sylvar

Dragon*Con!  Labor Day weekend is close enough, and by all indications I'll be in Atlanta.  At any rate, I'll have a place to stay while at the con, and if I'm not fully moved in by then, I can arrange to haul up a load of our stuff (moving expenses are tax-deductible, including 18 cents per mile) with the right timing.
Claudia's going to be there. :)

...In other news, I've been listening to PotterCast, which has inspired me to delve back into the Harry Potter universe. I'm spiraling down, so my first pass is to read the Reader's Guides, a fan-annotated (and heavily hyperlinked) guide that sums up chapters in a format like SNPP episode capsules.

If there were some way to do it without causing copyright problems, I'd really love to see fan-annotated books. The best architecture I can think of would be a site that lists footnotes indexed by their appearance in the book, so that I could link the phrase "Gran, I've lost my toad again" (PS6) to speculation on who/what Neville's toad really is, someone else could link just the word "lost" to a list of things Neville has lost or forgotten, and someone else again could link "Gran" to a "Neville's Gran" filk of "Stacy's Mom" (not in that GILF way, if I had my druthers, just a song about her) -- without actually putting the entire books online, except in tiny snippets as indexes to notes. But I can't figure out how to actually make this usable. I can imagine turning on layers of commentary by username, tags, type of commentary, etc., but it turns into a mountain of metadata.

Then again, this has never bothered Talmud scholars.

Since I'm now permitted to have 42 icons, I figured it's time to get some more fandom icons. So here they are:

http://www.livejournal.com/allpics.bml?user=sylvar

Everything from the Breakfast Club on down is new. Some good ones there.

Searching Google for site:livejournal.com inurl:allpics (himym OR "how i met your mother") is fun. And the same strategy works on some pretty obscure fandoms, too.