Livejournal Questions

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This actually has nothing to do with the recent drama.

I have a confession to make. I'm a genius. But I'm really tragically stupid also.


-how to put on a header. And why everyone can figure it out but me.
-what a DDoS attack is. Looked it up on Wikipedia. Still really don't understand.
-where everyone gets the equipment to do all the icons and everything they do. Seems to me that stuff costs a fortune.
-how to write short fanfic.
-who Rodney is.
-Henry Jenkins.
-GIP.
-how NOT to hotlink some images. I can do it if the image is in a format Photobucket will upload, otherwise I don't understand.
-how people keep up with their flists.
-how people keep up with stuff like which new cat macro is funniest.
-how anyone keeps up with anything.
-why seraphcelene can't be here RIGHT NOW, I dunno, making pie with me.
-how people find out people are talking about them when said people are not talking to them. It's not that I don't like gossip. It's that I don't understand it. I literally seem to have trouble paying attention to anything not aimed straight at me with a missile launcher.
-why I like Harry/Draco.
-flangst.
-how people not being able to post really isn't connected to the Great Strikethrough.
-how to play most online videos, or dl the equipment.
-birthdays.
-why I didn't find a plane ticket to NYC for an earlier day so I could watch DB with a2zmom.
-Spike.
-betas.
-most emoticons.
-who Jo is.
-what Due South is.


In other news, The Sound of Music in Sparta. (link courtesy imnotacommittee.)

Comments

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

I love how you claim to be a genius, and yet there is a fail on html. :D

*tickles you*

I do not understand flangst, either.

[stoney321.livejournal.com]

(And I see I just caught you before you caught it.)

SMOOOOOOOOCH. I go to watch the vid because WHAT!? \o/

[tkp.livejournal.com]

Ha, yeah, it was supposed to be ironic.

I don't understand what the term means, I don't understand what it is, I don't understand why people like it; I never heard of it before day before yesterday.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

OMG STONEY IT IS FUCKED UP I SAID.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

(And I see I just caught you before you caught it.)

Oh, ha, I thought you meant because I fail at putting a header on this journal which is also html which I am tragically just too thick to ever understand.

[elisi]

how to put on a header. And why everyone can figure it out but me.
Use this tutorial. I swear it does everything in baby steps and makes it really simple. *I* could do it and I am an HTML moron!

That's all I've got time for... (and I really don't know the answer to most of the others!)

[elisi]

Oh and I don't understand how you don't understand betas... *is confused*

[canadiangirl-86.livejournal.com]

Hee.

-where everyone gets the equipment to do all the icons and everything they do. Seems to me that stuff costs a fortune.

They illegally download a version of Photoshop off of Kazaa. *eg*

-GIP

Gratuitous Icon Post!

-what Due South is.

A Canadian show I never really watched about a Canadian mountie played by Paul Gross. Also included Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben on BSG) as the dicky American copper dude.

That's probably all I can help you with. I still find putting up headers and all that coding stuff a big headache.

[southernbangel.livejournal.com]

Flangst? Is that friends-list angst? (For real, I have no idea what it is. Can we be stupid together?)

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I don't understand how to...demand what I need out of a beta. This is a personal problem; I'm not very good at asking for favors for some things.

For betas who're excellent and give me all the kinds of crit I need, I don't understand how to demand more of their time. Particularly because I really only want to demand lots of someone's time if they're really really REALLY into the story. Personally I like to beta (I have no trouble understanding being a beta; I think I'm rather good at it). And once I had to beta for someone whose story left me seriously meh. I still beta'ed it and I still ENJOYED betaing, but because I like to beta, not because of the story. The idea of demanding all the time I feel I need and dumping all the stuff I would want to dump on someone who was not really really into the story for the sake of the story makes my skin crawl.

For betas who don't give me what I need as far as crit, I don't know how to get it through their heads. they do the spelling and grammar stuff. I say, what about content? And then they talk about word choice and sentence structure. And I say, okay, but what about the plot? And they say oh that's fine. Obviously, in this case, I need a new beta.

But I don't understand how to find new betas in new fandoms. Which is part of the bigger problem of finding a place at all in new fandoms, but WHATEVER, apparently I needed to get my whine on.

I'm through, now.

[frimfram.livejournal.com]

Is it angst about flan? *Should* we be angsting about flan?

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I had to go look it up on urban dictionary or something. I THINK it means fluff+angst. But I thought fluff and angst were kinda opposed? I do like my angst more light hearted then people being suicidal and cutting themselves, but I just don't get the ramifications of this term.

AND YES, DEAR GOD. *is relieved* :o)

[frimfram.livejournal.com]

-how people keep up with stuff like which new cat macro is funniest.
I get a new notification of that everytime a kitten upgrades my RAM.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I guess it surprises me just how many people do illegal dls. I'm glad I'm such a technological dimwit or else I'd probably be doing it too.

WOW. I always thought it must be, "graphic in progress" (as opposed to WIP). But that always confused me, as it seemed lots of icons posted under that title where finished. I AM SO DUMB, omg.

It's about a mountie? cool. I don't know who Paul Gross is. Leoben scares the shit outta me.

THanks for helping me out!

[tkp.livejournal.com]

hahaha.

There's...probably a cat macro of that, too.

[tkp.livejournal.com]

I angst about flan. I feel like I should like it, but I don't, and then I don't know how to tell people I don't like custards when they serve them.

Isn't flan a cooking skill? Dude, tamales are an intuitive skill I suck at.

[framfrim.livejournal.com]

I don't like to eat flan either, but you've gotta respect any food that involves a blowtorch in its preparation. Even a teeny-weeny blowtorch. Or is that creme brulee?

[frimfram.livejournal.com]

Oops, wrong journal - sorry.

[lynnenne]

I don't understand what a cat macro is. *feels dumb*

DDoS attack: Denial of Service attack (I forget what the other D is for). It's what happens when an outside party, like spammers, start deluging a server, like LiveJournal's, with lots and lots of mail or other requests for connection. The server overloads and starts denying some of the requests, but it can't distinguish one request from another, and so the users get denied as often as the spammers do. That's why people can't update or post.

Rodney: One of the main characters on SGA. I don't watch, so I'm not sure which one.

How people not being able to post really isn't connected to the Great Strikethrough: See DDoS.

How people find out people are talking about them when said people are not talking to them. -- Yeah, I don't get that, either.

[elisi]

Aaaaah, I see. I'm very lucky, since when I first asked around for a beta, the wonderful kathyh volunteered and I've never wanted or needed another (except when she's been away of course, but that's different). Apart from just the grammar and spelling, she'll always pick up on all the places where I've not bothered to explain something properly, or given up, and usually has ideas and suggestions that are invaluable. And yes, it does often feel awkward to send a chapter round for the second time, but she really doesn't seem to mind - and is also good at saying if she's busy. I think we have found a good balance. Dunno what I'd do if I had to find someone else...

[janedavitt.livejournal.com]

Birthdays are here:

http://www.livejournal.com/birthdays.bml

The person has to have their dob in their profile, though or it won't show up.

Not hotlinking; just right click, save it to your own saving place and point people at it there, not the original place. If you don't have your own web page or something, LJ hosts stuff for free depending on your account type. Imagine everytime someone looks at it, it costs a penny; you make sure it's coming out of your purse not the original poster's.

Keepign up with my list; I'm home all day, speed read and skim very fast :-)

Jo is (probably) one of the female secondary characters on Supernatural. her mother is Ellen who owns a roadhouse where hunters hang out and she wasnts to be one as her dad was. She has a thing for Dean, but who can blame her? ;-)

Rodney is a character from SG-1/SGA, arrogant, immensely smart, cute, allergic to lemons. In my icon :-)

Betas check your fic from anything from typos up, depending what level of betaing you want.

[(Anonymous)]

who Rodney is

An apparently extremely whiny, bitchy and egotistical - but brilliant - scientist from Stargate: Atlantis. Never saw the show, but these characteristics seems to be recognized as essential by all SGA writers.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

OMG you do not like flan????

I am. afraid I can no longer be your friend.

*weeps*

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

For Henry Jenkins, see femmenerd.

For how to make icons, see "beg friendslist to make them for you".

For cat macros, see "insomnia."

That's all I got right now, flan-hater.

[lokapala.livejournal.com]

The anonymous post was mine, a byproduct of an attempt to evade the DDoS attack effects. No go. *sulks* Anything bigger than 190-230 symbols dies.