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[active_apathy]

As I sort out things like my homework¹ (which, tonight, is picking books³ to take in tomorrow⁴), I'm also working on a Very Long post about a somewhat controversial poll-it-tickle issue from a Few Days Back. This post may even have diagrams, unless I collapse from death because now, I get to rip lots and lots of statistics out of an OpenOffice.org Calc worksheet for the consumption of the general populace.

So, um, yes. Post coming as soon as I can make that one happen. And then bludgeon Photoshop into diagram production.

As you might've guessed, I didn't really do much today. Except colour in names, and make an OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheet, and... um... sleep. And pick books to take in tomorrow.

Also, this has been a test of numbered footnoting⁶, with a teensy tiny little line over the footnotes because, well, teensy tiny little line. See? I do listen to my flist!⁷ The text is also slightly smaller⁸, so tell me if this causes issues.

¹I have homework again! Yay! Bow before Scribble answers on my Studentlike Awesomeness makework²!
²It comes to my attention here that some of my flistees are students of the kind that's never failed their way out of an educational institution, so here it is: Homework isn't always pointless after-hours makework. Sometimes it's useful. Trick is, you can't actually tell until after you've (a) done it, or (b) failed the assessments. Best to do it, just to be safe.
³So, um, don't scribble answers on them, because I like my books, and I don't like it when they get scribbled on, and you won't like me when I'm angry you scribble on my books. I also have rules about places where my books MUST NOT go, should they be borrowed; this includes (but is not limited to) places where, upon leaving, hands must be washed.
⁴ It's all for the course they call 'Use Cataloguing Tools'. We don't even need to actually catalogue the things, we're just taking them in to learn more about ripping information off a book so that you know what kinds of things to look for to find things in a catalogue⁵.
⁵Which, I suppose, is a useful skill, for it ensures we look all expert and wonderful to the less-informed users.
⁶As if you hadn't noticed. :)
⁷Jumping in with a list of times at which I have, in fact, not listened to my flist would just be mean, evil, and Not Very Nice. So, um, don't? Pleeeeaaaaase?
⁸It's a whole 10% smaller. Or the normal post text is 11% bigger than my footnote text. Or it's a token effort so that it just feels a tiny bit smaller, while in reality it's no more than one little tiny pixellydot smaller than normal. Unless you print it, and then it's probably a whole seventy-second of an inch worth of printydots smaller than normal.

Comments

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

No writing on books. Especially no writing on library books, in biro. Especially especially if your scribblenotes suck (I'm talking to YOU, anonymous desecrator of texts!).

Also, we have political issues? Dem their cunning hides, the weasels! (or, possibly: which of the many silly or controversial issues of the past while will get the active_apathy treatment?)


And a gentle reminder not to forget the good ship Aces and Eights. No rush, though - real life first, always!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I'm catching up on my e-commitments in such a way that I should be able to keep up with them and the real world. Aces and Eights is certainly high on that list, and her crew will be in my thoughts again shortly. I hope to get back to daily fictionythingies soon, too.

The political issue is one on which I know that I'd like to know where my member's vote went, but I suppose I could develop a format for other important politithings that happen.

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

Ooh, yay! I'd forgotten about the fic :)

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

For some reason, footnote number eight has me giggling like mad o.o

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Eight was a lot of fun to write, because it really is just token smallness. It'd be barely noticeable, for example, if I made a little bit of this sentence 10% smaller than the rest.

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

*giggles* I only noticed it when I highlighted it XD

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Oooh... highlightyboxes change size mid-line. I didn't know that.

[ryttu3k.livejournal.com]

Now you do! ^_^

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

I am old enough to make two of you and leave change for the tip.

I have degrees in English and law and a working background in journalism and thus can cite using everything from this to that to the other thing.

I have read and indeed written scholarly materials so dull and thoroughly footnoted as to put a man to sleep during his own electrocution.

By a porn actress.

And yet in all of that, I have never seen anyone use a footnote WITHIN a footnote.

I can die happy now.

[matgb]

I have never seen anyone use a footnote WITHIN a footnote.

You don't read enough Pratchett, obviously. Or is it Clarke that keeps doing that?

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it's been done before. For that matter, I'm entirely certain I've done it before.

This does, however, give me a new and fun plan to try out for my next entry.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

How odd. When I read your post on my flist... the footnote text is NOT discernably smaller, nor is the dividing line visible AT ALL, even with highlighting.

Yet when I come to the comment page (I use the default comment page because I prefer it), I can see both clearly.

After a bit of puzzling, I have determined te reason.

A: On my comment page, the default font in Times New Roman, and my background is black.
B: On the comment page, the default font is Arial and the background is white.

Apparently the size difference between the fonts is more visible in Arial than TNR. And the line didn't show up because you specified a hard black for it.

Also, gratuitous use of strikethrough is fun.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

It'd work better, I imagine, if I were to stop beinmg lazy and using shorthand properties. border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; would yield a border that matched either whatever border colour applies to all divs, or, failing that, the text colour, or possiby a border colour applied to the universal selector.

[shaysdays.livejournal.com]

I especially love floating footnote #2.

I used to write extensive footnotes on my LJ entries, until I noticed I was aping my betters- namely Terry Prachett. Which isn't too bad, but have you tried to pick bugs out of that man's hair? The beard alone is a half hour per side!