guppy you = crazy loon, and I love ya for it.
snowballs and salads I love them all!!
I was born at 6:29 p.m. on this day in 1973. I am happy to be alive.
:):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):
(happy)
Jgleve- for aesthetic reasons I'm not going to reverse the order of entries- English is read from top to bottom, and combining that with chronological order dictates the current structure. On the other hand, it might make sense to start only having the last week or so on the page at any given time. I might switch to that.
Kirk-
If you do decide to make that change, what would then happen to the older comments? Sometimes some of us refer back into a conversational thread, hence the question. I do completely understand the desire on the part of some to NOT have such a large file (the comments file this month is inordinately lengthy already) to download each and every time they want to see the latest comments (and not everyone has a T1 connection at their workstation...)
Oh, and does it feel any different, being affianced??
On today, the nineteenth anniversary of my first date with my beloved I am reminded that I am not averse to long engagements, having been engaged for a total of eighteen months... Once upon a time...
-k (the ancient)
*HAPPY BIRTHDAY to you, MISTI*
*SMILE*
Angel
Happy Birthday MiSti!
I hope your day started as well as mine.
Misti- Happy Happy One...mine is next week which makes us birthday month buddies I s'pose. Anyways check your mail for a birthday smile.
Kev- Glad I could help you come up with such a great piece there. MUCH more satisfying than my own.
Kirk - Congrats! The king of all romance sites has just grabbed a rope, and ready to tie...you go boy! Are we invited?? Haha...;-)
gala-haha...you're gonna get me locked up? That's one I haven't tried yet...wooohooo! let's atleast make it worth it...no murder though...I hear blood is a real pain to get out of clothes. Philly is still on hold for the time being, but I will keep you updated, I have a feeling we won't know until the very last moment.
Dee - HOT SEX! I totally forgot about that stuff....that was soooo yummy...:-) Mmmmmm...and Galliano, that's the stuff...
Misti - you better believe it girl! Thanks for the flowers and road trip to texas...that would truly be amazing...and HAPPY BIRTHDAY, you wacky girl you!
Hey guppy - so, how'd u do on the test...know yet? Probably not, it was only two days ago (I ooze impatience...hehe) Don't fret, I thought I failed my A&P midterm last week, the written half, and I got an 80, still not an amazing grade, but much better than failing. But I breezed through the practical! It is so exciting to have found my niche(sc?). And getting into particle physics and all the big-bang 'hoopla'...and the devolution of man...lotsa hoopla that makes my brian boil with anticipation of unknown answers. I felt like Einstein yesterday (especially after a glance in the mirror, my hair was doing something awful funky...hehe...).
Kev - how u doin'?
Hi to everyone I missed!
Testing, testing, testing--
if this works, then I'm ready to roll with a new message board system, that's much more flexible than the old month-based single page- it's great at showing just a few days, or even more than a month, if you don't mind waiting for the download.
So let me know what you think? Is three days a good default time?
So everything seems to work! I like this a lot.
Everyone should update their bookmarks, if they have one that goes right to the old comments page- comments.html will stick around forever, but it will be a redirect to this page.
Here's the details, if anyone cares- as a geek, I'm a bid proud of what an improvement this is.
The old system had a special [ADD COMMENTS HERE] line embedded in comments.html. When someone one added a comment, the script had to read in the old comments page, rewriting each line to a temp file, and then printing out the new comment when it reached the special tag, then printing out the rest of the old file. Then it renamed the temp comments.html. Kind of an ugly kludge- it worked, but if interrupted somehow, would break badly (though that only happened a few times.)
The new system stores all the comments for a day in a file in the directory board/year/month, named after the day of the month, so all I do is append the comment to the very end of that file, which is much more reliable than the search-and-replace I did before. The disadvantage is that you *have* to use a script to view the past comments, but its very easy for that script to show whatever group of days it wants to. (I'll need to tweak it at the end of the month, so that it can take in a year and a month and show only those comments, not just the N last days)
Hey All!
H>B> to the Misti One!
Shady, I never intend to get anyone arrested---but things have this way of happening when I'm around...can't imagine why. Of course if you are arrested, hand cuffs could come in handy...don't have a pair at the moment...wonder who does?
Kevin Urenda, whaddya mean ancient? I'm older than you and you said I wasn't ancient----never annoy an elven queen---particularly one with a perverse sense of humor....
Kirk... liking it alot... its much faster to download and I like the however many days defualt feature.. very nice.
And yes I think that 3 days is a good number.
I also agree with you on the new subs, I think they should be in the order they are submitted.
Bravo Kirk~!
Today is my parents 33rd Wedding anniversary.. which is kinda cool... what is freaky is that Kev and my son have the same birthday and Kev and my parents have the same anniverisary. <looking about for lightening crashes>
Shady.. <waving> must email you soon... just been kinda busy at work!
Take care of your hearts.
dee
PS.. why do I keep putting the name of the person I want to direct the comment to in the 'Your Name' slot! I ALWAYS have to double check that! Today I had Kirk in there!
Sheesh can't even remember who I am.
(handcuffs? what ever would anyone have a pair 'just lying about' for?? I have a chat friend who is a cop.. maybe he'd lend you some.!!)
Kirk forgive me....
I've just registered one of my paintings for sale on a new website, and I thought some of you might be interested.
I am NOT expecting any of you to bid, but I thought it might generate some interest in my web site and in my paintings in general. For those of you in the USA the price is in New Zealand $$ so you can basically divide the price in half to get US $$
Take a look at my add and let me know if you think I need to change any details <grin> I am open to suggestions!
http://www.trademe.co.nz/structure/auction_detail.asp?region=100&id=11631
There is also a guppy poem that compliments the painting, Kirk picked them for front page a month or so back.
:)
(taking short break from one long-ass day)
Kirk-
OUTSTANDING... you ARE the MAN... Your adjustment to the comments page should make everyone happy (and thanks for the explanation, now I know the logic behind the download 'speed')
Gala-
'twas only FEELING ancient today since I tweaked my knee playing soccer with kids a third my age... Besides, are not elves immortal? I thought that meant you could NOT get "Old."
Megs-
What I experienced yesterday was this - I already had a poem rolling around in my peanut brain, but it was ill-formed. The idea from your writing served as a catalyst for the poem I eventually wrote. THAT is what a community of writers/poets does... We feed off each other. THAT was satisfying. Thank you for the use of your idea and also for your compliment...
Shady-
SHOUT OUT to you, woman! I am doing pretty well all in all...
MVR-
Don't party too much, tomorrow is still a work day... he he he...
Angel,
You have been sorely missed. I look forward to seeing some submissions from you soon...
-k
Deeva, no forgiveness nec., I even made it a link. Good luck, it's tough starting out (well duh)
Jgleve- you should be able hit "ctrl-end", or just press and hold pagedown, if you do get to a page that's too big in the future. The main reason I acted is that load-time was really a problem for everyone.
Kirk, seeing as you made it a link I'll forgive ya for spelling my name wrong. <blows a kiss and winks at him>
dee
Kirk - I LOVE the new 3 day thing. No more waiting for all the messages I've read to come up...its wahn-daful.
Kev - THERE you are! Hope your not too bogged down...take time to smell the flowers (which I'm sure you all have on your coast, as opposed to our forecast of snow and bad morning commute for tomorrow...:-P) Ah, but spring is on its way, and soon I'll be wishing it were winter again...
Dee - oh girl, I envy you, keeping your art going and flowing, I have not touched a brush (aside from my night job), lump of clay or even a measly piece of charcoal in way too long. I've begun to UN-label myself as an artist, something I realized the other day, which sort of upset me a bit. I've always been an 'artist'. And I am one not typically pleasured by labels, but, that was one I was quite proud of. Someone of these days...I'm just going to gesso an old canvas and let my brain vomit color through my fingertips (pretty image...hehe:-)
Gala - will you please stop that whole age thing! Dear lord woman! You have one of the most youthful souls on this &@!#* &%$@!!! (gosh darn) site! I swear I am older than you, inside!! And handcuffs? I have a fake pair, does that count? My Phillie baby and I bought them as a joke. I think I hid them when everyone started getting the wrong idea. (If only he had made it the RIGHT idea! Jeesh! *blushing, deep deep crimson* hehe...)
Alright...nuff said. It's almost friiiiday, It's almost friiiiday!