Yet More!

[kyra_ojosverdes]

You people aren't doing a very good job of distracting me from studying. Try harder, please.

Tuesday, a co-worker bought me lunch. It included an amazingly good sandwich and a house salad. The salad contained... ominous music here... pears¹. PEARS. I was a polite and brave person and I ate the pears. They shocked me by not being nasty and grainy and gag-inducing. Since when do pears have a nice firm non-grainy texture? Were these special not-nasty pears? They were, dare I say it, good. Bizarre.


1. I do have a few food dislikes, and off the top of my head all of them have to do with texture. Applesauce, canned apples/pears, pears, any apple that's past that "nice crisp recently picked" phase, bran cereals that have gone mushy... that grainy, powdery, mealy texture makes me gag. I won't eat apples in public unless I know that the apple has been recently picked or it's a Granny Smith apple. I've had mealy, powdery Granny Smith apples, but it's rare. Red Delicious: no way. If it's given to me and there's no polite way to refuse, I'll "save it for later, thanks so much" and either press it on someone else or toss it and feel horribly guilty for wasting perfectly good food.



ETA: (Damn I'm posting a lot tonight, geez!) If I created a tag and used that tag only for private entries, would people be able to see that tag? Like, would you-the-reader be able to see somewhere a tag called "yourname," click it to see what I'm saying about you, and then be appalled, shocked, horrified that whatever it is I'm saying about you is locked from you?

Comments

[kovee.livejournal.com]

I will do my best but my computer is low on mem and so I can not play sims I am forced to play puzzle pirates and *Shutters* Neopets..lol I have a date with Samvimes tomorrow. I can not wait tomorrow can not come fast enough for me.

[redrita.livejournal.com]

My latest food phobia seems to center around ground beef. I don't know why, but the thought, smell, and texture of ground beef is leading me into anorexia (at least the nights that it is served). Hamburgers, Hamburger Helper, even tacos are barely palatable.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

That is the way tags work, yes.

Me, when I want to flag private entries for my own use, I use the Memories function (and try to remember to mark the memory as "private," too.

[rosefox]

No, actually, tags have the same security level as the least secure entry that tag is used on. I have a "sexfilter" tag, but if you're not on that filter, you can't see it.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Ah, good point - I hadn't been thinking of tags used *only* for private entries; my practice would be more like using a jane_doe tag for everything I wrote about Jane, even if some of it was under a privacy lock. But if you were scrupulous about using specific tags *only* for private entries, that would work.

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[tenderhooligan.livejournal.com]

I think if it's a private entry, then no.

[ivy]

I don't know, but if you make a test private entry and tag it "raven", I'll tell you whether or not I can see any "raven" tags.

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

Okay, done. If you can find any evidence of the tag's existence I'll figure out some sort of fabulous prize! Thank you!

[ivy]

I can't see it from http://kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com/tag/ in the list. When I try to go to http://kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com/tag/raven directly, I get the following error message:

Error
Sorry, one or more specified tags do not exist.

So, even if you're guessing at a tag you can't see, it pretends there's no such thing. There might be some deeper way of retrieving everyone's tags for everything (I can ask my geek filter if you like; I know there are some things that can be pulled out of public databases that aren't available through the Web UI), but at least it's not trivially available.

i would not know about visibility

[andreas_schaefer]

"If I created a tag and used that tag only for private entries, would people be able to see that tag? Like, would you-the-reader be able to see somewhere a tag called "yourname," click it to see what I'm saying about you, and then be appalled, shocked, horrified that whatever it is I'm saying about you is locked from you?"

but if you find out will you let us know ?
( made an entry in my own journal referencing this here )

Dude!

[shmuelisms.livejournal.com]

As I said to gh4acws, it would seem that it is possible/intended to be able to create private non-visible tags, and in any case, even if I created a drooling_over_Katrina tag with LOTS of private entries, the fact that you MIGHT be able see the tag, would not change your ability to see any entries filed under it...


Disclaimer: No such tag actually exists [in my journal], nor do I write about drooling over anyone in my journal. ;-) In fact, I have all of 3-4 private entries.

Re: Dude!

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

Right, I wouldn't be able to see the entries, but knowing of the existence of entries about me (or some other Katrina, but I'd assume that means me) that I'm not allowed to read would be... disconcerting to say the least.

[tigermorph.livejournal.com]

When I use peoples names in tags - it's who I am talking *to*. For example, I have a ton of "Tankgoddess" locked posts, behind which are conversations between me and the tankgoddess cos we can't IM.

It's how I do my filteres too - who I am talking to when I am too lazy to find and email address.

IF folks do it the other way, as you suggest above...I'd likely never know because unless I'm trying to find something specific (a recipe or a date or whatever) I don't peruse tags.

I have been caught off guard and a little hurt by following a "See this other post for details" link, only to find a locked door.

Why? Are you talking about me? *checks zipper fly, checks for stains on shirt or spinach in teeth* HUnh? hunh?

< /paranoid >

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

Have you ever heard of/ordered from Harry and David's?

They'll give you pears like you wouldn't believe...they melt in your mouth and explode juices everywhere - messier than eating a peach, and well worth it.

I prefer Golden Delicious apples myself...

[darthgeek.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. Harry and David's. So totally worth the price!

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

yeah, expensive as hell, so i don't do them very often, but it's seriously the best fruit in the world...

[sweet-byrd.livejournal.com]

My experience with pears is that the European pears (Comice, Bosc, Anjou and Bartlett) are the ones that get that funny grainy texture. Asian pears (like Hosui, Chojuro, Shinsui, and Shinseiki) don't get the weird mealy/grainy texture. Asian pears are popular 'salad pears' since they tend not to oxidize as quickly as the more familiar European/American varieties -- maybe that was the reason your salad had acceptable pears.

More info on pears:
http://www.cookingforengineers.com/article.php?id=96

As for apples, it used to be that the goal in hybridizing new apples was to get visual beauty, and not so much taste and texture. That seems to be changing with the introduction of the Fuji, the Mutsu and the Ginger Gold, and the increased popularity in 'vintage' apples like the Golden Russet. These apples don't have the gorgeous eye candy aspect of the Red Delicious, but they taste and feel a whole lot better to eat.

More info on apples:
http://www.coldspringorchard.com/page2.htm
http://www.innvista.com/HEALTH/foods/fruits/applevar.htm
http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/1997/9-12-1997/apples.html
http://www.pickyourown.org/apples.htm

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

canyonwren has recommended Asian pears to me before... that must be what was in the salad. The peel said "pear" and I hesitated before trying it, but figured I had a big cup of iced tea and could wash it down before I started gagging. Wonder of wonders, it was good!

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

Looking at the pics, the peel of these pears looked like Anjou... puzzling!

*waves*

[jazzminarino.livejournal.com]

I just saw that you had unfriended me. Can I ask why? Any particular reason? I always read your posts and try to comment...

... and I concur with pears, though my hated food is cooked carrots, not raw ones.

Re: *waves*

[kyra-ojosverdes.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that!