Wednesday, July 24, 2013

The Infinite Triangles Open Thread



Comment Home is the commenters' stage. Perform.

56 comments:

Paddy O said...

Oh crap, stage fright... excuse me...

edutcher said...
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edutcher said...

Flop sweat.

Or is that performance anxiety?

BTW, now that there are 9 of you, are you gonna form a baseball team and play the lawprof blogs or something?

Freeman Hunt said...

There are nine so that no one has to do much.

As long as there is a steady supply of threads where people can comment, which is the point of this place, it serves its purpose.

sakredkow said...

I just got my open thread stuff unpacked over at the George thread. Now I gotta bring all my stuff over here. Supply lines... : /

Freeman Hunt said...

The point isn't the posts. The point is the stuff underneath.

sakredkow said...

I repeat I would like to see edutcher being given an opportunity to make us a post, if he wanted. Just as a one-time thing for example. I hate his guts of course, but he was as loyal as could be to the old site and I think he deserves a moment in the sun, if he wanted it.

Paddy O said...

"The point isn't the posts. The point is the stuff underneath."

That's going on the advertising literature.

Exactly it. The posts are prompts. The comments are the feature.

The Crack Emcee said...

Freeman Hunt,

There are nine so that no one has to do much.

As long as there is a steady supply of threads where people can comment, which is the point of this place, it serves its purpose.


Please consider extending the number of posts on the front page. I count seven there now, which leaves half of the scroll bar used for empty space and previous topics disappear faster, robbing you of potential clicks.

In Blogger, you can change the number of posts on the front page by going to "settings" and then "Posts and comments". It'll be your first option to control on the page. Try at least 10, but 15 might work.

Cheers,...

sakredkow said...

Crack Emcee. Spin us a tune tonight, Crack.

sakredkow said...

Crack is right. Some threads aren't dead yet and they're being pushed to the second page. That kills them. Good suggestion. Hope the Leiderhosen don't mind suggestions.

deborah said...

Freeman, would you believe I only got into the White Stripes about a year and a half ago? One of my favorites and free therapy :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOS00ttAblQ

I Have Misplaced My Pants said...

Great suggestion, Crack.

Paddy O said...

I agree about the post count, but Lem has already heard from me about it.

deborah said...

phx, I'm sure any one of us would put up something by Ed.

Freeman Hunt said...

"Day in the sun?" The sun shines on the comments at Comment Home.

sakredkow said...

"Day in the sun?" The sun shines on the comments at Comment Home.

I don't know Freeman. You're sounding a little like a communist to me.

pm317 said...

ha, that video reminds me of this:

English Beat, Mirror in the bathroom. But of course the saxophone here is to die for -- listen in the end.

edutcher said...
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phx said...

I repeat I would like to see edutcher being given an opportunity to make us a post, if he wanted. Just as a one-time thing for example. I hate his guts of course, but he was as loyal as could be to the old site and I think he deserves a moment in the sun, if he wanted it

When did he say it the first time?

Is this about my raising a word of caution about long posts? I just meant that TOP started getting a bit testy because we didn't absorb every nuance in every line.

Freeman Hunt said...

The point isn't the posts. The point is the stuff underneath.

Isn't that what Filner told all those women?

sakredkow said...

Ha. I've heard and seen exactly one White Stripes video/song before - and that's the one!

The Crack Emcee said...

phx,

Crack Emcee. Spin us a tune tonight, Crack.

That's up to Freeman, I guess. The White Stripes are the thread's band of the moment, but I don't know if there's a home for my take on 'em here.

Maybe she'll open a thread where we can set up some turntables, kick off our shoes, put on some headphones, and give Althouse a taste of her own medicine.

Freeman?

deborah said...

Sorry, Ed, didn't mean to cause problems.

The Crack Emcee said...

phx,

Check this out - lots of good stuff in the links, too!

chickelit said...

Deborah left this White Stripes link at my blog a few months ago--a live cover of Son House's Death Letter

edutcher said...

deborah said...

Sorry, Ed, didn't mean to cause problems.

No, that's OK.

I've got a couple of thoughts (can't guarantee they're world beaters) if you're really interested.

Chip Ahoy said...

We talked about that. Lem is going to do a poll a pole a Pole a thing with similar questions where you pick one.

You see, we eight do not have access to the thing that changes it. Lem does. You must tell him what number to make it.

Some have computers with high speed access that can handle videos, photos and such wonderful things as amusing animaged gifs

These things are pains in the ass for telephone users. So they may vote for less. We do not know. So a poll, that's it, poll, I'm sure of it now.

deborah said...

Chick, this is from the same concert:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4rYaLBUpLA

deborah said...

Absolutely, Ed. My email's in my profile :)

The Crack Emcee said...

phx,

Here's a mix I made during the Romney's Mystical Magical Tour, that actually opens with an authentic recording of my wife's "psychic" opining on - I shit you not - the meaning behind the number 8.

One of my former groups is in there somewhere, too. ("Time to live, time to die,...") High energy triply-dippy floor moving:

Best heard in headphones because that's how I mixed it,...



Chip Ahoy said...

Co-bloggers cannot produce a poll. And it is a bit tricky.

Once you learn your way around the dashboard everything gets easier. Basically you're messing with the html and a lot of people do not feel comfortable with that.

But Blogger does make it as easy as possible. There is no actual coding involved. Just knowing where to go and get things, choose from lists, turn them on, use them, turn them off to get rid of them without destroying what they produced.

Let's see. I can look on my own blog. So there.

Hang on.

Dashboard. bottom of list "layout" --> add a gadget --> a list of mighty fun things opens -->delightful things --> wonderful things ---> it's full of stars --->aha! poll. ---> I do not know what happens after that, what am I, crazy? That's as far as I dared tread.





ampersand said...
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Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

I ain't yer stinkin' meatpuppet!

deborah said...

IE is up to 10? My computer won't even handle 8. Hope you can find the answer.

deborah said...

Anyway, I think we should call Lem 'L.A.' like he's a big city editor.

edutcher said...

deborah said...

IE is up to 10? My computer won't even handle 8. Hope you can find the answer.

Do you have all the updates and service packs for your OS (XP?)?

You may also need something of a tune-up for your machine, particularly more RAM.

I had to do this for The Blonde, because she wanted to use an old (10 years) laptop.

Beta Rube said...

I was not familiar with White Stripes until Silver Linings Playbook. Interesting song.

deborah said...

Sigh. I'll look into it. You know for a long time I couldn't get drop boxes to drop, like if you wanted to choose a color of a blouse you were ordering. Thought my computer was messed up, but it was IE7 being too old, because I can use drop boxes in Chrome. So I'll look into your suggestions...thanks.

deborah said...

Beta, what song did they use in Silver Linings?

Fen said...

Still a few drinks behind you guys - what does TOP stand for?

Icepick said...

Still a few drinks behind you guys - what does TOP stand for?

The Other Place, Which Cannot Be Named Lest the Google Bots Hear the Dog Whistles and Unleash the Lawnboys of HELL Upon Us.

Fen said...

Seriously? We're buckling under a blogger version of terrorism? Can't say Althouse because Meade threatens to fling his poo all over the place?

rhhardin said...

Dilbert is good.

Wally fails the online ethics course.

If you've ever had to take online courses.

You don't have to watch them, just take the test. Ask what answer they probably expect.

This is fortunate because they're unwatchable.

Beta Rube said...

Deborah, "Fell In Love With a Girl" was part of their competition dance routine.

sakredkow said...


Here's a mix I made during the Romney's Mystical Magical Tour, that actually opens with an authentic recording of my wife's "psychic" opining on - I shit you not - the meaning behind the number 8.


Thanks Crack. I'm on it this pm.

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Icepick said...

Fen wrote: Sometimes the appearance of neutrality/ objectivity is due to an avoidance of confrontation/ conflict. That's not always a bad thing, but it's not always a good thing, either.

Not really. It's just something others picked up elsewhere and it continues here. It's also shorter than typing Althouse, which is its real feature.

My elaboration was just for laughs. Sorry if you thought we were caving into al Qaeda demands. I don't think we'd have an easy time getting all the women-folk around here into burqas. A few of the men folk would probably be improved by burqas, but enough about my big gut and ugly mug.

Icepick said...

"It was hard to know what answer they were looking for."

Bwahahaha!

Fen said...

"Fen wrote: Sometimes the appearance of neutrality..."

I didn't write that.

Cody Jarrett said...

oddly enough, icepick, I never read that particular strip. For some reason--I glanced at it (on-line) today and found it highlarous.

deborah said...

Thx Beta. Did you like the movie?

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Beta Rube said...

Yes, Deborah, I loved the movie.

I grew up in a home where betting on Lombardi's Packers was a Sacred duty. I was also taught at a young age the beauty of parlays, over/under bets, etc. I loved the DeNiro charterer. I also like the theme of people trying to find some semblance of sanity and a restoration to life after a meltdown. I have witnessed it firsthand primarily in a drug/alcohol environment rather than bi-polar, but I thought the movie handled it very well.

Lastly of course, I fell in love with the romance of the main couple. Somehow Jennifer Lawrence managed to be smart mouthed, sarcastic, dirty talking and absolutely charming and very vulnerable pretty much all at the same time. I confess that I saw this movie with my girlfriend about 3 months into our own budding relationship. We were in the heady process of falling in love, so I tend to romanticize and exaggerate the wonder of every meal, walk in the park, movie viewed and trip taken during that time. Oh well, Love is still grand.

ken in tx said...

Since this is an open thread, I want to point out that Mel Tillis was in the Air Force as well as George Carlin, except Mel talks about it a lot. Or I should say stutters about it. His first country hit in 1959, was 'Stateside'. It was about being stationed in Okinawa and wanting to go home. His band is still called the 'Statesiders'. They wear business suits, white shirts, and ties on stage. Only one of them wears a cowboy hat. He's from Montana. I just recently saw and heard them at the North Georgia Mountain State Fair, great show.

deborah said...

Thanks, Beta, sounds like a great movie. I listened to the book on tape, not usually my type of book, but it was cute.