Giles, if you would like to get by in American society, then you are going to have to follow our traditions. You're the patriarch. You have to host the festivities, or it's all meaningless.

Buffy ,'Sleeper'


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Do you have problems, concerns or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.

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Gus - May 30, 2004 8:46:18 am PDT #7801 of 10000
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.

But not enough stop me from making a suggestion: Alphabetize the drop-down list?

OK. Done.


Astarte - May 30, 2004 11:30:51 am PDT #7802 of 10000
Not having has never been the thing I've regretted most in my life. Not trying is.

Gus, if you rawked any harder you'd tilt the Earth off its axis.

Go, weremonkey, go!!!!!!!!!


DCJensen - May 30, 2004 11:32:55 am PDT #7803 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.

I noticed "margaritaville" was still on the map, so I tried moving it.

I misspelled it.

Feel free to remove the one in Maine.


Deena - May 30, 2004 1:33:20 pm PDT #7804 of 10000
How are you me? You need to stop that. Only I can be me. ~Kara

That is way cool, Gus.

The hellmouth should be directly under me. I'm in Cleveland. Someone put it in Lorain County, which never did anything to anyone so far as I can tell.


Polter-Cow - May 30, 2004 6:30:37 pm PDT #7805 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

So I don't know if this is a known abnormal bug, but I forgot the endquote in my font tag (<font color="white), which resulted in the following characters' being turned into red asterisks. And in the edit, the "edit" text above the white box shows up in red as well. I don't know if this normally happens when you leave off that quotation mark, or just here, but I'm just reporting it.


DXMachina - May 30, 2004 6:37:12 pm PDT #7806 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Polter, misquoting never works out well.

Pretty much anytime the quotes in a tag don't match something weird will happen. At least font tags are easier to fix than a misquoted "HREF" attribute.


Jon B. - May 30, 2004 7:49:33 pm PDT #7807 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Also, P-C, do you know about the spoiler font quick-edit? Start a line with a lower-case s and the rest of the line is automagically white.


Polter-Cow - May 30, 2004 7:51:46 pm PDT #7808 of 10000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

I know about the quick edit, but it's confusing to use because of the way returns don't induce line breaks. Everything ends up on the wrong line or running together. I'm already familiar with HTML, so I don't use the quick edit, save for quoting.

I guess I could try not to tell you that Darth Vader is Luke's father, huh?

Hey, magic. Hm. Maybe I can do this after all.


Jon B. - May 30, 2004 7:57:28 pm PDT #7809 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

When it comes to quick-edits, I see returns not inducing line-breaks as a feature. The return ends the quick-edit but doesn't induce a line break. Otherwise, I don't see how they're connected. Even if you're not using quick-edits, you run into the same return/line-break issue.


Gris - May 30, 2004 8:19:04 pm PDT #7810 of 10000
Hey. New board.

Still say there should be some easy way to tell the board to temporarily not do the ignore-single-line-breaks thing. I'm a big fan of double line breaks most of the time, anyway, and it is very useful for quickedit, but it is very annoying when you're posting poetry or song lyrics to have to use <br> and the end of every line.

Wish we could implement our own HTML tags. Like, t poetry and t /poetry to simply turn off the single-line-break thing inside the tags, though my initial (long ago) suggestion of a quick-edit code (l, maybe (that's an ell)) to make the following line have a single line break at the end would help as well. Saves 2 whole characters per line, and 'l ' is much easer to type than "<br>", too.

Example:

l 'Twas brillig and the slithy toves
l Did gire and gimble in the wabe
l And mimsy were the borogroves...