If I'd known how into this I was going to get back when I had a half-dozen bookmarks without any notes at all, I would now have a really good database. Instead, I have a bunch of half-assed stuff. In *three different programs*.
When I grow up, I will be organized and tidy.
Or possibly when I'm dead. Because there's a real possibility that this is as grown up as I'm going to get, in which case adulthood is not what I thought it would be. Less confidence, more clutter.
how much do you care if I repeat your recs occasionally?
*blinks worriedly*
We're supposed to keep track of how often we repeat other people's recs? I usually don't even remember to check what other people are recommending until after I post.
But, truly: my recs are yours, if you want them. I don't think originality is the point of recommending at all; we're filters, not archives. We all have different interests, different pet peeves, different methods of presenting our recommendations, and different people who read us. If someone repeated every recommendation I ever made and never added anything else, I might feel, well, mad. And much more so if that person copied some or all of the summaries. But you would never do the former (and of course the latter is entirely beyond the pale); apart from anything else, I know I recommend some things you won't like.
(And I was sure you'd already recommended the Steak series. Which seems to me to suggest that if we conscientiously try not to overlap, we'll end up skipping some stories altogether. Anything but that!)
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When I grow up, I will be organized and tidy.
Or possibly when I'm dead. Because there's a real possibility that this is as grown up as I'm going to get, in which case adulthood is not what I thought it would be. Less confidence, more clutter.
how much do you care if I repeat your recs occasionally?
*blinks worriedly*
We're supposed to keep track of how often we repeat other people's recs? I usually don't even remember to check what other people are recommending until after I post.
But, truly: my recs are yours, if you want them. I don't think originality is the point of recommending at all; we're filters, not archives. We all have different interests, different pet peeves, different methods of presenting our recommendations, and different people who read us. If someone repeated every recommendation I ever made and never added anything else, I might feel, well, mad. And much more so if that person copied some or all of the summaries. But you would never do the former (and of course the latter is entirely beyond the pale); apart from anything else, I know I recommend some things you won't like.
(And I was sure you'd already recommended the Steak series. Which seems to me to suggest that if we conscientiously try not to overlap, we'll end up skipping some stories altogether. Anything but that!)