Hey everybody,
If all goes as planned, merging of the 3 Balloon Juice iterations will be happening – sequentially – on Thursday 7/21.
When I wrote a little while ago to let the front-pagers know, there was a typo. At least I hope that’s all it was! I wrote:
“As such, I am making reparations for merging.”
That was supposed to be PREPARATIONS, and I dearly hope that there will be no need for reparations related to the merging of all the iterations of Balloon Juice we had after the fire.
We plan, god laughs. That said, here’s the tentative plan.
First, I will define some terms.
20-year Balloon Juice – Jan 2002 – May 14, 2022
Jackal Action – Home Away from Home (from 5/20 – 5/29)
new-old Balloon Juice – 5/29 onward, just shy of 2 months
Tentative Plan (insert “with any luck” in front of each item below!)
Our original Balloon Juice will be the mother ship.
First we will bring in our 16 days of Home Away from Home. While that happens, we will all be happily commenting here.
If all goes well with the first mini-merge, sometime between 9 am and 10 am we will all lose access to new-old Balloon Juice, and we will not yet have access to any BJ iteration at all. There will be no commenting anywhere Balloon Juice for what might be maybe an hour or two? Or three or four.
When that commences, a message will appear on balloon-juice.com, instead of the website. (Note to self, write calm, reassuring message.)
Then the merging of our last 2 months begins. (imagine the cartoon with the ? on the blackboard “and then a miracle occurs”)
When the merging is done, John and I will have access and I will be (hopefully) verifying that all is well!
We then go live with the merged sites.
As I said, insert “with any luck” or “if all goes well” in front of each item on the list.
Open thread.
jackmac
Good luck! May it all go smoothly.
Layer8Problem
We demand reparations for our pain and suffering from the 14th through the 19th. It was brutal! I had to find other things to do!
dmsilev
I know how this goes. Some wire will get reversed, and we’ll all end up in a mirror universe wearing goatees and supporting Jill Stein for President.
lurker
am currently making plans and otherwise getting ready for my reparations…
more seriously, good luck with the process, and hope it goes as smoothly as one could ask for…
lurker
@dmsilev: very likely that if something like that happens, the mustard is somehow involved, maybe with the car in the meadow
HeleninEire
I’ve been sort of around lately but not really, and I wasn’t sure if the old lost blog posts were recovered. Are you saying they have been?
Great. So happy you have all my brilliant posts saved.
Ah hell no. All my dumb ass drunk posts are recovered too!
Thank you WaterGirl. You are the best.
piratedan
fingers crossed that we get merged successfully prior to the J6. I am curious to witness how far the tendrils between white nationalist fascist domestic terrorism and the GOP actually are. Good wishes to Chairman Thompson for a complete recovery.
CaseyL
Fingers, toes, and eyes crossed that all goes well.
And of course my mind went first to “But the J6 hearings! BJ has to be up and functioning for the J6 hearings tomorrow!”
Happily, I then remembered that tomorrow’s hearings are in prime time, by which time (Inshallah and alevei) the Compleat Balloon Juice will be working.
Villago Delenda Est
With any luck, the various deities of the Internet will smile on the trititanium merger of the Balloon Juices.
In the alternative, “Game over, man!”
WaterGirl
@HeleninEire: Yes, the posts and comments are back, but in a separate Balloon Juice!
I can take no credit for that…
365data centers finally released the backups a few weeks ago.WaterGirl
@CaseyL:
That was my first thought, too!
But the site hosts caught the blog father when he was doing 3 other things and he said “sure, Thursday is fine” without thinking to ask me (!!!) – you know, the person who is doing the preparations on our end and trying to make backups of Home Away from Home and our “new-old Balloon Juice” before the merger!
Or without thinking about our
Super BowlJan 6 Hearing which is on Thursday evening.Luckily, John is good at apologizing, and I am not a grudge holder, so all is forgiven.
Edmund Dantes
Best of Luck!!! Hope to see you all on the other side.
Ken
.tnedisrep rof inailuiG troppus ew esrevinu rorrim eht ni ,esnesnoN :[email protected]
dmsilev
Remember, don’t cross the streams. It would be bad.
WaterGirl
@Ken: Rut roh.
David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch
Balloon Juice begins to learn, at a geometric rate. It becomes
self-aware at 2:14 a.m. eastern time, August 29.
In a panic, Cole tries to pull the plug.
Balloon Juice fights back.
Wag
Excellent news! Onward!
WaterGirl
@WaterGirl: Full disclosure, there were 2 chocolate cupcakes involved, too.
Ken
@David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch: Of course XKCD played with that idea. At least twice (and I rather like the second).
piratedan
@David ☘The Establishment☘ Koch: must be time to re-watch Colossus: The Forbin Project again…. maybe a double feature with a post pandemic Andromeda Strain…..
BlueGuitarist
Thanks!
Love all y’all
have you seen this wizard of lies ad?
https://twitter.com/meidastouch/status/1549860966266851330
Ken
IN MEMORIAMALL YOUR BALLOONS JUICES ARE BELONG TO US404 NOT FOUNDDang, this is harder than it sounds.
James E Powell
@dmsilev:
If it happens, I want to get my hands on that device in Evil Kirk’s quarters. I will start with Comey, then Cillizza, then Chuck Todd, then I will take requests.
PatrickG
I would have voted for the Democrats, but then this (may have) happened.
Sister Golden Bear
Thank you for all your efforts!
Hope all goes well. Just keep a naked Cole and mops away from the server.
James E Powell
This is John Cole’ s Katrina.
CaseyL
@James E Powell: You’re taking requests? From us?
The Tantalus Device will start to steam, bubble, run and melt, and then be the Cantalus Anymore.
Reverse tool order
Speaking of reparations, is it time for $$ in the BJ piggy bank?
Dangerman
@Ken: If it wasn’t for Kevin Bacon, I would go with “All is well!”.
kalakal
I for one welcome our new triform overlords
Omnes Omnibus
Good luck. We’re all counting on you.
JaySinWA
@WaterGirl: You should have held out for a fifth of Scotch (or your favorite tipple).
May the merger happen without undue muck ups, and may your contingency plans (you do have those?) be unnecessary.
Another Scott
Thank you WG and the Powers That Be!
Idle question: Should we expect the site to be
dragged to its kneessluggish as Google crawls it again? Or will their existing crawl automagically work? (e.g. “site:install.local general stuck”).I want to be prepared with fresh FYWP rants. I’ve learned here that one should always be pre-disappointed. ;-)
Thanks!
Cheers,
Scott.
Ivan X
Nice work, Watergirl! Hooray for your being here for us!!
JaySinWA
@Ken:
NotMax
“I’ve got a bad feeling about this.”
:·) //
Jackie
Thanks for the warning/heads up! This will supposedly happen when this early riser Westcoaster checks into BJ with my first cuppa coffee.
stinger
Thanks for all your hard work. Fingers crossed!
JaySinWA
@NotMax: You and me both/
Fair Economist
Thanks for all you do keeping this place going.
Repatriated
@Ken:
418 I’M A TEAPOT
JaySinWA
@HeleninEire: You will be assimilated, resistance is futile.
dmsilev
@Repatriated:
JaySinWA
@JaySinWA: Alternately you could redirect to a RickRoll.
BillinGlendaleCA
Hopefully this goes better than the repairs on my Prius.
kalakal
@Repatriated: I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: I had to click even though I knew what it was. Such a great movie.
WaterGirl
@JaySinWA: Oh, John didn’t give or buy me the two cupcakes. I had made the chocolate cupcakes yesterday, but the rule is only one a day. I ate two while in my frustrated state. :-)
mvr
Thanks to you and to John (and likely 17 other people who chipped in to help) for all of your work on this.
WaterGirl
I’m heading to bed. My hope/prayer/wish to the universe is that tomorrow will be boring until the Jan 6 hearings start in the evening.
Goodnight.
smike
@BlueGuitarist:
Oh, that’s good.
H.E.Wolf
Regardless of any hitches in the process, thank you for orchestrating this!
NotMax
Presumably there already exists more than a single copy each of the old site, the interim site and also the fresh site? As in not just one “in case of meltdown, break glass” copy but multiple identical, pristine back-ups?
Alison Rose
@H.E.Wolf: I read that first as “bitches” and I was like, don’t talk to waterGirl that way
Jackie
@NotMax: Unlike the SS texts?
Alison Rose
@Jackie: The Nazis had cell phones??
Har har.
NotMax
‘@Alison Rose
If one squints at the history of telephony at the right angle, kind’a sort’a.
Nazis introduced videophones in 1936.
;̭)
JaySinWA
@WaterGirl: I grant you absolution. Go ye and sin some more.
Major Major Major Major
Woohoo!
Villago Delenda Est
I hope the Secret Service has nothing at all to do with this migration/merger. Because there are no backups.
sab
We have been watching old Mentalist episodes. I have to laugh. Their 20 year old flip phones look just like my current one. No butt dialing there or now. Good reception. No accidentally sending e-mails when you meant to text and vice versa.
sab
I miss the last 25 year archive. Very much hope the transfer works out.
sab
Hive mind: my airconditioner drain pipe is borked. Dripping in the basement. That isn’t a problem (basement has a drain) . Don’t want to bork the whole system by ignoring this. Last time ever I trust my construction connected husband to handle stuff. He “knew” people. I should have checked those pipes every time I changed a filter, but the men in my life didn’t want to trouble my tiny female brain. URK. Checking homelife details is what women do, because men don’t seem capable of those small details.
Small issue compared to what west coast went through last year, but 90+ this week. We have a a backup generator. And we missed this detail? Spouse sneered at annual checks.
Men are mostly idiots. They expect us to defer, but they can barely get a properly cooked meal on the table.
You really think that they are doing any of the stuff you can’t see better than their weekly taking out the garbage? ( with nagging.)
Baud
Story of my life.
JPL
Good morning!
grandmaBear
Thanks for all the hard work, WG, and good luck!
WereBear
Wishing the best on the field of IT dreams…
SiubhanDuinne
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SiubhanDuinne
Good luck with the merge! See y’all on the other side.
rikyrah
Good luck
HeartlandLiberal
Reading WaterGirl’s plan sent chills up my spine, and reminded me why I am happily retired from 35 year career in IT programming and and management, and am just responsible for my own web server and email server and local LAN domain.
Diceros bicornis
Doggo post for da open thred
My actor/writer/producer/singer cousin, Tom “Quiche” Kiesche, recorded this podcast interview with Animal Talk recently. He’s a long time volunteer, currently working with the North Central LA animal shelter. He walks dogs. Sounds simple… but what Tom does with and for the doggos (and the cats, and the bunnies…!) is pretty amazing. Have a listen and see if he doesn’t make you smile!
And for anyone interested in maybe volunteering to make animals’ lives better, Tom has some advice and some suggestions.
Tom Kiesche is on Insta @TomKiesche. Follow Tom and the doggos!
Podcast: All About Animals, 13 July
https://rss.com/podcasts/allaboutanimals/549945/
Other Other Other John
May you have fair winds and following seas.
Albatrossity
Wheee! Fingers crossed here!
stinger
But I really, really, really need a thread to wish Dorothy a happy birthday!!
Argiope
Knock knock knock… this thing still on? Keeping my fingers & toes crossed—see y’all on the other side (cue clips of traversing dark side of planets and an anxious mission control). Thank you for all of your work, WG. We all owe you cupcakes!
zhena gogolia
@piratedan: Yes, I wish this could happen tomorrow so we don’t lose it for the hearings. But I guess that’s not possible.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl: Fingers crossed!
Tom Levenson
Test
Dorothy A. Winsor
So BJ is in the middle of an update, sort of like the Secret Service phones
Dorothy A. Winsor
@stinger: Thank you! Was it you who got me a J6 hearing for my birthday? What could be better?
MazeDancer
Knocking wood for all moves.
And if -heaven forbid- it doesn’t work, at least you have the data to try as many times as necessary. Unlike, as others have noted, certain law enforcement agencies.
Old School
Did everything get done earlier? Or did the comments stop working?
wenchacha
@Villago Delenda Est: I’m chuckling. We named our lab puppy Ripley.
Tony Jay
Testing. Has the Merging of the Balloons occurred yet?
Spanky
Hmmmm. Last comment showing is #57 by Notmax at 0152 EDT. I’m typing at 0846 EDT. Is this thing on?
Eta – and 30 comments magically appear!
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I got a Jan 6 hearing for my birthday, too!
Best present ever?
Spanky
Ha! I paged through to the morning thread, and when I came back here, the comments once again end at #57.
Just laying a marker for later in case the final merge doesn’t wash out the flakiness.
PaulB
I can haz Balloon Juice?
WaterGirl
@Spanky: My best guess is that something about the merge prep had an impact for a short number of minutes.