Party Week, Day #2
Dec. 14th, 2005 04:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebToday's party was a luau thrown by the Academic Counselor's Association. It was held in the student union in the area with the bowling lanes, fooseball tables, and video games.
There were several activites available. We could bring donations for a couple of local charity organizations. We could play bingo. We could bowl. We could pay $2 to do karaoke. We could eat cake.
We all got a drink ticket, a door prize ticket, and a plastic lei.
I dropped off my donation, broke off some ear cilia getting some cake that was next to the LOUDspeakers for the karaoke, and went back to the bingo area. All the tables were full so I stood and observed while eating my delicious white cake with jam and white frosting in the middle and chocolate frosting on top. One guy waved at me and said hi.
Then I tossed my plate and gave my drink ticket and door prize ticket to the guy who'd said hi to me, simply because he was the only one who had. (Not that I initiated anything myself.) Then he insisted on hugging me. People said I could get a drink and take it with me. I did take the lei with me to give to one of my future neices.
Last year I played a lot of bingo and had some fun. This year it felt more like Instant Headache City.
Tonight is a Christmas dinner with Robin and his family; his brother is visiting from out of the country. More on that tomorrow.
JavaScript Update
We had our final class today, which again seemed good until the exercise at the end, which I couldn't even fully understand (looking at the answer) let alone create myself given my current level of understanding.
I enjoyed filling out my evaluation sheet; there were lots of great things to say and a few sad things to say.
I was reminded a little of the time I took a class on creating forms for the web. After several hours of instruction, we learn that none of our forms can actually work without any scripting behind them, which was beyond the scope of the class.
So now I know some scripting, but it turns out that lots of people disable JavaScript on their browsers because some people use JavaScript for evil. If people are taking your online class, you can require them to enable JavaScript, but in the stuff I'm working on now, I can't.
On the other hand, remember how in the olden days you used to sometimes be able to go directly to what you selected on a pull-down menu, and now you almost always have to click on a submit button as well? Now I know why that happened. And it's not even because of evil people for once! It's because blind people have to select the item by tabbing down, one item at a time, until they get to the item they want. But as soon as they got to the first item, the computer assumed they had made their selection and flung them off to that place!
There were several activites available. We could bring donations for a couple of local charity organizations. We could play bingo. We could bowl. We could pay $2 to do karaoke. We could eat cake.
We all got a drink ticket, a door prize ticket, and a plastic lei.
I dropped off my donation, broke off some ear cilia getting some cake that was next to the LOUDspeakers for the karaoke, and went back to the bingo area. All the tables were full so I stood and observed while eating my delicious white cake with jam and white frosting in the middle and chocolate frosting on top. One guy waved at me and said hi.
Then I tossed my plate and gave my drink ticket and door prize ticket to the guy who'd said hi to me, simply because he was the only one who had. (Not that I initiated anything myself.) Then he insisted on hugging me. People said I could get a drink and take it with me. I did take the lei with me to give to one of my future neices.
Last year I played a lot of bingo and had some fun. This year it felt more like Instant Headache City.
Tonight is a Christmas dinner with Robin and his family; his brother is visiting from out of the country. More on that tomorrow.
JavaScript Update
We had our final class today, which again seemed good until the exercise at the end, which I couldn't even fully understand (looking at the answer) let alone create myself given my current level of understanding.
I enjoyed filling out my evaluation sheet; there were lots of great things to say and a few sad things to say.
I was reminded a little of the time I took a class on creating forms for the web. After several hours of instruction, we learn that none of our forms can actually work without any scripting behind them, which was beyond the scope of the class.
So now I know some scripting, but it turns out that lots of people disable JavaScript on their browsers because some people use JavaScript for evil. If people are taking your online class, you can require them to enable JavaScript, but in the stuff I'm working on now, I can't.
On the other hand, remember how in the olden days you used to sometimes be able to go directly to what you selected on a pull-down menu, and now you almost always have to click on a submit button as well? Now I know why that happened. And it's not even because of evil people for once! It's because blind people have to select the item by tabbing down, one item at a time, until they get to the item they want. But as soon as they got to the first item, the computer assumed they had made their selection and flung them off to that place!