Is this thing on? Here, look at tonight’s sunset in Tampa, FL: It’s still absurdly warm — supposed to be in the 90s tomorrow, which isn’t normal.
Did you ever see that Twilight Zone episode where the earth was frying to a crisp because it was getting pulled toward the sun for some reason, and a woman kept painting portraits of the sun, which greatly annoyed her sweaty housemate?
But in the episode’s O. Henry twist, it turned out that the world was really freezing because the sun had burned out, and the first scenario was all a dream? So which is this?
Anyway…Open thread!
Baud
So I’ve been patient with the website glitches, but now I’m having a problem avec mes commentaires changeant de façon aléatoire en les différentes langues. Yo no tenía este problema con el viejo FYWP. Tommy, ich weiß, Sie eine lange Liste von Dingen zu tun haben. Но это серьезная проблема, так что я надеюсь, что вы можете положить его на верхней части вашего списка.
謝謝。
बॉड! 2016!
schrodinger's cat
The battle for India’s soul is being waged in Bihar. Diverse and tolerant or majoritarian and intolerant? One more phase of elections left before all the votes can be counted. I am keeping my paws crossed.
FlyingToaster
Yes, it’s also been freakishly warm here in the frozen north. In the 70s in November, so that WarriorGirl is still in skorts and knee socks instead of yoga pants. And we both skipped our jackets today (just too warm).
It’s supposed to finally cool down come Sunday. I’ll be much less uncomfortable then.
Note: I had the first part of a root canal this morning; the shooting pains are gone, but my jaw is as sore as hell. I’m sticking to soup, once I get WarriorGirl to bed.
Poopyman
@Baud: If I didn’t know you better, I’d think you were being snarky.
FlyingToaster
@Baud: Show off.
schrodinger's cat
@Baud: I could read the Baud 2016 in Hindi (Devanagari script) Congrats!
Renie
Either there’s a problem with the text or Baud can write in at least five different languages in his comment.
Iowa Old Lady
It was in the mid 70s here, three hours south of Minneapolis today. It’s freakishly warm.
Anne Laurie
Whatever you do, don’t lose your Dashboard connection, Betty! — the rest of us, according to the Blogmaster, are locked out from posting until MisterMix can figure out why Securiti doesn’t trust us anymore.
Baud
@Anne Laurie:
You know what you did.
Corner Stone
Excuse me, but is this the Complaints Department?
Poopyman
Apparently we’re all just dreaming we’re commenting on the blog. I’ve always thought my dreams were boring, but this one takes the cake.
ETA: Apparently AL caught the boss’s tweet on the sidebar too.
Corner Stone
@Baud:
Voted for Bevin?
Poopyman
@Renie: Don’t get too impressed, there’s Google Translate.
Baud
@Poopyman:
Ding.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
It’s chilly-ish in So Cal — our high today was 70 degrees. It’s a relief after so many 100+ degree days.
Also, too, your Hamilton thought for today, from Ron Chernow’s book:
Baud
@Corner Stone:
AL ? Coal
El Caganer
Beautiful 70+ degree weather here in Philadelphia. Will be in Sarasota on Saturday – sounds like I may need my desert gear and a bucket of sunscreen.
Keith G
@Anne Laurie:
Steve unplugged some of the tubes to repay Cole for that picture that was posted yesterday.
Fuck with the Kitteh, and the Kitteh will fuck you back.
Omnes Omnibus
Anyone who is in the vicinity of Appleton, WI, tomorrow should go see TNC.
Corner Stone
@Baud:
I heard it was only Big Coal, if you know what I mean…*wink*
Poopyman
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): He misspelled “refudiate”, which is a real word in the world in which we now live.
geg6
Freakishly warm here in Western PA, in the 70s after 8pm in November is just unheard of.
Just have to say, as a Survivor connoisseur, that this season is sublime.
Eric S.
@FlyingToaster: not sure where you are but we are enjoying 70s here in Chicago. Very unusual. I’m thoroughly enjoying it but I also won’t complain about the Sunday cool off. I’m running a half marathon that morning and warm weather is not good for long distance runs.
JPL
@Baud: I like it. You are showing that you are able to appeal to the masses.
Omnes Omnibus
@Anne Laurie: It’s phase II in Tommy’s planned coup.
John Cole
DON’T LOG OUT OF THE DASHBOARD, BETTY- You’re our only hope!
Baud
@Corner Stone:
Once you go bituminous…
Betty Cracker
@Anne Laurie: Well, Christ on a crumpet! I got a dashboard error message earlier when I was slaving away on the work PC, but my iOS mobile works…for now.
Baud
@John Cole:
No. There is another.
Omnes Omnibus
So apparently Ben Carson does not believe that aliens built the great pyramids.
geg6
@Baud:
You’re killing me. Well done.
JPL
All the front pagers can now just email Betty their posts. She can choose which ones to actually post. It’s a plan!
kc
@Anne Laurie:
BETTY CRACKER HAS SEIZED CONTROL!
Linnaeus
By contrast, it’s been quite cool here in the great Pacific Northwest. Some parts of Washington had overnight lows dip into the 20s. Granted, that’s mostly in central and eastern Washington, which get colder than western Washington, but that’s still colder than they normally get this time of year.
MazeDancer
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
Let me just add for everyone’s viewing pleasure, 10 minutes of remarkable, musical extravaganza from Hamilton.
This delight is something known as the “b reel” in Hamilton lore. And it may be taken down like the other versions of it. Got this link from a reddit forum. (I’ve been searching for Hamilton clips. This did not come up in a YT search.)
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
That’s good
Reads article.
That’s bad.
schrodinger's cat
Yesterday husband kitteh and I took the day off and hiked up Mt. Tom to take advantage of the freakishly warm weather. I was actually sweating like it was summer, could have worn shorts instead of jeans.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: You left out Korean.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus:
You kind of have to consider this theory at this point. Like the proposition that Jar Jar is really the most ultimate evil character in Star Wars, and not just because everyone innately hates him.
If you read any of Tommy’s posts over the last few days they are honestly antithetical to the Tommy style of the last couple years. If they did not have a name assigned to them there is simply no way you’d say Tommy was doing the site redesign.
“Our Recent Posts” ? The continuous use of “we” in justifying design choices/decisions?
lamh36
Evening BJ.
So, There wasn’t much on television last night that I wanted to watch LIVE. I happened to be surfing the cable guide to see what was on and lo and behold, James Bond Skyfall was on SyFy network. It was a cross promotion for the newest Bond film, Spectre, coming out this weekend. So I laid down on my sofa and I watched a movie I hadn’t seen in years, probably since it was originally in theaters, but which I actually own on Blu-Ray (still in original wrapper have never opened it…lol). [ 1052 more words. ]
I blogged about it here:
http://nellybellsplace.com/2015/11/04/the-spy-who-we-loved-bond-is-back
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: I am working on my accentuate the positive skills.
Betty Cracker
@kc: So many ways I could turn this to my advantage!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Keith G: This is why I have dogs.
Gravenstone
@Anne Laurie: It’s a coup!
lamh36
Hmmm…this could get interesting. Remember I said Vitter has a good chance of being governor unless the GOP voters and TPTB realize the embarassment of having Diaper Dave as guv.
Dardenne is the GOP Lt Gov under Jindal
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
당신이 내 봉사 코디네이터 이유입니다.
Corner Stone
@Betty Cracker: No Sleep Til…Brooklyn!
Looks like an all nighter for B Crack and the Boxers.
/Reggae/Punk jam up band
schrodinger's cat
@Corner Stone: No mention of his family history either!
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Baud: 01000010 01100001 01110101 01100100 00100000 00110010 00110000 00110001 00110110 00100001
01000011 01101000 01100101 01100101 01110010 01110011 00101100 00001010 01010011 01100011 01101111 01110100 01110100 00101110
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Is that one of the seven habits?
p.a.
@Omnes Omnibus: They were granaries with no access or egress. The ancients, much like one modern political organization, believed in magic.
Baud
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
C’mon, man. This is a family blog.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Fuck if I know. It isn’t one of the dwarfs.
Corner Stone
@kc:
Has she seized the commanding heights? Promised to appropriate the expropriators?
Command, Communicate, Control in place?
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Baud: rofl.
Cheers,
Scott.
beltane
It was sunny and 60 degrees in VT today. No complaints here. The site is working fine for me. Is there a problem with this?
Baud
@Baud:
Hmm. I translated this back into English, and the meaning … shifted.
Omnes Omnibus
@p.a.: HERMETICALLY SEALED GRANARIES!!!!!! VICTORY!!!
dmsilev
@Corner Stone:
Based on available evidence, I’d say this is the Abuse Office.
Corner Stone
@schrodinger’s cat:
I think we’re seeing “Actual Tommy” versus “Performance Art Tommy”.
schrodinger's cat
@beltane: The frontpagers are all locked out of the Balloon Juice dashboard. Well all, except Daisy Mayhem who is posting as BC.
SiubhanDuinne
That is probably my favourite Twilight Zone episode, and turned me into a huge fan of Lois Nettleton. I was always sorry she didn’t get better known; she had an interesting face, and was a good actor.
Your photo is lovely. No offence, but there is almost nothing I miss about living in Tampa. However, the sunsets were always spectacular, and it seems they still are.
Gravenstone
@Baud: Grew up in a house with a coal fired furnace. It ain’t all that.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
I didn’t know highly effective people had dwarfes.
Makes sense, now that I think about it.
Anne Laurie
@Baud: That does it, I’m off the Baud ’16 bandwagon!
beltane
@schrodinger’s cat: Oh, that’s kind of funny. We are in control of the asylum now.
Gravenstone
@Omnes Omnibus: Would’ve been a nice thought, had I known about it in time enough to schedule vacation.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman:
Why would I want to go through a door named after a white cowbird?
Felonius Monk
@Baud: Don’t believe it — That’s just a steaming pile of anthracite.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I think I see what you were trying to say.
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodinger’s cat:
Is it Diwali yet? If so, happy! If not, do you know when it is? I ask because there was a huge Diwali-themed event going on at my local library today, with about 200 kids.
p.a.
@Omnes Omnibus: If we build a giant badger…
Omnes Omnibus
@Gravenstone: Call in sick.
FlyingToaster
@Eric S.: Watertown, MA. Within rock-throwing distance of different_church_lady.
Iowa Old Lady
Sometimes I don’t understand what the rest of you are talking about. I’ve been assuming it’s because I’m old and out of it, but I’m beginning to think it’s not me, it’s you.
Baud
@Anne Laurie:
Don’t be that way, AL. I was just foolin.’ I know you’re a heating oil gal, with those long, cold Massachusetts winters you have up there.
Gin & Tonic
So if none of the front-pagers can post, we have the run of the place, right?
beltane
@Omnes Omnibus: My vision is deteriorating rapidly as I progress through my 40s. I first read your comment as “HERMETICALLY SEALED GRANNIES”.
Felonius Monk
I wonder if Betty feels like she’s now manning the wheel of the Titanic.
dmsilev
@efgoldman:
No, no, the “mummies” were planted by the liberal-atheistic archeological-industrial complex, expressly to ruin people’s faith in Christianity. Do try to keep up.
Edit: Oh, and Indiana Jones? Created by Hollywood Liberals as part of the disinformation campaign. There’s no actual person named Harrison Ford; Lucas and his coconspirators just picked two random Presidents and created an “actor” with those names.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: I wouldn’t know.
@p.a.: No, that was a far more clever plan.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Iowa Old Lady: I think you’re on to something there.
Zinsky
Betty – is that photo taken from the east side of the Bay, looking downtown or the west (St. Pete – Clearwater) side, looking east toward downtown? I can’t tell…y
Gravenstone
@efgoldman: Don’t you get it? The mummies were put in there by … Satan! Just like all those dinosaur bones buried in the ground. It’s all a test of faith, man.
Baud
@Iowa Old Lady:
Bet you would like to go back to studying engineer communications right now, wouldn’t you?
Betty Cracker
@Corner Stone: Many Shuvs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Slor that day, I can tell you!
@SiubhanDuinne: Bet you still miss the banana daiquiris!
BillinGlendaleCA
Brrrr! It’s 59 degrees and it’s not yet 6pm here.
p.a.
@Iowa Old Lady: Get stoned. It will all be clear.
Anne Laurie
@beltane:
Only for us front-pagers, if we want to post something. The site re-designers accidentally locked everyone out of the control room — including themselves — which is, according to Mr. Cole, “kind of funny”.
Say it with me: FYWP!
(And thank you Betty for stepping up, as always)
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
It definitely is us.
Omnes Omnibus
@Iowa Old Lady: Sadly, I am following the conversations fairly well. It doesn’t bode well.
Corner Stone
@Felonius Monk:
Wait until tomorrow. Just wait until tomorrow.
Cervantes
@Omnes Omnibus:
Of course they didn’t build the pyramids.
They don’t even eat grain. Why would they want to store it?
Iowa Old Lady
@Baud:
No.
schrodinger's cat
@SiubhanDuinne: Next week, starts on Nov 11. I haven’t made karanjis yet. I have a weekend trip coming up. Husband kitteh has to perform a pooja to commemorate his father’s passing this weekend at a Hindu temple. Its something he promised his mother that he would do. I was thinking of wearing a saree, but I don’t whether I can manage to sit cross legged in a saree, without either tripping up or having some other unfortunate wardrobe malfunction.
Corner Stone
@Anne Laurie:
I’ve seen this before in a movie…maybe SALT with Angelina Jolie?
dmsilev
@efgoldman:
I was there for a conference once some years ago. There is technically a downtown, but I swear I saw tumbleweed blowing through the streets on the weekend.
Baud
@efgoldman:
I’ve been there. Tampa has a nice downtown.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@MazeDancer:
Much more frivolous, but MomSense and I got Daveed Diggs for lamh36’s upcoming birthday:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/annamenta/whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat#.ybbjOVzYE
I think MomSense is going to keep him for herself if lamh36 decides not to do the trade-in. I’m married, so I don’t get to have extra boyfriends. My husband is funny that way.
JPL
@Cervantes: What about Joseph? He couldn’t find a decent place for his wife to give birth, but wow, was he good at building silos.
p.a.
Nothing wrong with the site. The other front pagers have issued a list of demands to Cole about posting, space, bigfooting, topics (like, have one) etc. Betty is the first to break ranks from insurgents. The old double-cross the double cross.
satby
@Poopyman: Actually, I got a blank page, this is a Google cached page I’m going to attempt this comment on.
Poor John.
schrodinger's cat
WP won’t let me edit my comment to correct a typo that I just detected.
Omnes Omnibus
@p.a.: It’s possible that all of these theories are true. The world is a complicated place.
Baud
@schrodinger’s cat:
Hmm. Editing works for me (on mobile).
Corner Stone
@Iowa Old Lady: Hey! It’s all ball bearings nowadays. Now you prepare that Fetzer valve with some 3-in-1 oil and some gauze pads. And I’m gonna need ’bout ten quarts of anti-freeze, preferably Prestone. No, no make that Quaker State.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
This place is practically Syria right now.
beltane
@Corner Stone: This was also the premise behind at least one Star Trek: Next Generation episode.
satby
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Damn, he’s fine!
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Anne Laurie: Try “password1” without the quotes.
(sorry)
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
(ETA – I had about a dozen blank lines to hide the punch line. FYWP stripped them out. [pout])
SiubhanDuinne
@Eric S.:
It is surreal to see that, in November, temperatures in Chicago and Minnesota are higher than they are in metro Atlanta. I think we hit 66° today. I’m not complaining, mind you — and it’ squire comfortable — just a bit topsy-turvy.
(ETA: FYWP, or Autocorrect, wanted to turn “topsy-turvy” into “tipsy-turkey,” and then into “tipsy-truly.”)
Baud
@beltane:
At least one…each season.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I’ve only been to the panhandle, and that was over half a century ago.
schrodinger's cat
@Baud: I have been complaining more than you. So this is my reward!
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
I used to go to Pensacola. Good times.
Omnes Omnibus
@BillinGlendaleCA: I’ve never been at all.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Or the GOP primary.
Corner Stone
@p.a.:
Are you saying B Crack is the Trump in this situation?
How.Dare.You.
Pee Cee
@dmsilev:
Oh no, that’s next door. It’s being-hit-on-the-head lessons in here.
p.a.
@Omnes Omnibus: Wonder what Bob in Portland’s theory would be?
Cervantes
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
Which one was the punch line?
raven
There is Ybor City
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I had a good time too, but probably a bit different. I was 4.
BillinGlendaleCA
Betty as a fellow sunset pic taker, nice pic.
Betty Cracker
@Zinsky: Facing west from the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@schrodinger’s cat:
Three words: Jockey Skimmies Slipshorts. They’re underpants that go about halfway down your leg and are opaque, so even if your skirt slips or flips, nobody gets an eyeful. I wear them biking to work if I feel like wearing a skirt that day.
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
Killing schmilling. Does he have your vote?
Corner Stone
@beltane:
The one where Ryker was suspicious about someone and ultimately proved right? Or the one where Counselor Troi said that obvious thing on the bridge? Or maybe the one where Data acted in a way that nobody understood but really where he was trying to save everyone onboard but couldn’t tell anyone?
piratedan7
my guess is that they’ll burn the site down with all of the commentariat and simply build a new site with more erudite and less snarky people….
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: Me too, not ever been to Wisconsin either.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@satby:
I was holding it together until the picture with the white shirt and the flags. Then I was ded from the adorable.
p.a.
@Corner Stone: Hey it’s better than being the ¡Jeb!
Baud
@Corner Stone:
I think it’s the one where Picard gives that inspiring speech.
gogol's wife
@Baud:
Pretty good, but your Russian grammar is off.
Omnes Omnibus
@p.a.:
Forty-two paragraphs saying that it was the CIA, the Gehlen Org., and Ukrainian fascists in the conservatory with the rope.
raven
Rachel says there are 20,000 Brits are in Sharm El Sheikh.
SiubhanDuinne
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
Oooh! I just love it when you talk binary.
Baud
@schrodinger’s cat:
I have never been to the cheese state either.
schrodinger's cat
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): I am not wearing a saree, too many things that can go wrong. Plus all my sarees are either silk or cotton and they can be a major pain to iron. I will wear a salwar kameez, I think. We called the Pundit who is going to do the pooja, he basically said we can wear anything we want.
beltane
@Corner Stone: All of them. We should also consider the possibility that “Tommy” is really Data’s evil twin. Our starship may have been commandeered for nefarious purposes.
amk
it was supposed to be a great upgrade. #windows8
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat: So you have never had a Door County fish boil? For shame.
@Baud: We don’t want your kind (whatever it is). Nothing personal.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Corner Stone: Entirely too much creativity credit, based on current evidence.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Fair enough. I’m no Scott Walker.
SiubhanDuinne
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
I would dress in the finest finery
If only you would talk to me in binary.
I would turn in all my guns
If only you would speak in zeros and ones.
I would shun all superheroes
If you would speak in ones and zeros.
In fact, I’d hang around with you
If you would address me in Base Two.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Cervantes: Dissecting the frog won’t improve it.
:-)
Cheers,
Scott.
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: Is it like a clam bake?
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: I walked (ha!) straight into that one.
beltane
Please don’t summon BiP to present his theory on the downed Russian aircraft.
Cervantes
@schrodinger’s cat:
Just pray fervently to Krishna and, like chaste Draupadi, you will keep your sari on without malfunction.
FlyingToaster
@efgoldman: Seriously???
I’m already dealing with an 8-year-old who doesn’t want me saying Voldemort out loud.
Fortunately, BiP stopped when Putin stopped paying.
If only RtR would follow, eh?
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat: Vaguely, but there are flames.
p.a.
@efgoldman: Was he real? Or DougJ trolling?
Cervantes
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
That’s OK. I was just teasing.
Tommy Young
@Corner Stone: You two or three are just a laugh a minute.
BruceFromOhio
@beltane: Look out the window. See? We’ve dropped out of warp.
BRING ON THE SLOR
Betty Cracker
@efgoldman:
Beetledouche!
Beetledouche!
Beetledouche!
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Love the overboil! Used to got to Sister Bay back in the day!
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Hey, sorry for snapping at you yesterday. Unwarranted.
Anne Laurie
@efgoldman:
Why do you suppose I outed them here?
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: The fascists don’t use rope. Trust me on this.
schrodinger's cat
@Cervantes:I am just there for moral support like a good wife. I am not particularly religious and don’t much believe in ritual.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Nah, it was cool.
Omnes Omnibus
@Anne Laurie: So you were using accidentally the way lawyers use allegedly?
Davebo
OK this is getting better every day!
Zinsky
@Betty Cracker: Thanks, Betty. You live in or near Ybor City, don’t you?
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: Like BiP would get it right.
Felonius Monk
@Baud: Don’t feel bad. I’ve been to Wisconsin a few times — I thought it was a little cheesy.
PurpleGirl
@Anne Laurie: I wonder if that has anything to do with Avast telling me that this site’s certificate is invalid and it keeps wanting to block the site. I keep having to click on the alert and I keep having to stop the site from loading. It’s been driving me crazy.
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: Sounds dangerous, do they have lobster, like the clambakes in New England?
Corner Stone
@Tommy Young: I notice things, Tommy. It’s very noticeable. The things that have been noticed are different from the things that were there before.
/Kay
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@SiubhanDuinne: :-) Brava!
Cheers,
Scott.
raven
flickr problems
Corner Stone
@PurpleGirl: Avast there, matey! Shear off me, starboard! Aaarrrggghhh.
Ok, that wasn’t all that great. Sue me.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Cervantes: ;-)
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
MomSense
@MazeDancer:
Thank you! That was fun.
Starfish
@efgoldman: Next time he should include more Galician recipes.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat: No lobsters, but here is a lovely picture and description.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@p.a.: I think he still posts over at BooMan’s place.
Cheers,
Scott.
Poopyman
@Baud:
Yeah, but just a bit.
Tommy Young
@Anne Laurie:
I am not remotely mad at you Laurie but that statement isn’t close to true, but what I assumed everybody would think. You are locked out, as I am, because of several security programs MisterMix has running. It happened when I did what he told me to do, remove the title/name of the program in the top right sidebar that rotates quotes (“Quote Rotator”). That is done in the PHP code of that plugin and I can only assume since this site has attempted to be hacked before it freaked out the security plugins.
But I guess I just have to assume anything that does wrong with this site in the next several years will be blamed on me, even if the person doing the “blaming” has no clue what they are talking about. UGH!
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Nice.
satby
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): He had me at the white puppy, which I think was early on.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: O Captain! My Captain!
scav
So, is Ben Carson really on solid Evangelical ground by seeming to speak in favor of that Goverment-Teet-Moocher-Enablling Joseph — Seven Years of Mass Mooching he was promoting! Or, could that be why the granaries were hermetically sealed, so that all the moochers couldn’t get at the food, so in fact piously died during those seven years of extreme blessedness. Ha! Ha! We caught you out with a Divine Feint you starving low-lifes! And, then worse!, Bens’ speaking about Joseph, a man notoriously known for wearing a rainbow (wink wink) colored coat.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Yup. “The great burst of flames causes the boilover, spilling the fish oils over the sides of the pot and leaving the fish steaming hot and ready to serve.”
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: Sounds like a blast! If there is fresh fish, sign me up.
Baud
@Tommy Young:
You are our Obama, Tommy.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Here’s a better version.
PaulW
I need 2000 words for NaNo tonight or we are all DEAD.
Well, maybe not dead, but suffering from a severe itch.
Poopyman
@Tommy Young:
And this would be different from every other day on Balloon Juice exactly how?
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
You are a nice person, OO.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat: It’s usually done on the lake shore – that day’s catch.
raven
@schrodinger’s cat: Lake Michigan Whitefish!
Tommy Young
@Corner Stone: I will never understand your issue with me, but your passive aggressive BS got old a very, very long time ago. “Performance Art” Tommy. What the fuck is that? Do I write different when talking about what I do for a living and politics or some snark post here. Of course. Who doesn’t?
And I have addressed many times why I talk about my family and my life experiences when I post comments. I think it gives context to why I think the way I do. Sorry if you have an issue with that. You know the easiest way to deal with that, don’t read what I write. But you are not going to do that because you get some strange joy out of your faked outrage.
Baud
@PaulW:
Here’s one.
Wait, that’s two.
Now it’s five.
I could go on forever.
PurpleGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: A doubt there are any scientists who think the pyramids were built by aliens. A lot of fringe thinkers do, though. I doubt they were built as grain storage — they are too hard to get into. Carson is a super crank.
Corner Stone
@PaulW:
Any chance you’ve been tested recently? Because I, for one, have no interest in sharing this precious space with someone that has a case of the ringworm crotch.
Poopyman
Quitcherbitchin, Cole. You don’t want to see how an upgrade can go badly.
Baud
@Corner Stone:
Too late.
p.a.
@SiubhanDuinne:
Talk to me in binary,
doesn’t do a thing for me.
Murmur sweet to me some octyl,
you’ll warm my heartstring’s cockles.
Sing for me hexadecimal,
THAT would be exceptional!
MomSense
@satby:
Don’t get any ideas. He’s mine. Well you can have ideas but nothing more!
schrodinger's cat
@raven: Never had it, but fish that fresh has to be delicious.
Oatler.
Then there was Serling’s “The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes” from his Night Gallery series, sort of the same theme.
Omnes Omnibus
@PurpleGirl: I don’t buy any pyramid related CT that doesn’t include the mole people.
Corner Stone
@Tommy Young: Ha. Catch up when I get back from Chik Fil A. Yeah, I said it. the kid likes their nuggets and the customer service is consistently awesome.
Don’t go anywhere, boo.
satby
@SiubhanDuinne: total RESPECT for that.
Tommy Young
@Corner Stone: Well you will have to find me tomorrow to bitch at me about gosh know what. Got to get some rest here in the next 20 or so minutes so I can launch some updates at like 4 AM when almost nobody is online.
Anne Laurie
@Tommy Young:
Thank you for the explanation, Tommy.
Any of the other WP-experienced commentors want to hazard potential fixes?
scav
Anyone in need a nice little ranty bit, here: Franke Boyle: Your choices for president: an android, a creationist neurosurgeon or a postcoital cat
Felonius Monk
@raven: All this talk about Whitefish makes me think of Lutefisk and Guns.
p.a.
@Starfish:
Less filling!
Tastes great!
Betty Cracker
@Zinsky: Once upon a time I did, but now I’m considerably south of there.
schrodinger's cat
@scav: Too much false equivalence
Davebo
@Tommy Young:
Settle down Tommy. I’ve seen this a dozen times (it’s the front end! It’s the back end!) and it never ends well.
Let’s all just blame Cole. We’re used to that after all.
Baud
@Anne Laurie:
Turn it off and on again!
Tommy Young
@PurpleGirl: Oh I am totally hooked on the History Channel’s show Ancient Aliens. I like to joke it is so over-the-top it is actually good. Not only do many of the “experts” they have on think they were built by aliens, but many think they served as some sort of advanced power system to power said aliens ships. The way these people take one small fact, like the pyramids alignment to the stars, and they end up where they eventually end up is flat out amazing.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Clear your cache.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: They are both from Illinois.
SiubhanDuinne
@p.a.:
:-P
dmsilev
@Anne Laurie:
I’d suggest reversing the polarity of the neutron flow. Or sacrificing a goat.
Denali
@Raven,
Nice pic.
Somehow I am glad that everything is still the same on my IPad. I just get to view the insanity from a safe distance.
SiubhanDuinne
@satby:
Ta :-)
scav
@schrodinger’s cat: um, [careful measured logic] generally not a major component of rants where I’m from, but I’m somehow generally never from round these parts.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
And both are History’s Greatest Monsters.
Tommy Young
@Davebo: I am not mad. Just frustrated. More with people here, not on my end. There are just (1) a lot of moving parts to this site people are not aware of on the backend, (2) none of us work full-time here, and (3) this isn’t Talking Points Memo with a paid staff of dozens just to name a few. It isn’t like any of us are sitting over here trying to make anybodies experience worse or to mess something up.
Felonius Monk
@Anne Laurie: Shut it down, reformat your hard drive, then reinstall Windows.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tommy Young: I’ll be here.
Sincerely,
Almost Nobody.
Pee Cee
@dmsilev:
I’d go with jiggling the antenna and making sure the site is on Channel 3.
I hear that the goat sacrifices don’t work so well.
Anne Laurie
@dmsilev:
I think I just did. Its initials were TY…
Tommy Young
@Anne Laurie: Reboot the server and reset the security apps. Help ticket is already in with Hosting Matters I believe. Alian and I just can’t do that, as well we shouldn’t have that level of access. Because we don’t need it to do our job and no person in their right mind (Mistermix) would ever give us that level of control.
raven
@Tommy Young: Fuck it and drive on. None of this bullshit should be unexpected, you just aren’t a mean fucker like Cole so it stings a little. As for numbnuts, don’t even bother with a reply, he’s a cold, nasty motherfucker that doesn’t even deserve a response.
Omnes Omnibus
@Pee Cee: Lambs aren’t goats.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I thought that was Jimmy Carter.
redshirt
ALL HAIL IMPERATOR CRACKER!
schrodinger's cat
@scav: Comparing Hillary to kooks like Carson and Trump is unwarranted. Of course YMMV.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Originally. I thought it passed on to the next person in line.
BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodinger’s cat: Carson is a kook, tRump is a clown. Let’s keep things straight.
PurpleGirl
@schrodinger’s cat: Yeah, WP wouldn’t let edit my last comment. It’s done that before not otherwise during this new site phase. Well, we’ve always said FWP.
Baud
@Tommy Young:
Holy cow, I was right!!!
Cervantes
@schrodinger’s cat:
None of my business, but not surprising.
It’s still a good story, though, isn’t it?
(For a thoroughly patriarchal epic myth, I mean!)
redshirt
@Tommy Young: Shit happens, no doubt. But things can be planned. Contingencies can be created. Communications can be made. There’s more to upgrades and IT in general than simply coding or installing stuff.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@dmsilev: It’s been a while, but this strikes me as being very similar to that old problem with the normal lotus-o-deltoid objects placed in panendermic semiboloid slots.
I hope TY and Mistermix get it resolved without too much additional trouble. It they have to replace the milfer trunnions, well, who knows how long B-J will be limping along.
Cheers,
Scott.
Tommy Young
@raven: Thanks Raven and you are right I should “drive on” but it ain’t as easy as I thought it would be. But a comment like yours here or there is helpful.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Jimmy’s still with us.
schrodinger's cat
@BillinGlendaleCA: Correction duly noted and Hillary is neither. She is not cuddly, she is no-nonsense, so what?
redshirt
@Baud: Rebooting fixes like 80% of all computer problems – IT’s little secret. Works in life too, if your a Hindoo.
MomSense
@dmsilev:
Cross the streams?
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
I meant, when there’s a new Dem tyrant in the office.
Tommy Young
@redshirt: You keep commenting like you know what the backend (both people and technology) is like here, and you honestly don’t know what you are talking about. Because you don’t know, but keep commenting like you do makes me think you are not nearly as smart as you think you are.
schrodinger's cat
@Cervantes: Yes Mahabharata is a great story. Krishna, however is one of my least favorite characters in the epic. Mahabharata is like a matrioshka of stories with one story within the other, within the other, repeated many times.
dmsilev
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
schrodinger's cat
@redshirt: Sorry there is no rebooting in life. Life is path dependent.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@MazeDancer:
That video makes me feel a little better about Lin-Manuel, who I was starting to worry was just a little too perfect: fortunately for the balance of the universe, he’s not a very good dancer. Phew!
scav
@schrodinger’s cat: It’s a rant, a plague on all your houses, ABP rant on the general insanity of the process we’ve got going here. If you can write off all the vocabulary and descriptions and sheer jumping-up-and-downiness at the insanity because it fails to treat your personal horse in the insane horserace with proper deference, then, assuredly, we’re using different odometers. But then, I’m not expecting perfect horses running about this circus.
Baud
@schrodinger’s cat:
I don’t know. I could always leave and come back as a new nym.
redshirt
@Tommy Young: @Tommy Young:
Given this might be my second comment regarding the upgrade, and the first one was supportive, perhaps it is you who doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: Showing up as Sockpuppet-Baud won’t fool anyone.
Another Holocene Human
@dmsilev: weekday also
if anyone does brave it, the city council might arrest. specially if you look like you’re selling something. Or h o m e l e s s. Or Black.
Another Holocene Human
@Baud: Lies.
Doug R
@Corner Stone: No, it’s the argument department.
redshirt
@schrodinger’s cat:
So what is re-incarnated, if not the Self?
John Cole
Betty will you please answer your email or are you enjoying this power trip too much?
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: Exactly, most people’s writing style is a dead give away.
schrodinger's cat
@redshirt: I don’t believe in reincarnation. Once your dead that’s it, the end.
ETA: Just a pretty story we like to tell ourselves, like the tales of heaven.
Omnes Omnibus
@John Cole: Your question sort of answered itself, didn’t it?
Baud
@John Cole: oh, let me guess.
Another Holocene Human
@JPL: Hey, don’t pick on Joe. His life got upended by unnecessary and intrusive government regulations, amirite?
What have the Romans done for us, also, too.
satby
So it looks like the Kumbaya portion of the evening is over.
dmsilev
@Omnes Omnibus: Maybe, after the coup, John can start a blog-in-exile.
Tommy Young
@scav: I am nothing close to a raving fan of Hillary. Not even close. There are any number of her stances I don’t agree with. And when I agree with her, I usually wish she’d go further left. But how anybody, even if they are trying to be “fair and balanced” can compare Hillary to say Cruz or Carson is so beyond me I am not even sure I could have a conversation with them.
Just on these things alone the comparison doesn’t work. They think they talk directly with god. They don’t believe in global warming. They think the world is only a few thousand years old. Evolution is a lie. There is a “war on religion” (give me a flipping break). If we bomb people they will become our friends (maybe Hillary thinks this way a little). At least with Carson that some tree extract can cure AIDS and cancer. Planned Parenthood is selling “baby” parts for profit. The list could go on and on and on.
With these thoughts going through their heads how can you even start to talk/debate a budget or anything else with them?
Felonius Monk
@Baud:
Please, just don’t come back as Baudette.
FlyingToaster
@Tommy Young: Don’t feed the troll, eh?
I have been in your shoes, twice (night job after day job to get someone’s blog updated and stable) and I never, ever want to do it again.
As soon as you said that Quote Rotator was in the PHP, I had an intense feeling of deja vu — wait, that (well, an analagous problem) actually happened to me! Though fortunately, I had setup my access separate from the admin login so I could call the blogmother and get her to let us gophers back in to clean up our mess. And we weren’t big enough to set off the host’s security alarms — which happened at another site, when we were in production and our forum got hammered by our testers.
I gave up that sideline (along with the 70-hour-a-week schedule) with the onset of WarriorGirl.
You’re doing fine. Unless you want the batting practice, I’d stop replying to the griefers — you can’t beat them, they’ve got nothing better to do.
Keith P.
I’m almost afraid to bring this up since JC seems to be a bit emotionally unstable, but has anyone already suggested moving the topic section (“GOP Stupidity/Gun Nuts/etc”) to below the posted content? The issue isn’t regular browsing and when FPers are judicious with their tags, but on phones some of these topics fill up more than half my screen with just the headline and tags, the tags being the larger of the two.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
@schrodinger’s cat:
I could take on a different personality, like in those DirecTV commercials.
Omnes Omnibus
@dmsilev:
In Paris? These things always seem to get set up in Paris.
Another Holocene Human
@SiubhanDuinne: That’s not all it did, read what you posted again.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: A different personality? Hmmmm… doesn’t that require…. I’ll just leave it alone.
Davebo
@raven:
Who’s numbnuts? Or are they a what?
@Baud:
The percentage of times a server reboot solved everything is pretty high. And in my experience it’s pretty rare that a client questions the need for it if the reboot solves the problem.
Tommy Young
@Keith P.: Maybe, but if they did I missed it. What was most requested was what we put up today, which was the categories at the end of the post and a reordering of the META data under the post title. Authors name first. Add the time (that wasn’t there before) and making the type different than the body text.
Corner Stone
@Davebo: Douchebags gotta douchebag, in his case.
Baud
@Felonius Monk: now I wish I had taken that nym in the first place.
MomSense
@Omnes Omnibus:
I volunteer to exile myself to Paris and blog.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Keith P.: Just FYI – not as a smackdown. :-)
It’s been suggested / demanded / requested multiple times.
Just about anything that’s different in this iteration has been criticized, sometimes dozens of times.
Tommy’s aware of the multiple suggestions / demands / requests for improvements. We need to give him time to implement those (and other) changes.
My $0.02. HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: In that case, why not Bawd?
redshirt
@Tommy Young: Tommy, can you explain why the upgrade was rolled out as such? That is, not complete? You are obviously still working a lot on it, so I’m curious if there was a reason to push it into production before you were ready.
Omnes Omnibus
@MomSense: Inorite?
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Not a bad campaign slogan.
amk
This is going to be one of those 700+ posts, isn’t it?
schrodinger's cat
@Baud: I don’t think I have seen them.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Omnes Omnibus: @raven: I knew you’d both chill, and i wouldn’t need to come over there. I’m sure you both know why I scolded you.
Corner Stone
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Damn. I just re-read that…and damn.
Baud
@amk:
No one except Betty can put up new posts, so yeah.
Omnes Omnibus
@amk: Can’t tell, no numbers.
Another Holocene Human
@efgoldman:
Man, you nailed it. Tampa is obsessed with calling itself a world class city. Best I can tell the major industries are law firms to sue employers because Florida fails as a government and only the courts are functioning or to sue over car accidents because the Lege sucks and won’t fix things that are broken because they suck or suing insurance companies because again, failure as a state, and real estate promoters, and government because the answer to “Have we roughed up enough Black people today?” is never “Yes.”
A real world class city doesn’t puff its chest out running around yelling “Look at me! World class city! Have you considered relocating to World Class City Registered Trademark?”
schrodinger's cat
@Omnes Omnibus: There is a counter at the top of the post on the main pg.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodinger’s cat: Damn, that spoils my joke.
Baud
@schrodinger’s cat: Lucky you.
Corner Stone
@amk:
How will we ever know?
Now I feel dirty, and not in a good way.
satby
@Corner Stone: floats like a butterfly, stings like a bee
amk
@Baud:
And we can’t even know the number of posts. Thanks a lot, Tommy.
P.S. It’ a minor rib, so relax.
Heliopause
@Baud:
I miss Usenet.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@dmsilev: No goats are to be harmed. I will cut you.
p.a.
@dmsilev: which kids will he get?
Tommy Young
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: And many have been implemented:
– Font went from 11 to 14 point.
– Lexicon added
– White background gone
– Spacing issues with mobile fixed
– META data changed
– Space between the sidebar items tighten up
– Better use of color/underline in links and visited links
And the list of other “little” stuff goes on and on and on.
What needs to be clear here is this is NOT your PERSONAL blog. Just because you ask for something doesn’t mean you are going to get it. I am actually more than a little-stunned people seem to think that is the case with how they word their comments. It is mind blogging actually.
Now most of the rest of the major changes requested: Numbered comments. Less space between comments. OR just comments and the commenting system in general will be fixed when the product we want to use is ready. it has to make sense to people we are not going to fix a broken comment system only to replace it a short time later.
Anne Laurie
@Tommy Young:
And I do appreciate your hard work, Tommy.
At least we got Cole’s attention!
SectionH
We were supposed to be in Saratoga, NY about now, but spent several hours dealing with the shooter cordon/SAN ground stop/getting home via bus and then Car2Go. And then dealing with Not being at the hotel (48 hr cancellation policy – to their credit, they waived the charge) or being able to set up for business tomorrow.
Just another day in the NRA I guess.
Omnes Omnibus
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): What are we, Mickey Kaus?
Corner Stone
@Heliopause:
Isn’t that really what we were always working toward? I, for one, welcome our B Crack overlords.
Another Holocene Human
@efgoldman:
Wait, the most comical troll of ever gets banned in minutes and assholes like caligula, *** guy, and Spatu-jerk got to troll and troll and troll for months and even years?
This is one messed up world.
Corner Stone
@Anne Laurie:
Locking the blog owner out of his own joint tends to do that. Funny how that works.
Cervantes
@Tommy Young:
Nicely done!
And yes, it is.
Howard Beale IV
FYI: Looks like the Rage Furby’s days are going to be numbered….
PurpleGirl
@Tommy Young: I don’t watch Ancient Aliens on any kind of regular basis but every so often I watch. The guy that really gets me is the one with the wild, streaming hair. The hair reminds of Ambassador Lando from Babylon 5. What I do watch are any shows on Ancient Egypt or on Stonehenge and other stone monuments in the British Isles.
Davebo
@MomSense:
Paris wouldn’t be my first choice. Or my twentieth! But I’d take it over Port Harcourt. Maybe.. ;0)
Corner Stone
@Tommy Young:
Synchronicity with the new Star Wars trailer!
“These are not the comment functions you were looking for.”
Tommy Young
@redshirt: Yes and it had nothing to do with John. Frankly, and I eventually agreed so I am to blame, there was the desire to “get it out there.” Honestly there was many things at work, but at the top of the list was I could edit, tweak, do any number of things for weeks and weeks and no matter what this would happen.
Many people would not be happy.
So “get it out there” and “get it over with.”
You might disagree with our thought process here, but I am 110% sure we were correct.
Cervantes
@Omnes Omnibus:
If not for the running total at the top of each post …
p.a.
@Corner Stone: nice change-of-pace, yes?
Omnes Omnibus
@Davebo: Well, as Tommy pointed out above, “[w]hat needs to be clear here is this is NOT your PERSONAL blog.”
satby
@Omnes Omnibus: yeah, we were all confused about that.
Another Holocene Human
Now I feel silly, Ben Carson actually cited Joseph, as in “Technicolor Dreamcoat”, in his pyramids discourse, and here I am riffing on the wrong Joseph (“Joe the Carpenter”).
That is some pure, mainline,
cokekook right there. Sounds right in line with hardcore creationist just-so stories.Steeplejack
@Anne Laurie:
This is the best site upgrade ever!
Actually, I’m feeling a lot of sympathy. I vented my spleen last night. And we’ve all had projects that went sideways at some point.
Here’s hoping someone is able to crawl through the bathroom window and make their way to the control room.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
Hmm. Refreshed this post on my iPhone and it defaulted to the regular site rather than the mobile. Is this already a known issue, or is this related to this evening’s fresh chaos?
(Liking my own career choices more and more.)
John Cole
@Anne Laurie:
LOL. I’ve been having 25+ email days with Tommy and Alain all week. Got my attention. Heh.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Corner Stone: A++ for amibiguity.
Keith P.
@redshirt: My guess is that a certain drama queen wanted lots of drama so he could tell everyone to fuck off and pout.
Corner Stone
@p.a.:
You mean from Cole ALL CAPS ing at everyone to stop complaining to the current situation where he can’t even OP at his own blog?
Yes. Yes, I would say that is indeed a nice change of pace.
Davebo
@Tommy Young:
You’re doing great work Tommy and the fact that you comment here and field the expected gripes is pretty incredible.
30 years ago I believed that listening to the actual users would make for better software solutions. Since then I’ve learned it’s best to listen to the people that approve the invoices.
Keep up the great work.
Gin & Tonic
@Howard Beale IV: That law firm has the coolest domain name ever.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack:
As long as they don’t get their nut caught in the zipper, ala Something About Mary style.
Omnes Omnibus
@Tommy Young: FWIW, and you can take it with as big a grain of salt as you wish, I think a lot of the agita over the comments cold have been avoid if someone had let commenters know that the current comment system is a placeholder until the real one is ready to launch. That was not made clear and feedback on the new site were invited. So people offered feedback on the comments. You would still have gotten some grief on the comments but overall it would have been different.
p.a.
@Corner Stone: you left out the “I hate you all you fuckity fucks.” That’s no way to treat your customers.
Davebo
@Tommy Young:
Did you see the movie “Captain Ron”?
If anythings going to happen, it’s going to happen out there….
Honestly I’d imagine the site upgrade has probably resulted in a 20% uptick in page loads so it’s all good!
Anne Laurie
@John Cole: Don’t shoot the piano player, s/he’s doing the best they can!
Sarah, Proud and Tall
You’ve done the place up.
I don’t like it.
/cheers to Patrick Troughton
redshirt
@John Cole: I like when you post in the comments. You should do so more often, especially in your own posts.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Howard Beale IV: Yup, he may be headed to “The Big House”.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Email him about it. He’ll love it.
joel hanes
@Steeplejack:
make their way to the control room
Best game series evar.
(I have a Black Mesa parking sticker on my car, and a WWGFD? bumper sticker)
Dr. Kleiner’s speech after the Citadel explosion in HL 2 is, all by itself, better entertainment than one can find in 500 channels of cable TV on any random night.
I’m still waiting for HL 3. Very very patiently.
SiubhanDuinne
@SectionH:
I have a friend who flew — well, was supposed to fly — from Boston to San Diego earlier today. In fact, she ended up sitting on the ground for several hours in Denver because of the shooting situation in SD. Need to check FB to see if she ever made it to her destination.
Tommy Young
@Davebo: Thanks. I appreciate it maybe more than you know.
And off Cole’s ass. Before I started working on this project I kind of had, not knowing the guy, the opinion he was a little mean, angry, whatever.
In my experience the exact opposite. When things have gone wrong he has been more calm than I have been. I’d say outside of the commenting system which is his #1 issue (and mine as well) I am putting far more pressure on myself than he is.
Look we will get this “right” soon. Will it make everybody happy, of course not. But then at the start we knew that was an impossible task.
Davebo
Recent computer related disaster
Just to put things in perspective! Over 220 judges with all the accompanied clerks, interpreters and staff sitting on their hands for 6 weeks.
Tommy Young
@Omnes Omnibus: Dude I have said that multiple times in almost every thread. But as I talked about with you the another night, and you kind of came to my defense saying I had already said that or already made the edits they were asking about, people don’t read these darn comments. Many just post.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Omnes Omnibus: In all caps, especially with a credenza. But no mustard.
amk
@Tommy Young:
fuck cole. back to my burning question. back button issue, yay or nay?
NotMax
@Tommy Young
1) Thanks for putting the author name first (where it belongs) on front page posts.
2) Thanks for putting the tags below each front page post.
3) No reason now to have tags redundantly cluttering up stuff at the top of front page posts. Tossing them from there will also make for a sleeker look.
Say what now? The blue color of links still just barely distinguishable (if one squints) from the blue of non-links (for example, bold text).
Felonius Monk
@Howard Beale IV: I love the web site name for the lawyers that are going after him. They certainly sound like some real “mofos”. Rage Furby’s life is about to get real.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tommy Young: “Best laid plans…”. I’ve had projects planned out to the “T” and something happens to make things go south, like shifting requirements. You’re doing fine Tommy, keep the line of communication open to temper expectations.
Davebo
@Tommy Young:
The comment feature is obviously working fine and that’s really what everyone comes here for so things are great.
John Cole
@Omnes Omnibus: We did. Multiple times. It was even on the front page of one of the maintenance posts. Allow me to quote:
Omnes Omnibus
@Tommy Young: Tommy, when you started addressing that, it was in comments. What I am saying is that either you or Cole directly saying in the first post that comments were still a work in process would have made a difference. By the time you addressed it in comments the issue was off and running. Also, and this is not aimed at you, Cole sort of came at commenters were some passive-aggressive preemptive attacks which may well have predisposed some commenters to be combative. YMMV.
Tommy Young
@NotMax:
No, no, no. What clutters stuff up is the tags at the bottom of the page but I put them in because a lot of people asked for them. You are the only one asking for them to be removed in the META info under the page title. That is where they should be for any number of reasons.
Cervantes
@Gin & Tonic:
It’s an old-line California law firm.
Well, “old-line” for California, anyway.
Omnes Omnibus
@John Cole: Yes, and that was well after the horse was out of the barn. My point was that if it was noted in the first post after the reboot, it would have made a difference. And, if it hadn’t, your rage posts would have been more justified.
amk
well, at least the authors got past the ignominy of being buried under tagsgasm.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus:
This makes me wonder if either you or Tommy know what passive aggressive actually means.
Nate Dawg
Is anyone else concerned about the possibility that ISIS just took down an airliner? Fucking a.
That is 4, count them 4, major airline disasters in a row directly caused by human malice. We are in the future–the one thing we can’t fix, is human nature.
Tommy Young
@Davebo: Yeah, I try to walk 20,000 steps a day (that darn fitness bracelet guilts me into it). The day or so after we launched on a long walk I thought to myself, yes the commenting system is not what it should be, but does anybody that says it is unuseable get the irony that they are doing so with the commenting system.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: I am trying to be polite.
Renie
I can’t find my pony!!! Was it accidentally locked out? WHERE’S MY PONY!!!!
Corner Stone
@Nate Dawg:
The possibility? A little, but not too much. The actual truth of what happened? We’re a ways away from that.
p.a.
Honest to dog, except for the white space I don’t see much difference. I type, I hit ‘post’, I see comment. *ducks*
srv
Y’all are going to miss this heat when the Maunder Minimum starts.
NotMax
@Tommy Young
A small but obvious maintenance or service notice on the front page would help alleviate that occurring. Something akin to this:
“We are aware the comment section is not yet up to par during this site upgrade. Comments about this and requests for changes to the comments section have all been noted and will be addressed as the rebuild advances to the phase of launching the comment section at its full potential.”
Steeplejack
@dmsilev:
Heh, I knew someone would suggest this.
ms_canadada
Hope you don’t mind my jumping in here…I watched the swearing-in ceremony of our new Prime Minster, Justin Pierre James Trudeau, and his Cabinet Ministers today. Justin makes me proud to be Canadian again, after 10 long years of Harper’s arrogance. I hope Justin does us proud, and will respond to the challenges of his position with grace, confidence, and deep respect for all citizens of this earth we share. Sunny days, indeed. Our doors are open. Bienvenue au Canada!
Nate Dawg
@Corner Stone: Actually, we’re not. Shrapnel images have been released showing punctures from an internal source. Cadavers have injuries associated with bomb. Off-record US government sources confirm it was a bomb.
It’s pointing in that direction, and given A321’s safety record, looking to be pretty damn likely. British Airways cancelled flights to the area, and security measures are being implemented in the region. Days away, I’d say, from definitive announcement.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus:
We’re basking in a B Crackocracy! There’s no time for politeness. Or, fuckit, polity at this point.
At this point I can only pray that I am able to serve as a type of jester that fumbles around while feeding the chickens. Or maybe a role model for a comical wine foil art piece.
Omnes Omnibus
@ms_canadada:
Perhaps you should reread this thread and rethink that.
Tommy Young
@Nate Dawg: Not really cause time and time again when I “go with” what the news media says right after a major event happens often they are wrong, very wrong. So I am wrong. Case in point today and suspected of killing Lt. “GI Joe” Gliniewicz and it being blamed on Black Lives Matter. It was found out today it was a suicide because he was stealing money from the police department and he staged his suicide to look like a “hero.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Nate Dawg: Yes, but whose bomb?
redshirt
@Tommy Young:
I don’t get this at all. Maybe one or two tags is no big deal, but sometimes there’s a paragraph of tags. Directly above the content of the post – why? What does this help the reader appreciate about the actual content?
At the bottom, only, it serves as a reminder of similarly themed posts that you might be interested in reading about.
You’ve got it backwards, IMO.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@NotMax: BTW, last night by responses to you were to indicate that you were making me laff too hard to leave the thread. Which is what I should have done. So no offense caused, just a sideways and ambiguous compliment.
Corner Stone
@Nate Dawg: Bomb, maybe, high on the list. ISIS/ISIL/AQ ?
Need more evidence.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: I know how to chop wood.
Davebo
@Tommy Young:
We’re at 381 comments on this thread so absolutely, it works fine. I’ve done some quick testing on older threads and the back end performance seems pretty good to me especially assuming the site isn’t on a dedicated server.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@NotMax: I think I’ve been to the front page about 3 times since the site went live. I don’t think a post like that from Tommy would have helped very much…
(I visit B-J two or three times a day. I read a thread and then use the gray side arrows to move between the posts. I might go back 3-4 posts to see if later readers had anything else to add. The front page seems to be too much a work in progress at the moment for me to spend much time there. YMMV. It’s the hours-between-visits that characterize my reading that makes me hopeful that a threaded viewing mode might be an option. Fingers crossed.)
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
@Tommy Young
We can agree to disagree.
But aesthetically (less is more, eschew redundancy), you’re in the wrong on this. All the more so as none of the links in the META data are obviously links.
Tommy Young
@redshirt: See this is a case in point of the problem with designing for the web. We don’t all use it the same way. I want the META data under the title. To where I can hop to other articles in a category or by the author. It appears you don’t. Now I would argue it is a problem if the Front Pager are using any more than 1-2 categories, but that isn’t my job to manage, much less change.
Gin & Tonic
@Cervantes: Yeah, I know that, and I think I knew about the domain name and forgot. Seeing it reminded me again. I bet when they registered it back in 1992 somebody there said “Holy shit!”
benw
@p.a.: Holy crap, we’ve got ducks in the site now? This redesign is really for the birds!
@Tommy Young: Hey Tommy, the redesign is really pretty great so far. Look on the bright side: it’s going better than the rollout of Healthcare.gov! I blame Obama.
redshirt
Allow me to share the proper post format for you (it was the last post formatting)
TITLE
By AUTHOR DATESTAMP
CONTENT
# Comments
META
Steeplejack
@Baud:
“And then there’s Baud!”
Too old?
NotMax
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Phew. Feel better now.
:)
Mike J
@NotMax:
It actually looks like the tags are completely missing. The categories are up there twice, and there are no tags at all.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@NotMax: You should. it could have been way worse. You were spared:
Tommy Young
@NotMax: You might want to go study heat maps and how individuals view web pages before you say I am wrong. Because factually you are wrong if you take a large sample size. That might not be how you view or navigate a site, but it is how the majority of individuals do.
Cervantes
@Gin & Tonic:
They are to be commended for going with it!
redshirt
Let’s take a moment to HAIL BETTY CRACKER
Hai!
Tommy Young
@Mike J: Correct. There are no tags because the Front Pagers don’t use them.
I hope to have a training session with them, because I put in a SEO tool that will auto generate tags based on the content of their posts.
Let’s be blunt. The Front Pagers are doing this work on their own time and their own dime, so all I will do is make a suggestion. I won’t push like I would with a “corporate” client.
But with that said, I wish we would start using more focused categories and tags.
Renie
I didn’t get a pony (will Baud give out ponies when president?) but I LOVE the side arrows to go back and forth from post to post.
NotMax
@Tommy Young
A case which only happens sometimes here. Design to how the site is actually used, not wishfully to some phantom standard.
p.a.
I’m out. I’ll check in the am to see if the site has been unskewed. Contact those RNC tech whizzes.
Renie
Hey Tommy, if you are having problems with the blog #JEBCanFixIt
El Caganer
I’m not on this site a lot, but it looks fine to me. And as far as problems go, it’s not like it was running perfectly before. Things will work out. No big deal.
Cervantes
@Renie:
Those are good.
Maybe instead of only one post in either direction, they could each provide a menu of three or so.
Omnes Omnibus
@Cervantes: Ain’t you ambitious?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Tommy Young: Use of site is distinct from aesthetics, which is what NotMax was addressing. And he’s correct.
I understand that if Cole is supporting this site with Google ads, and SEO optimization conflicts with preferred (here) navigational ability, SEO is the obvious priority. But heat maps of use are immaterial to how Balloon Juice users navigate, and that is likely to be unrelated to SEO optimization. And aesthetics are about visual design, which is what (I understood to be) what NotMax was discussing. Just so we’re clear on the topic. :)
redshirt
The side arrows are wicked cool actually.
Steeplejack
@joel hanes:
Half-Life and the sequel—was it really Half-Life 2? I thought the name was different—were the reason I consciously stepped away from video games. I loved the Doom series, the semi-spinoff Heretic (same game-play engine), then Half-Life. That game was incredible—and incredibly immersive and addictive. I did it in one long, sleep-deprived stretch over a long weekend and maybe an extra day. Afterwards I had huge, vivid dreams not that I was playing the game but that I was actually in the game’s world. I thought, man, I do not need yet another endless time-sink in my life. That’s why I’ve stayed away from the temptation of World of Warcraft, etc. Just seeing the ads and trailers with the increased sophistication of graphics makes me tremble with mingled fear and temptation. LOL.
NotMax
@Tommy Young
Big, big difference on that between commercial sites or breaking news sites and informational or casual sites.
Haven’t mentioned this previously, but have worked on design of many a blog, going back to 1999*. Long lists of tags text (before the real meat of the post) up top lead to MEGO syndrome.
Under the front page post, they are where a reader can muse “That was an interesting read. Let’s see what else the author suggests.”
*Lawdy, lawdy, trying to whip blogspot code into any semblance of coherent shape that is markedly different from their preferred layout is a bear, the first time.
Again, we can agree to disagree, but I shall nonetheless stand firm.
Steeplejack
@Davebo:
Wow. That is yooge.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
Looks like someone got in through an open window – a new post is up.
Cheers,
Scott.
Renie
HAHAHAHAHA George HW Bush claiming ‘iron-ass’ Cheney and ‘arrogant’ Rumsfield damaged the reputation of the US. Already rewriting history to take blame away from Dubya?
NotMax
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Clarity rocks.
Thank you.
Tommy Young
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): You have not only been polite but supportive, but your comment is a case in point of people thinking they know what is going on here when they don’t. SEO is going to be an issue because AdSense ads are going up.
Also NotMax is making the assumption that how he uses the site is how everybody uses the site. Not so. I use the META info under the title. On ANY site that is where I expect to find it. He as others did wanted it at the end of the post. I don’t agree, but enough said they wanted it so I did it. Instead of just taking that as a victory, they then want something else that frankly doesn’t make sense. And when they don’t get their way, they kind of act like children.
When he sets up his personal blog he is welcome to do that. This is NOT as I said in another comment his PERSONAL blog. Many people, not just NotMax, don’t seem to grasp this basic, basic concept.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax:
Yes?
Nate Dawg
@Corner Stone: Yes, for sure. I’ve been following pilot forums, and they are generally dismissive of missile/bomb/suicide theories, and once again, 4th time in a row, the consensus is shifting.
Corner Stone
@Tommy Young:
Man, thin skinned asshole projecting, much?
redshirt
@Tommy Young:
So Cole wants them at the top? Or you? Because you’re the only one I’ve read who’s actually in favor of them, and as you say, you’ve received many requests to put them at the bottom.
Corner Stone
Whose fucking blog is this?
Omnes Omnibus
@Tommy Young: If I may ask a question, is your mandate to improve the site for current users or to attract more new users? I think that would affect the way you view suggestions from long time readers and commenters. Honest question, not an attack.
Corner Stone
@Nate Dawg: I don’t know what’s going on there. It certainly looks like something artificial brought that aircraft down. Just want more info on who/why/how.
Gin & Tonic
@Tommy Young: I’m just one data point, but in my several or more years of coming here, I can say I’ve not once cared about the categories or tags or whatever that META info is, that now seems to show up both at the top and at the bottom of the post. I always figured the poster just sort of randomly selected one or more; I don’t even know how many there are or what they’re named. I look at the author’s name, and that’s it. If you made them vanish for all eternity, that wouldn’t change my user experience at all.
Steeplejack
@Gin & Tonic:
I don’t even know—and I have tried to figure it out a couple of times—the difference between tags and categories. Just that they are (sometimes) mildly funny adjuncts to the current post.
Corner Stone
Ronin, with DeNiro is just an excellently re-watchable show.
redshirt
@Gin & Tonic: I, too, rarely give a single whit about whatever categories or tags are on a post. In fact, in over what, 8 years of BJ posting (maybe), I don’t think I’ve ever once clicked one of the categories.
But now they are literally more important than the content of the post.
Yes, we read this blog differently. What does Tommy do, click all the links first, explore all those posts, and then come back and read the new content?
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Tommy Young:
I have to interrupt with an urgent bug report — I just started getting “this page had to be reloaded” message on every page I try to load (iPad Safari) and typing is slowing down at random. This is new for me as of about half an hour ago.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Tommy Young: I’m trying to be polite! But to state that
wherein I use the term “Google ads” as opposed to AdSense ads (brain bubble) is an example of my not understanding what’s going on is might be missing my point. Please allow me to restate:
.
I completely understand that SEO optimization is going to be an issue. If I was not clear, that’s on me. I am making an effort to be polite. I’m on a different page from you and Cole about the design aesthetics, but not my blog, not my prerogative of choice. Which I also understand. So we’ll disagree on that.
I know you’re working hard, and I know it’s a bitch to wrangle the code.
@Omnes Omnibus: I’ve got the same question.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Agreed.
@Corner Stone: Agreed as well. Plus Katerina Witt.
Corner Stone
Tommy is the Sean Bean character in the movie Ronin.
Discuss.
Davebo
@Corner Stone:
Settle down Francis. I’m supportive but that’s over the top.
NotMax
@Tommy Young
You have no data and no evidence of how I use the blog. Making unsupported accusations is not only unwarranted, but downright rude.
As is overtly labeling as invalid what you subjectively deem incorrect use.
Ran a personal blog for over a decade, BTW (and never, but never, on blogspot, BTW). The blog designing I mentioned earlier was performed entirely for other people, if you must know.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: What color is the boathouse at Hereford?
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: The car chase scene is one of the top 3 “esque” scenes in modern cinema.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: How would I know?
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: The whole thing was well done. The car chase managed to be exciting but also recognize the way cars actually perform.
Davebo
Seriously, this is why I’ll never be involved in consumer based software development!
There’s no money in it and the downside is horrendous.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: How would you know?
Tommy Young
@Omnes Omnibus: Both, but keeping long time readers first and foremost.
There are many things I am stunned about all these comments. And this is about the last time I am even going to post in these threads. But at the top of the list is people that say they have done sites and blogs before and seem to think somehow I can design by a committee of commentators and that is going to work out. Just as I assumed, even if I took the comments and did things I didn’t agree with from both a design and usability standpoint, that wouldn’t be enough. There would be more. Then more.
And I was right.
Corner Stone
@Davebo: Over the top of what? FTR, you’re baking up the wrong brownie pan, friend.
That dude has gone way beyond any reasonable SOW for this blog.
redshirt
@Corner Stone: Surely you have one of the Mad Max Fury Road car chases in your top 3?
redshirt
@Tommy Young: You’re saying don’t take user feedback into account? Especially when it’s overwhelming against your own opinion?
Davebo
@Tommy Young:
Never get out of the boat! Hang in there.
Corner Stone
@Tommy Young:
There is no “design by committee”. It’s Cole’s blog. Comments on how people use the blog are an order of magnitude below what the site owner has requested.
On the other hand, if there is a cmte tell me where to sign up.
Corner Stone
Love it when Sean Bean pukes!
NotMax
@Tommy Young
Failure to diifferentiate among demands (have neither seen any nor made any), opinions and suggestions is evident.
Mentioned the experience of designing only to provide some camaraderie in empathizing what you are experiencing, not as some digital diktat (which appears to be how you interpreted it). There is no best when it comes to the online result of web design. But there is a finite number of betters.
Davebo
@Corner Stone:
Not sure what you mean by SOW but I’ve been hanging around here since John was still a wing nut and I’m uncertain anyone could go beyond anything here. Let’s not bring the dirty orifice into this. Not that there’s anything wrong with that….
amk
@redshirt: yup. how many peeps have even bothered with the tags, s’rsly?
Omnes Omnibus
@Tommy Young: Okay. May I ask why, if keeping long time commenters is a priority, you are consistently telling long time commenters that they don’t understand how websites work? They may not understand how websites work in general, but they do know how this one does and what they like. From a user’s POV, the issues with the site were that it sometimes got slow and couldn’t handle monster events like election nights. That’s it (aside from the threaded comment cranks). Again, I am not attacking you, there may be reasons on the technical side that come into play, but I would like to know what they are.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@redshirt: Let’s see how things turn out, shall we? Tommy’s got a great foundation here. I’m sure it’ll be even better with the tweaks he has planned.
It’s fine that people have strong opinions about the way things should be here. But at the end of the day they’re just opinions. The guys slinging the code will be the ones who decide – with input from JC, of course.
I don’t remember as much heated discussion about the previous version of B-J when it rolled out. Maybe that was because the developers were anonymous. Maybe we should cut Tommy some slack and let him finish.
I’m glad this works so well, and the glitches are minor.
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.
Davebo
@Omnes Omnibus:
What exactly are you asking here? From a user’s POV you’d like to know why a website may drag to a crawl under massive pressure during extremely high volume?
Shall we start with MYSQL or would you rather have Tommy go over the concepts of PHP scripting with you?
Corner Stone
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
Maybe Actual Tommy should not talk so much shit to people who comment here that he has no clue regarding what they do or do not know.
Performance Art Tommy can tell us all about his reasonable Republican family and how he’s a military brat and all that bullshit nonsense. But Actual Tommy keeps talking shit about people who have legit questions re: this website that he somehow has taken a significant ownership position in.
Omnes Omnibus
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: Maybe engaging in a discussion with the developer as things are happening will result in a format that more or less satisfies everyone. Tommy came into the comments to engage. How is it wrong for people to talk to him about their views? Commenters here have a wide variety of expertise and opinion. Or should people simply sit like lumps and watch as an online community that they value potentially changes beyond recognition?
Corner Stone
@Davebo: It’s Scope Of Work. And someone has clearly decided ownership is for them.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: I suspect much of the heated discussion is the primarily the result of two things.
An ALL CAPS “shut the fuck up you WATB” that in other contexts might be understood as an intermittently scheduled pseudo hostile rant.
Which was preceded and followed by a response to longtime users’ feedback that is dismissive and defensive, alleging that the users don’t understand the back end issues but think they do, and as a result any feedback is both invalid and unimportant.
What people know (or don’t) about the back end of a blog where they comment is immaterial to their discussion of their user experience, and it’s the dismissal of that experience that is bothering many of us. And by “many of us” I mean me.
@Corner Stone: Please, for the love of all that is sacred, can we return “legitimate” to regular usage?
Omnes Omnibus
@Davebo: I am not a tech person. A simple answer saying that “Due to the new host, which provides xyz services that we need, abc is not longer an option.” I may not like it, but cool.
redshirt
This website should not be overly complicated. It’s a text based website with an OP image option. There’s no gifs, no media, nothing scripting. Pretty straightforward.
Davebo
@Corner Stone:
Again, not to be rude but..
A quick whois search shows one John Cole is the owner. And I for one think he’s done a decent job here.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Omnes Omnibus: People are free to talk about what they want, of course. It just seems to me that: 1) JC asked us to be nice to Tommy, 2) Tommy has tried to give explanations for why some things are done the way they are at the moment, 3) There was a post a couple of days ago specifically about site redesign requests.
I haven’t seen (that I recall) requests for changes that weren’t already mentioned in that thread on Monday.
It seems to me that the discussion is on the verge of getting overheated to the point of causing bad feelings, with a little “help” by a certain Mr. Stone in this thread for example, and that would be unfortunate.
Let’s all chill.
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.
Omnes Omnibus
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: Did you see me being anything other than polite to Tommy during this whole thing?
Corner Stone
@Davebo: I could not care less if you are rude here. The point is taken, Cole is the site owner. Why would anyone care what a failing WP designer has to say.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Omnes Omnibus: Not at all. I was answering your questions.
Gotta run. Have a good night.
Cheers,
Scott.
redshirt
@Davebo:
Frankly this blog succeeds despite Cole in most cases.
He can make some righteous posts now and then, and of course his journey from Wingnut to Liberal Wingnut is one we’re all on, in some way or another. Yet he’s an idiot. So many of us are, of course, just especially Cole in this context (Blog Mgmt). And obviously in personal grace(Clumsiest?). But he can be super cool too so like it’s a mixed roll in D&D, really. Who knows what troll lurks around the next day?
Corner Stone
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: BQ.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Dude’s a douchebag.
NotMax
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
Am too old to waste time getting hot under the collar or stewing in bad feelings.
Words to live by: Don’t hold a grudge. Even against people you’ll never forgive.
;)
Omnes Omnibus
@Davebo: Long time commenters do feel a sense of community here. They don’t run the blog. They don’t own the blog. But they are a part of the blog. And if they happen to walk away, the blog will change. For better or for worse? Up to you.
trollhattan
Whoa, lookie there, nearly a TBogg Unit! C’mon guys, like Bob the Builder we can do it!
BTW, they caught a suspect in the Spenser Stone stabbing.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Holy spatula, Batman!
;)
Nate Dawg
Tommy could put up a poll for each and every tweak he has planned and see what the commentariat says.
But really, the new site looks better. I assume it will look even better when they’re finished. Now it just seems like a pie fight about process.
NotMax
@Nate Dawg
Being that it’s BJ, a poll about putting up polls first.
Anne Laurie
@redshirt:
Also — and this is another specific-to-this-blog issue — half the tags here are deliberate snark, and putting them above the post spoils the joke.
Nate Dawg
@Anne Laurie:
AGREED.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@trollhattan: How close are we?
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Anne Laurie:
Yes this.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Nate Dawg: Seconded. Or thirded. I’ve had better days. Or is it fourthed?
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
Excellent point.
redshirt
I wonder what former IMPERATOR CRACKER thinks.
redshirt
And for real I think this is a wonderful photograph as it seems like the light posts are holding up the clouds/creating the clouds. Which are fiery red because these are gas lamps circa 1880.
And there’s a STORM to the right.
redshirt
A crane with a storm. It’s wonderful.
I just read a big book on art so I feel qualified judging:
This is art.
Althea
My favorite Twilight Zone episode!
Althea
70’s and 80’s here in SC, supposed to turn cooler (60’s) on Sunday
Althea
Perhaps John should just retire to twitter since since he luuurves it so much that he rarely makes an appearance here except to bitch briefly about something. Remember back when twitter was the newest thing and we were all making fun of republicans for jumping on it as the new medium to broadcast their message?
/s
tybee
9 away from a TBogg unit.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
01100101 01101001 01100111 01101000 01110100
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: 01110011 01100101 01110110 01100101 01101110
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: 01110011 01101001 01111000
NotMax
5 to go.
Satby
Happy to do my bit.
Satby
And a beloved commenter who’s been lurking may chime in on this “pretty funny” thread. That will get us almost there.
sharl
There sure are a lot of IT veterans at this here place…
NotMax
Penultimate.
lethargytartare
unit achieved
chopper
see this is why we were complaining about comment numbers going away.
satby
@sharl: yes there are.
Just Some Fuckhead
Probably late to the party but I thought I’d lay in my thoughtful and well-crafted response to the site makeover: It looks like it was designed by a four year old. Hopefully you aren’t out any money.
Just Some Fuckhead
Also, can you put the toll free support number on the Contact Us page?
Corner Stone
@Just Some Fuckhead: Maybe you just haven’t yet had time to watch the instructional video?
No, I am not kidding.