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I'm still at the office. Will be for another hour and a bit.

Someone point me at more fic, please?

The Valourious Vampire.

Um, I did get the coding jokes, too.

Yeah, but I know not everyone did. And most people wouldn't get all of them unless they'd been following her Standards Ranting. She was basically using the Most Common Bad Coding Practices of Fanfiction Sites as her basis.

Viewing source was FUN-NY. OMG. She used *BOLD* tags! HA!

t !--this page is designed by me! Just me! You hear that! Don't steal anything! Because I know that paragraph tag!--

HA!

... yeah, but I *got* the "bold tags! Hah!", too. 'Cause I do know the slightest bit about code, and about her rants (because I follow her journal &c), and about the whole common shit-fansite-design thing. (I was only disappointed she hadn't used CSS language that would have made mouseover'd links fly and scramble across the page into unintelligibility.)

(And I don't think it's completely irrational of me to have gotten very slightly offended at your replying-to-me "it's even funnier if you know more" line. Um.)

(And I don't think it's completely irrational of me to have gotten very slightly offended at your replying-to-me "it's even funnier if you know more" line. Um.)

I think it's slightly irrational. I know you know a fair amount about code. I also know that some of the people who I know think it was funny don't, and that my reply wasn't totally directed at you. Perhaps I should have added an "isn't it?" to the end, but as I was on a quicky break, I didn't really have the bandwidth to do so.

And I do know more about code than most people, because that's what I do for a freaking living. I am about it (with quirks and exceptions, of course) the way some people are about arcane bits of writing lore. It's what I live and breathe. It's who I am, and what I am. So things are funny to me on a regular basis that are not funny to most people (see: me and the designers in meetings, throwing code jokes around while the writers stare at us in horror), so that someone would structure their whole fannish April Fool's joke around things that I normally only get blank looks for laughing at is, to me, hilarious.

I think she should have used the freaking style filters. That would have been icing/cake.

RL, as someone who knows about code and clichéd fan sites, I see nothing offensive about the idea that if I knew more about this woman's Visibility etc. rantings. I can't even imagine how PMM pointing out the idea that the joke may be more in than I may appreciate is rude.

sigh

and, since I knew nothing about the woman, and know nothing about code, I didn't get the joke at all. I just assumed she wouldn't normally GUSH that much or about what she was gushing.

I didn't get all the coding jokes and didn't think about checking out the source, so all I thought of Ple's response was "I wish I knew more about coding so I could get all the jokes" I saw it as a general response.

However, I do have a hatred for Bad fansites with those stupid tiny frames and stupid itty bitty font, which Buffy sites seem to have a lot of so I got some of what she was making fun of. When ever I see a site that looks like that I just leave, I don't care how good the content might be on the site, I'm not wasting my eye sight trying to read the itty bitty font in those stupid ass tiny scrolling boxes.

(Can't believe I'm asking....)

I need some good Dana het stuff. (Sports Night.)

Just... not with Dan, Casey, or Isaac.

Isaac? Ooookay....

There were rumors of some Dana/Sam stuff on a yahoogroup, but I haven't gone looking for it yet.