more geekery

[egypturnash]

While I'm being an utter tech-nerd who's pulled out some heavy artillery to kill the pop-up comments box (actually, to keep it, but as a new 'quick reply' link next to the 'reply to this' link), I decided to get silly.

I'm replacing some usernames throughout all of LJ. Well, just ones in the 'lj user' format - peganthyrus becomes egypt_urnash. Notice that it still links to me. It just looks different.

And some of you folks I read, and some folks I don't, are also similarly altered.

I just thought you should know that. Because I'm not going to tell you if you are, or not. You'll only know if you get a chance to look over my shoulder before I get bored with this little game.

Comments

[lediva.livejournal.com]

Tell meeeeeee!

[protocat.livejournal.com]

Hah! I thought ahead of your little plan and I've stopped posting! Take that!

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Moooo-ah-ah-ah-ahhhh!

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

I totally don't understand. o_o

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

"No, Doctor, you never do!"

[turbinerocks.livejournal.com]

agh!

[raki.livejournal.com]

Did you use a rename token, or some other fancy means of changing your username?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Perhaps a screengrab will help...



The only editing done in the screengrab was to hide the IP addresses, and save it as a really crappy JPEG.

I'm doing Weird, Geeky Things to make this happen; tthe only place these changes take place is in the browsers on my own machine.

[raki.livejournal.com]

Ooo... Fun!

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

That's bizarre, Ms. urnash (may I call you egypt?)

[pathia.livejournal.com]

Hmm, so does that mean I'm
AnnoyinggrieferfromPuzzleboxthatalsopissedoffAshyonetoomanytimes

[mattlazycat.livejournal.com]

unfunfunf

The annoying inline reply boxes now let you choose your userpic, so I'm not nearly so annoyed with them now. Just so you know :) Have a spacebunny.

[ovon.livejournal.com]

And here I was feeling geeky about the wiki style sheet. *resigns*

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I was going to compliment you on it because it's nice and happy-making, too! Geekiness just kinda... happens... with me, sometimes; this really started as a test to make sure only the pages I needed to affect with my attempts to get rid of the quick comment box were being altered, and then it... grew.

[ovon.livejournal.com]

Well, I just edited the wiki's Perl script to generate div tags for several of the screens, so I'm gaining on you.

It's sort of like puttering in the garden, I suppose. Without the fresh air. I have to learn to apply this patience and attention to detail to things like cleaning the damn house.

[Bad username or unknown identity: obsessivecompulsiveshinything]

[koogrr.livejournal.com]

Mrrrf, well let me know if I'm included. Need to feed the ego, all that.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Not saying! The screengrab in the comments above may or may not represent the actual editing I'm doing...

[dsch.livejournal.com]

How do you get it to do that? I mean, how do you get the lj user tag to display something other than the actual username, but still link to that username?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Client-side editing. I have an ad-blocker running, and I've been adding some more whimsical filters, that are built to only affect the displayed part of the lj user tag-cluster instead of every instance of the name. It's deeeeply geeky.

[doodlesthegreat.livejournal.com]

That's incredibly silly and I love it.

[xiombarg.livejournal.com]

BTW, the quick comment now allows you to choose your icon, so 90% of your reason to avoid it is now gone.