Wipe Your Feet
As you can see, we have new digs. Told you I was busy.
Work is still ongoing and, inevitably, there will be things to tidy or hammer into shape. Or at least cover with a rug. If you spot anything scandalously up-buggered, do let me know. I’ll add it to the enormous list.
While I faff and tinker, and grumble about plug-ins, by all means pass the time by poking through the Reheated series.
Do make yourselves at home. And oh yes, open thread.
Classy. And not a cheap clip-joint for picking up tarts, none of that. Mother.
The night is young.
Finally!
I’ve been trapped here for months after I wandered in by accident during the renovations.
Do NOT open the tub marked “Emergency Pork Recta”.
I did wonder when you’d show your sweet little face.
And stay out of the kitchen.
Classy. And not a cheap clip-joint for picking up tarts,
Can we pick up scones instead?
David.
Congratulations on the marvels you’ve done with the place. You’d hardly believe it used to be a sewage treatment plant.
…stay out of the kitchen…
I did wonder if those knives didn’t need a quick sharpen?
Meanwhile, a pint of Advocaat please, barkeep.
I’m told the radioactivity will subside to tolerable levels. Two or three weeks should do it.
Just a heads-up that posting will be sparse for a few days while I work through my list of glitches and software head-scratchers, and fathom what all these damn buttons and plug-ins do. There should, deities willing, be an Ephemera post on Friday. On the upside, I was immensely impressed by the QR code in the sidebar. If you have a PayPal app on your phone, it works really well. I almost made a donation to myself.
[ Sounds of demented laughter, muffled weeping. ]
Testing nested comments…
Again, testing nested comments.
So are nested comments something you’ll want to use?
Glad you brought the old bar carpet with you. I left my Wellies stuck to them.
At least you’re at the posh end of the Red Light district, handy for the trams.
Oh, did I pay my tab before you moved?
Classy. And not a cheap clip-joint for picking up tarts
That’s what the joint next door is for.
So are nested comments something you’ll want to use?
Not really: On the one hand it allows replies to appear directly below the comments they reply to, which is sort of handy. But on the other hand it means that you cannot merely watch the bottom of the thread for new comments. All in all, I definitely prefer the current setup, with italics used to highlight the quoted text being replied to.
You should try sitting where I am, matey.
That explains your avatar, yes?
Look! A nested comment!
David Typepad was a cosy cul-de-sac of blogging
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And “cul-de-sac” translates literally as “the ass of the sack”.
Aha yes. I was one of your earliest commenters, back in 2007. Someone in the Guardian had said that “The Simpsons” was racist. Sigh. Seems like a distant age.
And who remembers Dr Dawg?
Good luck in the new place. Smells sweet.
Looks around, notices a distinct lack of henchlesbians.
Sniffle.
Sorry, guvnor, this place is too fancy for me wot.
Please tell me there is still at least a backalley.
This might be a way to reply to comments without having to quote them. Of course it will also take a little mind retraining – previously if you came multiple times a day, you just scrolled past the comments you already read to get to new ones, but now would want to re-scan them for nested replies.
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If nested comments get used more, then it will be more noticeable, and less likely they will be missed.
Interestingly, the French word for cul-de-sac is le deadend
Wot he said.
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I’m using the nested thingies now, because the new comments are fresh, but old habits die hard, and I’ll probably forget and go back to italics to quote and then make my reply.
It also seems as though the p tag trick to get a blank line does not work so well in a nested comment (if you are an un-registered heathen anyways) Argh!
That was my thinking, at least until I find a suitable plug-in. Again, at the moment, it’s all a bit seat-of-the-pants.
I hope we’re getting royalties. [ Glares across English Channel. ]
When I’ve been in these situations where a UI change, or really anything for that matter, will make some indeterminate yet significant portion of the clientele whine but then doing it the other way will make another significant portion of the clientele, including many in the first group, whine I just do whatever makes my life easier and then wait for the dust to settle. Not only is it easier on me, it’s actually more efficient in the long run due to the many obvious and some not-ar-all-intuitive reasons.
the French word for cul-de-sac is le deadend
Here in Soviet Canuckistan, the province of Quebec has been waging a multi-decade war on this kind of back-porting of English words into Quebecois.
Since their primary opponents are Quebec teenagers, it’s going about as well as you might expect.
As an avid student of Anglo-Norman history, my reaction this is take that, Frenchies
In other news, season five of The Crown seems to have lost some of its dramatic mojo. It’s not awful, but definitely less entertaining than previous seasons and with quite a bit of filler. I suppose that’s largely because it’s now set in the 90s and closer to contemporary events, so the period charm has evaporated. Also, some of the casting for this season is less effective. I rather miss Vanessa Kirby and Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret. Still, Jonny Lee Miller as John Major made me laugh.
You know they only pay in “migrants” and runny cheese.
That’s probably gravatar.
I’m logged into Gravatar, as I have a presence on several WP sites, including victorygirlsblog.com that I write and illustrate for.
Hmmmm…
I agree with PST – nested comments seem like more faff than they’re worth. The previous system of quoting a person’s username or comment worked very nicely. And on the subject of comments, it may be worth expanding the “recent comments” box at the top to show the last ten rather than the last five. Assuming you can, of course.
But did my gravitar work?
Heh. Checked back here three times earlier and no gravitar. Now it’s here. David’s all asses and elbows on this thing. Ooh…and plus/minus votes. Hmmm…
Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed the new comment plug-in, which seems to do what was asked for and more.
Just click the floating bubble, bottom left, and options are available for styling, paragraphs, blockquotes, image inserts, etc. The comment box that appears is in effect a live preview that will show you the formatting choices as you apply them. Along with any typos.
You can now also edit your own comments for up to 15 minutes after posting them.
I’m not sure how I feel about plus/minus votes:
On the one hand, it is sometimes nice to be able to click something to signal agreement/disagreement/etc.
On the other hand, I have a gut feeling that it tends to have an overall negative effect on the culture of a blog. At least that is my intuition from blogs and social media that have that feature.
Bottom line: If I like (or dislike) something and have something of substance to say, I can write a comment.
Ooh this is fancy and luxurious, I’m gonna have to start wearing a tie when I visit.
Damn right.
Let’s try posting a smallish image:
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<img src=”https://i.postimg.cc/NjF2FxXp/cookies-biscuits.jpg”>
pst, just paste the link itself, you don’t need the <> stuff
Trying again, following directions this time, with no attempt to resize the image first:
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Nice: the image would have filled much of the screen, but it looks right here.
All hail the new comments plugin.
Right, I’m off to watch episode 8 of “The Crown”.
[ The shame of trying something before reading all the latest comments. ]
Right, I’m off to watch episode 8 of “The Crown”.
[ Looks at time. ]
Sounds like a plan. The rest of you, play nicely. Use coasters.
“Murders they didn’t commit” is an interesting way to refer to murders for which they were the getaway driver.”
Have you ironed these coasters?
Rather like the gun which Alec Baldwin was holding murdering Halyna Hutchins.
Any bets on him being charged at some point?
Also
‘Biscuits in Britain’
BAND NAME!
Oooo… got gravatar to work and now a neat little comment thingy.
Who wore it better?
Our ruling class has become chillingly creepy.
Nice avatar. 🙂
Well, classy setting, same old clientele, and the atmosphere has a subtle hint of something in the air…vaguely, well, floral perhaps ? Like that giant water flower that flowers every 5 years or something. And sorry not to contribute yet, deleted the PayPal account no app recently over their “trick” of threatening to remove $2.5K from your count if you said things they didn’t like. Not that I ever had anything much like that in my account.
so what is the best alternative absent Amazon purchases ?
I’ve been using Ko-Fi without any difficulty.
Forget that; right now he’s suing the movie crew.
Nice place. Like what you’ve done with the curtains. Very *now*.
Agreed. The Queen looks like the Queen Mum and in what universe is or was Charles ever that good-looking?
The first three episodes were a snore. It only got interesting when they started telling Dodi’s back story. Haven’t seen episode 5 yet. Hoping it doesn’t go back to the banal.
For the love of all that is holy lose the up/down vote crap, I have never seen a place where it didn’t devolve into utterly petty, pusillanimous, and puerile squabbling over bragging about up votes and butthurt over down votes.
As an aside, having the comment box at the top instead of a logical place like after the last comment is not exactly logical, French, maybe, but not logical.
I find Dolores Umbridge as HMtQ a little off-putting, as well – and the High Septon as Phil the Greek.
Limited number of character actors of an age, I suppose,
Sorry, first two episodes. Just started watching episode 4 tonight. I think going back to the past in the Dodi episode is what made it interesting, including Edward and Wallis again.
[ Returns from condominium board meetings. Utterly spent. ]
Bartender, what would you recommend for a medicinal tonic?
I wouldn’t put it that strongly, but I do think up/down vote buttons are a bad idea.
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You had a setup that worked very well, David. Best not to mess with it too much.
As Captain Jack Aubrey would say, innovations are what the French do.
Dad moves.
https://youtu.be/ekESZIn4y18
Thank you Mr Ream, as long as it doesn’t involve helicopters I should give it a go…
As it goes on, it does pick up a little. The episode Gunpowder is quite good. Though so far there’s been nothing to match the high points from earlier seasons – say, Assassins, Marionettes, or Aberfan.
Heh. The up/down voting is clearly a bar fight waiting to happen and has therefore been deactivated. But I did want to check that all the new toys work. So many shiny things.
[ Resumes tinkering. ]
You know, this is a comment which deserves an upvote…
Today’s word is definitely ‘swanky’…
Well, it’s a work-in-progress, as you can see, but at least the new set-up should be more reliable than Typepad, which has rapidly become a joke. And not the funny kind.
Faffing about with the comments plug-in has reminded me of the extent to which the comments are the guts of what goes on here.
So, er, group hug.
I’ve resigned my HOA president position effective at our annual meeting come January. As I’ve been away in GA most of the summer and preferring to play poker on my Wednesday nights rather than remotely attend the last three board meetings, I’ve also been slowly stepping back on my handling of things. We arrived back in town last week and, on top of the recent minor hurricane, a number of things from Ian have still not been addressed. Broken gates to retention ponds, ground subsistence issues stemming from the volume of water that has passed through the area, broken street lights, potholes. Then there are the two on-going absurd legal issues that necessitate some degree of a firm hand in leadership. Dealing with lawyers, cry-baby residents, and the idiot city workers and police (whose leadership, thanks to the hurricanes, has been shown to be severely lacking such that half the city council was voted out last week), etc. will be someone else’s problem. If all goes as planned we will be selling this place come spring. Going forward I plan to have as little to do with other people as is possible.
We might need some kleenex…
https://youtu.be/4EeG8P4btqs
Meanwhile at the Metropolitan Rozzer Terror Squad, – https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2022-11-13/ex-south-wales-police-boss-wont-apologise-for-wearing-menopause-vest
You can just paste in the link. No tags required.
Speaking of faffing about
https://www.itv.com/news/wales/2022-11-13/ex-south-wales-police-boss-wont-apologise-for-wearing-menopause-vest
So, yet another fatuous time-filling distraction.
OK, so this doesn’t like proper HTML, what is the magic to make proper links, seeing as how the silly button doesn’t do anything to make one?
Again, you can just paste in the URL, or, if you want to embed a link in specific text, highlight the piece of text you want to link, then click the link icon and paste the URL into the box that appears.
Yes, but not a proper link where one has [url ] wry comment [close url ]
IOW make something simple complicated…
Meanwhile in the world of diversity
However, thanks.
IOW make something simple complicated…
I think it’s more that you can now do pretty much everything in the comment box, while seeing how it looks in real time. No prepping (or knowledge) of HTML needed, which, for most commenters, is probably much easier. No more unclosed italic tags, for instance.
Ouch. My sympathies.
By comparison, my problems are trivial.
Sounds like a challenge…
Test
test 2
After testing, I see that if I use the bubble, my comment (“test 2”) appears at the top of the page but if I “reply” it appears nested below the one I replied to. Using Chrome on Windows
More from the Glorious and Corruption-Free World of Diversity:
“YaBoiZach was watching TikToks from laid-off Facebook employees, and he says that almost none of the laid-off people had any technical skills of any kind— they’re all in ‘soft’ stuff like ‘climate,’ ‘human rights,’ recruiting, ‘diversity officer,’ morale boosting.”
(via AoS blogger Arthur Kimes)
Hey look! Another improvement: I was able to post a comment with two hyperlinks and not get stuck in the spam filter! Hooray!
I do like the term human bloatware.
Yeah, I don’t know what I did but now it’s also showing up in previously sent GMails.
I see the activist-wanker caste, mentioned here, is still showing us all the way.
Your “just-posted” comment will appear at the top of the list – for you only – everyone else sees it at the bottom of the page.
The comment is then shown at the bottom next time you refresh the page.
I suppose it means the page doesn’t have to scroll top to bottom to show you what you just posted.
Gay dad moves. Are there no gay people who can dance gay? This would have been more funny/amusing were Craig not trying so hard lately to be “woke”. I have a hard time picturing Sean Connery doing that. Roger Moore, maybe.
Anyone know if I use Ko-Fi am I secretly funding the New World Order? I abandoned PayPal years ago when they boycotted North Carolina.
Double meaning of bloat: (1) Morbidly obese. (2) Toxic as pufferfish.
The “way” that I see is to deny these wankers all access to heat, electricity, food, and transport. Allow them nothing but what they can produce with their own muscle power.
Related: “Police force is ‘running out of vegan meals’ because they arrested so many Just Stop Oil protesters during M25 protest”
Solution: Peanut butter sandwiches.
French history lesson.
Bread and water works also.