Guest Chat Session: soupie - Jan 16

[Xianti]

We are resuming our Guest Chat Session series in our Chat Room with a live interview with another FTR personality, soupie! As most of you know, soupie has been tearing it up in the MTTs for a long, long time and his posts are always filled with great advice and wisdom.

Who: soupie
When: Tuesday, January 16, at 7:00pm PT (10:00pm ET)
Where: FTR Chat Room

Be sure to review our Guest Chat Session Format and Rules, get your questions ready and join soupie in our Chat Room!

[Setzy]

Hell yeah, great to see this startin back up.

[jyms]

I only hope for it to go better than the Fnord interview. I really feel we missed out on a lot of info he was probably willing to give. I think it got a little carnival, not as an insult, just everyone wanting to get into the conversation. Maybe finding out in advance who has questions and either having the moderator ask them or then allowing them to ask.

[bigred]

I have one:

Soupie, will you send me some pineapple?

[FlyingSaucy]

I'm, ironically, going to be in hawaii and not able to log in for this. do you know if there's going to be a recorded transcript? That would be sweet for any interviews in the future too.

[jyms]

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...t-Archives.php

There is a recorded archive of every minute, in the chat. You click on FTR chat at the top and without logging in there are archives on the page for everyday.

[Xianti]

do you know if there's going to be a recorded transcript?

We archive and index every chat interview:

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...oker-40548.htm

[jyms]

Ahem...??? Are my posts invisible?

[bigred]

Ahem...??? Are my posts invisible?

What?

[bigspenda73]

Anyone seen trainer lately?

[thenonsequitur]

Good thing X told us about the chat archives. Because otherwise never would have known.

[FlyingSaucy]

We archive and index every chat interview:

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...oker-40548.htm

Sweet! ty - learn something new every day.

[Xianti]

We archive and index every chat interview:

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...oker-40548.htm

Sweet! ty - learn something new every day.

Wow. People really don't see the Stickies and Announcements, do they?

[bigspenda73]

We archive and index every chat interview:

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...oker-40548.htm

Sweet! ty - learn something new every day.

Wow. People really don't see the Stickies and Announcements, do they?

Xman I pray to god that's sarcasm

[FlyingSaucy]

naw i dont pay attention to them except in the strategy forums

[jyms]

[Xianti]

TONIGHT!

[Eric]

Unfortunately I missed this one but I did log in at around 8 and there were quite a few people in the chat room. In fact I think there were more people for soupie's session than for some of the celebrity sessions...it shows how popular soupie is around here.

[Xianti]

If you missed it or wish to review it again, be sure to check out the chat archives:

http://www.flopturnriver.com/phpBB2/...=456532#456532

[Warpe]

Wow. People really don't see the Stickies and Announcements, do they?

The best way to hide a thread is to sticky it. I think most people use the "View posts since last visit" function and go from there.

Scrolling "announcements" bar in the forum header, p'haps?

[givememyleg]

had a meeting so couldn't make it... im gonna read the log now!

[givememyleg]

just wondering something...

why does ' = ’ in the logs?

[thenonsequitur]

why does ' = ’ in the logs?

I can't say for sure, but this looks like the result of a non-standard character copied from an external system.

Some word processors, for example, will not use the regular apostrophe character in the ISO Latin-1 character set (the web standard, and the character set in use on the FTR site). They will instead use an apostrophe from a different character set (it will use a curled "smart quote" instead; the ISO Latin-1 character set doesn't have different curled single-quotes, just the one regular one).

Then if you copy the text from that program into a form field, and submit, it will take the bit sequence corresponding to the code for an apostrophe in the non-standard character set (which may use more bits than the standard set), and then pull out the corresponding character(s) associated with codes that the bit sequence converts to. And it will come out not looking like an apostrophe, but instead random characters.

Long story short, if you copy an apostrophe or certain other special characters from an external program into a form field instead of typing them directly into the form field, the resulting saved log may have random characters in their place.

In this case the "external system" would probably be the FTR chat client itself. Maybe it uses an unusual character set, or maybe it has a character-encoding issue.

[jyms]

why does ' = ’ in the logs?

cause it's fucked!

FYP