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July 29, 2006 -- 12:25 AM
posted by Beck

what's your problem with 10 sided dice Alison?!? You can accept 20 but not 10? Sometimes you really do come off kinda small minded and obtuse. Just because you haven't experienced it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Just ask Mary...
July 29, 2006 -- 12:08 AM
posted by alison
um... yeah, I was debating pointing out the speed at which I was rebuffed, and decided against it, but I'm always up for being disproved like that.
and not that I'm trying to imply any judgement here - honest, no matter what you think - Albert, I have not actually ever played D&D, so I did not know about the ten-sided die. I never suggested we ought to not accept the possibility of a ten-sided die existing, nor that any other strangely large-number-sided die was impossible, I just wasn't aware, in my own personal experience, of a ten-sided one. I do know that Scattergories has a 20-sided die, I never doubted that... I just didn't know about the ten-sided one.
July 28, 2006 -- 8:34 PM
posted by Par
Oh, and thanks for the beta-testing help there, guys. I'll move the new version over soon. The only real features you might notice are that when you preview, it'll update the messages below (so, if someone's posted while you're writing, it'll show up before you post) and un-editing should finally work as it's supposed to (although I had to re-upload a file just now to make that the case). Really, the update was just housekeeping for me (although, based on my experience in my new job, it looks like I could use a lot of cleaning up to make the whole codebase easier to manage. That's for another day, though; this change was just me being bored in the car.)
There are two actual features I've been looking at adding: automatically posting a message when someone adds an event, and a javascript doohickey (sorry for the jargon there) that would auto-reload the page when a new message was posted. (The latter is more a proof-of-concept proposition than anything else.) Time will tell how motivated I am to get those done, though.
July 28, 2006 -- 7:52 PM
posted by Par
Not to pass judgement, or anything, but I'd just like to point out that the time from alison issuing a challenge (throwing down, as it were) about the existence of a 10-sided die to when Jess responded was an astonishing 14 minutes.
NHL quiz time. Distinguish the fan-submitted logo from the team-designed logo redesign for the Buffalo Sabres:


July 28, 2006 -- 7:01 PM
posted by Al
You played D and D, why question the existence of a 10 sided dice? There is also a 100 sided dice and people accept that.
July 28, 2006 -- 5:36 PM
posted by alison
yes, the game of life does have a wheel, but for some reason, I typed 'rolling' instead of 'spinning'... somehow the latter just doesn't have the same ring if you ask me. I don't think it'd be possible to have a 10-sided die (of equal sides), though if anyone wishes to prove me wrong, go for it.
and... yes, it would seem that your new functions are working, Par... I think!
I'll leave you all with this: "sally was a fifteen year old girl from nebraska"
July 28, 2006 -- 12:40 PM
posted by Al
That's right Par. Only us asian dudes can relate to this pressure.
