Hey all, I hope I can enlist your help on a project. I was pleased when Jeff and Shaenon moved Skin Horse and its archives to its own website. (If you find it annoying that you can’t edit comments, you’re forgetting how awful it was to wade through pages of spambot ads.)
The one thing I miss, however, is the readers’ comments. There is some wonderful writing among the Commentariat, not to mention filks from Ed and others (and me).
I’ve started taking the comments from the old Webcomics Nation website and putting them into the new skin-horse.com archives. I’ve gotten through the end of the first arc, “Cowardly Lion.”
Nothing too fancy: I copy the old comments for each day and then paste them as one big comment at the new site. It’s a little weird seeing my name at the start of each block, but I’ve separated out everyone’s comments and attributions. There may be a better way to do this, but, if so, I haven’t figured it out. (It just occurred to me that I could have created a new account, and used that for posting. Oh well, I’m lazy.)
It would be great to have all the comments on the new site. Would any other readers be willing to help by filling in days or weeks? The only tricky bits are separating the comments by day, since Monday-Saturday comments are printed as a block on the old site. I copy a week’s worth to a Word doc, and then separate them. It’s usually pretty easy to compare them to the strips and tell when a new day’s comments begin. The one annoyance is that you have to inserttext and text to preserve boldface and italics. Again, there may be a better way to do this that I haven’t discovered.
I’ll keep plugging away when I have time, but I’d love some help. Thanks.
I hope I’ll see some of you at Borderlands tonight.
Double crud! The spaces don’t matter! It’s left-pointing-sideways-V followed by b or i (for boldface or italic) followed by right-pointing-sideways-V on one side of the text you want to format, then repeated on the other side, but with a /b or /i. Does that make any sense?
Assuming HTML is parsed here, “<B>” and “</B>” or “<I>” and “</I>”?
Also, perhaps a better way: Word format isn’t exactly human-readable, but RTF you can open in Notepad, find/replace the bold and italic, then find/replace the /pars and such. Any modern word processor should be able to save to HTML, you could then just strip what you don’t want to keep, but the way word processors tend to generate HTML that’s likely to be a lot.
(TUNE: “San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)”, John Phillips)
While we’re riding upon St. Charlie,
I’ve brought along my notes in PowerPoint!
It’s a chance that I get so rarely,
To show my slides to someone in this joint!
While you’re with me, aboard St. Charlie,
I’ll show to you my slides of PowerPoint!
With a soundtrack that’s from Bob Marley
(Although I doubt that we will smoke a joint)!
See my presentation
Blame my aggravation
All on my teammates!
These investigations
Cause hallucinations!
I blame my teammates …
They make me scream, mates!
While we are stuck aboard St. Charlie,
Let’s sit and watch my show in PowerPoint!
With a beverage of hops and barley,
Entertainment that will not disappoint!
seriosly, talking super-dog, listen to the bird woman cyborg. You’re clearly just stressed from dealing with the zombie and the cross-dressing phycologist, because there’s no way that there was a message on the moon.
that would be silly.
Silly, there’s no message on the moon. The message was only being REFLECTED off the moon by martian space ghosts using million-year-old space maser satellites with negative-ion guidance. Hence the fact that it wasn’t readily visible unless your brain was already oscillating at the correct, stress-induced frequency.
Quite simple, actually.
mnem
Would you like a side of tarantula fries widdat?
To be fair, my wife blasts the moon with a laser several times a month. In fact, we were doing it just last night and hit a Russian robotic probe that’s a notoriously difficult target when it’s in sunlight, we think it has a high amount of thermal flex and it affects the retroreflector’s angle.
The fact that my wife operates a 3.5 meter telescope has nothing to do with it, that’s just bonus.
Kay, sorry, but there’s no way I have time to work on your project. I have my own website I am spending all my spare time writing for, and cleaning up, and re-organizing, and monitoring reader forums, and…
It was explained to me thusly: If you meet one person in a day and he seems like an a**hole, well maybe he’s an a**hole, if you have a day when everyone seems like an a**hole, well…
Hey all, I hope I can enlist your help on a project. I was pleased when Jeff and Shaenon moved Skin Horse and its archives to its own website. (If you find it annoying that you can’t edit comments, you’re forgetting how awful it was to wade through pages of spambot ads.)
The one thing I miss, however, is the readers’ comments. There is some wonderful writing among the Commentariat, not to mention filks from Ed and others (and me).
I’ve started taking the comments from the old Webcomics Nation website and putting them into the new skin-horse.com archives. I’ve gotten through the end of the first arc, “Cowardly Lion.”
Nothing too fancy: I copy the old comments for each day and then paste them as one big comment at the new site. It’s a little weird seeing my name at the start of each block, but I’ve separated out everyone’s comments and attributions. There may be a better way to do this, but, if so, I haven’t figured it out. (It just occurred to me that I could have created a new account, and used that for posting. Oh well, I’m lazy.)
It would be great to have all the comments on the new site. Would any other readers be willing to help by filling in days or weeks? The only tricky bits are separating the comments by day, since Monday-Saturday comments are printed as a block on the old site. I copy a week’s worth to a Word doc, and then separate them. It’s usually pretty easy to compare them to the strips and tell when a new day’s comments begin. The one annoyance is that you have to inserttext and text to preserve boldface and italics. Again, there may be a better way to do this that I haven’t discovered.
I’ll keep plugging away when I have time, but I’d love some help. Thanks.
I hope I’ll see some of you at Borderlands tonight.
Crud! I was trying to say you have to insert “” and “” or “” and “” around the text, only without any spaces.
Double crud! The spaces don’t matter! It’s left-pointing-sideways-V followed by b or i (for boldface or italic) followed by right-pointing-sideways-V on one side of the text you want to format, then repeated on the other side, but with a /b or /i. Does that make any sense?
Assuming HTML is parsed here, “<B>” and “</B>” or “<I>” and “</I>”?
Also, perhaps a better way: Word format isn’t exactly human-readable, but RTF you can open in Notepad, find/replace the bold and italic, then find/replace the /pars and such. Any modern word processor should be able to save to HTML, you could then just strip what you don’t want to keep, but the way word processors tend to generate HTML that’s likely to be a lot.
Sorry Kay, I didn’t think to reply to your messge. I’m tackling Borrowers (and it’s proving to be much slower going than I anticipated…)
So the HTML bold and italic switches then? 🙂 OK, I’ll get to work on Borrowers then.
Dogs don’t do PowerPoint…Dogs don’t do PowerPoint!!!
This is worse than the idea for a dog and cat getting Green Lantern powers.
(TUNE: “San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)”, John Phillips)
While we’re riding upon St. Charlie,
I’ve brought along my notes in PowerPoint!
It’s a chance that I get so rarely,
To show my slides to someone in this joint!
While you’re with me, aboard St. Charlie,
I’ll show to you my slides of PowerPoint!
With a soundtrack that’s from Bob Marley
(Although I doubt that we will smoke a joint)!
See my presentation
Blame my aggravation
All on my teammates!
These investigations
Cause hallucinations!
I blame my teammates …
They make me scream, mates!
While we are stuck aboard St. Charlie,
Let’s sit and watch my show in PowerPoint!
With a beverage of hops and barley,
Entertainment that will not disappoint!
RIP, JP.
RIP Scott McKenzie 8/18/2012.
seriosly, talking super-dog, listen to the bird woman cyborg. You’re clearly just stressed from dealing with the zombie and the cross-dressing phycologist, because there’s no way that there was a message on the moon.
that would be silly.
Silly, there’s no message on the moon. The message was only being REFLECTED off the moon by martian space ghosts using million-year-old space maser satellites with negative-ion guidance. Hence the fact that it wasn’t readily visible unless your brain was already oscillating at the correct, stress-induced frequency.
Quite simple, actually.
mnem
Would you like a side of tarantula fries widdat?
To be fair, my wife blasts the moon with a laser several times a month. In fact, we were doing it just last night and hit a Russian robotic probe that’s a notoriously difficult target when it’s in sunlight, we think it has a high amount of thermal flex and it affects the retroreflector’s angle.
The fact that my wife operates a 3.5 meter telescope has nothing to do with it, that’s just bonus.
http://physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/apollo/apollo.html
Remind me never to play laser tag with your wife.
Kay, sorry, but there’s no way I have time to work on your project. I have my own website I am spending all my spare time writing for, and cleaning up, and re-organizing, and monitoring reader forums, and…
You know what they say, if everyone else you meet seems annoying, maybe it’s the common factor.
It was explained to me thusly: If you meet one person in a day and he seems like an a**hole, well maybe he’s an a**hole, if you have a day when everyone seems like an a**hole, well…
…Then maybe it’s time to move somewhere there’s fewer a**holes?
😉
mnem
*A**oholic*
You can’t have a mass halushination without telepathy