No studying? Damn! Next thing they'll tell me is I'll have to eat jelly doughnuts or sleep with a supermodel to get things done around here. I ask you, how much can one man give?
Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Bureaucracy 1: Like Kafka, Only Funnier
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
John H - Jan 10, 2003 2:35:40 pm PST #2755 of 10001
Rebecca Lizard - Jan 10, 2003 2:44:50 pm PST #2756 of 10001
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket
I have nothing productive to add to this discussion. I will say, however, that I love you, John, but it's incredibly disturbing when you say "dudes".
John H - Jan 10, 2003 2:50:55 pm PST #2757 of 10001
Secret message to Miss Lizard. Get on AIM now, or I will say not only "dude" but "dudette"!
Jon B. - Jan 10, 2003 2:52:36 pm PST #2758 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
How about I do another rewrite on the How-To section, and the FAQ links to it:
Go for it dude.
Shell - Jan 10, 2003 3:24:54 pm PST #2759 of 10001
Dudes! Give her a break.
billytea - Jan 10, 2003 3:27:40 pm PST #2760 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I have nothing productive to add to this discussion. I will say, however, that I love you, John, but it's incredibly disturbing when you say "dudes".
Re disturbing dudes: apparently there are plans for a sequel to Dude, Where's My Car?, to be titled Seriously, Dude, Where's My Car?
John H - Jan 10, 2003 3:50:37 pm PST #2761 of 10001
I've always imagined numerous sequels to I Know What You Did Last Summer and I Still Know What You Did Last Summer ending up with I Really, Honestly, Do Really Know What You Did Last Summer, Why Won't You Believe Me?
bon bon - Jan 10, 2003 3:50:51 pm PST #2762 of 10001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Re disturbing dudes: apparently there are plans for a sequel to Dude, Where's My Car?, to be titled Seriously, Dude, Where's My Car?
SWEET!
Michele T. - Jan 10, 2003 4:15:26 pm PST #2763 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
It is, indeed, the best sequel title ever. Been discussed in Natter a couple of times, as I recall...
t pointed look Natterwards
John H - Jan 10, 2003 8:36:11 pm PST #2764 of 10001
OK Proposed Rewrite of the third paragraph in the "how to navigate" section of the How-To, the one which begins
If you decide that you want to look at what someone posted several hundred posts back...
These aren't the only ways to navigate, however.
If you take a look at the URL in your browser's address bar while reading a thread, you'll see something like this at the end:
showthread.php?thread_id=25&post_id=256and that last number, (256 in this example) is the number of the first post on the page you're reading. So if your profile is set to "ten posts to a page", you're reading posts 256 to 266.
If you want to skip ahead a hundred posts, you can edit it by hand: delete the 256, type in 356, and hit enter. Or to skip back a hundred posts put in 156, and so on.
One common use for this is to ease yourself back into a thread by skipping to the point 50 posts before the last post -- how do you know where the end of your thread is? That number's shown in the header of each post just after "EST", for instance "#1234 of 4567". You can skip to the point fifty before the end by skipping to post 4517, because that's 4567 minus fifty.
What do you think?
Notes:
- the How-To page has just "How To" in the title tag. Maybe "How To Page for buffistas.org" or something would make for a better bookmark/search result etc?
- I tried hacking URLs with numbers past the end of the thread and with negative numbers with no ill-effects. I hope.
- We don't specify in that part of the How-To what Last and Recent do specifically. I didn't attempt to explain, because, er ... I don't know.