Comments on: Open thread: Robot Roll Call http://geekfeminism.org/2010/03/01/open-thread-robot-roll-call/ Women, feminism, and geek culture Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:40:41 +0000 hourly 1 By: With a name like linkspam, it has to be good (8th March, 2010) | Geek Feminism Blog http://geekfeminism.org/2010/03/01/open-thread-robot-roll-call/comment-page-1/#comment-3951 With a name like linkspam, it has to be good (8th March, 2010) | Geek Feminism Blog Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:29:08 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=2119#comment-3951 [...] From Mary: A link possibly of interest to people who followed Terri’s discussion about hardcore gamers a while back: Status and Signals: Why Hardcore Gamers Are Afraid Of Easy Mode (via a comment on The Border House). [...] [...] From Mary: A link possibly of interest to people who followed Terri’s discussion about hardcore gamers a while back: Status and Signals: Why Hardcore Gamers Are Afraid Of Easy Mode (via a comment on The Border House). [...]

]]> By: Mary http://geekfeminism.org/2010/03/01/open-thread-robot-roll-call/comment-page-1/#comment-3905 Mary Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:48:59 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=2119#comment-3905 A link possibly of interest to people who followed Terri's discussion about hardcore gamers a while back: <a href="http://www.pixelpoppers.com/2010/01/status-and-signals-why-hardcore-gamers.html" rel="nofollow">Status and Signals: Why Hardcore Gamers Are Afraid Of Easy Mode</a> (via <a href="http://borderhouseblog.com/?p=1495#comment-2820" rel="nofollow">a comment</a> on The Border House). A link possibly of interest to people who followed Terri’s discussion about hardcore gamers a while back: Status and Signals: Why Hardcore Gamers Are Afraid Of Easy Mode (via a comment on The Border House).

]]> By: tigtog http://geekfeminism.org/2010/03/01/open-thread-robot-roll-call/comment-page-1/#comment-3904 tigtog Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:44:29 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=2119#comment-3904 Interesting - so am I and I was getting a white page before I added in the extra line specifying background color to the custom stylesheet for the child theme. I just edited my comment above, but I'll repeat the Q here - which particular form needs to have the color set to black? The native WP theme editor doesn't have a line-count. Interesting – so am I and I was getting a white page before I added in the extra line specifying background color to the custom stylesheet for the child theme.

I just edited my comment above, but I’ll repeat the Q here – which particular form needs to have the color set to black? The native WP theme editor doesn’t have a line-count.

]]> By: Tim http://geekfeminism.org/2010/03/01/open-thread-robot-roll-call/comment-page-1/#comment-3903 Tim Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:41:04 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=2119#comment-3903 i was using firefox 3.6 i was using firefox 3.6

]]> By: tigtog http://geekfeminism.org/2010/03/01/open-thread-robot-roll-call/comment-page-1/#comment-3902 tigtog Fri, 05 Mar 2010 11:26:39 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=2119#comment-3902 Thanks for the heads-up, Tim. Because this site uses a child-theme for custom-tweaking the parent Vigilance theme, it's not quite as simple as your recommended changes (<em>edit</em> - to be precise, the first one's easy - for the second one I need to know which form you're referring to, because I don't have server access, so I use the inbuilt WP theme-editor, which doesn't count lines). I'll go through and work out exactly what I need to add to the custom tweaks to fix it though. What browser were you using when you captured that screenshot? Thanks for the heads-up, Tim. Because this site uses a child-theme for custom-tweaking the parent Vigilance theme, it’s not quite as simple as your recommended changes (edit – to be precise, the first one’s easy – for the second one I need to know which form you’re referring to, because I don’t have server access, so I use the inbuilt WP theme-editor, which doesn’t count lines). I’ll go through and work out exactly what I need to add to the custom tweaks to fix it though.

What browser were you using when you captured that screenshot?

]]> By: Mary http://geekfeminism.org/2010/03/01/open-thread-robot-roll-call/comment-page-1/#comment-3894 Mary Fri, 05 Mar 2010 07:17:53 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=2119#comment-3894 OK, we'll pass that on to our web wrangler. OK, we’ll pass that on to our web wrangler.

]]> By: Tim http://geekfeminism.org/2010/03/01/open-thread-robot-roll-call/comment-page-1/#comment-3878 Tim Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:33:10 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=2119#comment-3878 This page misses a proper background-color, also the forms should have set a proper color: http://img.flashtux.org/upload/img132b4d0366d0xb574633c.png To fix this you would need to add background-color: white; to the body part in the css master.css on line 31 and color: black; in the same file on line 556. HTH Tim This page misses a proper background-color, also the forms should have set a proper color:

http://img.flashtux.org/upload/img132b4d0366d0xb574633c.png

To fix this you would need to add background-color: white; to the body part in the css master.css on line 31 and color: black; in the same file on line 556.

HTH

Tim

]]> By: lsblakk http://geekfeminism.org/2010/03/01/open-thread-robot-roll-call/comment-page-1/#comment-3853 lsblakk Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:18:04 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=2119#comment-3853 Favorite robot, fictional or real? The Guardian from "Guardian of Isis" books...ya, I reached way back for that one. Crafted/made anything you like recently? In fact, I did - I made gnocchi from scratch on Saturday night, and last night I did some hand sewing of this beautiful skull broccade fabric and turned it into 3 little bags for some tarot cards decks that I'm gifting. Movie you can only stand by talking back to the screen, MSTK3K-style? Showgirls - it's not only awesome to yell at the screen, but there's a DVD release with an audio commentary track that gives hilarious running snarks at the film. Favorite robot, fictional or real?
The Guardian from “Guardian of Isis” books…ya, I reached way back for that one.

Crafted/made anything you like recently?
In fact, I did – I made gnocchi from scratch on Saturday night, and last night I did some hand sewing of this beautiful skull broccade fabric and turned it into 3 little bags for some tarot cards decks that I’m gifting.

Movie you can only stand by talking back to the screen, MSTK3K-style?
Showgirls – it’s not only awesome to yell at the screen, but there’s a DVD release with an audio commentary track that gives hilarious running snarks at the film.

]]> By: Mackenzie http://geekfeminism.org/2010/03/01/open-thread-robot-roll-call/comment-page-1/#comment-3842 Mackenzie Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:18:53 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=2119#comment-3842 I'm going to answer the "crafted" question. On Sunday I went to Target with the aim of finding a button-up shirt that has the mid-chest button (not just a collar button and a boob button as is common). I found a cute pink one that fit my waist if I tried on a XS but then I couldn't move my arms. So I tried a small and finally a medium to get the shoulders wide enough. Of course, going two sizes up meant the waist changed, so I resigned to having to tailor it myself (I kind of expect this to happen often now that I want my clothes to actually fit). What I discovered during tailoring was that my natural waist is about 4 inches below where the shirt's narrowest part was originally placed. Anyway, here's the finished product: http://www.flickr.com/photos/maco_nix/4400809445 I’m going to answer the “crafted” question. On Sunday I went to Target with the aim of finding a button-up shirt that has the mid-chest button (not just a collar button and a boob button as is common). I found a cute pink one that fit my waist if I tried on a XS but then I couldn’t move my arms. So I tried a small and finally a medium to get the shoulders wide enough. Of course, going two sizes up meant the waist changed, so I resigned to having to tailor it myself (I kind of expect this to happen often now that I want my clothes to actually fit). What I discovered during tailoring was that my natural waist is about 4 inches below where the shirt’s narrowest part was originally placed.

Anyway, here’s the finished product: http://www.flickr.com/photos/maco_nix/4400809445

]]> By: PharaohKatt http://geekfeminism.org/2010/03/01/open-thread-robot-roll-call/comment-page-1/#comment-3841 PharaohKatt Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:49:33 +0000 http://geekfeminism.org/?p=2119#comment-3841 Oooh, robots!! I'm a huge Transformers fangeek so I have a few favourite robots :) (First, confession time, I kinda sorta really like Black Arachnia... ^_^") Autobots: * Sideswipe * Bumblebee * Perceptor (a robot AND a science geek? WIN!) Decepticons: * Megatron Ok, so most of the decipticons were a little... well... weak, on the character side. Feel free to debate me in the comments! As for movies, I've yet to find one where I don't talk constantly through it. An urge I fight to suppress when I'm in the cinema :P Oooh, robots!! I’m a huge Transformers fangeek so I have a few favourite robots :)

(First, confession time, I kinda sorta really like Black Arachnia… ^_^”)

Autobots:
* Sideswipe
* Bumblebee
* Perceptor (a robot AND a science geek? WIN!)

Decepticons:
* Megatron

Ok, so most of the decipticons were a little… well… weak, on the character side. Feel free to debate me in the comments!

As for movies, I’ve yet to find one where I don’t talk constantly through it. An urge I fight to suppress when I’m in the cinema :P

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