User:Scarecroe/Talk Archive 05

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Bob Keeshan on Muppets Tonight
Hey Scott! Do you have the Muppets Tonight episode handy with Bob Keeshan's cameo? Nate and I are debating whether his appearance qualifies him as a "fictional celebrity," whether it was Captain Kangaroo the character or just Keeshan the man famous for being Captain Kangaroo and trading on his fictional rank to pip George Takei at the post to helm the ship. --Andrew, Aleal 00:08, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * They never refer to him as actor Bob Keeshan, just as the character Captain Kangaroo. Except, he cites that he is now Commodore of the sector Kangaroo. So, I would say he he appears just as the fictional character. -- Scott Scarecroe 00:38, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Aha! That settles that then. Did he wear the red blazer, by the way? --Andrew, Aleal 00:39, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * He did, indeed! Image:Kangaroo.jpg -- Scott Scarecroe 00:46, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Yay! That's a great image. Say, if you ever get the time, one of Jason Alexander as Poirot would be nifty as well. (And one of these days, probably after final papers, I need to e-mail you about your pre Tivo technique for image grabbing; I have some stuff on VHS and no idea how to digitally transfer it for image mining). --Andrew, Aleal 00:51, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Sure! Drop me an email anytime. The short answer is a TV capture card for my computer ;) -- Scott Scarecroe 00:54, 15 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I never tell you this often enough, but you rock for that Captain Kangaroo screen grab!!! --Nate  Radionate 04:53, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

Search box
Hey babe: Did you change the search box, or did the Wikia folks do it? The "Wikicities" logo is gone now, which is great, but when you click on the search box, it takes you to the Wiki home page. So you can't, like, do a search. -- Danny Toughpigs 12:39, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Wasn't me. I messed around with the sidebar a little last night, but I don't even know how to access the search stuff. They've got good timing though, I've been wanting to get rid of the Google search and move the real toolbox up in place of our makeshift one. What links here doesn't always work in our version, and the rest of the box caters to each page specifically. I'm going to write to them about how I can do that. -- Scott Scarecroe 14:25, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Actually, now that that other junk is gone, we can take out the makeshift toolbox completely. I only put that there because the Wikicities logo and Google box pushed the useful links down too far. If those are gone, then we don't need it anymore. What's the page again where we can edit the toolbox? I forget. -- Danny Toughpigs 15:43, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Hey, are you playing with the sidebar, or is that somebody else? Cause now "What links here" doesn't work at all. -- Danny Toughpigs 16:11, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I didn't touch it until just now when I took your makeshift toolbox out. That version of What links here has never worked properly 100% of the time. I'd also like to clean up the navigation as its gotten a bit messy. Name that Puppet and Images wanted don't have to be in there. And I thin you're the only one who used Community portal. -- Scott Scarecroe 16:44, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I put Name That Puppet and Images wanted on the navbar by request. Actually, Warrick really wanted those permanently on the Main Page, in a box on the top right above the picture. As a compromise, I put 'em in the navbar. I agree they don't need to be there. Maybe I'll just advertise them under Current events or something.


 * Anyway, I like Community portal. I don't know whether people use it or not, but I think it's nice to have a list of active users, for anybody who wants to see it. -- Danny Toughpigs 17:25, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Classical
I love the classical music category, but should we create a subcat for the Muppet Show stuff, or just keep Sesame Street Classical as the only subcat and everything else goes in the main category? --Andrew, Aleal 23:56, 13 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm not thinking about it now. I'm just going to throw everything in there and see what patterns emerge. -- Scott, Scarecroe 00:36, 14 April 2006 (UTC)


 * The Jackson Pollock method then, only without the animal innards! --Andrew, Aleal 00:40, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

Hanging indents
Hey babe: We've been talking on Current events about the format for transcripts, and I'm trying to figure out how to do hanging indents -- you know, where the first line is normal and then everything else in the paragraph is indented. Transcript format test 3 is what it looks like without hanging indents. For Transcript format test 4, I tried doing bootleg indents by putting in a line break, but that'll only work for one size screen.

Do you know how to do them in HTML? I tried looking around, and couldn't figure it out. -- Danny Toughpigs 15:40, 1 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Yeah, this is how you'd do it in HTML: Transcript format test 5 -- Scott Scarecroe 16:56, 1 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Bravo! Best one so far! --MuppetVJ 18:03, 1 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Yay! You're a rock star, thank you. I'm going to play with it some more, and mix the blockquotes with the hanging indents. I'll post the Frankenstein results in a little bit... -- Danny Toughpigs 19:13, 1 April 2006 (UTC)