Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Stand up, dammit!

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Every decision we make has lots of baggage with it, known or unknown.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

Find someone who loves you the way trump and maga love traitors.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Let there be snark.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

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Today Is Not the Day

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I’m pretty sure that anyone with a calendar, or eyeballs, has figured out that we did not move to the new site today.  We are aiming for next week.  I can’t be more specific than that except to say that it won’t be Monday and it won’t be Friday.

Anne Laurie mentioned that the current site may have been acting up today.  Not that it’s much help, but I can assure you that whatever may have been happening on Balloon Juice today, it has nothing to do with the new site.

Oh, and one more thing.  We are aware that a few of you have been sneaking in the back door of the test site.  We haven’t said anything before this, but now that we are in the final troubleshooting phase and are turning things on and off as part of that process, it’s really not helpful for you guys to be in there.

So after a couple of weeks of turning a blind eye, we are now super-politely asking you to stop that.  Don’t make John pull this blog over.

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51Comments

  1. 1.

    Omnes Omnibus

    If you tell me how to get in, I promise I won’t do it (says a person who was known for getting into new buildings and drinking on top of them before they are open to the public).

  2. 2.

    Jerzy Russian

    We are aware that a few of you have been sneaking in the back door of the test site.

    What are they doing back there? Smoking? Making out?

  3. 3.

    Martin

    Don’t make John pull this blog over.

    Are we there yet?

    Are we there yet?

    Are we there yet?

    I need to pee.

  5. 5.

    chopper

    first we had “balloon juice after dark”, now we have “balloon juice through the back door”. you people.

  6. 6.

    Jerzy Russian

    @dmsilev: That is a movie where one can overthink things. For example they were able to build these huge robots but they still needed two people to control them? Remote control was not an option? Although to be fair, if we had a rash of attacks by monsters the size of buildings I am not sure I could come up with anything better.

  7. 7.

    dmsilev

    @Jerzy Russian: That movie is not supposed to make sense. For instance, if humans had success fighting monsters using giant robots and then the monsters got tougher, our response wouldn’t be to Build Wall, it would be to build gianter robots. If nothing else, the giant-robot-industrial complex would insist on it.

  8. 8.

    John Revolta

    @Omnes Omnibus: When we were in high school, my friend Nat and I snuck in
    to the John Hancock Center in Chicago when it was still being built. We managed to get almost to the very top floor where the windows weren’t in yet and looked down the side of the building. Scary as shit.
    We didn’t have any drinks though. Probably just as well.

  11. 11.

    WaterGirl

    @Omnes Omnibus: My only (almost) trespassing charge was when I was 5 years old. The dime store around the corner had a fire and the building was still smoldering. My two older sisters and I (they were 7 and 10) were climbing on the roof of the smoldering building when the cops found us.

    They of course said their little sister (me) had gone up there and they had only followed to save me. One of my two brushes with the law.

  13. 13.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @WaterGirl:

    One of my two brushes with the law.

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha…. Wheeze, gasp! Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaahhahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahaaha….. Two? I am crying here. Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha….

  17. 17.

    debbie

    Anne Laurie mentioned that the current site may have been acting up today.

    More than just today, at least for me.

  18. 18.

    BruceFromOhio

    We are aware that a few of you have been sneaking in the back door of the test site.

    Hahahhhhahaha lololol I fuvking hated users logging into the contingency site during resilience testing. Hey you idiots without a life! Read your email! It’s a holiday weekend!

  27. 27.

    laura

    All I can say is that I’ve never felt so old lady driving a station wagon zero street cred chamomile tea in all my born days.
    O/wise, the blog is nifty as all get out.

  28. 28.

    Ken

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    So Cole finally looked at the new site, said he hated it with the intensity of 1000 suns, so we’re back to square one.

    Nah, he just didn’t like the font. Two minutes to edit the CSS and it’s good to go. Either that or the whole thing crashes for utterly mysterious reasons.

  32. 32.

    lgerard

    Texas

    Voters in Houston, Texas, elected 19 black women to local judgeships last year. The new judges, all Democrats, have instituted wide-ranging reforms to the county’s bail system. Voters also sent Democratic judges to the state appeals court.

    This year Republican legislators introduced a bill, supported by Abbott, that would have replaced judicial elections with a system in which the governor appoints judges, subject to Senate confirmation. Every four years, voters would decide whether to keep the judges in office through a nonpartisan “retention” election.

    However, the bill would have ended elections only in counties with more than 500,000 people, targeting urban areas like Houston. That would mean the governor would choose judges in the state’s larger, more diverse counties, while rural, conservative counties could keep choosing their own judges.

  34. 34.

    Redshift

    A bit of that illicit traffic could have been me; I had left a tab open on the test site. I don’t think I’ve reloaded it, but with a phone browser, you can never be sure what it’s doing in its own.

  36. 36.

    JaySinWA

    so are these not authorized testers or just stranglers? Cause i haven’t seen a cease and desist order for official testers other than this. And I haven’t been to the test site in a while.

  37. 37.

    NotMax

    @JaySinWA

    Last time I looked in via the front door (early early morning Friday) it was offering me an option to edit others’ comments. Which it shouldn’t be doing.

    I know better than to barge in the back way and have not even attempted to do so.

  42. 42.

    Ivan X

    Is the title of this post a reference to the Curve song? If so, that’s a deep, deep cut. Respect.

  44. 44.

    JWR

    What? You mean I can get into the new site? Without even being an actual tester? What’s was that URL, please. ;)

    Just kidding. I have a hard enough time just keeping up with the old site, which was exhibiting all sorts of odd behavior for me last night. (Plus, I like nice surprises.)

    Also, you rock, WaterGirl!

  45. 45.

    Anon Y. Mouse

    Not a wise choice to switch during Mercury retrograde… best wait until after November 20.

  46. 46.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Blah blah blah… Sure you are. Any day now. Been hearing this for years. I’m beginning to think you aren’t even real WG. You’re just some bot that Cole got whipped up to troll us, the low plebeian commentariot..

  47. 47.

    HeartlandLiberal

    Want to step in here and speak to this process based on my 35 plus years of computer programming, analysis, system development, and IT director experience, including even designing a few personal web sites with WordPress.

    I participated in the testing, and can report that the test procedures provided by WaterGirl and dev team were among the best designed I have seen. Designing and implementing a system as complex as an interactive web site, that must support heavy traffic, is a complex and difficult task. And the LAST thing you want is to rush it into production, only to THEN discover fatal flaws. That is a mess neither developers nor users want, trust me on this. I also was thrilled to see that the new design will be READABLE, no one on the team fell for the trendy use of low contrast gray fonts that are invisible. That was one of my primary criteria for success. So, patience, fellow jackals. The new site is a clean, straightforward design, that will be an improvement in functionality as well, particularly in the comments. So be patient.

    Oh, and I might as well pitch an old maxim from system design days in: “A system becomes at some point 95% complete, and remains that way forever.” At some point, the time comes to go into production, despite whatever remaining design goals linger not quite achieved. I suspect golive is near, have patience.

  48. 48.

    J R in WV

    @lgerard:

    the governor would choose judges in the state’s larger, more diverse counties, while rural, conservative counties could keep choosing their own judges.

    These Republicans hate democracy… they also can’t think ahead at all. What if Democratic voters elect a Democratic Governor? All Democratic judges all over the state? Of course, this attitude reveals their inrtention to do away with democracy and fair elections as well. Fuck the American Constitution and the institution of fair and equal elections.

    It makes me so angry to have the country in the hands of anti-American, anti democratic traitors at a time like this.

  50. 50.

    J R in WV

    @HeartlandLiberal:

    Back on topic:

    Oh, and I might as well pitch an old maxim from system design days in: “A system becomes at some point 95% complete, and remains that way forever.” At some point, the time comes to go into production, despite whatever remaining design goals linger not quite achieved. I suspect golive is near, have patience.

    This is so true. No really major system is ever complete, as requirements change, capabilities change, law and regulations change. When I worked in IT, they refused to allow us to hire full time premanant employees to enlarge staff for development of major new systems, because bad politics to increase staff in state government, lets not pay attention to a more complex world and increasing environmental standards.

    So instead they authorized us to procure contractors, expensive higher-paid temp employees with the required skill set, which was difficult because we wanted to abandon COBOL and work in the windowed PC RDBMS world, and people with those skills were expensive and rare.

    Years later, senior management wanted to know when the system would be “finished” so they could stop paying the expensive contractor software mavens. I had the unhappy task of informing the top management white guys that as long as they and the Feds and the Legislature kept changing regs, law, policy and procedures, the systems would never be complete in the sense that we would no longer need a full staff of analysts, designers and programmers.

    We were barely able to keep up with changing requirements and changes to our platforms with the additional contract staff… And the networking folks were in charge of the network, including the servers and client desktop machines. I will never forget the morning when users were unable to use the very expensive state of the art software because in their majesty the network staff, rulers of hardware, had decided it was time to upgrade server, network and desktop systems, without even asking if the actual systems all that infrastructure was intended to support would work after the network “upgrades”.

    Nothing worked, and nothing we could do would help, as our development tools didn’t work any more either. 20 years later on it is a very funny story. They denied they had changed anything, it was supposed to have been invisible to the user community, but Novell wasn’t really good at upgrading transparently.

    ETA: Also agree that Watergirl’s testing regimen was excellent and through, and that the new B-J appears to be a great well built new iteration of Balloon-Juice, for which I am so thankful~!!~

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