Why do you keep coming back?

~KitchenManager Wed, Jul 29, 1998 (17:40) seed

What makes us return? Is it for information, entertainment, and/or socialization/comraderie? Or somethings else? And, if you come back for more than one reason, rank each reason by percentage, please... In order to help this place, and specifically my conferences, grow I would love to know why everyone keeps coming back so I can provide more "services" in that direction.

~stacey Thu, Jul 30, 1998 (14:12) #1

eye-hand coordination -- 55% learn new words -- 25% better than methadone -- 15% safe sex -- 5%

~KitchenManager Thu, Jul 30, 1998 (17:34) #2

I asked, and I received!

~terry Thu, Jul 30, 1998 (17:44) #3

Some of these could be quotable in a publicity flyer for the spring, but notice she didn't say better than sex?

~stacey Thu, Jul 30, 1998 (18:44) #4

it certainly has its moments!

~autumn Thu, Jul 30, 1998 (22:09) #5

~terry Fri, Jul 31, 1998 (05:26) #6

~wolf Sat, Aug 1, 1998 (14:28) #7

~terry Sat, Aug 1, 1998 (14:44) #8

I miss you a *lot*! And I'm missig Riette, since she went on her trip. I notice the main screen lists the number of logins but it says "web hits" instead. I wonder if we can change that, I wonder who wrote cool piece of Yapp code. Wer? Kaylene? Or maybe I just never noticed it before.

~KitchenManager Sat, Aug 1, 1998 (16:27) #9

I did it...the variable in the instructions is defined as a "read only web variable"...so I figured it just counted web hits... and it does increment that way at least some of the time...I was the only one on at a certain time yesterday, and it did in fact count my page hits...will re-word it later...

~terry Sat, Aug 1, 1998 (16:38) #10

~KitchenManager Sat, Aug 1, 1998 (21:40) #11

~wolf Sat, Aug 1, 1998 (22:26) #12

sure, too late now *grin* hiya wer!

~KitchenManager Sun, Aug 2, 1998 (14:31) #13

oh, well...

~KitchenManager Sun, Aug 2, 1998 (14:52) #14

specifically, it is "the number of Yapp hits today from the www" added a who is logged on via telnet, also... however, I can't get any switches to work with who, and I've found out when AOL crashes and I'm telnetting in, I doesn't log me out...

~KitchenManager Sun, Aug 2, 1998 (16:24) #15

never mind, those log ins go away with time...

~terry Sun, Aug 2, 1998 (18:42) #16

Yeah it resets daily doesn't it?

~KitchenManager Sun, Aug 2, 1998 (18:58) #17

yes, but the time is off...

~terry Wed, Aug 5, 1998 (05:32) #18

I keep coming back hoping we'll grow as a community, I love it when new folks show up. Rollerblade postering service is plastering all the bulletin boards in town with Spring flyers. If you see one, give me some feedback on how to make them better, they're reprints of the Spring main page.

~terry Wed, Aug 5, 1998 (05:34) #19

Rollerblade should read Motorblade. http://www.spring.net/~motorblade

~riette Wed, Aug 5, 1998 (12:30) #20

~terry Wed, Aug 5, 1998 (17:43) #21

~Ann Thu, Aug 6, 1998 (00:42) #22

~riette Thu, Aug 6, 1998 (01:46) #23

Hi, Ann. Are you new here? If so, since when have you been coming? Or do you just tend to go to other conferences? I don't love being away, but I love coming back without it occurring to me for a moment that anyone will have noticed, and then finding that they did. It is peculiar, but lovely.

~CotC Thu, Aug 6, 1998 (12:14) #24

What the hell else have I got to do?...

~Ann Thu, Aug 6, 1998 (15:52) #25

Hi, Ann. Are you new here? } I've been around since Pemberley moved here.

~KitchenManager Thu, Aug 6, 1998 (16:17) #26

Hey, I'm logging on from the Texas State Aquarium in Corpus Christi...

~terry Thu, Aug 6, 1998 (16:59) #27

Hey, whatcha doin' there?

~riette Thu, Aug 6, 1998 (17:03) #28

Hi, WER!!!! Having a good time?

~stacey Thu, Aug 6, 1998 (17:47) #29

get out and play in the sand WER... get some sea water up yer nose for me!

~wolf Thu, Aug 6, 1998 (22:30) #30

the aquarium? you on vacation? do they have a dolphin/whale display?????

~riette Fri, Aug 7, 1998 (01:52) #31

~MEC Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (21:54) #32

~KitchenManager Wed, Aug 26, 1998 (22:22) #33

~riette Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (02:01) #34

Mec, who are you? Are you new, or do you just go to the other conferences mostly? Whatever the case, glad you're here!

~stacey Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (12:05) #35

Howdy MEC!

~riette Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (12:13) #36

Nice to have you here so regularly again, Stacey!

~stacey Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (12:18) #37

oh I'm just on another spring binge... *grin* thanks Ree-head! I go back to my 'real job' tomorrow but it has been kinda fun to have such regular access to a working computer. And I can just keep a telnet link open all the time. When I'm printing, or downloading, or slacking off, I can just stop in! Wandered by the art conference yesterday (through a browser so I could see all the groovy pics!) and it looks REALLY great! I love the new wallpaper (guess it's not so new anymore but it sure was something I hadn't seen before!)

~terry Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (13:38) #38

Ree Head the art goddess sure rocks, doesn't she?

~stacey Thu, Aug 27, 1998 (13:47) #39

yep... I just made it to the gallery in all its colorful glory!

~riette Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (02:00) #40

Thanks, you two. I think the whole spring is rocking at the moment. Oh, and I heard from Mike Griggs yesterday as well. He'll be back in a fortnight or so - going on holiday, the lucky bugger!

~terry Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (09:06) #41

Yep, I heard from him too, he emailed me using a friends account.

~riette Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (09:24) #42

~terry Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (09:48) #43

~riette Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (11:49) #44

~terry Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (13:01) #45

Ask a man friend and then tell us what he says then.

~riette Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (14:55) #46

My husband is my only close man friend, and he says he finds Claudia Schiffer ugly - but that's only because he has weird taste in women anyway. He couldn't think of any famous babes either; says he never thinks of other women as babes. Probably trying to play safe with my temper, as I'm having my period! ha-ha!!!

~terry Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (17:04) #47

Playing it safe, good strategy.

~wolf Fri, Aug 28, 1998 (22:18) #48

ok, well the dudes seem to like shania twain, should we add her?

~terry Sat, Aug 29, 1998 (00:12) #49

Add her, she looks very sexy in the picture I saw of here today in the concert section of the paper.

~nan Sat, Aug 29, 1998 (00:19) #50

Terry, dear...where's her head? ;-)

~terry Sat, Aug 29, 1998 (00:26) #51

Boy I messed that one up Nan, they have real intricate puzzle like coding on http://www.mercurynashville.com/mercury_nashville/artists/new_shania/shania_home.html You'll just have to go there to see it properly assembled.

~riette Sat, Aug 29, 1998 (01:29) #52

There's a woman with reason to be vain!

~wolf Sat, Aug 29, 1998 (21:43) #53

~riette Sun, Aug 30, 1998 (02:18) #54

~KitchenManager Sun, Aug 30, 1998 (09:18) #55

~riette Sun, Aug 30, 1998 (12:10) #56

Are you coming back, muffin?

~KitchenManager Sun, Aug 30, 1998 (12:48) #57

as soon as it is safe...

~riette Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (01:53) #58

But it IS safe! Don't you miss us too?

~KitchenManager Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (08:37) #59

when my head is (relatively) safe, silly!

~riette Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (13:26) #60

�kiss�

~wolf Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (21:50) #61

*hug* you're head is safe with us!

~KitchenManager Mon, Aug 31, 1998 (22:51) #62

ah, but you all aren't safe with it...

~riette Tue, Sep 1, 1998 (01:45) #63

Let us be the judges of that.

~wolf Tue, Sep 1, 1998 (01:45) #64

~terry Tue, Sep 1, 1998 (01:45) #65

~isis Wed, Sep 2, 1998 (21:58) #66

~KitchenManager Wed, Sep 2, 1998 (23:34) #67

with an offer like that, how can I refuse? can you cook? and just cause I'm not talking doesn't mean I'm not watching...

~riette Thu, Sep 3, 1998 (01:54) #68

?????? Good to see you back, Wer!

~KitchenManager Thu, Sep 3, 1998 (01:58) #69

??????

~riette Thu, Sep 3, 1998 (02:43) #70

What, ??????????

~KitchenManager Thu, Sep 3, 1998 (09:51) #71

exactly!!! (I think...)

~riette Thu, Sep 3, 1998 (12:07) #72

possibly!

~isis Thu, Sep 3, 1998 (22:31) #73

sorta like when you don't smoke cigarettes for awhile you start shaking and eating more than ususal,,,,what's it called,,oh yeah,,,WITHDRAWALS......

~KitchenManager Thu, Sep 3, 1998 (23:13) #74

have NO idea what you're talking about now...

~autumn Fri, Sep 4, 1998 (00:08) #75

~KitchenManager Fri, Sep 4, 1998 (00:40) #76

~riette Fri, Sep 4, 1998 (01:39) #77

~KitchenManager Fri, Sep 4, 1998 (02:31) #78

it takes about three days to quit getting sick... as to the rest, ?

~riette Fri, Sep 4, 1998 (04:30) #79

ha-ha!!! And what happens then? Then you're a smoker? Does it taste nice after that?

~KitchenManager Fri, Sep 4, 1998 (04:56) #80

depends on the person... depends on the person... depends on what you're smoking...

~riette Fri, Sep 4, 1998 (06:01) #81

I see!

~wolf Fri, Sep 4, 1998 (16:22) #82

so you don't smoke for the flavor, you just do it cuz of some psychosomatic need to bring on your own death in short order?

~KitchenManager Fri, Sep 4, 1998 (16:59) #83

that's one of my biggest "reasons," yes

~autumn Fri, Sep 4, 1998 (23:43) #84

Puffing away almost daily, here...can't help it, the weather's been too good. If it gets cold or humid I can't stand it. Damn El Nino!!! #@$%&!!

~riette Sat, Sep 5, 1998 (02:10) #85

ha-ha!! hilarious business!

~wolf Sat, Sep 5, 1998 (10:29) #86

~riette Sun, Sep 6, 1998 (03:03) #87

~wolf Sun, Sep 6, 1998 (16:11) #88

~riette Mon, Sep 7, 1998 (02:24) #89

Apart from Isa's legs, my kids have absolutely NOTHING of me in their looks. Isa looks just like her dad, and Elza looks kind of Swedish with her white hair and blue eyes (Chris has very dark hair!). I once had tea with a Swedish guy in Namibia - about nine months before she was born!!! - and now I keep thinking: perhaps getting pregnant is easier than one thinks!!!

~wolf Mon, Sep 7, 1998 (11:37) #90

hahaha!

~autumn Thu, Sep 10, 1998 (21:40) #91

I am swearing off tea this instant. Back to espresso!

~riette Fri, Sep 11, 1998 (01:34) #92

Yuksies!

~wolf Sat, Sep 12, 1998 (23:21) #93

i much rather take tea....tried cappucinno and, though it smelled good, tasted much differently. why is it that coffee smells better than it tastes?

~riette Sun, Sep 13, 1998 (03:56) #94

That's just what I say! I just find it awfully bitter, even though I love the smell of coffee. Whereas I've not yet found a tea that doesn't taste better than it smells! My favourite is South African Rooibos.

~KitchenManager Sun, Sep 13, 1998 (10:54) #95

not all coffees are bitter, in fact I prefer the less acidic types...

~wolf Mon, Sep 14, 1998 (11:56) #96

do tell us non-coffee drinkers the best tasting, non-bitter coffee....

~autumn Wed, Sep 16, 1998 (22:32) #97

~KitchenManager Wed, Sep 16, 1998 (22:57) #98

~terry Thu, Sep 17, 1998 (01:04) #99

~riette Thu, Sep 17, 1998 (01:54) #100

I love it when you get so excited about technology - it's terribly sweet!