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.
True, and I am only one user, but I did use it, a lot.
[ Adds rebuild blogroll to list of chores. ]
They will cry if it isn’t imported mineral water.
True, and artisinal, cruelty and gluten free bread, made with free range whole wheat hand ground by Bolivian monks.
OTOH, let them cry.
Play stupid games …
Man Dancing On Top Of 18-Wheeler Dies After Hitting Bridge And Falling Off | KFI AM 640 (iheart.com)
So per my neice and husband welcoming a new baby, I’m googling gift ideas for newborns. The second site that I land on, while scrolling through 20+ items of innocuous things like onesies and cuddle blankets and pacifiers and such, item #24 is this:
Ye flipping gods, as my old favorite, no-longer-with-us, User Friendly webcomic cast used to say. Apparently the chubby baby fist diversity wasn’t enough – they had to hamfist in a black hand with a rainbow shirt on.
Thanks Chris–that is exactly what happened. See it now.
Just looking at outbound links:
Shorty’s so cute
Single attachment – no animated png.
Nested comments are a bad idea: You have to scan the entire thread to even know if there are new comments. It’s tempting to use the feature, but its disadvantages outweigh its uses.
Dream big, little buddy.
Heh…arriving here for first time from a proper computer, one with it’s own monitor and keyboard and everything…so googling/hunting around for “Thompson blog” I run across this chap…heh…universal basic income is his passion. Obviously the wrong place….but this stuff
is so much funandever so easyplaying with these buttons
Sooo….help an old man out here with this Halloween thing….Chinese communist yanking the cord and probing the innards of an Android…or something?
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. No HTML required.
I’ve mentioned before that what’s happening right now is a huge adjustment in developer salaries due to the removal of the need for developers to live within an hour of their offices. In order to attract and retain developers whose market salaries have literally doubled in the last year, these companies are shedding the dead weight in their HR budgets.
I am coming around to the theory that the museums and galleries are 100% co-conspirators on these stunts. It’s simply not believable that these media opportunities could be carried off the way they do (no security on site, plenty of media on hand, the protestors able to carry off a time-consuming stunt without interference, etc.)
Maybe replies to spoilers are buggy…
Test non spoiler reply
So apparently hitting reply on a comment with the spoiler tag has a bug and creates a Leave Site dialogue. I’ll report it…
I dunno…I’m kinda six of one, half dozen of the other. With “recent comments” readily accessible it’s less of an issue. Though I do think only five “recent comments” is a bit tight when a blog has over a half dozen or so regular visitors, like this place. I know there has been confusion on one or two occasions as to what someone was referencing such that nested might (heh) help. Though with the ease of use of these html buttons…Meh. Like I said earlier, best to let these UI things play out for a while and see how they go. Though I figured the +/- was likely to cause strife.
On a certain philosopher’s blog there was a guy who would absolutely lose his sh*t when he got down-voted. There were only about a half dozen regular visitors there and on certain of his posts I would get a kick out of down voting him from the dozen or so different machines I would access that blog from. It took him a while to figure out that they weren’t all lurkers…though it amused me how many others, perhaps lurkers, perhaps not…I like to think they were lurkers though…would get certain posts of his down voted well past a dozen.
Okay, I ditched the nested comments. So you’re back to quoting some snippet of whatever you’re replying to. The change will make some earlier comments seem a little incongruous, but this thread is being used as a proving ground anyway.
I’m a sucker for cute cartoon characters and this is the firmware update screen from xiaomi laser projectors.
I am a fan Brown and Cony stickers, I like nendoroids and, to David’s horror, the living room includes a full set of BTS Line Friends plush cushions.
It makes me relatable. Probably.
So, now we have all comments on one ongoing page. Does this make life easier? Or will weeping ensue?
[ Changes mind. Reverts to pagination. ]
So you’re back to quoting some snippet of whatever you’re replying to.
For the time being that might be best – there’s a lot of changes all at once for everyone to get used to, especially when some have been reading/commenting the old way for 10+ years.
I’m all for test driving shiny new plug-ins to see what they do and how they work, though. I’m trying the new comment bubble now – it brings up an editor like the Slack chat we use at work, but I am not sure which of the options is the “pre”. I’m going with italics for quoting because old habits are hard to break.
One more test – a link to a large picture
That didn’t do what I expected…
You can forget the pre tag. Blockquote or italics should be fine.
So I get to the end of page 2 comments and click on 3 anticipating more delights from the commentariat. Oh dear (being polite) I slip back down a mega-snake to the beginning of page 1, or start as it is sometimes known.
Try again but click on Next and, bugger me, I’m back to square 1 again.
Click on all the available Recent Comments links to see if I can taste the hidden literary delights but that only serves to convince me that nested comments are a pig’s breakfast.
Never mind, a little bad writing from the BBC
The man in his 60s died at the scene after being hit by a bus walking between Deal and Dover.
That does seem to be the prevailing view. My own recent attempt to follow a comment thread over at Instapundit – a task I can’t recommend – should have told me that. But as I said, I’ve been trying things out, if only to discover what doesn’t need doing.
“So I get to the end of page 2 comments and click on 3 anticipating more delights from the commentariat. Oh dear (being polite) I slip back down a mega-snake to the beginning of page 1, or start as it is sometimes known.”
I also encountered the mysterious vanishing Page 3.
The solution: Refresh the page and then click to go to Page 3.
The disappointment: Still no Page 3 Girl.
“My own recent attempt to follow a comment thread over at Instapundit – a task I can’t recommend…”
I think there are multiple reasons for that. 😉
The man in his 60s died at the scene after being hit by a bus walking between Deal and Dover.
Those walking buses are pretty bad, but don’t ignore the Slow Children signs.
<a href=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between_Time_and_Timbuktu“>This</a> movie can be seen <a href=”https://vimeo.com/336308131“>here</a> (90 minutes).
No “Preview”?
My last try was unsuccessful. I’ll try again:
This movie can be seen here.
Let’s see if that works.
Aha! the plot thickens.
I hate it when the plot thickens.
Same old hoople though.
Link doesn’t show in preview. Is it there at all? Let’s see…
… Done, I think, but it took a shitload of editing.
Next up for me: figuring how to paste an image in the comms.
<i>Okay, I ditched the nested comments</i>
ThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYou
You know what I hate? When you edit a second time it undoes some, but not all, of the edits you’ve already made. Not only do you have to redo the lost edits, the unlost edits make it less likely you’ll notice the problem. Until you post it — then you have to click edit again and the thing metasta… metasta… gets worse.
OK, still hanging on to </i>…
There is no limit to the crazy.
I’ll have another go
…yeah, no.
Whoa! I love it. Very nice, David.
So luxurious. And soft!
Simply deluxe.
And you can edit after you post!
< fixes himself a tasty manhattan>
So that
<img src=
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Not quite but getting there
New buttons! You’ve been busy. 🙂
I’ll leave this here for newcomers:
Eagle-eyed readers will have noticed the new comment plug-in, which should make life easier. Just click the floating bubble, bottom left, and options are available for styling, paragraphs, blockquotes, links, 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. If you’re in a rush, URLs can simply be pasted into a comment. 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. No HTML required.
You can also edit your own comments for up to 15 minutes after posting them.
Ooh, shiny and new! *sacrifices chicken to placate the spam filter*
Heh. At last.
*sacrifices chicken to placate the spam filter*
Hey! That chicken hadn’t been inspected yet!
Hey! That chicken hadn’t been inspected yet!
In case an explanation is needed.
Took me a while to notice, but…
Another suggestion:
The comments all display their timestamps as “X minutes ago”.
How about displaying the actual date/time instead?
X minutes/hours ago does avoid the GMT computation issue. Given that we’re spread all over the globe here. I’ve never seen it done but “current time at this location” might help. Or “in current local time”. While I generally don’t have an issue having had to think in GMT for much of my career, for me it’s NBD per se. But having worked internationalization (I18n) issues a good bit, I’ve wondered how “normal” people process these things.
ooh, edit button is under the gear icon. Got it.
X minutes/hours ago does avoid the GMT computation issue.
Reasonable point. I don’t suppose it would be practical to display both forms? On occasion I have wanted to begin a reply with the time of the comment I’m replying to because it was so much earlier in the thread. But no big deal.
Done. That’s UK time, obviously. Not whatever heathen time is used overseas.
Better “Recent Comments” links on the sidebar. Now shows 10 comments with the date & time they were posted. Looking now to get the blogroll back – hopefully without the broken link checker having a melty….
Still can’t fix the bloody side bar dropping to the bottom of this page. Caused, I think, when I attached a 3000 pixel wide photo – so massive pictures in comments are maybe not a good idea.
More picture tests…an attachment with
url links
And a link to Conan
Done.
Thanks. Let’s see how everyone else likes it.
That’s UK time, obviously. Not whatever heathen time is used overseas.
Perhaps you could append something to the time like “That’s Greenwich time, as God intended” or even a reference to us heathens and Ungrateful Colonials. 😀
Added “website”
No discernible difference
A “delete comment” function would be nice.
[ Glares at Chris. ]
I’ll have you know that my silliness is of a high order and greatly enhances the ambience.
(Baka, by the way, is Japanese for foolish or silly. See “Baka bomb” for a bit of curious history.)
A “delete comment” function would be nice.
I agree. It might also be handy to allow more than 15 minutes to edit a comment.
There is no limit to the crazy.
Oh, good Lord. The Barbie Murders by John Varley (1978).
IIRC some of them got a thrill by wearing wigs and merkins in private (pun intended).
pst – The baka was directed at David.
I spent 20 minutes trying to fix a “page width bug” that turned out to be him viewing the page at 110%
I can’t do a delete button for the comments as the delete permissions are set at the user level and can’t be inherited down beyond “editor”. It would mean allowing non-admins delete rights on the database.
If I can find the function that runs the edit post timer I’ll extend it. But as Bender would say
Comment editing is 15 minutes.. If anyone has been a complete
orokamono – then at least they can replace the comment by editing…
If anyone has been a complete orokamono…zura janai katsura da
[ Whines ] Da-vid! Chris is forcing me to learn Japanese!
pst – The baka was directed at David.
Okay. But now I am sad that my silliness was ignored. 😀
I spent 20 minutes trying to fix a “page width bug” that turned out to be him viewing the page at 110%
Ouch. If I had kept a journal of every dumbass mistake I made…
I can’t do a delete button for the comments as the delete permissions are set at the user level and can’t be inherited down beyond “editor”.
[ Slaps forehead. ]
David, grats on the new place, may all your neighbors be silent and well-behaved
Done. That’s UK time, obviously. Not whatever heathen time is used overseas.
I got through one level of grad school streaming BBC 7 radio channel (before it became 4 Extra and went to crap). It was a bit disconcerting when I’d be working very late on something and some old time radio show segued into CeeBeebies childrens’ programming which began around 6 AM ish UK time, but was midnight-ish my time. So I got used to the +6 give or take for converting local to British time.
So – added the Bogroll page – link in the sidebar next to archives and fixed the sidebar display issue on page 3 of the comments for this post.
I think the spoiler tag doesn’t play nice with the theme…so out it goes!
(from the French word “Spolier” –
“il est un spolier, il a vendre le meche!“)
As to the forward and back buttons being the wrong way round – they are if you are laying face down on your back.
On one bright day in the middle of the night
Two dead boys got up to fight
Back to back they faced each other
Drew their swords and shot each other
WTP – thank you, that’s wonderful!
This is going to seem very random, but the style of the poem reminds me of my grandfather (that’s where the “face down on your back” thing came from – I have a strong suspicion that it’s a Spike Milligan line – he was a big “Goons” fan) who loved limericks and rhymes and introduced me to Suess and Roald Dahl. I think gramps is more responsible for my sense of humour than anyone.
He loved to read to me – so “Emil und die Detektive” by Erich Kästner, Stig of the Dump, The Hobbit and the Just William books were amongst the fare.
I’ve just had the strongest memory of sitting on his lap on Sundays listening to “Round the Horne”, probably around 1967, and squealing with delight at the word play from Barry Took and Marty Feldman.
Of course youtube has the content :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGfMGeuLe_M&ab_channel=FINDADMAGUS%27ComedyChannel
“But now I’ll regally of to bed
To sleep off the nonsense
I’ve just said”
WTP – thank you, that’s wonderful!
That piece, or more precisely bastardized versions of it, was quite popular in our Boy Scout troop back in the day. A similar one was:
For some reason, my father latched onto that one and on long road trips would suddenly blurt it out as a way to break the monotony. When I was 16 and we took our legendary (to us) “big family trip” cross country to California, I took that as a sign it was my turn to drive.
“Emil und die Detektive” by Erich Kästner
! So the black and white German language subtitled movie I saw as a child was based on a novel! I never knew that.