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| # | Comment | Survey |
|---|---|---|
| 21 | Johnny D's, Renee's, and the little Korean Deli near Porter Square. | At how many restaurants are you a "regular"? |
| 22 | I think society as a whole would benefit greatly from a stronger emphasis on philosophy in our eductional programs. Spending more time thinking about, and learning to question, the basic assumptions underlying our lives seems like something that's pretty largely lacking, at least in American society today. | Philosophy |
| 23 | I know, this is a hard one. :) I really love Summer, so that just has to come first for me. After that it's almost a toss-up. I put Fall second, thinking of the warm days, cool nights, crunchy New England leaves and apple cider. Winter was just about tied with Fall, because I am SO into snow skiing, but being cold every time you go outside put it third. I love Spring too, but lately it just hasn't quite had the excitement that the others do... mud season and all... :) lisashea: Yes, a lower number is better (1.0 is best, I think) Fall is kicking butt. | Seasons |
| 24 | This is a tough issue for me. In theory, I don't think it SHOULD much matter, but in practice how we feel emotionally about our elected officials is often as important as how well they do their jobs. I'm not sure we really have the right to dig too far into their lives, either, except where criminal activity is involved, but in our media-driven and litiginous (did I spell that right?) society, that line seems to be getting pretty fuzzy... ***daver: I can totally see the viewpoint that personal integrity can reflect on professional integrity. So maybe lying about an affair is a different matter than, say, a compulsive gambling problem. | Is the private (i.e. personal, non-official) conduct of an elected official important in your estimation of how well they serve in their official capacity? |
| 25 | Heard it on NPR around 10:30. *Bill: Here's the text of the speech | Did you watch the Clinton speech last night? |
| 26 | *reality: have you tried cooking for yourself very often? I used to think it was pretty silly, and nowadays I really appreciate it. YMMV, but I find it very satisfying to sit down to a nice meal that I've created for myself out of fresh ingredients, often while reading a book or watching something on cable. I don't generally make things that are as complex or interesting as when I'm cooking for other people, but I love the feeling of "I made this", and then I typically also have leftovers for a day or two that make good lunches.... | Cooking - do you know... |
| 27 | I really enjoy getting up early sometimes - morning is a gorgeous time of day and it's great to have time to relax, eat a nice breakfast, etc. before you start whatever it is you're doing. However, I don't tend to want to get up early anywhere near as often as I tend to stay up late, so I put night owl. | Are you a "morning person" or a "night owl"? |
| 28 | I bet it comes as no surprise that my top one is... Threaded comments! My guess at the simplest way to do it: stick a "reply" button next to each comment, which would bring you to a place you can enter another comment. The new comment pops on the end of the list, with a link to the one it's a reply to. All comments would be presented in chronological order, and you could maybe have a "threaded" or "all" option that either presents just the top level comments and little one-line links to the replies, or all of 'em in a big list. Since you'd then have potentially multiple comments that you own, there might want to be an "edit" button next to each of your comments so you can still change them... I think things otherwise are going really well! Yay Bill! (as a totally personal nit, I don't particularly like the look of the site (I find the buttons way too dark and hard to read) - I'd probably redo the colors/graphics too. But that's minor) ***Bill: re: threading, I'm personally of the opinion that the current unstructured interface is harder/more frustrating to use than threading would be. But YMMV of course. Re: setting up "push" - For IE, it's really easy to write CDF (Channel Description Format) files, and make a set of webpages into an Active Channel....that'd be pretty cool! ***Bill: Ah... I see what you mean. I just think that a) it already is a discussion site (this survey here is a great example), and b) a simple threading interface wouldn't really change anything except making these sorts of back-and-forths easier to read. ***Eris: an email gateway you can use to send mail to other users is a great idea! | If you were Bill and you had a bunch of free time on your hands, what features would you add to Survey Central? |
| 29 | I like the idea of multi-pick rankings but a) there should be a way to NOT rank certain answers (I don't like milk, but coffee/tea is an entirely situation-dependant ranking for me) - maybe a "no ranking" option in the combobox? Also, when I tried to rank just one and got an error message, my comment didn't persist through to the new form. **Bill: Much better! I ranked milk as 3, and didn't do the other two. What about a javascript validator which asks "Are you sure?" and just lets you click "OK" instead of having to go through another page and check a checkbox? How did you decide to deal with the math for unranked answers? Oh, also how come some people's names (dpolicar, eris, ron2112) are underlined? Ah, I see, hiders... cool! | If offered "Coffee, tea or milk?", what is the order of your preference? |
| 30 | I abstain due to lack of sufficient knowledge of the situation. I do know that in addition to not paying taxes / getting drafted, they also don't have a right to vote or a vote from their rep in congress. It seems to me that if they really want to be a state, they should be allowed to. We should get this over with and return to taking over the rest of the world with our Irresistable Media Blitz. | How would you vote on the political status of Puerto Rico? |
