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Eric: I have been threatened with death if I use puns about the day of the week here.
It's a drizzly day in the Northeast, and I am in Boston. I am sitting in Tealuxe as I type, my powerbook sitting on a table that is covered in hammered copper, and I am sitting across from a beautiful woman.
Naturally, I'm typing into a computer. Because I'm an idiot. This won't be a long snark.
The significance of the meeting for Websnark is considerable, however. I am drinking tea with the Incomparable Wednesday White.
Dude. She rocks.
Here. I'm passing her the computer.
...Yes. have I mentioned that he was totally trying to use <i> instead of <em> in front of me? That's been thwarted.There is nothing to eat here.
When we finish the tea, we are going shopping.
I was sort of thinking that Eric would get here and then we'd talk for a few minutes and then some webcomics drama would come crashing through the window of the tea shop and we'd have to go into battle. This has, so far, not happened. I'm nervous now.
Okay. I'm out of ideas.
I have ideas, but... well... um... sitting with a pretty girl who's not afraid to convert my HTML code to conform to XHTML Strict.
Oh, dude. For heaven's sake. It's not even code; it's markup. Besides, at best, this is XHTML Transitional compliance.
Don't worry, girls. By the time I'm done with him, he'll be more semantic.
More later. Or not. Because, well, I'm in Boston hanging with Wednesday.
Posted by Eric Burns-White at June 15, 2005 4:14 PM
Comments
Comment from: Aeire posted at June 15, 2005 4:39 PM
...
...STOP TALKING ABOUT *TEA* AND GO SEE BATMAN WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR
- very happy fangirl
Comment from: SeanH posted at June 15, 2005 4:45 PM
Stop talking about tea? Ridiculous?
-passing Englisman, drinking tea right now.
Comment from: SeanH posted at June 15, 2005 4:46 PM
An Englishman, moreover, apparently rendered unable to type by the wondrousness of tea. That second ? should be an !, if you were wondering.
Comment from: SeanH posted at June 15, 2005 4:51 PM
Also damn it Aeire, ranting about Batman Begins here AND in the QoW rerun commentary just isn't fair when it's not out here yet :(
Not that I don't love you for doing the reruns with commentary, of course. It's brilliant, like I'm getting special features with my Queen of Wands DVD.
Comment from: arscott posted at June 15, 2005 5:16 PM
You need to stand up to tyranny eric! Don't let the champions of needlessly complex markup protocol walk all over you. tags forever!
Comment from: Tangent posted at June 15, 2005 5:27 PM
Don't worry, any moment now Artie and Helen Sr. will crash through the skylight and drop onto your table. You might want to move the laptop...
Comment from: Will "Scifantasy" Frank posted at June 15, 2005 5:38 PM
I have ideas, but... well... um... sitting with a pretty girl who's not afraid to convert my HTML code to conform to XHTML Strict.
That rarest of treasures...
Comment from: Dave Van Domelen posted at June 15, 2005 7:10 PM
Meanwhile, I cheerfully creak along with HTML 1.0 on most of my stuff. :)
Not that I generally use italics anyway...back in my formative marking up days, they looked like ass on a computer screen.
Comment from: hess42 posted at June 15, 2005 7:46 PM
Dude. The Websnark Braintrust(tm) together? I didn't think that was allowed, like Cheney going to an undisclosed location so the terrorists don't win or something.
Oh well. Have fun!
Comment from: RKMilholland posted at June 15, 2005 8:02 PM
I didn't know you were in Boston - did I?
Where's my medicine?
Comment from: quiller posted at June 15, 2005 8:13 PM
"Detestable girl! But I require tea!" -Gwendolyn Fairfax
I've been put quite in the mood for some tea now, but lacking sugar or a sweeter blend it would probably not meet up to my expectations.
Hmm strangely enough I have performed the scene from which my quote is taken. I'm not sure it works quite the same when being done by a couple of boys in coat and tie. Much better when I directed it with some female actors.
Comment from: Phy posted at June 15, 2005 9:20 PM
You know you've been playing City of Heroes too long when your friends start to aquire capitalized honorifics. ;) (Hi, Weds! The Phearless Phabulous Phy.)
Comment from: Paul A. posted at June 15, 2005 10:17 PM
Dave: HTML 1.0 is no excuse - there have always been <em> tags. It's just a question of finding people who aren't too lazy to use them correctly.
Weds: It could have been worse - he could have been using <cite>... *shudders*
Comment from: Paul Gadzikowski posted at June 15, 2005 10:19 PM
I handcode both my websites with HTML primarily learnt in 1996 or thereabouts, which includes i rather than em and b rather than strong, so -
Hold on. Eric and Wednesday are hanging out tonight? That means there'll be no more posts today!!
Comment from: miyaa posted at June 16, 2005 12:12 AM
You know, I didn't want to bring up up, but I guess now I'm curious. I know people who've named their children either Wednesday, Friday, April, May or June. I've known a rather head-stubborn doctor who legally changed her name from Jana to January because she hated the name "Jana."
But I've never seen or known anyone who named their kid either February, August, December, Monday or Thursday. Is this one of those cases where the parents either like the names or its one of those compromise names? Okay, so we can't decided between Wilhema and Gwendolyn...what day was she born? Wednesday? That sounds like a good name. Wednesday.
Comment from: slabgar posted at June 16, 2005 12:52 AM
I've met a December. And a Summer, and a Winter, for that matter. And an Autumn, now that I think of it. But no spring.
Comment from: Aeire posted at June 16, 2005 1:33 AM
No really, I'm so for serious here.
STOP TEA NO MORE TEA FOR YOU BATMAN AWAITS GO SEE IT.
Comment from: Tangent posted at June 16, 2005 1:44 AM
August Delwerth (or something like that) wrote some Cthulhu-style stories along with H.P. Lovecraft. So August has been used as a name.
Heh. And I remember the anime series Sol Bianca, which had the ladies named for the months. Including February (called Feb for short). *grin*
Rob H.
Comment from: Eric Burns posted at June 16, 2005 2:01 AM
Randy--
I did in fact e-mail you about it.
In fact, we did dinner at the Burran. And talked about you while we did it.
But you, to my knowledge, aren't well.
Comment from: Kludge posted at June 16, 2005 2:24 AM
I have a yoga teacher named Tuesday.
Comment from: JoK posted at June 16, 2005 2:30 AM
HUMP DAY!!!!
Comment from: Arachnid posted at June 16, 2005 2:33 AM
You need to stand up to tyranny eric! Don't let the champions of needlessly complex markup protocol walk all over you. tags forever!
Complex? Half the point of semantic markup is that it's simpler than marking stuff up according to how it looks!
\Weds: Have any Evil Twins in New Zealand? ;)
Comment from: Meagen Image posted at June 16, 2005 4:24 AM
Hold on. Eric and Wednesday are hanging out tonight? That means there'll be no more posts today!!
I reccomend Webcartoonist vs. Webcartoonist to stave off the comic-blog jitters.
Comment from: Forsaken_One posted at June 16, 2005 5:20 AM
Why in the world would you use "em" instead of "i?" Or "strong" rather than "b?" It's... shorter. Shorter means less typing. Less typing means more tea. More tea is good. So using "i" = more tea. Aren't you ashamed you wasted tea?
Comment from: LucyK posted at June 16, 2005 6:32 AM
Yay! *bounce*
My apologies for being content-free.
Comment from: alienpriest posted at June 16, 2005 10:52 AM
August Delwerth (or something like that) wrote some Cthulhu-style stories along with H.P. Lovecraft. So August has been used as a name.
It's August Derleth. He and Robert E Howard are the only two authors to write in Lovecraft's style and pull it off with success. (There have been hundreds of failures).
Comment from: Robin Z posted at June 16, 2005 10:53 AM
You want to hear something very wrong about the <i>, <em>, and <cite> markup tags?
I use all three. ;)
Comment from: Zaq posted at June 16, 2005 11:11 AM
I knew a guy who had triplets, all boys, named Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow. He called them Terry, Todd, and Tom.
...Actually, that's a blatant lie. Made it up on the spt. But it'd be kinda cool if it were true. If I ever have triplets I'm totally doing that. (Maybe.)
Comment from: mangaijin posted at June 16, 2005 11:24 AM
two days ago it was, like, 90É in Boston...today, high 50's...the chalk board at my local deli said "How was your summer?"
Comment from: Dave Van Domelen posted at June 16, 2005 12:35 PM
Yeah, for us crusty old handtaggers, the difference between b and strong is significant. Especially given how often I use boldface. :)
Never heard of the cite tag before. From context I gather it's another means of generating italics, though.
And it could be worse, I could use blink tags (which I don't think are even supported on most browsers anymore, come to think of it).
Comment from: Wednesday posted at June 16, 2005 3:29 PM
Dude. We didn't go and see Batman. There was too much driving yesterday for movie anyhow, and, besides, ee went and saw Mr. and Mrs. Smith today. It was highly necessary.
I mean, having seen Howl's Moving Castle last week, there wasn't any way to sensibly get more Christian Bale into my system anyhow. Besides, Batman has, presumably, had less focus groupery, and they're not promoting it during soap operas with a different logo.
Comment from: Denyer posted at June 16, 2005 8:25 PM
I could use blink tags (which I don't think are even supported on most browsers anymore, come to think of it).
Useless trivia: Firefox supports both <blink> and <marquee>...
Comment from: gwalla posted at June 16, 2005 9:16 PM
If you're looking for drama, the PA/McCloud/Garza thing is still feebly puttering along.
And Howl's Moving Castle* is great.
*In <i> tags, as it is a title, not a citation and not emphasis.
Comment from: sinless posted at June 17, 2005 8:11 AM
"I mean, having seen Howl's Moving Castle last week"
*whimper*
It doesn't open here until today . . .
I hate Oklahoma sometimes.
Comment from: Merus posted at June 18, 2005 1:05 AM
You think you've got problems?
I'm in region 4. We're not getting it until Madman brings it out on DVD. On the other hand, I understand the Madman dubs are generally considered to be better quality than the Disney dubs because Madman actually use people trained to do good voice work rather than act well, so there's that.
Comment from: gwalla posted at June 18, 2005 6:20 PM
The Disney dub of Howl's* is notÐ sub-par. It has Lauren frikkin' BacallÐ fer chrissakes.
*<i>
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Comment from: Tangent posted at June 18, 2005 9:39 PM
oO Ooookay, was there a difference between the two? And how did you get the to show up when next to a letter?
Rob H.
Comment from: Paul A. posted at June 20, 2005 12:56 AM
You want to hear something very wrong about the <i>, <em>, and <cite> markup tags?I use all three. ;)
Yes, but do you use them correctly? I have no objection to people using <cite> to mark up citations; it's people who use <cite> in place of <em> on the basis that it doesn't matter because it looks right that make me want to throw things.
Comment from: Paul A. posted at June 20, 2005 1:01 AM
Rob, the difference is that <em> means "this is emphasised", while <i> just means "this is in italics, and I'm not giving you any hints about why".
Notice that, although the ideal is informative tags for all things, we still have to use <i> for some things that don't have their own informative tags - there's no <title> tag, for instance. (As a matter of fact, on my own web site I conscientiously mark up titles using <span class="title"> instead of <i>; but that's because I'm a maniac.)
Comment from: Paul A. posted at June 21, 2005 8:59 PM
...I should have said, of course, that there is a <title> tag, but it's used for denoting the title of the web page, not for marking any other titles mentioned on the page.
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