I Meant to Get Me Back some Hand-Me-Downs Prefight

boltoph · Post by **boltoph** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:04 am

deshead wrote:Weird, I loaded the main forum page and heard this

I think I will use that clip in an upcoming song!

Egg · Post by **Egg** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:09 am

Oh no! That was Phunt; don't tell.'s next entry!

snicker.

boltoph · Post by **boltoph** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:17 am

deshead wrote:Weird, I loaded the main forum page and heard this

Egg wrote:Oh no! That was Phunt; don't tell.'s next entry!

Gemini6Ice · Post by **Gemini6Ice** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:42 am

MintyHandy wrote:Who doesn't love irony? I recorded and submitted a song with "I Forgot To Remember" as the title. Unfortunately, I had forgotten that the actual title should have been "I Meant To Remember". Ah, yes.

It's 10:31pm, I have a 7:00am flight tomorrow morning to Sunnyvale, and I'm actually going to re-record the title line in the song and resubmit. That's how addicted to this I am. Yikes.

Misremembering the title will score your song points in my book though!

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Wed May 11, 2005 11:48 am

it does make a certain sort of sense for this title.
ha ha!
-bill

HANK. · Post by **HANK.** » Wed May 11, 2005 4:51 pm

I could train monkeys to post these songs faster. WTF? If you're overworked, get help.

Leaf · Post by **Leaf** » Wed May 11, 2005 4:52 pm

Patience.

Seriously.

HANK. · Post by **HANK.** » Wed May 11, 2005 4:56 pm

Sorry, I'm just getting a bit impatient... Not a doctor, so I don't have patience.

I understand... like being that guy in a band that does everything and still gets bitched at.

j$ · Post by j$ » Wed May 11, 2005 4:57 pm

Who, the manager?

Gemini6Ice · Post by **Gemini6Ice** » Wed May 11, 2005 4:59 pm

HANK. wrote:I could train monkeys to post these songs faster. WTF? If you're overworked, get help.

Bortwein's art didn't go up until Tuesday, I believe, so I suspect that the fightmasters may have just been waiting for his Vanilla art at first, but, now that he's submitted it, they're too busy in the middle of the week to post everything.

I volunteer some of my time this summer to help make more things more automated, if you'd like, FMs. ^_^ I've also been spinning some color-automation ideas in my head in which you guys could change the colors with very minimal manual re-vamping of the site.

Gemini6Ice · Post by **Gemini6Ice** » Wed May 11, 2005 5:01 pm

j$ wrote:Who, the manager?

Greta the groupie.

Post by **Spud** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:03 pm

If the fucking trained monkeys were travelling across the country attending seminars on behalf of their company who PAYS them to do so, the monkeys might have just as hard a time getting to the task as well.

The site is pretty automated already. However, someone has to be around to pull the switch.

How hard to you think it is to change the colors, anyway? It's mostly a matter of making up the colored banners and logo. Automate that.

However, we aim to please. Your entry fees will be gladly refunded.

jack · Post by **jack** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:13 pm

i'd just like to say "thanks" for keeping my song on the front page a little longer.......

Seoup Gei · Post by **Seoup Gei** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:14 pm

jack wrote:i'd just like to say "thanks" for keeping my song on the front page a little longer.......

me too!!

- Seoup T. Gei

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:19 pm

HANK. wrote:I could train monkeys to post these songs faster. WTF? If you're overworked, get help.

Stop posting and start training those monkeys, then launch your own website, where you will undoubtedly get yelled at by people who think they deserve to have a say in something that they don't own, especially when you are out of town.

Songfight has a deadline when songs need to be recieved by. There is no deadline for when songs need to be posted by.

Gemini6Ice · Post by **Gemini6Ice** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:22 pm

erikb wrote:
HANK. wrote:I could train monkeys to post these songs faster. WTF? If you're overworked, get help.
Stop posting and start training those monkeys, then launch your own website, where you will undoubtedly get yelled at by people who think they deserve to have a say in something that they don't own, especially when you are out of town.

Songfight has a deadline when songs need to be recieved by. There is no deadline for when songs need to be posted by.

In addition, the fightmasters DID post the song titles for next week in a timely manner, giving us all the necessary time needed to prepare for the next fight. *Cough* Not that I start on anything more than a day before a deadline anyway...

Gemini6Ice · Post by **Gemini6Ice** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:27 pm

Spud wrote: The site is pretty automated already. However, someone has to be around to pull the switch.

Maybe this is where the trained monkeys come in? But they might poop on the switch, so I'm not in favor of this idea...

Spud wrote:How hard to you think it is to change the colors, anyway? It's mostly a matter of making up the colored banners and logo. Automate that.

I doubt it takes more than ten minutes or so, but I was thinking along the lines of using clever PNG transparency and putting the colors into stylesheets to allow them to filter through so that new logos wouldn't need to be made each time. I didn't mean to offend at all; if anything, I hoped the FMs would like the idea of just being able to type in "cranberry" and "#881111" on a form to change the colors.

I'm just trying to be helpful. *Whimpers pathetically*

Spud wrote:However, we aim to please. Your entry fees will be gladly refunded.

All right! Wait...

I have no musical talent. Damn!

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:47 pm

Maybe, just maybe, songfight is exactly as automated as the people who run the site want it to be.

blue · Post by **blue** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:49 pm

spud cussed!

you are naughty people to make spud cuss at you.

Gemini6Ice · Post by **Gemini6Ice** » Wed May 11, 2005 6:52 pm

erikb wrote:Maybe, just maybe, songfight is exactly as automated as the people who run the site want it to be.

Fair enough.

Post by **Spud** » Wed May 11, 2005 7:43 pm

Sorry to offend you, Blue.

Eric pretty much has it right. The site is as automated as we want it to be. JB is loathe to automate the submission process too much, because of all of the shit (there I go again) that gets sent in, in terms of links instead of files, files in weird formats, files that won't play, missing information, etc.

This means that he has to move the files from the emails over to the music folder, and make a list of who has sent what for what fight. This is a pretty low-overhead task, because the files are already on the server, so they don't have to be downloaded and then uploaded, just moved and so noted. I have even done it from the sidekick when JB was going to be indisposed for longer than he was this time.

Once the files have been moved, and a playlist has been typed up, it is mostly automated from there.

It won't be too long now, I can assure you.

These guys should have been around when narbotic ran the place. Even if we don't get it up until tomorrow, it will still be faster than it was back in the day.

erik · Post by **erik** » Wed May 11, 2005 8:04 pm

Yeah, I've been waiting for like 3 years for "The Return" to update.