fanlisting gripes

Saturday, 5 November, 2005 at 11:32 pm

I’m going through all the fanlistings I joined and … making sure I’m still listed, making sure the fanlisting is still there, other things. Why? Because … I guess I have nothing better to do. (I think, when I do nothing on the weekend [I mean go out somewhere] I get bored and … I don’t know what I’m thinking really because my body wants sleep but I’m too bored to sleep. [Make something out of that if you will.]) I already looked at lj, the site that will remain unnamed on my blog because it’s too trendy, the comments on lj, updated my fanlistings, ran Norton Anti-Virus and Spybot Search & Destroy and Ad-Aware (because I randomly got a pop-up warning me some IP-url was trying to set a cookie; nothing was found), umm … updated all the minor pages on this site … and I don’t really remember what else I did so I guess it was nothing interesting.

Anyway! (I got this health booklet thingie from my psych prof because the health center printed them out and he thought we students should have one so I took one and it says in here “Staying awake for 17 to 19 hours is like having a blood alcohol level of .05…” WOO! Um, yeah, I know that doesn’t mean they have the same … chemical? effect, but it’s still funny. And no, I’m not drunk. Honestly.)

Two gripes I have about fanlistings (I don’t remember where I put the other gripes, so … no sort of linkage for … linking purposes). One, when the list isn’t sorted alphabetically, it’s sorted by member id/join order. It just makes it that much harder to find my name, meaning I have to pull out the Ctrl-F action, which isn’t too bad really but still fairly annoying considering lists are meant for an easier read (no?). And seriously, what’s the point of it? “Oh look, the person on the bottom of my list is such a BIG NUMBER. I’m really POPULAR, I have so many people joining my fanlisting of a subject not at all related to me.”

Two, the Enthusiast list default setup, just yuck. I am very much partial to the PHPFanBase list. ALL the members on ONE single page. No flipping through multiple pages trying to guess where “Jei…” might end up on the list. I guess I understand why the Enth list is set up that way, it makes it less, I don’t know, demeaning? to the members (I’m no longer a number! hurrah!), and it’s trying to lessen the download time and such. (If those are the reasons, I’m just guessing.) But … I don’t know about you, but it doesn’t cut down on time much either way, download time or my time trying to find my name. For example. The Inuyasha fanlisting uses the Enth script. I applaud them (since I never managed to get it to work for me *pout*). I just wish they could find the coding (I hope that’s the word I’m thinking of) that says how many people are listed per page. Because every time I look at the list I keep going from somewhere in the middle to … wherever I am on that list. I usually end up going through about 10-20 pages searching for J … then Je … then … finally … Jei. I know the list is so huge that she doesn’t want too much data downloaded at one time, but … maybe if she changed it from 25 members to maybe 50? then I could cut down on how many pages I look through.

Or maybe I’m just being an uber dork, checking a few times a year to see that my info is exactly the same as … the last time I checked. (Or maybe, all the time I’m doing this, I’m secretly cursing the people who DON’T update their info in the fanlistings that I run. *snerk*)

Rosa Parks

Monday, 24 October, 2005 at 8:58 pm

o_o Rosa Parks is dead. Hmm… *thoughts about her*

I don’t really have a role model, but if I ever did, she was one of them.

*cricket*

Saturday, 8 October, 2005 at 5:45 pm

…I have nothing to say. I find that sad. My blog (and therefore domain) is sitting here unused … gathering dust … doing nothing. boo.

But I’m pretty sure I’ll pay $17 in a month to renew my registration. ^^’

Neil Gaiman weekend

Tuesday, 4 October, 2005 at 9:29 pm

I know I’ve been lazy in updating this lately and even now with a really cool update I’ve been putting it off/forgetting about it. But I’m forcing myself to write about it now. (Maybe I should just write about weekends, or something. I mean, specialness over the weekends. Or going to the mall if something really interesting happens. Or something. I’m willing to not have records of the more mundane stuff. But this weekend was just really cool and I’d rather write this entry now than not have it later in life [and hopefully my online logs won’t disappear >.>].)

So! Friday I got Mum to go with me to the Nuart to see Mirrormask! We saw the theater and there was a line and I was freaking out thinking what if we can’t get in??? but haha we got in ($14.50 for two matinee tickets) and sat down and yeah it was a tiny cozy cool theater. ^^ And the theater wasn’t that full. I mean, much much more full than Charlie or March of the Penguins. But not like Star Wars (second weekend?) or H2G2 (first night?) Probably about 40 people there, maybe (I’m horrible at estimating), and there were bunches of teens there! Hee! (Normally wouldn’t be excited about that because, well, immature, but hey, it meant that they HEARD about it! XD Goooo Neil and Dave!) It was a really cool fun inventive interesting visually appealing movie and Helena (Stephanie Leonidas) was great and the guy she hung with and YEAH! I loooooved seeing Dave McKean’s stuff in motion. XD So cool.

Mum liked the movie. She said she woke up the next morning thinking about the movie. hehe! Yeah, I woke up in the middle of the night and thought, ‘Did I have a dream about Mirrormask?’ (I couldn’t remember. ;.; But it was a nice dream. ^^)

Saturday (non-Neil Gaiman, even though there was a signing at Vroman’s, just didn’t feel like standing in line for hours just to get him write his name in the book; I probably would have liked a doodle in my book, but he only doodles in the first 100 or so books, so meh)

Sunday at 1:15 got ready to go to the West Hollywood Book Festival got there about 2 minutes before he started talking. We stood behind the seats, a little to our right. Then he came out in his leather jacket and sunglasses and sat down and he took off his jacket (it was warm, but not completely unbearable) and he was wearing a black t-shirt. XD And he looked in our direction for most of the talk! (Although I think he was looking at the Death/Daniel/Dream cosplayers.) And yeah. He talked. Yayfun! Mum said she understood half of what they talked about. I’m glad. She asked me a few questions about him after that. heehee. Saw the Golden Apple place where he was gonna sign. They had some of his stuff there. Saw the Sandman Companion. And other comics of his that I don’t have (yet). Sandman has new covers. o.o I like the old Dave McKean covers better though. *pout*

What did he talk about? Umm, a little about writing Anansi Boys, a little about Anansi Boys, a little about writing, a little about some Genie (??) account that he had 1989–1992 (“So you’re a proto-blogger.” –Heidi McDonald XD), a “tiffle” sound (pfa?) he would make while writing (found out while writing on Beowulf with Roger Avery), the little coffee (?) place in the midwest he wrote Anansi Boys in for 6 months (he left after someone recognized him and an employee said they’d be keeping an eye on him; “‘Oh, there he is writing again—no wait now he’s looking out the window.'”), about his daughter and her graphic novels course at college, stuff. ^__^

Then we went to Waldenbooks so I could buy Anansi Boys with a 25% off coupon and YAY I got a FIRST EDITION!!! XDDDDDD *points at the words first edition on that information page* But it’s already kind of curling (from the sun? air?) :( I don’t feel like taking it with me to class anymore. *hugs protectively* I haven’t even got to “the bad thing” in the middle of the book yet either! (Something Heidi brought up at the talk. She said she had to put the book down and walk away. o.o Neil Gaiman said he was surprised by it too, and didn’t write for four months after that. ^^;)

So…yeah, that’s it. The book isn’t really like American Gods, it’s funnier, not as, well, dry (I like AG, but still, it’s … not Neverwhere or Good Omens, definitely). Although I just read this part where he visits the old gods, and it’s kind of like AG. ^^;;

That’s it. I’m late getting to bed again. ;_; (10:11)