Brent Nyitray
Fairlington Blade
Let the mutherfuker burn!
jnc4p
Kevin S. Willis
Michigoose
lmsinca
markinaustin
Arcanaut
novahockey
quarterback
ScottC
yellojktNOTE for scheduling posts it appears that the default is Greenwich Mean Time, so you’ll have to do a little math to figure out when you want it to post; at least, we’ll know if I’m right if this pops up at 1800 EST/1700 CST/1600 MST/1500 PST this afternoon!
Update as of 1/13/2012 2219 MST: the blog is now set to MST (as the “old” ATiM was) so as long as we don’t muck around with the time zone–as I was doing today–everything should be fine.
For Scott, Mr McWingnut, and any other AGW deniers out there. . . you know who you are! 🙂
Never forget the science. . . science is our friend!
It’s all the Muppets’ faults. Maybe we should stop linking their videos–it might have a bad influence on us and whether or not we believe in Universal Healthcare and the ACA. . . oh, wait, too late!
At least one of my cats has never figured out that this is how my beagle gets away with things:
Never thought about it that way!
All of the above were in Wednesday’s paper here in SLC–I haven’t laughed out loud at so many comics in one day in ages. And, finally, in honor of Tuesday’s story in The Advocate:
Pat Bagley, our local editorial cartoonist. Yee-haw!
Well, that seemed to be pretty painless–and, too cool! The buttons along the top (like bold and italic) automatically show you the html code if you’re editing in that window, so you don’t have to remember the code. Now we’ll see if it’s scheduled correctly. . .
Forgot to change the scheduled time to MST, so we’ll see what happens in four minutes.
Let the countdown begin!
Update again as of 1/13/2012 2225: you can edit the size of the images (in this case, the comics) by clicking on them and then selecting the little icon that looks like a jpg icon in the upper left hand corner of the image (“Edit image”). I just reduced the size of each of them.
There’s a bit of a learning curve that we’re having to go through again, but I’m thinking that this site is going to be even better than Blogger was at its best. . . thanks, Kevin, lms and Scott!
Michigoose
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All Things in Moderation 
Michi, my favorite is the take on the Advocate piece…….so funny.
Let me know if you or anyone else figures out the posting thing and why your post isn’t at the top even though it was the most recent. I’ll be working on my scampi post and it’s scheduled for the morning………….yikes.
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michi
I figured out why the posts from today were screwed up in their order. The time stamp on both the bain and kevin’s post were after yours. I went in and changed them and now yours is on top. We should be okay with that now….it was during the day while you guys were working on the time and I don’t think they got changed even though they were posted at a different time.
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Ahhhh–that makes sense!
Do you want me to add my steamed crab legs recipe to your scampi post? I have NO DOUBT that it’s far less impressive, but I just found out how to steam them easily and I’ve been living on crab once a week for the last three weeks so I’m dying to pass it on!
Maybe Paul will drop by with killer lobster recipe and we can have a seafood fest! I’ve also got a great recipe for California Fish Stew. . . 🙂
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Michi, the crab sounds great. I haven’t actually had time to write the post yet but am getting to it. I wanted to figure out the time thing first because it was bothering me. Go ahead and put your crab in whenever you want and I’ll work around it, either above or below yours. I generally eat fish once every week or two but almost never do I eat shrimp, crab or lobster, they’re a treat around here. I know I’m weird but we just eat very simple meals normally. I wanted to post the scampi on New Year’s Eve because that’s when I generally make it, but my oldest daughter was so sick we waited until New Year’s Day, and I was too busy to put the recipe up anyway.
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all that shellfish reminds me of the time I gave a gal food poisoning for valentines day.
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lms/kevin:
I posted a comment on the “sorry I screwed up” thread that you might want to see, if you haven’t already. I’ll be back in a few hours.
Time for a game of bridge.
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Just noticed your “gravatar” Potter……..nice
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Love that avatar, Scott. Awesomeness.
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Okay scott, keep me posted on what you find out re the “Cadillac version”. I’ll be around this weekend for the most part but don’t know how much help I can be. Do me a favor and email me your address so I can send you a check. One thing I don’t like are all the labels at the right, they should just be part of the “search this blog’ engine and maybe we could use that space for more current events or other blogs or links like we did at blogger.
And I’m jealous you’re playing bridge.
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Off to the first gymnastics meet of the season (Go Utes–should be a slaughter of poor USU); catch up with you all in a couple of hours!
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There seems to be a bug to get out with the image widths. On my browser (Firefox 8.x) the images are wider than the text window and the right side is getting cut off.
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Same thing for me yello, same version of Firefox.
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yello
Just noticed you’re not on the list of editors. Do you want me to send you an invitation (another one?) so you’ll have access to more stuff and be able to create your own posts?
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That’s not necessary, you can change his role under users, and editors can already create posts.
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Kevin, he’s not listed in the users.
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Okay so I think I need some help. I’m working on my post for tomorrow (scampi) and every time I go to preview it, it cuts off the last paragraph. I’ve redone the paragraph several times and it just disappears. Ideas?
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I think I figured it out. You have to update before preview…….I think
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FYI everyone, when creating a post it saves automatically but for some reason you have to hit the update button on the right side of the page before previewing or leaving. Otherwise, you might lose some of your work. Think of the update button as a save button and you should be fine. I think I’m right on this as some of my edits and additions weren’t saved to the post otherwise.
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Scott – email me a ground address and I will send you $10 as my contrib, if you do not cancel the deal.
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KW – we have lost the links to the favorite blogs of everyone. Can they be retrieved? Is there a method of recreating them here?
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We will get those back before long.
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Hi mark, glad you made it. I’m sure we’ll figure the links and stuff out over the weekend. We haven’t had much time to play with it yet and Scott just bought the upgrade…..thanks for the donation BTW.
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Here’s link for Michigoose, looking at scientific integrity.. I’m sure all the British Climate Scientists are different.
How come when it’s unseasonably warm it because of global warming but when it’s unseasonably cool we’re not supposed to confuse weather with climate?
Nice Bits and Pieces thread, by the way. Great job!
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That’s why its called climate change now, not global warming. Unusual weather patterns (like not going below zero in the twin cities for a winter, which hasn’t happened in recorded weather history), both warm and cold may be the result of climate change. The science does predict more extremes & more severe weather events, not just “its going to get warmer’.
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Nice Bits and Pieces thread, by the way.
Thank you, Mr Troll/George!
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One in six seems awfully high to me. . . and I’m not quite sure how you’re conflating a survey by the British Medical Journal with climate science. . . but point taken.
I wonder how many pharmaceutical companies exaggerate their drugs’ benefits when marketing them?????
🙂
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bsimon:
That’s why its called climate change now, not global warming.
Yeah…to make it unfalsifiable. Has there ever been a time in the history of the earth when the earth’s climate has not been changing?
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What’s the difference between tags and categories when you’re creating a post? The categories drop down has all of our labels from blogger.
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I was confused, too; first I tagged my post, then I saw the categories pop up with all of the “labels” from Blogger. I think we should just ignore the tags.
Also, when I refreshed the page when I came home it threw the page width off for me, also, and now I’m seeing what yello is–the comics are way too big and don’t fit inside the posting area any more.
And it was a slaughter tonight–when you’re tossing out 9.8s because they’re your low score on the rotation and the other team is counting 9.6s as their high scores it gets ugly fast. The Utes threw two 9.95s tonight (one on vault and one on bars), and a 9.975 on the floor (which means that one of the judges gave it a 10.0). Looking like a very good gymnastics year for us!!!
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Don’t know how the page width got off, but I figured out how to fix it (noted in the update on the post).
As we start getting things figured out I’ll put together another FAQ for this site with how to make things work. How many of us have Monday off, or am I the only gubmint worker (although I’ll bet Kevin has it off as a slacker employee of a Public Indoctrination System)?
And speaking of gubmint employees, that reminds me–I got an e-mail from taroya and she started her new job on Wednesday. Yea for gainful employment!!
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I’m signing out………………it’s been a long day. Manana y’all.
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Hasta la vista, baby!
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G’night!
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Two wishes on my blog wish list:
1. Next (or newer) and Previous (or older) post links at either the top or bottom of the post.
2. Date/time stamps on the comments
And one request: can I help kick in on the fee for the upgrade too, Scott? How was the bridge game tonight?
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Scott,
I’ll be glad to chip in for the upgrade as well.
After all, the crisis and challenge of our times is to make sure everyone pays his fair share.
Seeing how customization works will probably help me get my law blog in shape anyway. I registered it over here last night, given Blogger’s now freeze-prone state, but am sadly disappointed in the theme options and lack of customization. That’s one thing Blogger has going for it, and I spent a lot of time over there developing a look that I really liked. No dice here at WP, so I might be doing the upgrade for that as well. ATiM might give me preview of what can be done. (Always looking for a way to exploit and make a profit from the work of others.)
I think I can find or have your business address if that’s the right place to send my “fair share.” If not, let me know.
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I’m in on the upgrade also, scott. If nothing else, to show that even those of us at the lower end of the economic scale really do want to pay their fair share. Of course, I think it should be on a sliding scale. :>)
Anyway, please let us know how to accomplish this.
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I was having a really hard time reading the font/point size, so I changed it. I think this is better, but if it doesn’t work, let me know and I will change it back.
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Much better.
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I also collapsed the “Category” widget on the sidebar. I think it was taking up too much space displaying them all.
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Wow. Go away for a bit and look what happens! Just found this and have not yet reviewed any posts so I’ll try to go through and figure it out, but so far I don’t see that I have permissions to post? Posts no longer show who posted them? How do I change my avatar? Howdy Doody, am I confused or what!
Hope all had a wonderful holiday season!
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Okie, I’ll send you an invite right now so you can post. And you shouldn’t have any problem changing your avatar, I just forget how I did it.
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I notice that in lmsinca’s name is in blue in her comments, which I think is good. I would like to see everyone’s name in blue.
Also would favor increasing the size of that Comment by line.
And, howdy, Okie! I’m still confused, too. But I’m a Conservative, so I can’t tolerate change.
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I noticed the blue name thing too. I think it has something to do with the way you set up your individual profile, but I haven’t sorted it out yet. I agree on the size of the comment by-line, but haven’t figured out yet how to change it. I also want a timestamp for the comments, but can’t see where to change that.
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This is fine for me scott but I think kevin said he likes arial. I was having trouble last night and increased the size by one point myself. Do you want my list of wishes now or later…..lol.
And there are now five of us who want to contribute to the upgrade….20 bucks each? Send me your work address and I’ll pass it on if that’s okay and we’ll take care of it this week.
I’ll be around this weekend, I can’t put off my paperwork any longer, so let me know if there’s anything you need an opinion on when making changes. Kevin’s usually pretty busy on the weekends. And unbeknownst to all of you I did set up our business website on my own so I’m not a complete novice at this stuff….. 😉
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lms…can you send Okie an invite?
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Done
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Mich:
Bridge was fun, as always. It’s a bit of a labor, as we play with the neighbors and one of them struggles mightily with the game. She’s constantly asking “What’s trump again?”, virtually every time it’s her turn to play, and never really knows what to play.
Had a couple of interesting hands, but got crushed on a two no-trump bid. I kind of got left in it by my partner, and it was a bad fit. One of the defenders was long diamonds (8) and I only had one stop. Once I used it and then lost the lead again, I was toast. He just ran through the diamonds and all I could do was watch. Went 3-down. But we cam back and won on a 3 no-trump bid on the next hand, so all was right in the end.
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scott, love it that you are a bridge player. I used to play regularly but have not for some time now. You must have a great deal more patience than I do if you regularly play with someone who has to ask “What’s trump again?” all the time. Is there alcohol involved? Empathize with going down on the 2No with bad distribution, but sometimes if you can pull one of those off it’s even better than making a slam IMHO.
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I have to step out. Back in a few hours. And I will send you my address.
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Regarding my name in blue, past tense I see, I was snooping around last night and noticed that under users’ “names” mine said something about “gravatar”lmsinca, but it’s gone now and I didn’t notice anyone elses with that distinction. I have no idea how I did it because the only info I gave wordpress was my “name” (lmsinca), my email and a password.
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Let’s keep this thread open for admin and site questions today since there are already quite a few of them here. We’ll use the next thread (scampi) for other comments on food or politics….okay?
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I saw that gravatar thing by your name, too. I know when I uploaded Mr. Burns it took me to whatever that Gravatar page is (made me a little nervous). I assumed everyone’s avatar is loaded through this Gravatar thingy, whatever it is, and just shrugged when I saw it noted by your name in particular.
Posts have no author names, which they should have.
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qb, go to comments in the dashboard and then page 2, my comments there still have it (gravatar.com) although it’s gone on recent comments. I’m sure that has something to do with it and perhaps scott changed it this morning somehow, or someone. I did like the blue though, it made me so special.
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Very mysterious.
I was doing a little googling for info and saw something that said some themes don’t include the option showing the author of a post.
Wondering if that’s the case and if this is one such theme. I couldn’t find any setting for it.
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If it’s the theme that can easily be changed. When scott gets back we’ll look into it. I’m not one to make too many changes myself but you can if you want to try. We see the author of the post, it’s just not in blue. It’s funny, in the comments page you see more than if you’re reading comments under the post itself.
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You mean on the dashboard? Yeah, I see authors there.
I won’t try to mess with the theme other than perhaps previewing some for myself, but I do think we need one that will show post others on the home/blog page and individual post pages.
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Well we have the weekend to resolve some of these issues and forever really. 🙂
I’ll let others figure out the the details, although I will express an opinion, and I’ll just concentrate on getting everyone in. That’s challenging enough for me. Okie made it but it wasn’t easy. We’ve got over half of our regulars over here now so that’s something. I think the site format will work just fine once we work out the kinks and the alternative at blogger just wasn’t feasible. We’ll get back to arguing soon enough.
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I can confirm from previewing other themes, authors are shown with posts on many of them. I’m good with whatever folks want, but just in case anyone is browsing themes, some that caught my eye were, in no particular order:
Sapphire
Comet
Kubrick
Vigilance
Coraline
Clean Home
Blogum
Neutra
Twenty Eleven
K2-Lite
Most of these are simple. There were a couple of other plainish bluish ones whose names I don’t recall.
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Thanks qb
When scott gets back we’ll have him try them maybe. I think the only one who has access to the ATiM logo though is Kevin and so we may want to hold off until he can change it. It’s confusing enough for people still moving over from blogger that if they don’t see the logo they may just give up. Apparently different themes have different options………….yikes
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Oh and I went back and added mine and michi’s name to the shrimp post.
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Signing off now to do other stuff and maybe catch a movie.
MsJS,
Glad you made it.
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Okie et al
I’m keeping track of the contributors to the upgrade and will keep all of you posted via email of the status on that. We have 48 hours to test the upgrade out and make sure we want it so I imagine we’ll decide by Monday. Will divvy up the cost accordingly and send you a “bill”, lol.
MsJs
Hope you’re doing okay now……let us know if you’re able to navigate around and create posts etc.
Okie
If you read some of the comments from Wed thru Friday you’ll understand why we moved.
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I see someone’s working on the site……………yay
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Kind of strange…when checked out the site on my blackberry, there were time stamps for comments. But not when I am on the computer. Not sure why that would be.
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okie:
You must have a great deal more patience than I do if you regularly play with someone who has to ask “What’s trump again?” all the time.
You have no idea. Seriously. My wife is constantly giving me a sly grin, knowing that I am at the edge of exploding each time this person asks.
Is there alcohol involved?
Naturally.
Empathize with going down on the 2No with bad distribution, but sometimes if you can pull one of those off it’s even better than making a slam IMHO.
Agree. When I finally saw the dummy hand, I thought to myself that it will be pretty heroic if I make the bid. Alas, I was not heroic.
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That is weird. When you read the comments from the all comments page there are time stamps on them.
Scott, move to the admin post for this kind of stuff so all our comments re the site will be in one place going forward for awhile.
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