Let’s see if closing the old long thread helps a little with the load here. Besides, you want to see the squidgirl anyway.
Also, good news: a fresh new server goes in tonight. Commenting will be temporarily shut down sometime after 9pm while the blogs get transferred, and when they’re switched on again, these performance problems should be gone.
Yay! Thank you.
I am here! Apparently Queen Latifah just came out but I am here!
Ika Musume! Ok show overall, looks like a sequel is due soon.
Hmmm. How do I switch from name/URL commenting to my new Gravatar account thingy?
Krasnaya, while I totally support Queen Latifah if she did come out, I’m not convinced that’s what she actually did. I haven’t seen any quotes clearly showing that she is a lesbian, and since lesbianism is fairly strictly policed as a term of identifying sexual orientation, this seems like a large leap. Even admitting attraction to women wouldn’t mean she’s identifying this way.
I would love to have another positive and strong role model of an out woman (be she queer, bisexual or a lesbian), but this feels like poor journalism at best so far.
Just me and the pygmie pony over by the dental floss bush.
Ooh, sniny new server online later. Just weekend traffic for a test. Wait until Monday Moanin’.
Just remember, that’s 9 pm OCEST, which means it’s 10 EST and 7 PST.
Speaking of coming out, I had that talk with my Mum today – the “I’m not a Christian” talk. It did not go very well. I feel shitty.
I’m not sure exactly what you are asking, but you can log in to WordPress on the left under “stuff”. Make sure your email address with WordPress matches the email you used with Gravatar.
Slignot, I’m kind of being a jerk (I apologize) because I have Queen Latifah on a video-taped interview saying, “I am not a homo! I am not a fruitcake!”
I post this because my lesbian friends in San Francisco see this as being Some Great Thing! and I’ve been fighting them all night.
It’s 2:02 in Saint Petersburg, Russia and I want to go to sleep BUT I need some sort of back up.
Thank you!
We do think it’s broken.
Let’s make all decisions about the state based on what Walton finds aesthetically pleasing. :P
No reason for you to feel shitty, but that doesn’t always transfer to reality.
I’m sure your mother appreciates honesty.
Mudpuddles:
:-/
*totally non-creepy friend hugs* if you want ’em. Give her time, though to be honest sometimes that doesn’t help. I think my mother was actually less stressed about me coming out as gay than she was about me coming out as atheist.
Thanks for the comments guys, greatly appreciated. I thought she was cool with it previously, but it turns out she had just blocked it out of her mind. Telling her I was not a Christian broke her heart, and that broke mine. Nothing worse than making your mother cry. Now I’m kicking myself for the words I chose etc etc.
slignot: I’ve been on Verizon FiOS (now administered by NCNetwork/Frontier/whatever they’re named tomorrow) for a couple years and have been extremely happy with connectivity and speed. Definitely worth giving it a shot over the alternatives, but if you’re paying to have the cable laid, it might be prohibitively expensive.
http://www.loweringthebar.net/2011/08/german-police.html
Love the picture at the bottom. Recoil must be a killer.
I’m having trouble getting used to it over here :( My brain isn’t really engaging the posts or fully recognizing other posters. I’ve read the last thread and all, but I’m just kinda disoriented. Guess time’ll help.
Sorry to hear that, MudPuddles. I am out as an atheist to my parents and most friends, but I don’t know that I’ll ever have that conversation with my crazed fundie Grams. Hang in there.
Tone is always hard to convey online, and I was more confused than saw you as being a jerk. It just puzzles me that people want to jump on news stories supposedly outing people who haven’t decided to come out or who may not even be gay/bi/etc.
As for the homophobia, I can’t say I’m surprised. Given the generalized homophobia in rap and hip hop in general, and a greater social shame placed on being LGBT in some African American communities, I don’t feel like I’m in a great position to condemn her too much. It would feel like condemning a closeted male country music star whose financial success depends on not frightening or alienating one’s fans. It sucks but I can see people making that decision.
I’m glad for every positive voice we have, though. MC Frontalot is wonderful for both advocating for understanding of evolution and gay rights.
I agree Cipher, think it’ll take some time to ge used to. It all seems a bit more cluttered and squished over here!
Walton, yeah, I took an Oath of Allegiance to become a public servant.
Thanks you slignot ;)
Classical Cipher, using the userContent.css has seriously helped me and upped my comfort level. It’s much more like ‘home’.
For those who have Firefox, all the CSS complaints can be cleared up by locating your Mozilla/Firefox profile, then going into the Chrome folder under your profile. You’ll find a ‘userContent-example.css’ file. If you delete the info in it, then place this in the file:
@-moz-document domain(freethoughtblogs.com) {
blockquote { color:black !important; font-style:normal !important }
.entry { font-family: serif !important; font-size: 16px !important; text-align:left !important; }
.comment { font-family: serif !important; font-size: 16px !important; text-align:left !important; }
.comment { background-color: #f2f2f2 }
.odd { background-color: #ffffff; }
.avatar { float: right; }
.comment-author { font-weight:bold !important; background: #eef; }
.comment-meta { border-bottom: 1px solid #bbbbbb !important }
.commentlist li { list-style: decimal outside none !important }
}
*Then* save it as userContent.css (be sure to remove the -example or it won’t work), close down Firefox, then restart, and voila!, everything will be much, much better. Alternate shading, no more italics in blockquotes, larger font, comment numbers, all that stuff.
MudPuddles,
Bah.
Perverse indulgence.
(The deed is well done)
Mud Puddles, I’m sorry to hear things didn’t go well. It’s always difficult when something central to your identity hurts a loved one. Like everyone else, I’ll say give it time. She’ll see, eventually, that you’re still the same person.
John, when it comes to personal relationships and hurt, specifically, it’s a good time for you to remain quiet.
Heard back with finalized details on replacing shitty internet with apparently awesome internet. Someone is coming to our house around 6 local time to walk the property and explain; we can sign papers then if we want. But it’s pretty fucking cool.
Current internet with Qwest soon to be Century Link (Comcast is even more expensive):
7 Mbps down
2 Mbps up
$50something a month
What we can get with UTOPIA at my house specifically.
20 Mbps down
20 Mbps up
Total wiring cost $2500 (can be spread out as you choose)
We or future homeowners will own the fiber connection permanently.
Monthly cost option 1:
Total of $55/mo with $25 going to the city, $30 to X-Mission
$25/mo payment to city lasts for 25 years
Monthly cost option 2:
Total of $60/mo with $30 to city and X-Mission
$300 down initially
$30/mo payment to city lasts 10 years
With both of these payment options, we can pay off the installation cost early with no penalties.
I can’t imagine why I wouldn’t want to go with local fiber. I’m actually really excited about this.
I’ve lost track with the ET’s peregrinations but did anyone post this? God’s Blog (file under Creation, Humour, InternetMemes, ThingsYouMightReadOnPharyngula, JustifiedTextSux):
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2011/08/08/110808sh_shouts_simms
Caine @23*:
Oh god, that is so much better. :)
*tee hee hee!
Oh, and when discussing coming out as an atheist, it is not the same as simply making a statement about yourself. Saying you’re an atheist is inherently more threatening than telling someone you’re gay or even that you’re a feminist. I never thought about it much until I read Greta Christina talk about it here. Which is why MudPuddles and and Caine said what they did above.
slignot
what will happen is that when most of the homes are connected the telcos will start a lawsuit to be allowed to ride the lines for free. When it becomes a cost they will start padding local pol pockets to sell it all to them. They will keep demanding votes until people get sick of the legal expense and practically give it away. Then they jack your rates and sell your notes to the sleazies.
Really hope that doesnt happen but I saw a lot of muni owned telcos go under in exactly that fashion
Maybe you can branch the fiber and sell it to your neighbors?
How much of the monthly payments go toward the wiring cost? Seems like a pretty high interest rate.
I have a hard time believing the upstream would be that high. If you use a lot of bandwidth, check the contract for throttling clauses.
Yeah, that’s what I was getting at, thanks. I don’t have a WordPress account though, so I guess I gotta figure that out now. My blog is on Blogger, go figure.
mudpuddles:
That sucks.
I don’t have any advice, but I’ve got hugs and cookies.
Audley @ 28:
Hee. I know, I know! It just feels more like home. Thank the universe for geniuses like Kagato & Owlmirror. :D
broboxley, I’m hoping that they have planned ahead to figure out how to handle it. But they seem to be trying to encourage competitive ISP service, so I am hopeful they won’t run into this pitfall. It may also make a difference that it’s an single association that 16 varied and distant municipalities signed onto, so it may be that politics in individual cities will be less likely to sway policy.
Caine:
Yes!
Kagato and Owlmirror:
If we should ever meet, cake and beer is on me. :D
Therrin, the interest rate is theoretically kind of high, but I don’t actually mind subsidizing the program for a while if it keeps it expanding and helping people ditch the currently consumer unfriendly commercial options. Given how competitive the speed to price ratio is compared to what’s currently available, I’m happy to do it. (For a slight increase in price each month, I get lots and lots more speed.) Plus, since I can pay off the installation cost at any time without penalty, it’s not an issue. I can pay off more each month just like you can pay more to the principal on a home mortgage.
mudpuddles:
Also, don’t underestimate the shock factor: that which caused tears today can be tolerated next week and accepted next month. Things may improve as she realizes that you are still the same person.
Hang in there!
Another effing storm and of course, the sat TV is out. *sigh*
@ Mudpuddles
This is not your fault. It’s not hers, either. Religion is to blame, not your choice of words.
The clergy create this family strife, and they do it on purpose with their hell-threats. It’s called emotional blackmail. Sorry to tell you, this is round one. Wait until you have kids.
My father: “Are you going to baptise the twins?”
Me: “No. Why do you ask?”
I found out later he “baptised” the boys on the sneak.
It is okay, Mudpuddles. If it’s any consolation, my coming talk with my parents also failed miserably.
I forgot to close my car window last night. I was up very early today and looked outside; oh, good, no rain. So I toddle out to the car (parked in my driveway) to close the window and LEGS! There’s a guy sleeping in the backseat of my car! WTF?
I roust him, and he says “I knocked on your door last night.” Minor detail: I don’t know this guy. “Where’s Devil’s Lake” he asks?
Me: “Go away, just go away”. So the poor, sad sack guy wanders off. Just a harmless drunk who I suppose in his stupor thought the backseat looked comfy.
Yeesh.
For anybody having trouble with Caine’s solution—I have a Mac, I don’t know if that makes any difference, but it took me three tries.
First off, when you find the userContent.css folder, even though you’ve switched to Firefox, it still has the Safari logo on it. Obviously you can’t delete anything from the HTML file, so I copied the new info into TextEdit and saved it as HTML.
Well, that didn’t work. I realized it had added the extension .htm when I saved it, so I removed that. Still didn’t work. So I looked at it and realized it had saved as Rich Text and added a lot of extraneous garbage.
So I changed format to plaintext and tried to save it. It will offer you “Untitled.txt” as a title. Change it to userContent.css and save it (Probably having to “replace” your old one) and Bob’s your uncle. Saves as .css, Safari logo and all. Then restart Firefox and voilà!
I suppose I’m revealing myself as a complete n00b, but maybe I’m not the only one, so in case this helps somebody, I’ll throw it out there.
Yay, I embiggened the font and it’s so much better.
If you use chrome as your browser it is very easy to select a larger font. toolbox-options-under the hood-scroll down to font size-select.
In case anyone was wondering, the bone in rib-eye I’m about to cook is larger than a breadbox.
What are you washing it down with, Rev?
The ad at the top in my latest refresh is for Anne Coulter’s new book.
ohh the horror
Oh beer!
Rev, have you tried Session Black* lager? I bet it would be DELICIOUS! with your rib-eye. :)
In fact, I think I’m gonna have one now.
*I kind of hate BeerAdvocate. It seems like every fucking thing gets a B rating. (I do love the comments section, though. Everyone’s a sommelier.)
So, has everyone let their acquaintances in Wisconsin know that Americans for Prosperity sent out false absentee ballots to a couple of democratic districts?
http://hudson-wi.patch.com/articles/north-hudson-man-files-voter-suppression-complaint-against-americans-for-prosperity?ncid=M255
Funnier version via Colbert.
Right now Having a Lindemans Gueuze Cuvée René before dinner, but have a bottle of cab I’ve never had before. Robin K from Sonoma. Don’t know anything about it, it was a pure “I’ll try this” at Whole foods.
I have. They are tasty.
But as much as I am a beer nerd, I really like a big chewy kick you in the balls cab or other big red wine with a steak.
For those of you with Macs who wish Caine’s #23 to work with for them, copypasta the instructions to the textedit program, then save it as a .css file under users/*youraccount*/library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/*garbage*/chrome as the userContent.css. Then quite Firefox. You may also need to log out of freethoughtblogs, then log back in, to have it work properly, and give your proper id for posting.
Totally. It cracks me up.
Oh goodness thank you, Caine. That is so much better.
Hmm, there seem to be all sorts of new toys here.
Avatars have hovercards…giggles @chigau’s. Too bad the new server cannot contain the horde.
Is there any chance we could have some commas in the allowed tags once you get to fine tuning? Please?
Kamaka, one time, when we lived in Bismarck, one of my dogs woke me up at 3 a.m. and I went out into the hall to find a very large, friendly and extremely drunk man who was absolutely convinced this was his cousin’s house. It took me about 40 minutes to convince him I was not his cousin and my male dog Cantemato was not “Cindy”.
I finally get him out of the house and start back to bed, but decide to check and look out the window. I look, and this guy is sitting in my 1971 El Camino, which has just been newly restored and been home less than a week. I decide it’s time to go wake up Mister. I explain to him and tell him the guy is now camping in the Elky. That does it, he jumps out of bed and charges down the hallway. I yell at him to stop and he yells “what?!” I mention he might want to put on some shorts.
He goes out and has to talk to the guy for about an hour to get him to leave.
Drunks.
Classical Cipher:
I’m so glad you’re feeling better! ♥
And now I have noscript on here, which makes it even less bad.
Caine
I am enjoying your photography and artwork. The pow-wow dancers are amazing. So powerful!
Thank you so much, Tethys! (Just in case, you have to hit ‘slideshow’ to see everything at it’s proper size.)
Hrm, I may have to use firefox until they get this place prettified.
So, I just moved and decided it was time to look for a clinic for routine STD testing (now that I’m thinking about getting back into the dating scene). On a whim, I called up my medical group (Kaiser Permanente) to find out if either they offered such services or could recommend a clinic in the area.
Now I’m fasting for 12 hours to go in tomorrow to get a full blood workup, including the STD tests… but the doctor’s out of town for a month, and I’m not sure if they’ll give me the results without him being back*. In September.
Oh well, I need the other tests anyway. It’s been a while.
(BTW – to get the userContent.css thing to work, I actually had to make the Chrome directory; I didn’t have one to begin with. But it works now.)
* Not that I think anything’s wrong; it’s just always best to be official.
Sigh. I spent my lunch hour explaining to a guy why his perpetual motion machine wouldn’t work. I always feel kind of lousy crushing peoples’ dreams like that, but what are you gonna do?
Even weirder, I always wonder why they pick me–this was a guy who only knew me from the climate science/anti-science wars. For some reason this happens to me every couple of years or so–somebody picks me to explain to them why they won’t get a Nobel Prize.
Very drunk taxi passenger: “This is my father’s house, why did you bring me here?”
Me, long ago taxi driver: “This is the address you gave me!”
Drunk: “I didn’t give you this address!”
Taxi driver: “How could I possibly know where your father lives?”
It all went downhill from there.
I just started using Firefox, ummm, a few minutes ago. Where in the hell is my profile? Please helps.
Morning all. I’m not drinking beer, but I do have a very nice coffee, and a peanut butter & golden syrup sandwich and strawberries for breakfast. And the bloke is making stout this weekend.
That css is working nicely, too. The justification and the font were annoying me most, I think.
Ray Ladbury, hey, it’s better than being told you’re an idiot and a cupcake, eh?
Antiochus Epiphanes, are you on Mac, Windows or Linux? File paths will depend on that.
Reading Greta’s post. This is the part that I think sums it up best:
I totally agree with that, and it matches my personal experience.
Thanks for the link @29, slignot.
AE, depends on your OS. http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles
oh fuck
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903366504576490841235575386.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTTopStories
Antioch@64:
C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\.default\chrome
You may need to create both the “chrome” folder and the actual “userContent.css” file to put into it (I had to make both).
Please note that it’s under “Roaming”, not “Local”.
On Windows, I have no idea. On a Mac, it’s in your Admin folder. Hit “Library”, then “Application Support”, then “Firefox”, then “Profiles”, then “gobbledygook.default”, then “Chrome”.
Hey, my Spellcheck knows the word “gobbledygook”!
Or, AE, click on ‘Help’ on your top toolbar, then click ‘Troubleshooting Information’ and you’ll go straight to a page that has ‘open containing folder’ next to ‘Profile Directory’
From there, look for the ‘chrome’ folder and there you are.
The location and the folder names vary. Either enter “about:support” into the address bar, or go to Firefox’s Help menu and select “Troubleshooting Information.”
That opens a webpage, where you need to click on a button labeled “Open Containing Folder” to open your profile in a new window.
In there should be a subfolder called “chrome,” which is where you need to save userContent.css. (There are usually two files with “-example.css” at the end, which you can edit to make the new file, but you have to save it as “userContent.css”.)
It was pointed out that when you edit/save the file, you need to do it with Notepad or an equivalent .txt editor, not another kind of word-processing program that would add lots of other markup garbage.
Oh, and one other thing I had to do, was to change the home page from Pharyngula.org to the present freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula.
Macs can be “smarter” than Windows at times.
So, perhaps I need not quarrel with gravatar after all? (*hopehopehopehopehope*)
–
MudPuddles, *hugs* are offered, if acceptable. If I had “the talk” with my mom, she’d probably stroke out. She’s in her seventies, so no fuckin’ way. If she asks me directly, I’ll be as truthful as is diplomatically possible, but I’m not throwing the first punch.
–
If you’re a vegetarian, do not click this link.
Ugh, this place will take some getting used to. It seems to work better on my phone than sciblogs though. Yay!
@Mudpuddles, sorry to hear that. As others have already said, it may take time before she gets used to it. I hope she can get past it quickly and things can go back to normal for you :)
Lol at drunk people stories. We once had an accquaintance turn up at 10pm, who told my husband how much he loved him, then stumbled outside into the pouring rain, pissed in the garden and climbed over our fence and disappeared. We found him the next morning asleep under our hedge.
“he used to be a dick, but he’s not a dick anymore.” – The Postman Always Rings Twice (Hume Cronyn spoke the line.)
I resemble that remark.
I’m still trying to sort this out; on a mac/snow leopard/firefox.
userContent.css – file not found.
users/*youraccount*/library/Application Support/Firefox/Profiles/*garbage*/chrome – I get as far as Application Support but there’s no Firefox folder, or anything that looks useful.
Sorry – I’m the noobiest noob on pharyngula.
Dang, the Redhead has mentioned fried fish several times in the last fifteen minutes. Time to head for the local family restaurant, and the Friday Fish Fry.
Okay, no – got it (I think). Thanks, Caine!
Melissa:
Yay! Mine, too. Sb was crashing my phone’s browser pretty frequently, but I’ve got no problems here. :)
Sorry tielserrath, my advice is for a Mac OSX 10.6.8 and Firefox 5.0.1. The Redhead calls…
Tielserrath:
Yay! It’s much better. :)
MudPuddles, you didn’t do anything wrong as far as I can tell. Being honest isn’t always rewarded, but when I do it I feel better about myself. I think she’ll come around. Best of wishes, bacon & chocolate are coming your way. (Hint: check the USB port;-)
Well, since the US just had their credit rating downgraded for the first time in history and knowledge we’re fucked.
I think we all need some zappa
oh crap, just posting a video link embeds it?
oops, Sorry poopyhead.
Rev. BDC, you have to bury your link in text, using the a href business, to prevent automatic embedding.
Testing. . .
Because I couldn’t link this before:
Bacon overdose. With a side of juvenile machismo and a stupidity chaser.
Yay! That didn’t take long at all.
Well, everything is loading much more quickly now. Could the transfer be done this soon? If so, nice job! Hope this server holds up better to the Horde. Cheers all!
It’s certainly running better than it was, but that may just be because the horde hasn’t stormed the gates yet.
On a lighter note, a “friend” of mine (ex-coworker who I liked until, well…) just posted a “cheer” for Florida (always a bad sign) for forcing drug tests on welfare recipients. I’ve approached it to her from the “pay for it in welfare or pay for it in police/jails/insurance” angle because I honestly don’t think the humanity factor is going to matter much. Depending on how it goes, I may end up with one less “friend”.
And I’m fasting for lab work tomorrow morning. Yay for water.
Tasting, tasting, vanilla, chocolate, strawberry … And now, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the NEW, the Improved, the most awesome band on the intertubes … yeah, I got nothin’.
Hi Ed & PZ, thanks for the lounge.
And, my first title fail. oh well. Meant to preview, forgot. Is there an html equivalent to Tpyos?
Richard, been there done that, gonna do it again in a few weeks.
Aha, it let me post. That wasn’t too painful a wait.
Wanted to share a good science day. I volunteer at the science museum, and today was chock full of inquisitive little kids looking at aquatic insects through microscopes, with a lot of little girls fixated while parents quizzed me about prices and types of microscopes they can buy them, since it’s on christmas wish lists. Also quite a few adults saying, “Look how much she/he likes the microscope! I bet you could become a scientist.” The museum restores my hope for humanity.
Welcome back.
Tangsm:
Aaaaw, that’s serious nice. Gives one hope for the future.
Oh tangsm, that makes my heart grow fonder. Microscopes are much cheaper these days and have the ability to capture video. And a tiny drop of lake water is just full of wonderful things to look at.
Sailor @ 97:
I hope I don’t have to go through this every time I just want an STD test. If that’s their modus operandi, I’ll just use one of the clinics nearby.
This time, it’s fine – I haven’t had the normal blood tests done in years and I’m changing doctors, so no complaints.
Thank goodness for OpenDNS so I don’t have to wait for my local dns to update.
Caine, how are you doing?
(PZ & Ed, I noticed that part of the load is that some of us went wild on the avatar site. Should we not do that?)
Thanks to all the folks who brought us this new sniny toy to play with, and boohiss to all the folks who complained.
If the complainers can hose a turkey system, then do it!
Yay new server! Pharyngulite Horde, to the Threadatorium!
Hi Josh!
why, yes, I am expending precious bandwidth on silly
stringsthings, why do you ask?Richard, AFAIK only cholesterol and blood sugar testing would require you to fast. Food and drink won’t affect the baseline for whether or not you’re infected with a microorganism. But I’m not a clinician.
Josh, dear.
Your avatar gave me a nightmare.
I had a teacher in 3rd or 4th grade who looked JUST like that.
a very notnice person
Not askin’, just sayin’.
Chigau, it’s Joan Crawford.
HA! It’s not Joan Crawford. It’s Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford for the movie “Mommie Dearest” (my camp favorite). It was an amazing likeness Faye did.
No more wire coat hangers!
The Sailor:
Um, okay. The recovery is going much slower than I had hoped. The ol’ abdomen is still a lovely shade of purple and all four incision hurt like hell, but it’s not nearly as bad as it was – at least all the friggin’ gas is gone now. :D
Oh, and Caine, what kinds of things are you allowed to eat and drink?
Josh:
Shit, it’s really hard to tell with it being so tiny.
I wasn’t given any restrictions. I’m not eating much though, haven’t since the surgery. I’ll be mostly sticking to the same stuff I have been for a while, veg, fruit, rice, soups, etc. I had gained some weight prior to the pancreatitis and I’m now back to 116 lbs, I’d like to keep it that way!
Jeez, you’re tiny! How tall are you?
Now, all I need for complete blog happiness is to be able to use comic sans and a killfile. *Wishes hard to the Great Cephalopod*
Caine, I’m glad the gas is
goneabsorbed. I never knew that about micro-surgery. I wish I could help with grog, chocolates and bacon … but it’s probably not a good idea.Please thank Mr. Caine for me. We was worried and he kept us up to date.
Oh hai, Sailor – sorry I forgot to return your greeting, or rudderless one.
Josh:
I’m not tiny at all, really! I’m 5’6″.
The Sailor:
I sincerely hope you never have to find out about it up close and personal. I think some people are much more efficient dealing with the gas than I was. That and the GA were definitely the most unpleasant aspects for me. I have all my tentacles in a knot, hoping that the upcoming pancreas investigation will not involve more surgery. I’m not a fan.
I shall. Thank you. :)
Well, I ‘spose you’re not, Caine, but 116. . don’t you go getting any skinnier, ya hear? L’il thang:)
Josh:
I’m well padded, I assure you. :) I spent most of my life around 108 – 110. 116 is my concession to middle age. I’m just not comfortable if I go over a size eight. *shrug*
I am 5’6″ (since the age of 16, I’m now 56).
I weigh 120 lbs (ditto).
I tend to feel better within 5 lbs of 120.
That said:
I recently spent 3 weeks in a situation that I ate what Someone Else prepared.
I went into it at 112 and came home at 122.
yeah, bacon!!!
A bunch of people in town are seriously drunk, outside, and making one hell of a lot of noise. Screaming people, barking dogs, breaking bottles…why in the hell doesn’t it storm now?
Chigau, pardon my ignunce, but are you a woman? I don’t think I’ve known (or given it much thought, but I’m curious).
Caine – don’t you and Mr. live in the country? Who are these hooligans traipsing around nearby?
Josh
Yes. I’m female.
post menopause.
I’ve never actually liked food.
I eat to fuel the machine. (so to speak)
——
Caine
I know you have shotgun …
Storms are like cops, there’s never one around when you need them.
The farmers ’round here were flooded out in the spring and parched now.
You’ve never liked eating?!! Girl, you’ve never been at my table, that’s the problem. Now, you come over tomorrow night at about 7. SallyStrange and I are spending tomorrow afternoon preparing Lebanese food, and Mr. Strange and our friend Mike will join us. No backtalk or demurrals, ya hear?
Josh:
Yah, we’re rural. No one is traipsing by, someone is having a party outdoors. Almont is a sound trap, it carries. I’m pretty sure I know who it is, anyway. Asshole must have gotten kicked out of the Muddy Creek Saloon.
Chigau:
Yes, I do. So does everyone else in Almont.
chigau, I’ve never liked food either. But I do get hungry and I have to eat. Summer is better/harder for me. My weight used to fluctuate around 160, (people told me I was skinny, I said “no, I’m lean”.)
Now I fluctuate around 180. I’m currently at 176. My 6′ frame carries that pretty well for a guy in his 50s.
Caine – I don’t know if you like beans, but I have a healthy recipe that’s become a filling favorite on the heart diet. My version of beans-n-greens.
1 lb dried beans of your choice (I like black beans)
1 onion, chopped
4-6 cloves garlic, chopped roughly
1 bay leaf
2 bullion cubes (or the chicken/veg stock you have on hand)
Big honking mound of collard greens or kale, 1 lb or more
Best-quality olive oil
Salt, ground pepper
Soak the beans for an hour after pouring on 4 cups of boiling water. In a skillet, sautee the garlic and onion in the oil until translucent. Add to the soaked beans, then add the bay leaf, two more cups of water, and the bullion. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer. After 15 mins, add the chopped greens (collards take a long time to soften, so you can be sure they’ll hold up under prolonged cooking).
Simmer the whole mess for about an hour and a half, checking occasionally to make sure it doesn’t run out of water, and also to test the beans are done to the firmness you like. At the end, take a masher and mash about half the beans to make a more “creamy” broth.
Serve up with a garnish of olive oil and parmesan. Excellent with crisp-toasted rustic bread and a salad.
Um, yeah. That is, actually, quite lean. .nothing to worry about there. I’m 5′ 10″ at 186, still trying to lose the last 15 pounds. The first 30 were easier, weirdly.
Thanks, Josh. Saved to my recipe file. :) Right now, I’m rather terrified of anything which might give me gas, so I’ll save that one for when I’m well and truly healed up!
Josh, dear;
I would join you and Ms Strange, et al., but I think I’m too far away.
I’m in Brownian country.
I like tasty food but mostly can’t be arsed.
*****
There was a loud crash, scrabbling noises, mrreowing…
turns out it was the cat in the stack of empty luggage
I’m fine, heart-rate back to normal.
And we’re back!
Meanwhile I’ve been browsing motorcycle sites and I’m feeling very tempted by a classic Triumph Bonneville. Also lurking in the corners of my mind are the Triumph Tiger, Suzuki Bandit, some pretty Moto Guzzis (but I hear they’re horribly unreliable), some BMW 650s. Ah, decisions, decisions…
The Sailor:
Mister is 5’11” and 155.
Cath, are you a motorcycle afficionado? I’d love to learn to ride.
Chigau:
Me too. I’m alone most of the week, and don’t much care to cook when it’s just me. I’ve always tended to nibble rather than eat regular meals anyway.
Right now, I’m getting lectured about eating via email, by Mister. “Eat! Eat! Eat!”
Josh:
Do you mean drive or ride? If you want to operate a motorcycle, find a friend who has one, have them teach you the basics. You’ll need to pass a special test at the DMV. Bike tests are considerably more difficult than a car driving test.
Josh, anecdata, but I’ve heard that it’s easier to lose the first pounds than the last ones. It may be a case of ‘the last 10% of the job takes as much time as the first 90% of the job.’ I dunno.
In the summer I’m hungry for fruits and vegetables, in the winter I’m hungry for soups and meat. and I’m lazy year round.
Burgess Shale fossil thieves!
http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/08/05/fossil-theft-chase-ends-in-river-plunge/
har!
Caine – yes, I mean I’d like to learn to drive a motorcycle. My friend Pat, luckily, has several. I may ask her. But she’s given me so much help fixing up Francine (who, poor thing, still has her exhaust manifold and carburetor sitting on the mechanic’s floor awaiting re-assembly) I’m loath to ask any more favors at the moment. Maybe I’ll ply her with an enchilada bake (she can be had for Mexican food).
Same gal who has the 67 Beetle. Left her a message today offering help with the engine work.
Josh:
Good plan. :) It’s best to have an experienced biker teach you, they can teach you the stuff on the test, too. If you fail the test the first time around, don’t be disappointed, a high percentage of people do!
I’m for bed.
Caine:
eat eat eat.
Josh
make lots of good food and exploit those mechanic-gals!!
G’night, Chigau. I’m off to bed myself.
Josh, I’ve been riding for oh umm somewhat over 25 years, but on and off. Mostly smaller commuter bikes (250-500s); I’m not really a speed freak. I’ve done a couple of adventure tours – rode across Bhutan on an Enfield and round Turkey on an Aprilia. And when I got home, my poor little Kawasaki seemed so tiny and under-powered. And it’s ten years old, so it could well be time for a new one. I have an idea of buying myself a new bike for my birthday.
I have a couple of problems making it tricky. Mainly, I’m short. Low seat heights are a must. And also, although I have more of a cruiser personality, I’m not really into the cruiser bikes.
Caine, I was 158 for 30 years. People always told me I would gain weight when I got older. They also told me I would want kids. At 50 I started to gain a bit of weight, but I never wanted kids.
Kids are like dogs and motorcycles and racing boats … it’s much better if your best friend has them;-)
It’s alive!
Geez youse make me feel fat, ‘specially you Caine! You’re tiny! I’m 5’ 7″ and currently 65kg (140lbs). It’s post-baby weight though, and breastfeeding strips me back down to 58kg pretty quick. Which is lucky as I hate exercise.
Mudpuddles
Sad for you in the shitty times, but glad for you as well.
Sending goodvibes etc
When I told my mother i wasn’t a believer she said
“thank christ for that, now I don’t have to bother anymore”.
I felt cheated!
@Caine – also, hope your recovery is going well :)
Thanks all for the supportive comments – its great to feel part of a community that knows what its like!
@slignot – that link is great, spot on.
@offers of hugs etc – all greatfully received, you guys & this blog ROCK.
@The Sailor – you, not so much… I licked all three USB ports and all I got was an electric shock. You lie! ;)
* Note to self – learn to spel *
“No such file or directory” on FF 5. Maybe if PZ implements this server-side it’s easier for everyone !
Now moar night duty…Lesson from last night’s shift : When they tell you that Antabuse and alcohol don’t mix, heed the advice.
Sven? Chas? Anyone?
Firefox for dummies: (that’s me) Toolbar: View: Zoom: Ctrl++ and all the teeny printses and avatars get bigger :-)
Mad as cheese!!
I’ve never considered the madness of cheese. Most cheese seems catatonic. It just lays around, not moving, accepting whatever anyone does to it. What sort of treatment should we give cheese to relieve it of its madness?
I’ve got the opposite problem to several people here. I’m 5’6″ (168 cm) and I weigh 200 lbs (90 kg). I was 160 lbs for years until the arthritis in my hip stopped me from running, playing tennis and handball, and otherwise being active. However my eating habits didn’t change.
Much as I love sailing, it doesn’t require a lot of activity. At least not the kind of sailing I do. Dinghy sailing is more energetic but I haven’t done that in years.
@ Rev. BigDumbChimp… thanks for the video. That’s one of my favorite songs of his. I wish he had been healthy enough to run for prez in ’92. Sure would have been more entertaining than Perot (although, H. Ross was good for a few chuckles).
Somewhat recent lurker here, first time poster. I stumbled upon the ‘Tom Jphnson’ thing a few weeks ago, and while reading the various threads, ‘Elevatorgate’ happened. After catching up with *that* mess, it became evident that this is where the smart and funny people are. Also, I think Ophelia would be a fun person to hang out and shoot the shit with.
Anyway… I’m enjoying it here and have learned a few new things, so thanks and cheers!
Off to ride like a dipshit into the dawn of Montana.
drbunsen le savant fou
Yes to that last, though it is hard for me to say. I struggle to get around the idea that he can literally be so lacking in self awareness of what it is he is doing. My comment was more along the line that even on a blog populated by trolls (in the conventional sense), he is regarded as a troll.
I think he uses this as a ploy that he has found to work.
Oh and thank you for the music link. (DHoHH = waaaay cool.)
@ Bjarne
Thanks. As you guessed: The troll is actually “natural structure + pareidolia”. (Though I have also seen sculptures “improving” on nature too. Pareidolia is held in high regard here – there is a lot of belief in sympathetic magic.)
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Is there anyone who can point me at a guide to getting the numbering working on Ubuntu (FF). I am useless at html as everything I once new seems to be redundant nowadays. :(
Wow! Thanks a lot Caine, your suggestion (way back) works! (I had to fiddle a lot, using notepad and my ancient knowledge of DOS commands, but it worked immediately).
Sadly, I cannot LOG IN anymore
(so, no avatar)but I think that must be a transitional ‘glitch’.::curious::
Toasting (on good bread)
Smothering (with Branston pickle)
Eating
Thanks Caine! (for the VAST improvement)
So glad to hear that you’re on the mend.
Please thank Mr. C for keeping us in touch.
@ drewl
Welcome on board. Aaaarrrrr…!
@ Phoodies (Pharyngula Foodies: Josh, Cath, etc etc)
About to put a fresh loaf of Lingonberry wholewheat bread into the oven… droooool.
Also… 5’7″ 145-150, slow metabolism, cook for a living. Fortunately I don’t have a huge appetite. Cheese, though, does make life worth living, and oh yeah…
MOAR ZAPPA
/delurks for the new server, endless thread & food tales. Hey everyone.
My New Year’s resolution this year was to stop being veggie, which had two main effects. The first was people’s almost unilateral positive reaction (frequently “you must try this bacon!”), the second was the bungie-jump effect it had on my weight. It took a while to recalibrate my appetite when I was eating out & and cooking at home, but it seems to be settling to a good few pounds lower than I used to be.
It’s been over half a year now & while I still haven’t had the one-true-bacon experience yet, it has been educational & tasty :)
Hi ho – still on damn phone – so will be brief.
Last few days have been tense – a man was murdered just outside where I live. Those of the horde who live in/know of Canberra might want to check out a thread on Riotact where the most horrid trolls dwell.
Glad to see Caine going well, Nerd has plenty of grog, & the rest of you lovable nuts are truckin’ along.
When I have notebook/modem fixed – hope to actually chat more.
Hello from the not-so-far North! It’s our last day in the Parry Sound district or wherever the heck I am and I can hear an Eastern White-throated Sparrow tweeting its high-pitched song.
Yesterday for lunch I ordered the standard breakfast: eggs, bacon, toast, and fried potatoes; and I had enough left over for a small bacon sandwich. I was looking forward to it but donated it to my son when he decided to take the overnight bus home to be back with his girlfriend sooner.
woo hoo, first comment on the new thingamajig (wow, spell-Czech accepts ‘thingamajig’ as a legit word!), hope it’s working!
I have difficulty adjusting to the new format. Not sure whether it’s just because of the ‘new’ part. Right now it does feel like the old PharynguFont was easier on the eye.
To be even more annoying, I would like to question the new norm of justified text in the comment section. The old Flush-Left-Ragged-Right was less straining to read than interword spaces that change from line to line. Is that something Our Benevolent Leader would consider changing?
Unrelatedly, I’m reading and enjoying Lynn Truss’s* “Eats, Shoots and Leaves”, the fun handbook of punctuation geekery.
Loved quote:
The book made me realize that my understanding of the semicolon is utterly passive: I know a right one from a wrong one when I see one, but it never even occurs to me to use one. I might begin experimenting with semicolons in the only place where I write a lot in English; my apologies in advance.
*Spell-Czech thinks Truss’ is the proper way to write, but Truss herself claims it should be Truss’s. Whacha gonna do?
P.S.: Love the new preview format
Ooo – Cath, I am a bit of a mcycle nut. More of a monkey, than an organ grinder – hope to get my ticket to ride before the year is out.
Morning all. Sniny new server appears working well, not a glitch in sight. Love the reformatting from the hard work folks did, with numbers and alternate colors. Makes it much easier on my poor old eyes.
Caine (way up there ↑)
I managed to find my Mozilla/Firefox profile (for those using Firefox 5.X, that’s in Help/Troubleshooting Information) and neither “Chrome folder” nor “userContent-example.css” were any of the choices.
Oh, hi spunmunkey! Do you live in Braddon? I tend to avoid the riotact comments; there are so many idiots and racists and sexists there.
@Himself: You may not have a profile to be found; I had to create it from scratch, using the stuff Caine kindly supplied. Locating the \chrome folder on a Windows pc is easily done using the command prompt: dir *.css /s
Hope this helps, it helped me. (The only thing I need to do now is mirror my avatar.)
Is this happening to anybody else? The posts by Steve and Der Herr, not on this thread, appear inaccessible, and the login header goes away. But all works well on this thread.
Thank you, René.
For those using Windoze 7, you have to turn on the Run command (in their great wisdom, the MS gurus turned it off, not wanting to confuse the hoi polloi).
Click open Taskbar and Start Menu Properties. Click on the Start Menu tab and then click on Customize. In the list of menu items, find Run and click on the white box next to it. Then click on OK and exit out. Run will be on the right side of the Start Menu.
Morning/afternoon/evening, TET (depending on where y’all are).
Karmaka:
This reminds me of a friend of mine who used to get into taxis when drunk and just say to the driver “Surprise me”. He was not a popular bunny.
Cath:
Is that considered a healthy breakfast in ACT? :) The concept of breakfast is distinctly unpleasant for me at the moment, given that part of my job involves clearing up other people’s leftovers after having been told today by a west-African customer that I’m his “bitch” for the morning. Disconcerting to say the least!
Tangsm:
Which science museum? Because I’m far less impressed with the one in London after they had an exhibition which effectively endorsed woo.
Mudpuddles:
Having never had to go through that myself, I can’t really offer any advice, but at least it’s out in the open now. Once she realises that you’re the same person you’ve always been, she’ll have no choice but to accept you as you are. Hang in there!
Caine:
Glad to hear you’re on the mend. Continue to do so, please :)
I don’t have a \Chrome folder and I don’t know how to create it. So I guess I’m stuck with vanilla WP\FTB.
testing
Yeah ‘Tis, I’m having the same issue and feeling like such a noob lol
Yeah, I’m having the same issue as ‘Tis Himself =(
You don’t have the ability to create a folder? It’s one of the options in my file menu from the OS. But I’m not familiar with Linux.
Create the Chrome folder, then save the text file therein with a .css suffix.
GAH sorry for double post.
Also, Nerd I’ve tried that and got no where with it, it didn’t work for me.
Just to prove the US isn’t the only place with whackaloon christian politicians:
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/nazi-ideology-in-ethics-classes-says-nile-20110805-1ifft.html
He just Godwined parliament.
Oh, Le Havre, you asked about my beakfast. With multigrain bread and fresh fruit, it’s really not too bad. The golden syrup is no worse than honey or jam. And very Aussie. Mate.
Where are you and what are you doing? Sounds like a very unpleasant job. Waitstaff?
Hi, thread. I haven’t been able to keep up lately… glad you’re doing better, Caine.
Sigh… and this sort of believer strokefest is why I side-eye so many feminist blogs.
In more-awesome news, a cephalopod resume.
Shit. Let’s try again: Cephalopod resume.
If only it worked like that – I’d love it if the Speaker of the House (or whatever the Aussie equivalent is) ruled his entire speech void on the basis of Godwin’s Law :).
At least you’ve got someone sensible at the helm though.
Yay, new server, managed to get the old comment layout to work (thanks to the people who came up with the solution & to Caine for spreading the word!), all is right with the world.
@MudPuddles: Here’s hoping things with your mother will only get better from now on.
Cath:
I think it was just the combination of peanut butter and golden syrup that made me react so – the rest sounds great. I must admit, I do miss golden syrup a wee bit.
Yeah I’m currently waiting in a hotel restaurant for the next few weeks – did a 2 month internship at an investment bank before that, so I’ve gone from one end of the financial scale to the other very quickly!
Yeah, a friend suggested it once and I got hooked. Also our kitchen is unusable at the moment so I just took a minimal set of things to the bar. Golden syrup does service as porridge topping, lemon tea sweetener, and peanut butter sandwich sweetener. It’s good stuff. When I lived in the US long ago, I missed strong eucalyptus honeys and golden syrup more then vegemite :)
Fair enough.
Can’t say I’ve ever had Vegemite, though my Aussie friends who lived down the road from me used to swear by it. If it’s anything like Marmite, they’re welcome to it!
Ms. Daisy Cutter?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLU-82
The BLU-82B/C-130 weapon system, known under program “Commando Vault” and nicknamed “daisy cutter” in Vietnam and in Afghanistan for its ability to flatten a forest into a helicopter landing zone, is a 15,000 pound (6,800 kg) conventional bomb, delivered from either a C-130 or an MC-130 transport aircraft. 225 were constructed.[1] The BLU-82 was retired in 2008 and replaced with the more powerful MOAB.
@181: ‘Tis Himself, at the command prompt, try
dir chrome /s
It should list a directory named chrome indicated by <dir>. If not, try to find an elderly guy like myself who still knows some DOS. I think I cannot be of any more help through Pharyngula comments. :(
Caine #23, #69, #73
Cath the Canberra Cook #67
Richard Austin #71
The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge #72
consciousness razor #74
Thank you all for your help. I couldn’t get back to TET until I put the kiddie to bed, and then the server swicth happened.
Nonetheless, with all of your help, I got this looking sweet.
I owe you all spankings. Or cake. You pick.
Testing, testing 1,2,3…
Ms. Daisy Cutter:
Ugh, yeah, I don’t know how much of an issue it is for feminists generally, but that pretty much captures the dynamic in every (non-atheist) group I’ve ever been involved with, the moment anything approaching religion is concerned. Criticism is off-limits, bullshit is welcome.
She wants to hear your stories!*
*Offer not valid for atheist stories. Sincerely and respectfully, of course.
Religion’s like a black hole. Once you pass the event horizon (of it being mentioned), all respect-lines point in its direction. Nothing can escape. I guess we could hope that it will evaporate in 10^whatever years.
Can I order it half and half? With sprinkles?
I’m a bit late to the party – have had strange virus the last few days that has left me knackered and spending half of every day in bed.
Mudpuddles:
Comment upstream had me nodding – it’s religion that prides itself on manipulating people like your mom. A fucked up mind virus that gets its claws into people and creates situations like yours. Hang in there and be true to yourself, whatever the pressure.
Weird thing happened – my paperback came out on Amazon 48h ago (that’s not the weird bit). Despite having no sales yet, it’s already being offered ‘new’ by 3 sellers and ‘used’ by another. Presumably these people are negotiating bulk discounts with Amazon, and have bots to tell them when new books come out so they can do this, but it leaves a bad taste.
Reverend Big Dumb Chimp @87:
I actually saw him perform that live – Fayetteville, NC – sometime in the 60s. It was great.
theophontes:
Go places/home folder, then hit ctrl-h to reveal the hidden folders. Select ‘.mozilla’, then ‘firefox’, then ‘[usermess].default’, then ‘chrome’.
Click on the ‘userContentExample.css’ file, to edit it with gedit. . Copy/paste Caine’s code at the bottom of this file (or replace the text in its entirety). Then file/save as ‘userContent.css’. close down FF, then restart it. Enjoy.
To PZ: order your IT man to make this part of WordPress. You can order him around, can’t you? :0)
Rorschach at 156:
I am running Firefox 5. Go to the Help Menu – open the Help menu and click on “Troubleshooting Information.” A Tab will open with lots of information. Look for the button that says “Open Containing Folder,” and a folder will open – the CSS files are in the Chrome sub-directory in that folder.
testtesttest
funny. it ate my first comment. Not a good sign.
@ Caine
Thanks for posting the .css script. *gentle hugs*
……………………………….
@ [general .css]
Getting .css together on Linux (Ubuntu, FF):
There is a very good post here (Link). Scroll down to the post by cor-el.
Read also Caine’s post at #23. You will need to copy and paste the .css code she posted.
Good Luck. It is really as straightforward as that.
This is a test if it were not a test there would be actual content here
@ davem #204
Thank you for posting. I was setting it up while you where typing, so now there are two ways to fix this. :)
Would it be possible to tweak the values in the code to get the ultimate personal setup, or will I blow things up?
Hmmm – I can comment here (well, only if you can read this), but not at Brayton’s (no entry box; demand for log-in persists after logging in).
Shouldn’t new-server glitches apply across the board?
Brayton’s got a lovely little piece about the Catholic official in charge of keeping the priests of an English diocese on the straight-‘n’-narrow: guess what he was busted for?
Cath – yes. & looking @ riotact & their moderation in favour of trolls – what a joke. BTW would love to catch up with u & Tigger. Am @ my name hotmail.
@theophontes. I’m not savvy enough to actually tweak the code too much, but as far as changing the values for the things already there goes, I changed the colors and the border width in mine and it worked fine.
Thanks to all who are trying to help those of us who are coding impaired.
However, I don’t have firefox, and a lot of the instructions may as well be written in Ubuntu for all the sense I can get out of them. I NEED numbers of the comments. Yes I am OCD and I must read ALL of the comments.
Thanks to the people who stayed up late and got the server switched. SO much better!! Now all PZ has to do is make a post about feminism so we can REALLY test the server.
@theophontes:
Tweak away, but keep a backup… Or just leave the gedit window open, then a ctrl-Z followed by ‘save’ can easily reverse your latest change.
You might need to not be the noob that you claimed you were :0)
@Tethys : Get even, get FireFox!
Here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/new/
Pierce R. Butler
Is that Butler as in Dougherty, Rumble,& Butler?
Posting some technical stuff here, since the complaint threads seem a mite quiet, and I’m not sure, given situation, I want to spread comments into older posts:
The DNS update rippled over early very quickly yestereve (my DNS is in Ottawa, Canada, but my DNS appears, interestingly, to be in New Hampshire), but tho’ I could log in, any comments I attempted disappeared. This morning, it’s loading fast, but I’m still getting mild caching-type artifacts. FtB Front page showed posts that weren’t popping up when you clicked into Pharyngula, but they showed after a few reloads. Logging in appeared to work, but then, again, I had to force a reload to get the ‘logged in’ type comment box.
It’s fast and snappy and light, tho’. That’s ver’ nice to see.
(/Now let’s see if this comment actually appears…)
Pft. Should read ‘my machine is in Ottawa, Canada’. DNS is in NH. Anyway.
I’m now torn between my general preference for Google Chrome as a browser and an exciting, all-singing, all-dancing Pharyngula. Decisions, decisions…
Damn.
That cut-paste Chrome thing was really easy!
Thanks SO much to everyone who worked this out.
Davern
I use chrome and really like it. Mucking around with the actual code makes me very nervous that I might kill my computer. And that would be a tragedy of epic proportions.
‘Morning, all!
I learned an important lesson this morning: I need to check my work clothes for pens before they get tossed into the washer. I just ruined an entire load of laundry and, oh yeah, I’m leaving town for a wedding in a couple of hours.
Blarg blarg blarg.
Holy shit, TET loaded fast!
:)
Tethys la zombi feministe calmar-garou.: Is that Butler as in Dougherty, Rumble,& Butler?
It would be if I knew who D & R were, and we organized some sort of gang* organization…
Caine’s tip above appears to be very handy, but locating the relevant parts on a Mac/Firefox combo so far has proven even less fruitful than tracking down Dougherty or Rumble. Anybody got a clue for a poor boy?
*Pls make-believe strikethrough tags work here.
Arghh. Dave M. (mutter f’ing tiny type and font that runs together and aging eyeballs mutter)
Thank you. Thank you. THANK YOU to everyone who took the trouble to post the step-by-step instructions for fixing the .css in a way that even the very very computer-illiterate like myself could follow (I have huge hang-ups about things like this. If I screw up I have NO chance of putting something back the way it was). I really appreciate it that all of you who know how to do this stuff – and to whom it is presumably incredibly obvious as well as easy – are generous to those of us who don’t.
Pierce R Butler
It was a law firm. There is a road that I use frequently named for Pierce Butler the first.
Yay, the Firefox/Mac fix worked!
I can has comment numbers.
Today is beach and sandcastles and celtic music and inlaws. Does anyone here kite-surf? Is it as fun as it looks?
Um – this is the latest threat against evolution? http://www.evolutionnews.org/2011/07/how_was_darwins_theory_accepte048791.html
Answer: try harder.
welcome back TET, hugs to Caine and Mudpuddles and much love for microscopes and collard greens, but everything coherent’s already been said. So:
@Nerd of Redhead, I was idly wondering what your little brownish avatar was, and then I clicked over to Gravatar to look at it…. ROFL! I may never be able to take your profanity-laden hatescreeds seriously again.
ot: I drew up this avatar a couple days ago to fit the teeny 32×32 size, and now everyone’s CSS’ing, wouldn’t ya know. ;>
Even though I now have comment numbers, I cannot “Find” them.
Help?
However, I’m rather enjoying changing my title at whim. Yar!
@chigau: I’m no CSS expert, but I noticed the comment numbers were visible but unfindable (and unselectable) on the CSS-less naked page. They’re generated by the website as part of the mechanism of the comment list itself, so I guess just making them VISIBLE doesn’t make them DISPLAYED, if that makes any sense.
I don’t have a suggested fix though; I just scanned them by eye.
@Tethys Sorry I assumed that you were using IE. You should complain about your eyes. I just had a major operation on my left one :0(
Try this for Chrome? : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha
@chigau
They’re auto-generated in your browser, by the ‘list-style: decimal’ bit of the CSS. The source delivered to your browser does not contain them. It looks like FF searches the source, not the displayed output.
davem (and everyone else)
If the comment numbers are generated in each browser are we all seeing the same numbers?
Is it possible to make the displayed numbers findable?
@davem: But there should be a CSS trick that takes the “list-style: decimal” and adds onto it a display-decimal-as-some-style-or-other, correct?
Tethys la zombi feministe calmar-garou.: There is a road that I use frequently named for Pierce Butler the first.
Ah, you must be up around Minneapolis. Way back in the day, when a friend first got Nexis/Lexis at home, he demonstrated it by searching for my name, and we got a spate of stories about arrests for varied street crimes on Pierce Butler Route. He said this proved the perspicacity of Nexis; I said they never caught me.
The namesake PB was hardly the first: we go back to at least the 14th century, in the Olde Sod.
After hearing that ‘Shinryaku! Ika Musume’ song I had to buy the DVD.
<3 Squid Girl already for some reason. But I also have a thing for Leela from Futurama, and can see a correlation.
Thanks again, to whoever sent that link to you; or props if you found it yourself PZ. Either way, good night.
I can’t believe the insensitivity shown at a certain blog *cough – riotact* from my town about a senseless death.
I know I’m having a visceral SIWOTI reaction – but fuck, there are humans behind keyboards spewing shit – & I’m ripe for kicking troll heads.
[meta] am a bit emotional – it is close to home.
@davem:
Thanks for the GChrome link – worked a treat.
Caine @23,
Thanks for posting that CSS fix, it really improves the legibility :D
My little mutant potato avatar has changed, shame! I guess it’s time to investigate gravatar.
Yes. The CSS says to the browser ‘Show me a numbered list’ and issues each comment as an item in the list.
No, apparently not. (it’s news to me that itemised numbers aren’t searchable). It needs the blog software to actually echo the numbers. I’m not an expert on WordPress, so can’t tell you if that’d be easy or hard to do.
Thanks to Caine, Ghetto féministe, The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge, & Nerd of Redhead for tips on getting the .css fix to work on a Firefox/Mac setup.
I would add that apparently the “Finder” doesn’t “find” things inside the User/Library folder – you have to follow the filepath given by Nerd of Redhead in # 52 to locate/install/replace the userContent.css file. And change the TextEdit content to plaintext using a command under the Format menu; saving as Unicode (UTF-8) worked for me.
DaveM- thanks!!! I now have css editing! Still no option to turn on comment numbers?
Pierce Butler-The person I knew by your name called himself Pierce Butler III. Perhaps they started over after immigrating?
Sweet!
Don’t post often but read the comments all the time. I was feeling all sad at the new layout and then Caine et al. came to the rescue!
I could have figured out the css on my own but I’m glad someone else did it first. And that I happened to stumble across the instructions.
Thanks so much for helping me make the comments section readable again!
Tethys la zombi feministe calmar-garou. @ # 245: The person I knew by your name called himself Pierce Butler III.
Oh Em Gee – that’s my birth name. Was the miscreant you knew a redhead with (if met after 1974) a rather unkempt beard?
Perhaps they started over after immigrating?
Along my branch of the tree, my great-grandfather went to a college with enough Pierce Butlers that he grew tired of the confusion and changed his first name to Howard. My grandfather, who otherwise would’ve been Pierce Butler ~XIV, fortunately reinitialized the series.
If you wanna get in touch more directlier, feel free to email pbutler [at] igc.org.
JoeD: Yep.
Consciousness Razor: There is a lot of woo in progressive groups that are not expressly atheist, and that includes feminist groups.
Thanks to Caine and everyone else who worked on larnin’ us how to fix our CSS woes. Much nicer this way!
Inspired by Pteryxx’s #233, I just have to try this. So, test, test, test, I want my nick in roman.
It doesn’t work in preview, dang. Pteryxx, how did you get the “says” to appear in roman?
Hey. Wanna post?
Aw, dang, I haven’t been paying attention.
Well this is a first. I declare thread bankruptcy. I have missed two whole threads during the migration and hope everyone has been well during the past week. By way of atonement I offer the Picolax Thread. May not be safe for work. Or people with upset stomachs, recent surgery, colds, sore eyes, or pretty much anything that will be irritated by uncontrollable laughter. Enjoy.
Take four. It appears that picolax triggers moderation and my comment was shitcanned. How to post a URL that includes a moderated term?
For the adventurous or those who have had a rough time of late, please take a moment and google the following terms:
singletrackworld picolax thread. It’s the first hit. Most of the substance is by a poster name of blu-tone, but the rest is worth reading for conversational context. I can’t guarantee that it is to your taste, but it made me and everyone I know in meatspace laugh. Hard.
@René: *grin* My work here is done.
@FF (hex): Well played :)
It doesn’t match the recent comments sidebar, though. Hm.
I just changed the background colour of the author line to something called “piglet snout”.
This could be fun.
A note on recovery from gallbladder surgery: when I had mine removed, the “discharge nurse” pushed me toward a low-fat diet. Given how little appetite I had the first few days, that mostly meant no milk in my tea. (At that stage, a significant part of my daily calorie intake was the one spoonful of sugar I put in each cup.) Then I consulted the surgeon, who confirmed my hunch that the nurse hadn’t been giving advice relevant to not having a gall bladder, she’d just been on the general current “fat is bad” bandwagon.
You may need to be careful–some people without gall bladders do–but don’t start by denying yourself things you like.
catch it before etrades lawyers get a takedown notice going
here
So I had my first lesbian bar expirience! :P
Le Havre en Chêne
The Science Museum of Minnesota. And part of the reason I adore it is because of their mission statement on teaching science and evolution (see the NCSE for old and new statements) as well as their current display on quackery through the ages and the history and benefits of vaccination.
@Gyeong:
Yeah I hear more and more lawyers are experimenting with their sexuality nowadays.
I’ll get me coat.
Yes!!!!!!! it worked, it worked, it worked. Thank you Caine and anyone else who figured this out. Ya dun good for us old farts who are IT impaired.
Now I just have to find an avatar and a French extension to my ´nym. What´s up with that anyway – haven´t been on TET for so long, I feel I must have missed a new meme or somethin´.
Well, I’ve been stabbed, drained, and forced to pee in a cup. Here’s to science.
(I’m hoping one of the above had something to do with why I originally called them, but I’m not 100% positive. Oh well, nothing wrong with getting health status updates anyway.)
Gyeong,
In my experience, lesbian bars usually have better pool tables and better pool players. I don’t know why. You’d think gay men would be better at anything involving balls*.
Why Richard? Isn’t the goal to get the balls out of play in pool?
I’d like a simple, step by step description of how to load Caine’s CSS program. I open Help, I open Troubleshooting Information, I open Open Containing Folder, I look for a folder called Chrome and I stop dead. There is no fucking Chrome folder and there is no obvious way to make such a folder. So whoever said “it’s as easy as that”, well, it’s not easy at all if you don’t know what to do and the only advice is “open the folder that doesn’t exist and you can’t make” and “copy the file into the nonexistent folder.”
Please, if it’s easy, then it should be easy to explain to us computer illiterates how to do the “easy” stuff.
Remember, Windoze is counter-intuitive. How do you shut down a Windoze box? First, click on Start.
´Nuther IT question – before I had FF 4, I was able to right click and “set book text mark” so that I could remember where I was on the veeeerrrry long threads. With start-up (after shutting everything down), I could load the page and it would go directly to the marker.
Well, with FF 4 and now 5, I can set the marker but it disappears if I quit the page. Any suggestions? I hate having to write down comment numbers on little bits of paper. There has to be a tech way of handling this problem – what do you guys do?
Dhorvath: Touche.
‘Tis:
Okay, so, I’m in Windows 7 so this may be a little different for you.
But, I went to:
C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\.default\I created a “Chrome” folder under there, and then created the userContent.css in the Chrome folder (with the content listed way up there). Then restarted Firefox.
If you’ve got a different version of windows, it’ll be in a different place.
Trying again…
‘Tis Himself:
For me, after having clicked on Open Containing Folder, “chrome” is the second folder down. For some reason it’s not capitalised.
If “chrome” isn’t there, right-click anywhere within the main folder, go to “New”, then “Folder” – name it “chrome”.
Then open up a plain text editor, copy/paste Caine’s code into it, and save it as “userContent.css” in your newly-created “chrome” folder.
That should do the trick.
blah…
path should be:
C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[blah].defaultThat’s what I get for not previewing.
Wow, words but no avatar. Odd, I registered one on Gravatar.
The Sailor:
Yes, I went through decades of that too. My fave was always getting the question “What if you change your mind?” I’d wait a beat or three then ask, “What if you change yours?”
Hmmm. My best friends are also childfree and we all own the motorcycles. ;D
Melissa:
You are not fat, you’ve just had a baby! I think you can give yourself a break here, to say the least. :)
René:
Yay!
SteveV:
Thank you! I shall let Mister know. :)
La Vie Ordinaire, Welcome to TET!
Le Havre en Chêne:
I shall. Thank you.
‘Tis:
No, no. You can create a folder in your profile called ‘chrome’. Then, paste the CSS into notepad, save as userContent.css and save it in your chrome folder. It should work just fine for you. See Richard’s post @ #71.
Ms. Daisy Cutter:
Thank you. :)
Theophontes:
Glad it works for you! Happily accepts hugs.
Mister Sleight of Hand, Welcome to TET!
Vicki:
Thanks, Vicki. I also have a serious case of anemia, so I’ve been craving meat lately. Yesterday, I decided not to ignore that, in spite of the surgery. I ate about 14 bites of a ground beef patty, it was tasty and I had no ill effects.
Vanitas @ 263, the French titles started here.
*shrug* as I said before, I’d rather be around religious feminists than around atheist misandrists (though that particular article is annoying simply because secular Jews are so common, claiming culture and religion are inseparable in Judaism is fucking stupid)
I also note that that article doesn’t criticize atheists; it criticizes New Agers for the notion that believers should just call themselves “spiritual” rather than be part of the religions they’re culturally part of. And that demand is kind of neo-colonialist, since it basically asks to discard a minority culture in favor of a majority one.
Okay, I now have the css file installed and running. Thank you all for explaining how to do it. And thanks to Caine for coming up with it in the first place. (((Caine)))
This is a test to see if I can actually post yet.
‘Tis:
I’m so glad you got it working! All thanks go to Kagato & Owlmirror, for testing, testing, testing and hammering out the final product for everyone!
OK, maybe I have one more thing sorted out.
Le Sigh.
Still cannot see comment numbers.
Patricia, your avatar (Mae West?) is up there. I left a trail of grog soaked corn for Pullet Patrol™ to our new digs. I think I see the trebuchet coming over the last hill.
Yep, that’s slutty ol’ Mae. When I was that age I looked very much like her.
The Pullets are flying into the new roost. Spanking couch, fainting couch and paddle room just about set up. Whew, good job everyone that worked so hard for the place!
Now, whats with your avatar Nerd? I expected Beaker.
Re: Nerd’s avatar.
Looks like one of the dancing hippos from Fantasia.
Dancing hippos
(Gotta love the internet)
Patricia:
:Wolf Whistles:
Er, did I do that out loud?
I had wanted Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, but Dr. Bunsen, appropriately, beat me to it. So I went with what Richard Austin said, a dancing hippo in a tutu from Fantasia. That ought to really confuse some of the folks.
The nice thing with the FtB/gravatar logins is that screen name and avatar changes appear easy to make, compared to TypePad. Maybe I’ll make use of that feature.
I have more Ken dolls, if that helps anybody.
@feralboy
And there was me thinking that it was from Kirk Cameron’s guest appearance on Thunderbirds.
Thunderbirds are GO!
I too have managed to adjust everything except figuring out how to make the post numbers display.
I can’t find the css comment so I can edit it, or I put that edit in the wrong place? It’s hard to know when you just figured out what css is a few hours ago, and the cats are no help at all.
I just pulled the relevant values out of Caines post #23. (TY!)
I finally found an appropriate avatar for me. Unlike my previous M101 galaxy avatar, the sailboat drawing is still recognizable even when shrunk way, way, way down.
Tis:
Aww, I think my galaxy is still recognizable (if dark). You can even see me in the picture there.
Tethys:
Now I’m confused. That *should* give you post numbers. You shut down your browser and re-started, right? This one, I don’t know how to fix…calling all Geek Superheroes!
Incidentally, the .css file gave me post numbers. The only thing I think is weird is the poster’s names are in italics. But I can certainly live with that.
Now we just need to get killfile up and running.
‘Tis:
I like it! I remember a while back, reading that you didn’t care much for your nym and thought about changing it, but thought you were stuck with ‘Tis. I don’t see why, a lot of people have changed long used nyms. If you tack a (‘Tis) onto a new nym for a couple of weeks, everyone will get used to the “new you”. :D
Testing again.
I can’t get post numbers- but I am terrible at figuring this stuff out. I’ll have one of the 20-somethings at work look at it and help me out on Monday.
Thanks to Caine, Kagato, and Owlmirror for figuring out how to fix the silly CSS
If Kagato or Owlmirror ever find themselves in the wilds of ND, they can have as much homebrew as they can handle! The css fix has made me feel so much more comfortable here. The incredibly awful css that was in place put me off so much I didn’t like posting at all.
I always think of John Wayne’s drunken sidekick character in the Quiet Man when I see Tis Himself. That movie was full of the remark tis himself.
Caine
I run google chrome, and downloaded stylebot so that I have a css option right in the browser address bar. Now I can click on any element and edit the css, but I cannot find where the css for the list style might be.
I pulled the various values out of your code (eg. #f2f2f2)
to customize font, style, background, etc..
Richard @293 – I love that picture!
Somehow my punctuation fukkered that comment all up.
Still can’t find the numbers on the comments either.
Patricia:
You’re right! I haven’t thought about that movie in ages…
Speaking of old movies, I stayed up way too late the other night when TCM was doing a Ronald Colman night. That’s a crush that never died. :Gets all misty re-running scenes from The Prisoner of Zenda* and A Tale of Two Cities:
*Must remember that Rudolf and Rassendyll would make good rat names.
Tethys:
I did the same on GChrome – you’re all bathed in a lovely pink tinge as we speak :)
Tethys:
Oh, I thought you put the whole thing in, as a block. Then I know it would work. Um…this is what you need for comment numbers:
.commentlist li { list-style: decimal outside none !important }
Tethys:
I’m using chrome too, can’t help you with stylebot but if you add the extension ‘Personalized Web’ and go into options you can add a new rule for
^http://freethoughblogs.com* (you need to type it exactly including the ^ and the *)
there’s a box titled “add css” just copy paste the css example into that box. Remove the “@-moz-document domain(freethoughtblogs.com) {” And the very last closing brace “}” save, refresh and everything should work beautifully.
Patricia, OM #303
I must remember to say something rude about Patricia the next time I think of it. :-þ
^http://freethoughtblogs.com*
Sorry.
I recently saw this documentary of Bahrain’s failed protests from earlier this year: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/2011/08/201184144547798162.html#disqus_thread
I thought it was something everyone should see. I was very impressed by the bravery of Bahrainis, but at the same time, I couldn’t believe how sadistic humans could be to other humans. I know that I shouldn’t be surprised what totalitarian regimes could do by this point, but seeing it happen in video feels a hundred times more grotesque.
Tis – I didn’t mean that to be rude! Have you seen the movie? The old drunken sidekick is a funny lovable character.
Morning folks!
Went to bed at midnight, & woke up 2 hourly throughout thanks to the greedyguts baby, & the 3 yr old who last night decided to sleep sideways. I almost fell off the bed twice. *yawns*
On religion and feminism – I always thought the two were obviously incompatible. Kind of mutually exclusive concepts really.
My phone won’t give me comment numbers :(
Hehe. When I was a very small child (around 6) I had a crush on a Thunderbird. Yes, a puppet. I have no idea why.
@Tethys:
Hit the CSS thingy, then select a comment – move the cursor to the white space at the end of any comment – until the entire comments section is outlined by the green selection box.
Then hit the ‘edit CSS’ at the bottom of the page
and enter the text in Caine’s post above.
Anybody seen Janine of many epithets lately?
ERV and Miranda Celeste have opinions about the CFI Women in Secularism conference: http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2011/more-dog-whistle/
Nerd:
No, haven’t heard a word from her. I hope she shows up soon.
I was wondering when PZed would post an IkaMusume video. It’s been my nickname for Skatje for a while, given it basically means “daughter-squid” in Japanese :)
Hummm, I haven’t seen Janine either.
Miranda Celeste:
[Argh, I want comic sans!]
FFS, just how damn dense does one get? What about the centuries of needing the ‘right’ genitalia keeping women out of things, like higher education and many endeavors? What in the hell is wrong with a conference highlighting the many awesome contributions of women? I am sick to death of these people.
Mister Sleight of hand @ 307
Yippee!!! That worked. I CAN has post numbers!
Caine – Naughty M & I both looked at that CSS thingy, and your code, but we can’t figger it out. Maybe PZ will note the numbers thingy after he gets rested up from this whole mess. Other than that it seems to be running pretty well.
All right, Patricia, even though I’ve never seen the movie I’ll accept your word that you’re being nice when you think of a drunken sidekick upon seeing my nym.
Note to self: I really need to reconsider changing my nym.
Patricia:
Hmmm. I wish I knew how to fix it for you! Hopefully, PZ won’t be long in capturing and taming the native css.
oh but Caine, don’t you know that we live in a post-sexist society? The only reason all the other secularism/atheism conferences have predominantly male speakers is because the women in skepticism/atheism just aren’t as brilliant and interesting as the guys. That’s why, obviously, the selection of speakers for the CFI WiS conference was a lottery-draw of all skeptics/atheists with female genitalia; because there simply wasn’t any merit on which to make the decision.
A lot of people have a crush on Thunderbird.
Tis – Thank you, I really wasn’t trying to be rude. I’d post a link to the parts I’m thinking of, but if it came up like the Chimps link, I’d get the wrath of Poopeyhead. :)
Patricia, just bury your links in anchor tags instead of putting them straight into the page.
Like, <a href=”[link here]”>Oooh, sniny!</a>
Jadehawk:
I just don’t know why I keep forgetting that.
:post-sexist society my rosy arse: :grumbles noisily:
From what I can tell, we’re not even in the pre-post-sexist society yet.
Oh man, followed Ophelia’s link to Erv’s slow, slow loading thread. I’m still naively surprised to see the same derailing topics come up again and again (won’t they stop at some point? Or find new reasons to whine? Though no, I’m not sure I want new ones) …but they’re discussing child support now. And Justicar seems to be the reasonable one in that discussion.
‘Tis Himself, I feel I would have had a much more amusing childhood had I been enamoured with that Thunderbird. Also, eww. It turns your mouth black? That’s just…eww.
The Slimepit Sovereign (and those who think like her) just want very much to believe that they are special. Not Like Those Other Girls. That’s all there is to their mentality. If they’re selected for something with their gender remaining underrepresented, that contributes to this sad fantasy. But if their gender stops being underrepresented, they’ll have to admit they’re not that special after all. And where’s the fun in that?
aaah, those. “my autonomy over my wallet is exactly as important as a woman’s autonomy over her body!!!!!11”
I’m betting the only reason Justicar is being “reasonable” is because, assuming he didn’t lie about being gay”, he’s not likely to knock anyone up. So, since this doesn’t diminish his privilege in any way, he doesn’t need to throw a shitfit over it.
Jadehawk:
Bloody TAM, ruining the patriarchy’s fun by having a *gasp* majority of female speakers. This simply will not do!
For those on Safari there’s an extension called UserCSS for per site css modifications as the @-moz-document domain rules for Firefox don’t work in the default Safari User CSS setup.
and over at CFI, someone actually called Jen McCreight (and Ophelia, and all the other speakers at the WiS conference) a radfem. ROTLFMAO
Jadehawk:
Oh, I expect we’re all radfems now. :eyeroll:
Last night shift finished, yay ! Now for some sleep, and then plenty of drunken debauchery (and blog posts, finally) !!
Aaand, night is ruined. Follow link at your own peril, the source was the Slime Pit. Someone gathering some examples of rape in elevator cases to show that they are not that common. In fact:
He provides cases of the latter too. You can argue with that. I mean, it’s science, it has like pictures and number and tables and all.
What is this fuckery?
*can’t argue
according to this, it was exactly even, unless someone cancelled and/or I miscounted. :-p Anyway, good on TAM. Most skeptic/atheists conferences aren’t there yet, not by a long shot.
I had never seen the acronym MRA until reading it here. I thought it stood for Male Rape Apologist until I googled the term and saw Mens Rights Advocate.
But after the month long siege I think I had it right the first time.
Clavd:
The same old, same old at the slimepit. I can’t speak for anyone else, but I’m tired of posts from there being dragged into TET.
I’ve been enjoying the break from all that crap for a little while, and I’m sure it won’t be long before PZ posts about the CFI fuss and we’ll be drowning in MRAs again.
Ahhhhh! Home.
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*applause* for the techies who got it sorted out.
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Microscopes (and telescopes!) are a fine gate-way ‘drug’ into science.
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Tsk. Such an uncreative solution! Is there no honey? Are there no fire ants?
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Shred it and lay it out over a hot baked potato. Add bacon. Fork briskly. Soon, the Madness of the Cheese will be entirely consumed.
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Oh, how true. Great. I have my final in six days, I can’t afford SIWOTI syndrome now :(
Tethys:
I think ‘Tis got it right: Morally Repugnant Assholes.
Cicely:
Do not try this with Horace!
Classical Cipher:
Go Study! Now!
It’s quite a relief to not have to deal with that at the moment – probably a perfect time to make the Sb/Fb switch as there’s relatively less drama happening in the sceptical community.
@Caine,
Yeah, I was hesitating to post that here too, but rage won out. I think I literally saw red reading that. Sorry about that. Here’s a link to a set of pictures I found nice today, to make up for dragging disgusting things into the house. I kind of want pics like that taken of my house too.
Eh, personally I’m glad that *someone* still keeps watch on the Slimepit and can mention when an item of relevance or an opportunity for correction comes along. It does mean I have to decide when I can afford to fight, and when I have to let some new outrage pass unremarked because I don’t have the time, spirit or stones for it. Elevapocalypse has been very educational in that regard.
Caine:
Seconded, even if I stayed out of it all the first time (my SIWOTI syndrome seems to come and go, but there’s an idiot threshold with an automatic shutoff and by the time I got to the threads it was already tripped).
So, simple chicken or fish recipes for a guy cooking for one in a small kitchen? Like, I could really use good recipes for home-made red curry and sweet and sour sauce, if anyone has them.
Test test … my first comment on new server. Seems acceptable.
Please do carry on.
Clavd:
I understand, really. I know some people are new to this whole business, however, a lot of us have been steeping in it for over a month.
Myself, I’m enjoying our lounge being a lounge again (for a while) because it’s fun, enjoyable, relaxing and helping me in recovery. (I think I’m gonna try a glass of wine tonight! Mister got me another bottle of Cupcake, which was surprisingly good.)
Thanks for the photos. :)
I hope there is enough potassium iodide available for all the radioactive females.
I find it disheartening that sexism didn’t die, it just went underground and got really bitter and vindictive.
On a positive note, my adult son attended his friends daughters 1st birthday party. He gave her a green stuffed dinosaur specifically because it was a non-gendered toy.
Damn. This is the first time I’ve had a YouTube fail.
I’ve went to read some of the linked posts, but it looks like mob hysteria, armpit deep in a cesspool. No thanks.
Zzoooooommm (I like to make my own browser sound effects) reloads the thread after posting.
SQ’s Curry Chicken
1 tbsp. red curry paste
1 chicken breast sliced or 1 cake of tofu
1 sm. can sliced bamboo shoots
2 eggplants cubed (note: to keep eggplant cubes from browning, squeeze a little lemon or lime juice over them and toss.)
1 red bell pepper julienned
1 green bell pepper, same
1 (13 oz) can coconut milk
1 thinly sliced medium yellow onion
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
salt, pepper, and chopped fresh chillies to taste
Handful fresh cilantro, chopped
Heat oil in a skillet till smoking, then add curry paste and onion and turn heat down to medium. Stir fry till fragrant, then add bell peppers and stir till limp. Add chicken or tofu and stir till sealed on all sides. Add eggplant, stir well. Cover and cook about 5-10 minutes till all vegetables are limp. Add bamboo shoots and coconut milk, salt, pepper, and chillies, and bring to a boil. Lower heat, add cilantro, and turn off. Serve immediately over brown rice.
For improved tofu curry, marinate the tofu in a mix of lemon juice and red curry paste beforehand – about 1 lemon mixed with the tablespoon of curry paste. Use a plastic or ceramic colander if at possible – that way you can swiftly lift the tofu out and use the marinade to stir-fry the
onion.
Oh, yeah. So my little boy turned four on Thursday and he wanted a baby, so now he has a little baby doll which he has named Lily. They share blankets and he takes care of her scrapes with his medical kit.
Audley, I learned to check my son’s pockets after a load of wash was ruined by the midnight blue crayon he’d left in his pocketses. I think it was probably okay through the actual washing, but the drying was another story; the crayon just melted all over everything. The dumpster ate well that day.
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Yay!
Eggplant, hrm? I don’t know that I’ve ever had eggplant where I liked it, but I’m willing to try.
Nick the Lemming’s Warm Curry Paste
About 40 Thai bird chillies, or if unavailable, some other hot
small dried red chillies. If larger chillies are used, use less.
1 tablespoon whole coriander seeds
1 teaspoon whole cumin seeds
about 12 black peppercorns
3 stalks lemongrass
1/4 cup fresh cilantro / coriander roots and leaves
1/4 cup shallots, coarsely chopped
about 12 cloves garlic, coarsely chopped
1 tablespoon fresh galangal or ginger, coarsely chopped
1 teaspoon finely chopped lime peel, or fresh wild lime leaves
if you can find them
1 teaspoon salt.
Method:
Stem the chillies, chop coarsely. Wussy people may wish to
remove seeds, but real afficianados will leave them in. Place in a bowl of warm water to soak for about 20 minutes so they soften nicely.
Dry-fry the coriander seeds in a small frying pan or skillet,
stirring often for about 2 or 3 minutes while they darken a
little, and put in a small bowl. Do the same for the cumin
seeds, until you can smell them – about 1 minute, 2 tops. Put in the small bowl with the coriander seeds, and add the
peppercorns. Grind to a fine powder. If you can’t be arsed to
make a decent job of it, you can use ground coriander, cumin and pepper, but it’s not really the same, and people will point at you in the streets and whisper. If you use ground stuff, dry-fry for about a minute, stirring constantly so it doesn’t burn.
Trim the lemongrass stalks, throw away the woody rooty bits
below the bulb, and chop away the top section, so you have about a 6 inch stalk. Woohoo! Then proceed to chop this finely. ouch.
Drain the chillies and mix in the lemongrass, roasted spices and all the other ingredients (everything else should be coarsely chopped, except the lime leaf / peel, which should be finely chopped) and stick the lot in a blender. Grind it down to a smooth-ish purée, adding a teaspoon of water if it sticks too much, and scrape the sides down every now and then too.
Stick the lot in a jar, and put in the fridge. Should last about a month, and makes about a cup or so total. Use about 3 or 4 tablespoons in your curry in place of whatever vile pre-packaged curry powder they suggest, the heathens.
It *is* a little hot though. If you’re of a delicate
disposition, prepare while wearing gloves and face mask. And
always remember to wash your hands afterwards. Certain parts of the anatomy won’t like it very much if you touch them with
chilli still on your fingers. :-(
Dhorvath, that’s the most adorable thing ever :)
Caine, I am :) I’m doing my flashcards from the last week, then I’m going to start at the beginning of learning to conjugate verbs and try to figure out where I need review.
Richard:
It doesn’t have to be eggplant, substitute something you like better!
Caine,
Why aren’t these on the wiki? I looked, I swear. But, thanks!
Josh, our official Spokesgay, is taking care of recipes on Wiki. He may take a bit of time to get the recipes transferred, as there is some interference by trolls.
#223/3017 Audley Z. Darkheart,
From personal experience (three times and counting), this Fisher pen is machine-washable. Writes great, too.
Richard:
I didn’t put them up. As can be seen from the titles, these aren’t mine, they’re recipes from friends back in my usenet days. :)
Cicely:
That’s what happened! My gel pen exploded in the dryer and stained everything. Luckily, it was in a load of t shirts and shorts, so everything was easily replaced– it was just incredibly frustrating. Trying to get ready to leave for a weekend trip and finding half of what I intended to take with me totally ruined gave me a sad. :(
Ahhhh, a recipe request. Now it feels like home. :)
This sounds involved, but once you do it the first time, you’ll wonder how you ate catfish any other way:
1/4 cup seasoned bread crumbs
1/4 cup chopped flat leaf parsley
2 tspns ground cumin
1 tspn oregano
1 tspn thyme
1 tspn cayenne
1/4 tspn salt
1/4 cup egg substitute
6 ounce catfish fillets (mixture will do up to 4)
4 tspns vegetable oil
chopped flat leaf parsley (to sprinkle on top)
*I add one tspn ground coriander seed to this*
1. Combine the breadcrumbs, parsley, cumin, oregano, thyme, cayenne, coriander and salt on a sheet of wax paper. Place egg in a shallow dish.
2. Dip fish first in egg, then coat lightly with the breadcrumb, spices & herbs mixture. Wrap the fish in wax paper, transfer to a plate, then refrigerate for 30 minutes.
Discard any left over egg or breadcrumb mixture.
3. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Swirl in the oil, then add fish. Cook, turning once, until it is golden brown and flakes easily with tested with a fork, about 10 minutes. Sprinkle with the additional chopped parsley, and serve at once.
As a side dish to this I serve yams dijonnaise – a nuked up yam mashed up with butter and Dijon mustard to taste. Yummm!
Audley, you’ve been moved down on the sex with Brownian list (by Brownian) in the Anti-Caturday thread, due to your dislike of squishy sex noises.
Indian Butter Chicken
4 chicken breasts cut bite sized
Marinate chicken overnight in:
5 cloves garlic minced
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1/4 tsp ground coriander
1/4 tsp cumin
1/4 tsp ground cardamom
juice of 1 lime
to prepare:
dice an onion and saute in butter until soft. Add chicken and cook for ten minutes.
add 1 can tomato sauce 14.5 oz.
and 1 can petite diced tomatoes 14.5 oz.
Cover and simmer for 30 minutes.
Add 1 pint whipping cream
1 bunch chopped cilantro
serve with basmati rice
@Clavd: Actually, the original commentors did a very good job of answering the wrongness on that elevator-rape-stats post, particularly Kay who is a trans woman. Thanks for pointing it out. (That link again: here)
Chicken in Tarragon Cream
1/2 cup sour cream
1/4 teaspoon dried tarragon
2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon cornstarch
2 whole chicken breast (about 2 lbs total), boned, split and skinned
Salt and pepper
All-purpose flour
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon salad oil
1/2 cup dry white wine
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 green onion, including top, thinly sliced
1 clove garlic, minced or pressed
In a small bowl, stir together sour cream, tarragon, sugar, and cornstarch, set aside.
Sprinkle chicken breasts with salt and pepper; dredge in flour shaking off excess. Heat butter and oil in a wide
frying pan over medium-high heat. When fat sizzles, add chicken breasts and cook until golden (about 3 minutes on each side). Add wine, lemon juice, onion and garlic. Cover, reduce heat and simmer until meat in thickest part is no
longer pink when slashed (10 to 15 minutes). Remove from heat, lift out chicken and arrange on a platter. Stir sour cream mixture into pan juices. Return to low heat and cook, stirring until sauce bubbles and thickens slightly. Pour over chicken.
Holy Shite! No wonder your gallblather got mad.
Therrin:
I ♥ the Fisher pens. But I am terrible when it comes to losing pens, so the cheaper, the better.
(My dad still has the mechanical pencils that he bought when he was in college. Takes ’em to work every day and uses them regularly. *headshake* I have no idea how he does it.)
Caine:
I just saw that! Now I’m wondering when I should book a flight to the Great Frozen North.
… I’m saving all of these. I’m also getting hungry, and dinner isn’t for an hour and a half at least (I’m meeting friends).
All of those recipes sound scrumptious!
Caine
Have you ever tried using plain yogurt instead of sour cream in the tarragon chicken recipe? I substitute yogurt in a zucchini casserole that I make, and it works great.
Habanero Chicken
1 tablespoon finely chopped onion
1 teaspoon dried thyme leaves
2 teaspoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
2 teaspoons Habanero Sauce
4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves (about 1 1/2 pounds)
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
In a small bowl, mix onion, thyme, sugar, salt, nutmeg and Habanero Sauce. Set aside.
Remove fat from chicken and pierce with tines of fork. Place in shallow dish. Spoon or rub seasoning mixture over both sides of each breast half and let marinate for 20 minutes.
Heat butter and oil in large skillet over medium heat. When bubbling, add chicken and cook for 5 to 10 minutes on each side (depending on size of chicken breasts) until brown and cooked through. Serve with cooked rice.
Flaming Zin Chicken
Four 8 oz. skinless chicken breasts
Salt and pepper
Flour for dusting chicken pieces
2 Tbs. olive oil
3 Tbs. yellow onions, diced
½ Cup sliced portabello mushrooms
¾ Cup Zinfandel
1 Cup heavy cream
Salt and pepper breasts, and dredge in flour, shaking off excess.
Heat oil in sauté pan and brown breasts on one side. Drain excess oil and turn breasts over. Add onions and mushrooms and sauté for about 2 minutes.
Flame with the Zinfandel. When reduced, add the cream.
Bake at 350 F for 8 to 10 minutes until done to your liking.
Remove chicken to a platter and reduce sauce over low heat to thicken. Pour sauce over chicken breasts, garnish with a sprig of rosemary.
Belly Burnin’ Buffalo Wings
4 pounds Chicken Wings
1/4 pound Butter
1/4 cup of Red Hot sauce
1/4 cup of Tabasco sauce
1 teaspoon of Dave’s Insanity Sauce (or your favorite brand of “insanely” hot sauce)
1 tablespoon of vinegar
Cooking oil
Celery & Blue Cheese dressing are optional
Lots of Beer to wash it all down
Prepare the wings by cutting them into two sections and toss the tip… they don’t need it anymore and you’re not gonna eat it.
Start getting your deepest frying pan (or your fryer, if you have one) warmed up with enough oil to cover one layer of wings completely. Make sure oil is properly heated – if you put food into oil before it is hot enough, it will just soak into the food and make it excessivly greasy.
Melt the butter in a saucepan and add the vinegar and the Red Hot, Tabasco & Dave’s Insanity Sauce. If you’ve never tried Dave’s now is the time, and for Christ’s sake, go easy on the Insanity sauce if it’s your first time! Even the teaspoon we’re adding can be throttled back on. Why are we adding three different hot sauces? Cause each of the two off the shelf sauces has a slightly different taste and the Dave’s adds the serious heat. When the butters all melted and everything is mixed together, turn off the flame but keep the pan warm so the butter doesn’t separate.
Fry the wings about 10-12 minutes… don’t try to cook them all at once unless you have a huge fryer. Six or seven at a time may be all your pan can handle before the oil bubbles over. When they’re done, drain them off and toss them in the hot sauce (you can transfer the sauce into a larger bowl to make this easier).
Serve em up with the celery sticks and blue cheese dressing… they can really help take the edge off. Oh, and don’t forget to drink beer with them… it’s the most important part of the winged experience. Courtesy of David Lauterbach
Patricia:
That curry sauce is one helluva pain in the arse to make, but it’s fuckin’ delicious!
Tethys:
No, I loathe yogurt. Sour cream has *all* my love.
Daves Insanity Sauce
*run away, run away!*
I just want to know how the hell anyone could spend 20 hours ‘researching’ and not once consider the fact that it’s not the number of rapes which occur in elevators that’s relevant, but the proportion, relative to the proportion of their lives women spend on elevators.
Yeah, can’t do the buffalo wings – I think my allergy to alcohol carries over somehow to vinegar, because if I even smell the stuff I get sick to my stomach.
Patricia:
No, no! It’s fine, in moderation. It’s not the hottest sauce out there, by far, either*.
*Mister has an unnatural fondness for hot sauces. Makes his own habanero sauce. That stuff can kill. At 20 paces.
Unfortunately, I react badly to many dairy products, and sour cream is one of them. Beef Stroganoff just isn’t the same with yogurt.
Janine sighting!
Wish you all could see this:
Some grandpa walked his little charges up to the back fence to admire the “chickies”. The one of the tikes threw ‘A’ cheeto into the yard.
Cue the Flying Money theme..> instant mayhem!
Tethys:
Aaaw, my sympathies.
Patricia
Chuckles at the chicken imagery.
Thanks Caine…its been quite an unwelcome adjustment.
‘Tis, I like your avatar. Mine is my actual boat, flying my asymmetric spinnaker.
+++++++++++++++++++++
The Google doodle today is pretty neat, tho I never thought Lucille Ball was funny.
I am seriously enjoying being able to post without getting a “you’ve posted too much” error/warning. That’s one thing I couldn’t stand about Sciborg.
Korean Seaweed Soup
1 (1 ounce) package dried brown seaweed
1/4 pound beef top sirloin, minced
2 teaspoons sesame oil
1 1/2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 teaspoon salt, or to taste
6 cups water
1 teaspoon minced garlic
Soak seaweed in water to cover. When soft, drain, and cut into 2 inch pieces. Heat a saucepan over medium heat; add beef, sesame oil, 1/2 tablespoon soy sauce, and a little salt, and cook for 1 minute. Stir in seaweed and remaining 1 tablespoon soy sauce; cook for 1 minute, stirring frequently. Pour in 2 cups water, and bring to a boil. Stir in garlic and remaining 4 cups water. Bring to a boil, cover, and reduce heat. Simmer for 20 minutes. Season to taste with salt.
PZ, I often have to reload to get the full postings on a thread to appear, along with the “leave a reply” with my login. Still a bug or two in the system.
Gyeong:
Oooh, Mister will love that, thank you!
Dhorvath – ZOMG CUTE!!
Richard Austin – eggplant is horrible when it’s underdone. It gets a lovely silky texture when well-done.
Caine – awesome recipes, are you well enough now to cook & eat, or is this in anticipation? As to yoghurt – have you considered natural, unsweetened Greek yoghurt? It’s higher in fat than most (5-10% usually) and is very smooth. Richness AND tang. Great on baked potatoes, IMO. I hate diet yoghurts, they are teh suck. And I find a lot of variation by brand.
spunmunkey, I’m guessing that the riotact trolls are being racist, since the victim was Asian. It’s too depressing for me. Not only SIWOTI but in my home town :( There are a few other Canberrans here – I’m aware of Tigger, me, Kel (away in Finland right now) and occasionally neon-elf.
I’m so glad we got the lounge back! Thanks PZ et al !
Cath:
:) Just stuff I pulled from my recipe file, which is massive. I can cook, but I’m still not eating much, so no major cooking right now*.
Yes, I’ve tried it. *blecch*. I just don’t like the stuff.
*Once the appetite is well and truly back in place, I want my two favourite things:
Zinful Steak
2 lbs. flank steak
Marinade
1/4 cup olive oil
3/4 cup balsamic vinegar
3 cloves garlic, chopped
2 Tbs dried Italian herbs
Salt, to taste
Black pepper, to taste
Combine ingredients and marinate flank steak overnight. It is important to first pierce the steak all over with a fork so that the marinade can better penetrate and tenderize the meat.
Zinfandel Sauce
1 bottle Zinfandel
1 onion, minced
2 shallots, minced
1 clove garlic, minced
Combine ingredients in non-reactive sauce pan, bring to a boil, and simmer to reduce by one-half. Remove from heat and cool. Remove steak from marinade. Add reserved marinade to sauce mixture and puree in food processor. Grill , broil, or pan fry steak over high heat; cook to medium rare. Cut thin slices across the grain.
Serve with heated sauce…and a bottle of Zinfandel!
Courtesty of David S. Stare / Dry Creek Vineyard
Zinfandel Glazed Shallots
1½ tbsp. butter
18 whole shallots, peeled and trimmed
1½ cup Zinfandel
6 tbsp. sugar
¾ cup apple juice
1. Melt 1½ tbsp. butter in heavy large skillet over low heat. Add trimmed shallots, cover and cook until shallots are golden and beginning to soften, stirring occasionally, about 10 minutes.
2. Add red wine and sugar and stir until sugar dissolves. Simmer mixture without stirring until liquid is reduced
to glaze consistency, swirling skillet occasional, about 20 minutes.
3. Add apple juice to skillet and continue to simmer until shallots are tender and liquid is reduced to glaze
consistency, stirring occasionally, about 16 minutes, season mixture to taste with salt and pepper.
Note: Glazed shallots can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover tightly and refrigerate. Re-warm glazed shallots
over low heat before serving.
I’m sorry to interrupt this delicious food discussion, but I’ve gotta whine about my shitty motel experience.
I’m going to a wedding tomorrow in the middle of asshole nowhere NY and the hotels in the area are really fucking expensive. So I booked a motel room. We got there okay, but the kid at the front desk wouldn’t listen to us when we explained that we paid when we booked through hotels.com and gave us attitude when we told him we didn’t want the room anymore if he was going to insist on double charging us.
Called hotels.com. We’re still being charged for one night. Gah.
Bright spot: I called the motel across the street- they had a room available, and the woman at the desk felt so bad for us that she gave us the AAA discounted rate.
Anyway, I’m going to see if there’s a movie theater in the area. Maybe I’ll be less irritated after watching Cowboys and Aliens.
Audley:
Thank goodness for people with brains and empathy!
When camping and backpacking, getting some decent veggies to eat is a bit of a problem, so I invented this recipe to be convienient and to put some veggies in the belly.
Kamaka’s Campfire Burritos *All ingredients optional*
Stir fry some veggies. Broccoli, red peppers, yellow squash, sugar snap peas, mushrooms…use your imagination here. I give ’em the one minute treatment in a very hot pan, I like them crunchy.
Here’s the trick. Mix a few tablespoons or more of salsa (Ma Renfro’s Roasted Salsa is very good here) in with the veggies after they have cooled.
Fill very large tortillas with a big scoop of veggies, a tablespoon or two of Kuner’s Southwestern Black Beans and a nice big dollop of shredded cheese; I like the Mexican 5 cheese blends.
Wrap up the tortillas and then wrap them in heavy-duty aluminum foil that has been sprayed with cooking spray.
Freeze them. This way, you can make them plenty ahead of time, and they hold up for a while in the backpack or even longer in the cooler.
No cooking pans needed, just heat them next to the campfire.
Caine:
You said it! She was incredibly understanding and very sweet.
IRT easy foods: hobo packs; put chicken parts (or meat of your choice), potatoes, celery, carrots (and whatever is handy) in tinfoil and toss on the fire/grill. Retrieve after 30 minutes.
Great boat/camping dinner.
Audley Z. Darkheart,
Call hotels.com back, tell them that the hotel attempted to charge you again for the room, and that you ended up not receiving the service you paid for (the room). Demand a refund with the threat of charge-back. The charge-back system is heavily biased toward the consumer.
Also, enjoy the wedding.
What’s going on here? I went to freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula and it didn’t show anti-Caturday or Norway or gut-folding. Which I know exist because I read them earlier. So I came to TET, and they show up on the side bar. Am I doing something wrong?
*le sigh*
I’m using Firefox 6.0 on a WinVista machine. I’ve put the UserContent file in my chrome folder, my profile folder, and even created a “chrome” folder under “Roaming” per Richard Austin’s suggestion above.
No difference. I’m assuming it’s because it’s 6.0.
Kamaka, tell your Dad that when he dies you’re going to retroactively make him renounce Christ — or join the church of the FSM, or both.
Thanks, Therrin. I’ll give them another call.
Oh for…I’m just hanging out, making out a shopping list and stuff, turned the TV on, and one of those ‘world’s most shocking’ or whatever shows was on and about 5 minutes from ending. In spite of myself, I’m staring like I’m witnessing a trainwreck…
there’s a video of some young idiot who happens to dislike mullets (who doesn’t?), so, in his own words “the way my brain works is to grow a mullet, then pull it out bit by bit to show my utter contempt for them.” He then proceeds to do so.
I do not want to be on the same planet with this degree of stupid.
Yea Janine sighting! But where is blf?
RemembersABeach, the front page is a bit dysfunctional. Reload. Each front page thread needs to be reloaded immediately to work properly too.
I’m hungry and lazy. Someone email me something salty and spicy please.
One order of brine shrimp in pepper spray comin’ up.
Sailor – I think blf is at the International Pea Festival.
Patricia:
Heresy!
@ Monado
Hahaha!
He’s in heaven now, watching me post on Pharyngula! The horror!
Don’t even get me started on the catholic child abuse paradigm! Dad in heaven could take serious offense; he’s still judging me, y’know.
*Sets the local sensors for deranged penguins.*
Kamaka:
Pffft, if he was a good catholic, he’s waitin’ until you’re dead, then getting ringside seats to watch you get toasted like a marshmallow and yelling “told you so, son!”
ZOMG! We just passed a Tim Horton’s!
Suddenly I feel like I’m in Canada. :)
For people who aren’t Caine:
Mix equal parts tahini and greek yoghurt for a great middle eastern sauce, for grilled meat or falafel. Add garlic & lemon juice to taste.
Mix one part tahini to 3 parts greek yoghurt and one part good strong honey for a dipping sauce for fruit.
I think US tupelo honey would work. RevBDC may have recommendations. Turkish pine honey was awesome. I mostly use a eucalyptus honey – stringybark is my favourite. Just don’t use that cheap nasty US supermarket honey that you get by feeding bees sugar-water.
Kamaka, I’ve been thinking about the Dino trip. Would starting everything on the 29th work for you? You could head straight to our place on that Monday.
To gamers, The Raid premiere streaming in 30 minutes, pre-show on now here.
@ Caine
Just when did you meet my father?
Kamaka, I grew up catholic too. Heh.
Aww, thanks. I’m always ready for a little heresy, blasphemy or abomination. What’s Saturday night for after all?
Watching the Pullet Patrol™ loading up the trebuchet using the ten tined pitchfork, aiming it in the general direction of a troublesome troll, and releasing the load so that it falls on their area as they head off for early church/mass…
HAAAAAA!
Some dipshit on the classical music channel is playing the theme to Sargent Preston and Kiiiiiiing of the Yukon. Ha!
Sorry Chimpy I’m having grilled lamb chops & carrot/garbanzo bean/raisin salad for supper. That’s pretty bland.
@ Caine
No can do on Monday… I’ll have just finished three 12 hour shifts which precludes a long drive. Tuesday, yes, I can do the drive and I can pull out early. I’m thinking 6, 7 hours to get there. So goof off Tues. afternoon, go to the http://www.dakotadino.com/ museum on Wednesday.
Quoth PZ:
Yar-harr!
http://i.imgur.com/sfxyw.jpg
Maybe you have something there Nerd.
Too bad you missed the chicken on a cheeto action. It was like watching parts of Jurassic Park. *evil grin*
@ Patricia
Bland? Grilled lambchops? I’ll be there shortly.
Hope you made enough for you.
Kamaka:
D’oh, I don’t know what I was thinking with the Monday stuff! So, Tuesday, the 31st works for you? If it does, great, the date is set! You can come straight to our place, I’ll have Mister email you how to get to our house on Sunday night. :)
When you click on
“Help” → “Troubleshooting Information” → “Open Containing Folder”
What happens?
I mean the 30th. Sheesh.
Caine: “Pffft, if he was a good catholic, he’s waitin’ until you’re dead, then getting ringside seats to watch you get toasted like a marshmallow and yelling “told you so, son!””
True story: A colleague is married to a Catholic guy. Catholic guy isn’t too religious anymore, but still “believes”. One day he was lamenting the fact that his heathen wife wouldn’t be in heaven with him. My colleague responded, “Isn’t one lifetime enough!”
It was one of those outbursts she knew she’d pay for, but it just had to come out…
Kamaka – The lamb chops have been marinading in blueberry jam over night, with a touch of blueberry balsamic vinegar to tenderize them some… if that sounds good, come on over.
A_Ray! *squees* It’s good to see you. :)
Tuesday the 31st works.
C’mon, Rev BigDumbChimp, jump on a plane to Bismark, ND and join us. You too, Nerd, Patricia, Jadehawk, Josh SG, and all the rest of the horde.
I have it on good word that Caine and Mr Caine caine can accommodate the ENTIRE horde!!11!!
Rev BDC
salty spicy? goto hottaco.org /me flees!
I’ve seen the ladies in action if I don’t spread the grog soaked corn around properly. Makes certain “sports” groups look like a bunch of bad acting wimps.
Kamaka, it’s a date!
Eeeeee! Maybe not the entire horde. :D
Caine, Thank ye, kindly, Madame. Last week was conference week, where I was a presenter, Awards committee chair (and so had to sit through every talk read every poster…), was sick as a damned dog and had family duties to attend to (conference in Lost Wages, NV, where my inlaws live). This week was spent digging out. And in two weeks it’s off to Brazil to nerd out with rockhounds from around the world (malheureusement sans ma femme :-( ).
I like the new digs…a decided lack of cupcakes thus far.
@ Patricia
How cruel of you. I shall be reduced to wandering the neighborhood seeking grilled, jam marinaded lamb-chops.
@ Caine and Mr Caine
Oh, come now. Just a few thousand people who insist on good food, good drink and great conversation…you can handle it. The Rev and I promise to bring a couple of six-packs of good beer.
Kamaka:
Well…okay.
:D
Good, can I send you and the Rev. a nice fat bag of hops? Mine are ready and no takers so far.
Hello? Is this thing on? Thanks for the primer, Caine, it looks much better that way. Just got back from a camping trip. Exhausted, think I might have a touch of food poisoning, it rained and was cold all week. I’m declaring my first thread bankruptcy on the last two. No way I could catch up.
Hi Carlie!
Oh no. I hope you’re feeling better soon.
Patricia:
Well, you know Mister is doing his best to turn Chez Caine into a hop farm (and being successful), but I imagine he’d be interested in some non-ND grown hops and if he doesn’t want them, I’ll take them. I can freeze them and use them for pillows later on.
Patricia, I’d take them but you can’t send them to Australia due to quarantine rules. What variety are they?
Feel better soon Carlie!
Later y’ll, gotta take my peach pies* out of the oven, and grill some chops.
*cue Brownian
Hops are a mix of bittering “Nina” and regular “Mt. Hood”, the vines grew together in a terrible tangle. I grow them for shade, now that my dear departed doesn’t make beer.
Probably couldn’t ship them to Australia. No doubt there is a cootie in them somewhere. *smirk*
I’ll check back in the morning. The pies are smelling like they want attention.
@ ‘Tis #266
Sorry ‘Tis. That post (re: .css) I made will only work with Linux.
I saw the chickens catch a mouse once. I’ve never looked at chickens quite the same way since.
Dhorvath – picolax – sweet zombie jesus, I nearly died reading that thread. *gasp* Bloody brilliant, I tell you.
Found a little tree frog in the top of the bee hive today. Apparently this isn’t that uncommon. The bees didn’t seem to mind.
Presenting Saturday’s Dumbest Comment:
Owen,
I tell people to be prepared, but there just isn’t a warning that covers that thread.
I wish they’d prescribed me Picolax instead of MoviPrep for my colonoscopy. It probably would have been more effective, and from the way they were talking, it’d taste better.
Dave Barry was 100% accurate with his description of the process:
It was nauseating. I only managed to drink about 3/4 of the stuff.
(PS: That column came out a couple of weeks before I had my colonoscopy. The nurse and I joked about it as I was waiting to be sedated; I pointed out that the PA was playing something better than ‘Dancing Queen’, and she showed me ‘the 17,000-foot tube’ (which, for the record, is only about six feet long).)
Link fail. The Dave Barry column in question.
Benjamin now you have me worried, as young as you are why are you having a colonoscopy?
hope everything came out ok. MoviePrep wouldn’t be too bad if one mixed a pint of vodka in there which is what I am going to do the next time I have one.
Caine, Richard Austin, and all others: Thanks for the tips. Teh New Pharyngula is looking sweet.
Now can we nuke the old one?
AE:
Ah, happiness that it finally worked for you. :)
Well, I’m fine with it, but the CEO has plans. Nice, cuss-free plans. :D
broboxley:
Two words: “rectal bleeding”. (Five more words: “not caused by anal penetration”.)
When I was 4, my intestines rode up over themselves, and things haven’t worked quite right since. My ‘normal’ is most people’s ‘the shits’, and I’ve got pretty significantly enlarged hemorrhoids. Every so often (once or twice a year), I end up bleeding. I don’t mean red-streak-on-the-bogroll bleeding. I mean toilet-bowl-looking-like-the-second-trumpet-from-revelations bleeding. I mean maybe-the-surgeon-implanted-a-uterus-in-my-digestive-tract bleeding.
So my doctor (quite understandably) wanted to have that checked out.
As far as the vodka goes, Dave Barry addresses that very issue. His conclusion: “you would have no choice but to burn your house.”
And this concludes this week’s TMI Theater.
I’m walking on air. Someone (several someones, actually) are going to pay me to do remedial garden work. Planting natives, restoring the meadow … and a little pruning the roses along the way. I’m so excited and it will be the first money I’ve earned in – well, I don’t even want to know how long it’s been since I last had a paying job.
I put gas in the car then bought fried cheese curds at A&W in celebration. The best cheese curds on the planet were thousands of miles away, at Zingermans Roadhouse- don’t think these were even a close second, but they sure hit the spot.
hotshoe:
Congratulations! What satisfying work that will be. :)
Mass walk-out at trans woman’s funeral
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.comment blockquote.creationist {min-height: 64px; margin-left: 5px !important; padding: 0px 10px 0px 50px !important; background:#fff url(http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/tiny_gumby_trans.gif) 0 0 no-repeat; font-family: Comic Sans MS, MarkerFelt, MarkerFelt-Wide; }
.bypostauthor {background: #DBD9D9; border-top: 1px solid #999; border-bottom: 1px solid #999;}
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So that the creationist blockquotes in PZ’s posts show up properly in Comic Sans and gumbified, and PZ’s comments are the ominous dark gray that they show up with on Sb. The poopyhead comments should stand out!
Hi!
Feel free to join us on a thread at B&W.
http://www.butterfliesandwheels.org/2011/more-dog-whistle/
Well, in addition to being all sniny and stuff, the New and Improved Pharyngula and the Horde have convinced me to move to Chrome (I hate change). So I’m all set up on Chrome and I got Stylebot as recommended by someone above and did the whole css thing and am feeling quite pleased with my self (and grateful to those who so patiently walked everyone through this).
RemembersABeach:
You should be chuffed! Glad it’s all working now.
…Yeahhh. I’m just going to go over there *points away from her computer* and shriek for a while. Okaybye.
Owlmirror:
What should I have open before clicking on “Help”?
Ah, I see what you’re asking, Owlmirror. It takes me to
C:\Users\[me]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\fonwco1o.default
Firefox.
Does the new Firefox not have a Help menu?
Katrina:
Firefox.
OK. And is there a “chrome” (or “Chrome”) folder in there?
Yes! And there is a userChrome-example.css and a userContent-example.css contained therein.
So I assume that the CSS info goes into the userContent there rather than any of the other places? I swear I put it there earlier today.
[Frowns thoughtfully at her computer.]
Awesome work again, Owlmirror!
I’m not sure why, but the background in PZ’s comments didn’t change. For those with the same problem, I added “!important” a few times and that worked:
.bypostauthor { background: #DBD9D9 !important; border-top: 1px solid #999 !important; border-bottom: 1px solid #999 !important; }—-
Katrina, radicales féministes athées:
I’m not sure I understand the question, but that refers to Firefox’s “Help” menu, which is probably under the orange “Firefox” button at the top left, or else is visible on the top of the browser. Does that help?
Katrina, you have to save the file as userContent.css – if you save it with the -example, it won’t work.
consciousness razor: Yeah, I figured that out after I hit “post”. [whistles innocently]
The problem I was having, apparently, was that I have an extra folder called “fonwco1o.default” in the address string. I’m just going to assume it’s because I’m using a beta version of Firefox.
Yes. Make the file userContent.css, or copy the userContent-example.css to a file of that name, and replace the contents with the lines @#23 (starting with @-moz-document domain(freethoughtblogs.com) {, and ending with }. And add the lines I just pasted above before the closing brace, for the additional css effects.
Thanks, Caine. I had done that, earlier. My problem was that I wasn’t saving it in the right folder, apparently.
OK. Restarting Firefox now to see if I did it right this time.
[Smithers] Exxxxxxxxcellent![/Smithers]
No, that’s the profile name. All versions of Firefox have that, but with some other random jumble of alphanumeric characters instead of “fonwco1o”.
OK, well thanks Owlmirror. You solved my “operator error” nonetheless.
Must be the distinct lack of wine around these parts.
I’m not 100% sure how this works in a multi-blog environment, but I’m pretty certain WordPress allows blog admins to edit their own CSS.
Hey! Poopyhead! Fix the bleedin’ CSS!
Sigh. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. I really would like the comment numbering and I’ve tried to implement Caines solution. I copied your code and put it in the user content example box in the chrome folder,saved it and restarted firefox and….no change at all.Sorry to bother but does anyone have anymore suggestions? Oh yeah,FF 5 on a windows XP.
bullofthewoods, perhaps change userContent.css rather than userContent-example.css?
Saved it as “
userContent.css“?The filename is important.
… back from 3 days of watching rocket launches on the Salt Flats of western Utah. Beautiful scenery, bright white salt under deep blue skies with sullen brown mountains hovering in the background above the mirage.
Many marvelous rockets, some with red flames, some with blue flames, some with green flames or yellow or white flames. Some trailed white smoke, some black smoke, and some brown smoke. Some threw sparks and some did not. Some flew well, some flew poorly, and one blew up on the pad. Some landed soft, some landed hard, and Darth Vader’s chute failed to deploy, so he landed on his head. (The Force was not with him.) There were some scale model rockets that flew, ranging from Mercury/Redstone and Gemini/Titan II to Zorbotron (Flash Gordon’s spacecraft).
No pictures, because I don’t have a camera, and I kept forgetting to borrow one of the very nice cameras brought by the kind friend who took me on the trip. Usually he takes pictures, but this time he busied himself with other random tasks, including the preparation of an awesome gumbo stew, which included sausage, chicken and shrimp, and onions, green onions, and okra, and peppers, tomatoes, and other random goodies. Open your usb port if you want a share.
… so not catching up with the thread.
OK I know this is going to sound dumb but there were only two options in the chrome folder Userchrome-example and Usercontent-example. I didn’t see any other options. Thanks!
You change the name from userContent-example.css to userContent.css.
bullofthewoods:
Delete the info in the userContent-example file, then paste in the stuff you want. Then, save as userContent.css Be sure to remove the -example. Restart Firefox and you should be all set up.
llewelly:
Small model rockets are damn near impossible to shoot without specialized hardware. Larger ones are much easier.
For perspective:
My DSLR (a Canon EOS 60D) shoots stills at 5.3FPS. I was standing about six feet away, with my lens at 55mm. I have three consecutive frames of the launch.
IMG_0504: Rocket sitting on pad, unignited.
IMG_0505: Rocket being lit. Flame is visible, but the rocket has yet to move.
IMG_0506: Empty pad, surrounded by smoke, with a few sparks visible from above the frame.
That’s right: In 0.19s, the rocket completely left the frame. From the look of the smoke, it was quite a ways above the frame.
And here’s the scary part: It was running on a single half-A engine. The rocket is designed for (IIRC) up to a C.
Well thanks for the help guys but I still got nothing.I changed the name and lost the -example and still no joy.Hell I can parallel park an eighteen wheeler and drive a nuclear submarine but apparently a computer is beyond my capabilities.I hope PZ will tweak the new site when he has more time. Thanks any way.
OK, the userContent.css file has all of the lines from Caine’s comment way up above?
If so, all you need to do is stop and restart Firefox.
I read through those 2 threads on my night shifts the last 3 days. I’m not commenting there if you pay me (or unless I’ve had a few more beers), but you’re doing good there, so is Jadehawk. Good on you SC.
Cath – they’re probably keeping the racism in reserve. Just right wing gun nuts who begrudge people shelter as “their” taxes are paying for it.
& JB who is one of the administrators is happy for victim shaming & baseless opinions to spew forth.