Survey posted 2004-01-01 06:48 by Henrik.

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1999+5! ;-p
2004 sounds a bit better than 2003, just because I prefer even numbers. Nothing wrong with have 3 though >=D

I agree with you, but only because it's been 2003 for the past year. It gets rather dull to be in the same year for a whole year...

It's going to take me until March before I finally get used to writing things as m/d/04 instead of m/d/03. (Yes, I know, we're weird, we have the month before the day)

March??? I worte "01" on my paper in october of '03. Man, I must be really behind the curve.

-Yes, I actuallt did write "01" on my paper in October, i am W-

at least youdidn't code [02] JAN 01 into a program yesterday...
-A M R Menoscwicz

I still remember accidentally saying I was 11 when I was 13. Ah, that was funny.

yeah, I lose track. A couple weeks ago I couldn't remember how old I was until I had to count. And yeah, once I told somebody I was 12 when I was 14. 13 went by real fast.

That's usually how it is with me...right after my birthday, I'll still think of myself as one year younger than I really am...once, a very long time ago, it was near my 13th birthday and I told someone I was 13 by mistake.

"once, a very long time ago, it was near my 13th birthday and I told someone I was 13 by mistake."

Did you mean 12? If so, I've done that too, quite a few times. It's really embarrassing at the doctor's, they ask you how old you are. "I'm 14. Yes... no wait.. um... I'm 15. Yeah... sorry"

No, I meant it was slightly before my 13th birthday, and I told someone I was 13 as if it had already happened.

I see. Never mind, then. :)

NEAR his 13th birthday. As in not came yet. As in still 12. As in he said he was older.

-W-

March??? I worte "01" on my paper in october of '03. Man, I must be really behind the curve.

-Yes, I actually did write "01" on my paper in October, i am W-

hopefully you'll have it down before 3/14/04... :) PI DAY! YAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!! btw...my HALF BIRTHDAY is tomorrow! YAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!

So, will there be a cake or a large celebration? Or are you just bored, and decided to tell us for no reason?

-W-

Perhaps he wants us to celebrate it!

MWM

I always tell my birthday on here. :-D Maybe we can make another ASCII birthday cake!

Oh, BTW, how do you have a half-birthday?

6 months after one's full birthday. Do the math, man. I know everyone here can do it.

-W-

Exactly. I was born on July 2nd, so 6 mos later is January 2nd. However, if you actually count out half of 365 or 366 days, my birthday is on January 1st or 1.5th depending on whether it is a leap year...I think January 2nd is better, then I don't have to share it with another holiday. But Jake's Half Birthday Eve I still have to share... j/k

HAPPY HALF BIRTHDAY JROCK7268!!!!

MWM

If we could use the <PRE> tags, I'd make a cake...

Just copy the text into Notepad, unless you change it, it's a monotype font.

O O O
| | |
+-----+
|-----|
+-----+

Or wait until I successfully type a good one here.

o o o
| | |
+-----+
|-----|
+-----+

Okay, I'll try again.

o o o
| | |
+-----+
|-----|
+-----+

I see the problem.

. o o o
. | | |
. +-----+
. |-----|
. +-----+

(Ignor the row of dots on the right.)

Oh, I give up.

or maybe:

o o o
| | |
+===+
+===+
+===+

Fix?:
o o o
| | |
+=====+
+=====+
+=====+

This is so wrong. lol. Lemme try again, and if it doesn't work, then this posting thing doesn't like alt+<number> (alt+0160 to be exact)

o o o
| | |
+=====+
+=====+
+=====+

you need a background for it to work:

###########
##o##o##o##
##|##|##|##
#+=======+#
#+=======+#
#+=======+#
###########

did that work?
oh and with this post, the server is forbidding me to have such a long subject (re: re: re: etc) :)

Hehe... this is beyond sad.

Okay: answer to the problem, though you probably figured it out with your trial and error.

Problem #1: Times New Roman is not a monospaced font. Big problem. Fixedsys is my favorite monospaced font. Use that in notepad for all your ASCII art :-D

Problem #2: HTML trims trailing spaces. I think after two, all spaces are cut off. Or perhaps it's one. I forget. No.... two. Well, whatever, but you get the idea.

errr wrong!
1. Lucida Console (or is it lucinda?) is the best monofont.
2. The brower does... html alone couldn't trim the fur off of sheet metal.

Err, you would be correct on #2. Sorry.

1) Hmm... I think I like Fixedsys better. It's what I'm used to seeing from Notepad (which is what I use to program for almost everything). Though Fixedsys doesn't display correctly in some word processing programs. :'(

why would you use program with anything else? just try Lucida Console, it looks like the exact font you would see in the movies when source code is looping endlessly across the command center's screens.

Erm... Times New Roman is a Serif font. This looks like a sans serif font to me, maybe Arial or MS Sans Serif. Or maybe it's just the browser's default font, except I thought that was Times New Roman.

Yikes, I'm participating in one of those insanely wide threads.

Anyway. The font used here is Verdana, with Arial and Helvetica as secondary choices if Verdana is not installed. Verdana is recommended by a lot of usability sites as being very good for text-on-screen (not for text-on-paper, which have completely different requirements). And yes, Verdana is Sans Serif.

LOL, okay, I screwed up again. You're right, there are no serifs in this font. I never looked at it that much before. I just naturally assumed it would be Times New Roman since that's the default font for most browsers.

If you got the CSS file, you could see what it was in there, since I'm assuming they use cascading style sheet file thingers to store all their font settings and stuff. I never used them much, but I can see that they save time.

what font do you use in word? I use Tahoma almost always, but sometimes I deviate to Estrangelo Eressa for graphic design... and yes I do it in powerpoint (yeah I know its awful)

Well, I try to avoid Word as much as possible, but normally, I just use the standard Times New Roman. It's the default font... I'm not usually fancy enough to change it. LOL

oh come on guys, you're terrible ascii-artists.

o o o
| | |
+-----+
|-----|
+-----+

_o_O__
( | | <,
|+----+|
|| ||
\+____+/

how does that one look?

-W-

Ah!!!! WE CAN NO LONGER USE "ALT 0160" AT THE BEGINING OF A LINE TO GET A BLANK SPACE!!!!!!!!!!

-W-

OH NOS! AHHHH THE END OF THE WORLD! O_O *shuts up now ><*

NO!!!!!!! FIRST THE REMOVAL OF THE DISAPPEARING SUBJECT BARS, THEN THIS!!!!!

So that explains it...

*tires*

That should be "tries" and it seems here, that it still works in the subject.

 *trying putting it at the beginning of a line*

That worked too. I don't know what you guys are talking about. LOL Apparently, you forgot to put spaces at the end of your lines. The 40-character thing got you.

It must be as a result of the bunctuation. as in you cannot but a blank chatacter before punctuation.

-W-

Yep, that is it.

-W-

To me it looks like a Frank Lloyd Wright house.

Don't insult Mr. Pseudo Cake with you unfortunate metaphors.

How is that an unfortunate metaphor? It has a hanging-over-thing on one side and looks very off-balance. Fallingwater, if you want a specific one.

I like the decrepit personification of the cake; it's an insult to mankind :\

lol

um, the left?

LOL, you know, thats really sad that everybody missed that. It goes to show what programming does to you.

of course... I had to read it thrice while scanning for new posts to catch it. And I am the only person that I know that ever uses the word thrice :)

Hey, English is my second language, and I never got the hang of which one's left and which one's right.

oh...

LOL! For the longest time I wondered what you meant by that. *hits head*

Once in Kindergarten, my teacher was standing in front of me and told me to raise my right hand. So I raised my left. She got mad at me. I tried to explain to her, that from her perspective, it was HER right, but she didn't like that very much. :-D I was a smart-alec in Kindergarten a lot...

LOL!

I _know_ I can do the math, I'd just never heard the term "half birthday" before. That's all.

It's something the younger kids in my family made up (let me know if anyone else does this as well...I thought it was only our family) BTW, it's not a serious thing, but thank you to those who at least put up with my stupidity for a moment :)

Now, there's nothing wrong with stupidity... as long as your not stupid. Anyway, yah, It's a common thing to have heard of it where i live, but nobody actually announces it.

It's not just your family-I don't keep track of or celebrate mine, but I've heard the term before.

It was on a frekkin' Dary Queen comercial for cryin' out loud!

-W-

Hey, stupidity is entertaining. And the funniest thing about stupidity... I think smarter people do stupid things more than stupid people do. Or wait, I should shut up. I'm stupid. Or am I acting stupid? Ahh!

To that last question, I would say yes. :-)

I would agree with you, then ;-)

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