As soon as you put in the second pic of my kittehs, Cole.
Kidding! Tunchie has to eat. Will do.
2.
General Winfield Stuck
so I am finally thinking it is time for a move.
I think that’s what Rip Van Winkle said, that and I need a shave.
Just so happens i have a few coins in the pay pal. But I must have a dictionary plugin, if that’s okay.
3.
General Winfield Stuck
I don’t know if you can get a Newegg icon add, but I buy almost all my electronic and computer stuff from them. Just ordered a new photo printer yesterday. They have better prices and service than Amazon.
4.
jeffreyw
I’m in.
5.
demkat620
Okay, so I am old, I’ve never used Amazon, but this year since I am working full time, I planned to shop on line. I have added you to my favorites list. Will it work for first time buyers? Tip you or whatever it does?
6.
Juror #7
Count me in. (Will try to do better at using the Amazon click-thru, too.)
7.
valdivia
I always use the Amazon link. Will do so again this week when I order a couple of things.
8.
Just Some Fuckhead
I hate doing this in a shitty economy just 6 months or so after the “rebuild,” I’m at my wits end for site functionality and tired of hearing about it in the comments.
I never complained so I don’t feel compelled to contribute. New job and all, holidays, blah blah blah. I’m sure you understand. I’m here when ya need a hug though.
9.
dfd
I’ll try to remember to use the Amazon link. Sorry, don’t do PayPal.
10.
BettyPageIsaBlonde
Meh. It’s all good. I don’t need the plug-ins and whatnot, just the mainline feed that JC and his fellow conspirators *cough* Tunch/Lilly *cough* feed us.
I’ll start spending my communist dollars through the Amazon link though.
11.
Anne Laurie
As an added incentive to the DFHs here, when you click through and buy your holiday gifts from Amazon, you’re making the WalMart heirs cry.
As an added incentive to the DFHs here, when you click through and buy your holiday gifts from Amazon, you’re making the WalMart heirs cry.
That is sorely tempting.
13.
EnderWiggin
So I own a small (20 person) IT company that does web design and development. This is the only blog I read the comments on, and the only blog I read every post on. I would like to offer support for the site priced between free to nominal. As long as the site works and I can actually load it on my iPhone, it would be worth it.
I will email you later tonight or tomorrow morning (wife is under the weather). Hopefully we can work something out.
I used the Amazon link today but that’s as far as I go in paying for things online. I’ll bet others would like a mailing address to use for sending a contribution. If you want to guard your privacy and not have a lot of us show up at your door for a visit, you could use the address of a friend or relative…Anyway, like dfd I don’t do PayPal.
16.
Annie
Just to clarify. I can use Amazon because I order a fair amount with the courses I teach. But, if I use PayPal directly, does BJ get more??? I want to use what will give BJ the most….
@John Cole: Door on kitteh’s tail. Worst. Sound. Evah.
18.
Joshua Norton
Eeeesh. If your web programmer is avoiding you that is never a good sign. Sometimes they just have to throw their hands up in the air and give up because they’re at as much of a loss as you are. And you’re right – that means it’s time to move on to a solution that works.
19.
Just Some Fuckhead
Alright, so I just figured out they’ve been saying “state” dinner and not “steak” dinner. Makes sense now that I think about it, what with the honoree being the Indian prime minister.
20.
demkat620
@John Cole: as another peson with a smallish(12 lb) dog, that is an awful sound.
@Just Some Fuckhead: Thanks for the hearty laugh, JSF. I sorely needed it.
22.
SiubhanDuinne
I’m another who won’t use Paypal any more — ran into problems with them a year or so ago and just don’t want to go through that again — although I do order from Amazon and will gladly use the click-through from now on. But I second the idea of an actual mailing address. There’s something quite satisfying about writing a real cheque, addressing an envelope, putting a stamp on it, and dropping it through a mail slot. It feels realer somehow.
Sorry about Lily’s foot. Did that horrible sound come from her when you stepped on her, or from you when she turned on you? And where pray tell was Lord Tunch during this episode?
23.
HRA
I will go to order my gifts from Amazon as soon as recuperate from the next few days.
I am ashamed to say that for reasons that defy my understanding, it has simply never occurred to me to do my Amazon shopping via BJ. I will do so in the future!
And I’mma go have a talk with Messers Pay and Pal, right nao.
Thank you, John. This is a good place, and you and your folks are good folks.
And the pets are nice, too.
(Oh, and worst sound: Stepping on your cat’s tail at night).
32.
Poopyman
I dropped some coin in Paypal. I can haz an Edit function now?
I can’t even get my pw to access the cpanel to upgrade plugins
I have no idea what any of that means.
#TechTalkFail
38.
Chuck
I do all my shopping on amazon and newegg, so I’ll be using that link for sure.
Most important thing of any move: make *sure* you have full SQL dumps of your database. WordPress locks it all up in the db, and if you lose that you lose all your archives. 8 years of blog won’t take that much space — you should be able to fit it on a CD.
As in, get your dump before you dump your programmer.
39.
Just Some Fuckhead
Bad sounds:
My kid positively howling after corrective feet surgery, before they could get the morphine going. That one nearly broke me.
My dog shitting and puking simultaneously as he staggered around in a circle when he ran me too hard and too long on a hot day. Please don’t die out here in front of everyone, Max.
My nearly 80 year old mother-in-law falling down my stairs, followed by quiet. Oh shit.
@Max: Yeah, I kind of spend my online life in a bit of a haze, because these sorts of collections of words pop up a lot, and dude. What? (And my husband’s a software engineer!)
Which is a good enough reason for me. Walmart is a poster child for corporate welfare, and the heirs are some of the best examples of people born on third that think they hit a triple.
42.
Warren Terra
For all those asking about the Amazon link: John gets a small percentage, a sort of finder’s fee, for steering your business to Amazon. You do not pay any extra for your purchases, nor give directly.
43.
bubba
Least I can do for a picture of my grand daughter (and Tunch sized cat) on the site. It is the little things.
Oh , my other cat in heat at 6 am the morning after Bubba +(insert incomprehensible but sadly true number here) .
Worst sound evah. I so need to put that kitty under the knife.
44.
Steph
I use Amazon all the time, I’ll click through.
Bad sound: my two preschoolers clocking heads – that coconut ring that you know will be followed in three seconds by piercing screams.
45.
Max
Did anyone watch Tweety today? He really was great with the GOP hack on (not Ron Christie).
She was essentially saying Obama ruined the country that George W Bush perfected and Chris said something to the effect of “I’m often asked why I have on so many republicans and you’ve proved my point tonight… I do it to remind people what a republican looks likes”.
It was so condescending and perfect and really was a great way of calling her batshit, but in a waspy, northeastern, elite kind of way.
I’ve been using the Amazon link on here quite a bit. I buy my text books, gifts, books and things I need through the link on here. Hopefully, you get a nice bit.
47.
Jean
Worst sound: Simon, big dog at 80 lbs, stepped on Sundae’s foot (Sundae is little at 12 lbs with legs like matchsticks). She screamed like a child for five minutes. It was so horrible that I thought I’d have to run her to the vet. After Simon seemed properly horrified, she quieted down and stopped limping. Then, after 30 minutes or so, when he was lying there on the floor, she ran over and yelled at him again, smacking him in the face. She’s kind of a drama queen, but still, he could have broken her foot.
48.
khead
I have an Amazon gift card and I just checked Amazon for Furminators. Which one is the official Furminator endorsed by Tunch here @ BJ? There are a couple and our SweetPea could use a good grooming.
I’m thinking Furminator/Left 4 Dead 2 combo purchase.
49.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Max: That struck me as Tweety’s way of saying he was getting heat from lefties for carrying Republican water night after night on what is supposedly a left-leaning news network now.
I promise, you’d rip your ears off your head to not hear that.
51.
MattR
Dogs (and animals in general) are surprisingly strudy. I think my 30 lb dog concussed me a couple years ago. She was lying on my chest as I was lying on the couch when the doorbell rang. We both jumped and smacked heads. It didn’t knock me out, but I was very wobbly as I stumbled over to thr door. Even in that state I remember being worried about Ellie, looking over and seeing her wagging her tail and jumping around as if nothing happened. It was then that I realized that she could kill me whenever she wanted and the food bowl has not been empty since :)
52.
General Winfield Stuck
worst sound. moi birthing an 8 mm kidney stone. Woke up Moses in his grave.
53.
binz
John,
I discovered I have a problem with trying to pay via pay pal. Maybe it’s me and maybe it’s because it’s been a while since I’ve bought something online (and it has been 5 years since I bought something via Amazon after they fucked up an $800 dollar order of mine)…but …. I have no problem providing my credit card number, my little security number thingie on the back of the card, my real name, my home address (which is my billing address). But I’m not interested in providing my home phone number and a real e-mail address.
I don’t recall having the home phone and email a mandatory field for other online transactions I’ve done. It’s always been billing address. Why does Pay Pal need my home phone and my email address? If they only have my credit card info any collection agency would know where to find me.
I hate to be pissy but the asking for home phone and valid email smells like Pen Pal third-party potential marketing bullshit to me.
Maybe I’m stupid about this. Maybe I’m off base and everybody does it now.
If I’m way off base about this my apologies in advance for being a cantankerous contrarian fuck.
54.
Max
@Just Some Fuckhead: Perhaps, but it was his way of slamming her and I appreciated it.
I have a complicated relationship with Chris. He gets me so mad, and then he has a segment like tonight’s, or the other day with the bishop.
I think Chris loves politics and history and is a moderate democrat, with certain sensibilities. He grew up in a republican family, yet he did the peace corps and worked for Carter and Tip O’Neil.
He’s like 64 years old, so, for his age, I think he’s hip.
But for Ms. Dias, from GSI Commerce, Wal-Mart’s campaign against Amazon is overdue. As an executive at the now-defunct Circuit City chain, and as an adviser to traditional retailers today, she says she has watched many companies overlook the long-term threat posed by Amazon.
So what kind of advice is she giving? How to screw up a massive retailer? CxO welfare in full flow I guess. Some of these people should end up working at McDonald’s and then I’m not talking about HQ.
56.
MattR
@General Winfield Stuck: 8mm?!?! Wow. Ouch. Makes me thankful that my body usually expels them as “gravel” before they can get that large.
57.
MattR
@MattR: Interesting. WordPress ate my exclamation points after the question mark. Just reinforces John’s decision to move. I am not allowed to buy anything at Amazon until after my birthday this weekend, but I am sure I will be there afterwards and will make sure to hit the BJ link to do so. FYWP!!!
58.
KDP
Paypal monies sent. I’ll have textbooks to buy soon for next quarter, so will try to remember to use the click-thru instead of direct to Amazon.
I suppose it is silly to ask if you’ve checked the wordpress/cpanel forums for password reset assistance?
My entry in the worst sounds competition: Getting out of bed in the dark, accidentally squashing small sleeping dog’s paw, dog wakes up screaming & immediately starts loud fight with two other no-longer-sleeping small dogs, doing a Stooges routine where everybody blames everybody else for the original injury. Didn’t have quite the heart-sinking quality of some entries, but for sheer volume, range, variety of noise, and fear of somebody (probably the innocent Spousal Unit) getting seriously bloodied in the dark…
60.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Max: I can’t fucking stand him. I hate every thing about him, from the way he spits everywhere when he talks to his haughty smirk when he thinks he’s said something “wise” or “taken someone down” to the goofy way he laughs at unfunny things to the way he talks nonstop after asking a guest a question.
I hate the constant parade of morons he brings on that are so fucking predictable they could just replace them with a screen crawl of talking points, from Pat Buchanan to Ron Christie to Craig Crawford (I do an absolutely kickass Craig Crawford imitation, btw) to even lefties like Kristina Vanden Heuvel.
I hate the insiderish Irish mythmaking with old squinty-eyed farts like Buchanan and Barnicle, like they fucking single-handedly built the fucking Mayflower and settled the New World with their salt of the earth Irish bluster and blood redder than everyone else’s when everyone knows it was us Germans that built the country while the lazy Irish drank and fought.
61.
erlking
Fuck it, John. I check this site at work–so I figure you’re entitled to some of the lucre I made reading you. It isn’t much but I’ll bung you a few quid from time to time.
Took 4 months to move thru my ureter at about a quarter an inch movement events, and many screaming trips to the ER at the Biloxi VA. They didn’t have the machine to break them up and I wouldn’t let them do surgery and no insurance outside, so it was a slog and about eleventy hundred gallons of water to get it done. They wouldn’t even give me narcotic pain meds cause I liked em too much, so it was only ibuprofin and a regular Toradal shot at the ER. I passed a couple more much smaller ones that hurt plenty, but only lasted about a week each. Had four more punctate ones still in the kidney 10 years ago, and started drinking nothing by distilled water since then, and haven’t had a problem with the little fellers prolly washing out without pain. Knock on wood.
[. . .] dog wakes up screaming & immediately starts loud fight with two other no-longer-sleeping small dogs, doing a Stooges routine where everybody blames everybody else for the original injury.
LOL!
71.
Brick Oven Bill
Let the record reflect that today, November 24th, 2009, the Oil Shale Initiative maybe, just maybe, took a big step forward. Let that record be Balloon Juice.
If this pans out, the Balloon Juice site will be fully funded, in exchange for a permanent ad that states: ‘There is only one Allah, and Glenn Beck is his messenger.’
That and I can’t be banned again.
72.
Comrade Kevin
@Just Some Fuckhead: I really, really loathe those fake Irish types. I can practically see my mom’s eyes rolling every time the pull their “Irish” act.
If this pans out, the Balloon Juice site will be fully funded, in exchange for a permanent ad that states: ‘There is only one Allah, and Glenn Beck is his messenger.’
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That and I can’t be banned again.
A Devil’s Bargain if there ever was one.
74.
Steeplejack
@John Cole:
Got a completely unexpected and improbably large check from someone last week, so in between tipping strippers and lighting my cigars with C-notes I just sent you a little dough.
Condolences on the site problems.
75.
binz
Hey Zeus. Every comment I’ve submitted is ‘in moderation’.
This is BJ. For the love of mike what have I said that is outside the boundaries of this community’s sense of moderation?
76.
mai naem
Here’s another one who’s asking for a po box or something since I don’t do paypal and hardly ever do amazon.
77.
gnomedad
Now aren’t you all sorry you made John take Pammy’s picture down?
I’m in.
78.
gnomedad
Oh, and maybe John is too polite to point this out, but you don’t need to have or open a Paypal account — it will take a credit card without it.
@Corner Stone: And you know? My fucked up block quote attempt is just more reason to love her.
81.
Brick Oven Bill
Potential donors should consider that Balloon Juice broke the story about the climate data emails, like, two days before it showed up as a Drudge headline. Balloon Juice was the first American media outlet that stated that this was a great moment for the Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences.
This is a web-site that should be supported.
82.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@John Cole: yes but dogs are so quick to forgive. They do understand when we apologize.
Re the site, I’m in – just have to figure out what my damn PayPal log in is. Any other options besides that?
83.
MikeJ
How does one “tip” a stripper?
just have to figure out what my damn PayPal log in is. Any other options besides that?
It just seems as if one answer could help two people here.
84.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@Max: That was a rare moment of Beauty from Tweety the Beast.
I’ll be donating, but I also wanna advertise. I have a Google AdWords acct, but I’m flexible. What’s your favorite way for people to advertise here?
87.
Just Some Fuckhead
Pretty lame support effort so far. It makes me regret the time I spend here entertaining everyone when I could be masturbating to teen porn.
88.
DougL
John, if it makes you feel any better, I noticed one or two of the regulars from here commenting at Obsidian Wings and grumbling about the lack of an edit button there as well.
@General Winfield Stuck: OMFG. I can’t even imagine and frankly I am cringing just thinking about it. Nothing like excruciating pani to get you to make major lifestyle changes. You probably would have done anything the doctors told you would prevent that pain from reoccurring.
FWIW – It could have been worse. A former coworker told me that when he had a kidney stone in Romania, his treatment was to be told to jump up and down to break it up.
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SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
A thought on the next upgrade for the site – what does it (or my laptop) need so I can view pictures posted by commenters? Right now all I get is a square with a red X. Feel like I keep missing the punchline…
Try stepping dead center on a fat black cat that was resting on the step of a darkened staircase. That’ll get your attention real fast! I’m lucky I didn’t squish him flat.
Dual widescreen monitors and two browser windows opened, it just works. ;)
Off to hit the Paypal for ya John and I have some Amazon purchases coming up that you’ll get credit for.
I second the no avatars and no ratings, please.
99.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
I second the no avatars and no ratings, please.
Thirded.
100.
Comrade Darkness
Dude, the long-lost friend who was showing me pictures of his oldest grandchild, clearly dressed for high school sports, disturbed me greatly. Asking for money in a down economy is sorta de rigueur.
why don’t you just rebuild using concrete5. Its so friggin easy – my dad can do it. literally.
107.
Just Some Fuckhead
Fourths on the no asshats and no rapings.
108.
bago
@Max: Welcome to the pile of obscelence. Seriously, if you can’t grasp the difference between relational and serialized data models, you might as well not understand the germ theory of disease.
109.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@asiangrrlMN: Oh man those are some cute babies. I remember you saying you loved black cats when my Juliette had her picture posted. They are lovely. I love black cats, so sleek, but yes very hard to photograph.
Kidney stones, most of them, are formed by molecules of solid minerals and such., and the distillation process removes those. My doctor said it didn’t matter, but I read somewhere that it did. So I just started doing it for drinking water and have been for ten years and have not passed another. Though I haven’t had an IVP or abdominal CT in that time, so there might be some still in my kidneys. But I kind of doubt it. They don’t start hurting till they move into the ureter on the way out, and If you’ve had one, the pain is such being a great motivator to try about anything to not get them. So far, though I can’t say for sure it’s the pure water, no problemos for a long time. At least from kidney stones.
111.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@Steeplejack: Learn something here every time. Thanks Steeplejack – just sent in my contribution to cause.
112.
randiego
Bam!
113.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@General Winfield Stuck: That sounds perfectly logical, and many health problems have a simple answer. I’ll go through a lot of natural and homepathic treatments before I ready to here what the AMA says about things. We are pretty fucking backward in this country.
114.
Robertdsc-iphone
When I get paid again in a couple of days, I’ll throw some money in the pot. Gotta keep Tunch & Lily’s treat jars full.
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta: Thank you! They are getting cocky now because thy are stars and everything. I adore them–even though Raven is sitting atop my processor and staring at me without blinking and Shadow is trying to crawl…up my pants? Probably not, but it feels like it.
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta: I agree. And, I try not to take antibiotics very often, but I have to when I have a sinus infection. A friend told me to take probiotics at the same time, and it makes all the difference in the world as to how easily my body will accept the antibiotics. It makes perfect sense, too, but it’s not something that most clinics know.
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta: Then I say, “WHAT??!” because it bugs me so. Or, he will be in the bathroom and doing his yowl. I will finally get up, thinking he wants me to turn on the tap (he likes to drink his water that way). Then, when I reach the bathroom, he will race back to the room and take the chair (like in the pic) and look at me like, “What, bitch? You moved.”
@asiangrrlMN: Last I heard, antibiotics most often make sinus infections worse. Bad news. There are better sources on this, but this one was the first I found.
122.
mai naem
@General Winfield Stuck:
I had a kidney stone a few years ago. I have a friend whose husband had had several kidney stones. He went through the IVP and lithotripsy etc. the first time which he vowed he would never do again. The second time somebody told him to get drunk out of his mind(beer)which he did and he passed the stone the next day. Apparently he’s done that a few times since. Now, I don’t know if that’s what happened to me but mine passed the day after drinking 3 bottles of an adult beverage and BTW I am pretty much a teetotaler.
Damn soshulist free oh wait 70 bucks furriner charge for an ER visit. Musta been a gooberment stooge standing betwixt Sedaris and his doctor. I do love the French, even though they are sometimes assholes, I love them anyway, and would move there for the cheese and the opportunity to send postcards back to NRO, if nothing else.
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(I thought I was delivering Satan’s baby through my penis.)
So beautiful in it’s elegance and simplicity and pitch perfect to the experience.
@slag: Aw, crap. It worked really well the first time I had a sinus infection, and I held out for five days this time, but then gave in. I will have to research this further.
125.
Brachiator
Made a donation via PayPal. Never had a problem with them before.
Gotta remember to use the amazon link in the future, since I have a few purchases to make here and there.
126.
bago
Oh my fucking fuck watching the next bit of the Chris Matthews show is fucking fuckingly infurating. The range of debate varies from republican tool and Pat Buchannen!
The actual argument is that Obama is a fucking pussy because he adheres to the quaint notion of law. [url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc_tv-hardball_with_chris_matthews#34136864]Seriously[/url].
@asiangrrlMN: Yeah. Sorry. NPR had a story about this. Well, the story included this info but was really about how we have a hard time accepting doctors’ recommendations when they are telling you to do nothing.
128.
bago
@Corner Stone: Yeah, sorry, but it’s true. If you can’t buy into the global datavault that expresses the global understanding that is wikipedia, teh google, or urbandictionary, what good are you? How can you parse the tokens of language without a reference?
I can’t fucking stand him. I hate every thing about him, from the way he spits everywhere when he talks to his haughty smirk when he thinks he’s said something “wise” or “taken someone down” to the goofy way he laughs at unfunny things to the way he talks nonstop after asking a guest a question.
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I hate the constant parade of morons he brings on that are so fucking predictable they could just replace them with a screen crawl of talking points, from Pat Buchanan to Ron Christie to Craig Crawford (I do an absolutely kickass Craig Crawford imitation, btw) to even lefties like Kristina Vanden Heuvel.
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I hate the insiderish Irish mythmaking with old squinty-eyed farts like Buchanan and Barnicle, like they fucking single-handedly built the fucking Mayflower and settled the New World with their salt of the earth Irish bluster and blood redder than everyone else’s when everyone knows it was us Germans that built the country while the lazy Irish drank and fought.
And this is everything I’ve ever felt and wanted to say about Chris “HA!” Matthews.
Also, put me down for some Paypal action. I would love to have the BJ up and running at full strength come NFL Playoff time.
Also.
+4
131.
General Winfield Stuck
@slag:
Damn soshulist free oh wait 70 bucks furriner charge for an ER visit. Musta been a gooberment stooge standing betwixt Sedaris and his doctor. I do love the French, even though they are sometimes assholes, I love them anyway, and would move there for the cheese and the opportunity to send pornographic postcards back to NRO, if nothing else.
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(I thought I was delivering Satan’s baby through my penus.)
So beautiful in it’s elegance and simplicity and pitch perfect to the experience.
@slag: I found the story. The doc seems to be saying, though, that if there is inflammation (which I have), then Amoxy is the way to go. And a fever. I had that, too. In the future, though, I will be more careful. Thanks for the link!
@slag: I have heard this before as well. And common sense things like nasal irrigation and lots of Mucinex (or equivalent) can really make the difference between getting well on your own or needing antibiotics. But sometimes they really are necessary. I ended up in the hospital due to a severe case when I was a teenager, and just when I figured I was about to do my best Bill Paxton impression (“Game over, man, game over!”) it was the antibiotic drip that saved me. So yeah, I’m no fan of taking them but they can be a great option for people like me who already do all the smart stuff but who have really strange sinus issues.
You need to move to the southwest desert, and leave the sinus infections in MN/
136.
Midnight Marauder
And by the way, how fucking awesome is it to be Jon Huntsman these days? Maybe about 2% of America even knows who this guy is, and when people do finally start to hear about him in 2014-2015, they’ll say, “And he’s a Republican?!”
Obama : Noah::
A) Huntsman : Every Animal On The 6,000 Year Old Earth
BTW, can someone tell me of John still needs money? I’d be willing to throw in but I only want to throw in if the pledge-o-meter still has some space on it. My wife got hired the other day but doesn’t start for another 45 days, so I need to be…cautious, is all. Xmas is already taken care of, as I got a nice big bonus from one of my clients this year, so that’s good.
Cole is probly in sand land, but would likely say save your bucks if living is tight right now. He usually gets what he needs fairly quick for these things. :)
I suffered mightily back east. Still do some here, but the dry climate has made it just a minor nuisance, instead of pure hell during the damp winter months in the Ohio Valley. Doesn’t work for everyone though, some get worse here, but they are the exception.
@asiangrrlMN and @Jason Bylinowski: I hear that on doing nothing. It’s so hard to tell sometimes, and there is a purpose to modern medicine. Personally, I’m going back to leeches just like Glenn Beck.
144.
Suzan
Sent some, but I want payback: a post now and again that allows me to preserve my fantasy that life is still worth living.
@slag: Yeah. Ninety-five percent of the time, I eschew medicine. Then, when something particularly nasty comes along, I start chewing the medicine because the pain is so bad. Screwed if you do, screwed if you don’t?
So freakin true! I once injured my leg playing softball. The next day, I finally gave in to my SO’s pleading that I go to the ER (it was a holiday). Waited there forever, broke my Palm Pilot, got cranky, eventually got in for an Xray, and was told nothing wrong. A couple of weeks later went back to the Dr and was told nothing wrong. A couple weeks later got a second Xray. Broken leg. At that point, nothing to be done. Frickin waste of time, effort, money, and a perfectly good Palm Pilot.
149.
Wonk Hussein
This is so cool, it’s like a real-life version of “It’s a Wonderful Life.” I call dibs on “I’ve been saving for a divorce if ever I get a husband.”
I do try to click on the BJ Amazon link whenever I shop there, and books are my guilty pleasure, but I don’t do Paypal.
I’m thinking that the problem is with this site’s programming. Without making any changes in my (paranoid) ‘internet options’ settings, I can see pictures at, e.g., DKOS with the red X by right clicking, then clicking ‘show picture’, but here the X just reverts to an X. Just an observation.
And I do feel indebted to all here. And as a general note, I use gift cards for online purchases/contributions from a bank that charged a negligible ($2.50) annual service fee, good for a couple of years and when it expired, they sent me a check for the remaining balance. I type ‘gift card’ for my name in any forms.
My question – Does BJ get ad revenue if I click the Amazon link to just get info on a book?
In re: stepping on Lily’s tail – Dogs are honest about it; if it hurts they let you know with a pained yowl. On the other hand, our cat Voodoo can imitate that sound while lying on a comfortable rug in the warm sunlight.
If I ever step on Voodoo’s tail, I’ll probably have to replace all the windows.
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Warren Terra
This is off topic, but this Michelle Obama Google Images story is awful, and it’d be nice if the blogosphere – ideally including the righties – would Googlebomb some decent pictures up the queue.
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Little Macayla's Friend
@binz:
This is a partial list, if you don’t already have it:
@Warren Terra: Wow, I had never heard of that until you mentioned it. Pretty offensive pic, and I just cannot understand why THAT would be the first result, but I guess one should never misunderestimate the power of freeping.
Huntsman is also a self-proclaimed fan of the progressive rock genre and on July 30, 2007, attended a concert by progressive metal band Dream Theater. Later
Dude, huntsman is a Dream Theater fan?! FUCK YA!
Someone should tell him about Porcupine Tree!
cain
160.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I jut felt like mentioning to you dear heart that when I purchased my Kitchen Aid mixer it was A) through Amazon (though it will not arrive until next week) and B) through the link on BJ. Though didn’t get the sweet employee discount. Should have had my co-worker get it through her second job. Oh well, it’s on its way!
@Cain: Jeez no wonder Obama sequestered this guy, I could almost seriously consider voting for him!
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bago
And oh my sweet jesus fuck, this guy supporting cheney is complaining that if we let people speak they might say bad things.
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the goddamned point sailing over you fucking pointy head!
164.
MelodyMaker
uh, I didn’t see it mentioned here. not to anyone specifically-
cpanel is not WordPress. WordPress is your website. cpanel is your hosting co. lose that access and whoah. speaking for myself only. sounds hazardous.
165.
Zuzu's Petals
I tried to use the Amazon link several times last week and it only took me to the BJ store. Since I wasn’t in the market for a cat brush thingie, I gave up.
Glad I can click through now. Will do.
166.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
Had a panic moment here when I went and fired up my Sonicator ME706 ultrasonic massager and the head wasn’t putting out anything. My right hand is purple and swollen, not a good time to fail! I checked the unit out and it seemed to be working (digital display-wise) so I figured that the head was dead. The unit sounds an alarm if it senses no contact with a medium (water/gel) and it wasn’t going off when run without. These units are by prescription only and my doc, who gave me the unit over ten years ago, retired and moved away long ago.
The head is a sealed unit but I did notice when I got it that it has always seeped a few bubbles around the transducer when first submerged in water, but it had never caused a problem over the years. Since the head is $650.00 to replace and the certainty of getting one not sure, I decided to try the only option open to me at the moment: I banged the head off the carpeted floor with the output set real low and after a few thumps the alarm sounded and it turned off. Hooray! I used gel, worked the hand over and am feeling a bit better now. Gotta stay in some shape to finish the work on the Mustang! I will seal the transducer before submerging it again.
Better get with my current doc to make sure that I am covered in the event of the head dying permanently. Anyone who has pain in joints should have one of these deep ultrasound units. You do have to know how to operate it but it is easy to learn and the relief it offers is worth it. I am glad my old doc gave it to me though he did tell me that of all of his patients, I had the most mileage on it…lol
167.
Ranger 3
If you are in need of funds, I would suggest that you bet the line against the Steelers.
They are overrated.
168.
Comrade Baron Elmo
John, I first came across your blog when you were venting on the Terri Schaivo outrage. Reading your take, I thought, “Wow, a right-winger with principles – impressive.” Balloon Juice became a regular read after that. Watching your gradual and often painful trek away from the GOP was unbelievably compelling… and in the process, you’ve brought together a cast of comment section regulars equal to none. I’d love to match the minds on tap here with those at any wingnut blog on the goddamn planet. (Hey, their intellectual heft drove away all the old right-wing yobs from this site… wonder whatever happened to the likes of Tall Dave and Stormy?)
Even now, BJ is the site I visit first every day… and it’s given me a truckload of fascinating political analysis, laughs galore and interesting shit in general over the last six years. Well worth a contribution to the tip jar.
I first stumbled upon BJ by way of the Great Orange Satan. A bunch of hippy assholes were slandering the Marines in al-Fallujah for using their weapons commiting war crimes. It was the argument over the use of white phosphorous. Good times.
I dug how Cole seemed like a reasonable guy and pushed back on the left wing tendency to demonize everything and everyone that might not share their worldview. Like US Marines. I didn’t dig on his Bush love, and couldn’t understand how he and other reasonable people failed to realize how stupid and useless Bush really was. He did a nice job of explaining himself, though, after he came around. Actually gave me some good insight on how politics works, generally.
I definitely prefer it here. Daily Kos is just unbearable. Too much stupid, and the fascist purity trolls are just unbearable. You can say what you want here, which is critical for me, as I am an asshole and therefore prone to saying offensive things.
(I thought I was delivering Satan’s baby through my pen is.)
That sounds about right. Mine was absolutely wretched. Of course, more than one person told me that kidney stones were more painful than childbirth, so I thought “Well, that’s all right then, if labour won’t be as bad as that stone!” The labour was 10x worse, unfortunately.
John, I’m just waiting for my next maternity leave benefits cheque to come in, and I’ll send a few shekels your way. Unfortunately, I completely forgot about the Amazon link thing when I did my xmas shopping. I’ll have to do the sticky note thing, I guess.
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GReynoldsCT00
Done! Glad to help John. You give a lot to us every day.
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dr. bloor
I’m in. But if you’re over the top already, don’t be using any of my money to dress up Tunch or Lily in any of that Steelers shit, or I’m calling the ASPCA.
Oh, and next time you should just skip the pledge drive and tell Microsoft you’ll de-list from Teh Google for a very (un)reasonable fee.
Augh! I’m broke and my car is dying. And sent my last ten bucks to a lady trying to save a bunch of feral kittens from going blind.
But I’ll be using the Amazon thing…
For those wondering, I think you can swing out to the main Amazon site, and purchases still count. We aren’t doing Christmas this year, except for the under 18’s in the family, but if I go there I’ll use the link.
And I second the database backup, if you Export through the panel, I think you get all posts and comments, you lose pics, but those can be downloaded through FTP.
I gave up posting at the GoS in 2005 because it was (and still is) a non-stop popularity pissing contest full of shrill, humorless politically correct partisans who only agree that they constantly disagree. If I ever met the person who came up with the idea of rating random internet comments I would go John Cole on them (punch them in the neck) in a second. Same with hiding objectionable posts, like I am some kid who needs to be protected from horrible (or disagreeable) things people say.
The front page is fine to read but little else is. I have seen some longtime members that are great writers who have given up on the place because they got sick of the incessantly childish shit going on there. If you are in the middle of the political divide, no need to apply there, you’re not welcome.
It’s like a political Romper Room, sans adult supervision. No thanks, I pass.
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DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
A tip for John:
When you find someone to do the work, don’t pay in full until the job is completed to your satisfaction. Some people lose interest in what you want done once the cash is done flowing in.
I like giving people goals to work for and getting paid in full is one of them. :)
It could have been worse. A former coworker told me that when he had a kidney stone in Romania, his treatment was to be told to jump up and down to break it up.
Ah. it appears they have already implemented the Republican health care plan! Ahead of the curve, they are.
I knew about the Amazon linky, but forgot. I’m always buying mp3 albums and such over there. My bad. I will repent, especially if it makes the baby Wal-Mart cry. Doubly so.
PayPal bux coming at ya Mr. Cole. Must have my minimum daily requirement of political and cultural snarky wisdom from BJ. Any excess has to be used for dog treats, of course. Now if I can only find a way to write it off as a business expense…
How can I not enjoy and want to support a website with a nickname like “BJ”?
Does BJ get ad revenue if I click the Amazon link to just get info on a book?
I don’t think so. I believe the Amazon program just gives Cole a little vig if you actually buy something.
Amazon doesn’t need to advertise. At least I have never seen an ad anywhere.
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Zifnab
Dropped a few bucks in the collection plate.
Praise the Lord and pass the Mountain Dew!
180.
sw
I plinked a few coins into your piggy bank. It’s not much, but you give a lot of pleasure to us readers out here I wanted to give what I could. Happy Thanksgiving, and please post some pet photos from the day.
I think you’re being way to gentle with your description of that cesspool. The GOS has morphed into the progressive version of RedState, or the old LGF. Pogo would recognize it in a heartbeat.
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r€nato
My financial situation is pretty sucky lately. I have to wait until some checks come in before I can even drop $5 in the change jar. Sorry but that’s just the way it is.
I will donate to Balloon Juice HALF of the cost of your order, until Dec. 31. Just use the coupon code “BJFRIENDS”. It won’t change the amount of your order, but it will flag that order so I know to give to BJ.
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tomvox1
Any way to have more control over your banners, JC? There is little to no chance of me (most of us?) clicking on the Palin/Coulter/etc hilarity. Just a thought and please correct me if these are not revenue generators…
you should be glad they are wasting their ad dollars here.
if you use Firefox, I’m pretty sure there’s a plugin to block the ads.
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Bubblegum Tate
I’m off to Canada in a few hours to do some DJing (a great way to have fun AND duck out on any holiday responsibilities!), but when I get back next week and re-assess my financial situation, I will carve out some money to chuck in the tip jar.
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JG
Sent a few bucks your way…worth it for how often I come to BJ for a bit of sanity! I’ll try to remember to shop through your Amazon link as well.
asiangrrlMN
As soon as you put in the second pic of my kittehs, Cole.
Kidding! Tunchie has to eat. Will do.
General Winfield Stuck
I think that’s what Rip Van Winkle said, that and I need a shave.
Just so happens i have a few coins in the pay pal. But I must have a dictionary plugin, if that’s okay.
General Winfield Stuck
I don’t know if you can get a Newegg icon add, but I buy almost all my electronic and computer stuff from them. Just ordered a new photo printer yesterday. They have better prices and service than Amazon.
jeffreyw
I’m in.
demkat620
Okay, so I am old, I’ve never used Amazon, but this year since I am working full time, I planned to shop on line. I have added you to my favorites list. Will it work for first time buyers? Tip you or whatever it does?
Juror #7
Count me in. (Will try to do better at using the Amazon click-thru, too.)
valdivia
I always use the Amazon link. Will do so again this week when I order a couple of things.
Just Some Fuckhead
I never complained so I don’t feel compelled to contribute. New job and all, holidays, blah blah blah. I’m sure you understand. I’m here when ya need a hug though.
dfd
I’ll try to remember to use the Amazon link. Sorry, don’t do PayPal.
BettyPageIsaBlonde
Meh. It’s all good. I don’t need the plug-ins and whatnot, just the mainline feed that JC and his fellow conspirators *cough* Tunch/Lilly *cough* feed us.
I’ll start spending my communist dollars through the Amazon link though.
Anne Laurie
As an added incentive to the DFHs here, when you click through and buy your holiday gifts from Amazon, you’re making the WalMart heirs cry.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Anne Laurie:
That is sorely tempting.
EnderWiggin
So I own a small (20 person) IT company that does web design and development. This is the only blog I read the comments on, and the only blog I read every post on. I would like to offer support for the site priced between free to nominal. As long as the site works and I can actually load it on my iPhone, it would be worth it.
I will email you later tonight or tomorrow morning (wife is under the weather). Hopefully we can work something out.
John Cole
@EnderWiggin: Look at our traffic, send me your proposal, and we are doing it live.
I just stepped on Lily’s foot and I challenge anyone to tell me there is a worse sound on the earth.
PattyK
I used the Amazon link today but that’s as far as I go in paying for things online. I’ll bet others would like a mailing address to use for sending a contribution. If you want to guard your privacy and not have a lot of us show up at your door for a visit, you could use the address of a friend or relative…Anyway, like dfd I don’t do PayPal.
Annie
Just to clarify. I can use Amazon because I order a fair amount with the courses I teach. But, if I use PayPal directly, does BJ get more??? I want to use what will give BJ the most….
asiangrrlMN
@John Cole: Door on kitteh’s tail. Worst. Sound. Evah.
Joshua Norton
Eeeesh. If your web programmer is avoiding you that is never a good sign. Sometimes they just have to throw their hands up in the air and give up because they’re at as much of a loss as you are. And you’re right – that means it’s time to move on to a solution that works.
Just Some Fuckhead
Alright, so I just figured out they’ve been saying “state” dinner and not “steak” dinner. Makes sense now that I think about it, what with the honoree being the Indian prime minister.
demkat620
@John Cole: as another peson with a smallish(12 lb) dog, that is an awful sound.
asiangrrlMN
@Just Some Fuckhead: Thanks for the hearty laugh, JSF. I sorely needed it.
SiubhanDuinne
I’m another who won’t use Paypal any more — ran into problems with them a year or so ago and just don’t want to go through that again — although I do order from Amazon and will gladly use the click-through from now on. But I second the idea of an actual mailing address. There’s something quite satisfying about writing a real cheque, addressing an envelope, putting a stamp on it, and dropping it through a mail slot. It feels realer somehow.
Sorry about Lily’s foot. Did that horrible sound come from her when you stepped on her, or from you when she turned on you? And where pray tell was Lord Tunch during this episode?
HRA
I will go to order my gifts from Amazon as soon as recuperate from the next few days.
Annie
@John Cole:
Stepping on your cats….
danelectro
if ender doesn’t come through, i’d be glad to help too, at a nominal charge.
Annie
@Just Some Fuckhead:
LOL. THANKS!!!
NickM
Palin man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_h28PAIinU
EL
Paypal had been fine for me – just clicked and donated.
Jim
So I just order the items through the Amazon link? there’s no direct donation?
wb
@asiangrrlMN: Let me second that. For years afterward, the poor kitteh jumped every time a door slammed.
ellaesther
I am ashamed to say that for reasons that defy my understanding, it has simply never occurred to me to do my Amazon shopping via BJ. I will do so in the future!
And I’mma go have a talk with Messers Pay and Pal, right nao.
Thank you, John. This is a good place, and you and your folks are good folks.
And the pets are nice, too.
(Oh, and worst sound: Stepping on your cat’s tail at night).
Poopyman
I dropped some coin in Paypal. I can haz an Edit function now?
Pigs & Spiders
I just made a post-it note and stuck it to the side of my desk. It reads, “Buy Christmas Presents through Amazon link for to get better BJ!”
I can’t wait to watch the girlfriend stare at that with her nose in a crinkle!
Max
Donation sent and I will make sure to use the Amazon link.
Too bad you can’t get an iTunes link. You’d clean up.
When making changes, I would like to request the following:
1. NO ratings.
2. NO avatars.
That’s my $.02.
Morbo
Both of my most recent Amazon purchases have been via the link here. Should be able to spare some change, too.
Skepticat
I don’t usually use Amazon, but for you …
The last few things I bought online, I bought through the BJ link.
Max
@Max: By the way….
I have no idea what any of that means.
#TechTalkFail
Chuck
I do all my shopping on amazon and newegg, so I’ll be using that link for sure.
Most important thing of any move: make *sure* you have full SQL dumps of your database. WordPress locks it all up in the db, and if you lose that you lose all your archives. 8 years of blog won’t take that much space — you should be able to fit it on a CD.
As in, get your dump before you dump your programmer.
Just Some Fuckhead
Bad sounds:
My kid positively howling after corrective feet surgery, before they could get the morphine going. That one nearly broke me.
My dog shitting and puking simultaneously as he staggered around in a circle when he ran me too hard and too long on a hot day. Please don’t die out here in front of everyone, Max.
My nearly 80 year old mother-in-law falling down my stairs, followed by quiet. Oh shit.
ellaesther
@Max: Yeah, I kind of spend my online life in a bit of a haze, because these sorts of collections of words pop up a lot, and dude. What? (And my husband’s a software engineer!)
EnderWiggin
@Anne Laurie:
Which is a good enough reason for me. Walmart is a poster child for corporate welfare, and the heirs are some of the best examples of people born on third that think they hit a triple.
Warren Terra
For all those asking about the Amazon link: John gets a small percentage, a sort of finder’s fee, for steering your business to Amazon. You do not pay any extra for your purchases, nor give directly.
bubba
Least I can do for a picture of my grand daughter (and Tunch sized cat) on the site. It is the little things.
Oh , my other cat in heat at 6 am the morning after Bubba +(insert incomprehensible but sadly true number here) .
Worst sound evah. I so need to put that kitty under the knife.
Steph
I use Amazon all the time, I’ll click through.
Bad sound: my two preschoolers clocking heads – that coconut ring that you know will be followed in three seconds by piercing screams.
Max
Did anyone watch Tweety today? He really was great with the GOP hack on (not Ron Christie).
She was essentially saying Obama ruined the country that George W Bush perfected and Chris said something to the effect of “I’m often asked why I have on so many republicans and you’ve proved my point tonight… I do it to remind people what a republican looks likes”.
It was so condescending and perfect and really was a great way of calling her batshit, but in a waspy, northeastern, elite kind of way.
I loved it.
Linky here.
Genine
I’ve been using the Amazon link on here quite a bit. I buy my text books, gifts, books and things I need through the link on here. Hopefully, you get a nice bit.
Jean
Worst sound: Simon, big dog at 80 lbs, stepped on Sundae’s foot (Sundae is little at 12 lbs with legs like matchsticks). She screamed like a child for five minutes. It was so horrible that I thought I’d have to run her to the vet. After Simon seemed properly horrified, she quieted down and stopped limping. Then, after 30 minutes or so, when he was lying there on the floor, she ran over and yelled at him again, smacking him in the face. She’s kind of a drama queen, but still, he could have broken her foot.
khead
I have an Amazon gift card and I just checked Amazon for Furminators. Which one is the official Furminator endorsed by Tunch here @ BJ? There are a couple and our SweetPea could use a good grooming.
I’m thinking Furminator/Left 4 Dead 2 combo purchase.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Max: That struck me as Tweety’s way of saying he was getting heat from lefties for carrying Republican water night after night on what is supposedly a left-leaning news network now.
Chuck Butcher
1AM, cops at door w/very bad news, wife sounds
I promise, you’d rip your ears off your head to not hear that.
MattR
Dogs (and animals in general) are surprisingly strudy. I think my 30 lb dog concussed me a couple years ago. She was lying on my chest as I was lying on the couch when the doorbell rang. We both jumped and smacked heads. It didn’t knock me out, but I was very wobbly as I stumbled over to thr door. Even in that state I remember being worried about Ellie, looking over and seeing her wagging her tail and jumping around as if nothing happened. It was then that I realized that she could kill me whenever she wanted and the food bowl has not been empty since :)
General Winfield Stuck
worst sound. moi birthing an 8 mm kidney stone. Woke up Moses in his grave.
binz
John,
I discovered I have a problem with trying to pay via pay pal. Maybe it’s me and maybe it’s because it’s been a while since I’ve bought something online (and it has been 5 years since I bought something via Amazon after they fucked up an $800 dollar order of mine)…but …. I have no problem providing my credit card number, my little security number thingie on the back of the card, my real name, my home address (which is my billing address). But I’m not interested in providing my home phone number and a real e-mail address.
I don’t recall having the home phone and email a mandatory field for other online transactions I’ve done. It’s always been billing address. Why does Pay Pal need my home phone and my email address? If they only have my credit card info any collection agency would know where to find me.
I hate to be pissy but the asking for home phone and valid email smells like Pen Pal third-party potential marketing bullshit to me.
Maybe I’m stupid about this. Maybe I’m off base and everybody does it now.
If I’m way off base about this my apologies in advance for being a cantankerous contrarian fuck.
Max
@Just Some Fuckhead: Perhaps, but it was his way of slamming her and I appreciated it.
I have a complicated relationship with Chris. He gets me so mad, and then he has a segment like tonight’s, or the other day with the bishop.
I think Chris loves politics and history and is a moderate democrat, with certain sensibilities. He grew up in a republican family, yet he did the peace corps and worked for Carter and Tip O’Neil.
He’s like 64 years old, so, for his age, I think he’s hip.
Calouste
@Anne Laurie:
From that article:
So what kind of advice is she giving? How to screw up a massive retailer? CxO welfare in full flow I guess. Some of these people should end up working at McDonald’s and then I’m not talking about HQ.
MattR
@General Winfield Stuck: 8mm?!?! Wow. Ouch. Makes me thankful that my body usually expels them as “gravel” before they can get that large.
MattR
@MattR: Interesting. WordPress ate my exclamation points after the question mark. Just reinforces John’s decision to move. I am not allowed to buy anything at Amazon until after my birthday this weekend, but I am sure I will be there afterwards and will make sure to hit the BJ link to do so. FYWP!!!
KDP
Paypal monies sent. I’ll have textbooks to buy soon for next quarter, so will try to remember to use the click-thru instead of direct to Amazon.
I suppose it is silly to ask if you’ve checked the wordpress/cpanel forums for password reset assistance?
FWIW:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password
Anne Laurie
My entry in the worst sounds competition: Getting out of bed in the dark, accidentally squashing small sleeping dog’s paw, dog wakes up screaming & immediately starts loud fight with two other no-longer-sleeping small dogs, doing a Stooges routine where everybody blames everybody else for the original injury. Didn’t have quite the heart-sinking quality of some entries, but for sheer volume, range, variety of noise, and fear of somebody (probably the innocent Spousal Unit) getting seriously bloodied in the dark…
Just Some Fuckhead
@Max: I can’t fucking stand him. I hate every thing about him, from the way he spits everywhere when he talks to his haughty smirk when he thinks he’s said something “wise” or “taken someone down” to the goofy way he laughs at unfunny things to the way he talks nonstop after asking a guest a question.
I hate the constant parade of morons he brings on that are so fucking predictable they could just replace them with a screen crawl of talking points, from Pat Buchanan to Ron Christie to Craig Crawford (I do an absolutely kickass Craig Crawford imitation, btw) to even lefties like Kristina Vanden Heuvel.
I hate the insiderish Irish mythmaking with old squinty-eyed farts like Buchanan and Barnicle, like they fucking single-handedly built the fucking Mayflower and settled the New World with their salt of the earth Irish bluster and blood redder than everyone else’s when everyone knows it was us Germans that built the country while the lazy Irish drank and fought.
erlking
Fuck it, John. I check this site at work–so I figure you’re entitled to some of the lucre I made reading you. It isn’t much but I’ll bung you a few quid from time to time.
It’s well worth it.
Max
@Just Some Fuckhead: Well, there’s all that too.
Like I said, it’s complicated for me.
General Winfield Stuck
@MattR:
Took 4 months to move thru my ureter at about a quarter an inch movement events, and many screaming trips to the ER at the Biloxi VA. They didn’t have the machine to break them up and I wouldn’t let them do surgery and no insurance outside, so it was a slog and about eleventy hundred gallons of water to get it done. They wouldn’t even give me narcotic pain meds cause I liked em too much, so it was only ibuprofin and a regular Toradal shot at the ER. I passed a couple more much smaller ones that hurt plenty, but only lasted about a week each. Had four more punctate ones still in the kidney 10 years ago, and started drinking nothing by distilled water since then, and haven’t had a problem with the little fellers prolly washing out without pain. Knock on wood.
binz
@Warren Terra:
Is that what kids are calling it these days?
Corner Stone
MikeJ
Pure grain alcohol is also acceptable for protecting your purity of essence.
cj
@John Cole: Crushing your dog with your car…happened when I was young. Sorry for being morbid.
Just donated. For help me God, John if this is a scam I will hunt you down. hehe jk
ruemara
I’m already donating. You’re running 1 of my ads. But I promise to use you for the amazon shopping I’ll do.
ellaesther
@Anne Laurie: … and then throw in the story-resulting raucous laughter from over at my place, and man! That is a LOT of noise!
Steeplejack
@Anne Laurie:
LOL!
Brick Oven Bill
Let the record reflect that today, November 24th, 2009, the Oil Shale Initiative maybe, just maybe, took a big step forward. Let that record be Balloon Juice.
If this pans out, the Balloon Juice site will be fully funded, in exchange for a permanent ad that states: ‘There is only one Allah, and Glenn Beck is his messenger.’
That and I can’t be banned again.
Comrade Kevin
@Just Some Fuckhead: I really, really loathe those fake Irish types. I can practically see my mom’s eyes rolling every time the pull their “Irish” act.
binz
@Brick Oven Bill:
A Devil’s Bargain if there ever was one.
Steeplejack
@John Cole:
Got a completely unexpected and improbably large check from someone last week, so in between tipping strippers and lighting my cigars with C-notes I just sent you a little dough.
Condolences on the site problems.
binz
Hey Zeus. Every comment I’ve submitted is ‘in moderation’.
This is BJ. For the love of mike what have I said that is outside the boundaries of this community’s sense of moderation?
mai naem
Here’s another one who’s asking for a po box or something since I don’t do paypal and hardly ever do amazon.
gnomedad
Now aren’t you all sorry you made John take Pammy’s picture down?
I’m in.
gnomedad
Oh, and maybe John is too polite to point this out, but you don’t need to have or open a Paypal account — it will take a credit card without it.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack: How does one “tip” a stripper?
Corner Stone
@Corner Stone: And you know? My fucked up block quote attempt is just more reason to love her.
Brick Oven Bill
Potential donors should consider that Balloon Juice broke the story about the climate data emails, like, two days before it showed up as a Drudge headline. Balloon Juice was the first American media outlet that stated that this was a great moment for the Seven Liberal Arts and Sciences.
This is a web-site that should be supported.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@John Cole: yes but dogs are so quick to forgive. They do understand when we apologize.
Re the site, I’m in – just have to figure out what my damn PayPal log in is. Any other options besides that?
MikeJ
It just seems as if one answer could help two people here.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@Max: That was a rare moment of Beauty from Tweety the Beast.
ewines
keep doing what you do.
cheers,
ew
slag
I’ll be donating, but I also wanna advertise. I have a Google AdWords acct, but I’m flexible. What’s your favorite way for people to advertise here?
Just Some Fuckhead
Pretty lame support effort so far. It makes me regret the time I spend here entertaining everyone when I could be masturbating to teen porn.
DougL
John, if it makes you feel any better, I noticed one or two of the regulars from here commenting at Obsidian Wings and grumbling about the lack of an edit button there as well.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@General Winfield Stuck: Wow, General I so totally salute you.
MattR
@General Winfield Stuck: OMFG. I can’t even imagine and frankly I am cringing just thinking about it. Nothing like excruciating pani to get you to make major lifestyle changes. You probably would have done anything the doctors told you would prevent that pain from reoccurring.
FWIW – It could have been worse. A former coworker told me that when he had a kidney stone in Romania, his treatment was to be told to jump up and down to break it up.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
A thought on the next upgrade for the site – what does it (or my laptop) need so I can view pictures posted by commenters? Right now all I get is a square with a red X. Feel like I keep missing the punchline…
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@General Winfield Stuck: Why distilled water?
Corner Stone
@Just Some Fuckhead: It’s not like you need two hands for that tiny little junk.
slag
@General Winfield Stuck: You probably already saw this, but just in case…David Sedaris talks kidney stones and healthcare.
burnspbesq
I’m in. Don’t spend it all on catnip.
Cain
@Just Some Fuckhead:
WTF dude, you can’t say shit like that without letting us know she’s okay now. Jeezus.
cain
Xanthippas
If I can get my wife to pare down the Christmas list, I’ll send some change your way, promise.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
@John Cole:
Try stepping dead center on a fat black cat that was resting on the step of a darkened staircase. That’ll get your attention real fast! I’m lucky I didn’t squish him flat.
@Just Some Fuckhead:
Dual widescreen monitors and two browser windows opened, it just works. ;)
Off to hit the Paypal for ya John and I have some Amazon purchases coming up that you’ll get credit for.
I second the no avatars and no ratings, please.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
Thirded.
Comrade Darkness
Dude, the long-lost friend who was showing me pictures of his oldest grandchild, clearly dressed for high school sports, disturbed me greatly. Asking for money in a down economy is sorta de rigueur.
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
Har. Most accept neatly folded bills (lengthwise) under the thong. At the hip, please.
If you mean “tip” as in turning them over, then you’re on your own with that.
Just Some Fuckhead
@Cain: Now she just sits and stairs.
Steeplejack
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta:
You can pay without logging in; just give credit card information and go.
asiangrrlMN
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta: Fourth. Well, I wouldn’t mind the avatars, but no ratings.
Steeplejack
@Just Some Fuckhead:
I always assumed you did both simultaneously.
fordpowers
why don’t you just rebuild using concrete5. Its so friggin easy – my dad can do it. literally.
Just Some Fuckhead
Fourths on the no asshats and no rapings.
bago
@Max: Welcome to the pile of obscelence. Seriously, if you can’t grasp the difference between relational and serialized data models, you might as well not understand the germ theory of disease.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@asiangrrlMN: Oh man those are some cute babies. I remember you saying you loved black cats when my Juliette had her picture posted. They are lovely. I love black cats, so sleek, but yes very hard to photograph.
General Winfield Stuck
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta:
Kidney stones, most of them, are formed by molecules of solid minerals and such., and the distillation process removes those. My doctor said it didn’t matter, but I read somewhere that it did. So I just started doing it for drinking water and have been for ten years and have not passed another. Though I haven’t had an IVP or abdominal CT in that time, so there might be some still in my kidneys. But I kind of doubt it. They don’t start hurting till they move into the ureter on the way out, and If you’ve had one, the pain is such being a great motivator to try about anything to not get them. So far, though I can’t say for sure it’s the pure water, no problemos for a long time. At least from kidney stones.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@Steeplejack: Learn something here every time. Thanks Steeplejack – just sent in my contribution to cause.
randiego
Bam!
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@General Winfield Stuck: That sounds perfectly logical, and many health problems have a simple answer. I’ll go through a lot of natural and homepathic treatments before I ready to here what the AMA says about things. We are pretty fucking backward in this country.
Robertdsc-iphone
When I get paid again in a couple of days, I’ll throw some money in the pot. Gotta keep Tunch & Lily’s treat jars full.
asiangrrlMN
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta: Thank you! They are getting cocky now because thy are stars and everything. I adore them–even though Raven is sitting atop my processor and staring at me without blinking and Shadow is trying to crawl…up my pants? Probably not, but it feels like it.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta: er…”hear” not “here”.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@asiangrrlMN: Haha! Yeah Juliette can give me the evil eye somethin’ awful.
asiangrrlMN
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta: I agree. And, I try not to take antibiotics very often, but I have to when I have a sinus infection. A friend told me to take probiotics at the same time, and it makes all the difference in the world as to how easily my body will accept the antibiotics. It makes perfect sense, too, but it’s not something that most clinics know.
asiangrrlMN
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta: Then I say, “WHAT??!” because it bugs me so. Or, he will be in the bathroom and doing his yowl. I will finally get up, thinking he wants me to turn on the tap (he likes to drink his water that way). Then, when I reach the bathroom, he will race back to the room and take the chair (like in the pic) and look at me like, “What, bitch? You moved.”
Corner Stone
@bago: Ooooohh…owwccchh.
slag
@asiangrrlMN: Last I heard, antibiotics most often make sinus infections worse. Bad news. There are better sources on this, but this one was the first I found.
mai naem
@General Winfield Stuck:
I had a kidney stone a few years ago. I have a friend whose husband had had several kidney stones. He went through the IVP and lithotripsy etc. the first time which he vowed he would never do again. The second time somebody told him to get drunk out of his mind(beer)which he did and he passed the stone the next day. Apparently he’s done that a few times since. Now, I don’t know if that’s what happened to me but mine passed the day after drinking 3 bottles of an adult beverage and BTW I am pretty much a teetotaler.
General Winfield Stuck
@slag:
Damn soshulist free oh wait 70 bucks furriner charge for an ER visit. Musta been a gooberment stooge standing betwixt Sedaris and his doctor. I do love the French, even though they are sometimes assholes, I love them anyway, and would move there for the cheese and the opportunity to send postcards back to NRO, if nothing else.
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So beautiful in it’s elegance and simplicity and pitch perfect to the experience.
asiangrrlMN
@slag: Aw, crap. It worked really well the first time I had a sinus infection, and I held out for five days this time, but then gave in. I will have to research this further.
Brachiator
Made a donation via PayPal. Never had a problem with them before.
Gotta remember to use the amazon link in the future, since I have a few purchases to make here and there.
bago
Oh my fucking fuck watching the next bit of the Chris Matthews show is fucking fuckingly infurating. The range of debate varies from republican tool and Pat Buchannen!
The actual argument is that Obama is a fucking pussy because he adheres to the quaint notion of law. [url=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/ns/msnbc_tv-hardball_with_chris_matthews#34136864]Seriously[/url].
slag
@asiangrrlMN: Yeah. Sorry. NPR had a story about this. Well, the story included this info but was really about how we have a hard time accepting doctors’ recommendations when they are telling you to do nothing.
bago
@Corner Stone: Yeah, sorry, but it’s true. If you can’t buy into the global datavault that expresses the global understanding that is wikipedia, teh google, or urbandictionary, what good are you? How can you parse the tokens of language without a reference?
asiangrrlMN
@slag: Well, last time, doing nothing did not work. A month of doing nothing did not work.
Midnight Marauder
@Just Some Fuckhead:
And this is everything I’ve ever felt and wanted to say about Chris “HA!” Matthews.
Also, put me down for some Paypal action. I would love to have the BJ up and running at full strength come NFL Playoff time.
Also.
+4
General Winfield Stuck
@slag:
Damn soshulist free oh wait 70 bucks furriner charge for an ER visit. Musta been a gooberment stooge standing betwixt Sedaris and his doctor. I do love the French, even though they are sometimes assholes, I love them anyway, and would move there for the cheese and the opportunity to send pornographic postcards back to NRO, if nothing else.
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So beautiful in it’s elegance and simplicity and pitch perfect to the experience.
reposted from mod hell for the P word
asiangrrlMN
@slag: I found the story. The doc seems to be saying, though, that if there is inflammation (which I have), then Amoxy is the way to go. And a fever. I had that, too. In the future, though, I will be more careful. Thanks for the link!
Jason Bylinowski
@slag: I have heard this before as well. And common sense things like nasal irrigation and lots of Mucinex (or equivalent) can really make the difference between getting well on your own or needing antibiotics. But sometimes they really are necessary. I ended up in the hospital due to a severe case when I was a teenager, and just when I figured I was about to do my best Bill Paxton impression (“Game over, man, game over!”) it was the antibiotic drip that saved me. So yeah, I’m no fan of taking them but they can be a great option for people like me who already do all the smart stuff but who have really strange sinus issues.
AngusTheGodOfMeat
I’m in.
Thanks for another great year.
And, moo.
P.
General Winfield Stuck
@asiangrrlMN:
You need to move to the southwest desert, and leave the sinus infections in MN/
Midnight Marauder
And by the way, how fucking awesome is it to be Jon Huntsman these days? Maybe about 2% of America even knows who this guy is, and when people do finally start to hear about him in 2014-2015, they’ll say, “And he’s a Republican?!”
Obama : Noah::
A) Huntsman : Every Animal On The 6,000 Year Old Earth
Discuss.
+5
ruemara
@Corner Stone:
push her over when she sleeps?
Jason Bylinowski
BTW, can someone tell me of John still needs money? I’d be willing to throw in but I only want to throw in if the pledge-o-meter still has some space on it. My wife got hired the other day but doesn’t start for another 45 days, so I need to be…cautious, is all. Xmas is already taken care of, as I got a nice big bonus from one of my clients this year, so that’s good.
General Winfield Stuck
@Jason Bylinowski:
Cole is probly in sand land, but would likely say save your bucks if living is tight right now. He usually gets what he needs fairly quick for these things. :)
asiangrrlMN
@General Winfield Stuck: Right. Because they have snow and sub-zero degree weather in the southwest.
asiangrrlMN
@Jason Bylinowski: I’d second General Winfield Stuck and say to wait.
General Winfield Stuck
@asiangrrlMN:
I suffered mightily back east. Still do some here, but the dry climate has made it just a minor nuisance, instead of pure hell during the damp winter months in the Ohio Valley. Doesn’t work for everyone though, some get worse here, but they are the exception.
slag
@asiangrrlMN and @Jason Bylinowski: I hear that on doing nothing. It’s so hard to tell sometimes, and there is a purpose to modern medicine. Personally, I’m going back to leeches just like Glenn Beck.
Suzan
Sent some, but I want payback: a post now and again that allows me to preserve my fantasy that life is still worth living.
slag
@General Winfield Stuck: Sedaris does have a way with imagery. Funny funny man!
asiangrrlMN
@slag: Yeah. Ninety-five percent of the time, I eschew medicine. Then, when something particularly nasty comes along, I start chewing the medicine because the pain is so bad. Screwed if you do, screwed if you don’t?
slag
@Suzan: Pets. Pets are life-affirming. Well, that’s what I hear anyway. Mine aren’t really.
slag
@asiangrrlMN:
So freakin true! I once injured my leg playing softball. The next day, I finally gave in to my SO’s pleading that I go to the ER (it was a holiday). Waited there forever, broke my Palm Pilot, got cranky, eventually got in for an Xray, and was told nothing wrong. A couple of weeks later went back to the Dr and was told nothing wrong. A couple weeks later got a second Xray. Broken leg. At that point, nothing to be done. Frickin waste of time, effort, money, and a perfectly good Palm Pilot.
Wonk Hussein
This is so cool, it’s like a real-life version of “It’s a Wonderful Life.” I call dibs on “I’ve been saving for a divorce if ever I get a husband.”
I do try to click on the BJ Amazon link whenever I shop there, and books are my guilty pleasure, but I don’t do Paypal.
Little Macayla's Friend
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta:
I’m thinking that the problem is with this site’s programming. Without making any changes in my (paranoid) ‘internet options’ settings, I can see pictures at, e.g., DKOS with the red X by right clicking, then clicking ‘show picture’, but here the X just reverts to an X. Just an observation.
And I do feel indebted to all here. And as a general note, I use gift cards for online purchases/contributions from a bank that charged a negligible ($2.50) annual service fee, good for a couple of years and when it expired, they sent me a check for the remaining balance. I type ‘gift card’ for my name in any forms.
My question – Does BJ get ad revenue if I click the Amazon link to just get info on a book?
Calming Influence
@Just Some Fuckhead:
I just guffawed.
Calming Influence
In re: stepping on Lily’s tail – Dogs are honest about it; if it hurts they let you know with a pained yowl. On the other hand, our cat Voodoo can imitate that sound while lying on a comfortable rug in the warm sunlight.
If I ever step on Voodoo’s tail, I’ll probably have to replace all the windows.
Warren Terra
This is off topic, but this Michelle Obama Google Images story is awful, and it’d be nice if the blogosphere – ideally including the righties – would Googlebomb some decent pictures up the queue.
Little Macayla's Friend
@binz:
This is a partial list, if you don’t already have it:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Spam_Words
Since I’ve been in moderation for a word not on the list, I copy my comments.
Jason Bylinowski
@Warren Terra: Wow, I had never heard of that until you mentioned it. Pretty offensive pic, and I just cannot understand why THAT would be the first result, but I guess one should never misunderestimate the power of freeping.
Chuck Butcher
!!!!!
Isn’t a picture, it’s too many exclamation points and WP takes it as meaning … well, something/
MikeJ
@Jason Bylinowski: I read about it earlier, hit google, and got all unoffensive results. Figured out it was because I’m logged into google.
Fired up another browser, tried it, and remembered yet again how foul republicans are.
I’m sure they’ll tell us why they aren’t racist RSN.
LittleBit
Will do, John! (I can haz Tunchie pic, plz?)
Cain
@Midnight Marauder:
Dude, huntsman is a Dream Theater fan?! FUCK YA!
Someone should tell him about Porcupine Tree!
cain
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: I jut felt like mentioning to you dear heart that when I purchased my Kitchen Aid mixer it was A) through Amazon (though it will not arrive until next week) and B) through the link on BJ. Though didn’t get the sweet employee discount. Should have had my co-worker get it through her second job. Oh well, it’s on its way!
notMapaghimagsik
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta:
noAvatars++;
noRatings++;
Yutsano
@Cain: Jeez no wonder Obama sequestered this guy, I could almost seriously consider voting for him!
bago
And oh my sweet jesus fuck, this guy supporting cheney is complaining that if we let people speak they might say bad things.
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the goddamned point sailing over you fucking pointy head!
MelodyMaker
uh, I didn’t see it mentioned here. not to anyone specifically-
cpanel is not WordPress. WordPress is your website. cpanel is your hosting co. lose that access and whoah. speaking for myself only. sounds hazardous.
Zuzu's Petals
I tried to use the Amazon link several times last week and it only took me to the BJ store. Since I wasn’t in the market for a cat brush thingie, I gave up.
Glad I can click through now. Will do.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
Had a panic moment here when I went and fired up my Sonicator ME706 ultrasonic massager and the head wasn’t putting out anything. My right hand is purple and swollen, not a good time to fail! I checked the unit out and it seemed to be working (digital display-wise) so I figured that the head was dead. The unit sounds an alarm if it senses no contact with a medium (water/gel) and it wasn’t going off when run without. These units are by prescription only and my doc, who gave me the unit over ten years ago, retired and moved away long ago.
The head is a sealed unit but I did notice when I got it that it has always seeped a few bubbles around the transducer when first submerged in water, but it had never caused a problem over the years. Since the head is $650.00 to replace and the certainty of getting one not sure, I decided to try the only option open to me at the moment: I banged the head off the carpeted floor with the output set real low and after a few thumps the alarm sounded and it turned off. Hooray! I used gel, worked the hand over and am feeling a bit better now. Gotta stay in some shape to finish the work on the Mustang! I will seal the transducer before submerging it again.
Better get with my current doc to make sure that I am covered in the event of the head dying permanently. Anyone who has pain in joints should have one of these deep ultrasound units. You do have to know how to operate it but it is easy to learn and the relief it offers is worth it. I am glad my old doc gave it to me though he did tell me that of all of his patients, I had the most mileage on it…lol
Ranger 3
If you are in need of funds, I would suggest that you bet the line against the Steelers.
They are overrated.
Comrade Baron Elmo
John, I first came across your blog when you were venting on the Terri Schaivo outrage. Reading your take, I thought, “Wow, a right-winger with principles – impressive.” Balloon Juice became a regular read after that. Watching your gradual and often painful trek away from the GOP was unbelievably compelling… and in the process, you’ve brought together a cast of comment section regulars equal to none. I’d love to match the minds on tap here with those at any wingnut blog on the goddamn planet. (Hey, their intellectual heft drove away all the old right-wing yobs from this site… wonder whatever happened to the likes of Tall Dave and Stormy?)
Even now, BJ is the site I visit first every day… and it’s given me a truckload of fascinating political analysis, laughs galore and interesting shit in general over the last six years. Well worth a contribution to the tip jar.
Ranger 3
@Comrade Baron Elmo: Well said, comrade.
I first stumbled upon BJ by way of the Great Orange Satan. A bunch of hippy assholes were slandering the Marines in al-Fallujah for
using their weaponscommiting war crimes. It was the argument over the use of white phosphorous. Good times.I dug how Cole seemed like a reasonable guy and pushed back on the left wing tendency to demonize everything and everyone that might not share their worldview. Like US Marines. I didn’t dig on his Bush love, and couldn’t understand how he and other reasonable people failed to realize how stupid and useless Bush really was. He did a nice job of explaining himself, though, after he came around. Actually gave me some good insight on how politics works, generally.
I definitely prefer it here. Daily Kos is just unbearable. Too much stupid, and the fascist purity trolls are just unbearable. You can say what you want here, which is critical for me, as I am an asshole and therefore prone to saying offensive things.
I might even give him some money.
RedKitten
That sounds about right. Mine was absolutely wretched. Of course, more than one person told me that kidney stones were more painful than childbirth, so I thought “Well, that’s all right then, if labour won’t be as bad as that stone!” The labour was 10x worse, unfortunately.
John, I’m just waiting for my next maternity leave benefits cheque to come in, and I’ll send a few shekels your way. Unfortunately, I completely forgot about the Amazon link thing when I did my xmas shopping. I’ll have to do the sticky note thing, I guess.
GReynoldsCT00
Done! Glad to help John. You give a lot to us every day.
dr. bloor
I’m in. But if you’re over the top already, don’t be using any of my money to dress up Tunch or Lily in any of that Steelers shit, or I’m calling the ASPCA.
Oh, and next time you should just skip the pledge drive and tell Microsoft you’ll de-list from Teh Google for a very (un)reasonable fee.
Also.
WereBear
Augh! I’m broke and my car is dying. And sent my last ten bucks to a lady trying to save a bunch of feral kittens from going blind.
But I’ll be using the Amazon thing…
For those wondering, I think you can swing out to the main Amazon site, and purchases still count. We aren’t doing Christmas this year, except for the under 18’s in the family, but if I go there I’ll use the link.
WereBear
And I second the database backup, if you Export through the panel, I think you get all posts and comments, you lose pics, but those can be downloaded through FTP.
It’s awful to be locked out of one’s own blog!
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
@Ranger 3:
I gave up posting at the GoS in 2005 because it was (and still is) a non-stop popularity pissing contest full of shrill, humorless politically correct partisans who only agree that they constantly disagree. If I ever met the person who came up with the idea of rating random internet comments I would go John Cole on them (punch them in the neck) in a second. Same with hiding objectionable posts, like I am some kid who needs to be protected from horrible (or disagreeable) things people say.
The front page is fine to read but little else is. I have seen some longtime members that are great writers who have given up on the place because they got sick of the incessantly childish shit going on there. If you are in the middle of the political divide, no need to apply there, you’re not welcome.
It’s like a political Romper Room, sans adult supervision. No thanks, I pass.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
A tip for John:
When you find someone to do the work, don’t pay in full until the job is completed to your satisfaction. Some people lose interest in what you want done once the cash is done flowing in.
I like giving people goals to work for and getting paid in full is one of them. :)
Fulcanelli
@MattR:
Ah. it appears they have already implemented the Republican health care plan! Ahead of the curve, they are.
I knew about the Amazon linky, but forgot. I’m always buying mp3 albums and such over there. My bad. I will repent, especially if it makes the baby Wal-Mart cry. Doubly so.
PayPal bux coming at ya Mr. Cole. Must have my minimum daily requirement of political and cultural snarky wisdom from BJ. Any excess has to be used for dog treats, of course. Now if I can only find a way to write it off as a business expense…
How can I not enjoy and want to support a website with a nickname like “BJ”?
Steeplejack
@Little Macayla’s Friend:
I don’t think so. I believe the Amazon program just gives Cole a little vig if you actually buy something.
Amazon doesn’t need to advertise. At least I have never seen an ad anywhere.
Zifnab
Dropped a few bucks in the collection plate.
Praise the Lord and pass the Mountain Dew!
sw
I plinked a few coins into your piggy bank. It’s not much, but you give a lot of pleasure to us readers out here I wanted to give what I could. Happy Thanksgiving, and please post some pet photos from the day.
Scuffletuffle
@John Cole:
My Clumber Spaniel when I was clipping her toenails…the neighbors must have thought I was doing ritual animal sacrifice…
Chat Noir
Donation in the bag via PayPal. Always glad to help you out, John Cole. Plz divert some of the funds to catnip and dog treats for the critters.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal): Re: GOS
I think you’re being way to gentle with your description of that cesspool. The GOS has morphed into the progressive version of RedState, or the old LGF. Pogo would recognize it in a heartbeat.
r€nato
My financial situation is pretty sucky lately. I have to wait until some checks come in before I can even drop $5 in the change jar. Sorry but that’s just the way it is.
Here’s what I can do for BJ: as some of you know, I have some nice lab-quality photographic prints of Italy here. There are prints for as little as $20 and they make great, original gifts for Xmas.
I will donate to Balloon Juice HALF of the cost of your order, until Dec. 31. Just use the coupon code “BJFRIENDS”. It won’t change the amount of your order, but it will flag that order so I know to give to BJ.
tomvox1
Any way to have more control over your banners, JC? There is little to no chance of me (most of us?) clicking on the Palin/Coulter/etc hilarity. Just a thought and please correct me if these are not revenue generators…
r€nato
@tomvox1:
you should be glad they are wasting their ad dollars here.
if you use Firefox, I’m pretty sure there’s a plugin to block the ads.
Bubblegum Tate
I’m off to Canada in a few hours to do some DJing (a great way to have fun AND duck out on any holiday responsibilities!), but when I get back next week and re-assess my financial situation, I will carve out some money to chuck in the tip jar.
JG
Sent a few bucks your way…worth it for how often I come to BJ for a bit of sanity! I’ll try to remember to shop through your Amazon link as well.
Thanks again for giving us all a place to bitch.
slag
@tomvox1: I love clicking on those ads. Gives BJ cash and costs the crazies simultaneously. Yin and yang. Each click is my Moment of Zen.
tomvox1
@slag: Ah, OK, will give that a shot if it’s actually a positive, as you say…although I think I’ll need a shower afterward. Yuck.