Sooner or later, you're gonna want it. And the second — the second — that happens, you know I'll be there. I'll slip in, have myself a real good day.

Spike ,'Conversations with Dead People'


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Laura - Sep 18, 2002 3:57:28 pm PDT #177 of 10000
Our wings are not tired.

John, I think Jon is not going to be back until the end of the month.


Typo Boy - Sep 18, 2002 4:00:21 pm PDT #178 of 10000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Kat - it was a general post. I shouldn't have used the "should" word. Of course you can feel anyway you want. And of course there is nothing here people cannot live with or even joyfully adapt to.

It is just that - the software world is different. And people spot things in real world use they don't in testing. And I really wasn't answering you (though I am now) It is just that your post sparked in my brain a new way of looking at *how* software is different. And I felt the need to explain - because I though it was a neat way to look at it.


DavidS - Sep 18, 2002 4:44:02 pm PDT #179 of 10000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

ita, I'm sorry but I think I missed some replies during the switchover to Phoenix. Can you reiterate how you want the batch o' quotes file to be formatted for the random Buffyquote generator? If I do comma separated will that be a problem with commas in the quotes? Would semicolon separated work better?

Nilly just sent me a big batch of quotes which I can send right away.


§ ita § - Sep 18, 2002 5:00:56 pm PDT #180 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Hec, don't know how much detail you have, but the layout that we have now is:

  • character name 50 chars
  • season
  • episode
  • quote

Season and episode are optional, but nice. Commas are okay.


Rebecca Lizard - Sep 18, 2002 7:17:13 pm PDT #181 of 10000
You sip / say it's your crazy / straw say it's you're crazy / as you bicycle your soul / with beauty in your basket

Read New? Oh! I didn't even realize it was there.

<edit> It works. That is so, so cool.

(Will it scan for the sidebar-ed threads, too, like COMM and this thread?)


Dana - Sep 18, 2002 7:18:19 pm PDT #182 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

(Will it scan for the sidebar-ed threads, too, like COMM and this thread?)

Yep.


John H - Sep 18, 2002 7:21:41 pm PDT #183 of 10000

OK then that's one more reason for sidebar threads to appear in Message Centre.

Or maybe for it to be a preference in Profiles or whatever.


Dana - Sep 18, 2002 7:24:05 pm PDT #184 of 10000
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

I don't understand, John. Don't they appear in the Message Center already?

t staring at Message Center confusedly


Sophia Brooks - Sep 18, 2002 7:27:11 pm PDT #185 of 10000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

I'm wondering if all the people who joined us at WX understand the message center, as that was a TT thing we all missed when we exited.


John H - Sep 18, 2002 7:27:20 pm PDT #186 of 10000

They appear on the right, where they always are, but even if you're subscribed to them, they don't appear in the list of threads in the centre column.