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seconded.

― JuliaA, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Some things I learned today:
1) LOTS OF PEOPLE enjoy nacho cheese slopped over their red hot cheetos. I saw > 3 students enjoying this treat at breaktime today.

2) Students enjoy hiring STRIPPERS for their parties, or so I was told in the paragraph I edited for one student named N0rma.

3) My students do not respect me, or so I was told after I was (basically) bullied into letting class out early by a tiny little gangbanger-lookin' dude.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DANYO. Your birthday is my half birthday which means you are [x] years and 6 months younger than I am.

-- Armando Grouse (showdown@wormtown.net), February 23rd, 2007. (later)

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4) One more thing: TJ's frozen soba noodles are totally vile when prepared according to directions, but super yum when you add chili-sesame oil and some soy sauce.
-- Armando Grouse (showdown@wormtown.net), February 23rd, 2007. (later)

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Am I the onliest one here?
-- Armando Grouse (showdown@wormtown.net), February 23rd, 2007. (later)

― La Lechera, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

TJ's frozen soba noodles

Frozen, huh. I was looking for soba noodles at TJs the other day, and they said they had been discontinued from the store. I was looking in the pasta/ethnic aisle, though.

LOTS OF PEOPLE

And by "people" you mean "black people," right?

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Let me say that again: I SAW SEVERAL PEOPLE LADLING HOT CHEESE INTO THEIR RED HOT CHEETO BAGS AND EATING THEM WITH FORKS.

― La Lechera, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

that is a new low, even for Americans.

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm not sure how many of them are "Americans."

― La Lechera, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Okay, so not black people.

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

1. Not "black people" -- students of mine,only one of whom are "black people" and none of whom were in the class I had today. Jesus.

2. I ate the frozen ones. Also you can get soba noodles cheaper at Golden Pacific.

― La Lechera, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

one of whom IS

pardon me

― La Lechera, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

I would just like to say to lurking admin people that my hatred of the clear button is inspired by real events. I now have an irrational hatred of it.

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

On the east coast, the kids like to buy a bag of Fritos corn chips and then ladle terrible 7-11 hot dog chili and cheese into the bag, thus creating chili cheese Fritos. I am thus not totally amazed by the nacho cheese on hot cheetos thing. I am a little grossed out by it, though.

How did the little gang banger dude bully you, Amanda? What are you going to do?

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Also you can get soba noodles cheaper at Golden Pacific.

Will remember for later, as I've never been there.

I apologize if I sound racially insensitive, I've just never seen non-black people eating red-hot Cheetos before.

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Is your fear also ripped from the headlines, Kenan?

Hi, Amanda.

― KitCat, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Thus thus thus thus thus

My biggest beef of this here board is being whisked out to new answers against my will. I also don't understand why keeping people logged in is a server issue and not a browser cookie issue.

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I have never seen anybody eat red hot Cheetos before, except me when I bought them by accident.

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope Kevin's walk of shame was a happy one.

― KitCat, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I did, in fact, ask whether he was happy. He said, "I'd be a lot happier if I had my underwear, it's cold out today."

― Laurel, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Well, first he and his friend always come late. No reason, just late. Then in the middle of explaining the meaning of various coordinating conjunctions, he raised his hand and said, "I gotta go, do we have homework?" Taken aback, I paused and wrote the hw on the board. Then I realized that there were only 10 min. left in class and we might as well just give up trying to start something new, so whatever. Then a bunch of ladies came up afterwards totally pissed at this dude because 1) he's always late 2) he chortles at less proficient students (I've never heard, but I believe them) and he's rude.

So I think that I'm going to give a smackdown lecture next week to remind them that I already lost my temper once about cellphones and I'm not afraid to tell the administration if someone isn't cooperating in class. Basically I have to act like a g-d high school teacher, which blows.

― La Lechera, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Is your fear also ripped from the headlines, Kenan?

THIS JUST IN: Kenan loses rambly 400 word post with single click! And is narcissistic enough to believe that people would have read it, anyway!

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I suggest you start snorting coke in the girls' bathroom after basketball practice.

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

[i]I have never seen anybody eat red hot Cheetos before, except me when I bought them by accident. [/]
for real? i see people eating them literally ALL the time. way more than any other snack food, really.

― La Lechera, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

goddammit

― La Lechera, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I also don't understand why keeping people logged in is a server issue and not a browser cookie issue.

this is adddressed in the nu faq.

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I see Kenan has discovered the blockquote feature.

I mostly see red hot Cheetos on the Red Line.

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

i like the blockquote feature. what's it to ya, bub?

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I WILL END YOU.

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't believe I am stuck being la lechera from here to eternity. also are we going to be able to change our email at some point? i don't want my real email to be accessible from the interweb. sorry if this is covered in the faq.

― La Lechera, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Nobody's e-mail is shown anywhere, is it?

― jaymc, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, ok. But still.

― La Lechera, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

this is adddressed in the nu faq.

Not really. There are "sessions"? Okay, whatever, but why not put a login cookie in your browser? Is that incompatable with "sessions"? Are browser cookies a security issue now? I certainly don't think I'm coming up with a brilliant idea that nobody has thought of, mind you, I just don't see why this particular thing is something that they can't easily and safely fix.

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

The more I talk to people, the more I think that almost nothing was done without fore-thought. I don't know any computer stuff but I'm sure there are reasons.

― Laurel, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Is that incompatable with "sessions"?

I don't know the first thing about Java. Won't even pretend to.

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:39 (seventeen years ago) link

the more I think that almost nothing was done without fore-thought

explain me clear button

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't asked about it, actually, but I did say almost nothing.

― Laurel, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm sure there are reasons, too. Most of this stuff I think either "Eh, that's beyond me," or "Eh, that makes enough sense that I don't care." The login thing is just one of those things that I understand just enough about to NOT understand why it's a problem and I am therefore curious and interested in a better explanation of the process. Dig?

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Note: Not curious or interested enough to actually go ask one of the UBERILXORS about it. Just interested enough to ponder "aloud" on my home thread.

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, see, I don't understand one single thing about any of it, so I'm a blank and trusting slate.

― Laurel, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

actually, it's no so hard to understand; it's standard stuff for long forms with lots of fields. but that's not a good enough reason for it to be here.

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

This is frustrating because it feels too much like my job (testing software interfaces for usability, among other things) and I wish I could write QA notes to the developers, which they would have to fix.

― Jordan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link

clear button, obv

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:45 (seventeen years ago) link

There, here see, what that pesky Jon Williams said on the "Welcome to New ILX" thread:

Dudes, its not that hard to put a magic authentication cookie on the client that will start a new session.

This is what I keep thinking. Except I don't use the word "dudes."

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:46 (seventeen years ago) link

so, to recap:

• kenan has a hard on for the clear button
• no xpost previews will create big messes
• plz to return to thread i just posted on, not new answers page
• don't fence me in, and don't log me out
• lobster, champagne, picnics, and butt sex

― kenan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Somebody is in the hallway chanting, "Cream cream cream cream soda" and it's a wee bit freaky.

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Jenny: The problem is this: The tomcat sessions expire after 30 minutes of inactivity, which means people have to log in again. It keeps track of sessions via a cookie. So, if you keep a browser using the site, you'll stay logged in indefinitely, as long as you keep active every 30 minutes.

However, for some retarded and hard-coded reasons, tomcat sets those cookies with an immediate expiry time "at the end of this session". So, if you quit your browser (on PC, this just means closing the window(!), on Mac you actively have to quit) it'll delete the cookie, and you'll be logged out, regardless of your activity. This is rubbish. And being looked at for bestest method of fixing.

Solution for now: minimise browser window, don't close it. I'll update the FAQ with this too.

― .stet., Friday, 23 February 2007 21:49 (seventeen years ago) link

going to unread messages isn't taking me to the last unread message.

― Jeff, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

test

― Jordan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:50 (seventeen years ago) link

nut to butt

― Jordan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

test2

― Jordan, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:51 (seventeen years ago) link

stet - thanks, chief! That makes sense. It's putting a cookie there, but it's a cookie that disappears when you close the browser. I appreciate both your patience with all the bitching and your willingness to dumb things down a little for me.

― Jenny, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:53 (seventeen years ago) link

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