User talk:ACupOfCoffee

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---The TMBW.Net Welcoming Committee

Run Time[edit]

Hey...thanks for adding the run time on all those pages. We appreciate it! --Duke33 11:37, 25 Nov 2005 (EST)

yes[edit]

yes, it most certainly is. unfortunately, while i do visit the H*R wiki often, i didn't sign up before they suspended regestration, so i'm not a member. but i am a member of their message board. --Ehsteve14 19:58, 8 Dec 2005 (EST)

Babel[edit]

Hey, I noticed that you have Babel on your userpage, and that you also added a few of the templates on the hrwiki pages. Would you be at all interested in helping us set up some babel content here? Thanks --Duke33 11:43, 9 Feb 2006 (CST)

Well, all I have on my user page is a copy of the table form that I have at the top of my HRWiki page. I forget who helped me with that. I think it might have been Lapper, but I'm not sure. If you want it as a bunch of individual templates like on Wikipedia, I can do that. I still need to see what was deleted in the famous (or infamous) "Great New Year's Userbox Purge". If I poke around for a while, I can probably learn the way AtionSong set it up at HRWiki, so sure I'll do it, just as long as you're not looking for HTML tables. Other thatn what's used in MediaWiki and UseMod text formatting, I know absolutely no HTML whatsoever. MediaWiki templates and copying and pasting from ones on Wikipedia I can do.

What sort of boxes do you want? — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 13:55, 9 Feb 2006 (CST)

I could probably copy over some of the templates how hrwiki has them set up (i'm sure they won't mind). I probably just need help designing some of the colors, and content of the individual components. --Duke33 14:12, 9 Feb 2006 (CST)

Believe me, we won't mind. (I say "we" because I'm very active there.) Let's get started! — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 14:55, 9 Feb 2006 (CST)

I've made some tweaks, and copied over the "reverts vandalism" babel. I decided to go along a slightly different route, and make each babel box its own template. This way, you could do a search, for example, to see what all users have the 'revert vandalism' box on their page. What do you think? Take a look at my page, for an example.

I like that. On Wikipedia, most babel templates automatically put a user in a specific category for it. Either way is fine with me. I'll set up the page for it. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 10:04, 13 Feb 2006 (CST)

I see you already have. In that case, I'll just copy over what I've got and add a delete notice to the subpage when I'm done. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 10:05, 13 Feb 2006 (CST)

What should we do for a favorite song one? If that one goes as a template, then it would have to be used with the argument "subst:" every time, otherwise it would be impossible to change the text to display just what your favorite song actually is without changing everybody else's, too. And I don't want to cause instruction creep. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 14:01, 13 Feb 2006 (CST)

I created a page that will link to your song votes...I think it works well. Take a look and let me know. By the way, the pages that you have created are great. Good jorb! --Duke33 08:38, 14 Feb 2006 (CST)

How about other kinds of pages, such as "This user's an admin" and such? I would make it myself, but I'm not so great at deciding colors. Great job. -Ecks

Concerning colors, my teacher made something really neat. Whirrrlwind

I'm bookmarking that immediately. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 21:02, 14 Feb 2006 (CST)

Track numbers[edit]

We only add track numbers for major TMBG/MP/JL album releases, no EPs or other side projects. -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 06:12, 28 Mar 2006 (CST)

Ohhhhhhhh, all right. Then maybe we should remove the Track Number field from those? — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 21:32, 28 Mar 2006 (CST)

For consistency and the template, we leave it on every page, just like the Sung by field stays on instrumentals. -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 09:10, 29 Mar 2006 (CST)

I think you could still add the track number, just don't link it. --badqueso 02:38, 30 Mar 2006 (CST)

But that'd be super-inconsistent. -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 06:10, 30 Mar 2006 (CST)

HRWiki[edit]

I'l never ever evrer ever ever... be on the hrwiki again. I changed my prefrences and now when I go on it it says

Fatal error: Class skinmyskin: Cannot inherit from undefined class skintemplate in /home/hrwiki/public_html/skins/MySkin.php on line 21.

So I'm saying bye from it. The thing 14:00, 1 Apr 2006 (CST)

Clear your cookies and you'll be logged out. Then ask someone with database access (Joey, Tom, or Dot Com) to fix that for you. They just switched back to WikkiTikkiTavi, and are adamantly denying that it's just a very good April Fool's joke that they implemented with a very extensive site-wide Monobook redo, although that's what a lot of people suspect (myself included, but I've decided to play along). If you want, I could ask that that be fixed for you. Shall I? — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 15:20, 1 Apr 2006 (CST)

ACupOfCoffe and CuppaCoffee[edit]

Did you know there's a user called CuppaCoffee? —The thing ^Talk 14:05, 1 Jul 2006 (MDT)

Yeah, I've noticed. I don;t mind so much as long as people don't get us confused. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 14:12, 1 Jul 2006 (MDT)

Yeah, sorry about that. =/ I finished reading the Harry Potter books and I noticed Hagrid used the word "Cuppa" alot. I thought it was funny. - CuppaCoffee

It's a UK thing. :) -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 20:00, 1 Jul 2006 (MDT)

Althought "Cuppa" usually refers to a cup of tea - ( Herwwiyal ? )

I prefer coffee. - CuppaCoffee

PNGs[edit]

I'm not really sure if us saving about 2-10kb per PNG image is worth all the clutter on the recent changes and work on your part...I doubt it's going to make any actual difference in loading times or our space. -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 21:03, 7 July 2006 (MDT)

It's noticeably faster to dial-up users. That was only a month ago for me. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 21:13, 7 July 2006 (MDT)

Ownership babels[edit]

We've held off on creating Ownership displays in the form of babels for this long because most users keep simple text-based lists on their page of albums and items that they own, and there are far too many TMBG items to keep track of with babel boxes. We're undertaking a few big projects at the moment, but might get something worked out in the near future for displaying owned items on user pages in a more organized fashion. In the meantime, we have a customizable babel you can use at Template:Babel so that you can create babels specifically for your userpage, on your userpage. In the future, please ask before attempting to undertake a project such as this, it might save you a lot of work. Thanks. -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 03:50, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Ohhhhhhhhhhhh 'kay. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 03:52, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

Actually wasn't much trouble, just copying and pasting. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 03:53, 25 February 2007 (UTC)

edison[edit]

Linnell plays keys on the Edison Museum ~ veggieman 19:04, 23 May 2011 (EDT)

...and your point? -- 21:49, 23 May 2011 (EDT)

Yeah, but Flans isn't on it. — User:ACupOfCoffee@ 02:59, 26 May 2011 (EDT)

flood years[edit]

yield! i did a thing -Apollo (colloquia!) 01:13, 19 August 2013 (EDT)

nb: your contributions might be a little more at home in the credits namespace. -Apollo (colloquia!) 01:15, 19 August 2013 (EDT)

Brain Problem Situation Credits[edit]

I saw that it was empty for a long time so that's why I did. I own the CDs of the first 3 albums, and they helped me with Problems With Liner Notes, and were accurate. I do not have the Cast Your Pod To The Wind CD, but I thought since I'm a big fan of Glean, attempt (yeah, attempt) to write the credits. I tried looking at the profile pages of other credits' instrument players so I could fight out the songs they played instruments on (e.g. trumpet, accordion) so I could fill out the credits. I liked that song specifically. Saskia16 (talk) 20:44, 1 January 2017 (EST)Saskia16

If you've got a good enough ear to pick out the individual instruments, go for it. Sounds like a good way to start. — ACupOfCoffee (talk) 23:09, 1 January 2017 (EST)

Mailing List Archive[edit]

Hi! Thanks as always for helping to archive TMBG's emails here. You probably noticed that after TMBG moved to Mailchimp in 2018 (and after TMBW dropped the ability to use standard HTML tags), the band's emails don't play as nicely when pasted straight into the wiki. I was wondering if you'd be willing to add a (hopefully quick) step in your workflow next time you copy emails over here, by first pasting them into any HTML minifier (like that one) and then copying that to TMBW. I'm having Q-Bot essentially do that to all the 2018-2021 emails here right now via some regex replacements. While the emails won't look exactly like they originally do (because Mailchimp doesn't use inline styles for everything), this helps alleviate some of the issues caused by MediaWiki trying to format indented whitespace and newlines. Thank you so much! -CapitalQ ♫ talk ♪ 13:10, 3 December 2021 (EST)

Sure, I don't mind doing that. — ACupOfCoffee (talk) 17:01, 6 December 2021 (EST)

Prevenge[edit]

Doesn't the apology say "With apologies to Mr. Walker"? (Mr. Walker and Mr. Pupkin might not be the same person.) --ColorOfInfinity (talk) 19:46, 8 June 2022 (EDT)

That hadn't occurred to me. Thinking it over again, I'll add it back. — ACupOfCoffee (talk) 21:04, 8 June 2022 (EDT)