Three things
Three completely an utterly disparate things but all in my head just now, so they can all share the one post.
I've been writing/have written (i.e. it's working but I'm still tinkering) a little Java program for playing and creating Hanjie(/piccross/nonogram/these things) puzzles. They're simple puzzles so it's a dead simple program but I'm proud of it nonetheless and quite fancy distributing it to interested parties. Thing is though, a program for playing these puzzles is only as entertaining as the puzzles what you can play on it. So I was wondering, dear flist, if any of you are familiar with Hanjie and whether any of you would be willing to take a copy of the program and design some puzzles that could be packaged with it. Ideally, if a few of us all make puzzles we will then each get a few more puzzles off the others that we can actually have a go at playing too.
I joined twitter this morning. I'd never quite understood the point of it in the past, it sounded really, really dull. But then I also never quite understood how it was all supposed to work either, so there was a little bit of curiosity there. Talking with fidget_icetree earlier we realised that there was at least a few interesting/funny people (being Stephen Fry, Richard Herring, Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman) who had feeds on there and might be worth latching on to to see what the whole deal is. And, well, turns out I was right all along, there really is no point to the whole thing. It seems pretty much to be an exercise in either massively inflated self-importance on the part of the twitters or horrifying levels of obsession on the part of the twittees (the people following the feeds, I assume that's the correct term.) Ok, I learned that Neil Gaiman is on his way to a Coraline screening this evening which, presumably, means Coraline will be out at the pictures soon but that's one salient bit of information out of a constant stream of the most mundane dross. It only served to make me start to wish that these people, who I would usually listen to for days on end, would just shut up. At the suggestion of one stage of the account creation process I even added the official 10 Downing street feed to my watch list, and then died a little inside when it seemed only to prove that the Prime Minister really does have at least one aide (the one updating Twitter) who seems to be very similar to the one portrayed as a jealous boyfriend by David Walliams in Little Brittain. I'm really not that interested in anyone, including myself, to need to use that site. I deleted the account this afternoon.
This bit is going to make me uncomfortable. I expect (though I hope otherwise) it might make some of you uncomfortable too, but that's sort of the point of putting this here so the situation can be avoided in the future. Er, how much intro does this need? Well, the essential background fact is that I cross-dress. I know that's not news to most of you. The point is, it's not something I've totally got my own head round yet so it would be nice to feel able to post about it and issues relating to it on here sometimes. On the other hand, neither is it something I'm always 100% happy with talking about in front of some people, so a filter seems ideal. If there were to be such a flist filter, do any of you want to express an interest/consent to being on it or definite desire not to be included?
I've been writing/have written (i.e. it's working but I'm still tinkering) a little Java program for playing and creating Hanjie(/piccross/nonogram/these things) puzzles. They're simple puzzles so it's a dead simple program but I'm proud of it nonetheless and quite fancy distributing it to interested parties. Thing is though, a program for playing these puzzles is only as entertaining as the puzzles what you can play on it. So I was wondering, dear flist, if any of you are familiar with Hanjie and whether any of you would be willing to take a copy of the program and design some puzzles that could be packaged with it. Ideally, if a few of us all make puzzles we will then each get a few more puzzles off the others that we can actually have a go at playing too.
I joined twitter this morning. I'd never quite understood the point of it in the past, it sounded really, really dull. But then I also never quite understood how it was all supposed to work either, so there was a little bit of curiosity there. Talking with fidget_icetree earlier we realised that there was at least a few interesting/funny people (being Stephen Fry, Richard Herring, Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman) who had feeds on there and might be worth latching on to to see what the whole deal is. And, well, turns out I was right all along, there really is no point to the whole thing. It seems pretty much to be an exercise in either massively inflated self-importance on the part of the twitters or horrifying levels of obsession on the part of the twittees (the people following the feeds, I assume that's the correct term.) Ok, I learned that Neil Gaiman is on his way to a Coraline screening this evening which, presumably, means Coraline will be out at the pictures soon but that's one salient bit of information out of a constant stream of the most mundane dross. It only served to make me start to wish that these people, who I would usually listen to for days on end, would just shut up. At the suggestion of one stage of the account creation process I even added the official 10 Downing street feed to my watch list, and then died a little inside when it seemed only to prove that the Prime Minister really does have at least one aide (the one updating Twitter) who seems to be very similar to the one portrayed as a jealous boyfriend by David Walliams in Little Brittain. I'm really not that interested in anyone, including myself, to need to use that site. I deleted the account this afternoon.
This bit is going to make me uncomfortable. I expect (though I hope otherwise) it might make some of you uncomfortable too, but that's sort of the point of putting this here so the situation can be avoided in the future. Er, how much intro does this need? Well, the essential background fact is that I cross-dress. I know that's not news to most of you. The point is, it's not something I've totally got my own head round yet so it would be nice to feel able to post about it and issues relating to it on here sometimes. On the other hand, neither is it something I'm always 100% happy with talking about in front of some people, so a filter seems ideal. If there were to be such a flist filter, do any of you want to express an interest/consent to being on it or definite desire not to be included?