I think that it's okay to miss stuff is inherent in Natter. That's why it's called Natter, and not Terribly Important Things You Need to Know.
Easy Bake. Flop-a-palooza. Woosh. Pop. I don't skulk.
Angel ,'Shells'
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
Sue - Oct 11, 2002 7:57:54 am PDT #473 of 10001
hip deep in pie
billytea - Oct 11, 2002 8:01:16 am PDT #474 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 insist on large batches of grumpy East Coasters backing you up before I give up on this entertaining idea.
I'm on the East Coast, I'm grumpy thanks to lack of sleep (seriously. You have no idea.), and I'm willing to back them up. I mean, what if the Companion of the moment skipped and skimmed like a flat rock across the still waters of the Murray to get there? (...This picture doesn't make me any happier to be at work.) What if their windows of opportunity for the posting are tiny things? What if I happen to numberslut at 2 in the morning, and all the summary you get is "Phwooaargh"?
Fraught. I should definitely be putting that into a sentence about now, but again with the sleep deprivation. Still, fraught. Oh, and Phwooaargh.
Yeah.
Jess M. - Oct 11, 2002 8:10:23 am PDT #475 of 10001
Let me just say that popularity with people on public transportation does not equal literary respect. --Jesse
standing in the no summary corner
Steph L. - Oct 11, 2002 8:48:30 am PDT #476 of 10001
the hardest to learn / was the least complicated
I like it when *other* people summarize, but I can't do it well. Cause I can't remember the last 10 posts, let alone 100.
Theodosia - Oct 11, 2002 9:17:19 am PDT #477 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Not complaining -- just highly amused that my link to Rebecca's post of John's update report got moved to Beep Me, so that it's a relocated link to a link to a posting that contains a letter, which seems like quite a lot of layers of meta.
Michele T. - Oct 11, 2002 9:21:10 am PDT #478 of 10001
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
why it's called Natter, and not Terribly Important Things You Need to Know.
Snerk. And, wrod.
§ ita § - Oct 11, 2002 9:34:31 am PDT #479 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Theo, I'm trying to maintain the distinction between beep and press -- personal news goes in beep me, but I didn't want it to look like linking it was *my* idea, so credit where credit is due.
Theodosia - Oct 11, 2002 9:56:31 am PDT #480 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I dithered over which topic to use, as it was a bit of news that I'd have been sorry to miss -- I've been wondering how John is doing, and it had been a chattery night, so more people are likely to have been skipping.
Noumenon - Oct 11, 2002 6:31:33 pm PDT #481 of 10001
No other candidate is asking the hard questions, like "Did geophysicists assassinate Jim Henson?" or "Why is there hydrogen in America's water supply?" --defective yeti
Do Nilly's new episode links go to the start of the watch-and-post, or the start of the post-episode discussion? One of my friends said he wished there was a separate thread for watch-and-post and I thought Nilly could just mark them both.
Summarizing 100 posts would be a lot easier if we got that feature "Display posts __ through __." We could also help people on the Natter Diet by changing the "Recent" link to display the last 50 posts.
Kathy A - Oct 11, 2002 8:02:17 pm PDT #482 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Nou, her links go to the beginning of the watch-and-posts.