NBRC: Tower Teams Read 2013, Round II discussion
Cerulean (AKA “Hobbit Blue”)
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Turtlecollector wrote: "The Mods set up a thread for teams to post their Google spreadsheets if we want to. Do we want to? I sent it to the Mod account already so they could look at the sheet for the Read-a-Thon."I'm OK with it. It's not like are not posting it all the time. :D I don't see why it should be secret (OK maybe, post it after RaT :D)
Looks like the historical theme is what we should go with. No one has objected and one really likes it so far. We can leave it for a few days to see if anyone else chimes in, though. Do you want to let the team help with the mini-challenge which will let other teams see what we are planning or just PM the mods with what we come up with? Did you PM Jojiwoji with the ideas also?I will post the spreadsheet in the thread. It definitely isn't secret since anyone who visits our thread can see it. I've also looked at some of the others and think ours is easier to figure out. I like that I put the summary sheets in, so that anyone who doesn't want to know the behind the scenes info can just look at totals and not have to work their way through all the other stuff.
I did PM Jojiwoji and her answer was similar to yours (check PM). Do you mean team to help pick a challenge or set it up after we know what it is? I think we can figure it out alone. At the moment I don't want competition to see our ideas. After we send them to mods, we can discuss them in open :D
I'm glad we managed to work a theme so fast and easily. So far at least half of those that signed up for RaT is already reading book that fits. And I already have blue cover book. I'm keeping it for RaT :D
Only meant to see if they wanted to help decide which one to send to Mods, but it is logical that one works much better than the other anyway.I am glad that it was so easy to come up with a theme and a mini-challenge. I wasn't worried about myself finding a book to fit(I read fast and will read anything for a good cause), but I was not sure if we could find a theme that the slower readers could use as well if they wanted to. Everyone reads such a variety of books. Can our blue cover and theme book be the same, or does it need to be two different books?
I am at work right now and it is very weird being here by myself before we open. I am not used to it being so silent in the building, even though it is a library.
Good question about theme/cover being same book. I'll check RaT thread and if I don't find answer I'll ask :DAt least you remembered to go to work today. :D
What? You're only one there?! Why?
Over here libraries don't work on Sunday. Actually they don't work on Saturday afternoon either. Closing time is at 2pm.
Most people here work Mon-Fri or Tues-Sat like me. I usually work 10-5 on Saturday, but the person who works on Sun needed to switch days, so these two weeks I work 10-5 on Sun instead. We are open from 1-5, but only a skeleton staff works on Sun(one from each department) so they don't usually arrive until 12 or 12:30, but to keep my hours right, I still start at 10 so I am here by myself until at least 12.
LK likes our idea! LK likes our idea!*happy dance*
Yippee! We are going to beat all the other teams at this Read-a-Thon.
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Tea, can you post our team member book totals in the new update thread under Captains' Credenza section of this group here. I can't get the columns to line up right.How did you get them to line up in our update to the team?
I was too late. They already updated it :DIt's my secret! I'll never tell! :D
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GR is little funny with coding. There are 2 ways to get things line up.
- one way to get space between things is to put &*nbsp; instead of space (without *)
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- second way is to put <*pre> in front of the text and than space as usual (spacebar) (without *). and don't forget to close code (<*/pre>)
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and if you want text indented, you put <*blockquote> in front (without *) (don't forget to close it at the end) :D
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rest of it is lot of playing until you get it where you want it
Have fun practicing! :D
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FYI - A trick I use to get the < (greater than sign) and > (less than sign) to show up in the comments box in my group is to replace the < and > characters with " & lt; " and " & gt ;", (no spaces!) respectively.
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Thanks to both of you.
Lisa Kay wrote: "If you want to center something, repeat the several times - all on the same line:"I wasn't blockquoting, I've tried with spaces, but gave up after third row :D
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Oh, yes. That would be a whole lot of &*nbsp;! I've done that, actually. Until I figured out that if I don't hit return after <blockquote> - it works much better.
For the Sunday night/Monday morning updates, 8.30pm PDT is 1.30pm my time. Now I can refresh the books next Monday, but from the week after I'll be at school, and so won't be able to refresh members books in time for the update.So if I do it this coming Monday, and you two can work out between yourselves who does it the following weeks?
Yes, if you can do it this week, we can work out the other weeks. I am in PDT time and I have Sundays and Mondays off usually so it would be no problem for me to do this after this week. I think it might be early morning for Tea, before she even wakes up.
Yes, it's 5:30am here and I'm still in dreamland :DI can do clicking before I go to bed if you're unable to. Just let me know on time so I can friend Melissa and md to see their shelves.
So, about giving updates to our team... Are we staying with our schedule? Or are we switching to Monday (then someone else is doing counting for us ☺)? Or are we just going to give them the link?
I think we should still give the team updates. We can do that on our schedule and it will help us be prepared for the update to the mods if no one can click on links close to their timeframe one week. In that case we would be a few hours early, but I don't think our team is going to post a lot of books between Sunday morning and Sunday night in order to make a big difference in the team totals the mods will post.Also, if there is a week none of us can click on the links at the right time, the mods can probably step in temporarily if need be.
I am not anticipating a need for the mods help, I should be able to do it, but it is nice to know there is backup in an emergency.
Did any of you heard from Sonia about our idea?
No, but I think we might not unless it is picked for the Read-a-Thon. From reading some posts, I think maybe only a few teams have sent ideas.
On Monday, I am going to finalize the spreadsheet for the RaT so it is ready for starting on Wednesday. I will get a page number total for everyone first, just in case they want to adjust their goals, but I think everyone is pretty much set and ready to go.
I was peeking again at other team threads and we are much more creative at naming our thread for the challenges than most teams. Also, it looks like Sonia has been having problems with her internet, so she may be catching up on seeing our challenge idea.
:D When we have such great team name. We could change this one into Hobbit hole time or something like that :)What gave me idea is some pic I found looking for something to put in that member/update post. It was plan for celebrating Bilbo's birthday and coming of Hobbit movie.
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How are the other teams captains communicating? Only through PMs or the main thread? We seem to have a significantly longer thread here than the other teams. Maybe we are just chattier than the others:)I was finding pictures I might use later and posted them here in case others want to use them as well. I think you can copy and paste them from here. Of course I edited a couple I found online to fit the Read-a-Thon with the blue and pink speech bubbles. I also just liked the Hobbit Tossing picture and thought it might inspire a mini-challenge later on.
I think we are all set for the Read-a-Thon. We have already sent in our game idea. The spreadsheet will be ready for permanent and not temporary use on Mon and we can post the participants and the theme for the Moderators then unless they want it earlier. Is there anything else we need/want to do for it?
❀Tea❀ wrote: ":D When we have such great team name. We could change this one into Hobbit hole time or something like that :)What gave me idea is some pic I found looking for something to put in that member/upda..."
I would not mind changing the name of this thread as well. Hobbit Hole Time is very creative as well.
I think I am getting addicted to finding pictures. As a prize for winning a minichallenge, what do you think of these pictures? Do you like one version over another? I am making them with all team members avatars except md only has the default.
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Since I am online, I am sending a PM to our new team member right now to welcome her and give her the links to join the challenge. I will also add her information after she is all set up. Jojiwoji, do you want to track her books as well since her goal is only 7? If not, I can do that as well.
I was just about to volunteer for that... Sure I'll do it.And re T-Shirts, they look amazing.
Great pics TC.Going to do an update on main thread. :)
*clicks away*
❀Tea❀ wrote: "Did any of you heard from Sonia about our idea?"I liked the idea so much that I will let you pick the first book to start :o)
I don't know yet when I will post the mini-challenge, I'm waiting for the majority to check in to schedule them, so you'll have some time to think about it.
Oh, and I will use your example too, since it is so nicely done :o)
:D Thank you.Example is TC's
Does that mean we can start celebrating our first 5 points in RaT? ☺
*giggles* not until May 1st :o)I wanted to start the RaT participant & point counting spreadsheet, but my migraine is getting worse, so that'll have to wait.
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Jenny accepted the FR from the Mod Account and I just sent her an invite about five minutes ago.
~LK
Thanks. She has found our discussion thread so I will watch to see if/when she joins the challenge page and lists her bookshelf.
TC if you're interested, cerulean (crayon) color code is #1DACD6 (and yes, I've checked and wrote down all teams' color codes ☺)And maybe you'll find this interesting :D
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My inner geek is all dreamy eyes right now!
~Sonia
Ooh yay! Font page saved ;)
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It would probably be a good idea, yes.