Can't stop the signal

[andrewducker]

Some of you may have noticed the number of times I've mentioned getting a link/picture/video via octopoid_horror is not small.

Thankfully, he's now started posting his stuff over at Tumblr as Ths Is The Signal, which means that I'll be getting less emails, and can just add him (I have a tumblr account, not that I really use it).

If you like random videos and images* then you could do a lot worse than to drop by occasionally.

*And if you don't then what on earth are you doing here?

Comments

[nmg.livejournal.com]

I'll be getting less emails

Fewer, dammit, fewer emails!

[andrewducker]

Naah, they'll be smaller :->

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I detest Tumblr due to Forest numpties :/

[andrewducker]

If you let idiots put you off a service because they use it, then you're letting them control you.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Really?

It's not because they use it. It's because they heartily pissed me off with their use of it.

[andrewducker]

Oooh, in what way?

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Actually, one step back a moment.

Were you referencing other people's use of the word 'controlling' there? Because that's really not a meaning I think that fits. The numpties cannot be said to be controlling me -- they have absolutely no knowledge of my feelings. To my mind, control implies volition on the part of the controller. I am perhaps letting my experience with the numpties poison my feelings about something -- I should say 'no tumblr with numpties!' rather than 'no tumlbr!'.

The fact remains that I've been somewhat put off it. See in my LJ archives about 3 months ago ;)

[andrewducker]

It's not something where they're deliberately controlling you, you're right. But you're still basing your behaviour on reactions to them, which I always feel is a shame, because it means that they're (possibly) stopping you doing something you might enjoy.

So, yes, control is probably a bit strong, but I'm not sure what's a better one.

I'm looking through your journal archives, but your habit of cryptic subject lines isn't helping :-p

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Haha.

I'll dig it out tomorrow -- I have an offline search of my archive.

[andrewducker]

Ooh, what do you use? I use LJArchive, but I assume that's Windows only.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I have my own Perl script I wrote ages ago which goes through the XML files and prints the links to the entries.

Seems I only mentioned the first meeting: http://momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com/2010/03/11/

The main one, which was a full-blown hippie meeting with hand waving, was two incredibly frustrating hours of my life in which I was completely railroaded by wankers who had no understanding of the issue whatsoever but made all the right noises to get everyone easily convinceable on board.

[andrewducker]

Aaaah. Yes, dealing with that kind of people is incredibly annoying. I assume that eventually you walked away from the whole thing.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

I spent two hours in the meeting getting frustrated and yelling at people. Following week, somewhat grumpily tried to work on the *real* site that we'd managed to get a concession would eventually replace tumblr when ready. After showing him what we'd done, realized that the Head Wanker would never, ever, see our work as satisfactory (combination of NIH syndrome and being a wanker) and thus bowed out more gracefully than I would have liked, as my idea of clawing back some fun from this would have been to hack the tumblr site to death or flood it with spam.

However, I did learn from this that in order for me to do pro bono work, at least one of the following is required:

kudos
fun
satisfaction of making something kickass cool
grils
cake

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I feel much the same way.

Except that "girls" is at the top of the list. And singular. And demands tea first thing in the morning.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Well that list was made a while back. The grils entry is off it now ;)

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I don't know what the correct internet-hipster verb to use for posting something there might be.

If I put something on tumblr, have I "tumbled" it? Is the 'r' just there with an omitted 'e' to sound hip and cool like flickr but has no affect on usage, or have I actually "tumblred" because that looks wrong.

Should I get all archaic-seeming and write "tumblr'd"? If I do that, it's a short step to "D_____ and B_____ you, my Lord M______. I had but nary a scriven that thine Hessian had tumblr'd to milord's bodkin complot, prithee forsooth!"