I have no idea what happened there, but we seem to be functional now.
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I have no idea what happened there, but we seem to be functional now.
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Elie
Glad you are back up — missed you guys/gals!
southpaw
In honor of the moment, I present this awesome song.
AhabTRuler
That was…odd.
ninerdave
Testing one, two…
General Winfield Stuck
Just don’t know what will happen when I click here.
AhabTRuler
According to what standard?
joe from Lowell
Sorry, hon. Sometimes this happens when I’ve had a lot to drink. Or I’m tired. Or hot. Or cold.
Can we just cuddle?
Joel
WordPress will not function properly until you show your birth certificate.
Demo Woman
Gosh, So all the word press blogs were just my imagination?
tom c
That was weird. I got this message from wordpress on the first post or something. Then I started smelling sulfur come out of the tower and the audio went to what I think was Latin being spoken backwords. Everyone’s computer did that, right?
Just Some Fuckhead
John, I feel like you may be squandering an opportunity here to disappear the early archives.
robertdsc
I guess Tunch is really upset at his reduced diet by resorting to messing with the blog.
RedKitten
Glad the site’s back up — I was getting bored, and one can only look at so much pr0n, really.
General Winfield Stuck
Hummer Live Cam is on.
The Grand Panjandrum
Since we seem to be in the middle of the summer doldrums how about some peak oil news. It will probably get here in 2020 or so, which is about 10 years ahead of previous predictions. And this is coming from the chief economis of the IEA. But that isn’t the REALLY good news.
Oh goody, just in time to fuck up the economic non-recovery. Time to by stock in Huffy and Trek.
Ash Can
@tom c: I recommend you duck and cover.
@everyone else: Everything seems to be looking and working as normal. If it’s all fixed, then so much the better. If not, then I’m still game for a fundraiser. Say the word, John.
The Grand Panjandrum
@tom c: I heard it too. A feline sounding voice kept repeating, “John, is dead. John, is dead. ….”
PeakVT
Ah, unclogged tubes.
The Dangerman
I heard that same voice, although I heard it as “I am the walrus”.
Ash Can
@The Grand Panjandrum: But only when you play your jump drive backwards, right?
Just Some Fuckhead
@RedKitten:
I suppose it is theoretically possible..
General Winfield Stuck
Tunch — Tastes Great
Lily — Less Filling
ihop
gremlins be gone
RedKitten
John, it was because you had all of these posts saying you were tired of blogging and/or had nothing about which to blog. Fate heard you and said, “I’ll give him something to keep him occupied with his blog! Bwah-ha-ha!”
pattonbt
Whew…that was close. I was actually having to get work done and my superiors were getting suspicious of my dramatic increase in productivity.
Back to slacking off.
That was weird though.
Demo Woman
@RedKitten: The site has to stay up and running. It’s not going to be long before we get info on the new red kitten.
Johnny Pez
This just in: proof that Obama was actually born in Australia!
General Winfield Stuck
@ihop:
Ha. They check out now and then, but never leave.
Beeb
I thought all those “Hello World” posts were kinda cute in an alien invaders sort of way.
RedKitten
Well, that’s what I was thinking. I plan on posting a heads-up when I actually do go into labour, and that would have really sucked if the news got lost in WordPress hell.
PeakVT
I still get the error 28 back on the Five Editors thread. That seems to be the only one out of the most recent five where it shows up.
Jean
Who shut down our townhall meeting?
Crashman06
Yay. My life has meaning again. I was so bored at work today!
Cat Lady
YAY SITE IZ BACK I HAZ A HAPPY!
Comrade Jake
I swear I posted a joke about WordPress errors and then the next minute the entire house of cards collapsed. Thankfully it was short-lived.
RandomChick
Yaahhh! It turns out that Balloon Juice generally makes my weekends less boring. Who knew?
As it was, I had to turn to playing Sims 3 for entertainment. There all kinds of new personality traits to make your characters more interesting. For example, I have created a large woman who is insane, inappropriate, neurotic, and a genius. She gave birth to a baby whose only characteristic so far is “evil”.
However, I am disappointed that you have to force them to act out these traits. It seems like those traits would give you more self-directed action.
One interesting point . . . one of the ways you can have her act our her insanity is by clicking on another character and instructing her to “talk conspiracy theory”.
I imagine she’s discussing the Kenyan birth certificate.
For a hilarious (although exaggerated) Sims 3 experiment, check out Cracked.com’s Exploring the Mysteries of the Mind with the Sims 3
Ben
Ownage on the birther front:
http://politijab.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2099
demkat620
But WordPress error is my favorite blog!
Josh Huaco
@Jean:
Demo Woman
In between all the quirks on the thread today, did anyone hear from Mom-Anon?
Betsy
If this had gone on much longer, I might have actually stood a chance of finishing my dissertation on time. That would have been tragic.
@Demo Woman:
Agreed!
Betsy
In random news on my weekend, some crazy motherfucker I knew in jr. high found me on facebook and proceeded to send me bizarre and somewhat scary emails. That was fun.
jnfr
Clearly BJ has been infested with teabaggers screaming against health care reform! Is it a coincidence that this happened just as the memos went out to disrupt all town hall meetings? I think not.
Joshua Norton
See what happens when you time your drugs better?
Of course, since you don’t have a clear solution to the problem, it should return in just about 4,3,2……..
amorphous
@RedKitten: Lies!
Bad Horse's Filly
@RedKitten: Any chance of the new red kitten arriving on say, oh, 8/5? Cause I hear 8/5 is a great birthday. Just saying.
OriGuy
@RandomChick:
Until I got to the last word, I though you were simulating Orly Taitz.
asiangrrlMN
Wheee! Balloon Juice is filled with hot air once again! I can haz a picture of the Tunchinator to celebrate?
Though, it was kinda fun to see what I would get every time I came to visit BJ today.
D-Chance.
Depends on your definition of “fixed”.
5 “site’s fucked up” threads mixed in among 48 DugJay bandwidth wasters =/= equal “fixed”.
Perhaps a pet pic open thread for the Grand Re-Opening?
D-Chance.
Oh, and the need to get that “click to edit” function back up…
;)
Keith G
Thank the gods!
But what will I find when I click my B-J icon tomorrow?
General Winfield Stuck
@Keith G:
An 8 by 10 glossy of Glen Beck screaming Sockalist.
Keith G
@General Winfield Stuck: General, I’ll see your Glen Beck and raise you one Michelle Malkin decrying government cheese.
freelancer
Holy Fuckin’ Shit.
I’ve been reading blogs for a long damn time.
I think this wins the cake and the internet for best lefty blog post ever. srsly.
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2009/08/03/ees-beeg-trouble-for-mooslim-squirrel/
freelancer
I mean how to you compete with that, short of, next week, having Orly Taitz go all Buddhist monk on the MSM?
http://thatssofetch.com/images/rageatm.jpg