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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Mar 27, 2010 1:15pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
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Poster: | dead-head_Monte | Date: | Mar 27, 2010 2:05pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Mar 27, 2010 2:27pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
As far as Brewster's request for spicing up the list of artists with logos, good, bad and indifferent, goes, in my opinion it's misjudged. Having to scroll through endless unnecessary and uninformative images to get to what you really want is a total waste of time. It's something that many web designers, besotted as they are with the ability to add a few more lights to the Christmas tree, fail to grasp. You're drowning functionality beneath waves of irrelevant gloss and glitter.
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Poster: | stealyourwife | Date: | Mar 27, 2010 2:38pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
heheheh
i be quiet now
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Mar 27, 2010 2:49pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
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Poster: | stealyourwife | Date: | Mar 27, 2010 2:57pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
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Poster: | dead-head_Monte | Date: | Mar 28, 2010 8:41am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
I duped myself. And I made a mistake. I can live with it. It's nothing.
Wyeth that happened to me? I dunno.
My mistake was huge. The Archive's customizing page says the skin customizer sets your Archive-dot-org cookie. That's all it does. I missed that. My bad.
So.... Wyeth didn't you, John, C the note there, and read it 1st? Don't you know what a Cookie is?
NOTE: you will need to allow archive.org to set a cookie.
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Mar 28, 2010 3:09pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=84567
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Mar 28, 2010 3:33pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
That said, SYW is a mischievous little monkey is he not?
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Mar 28, 2010 3:57pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
At the time, I wanted to strangle little ducats (I always think of him as smaller than me...and at 6'3", 230lbs, I figured it's a good guess any time, right? Of course, lots of that 230 is pretty soft these days...). But in the end, we kissed and made up.
Not sure ANY of this is relevant to points you've made above, Rob, which seem perfectly reasonable to me; I may be off on one of my tangents...you know, just accumulating posts afterall.
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Poster: | dead-head_Monte | Date: | Mar 29, 2010 1:56pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
To me, NoiseCollector will always rank high as an influential and creative user here on The Archive, early on. I learned a fair amount just by noticing his "mojo." I disagreed with most of his politics, and visa-versa. But that debate ended way back. It happened mostly during the run-up to the 2008 elections.
Thanks for taking a look, Mr. Tell. Both you and Rob know I respect people here. It's not like I'm saying how proud I am when I make an ass out of myself. When I first saw it, I thought the skin feature was a designer's Admin privilege. It's hilarious how stupid I was. Why can't we all just laugh out loud and say so? The skin feature is a Client privilege. All you do is tweak some codes and upload them to IA. Next time you visit IA and login, your Cookie is reset. Then you'll get your new CSS codes coming just to you. That's how your color changes are coming to your Browser from IA. That's what it says. I never saw that before. I think I've explained it. I'm not gonna waste my time on this. Peace.
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Poster: | William Tell | Date: | Mar 29, 2010 2:09pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
I fig'd you were trying to help out someone, but in the end, it was confused by whether it was a serious question or not, and your own efforts (confusing or not as you say), to sort it out...just as I did with ducats in the thread so long ago I linked above.
But, you know our Rob; he'll be quick to voice opinion on something that strikes him the wrong way, and I wouldn't want it any other way...personally. I wouldn't suggest that we don't criticize one another as I feel we now know one another well enough for such things to pass between us with only a bit of difficulty...
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Mar 29, 2010 2:36pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
That you have the nerve to describe your whinging about the lack of opportunity for you to show off your web design skills here as ‘enthusiasm and raw courage’ (honestly what’s courageous about attacking a largely volunteer body?) inviting ‘robust debate’ while my contrary position is an ‘attempt to censor things’ is quite frankly breathtaking in its arrogance and hypocrisy. If anyone is inviting debate it’s me – you haven’t answered any of the points I made regarding design versus information transparency. You speak up because you admire the Archive hugely? No. You’re making a noise about the fact that things aren’t as you would want them to be.
You might find this hard to grasp, but I don’t attack people, I attack what they say. And I think what you say in this instance is nonsense. So come on, give me that robust debate you say you want. And leave the stealyourwife red herring out of the stewpot please.
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Poster: | dead-head_Monte | Date: | Mar 29, 2010 3:03pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Mar 29, 2010 3:19pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
I'd refer you to the exchange twixt myself and elbow that you handily linked for an indication of how these things may be carried off with humour and aplomb. I do wish you'd felt secure enough to address the issue of over-designing obscuring functionality that I was trying to raise with you. However, as you suggest, we all have other fish to fry.
Goodnight, and good luck.
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Poster: | dead-head_Monte | Date: | Mar 29, 2010 4:08pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Mar 29, 2010 4:44pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
If you're unwilling or unable to address the points raised then please say so and don't try to hide behind a smokescreen. I would still like to know how you think I'm attempting to censor anything. And I'd love to see some evidence of your 'robust debating' skills, which seem very lacking right now.
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Poster: | dead-head_Monte | Date: | Mar 29, 2010 5:07pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
Why do British people say, shed - ule, and Americans say, schedule? Yet, British people pronounce school same way as Americans -- skool. Why don't British people pronounce it shool? I was always confused about that.
I worked for a year in the Persian Gulf in 1994 as a tech-support engineer. I was also a creative development technical specialist there. I met a senior British petrol engineer, living there over 15 years. He said to me, The weather in England is rotten. I like the desert weather in Qatar much better. That's why I live here. Go figure that one. I never ever heard Americans there saying stuff like that. We were all praying to go home. Colorado weather offers wonderful and varying climate conditions.
It's not a torch anymore. It's a flashlight. Or just a light.
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Mar 29, 2010 11:44pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
"That I criticize IA here openly - with such enthusiasm and raw courage, only testifies further to the fact that I invite robust debate"
"I am tech-support, not debater"
So which is it? You want it or you don't want it?
"Why do British people say, shed - ule, and Americans say, schedule? Yet, British people pronounce school same way as Americans -- skool. Why don't British people pronounce it shool? I was always confused about that."
If you're going to ask questions you might at least try to listen to the replies. I fielded that one for you last August.
http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id=260974
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Poster: | dead-head_Monte | Date: | Mar 30, 2010 8:43am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
You wanna beat me up and attack me. I don't wanna fight with you. That you keep going for my throat, and I keep making wise-cracks, well... it's going nowhere. You hate my guts. I'm not going there in any discussion. I got it.
With all due respect, the point I made about the issue of over-designing obscuring functionality would make an interesting GD musical debate? That was my best effort, as you kept asking me. It's a good point. WOS was too expensive to run? Space jams getting senseless? Meanings of their lyrics? Be a man, and stop dodging your own point!
What if Bear, what if Jerry, what if Hunter, had bullies jumping on them everytime they were being creative? Would the band have went nowhere due to this? That's the thread I suggest you should start anew.
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Mar 30, 2010 9:12am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
First, I don't hate your guts, never have. I might not agree with some of the things you say but that's as far as it goes.
Second is an apology. Looking back, I totally misread and misjudged the suggestion you were making that over-design obscuring functionality would make an interesting GD musical debate and I responded inappropriately. The only excuse I can offer is that it was gone midnight here, I was dog-tired, and if I had had any sense I'd have stopped posting long before. So, I apologise.
Anyway, I'm a words guy and you're a sound and pictures guy - I guess that's our basic difference. If you want to exchange views off forum I'm up for it. I'm guessing other people will have had enough of us greyhairs knocking heads here.
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Poster: | dead-head_Monte | Date: | Mar 30, 2010 9:57am |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |
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Poster: | robthewordsmith | Date: | Mar 28, 2010 4:07pm |
Forum: | GratefulDead | Subject: | Re: Custom Colors? (non-dead) |