Check in .. .

~heather Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:25) seed

a place for eMinders to check in and leave their comments.

~terry Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:27) #1

Heather, this is the second checking in topic. Why not create several different topics with different subjects that would be relevant to mindfolk?

~heather Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:30) #2

Terry, I was trying to leave the first topic as a practice one, and this one for introductions. Actually, we'll probably have to clean up and make something more sensical out of this.

~drymartini Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:37) #3

Ahhh! The bracing scent of heather. Just checking in as promised. Perhaps this is not the topic to do that in, so I'll check a few more doors and corridors. I wish the dog would bark more loudly so I could find him. We legally blind folks depend so much o n our faithful guide dogs.

~heather Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:39) #4

Greetings drymartini!! The dog is running back and forth between here and his new Czarship over at Utne (frankly, the power has gone completely to his head . . . or tail . . . and we're having a hard time getting out of Nancy's high heels.

~maddog Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:40) #5

over here drymartini just over this rise...

~terry Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:44) #6

If you like and with your consent of course, I can rename those topics for you Heather. Up to you. drymartini are you a topic creator type? We need some topioca pudding.

~heather Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:48) #7

I wouldn't worry about it too much. My guess is that we'll want to wipe the slate clean and start again if we offically populate. Just a guess.

~maddog Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:49) #8

hahaha so why do the standard eminds font tags not work here?

~maddog Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:50) #9

how do I make large red bold italicized letters that say I got post # 9

~maddog Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:51) #10

also, I see a little slippage with no warning...

~terry Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (22:59) #11

What are the standard eminds font tags. We can institute slippage notificatoin pretty easily if that's needed.

~maddog Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (23:25) #12

how can I write them? I will just get an error message and it won't post I will email them I need to stay in one topic here, I can not keep up UTNE is swarming with people... aarrrrgggghhh oh, I broke a nail!

~terry Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (23:31) #13

I responded to your email. You broke a nail? Were you pounding on the keyboard too hard? What happened dog?

~maddog Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (23:35) #14

pretty big font kinda big let's try a net link one of my personal faves

~maddog Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (23:35) #15

cool fibrous babies, yum!

~terry Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (23:54) #16

Someone wrote on minds that we're kind slow here. Graphics tend to do that. But are you seeing a slow connection dog?

~ginnygal Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (00:30) #17

Hi...just checking in!

~maddog Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (00:33) #18

wicked... I have to go now Paul I will come back tomorrow or Tuesday during the day when shit is not so hectic I will make some topics and screw around more leisure-like I promised nancy I would fill in for her at Utne, and it was unfortunate that everything went down at once tonight - I satill have people posting like mad over there - come on over if you want - you are on the list as spring just click edit hotlist and add electriCity - I do like the idea of letting people go anywhere and everywhere - this site did run much slower for me than utne though. I do feel badly that I had to be two places at once and will return for more testing, wi thout so much distraction. - thanks for being here and answering questions for me.

~terry Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (00:33) #19

Hi ginnygal! Do you have any topics you'd like to see here? What is your favoirte topic on Electric Minds?

~maddog Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (00:33) #20

hey ginny!

~terry Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (00:34) #21

I just posted and got this dog: Ok to enter this response? y Warning: a comment slipped in ahead of yours at 18! So slippage reporting works on our telnet interface. Gie us time, we'll have it going on the web.

~gblank Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (04:45) #22

Hi, kids. It's me. "glenb" was taken, so I'm "gblank" here. It's one of my alternate e-mail addresses. Terry, I'm getting really slow responses from LA. I can run a traceroute if you want. "E-minds font tags" are just standard HTML <FONT> tags. Let's see: Big Red Letters

~gblank Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (04:48) #23

Welp, that worked. Is there an easier way to escapify HTML tags if we want to talk about them? I used < and > in the post above, but that's awfully awkward. By the way, the post box runs off the edge of my screen. (Does Yapp re-wrap text, I wonder?)

~gblank Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (04:48) #24

Looks like.

~gblank Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (05:05) #25

Silly me. Not using PRE for the message text here, so of course it rewraps. But that also means the posted text will never run off the right side of the screen, either (unlike the post box).

~maddog Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (07:39) #26

so sorry to miss you glensei (bowing lowly...)

~terry Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (08:38) #27

Sure run a tracerout and post it. We can set up controls to wrap text if you like. If you access us in UNIX you can use your favorite UNIX text editor. Whoopeee right?

~drymartini Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (20:36) #28

Akshully, Terry, the background or wallpaper at the site looks kinda like tapioca pudding. Week-old tapioca pudding, forgotten in the back of the fridge. Now, I'm not saying it isn't attractive. It can be quite pretty. You just don't want to eat the stuff . Only maddog licks the screen, when he seea a particularly appetizing font. So even if that is moldy tapioca pudding, I don't think it will give us anything life threatening.

~terry Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (22:50) #29

No it's topioca.

~tarat Wed, Jun 25, 1997 (22:58) #30

this is my second checking in. i think it looks like fake leather myself. but i really like the buttons and the font used on them.

~terry Thu, Jun 26, 1997 (08:18) #31

If someone has a better background, we'll use it or we'll go to white.

~doug Fri, Jun 27, 1997 (02:38) #32

Hey Terry, I'll send you some new flavors (bkgnds) so drymartini will mix well I would be interested in hearing what the "Martini" thought of the sperm whalehole logo??

~nod Wed, Jul 2, 1997 (17:52) #33

yo. checking in. better late than too late.

~terry Thu, Jul 3, 1997 (07:09) #34

Welcome Don! What are your abiding interests and passions?

~muho Sat, Jul 5, 1997 (18:13) #35

Aloha, Just passin' thru.