> Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
> here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
>
> Do you know of former rassefarians who would be willing to be outed
> here? If so, who, and what are their LJ usernames?
>
> My LJ usernames are 'thomasyan' and 'th_r_eadrift'.
Mine's "laffwv" -- my initials and those of the state I live in.
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David Goldfarb
Kate Nepveu <kne...@steelypips.org> wrote:
>I'm one of the rare (along with you) who use their real names as
>usernames: kate_nepveu
Darn...I wish I'd thought to throw in an underscore in mine.
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Vicki Rosenzweig
+0000 (UTC):
>One day in Teletubbyland, Thomas Yan <tk...@rcn.com> said:
>>Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
>>here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
>
>Filkerdave checking in
Redbird here (again, no surprise).
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Matt
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 01:26:52 -0500, Thomas Yan wrote:
> Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
> here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
>
@nospamatomicrazor.com Dave O'Neill
> here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
>
> Do you know of former rassefarians who would be willing to be outed
> here? If so, who, and what are their LJ usernames?
>
> My LJ usernames are 'thomasyan' and 'th_r_eadrift'.
daveon
Dave
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I read and comment in other journals using the name cheshyre
So others can read my posts, my real blog is syndicated as riba_rambles
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Tony von Krag
Vicki Rosenzweig <v...@redbird.org> wrote:
> Quoth phyd...@liii.com (Dave Weingart) on Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:37:19
> +0000 (UTC):
>
> >One day in Teletubbyland, Thomas Yan <tk...@rcn.com> said:
> >>Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
> >>here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
> >
> >Filkerdave checking in
>
> Redbird here (again, no surprise).
I have one also, it'll be called Cranky & Castiron under vonKrag.
tony
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Have spices & cast iron cookware, will travel
User of sharp knives, Washer of hands and cutting boards
You want Me!!! To cook *THAT* well done?
Thomas Yan
> In article <4dorpvo7vvc7totca...@news.verizon.net>,
> Kate Nepveu <kne...@steelypips.org> wrote:
>>I'm one of the rare (along with you) who use their real names as
>>usernames: kate_nepveu
>
> Darn...I wish I'd thought to throw in an underscore in mine.
I knew of Kate's underscore, but opted not to put one in my username
because I already have thomasyan in use elsewhere and didn't want to
confuse myself.
Steve Glover
The problem with the underscore is if you move to a paid account, people
on some ISPs won't be able to see "http://user_name.livejournal.com" and
hence follow some links from your pages. But at least with LJ there's
the option of going to http://www.livejournal.com/users/user_name and
with BlogSpt you're stuck with having to start a new blog (cf
dear_raed.blogspot.com which eventually became dearraed...)
There's at least one weblog I'd like to read, but can't 'cos it has
parentheses in the subdomain name.
Steve
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Kate Nepveu
Some people can't read it from the paid-user subdomain, though,
because of the underscore, which I didn't know about at the time or I
would have used a hyphen. (Consistency with another thing, like you.)
Arthur D. Hlavaty
<von...@macnospam.com> wrote:
>In article <v7sspvgp8git1pns3...@news.verizon.net>,
> Vicki Rosenzweig <v...@redbird.org> wrote:
>
>> Quoth phyd...@liii.com (Dave Weingart) on Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:37:19
>> +0000 (UTC):
>>
>> >One day in Teletubbyland, Thomas Yan <tk...@rcn.com> said:
>> >>Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
>> >>here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
>> >
>> >Filkerdave checking in
>>
>> Redbird here (again, no surprise).
I'm supergee, as it should say in my sig.
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Del Cotter
Kate Nepveu <kne...@steelypips.org> said:
>Thomas Yan <tk...@rcn.com> wrote:
>>I knew of Kate's underscore, but opted not to put one in my username
>>because I already have thomasyan in use elsewhere and didn't want to
>>confuse myself.
>
>Some people can't read it from the paid-user subdomain, though,
>because of the underscore, which I didn't know about at the time or I
>would have used a hyphen. (Consistency with another thing, like you.)
You can still use the hyphen though; "user-name.livejournal.com" works
even though "user_name.livejournal.com" doesn't.
It's just annoying to have to remember that it's
"user-name.livejournal.com", but "www.livejournal.com/users/user_name".
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Rich Lynch
> Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
> here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
>
> Do you know of former rassefarians who would be willing to be outed
> here? If so, who, and what are their LJ usernames?
>
> My LJ usernames are 'thomasyan' and 'th_r_eadrift'.
You can find me as 'rwl', though I only use LJ as an outlet for essay
writing, for the most part.
Rich Lynch
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http://www.livejournal.com/~rwl
Simon Bradshaw
Atwood) wrote:
> Kate Secor <aig...@nospam.verizon.net> writes:
> > Grammarian nit-pick: I know the . usually goes inside the "",
>
> That is the UK style. It makes sense only for making the typography
> look a little bit better, but, even given the fact that it is
> "correct", it is WRONG WRONG WRONG.
>
> Use the US / computer geek style. Don't mangle the insides of quote
> marks.
As a UKian I have to agree with Mark here [FX: Thunder, lightning, Richter
9.5 earthquake etc]. The placement of the full stop inside closing
double-quotes is indeed a *typographical* practice used for properly
composed text in proportional, kerned typefaces. Its use for routine text
preparation, especially in monospaced fonts (or text likely to be rendered
in such, e.g. Usenet) is as misguided as such similar habits as leaving a
double space after full stops.
However, there is an objection that logically the full stop does belong
inside the quotes, *if* a full sentence, or the end of a sentence is being
quoted. For example,
"To err is human. To really screw things up requires a computer".
just looks plain wrong, as compared with
"To err is human. To really screw things up requires a computer."
I think my gut-feeling rule would be:
- If the full stop is intrinsic to the quoted text, it belongs with it
inside the end double quote.
- If it marks the end of the sentence that the quoted text is within, it
belongs at the end of that sentence, outside the end double quote.
Now, which rule takes precedence if (as often) both of the above are true?
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forth into the ether:
>Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
>here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
>
>Do you know of former rassefarians who would be willing to be outed
>here? If so, who, and what are their LJ usernames?
>
>My LJ usernames are 'thomasyan' and 'th_r_eadrift'.
shsilver.
Steven H Silver
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D. Glenn Arthur Jr.
me from conventions that I figured I'd chime in anyhow: my
LJ userid is "dglenn"; easy for my friends to identify me.
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Alan Braggins
>Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
>here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
armb, but I haven't actually used it yet.
Rich Lynch
> You can find me as 'rwl', though I only use LJ as an outlet for essay
> writing, for the most part.
>
> Rich Lynch
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> http://www.livejournal.com/~rwl
I forgot to mention that I have a friend who is interested in starting
a LJ. If there's somebody reading this who has a spare LJ code,
please email me at my Yahoo email address (above).
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Nancy Lebovitz
Simon Bradshaw <sjbra...@cix.co.uk> wrote:
>
>However, there is an objection that logically the full stop does belong
>inside the quotes, *if* a full sentence, or the end of a sentence is being
>quoted. For example,
>
>"To err is human. To really screw things up requires a computer".
>
>just looks plain wrong, as compared with
>
>"To err is human. To really screw things up requires a computer."
>
>I think my gut-feeling rule would be:
>
>- If the full stop is intrinsic to the quoted text, it belongs with it
>inside the end double quote.
>- If it marks the end of the sentence that the quoted text is within, it
>belongs at the end of that sentence, outside the end double quote.
>
>Now, which rule takes precedence if (as often) both of the above are true?
Sometimes I say the hell with it and use both:
"To err is human. To really screw up takes a computer.".
It looks weird, but at least it's logically consistant.
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Nancy Lebovitz
Nancy Lebovitz <na...@unix5.netaxs.com> wrote:
>In article <memo.20031102...@sjbradshaw.compulink.co.uk>,
>Simon Bradshaw <sjbra...@cix.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>>However, there is an objection that logically the full stop does belong
>>inside the quotes, *if* a full sentence, or the end of a sentence is being
>>quoted. For example,
>>
>>"To err is human. To really screw things up requires a computer".
>>
>>just looks plain wrong, as compared with
>>
>>"To err is human. To really screw things up requires a computer."
>>
>>I think my gut-feeling rule would be:
>>
>>- If the full stop is intrinsic to the quoted text, it belongs with it
>>inside the end double quote.
>>- If it marks the end of the sentence that the quoted text is within, it
>>belongs at the end of that sentence, outside the end double quote.
>>
>>Now, which rule takes precedence if (as often) both of the above are true?
>
>Sometimes I say the hell with it and use both:
>
>"To err is human. To really screw up takes a computer.".
>
>It looks weird, but at least it's logically consistant.
I'd have made my point better if I'd said, "To err is human.
To really screw up takes a computer.".
I've really been a little too fast on the send key lately, and
I need to make a habit of one more proof-reading pass.
Jay E. Morris
(Nancy Lebovitz) got all excited and spit out::
> In article <memo.20031102...@sjbradshaw.compulink.co.uk>,
> Simon Bradshaw <sjbra...@cix.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >However, there is an objection that logically the full stop does belong
> >inside the quotes, *if* a full sentence, or the end of a sentence is being
> >quoted. For example,
> >
> >"To err is human. To really screw things up requires a computer".
> >
> >just looks plain wrong, as compared with
> >
> >"To err is human. To really screw things up requires a computer."
> >
> >I think my gut-feeling rule would be:
> >
> >- If the full stop is intrinsic to the quoted text, it belongs with it
> >inside the end double quote.
> >- If it marks the end of the sentence that the quoted text is within, it
> >belongs at the end of that sentence, outside the end double quote.
> >
> >Now, which rule takes precedence if (as often) both of the above are true?
>
> Sometimes I say the hell with it and use both:
>
> "To err is human. To really screw up takes a computer.".
>
> It looks weird, but at least it's logically consistant.
TWEET! Applying logical consistancy in use of grammer! 15 yard penalty and
loss of down!
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Beth Friedman
>Do you have any LiveJournals you'd like to or are willing to own up to
>here on RASFF? If so, what is/are your username/s?
I'm carbonel, though I'm even more behind (chronologically rather than
sheer numbers of messages) on LJ than I am on rasseff.
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