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I think I might be done with working late, for a while!  \o/

I'm going to see if I can get some DtD written for the first time in a while.  But first, replies!

strangelock replied to your post “.”

i hope the Monday night work went smoothly. I'm on my way to tour a maker space, may have named my etsy store, and know what my next tattoo is!!

Oooooh!  Tell me about the tattoo?  :D

(And yes, thanks! It did. :) ) 

esgibter replied to your post “.”

hiiiiiii!! well you've said "i almost never have to do this sort of thing" quite too often lately - don't burn out! take time for yourself!

Hiiiiiii!  I've missed you, and also felt pretty guilty about our joint project for... basically forever.  (I think maybe I should absolve myself of the idea that I'll ever write any code for it -- and then if I do, it'll be a pleasant surprise, instead of me constantly feeling guilty/disappointed.)  We should compare schedules sometime soon -- I'll probably be up your way sometime in the next few weekends.

Also, you're too right about work.  We just hired someone else that should be able to help out so this happens less in the future, but it'll take him a little bit to get up to speed (training him is taking some of my time right now).  But yeah, I'm trying to fix this.  

prideandprejudiceandcheese replied to your post “.”

I bought some cheese today. Tried to give it up but I guess I can't go full vegan yet. Yay for Mrs Toasty's job and such!

Yay, cheese-buying!  I didn't know you were trying to go vegan!  (I wouldn't have guessed, given your love of cheese!)  I would have a tough time giving up cheese, myself.  

Hope you've been well in general!  I might be in your vicinity (if I recall where you are correctly) on 10/4, if you're free to grab lunch or something... wanna email?

anonsally replied to your post “.”

Also: I want you to stop having to work so late!

Me too.  I think I'm done for a bit!

anonsally replied to your post “.”

We need to catch up. Mrs. Toasty got a cool new job??????

Yes!!  Same company, different team.  I'll tell you more soon.  I think I might be in your neck of the woods 10/4, btw... are you free then?

clavisa replied to your post “More replies!  (And then I really need to finish writing this chapter...”

Perhaps I go to the other extreme: I like taking as many diverse personality thingies as I can, especially multiple times in a row where I swap all the unsure-of answers. Maximum self-comprehension!

Ha!  That's an awesome approach.  :D  Love it!

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esgibter replied to your post:The unusual life of a Tumblr post

you’re experiencing a social network graph! There is a ton of Science about this - a lot of it is coming out of Facebook. Your posts explode when they hit central nodes in the network.

YES THANK YOU I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS SOCIAL NETWORK SCIENCE GRAPHING PLEASE.

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Attn: esgibter and annathecrow --

Both of you have offered to help me turn my scripts into publicly usable data fetching & visualization tools -- esgibter on the AO3 scraping side, and anna on the Tumblr API side.  Anna points out that the projects have a lot in common (at least on the data viz side), and it probably makes sense to collaborate!

I'm introducing you here, and I can also share your emails with one another if you don't mind -- but I wanted to check first before doing that.  This weekend I'll be figuring out how to add my scripts to a Github repository (I am a dork and have never used Github sorry /o\ ) and attempting to document them at least a little bit.  And apologizing for how hacktastic they are. ;)  

P.S. I LOVE YOU BOTH FOR HELPING WITH THIS ZOMG <3

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Heading home from 221B Con. The con was awesome in so many ways (though really not in some ways - if you want to talk about anything besides BBC or maybe ACD, go to Sherlock Seattle instead). But I'm at my best (and enjoy myself most) in long conversations with one or two other people. I basically stopped attending parties years ago because it's almost impossible to have such conversations there. Cons are like huge theme parties (with some scheduled events). There is an embarrassment of riches in terms of people I want to talk to, but little chance to actually talk meaningfully. (Among others, I wish I'd had more time to hang with the TPP folks and say hi to emmagrant01 and others I missed!) However! They are also full of wonderful people I rarely get to see, interesting talks, fabulous costumes, and in this case a rare and glorious case to geek out about fandom stats en masse. And I met a few amazing new people ( esgibter I am SO EXCITED you live near me! And sooo many more! Thank you so much to everyone who came up to me to talk stats or joined for Sheetlock or hung out with me in general!) I'm so very glad I came - and having too many awesome people to talk to is a good problem to have. :) Already really excited about Sherlock Seattle and BASC. Hoping to do another stats talk and maybe also the aforementioned Fandom Feud game... (Someone please stop me from making categories like "Top tags in the Transformer Fandom"...) Thanks, everyone. Love to you all, and safe travels home.

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Fandom stats panel replies

esgibter answered your post: 221B Con prep: fandom stats panel!

I’m interested in data sources! your approach to data gathering and storage, and where you’d like to see improvement in data access.

Oh, these are good questions!  I'll have to think more about how best to answer these.  Thanks!  Will you be at the con?

the science of induction answered your post: 221B Con prep: fandom stats panel!

Oh, I can’t wait - I’m looking forward to this panel so much! Quick question - where is the complete con schedule?

Yay!  :D  Glad you'll be there!  They haven't actually posted the complete con schedule yet, according to their FAQ.  Sounds like that might not happen for a while.

Also, to those who asked -- yes, I'll definitely be sharing all of the material from the panel here as well.  I may share some bits beforehand, but I'll definitely also post my final slides afterwards.  (I suspect the other presenters will, also!)