Re: We're Back, Baby

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Diop!


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 1:46 PM
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Woohoo!


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 1:51 PM
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Both Bob Ross, and, in all likelihood, the squirrel, are now dead.


Posted by: Standpipe Bridgeplate | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 1:51 PM
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It's up, then it's down, then it's up, then it's down...seriously, I can't take this emotional rollercoaster.


Posted by: dagger aleph | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 1:52 PM
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Feels like home.


Posted by: mrh | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 1:52 PM
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"upgrade" = "negotiate with hostage-taking server admins" ?

Where's the paypal button?

Gripe, bitch, kvetch. No, really, just shoot it directly in the vein. Ah. That's nice.


Posted by: Jackmormon | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 1:57 PM
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Well, it should be up for good now, knock wood. The rollercoaster should be over.

Rollercoaster, want to go back
to the way things were
I'm on the rollercoaster, want
to get back on the Tilt-A-Whirl

I'll be your monkey, a puppy, your circus freak
Fell the first day, it took a whole week
Rollercoaster, can't we go back
to the way things were?


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 2:00 PM
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Woohoo!

Chopper seems to be holding up remarkably well so far despite his great sacrifice for Unfogged.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 2:04 PM
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As before, please say something in comments or email if you get ISEs, 500s, etc.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 2:12 PM
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Oh frabjous day! Calloo! Callay!


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 2:14 PM
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What about other weird things that happen, like say with raccoons?


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 2:15 PM
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Keep your sex life out of it, M/lls.


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 2:25 PM
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like say with raccoons

Take pictures, then send them to apostropher to post. Duh.

Also, when you do get some way of seeking support, please don't keep it too low-profile. Some of us are eager to throw a few bucks y'all's way, and don't want to miss it when that chance arrives.


Posted by: Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 2:28 PM
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Yowza! That was quick -- I was expecting it to take til Monday or something. Tell us the story please: I assume we're now on a dedicated server with Pair.com with a 6-month contract and are trying to tweak the code to reduce the burden on the server? How did you migrate so quickly to a new server -- I guess it's easier migrating within one ISP than between ISP's? I join the above chorus of "where is the contribution form that will let me help defray the massive overhead of a dedicated server?"


Posted by: The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 2:31 PM
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Also, when you do get some way of seeking support, please don't keep it too low-profile. Some of us are eager to throw a few bucks y'all's way, and don't want to miss it when that chance arrives.

Robust, are you saying that you'll pay me for my photos of hott raccoon sex?

Woohoo! At long last, my passion can become my livelihood too! Follow your bliss, baby!


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 2:33 PM
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I honestly can't think of a damned thing to say in reply.


Posted by: Robust McManlyPants | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 2:50 PM
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I honestly can't think of a damned thing to say in reply.

What's wrong with the simple, classic, "You can wash your food in my water dish anytime, baby?" (Oh, I suppose that works better on picking up actual raccoons than raccoon fetishists, but it's good enough.)


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 2:57 PM
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Perhaps, while sexing the raccoons, he also imitates them. Like a furry, except with a real animal.


Posted by: Matt F | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 3:01 PM
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"Rabies? But we only did it once!"


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 3:02 PM
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Hey, baby, here's a maneuver I call "Putting on the Coonskin Cap!"


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 3:03 PM
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I promise to give a cut of my proceeds to the Unfogged Support Fund.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 3:03 PM
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Q: What's the best part about getting jerked off by a racoon?

A: Your dick looks so BIG!


Posted by: Chopper | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 3:04 PM
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Where is apo, anyway?


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 3:04 PM
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Vacation on the Outer Banks -- it's on his blog.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 3:05 PM
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Cool, that's where I'm going this weekend.


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 3:07 PM
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Somewhere, Apo is thinking "best-timed hiatus ever".


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 3:08 PM
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Somewhere, Apo is thinking "best-timed hiatus ever".

The timing is a little suspicious. Perhaps I've been wrong in blaming all this on w-lfs-n . . .


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 3:10 PM
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It is never wrong to blame it on w-lfs-n.


Posted by: SomeCallMeTim | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 3:17 PM
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We can't blame both?


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 3:23 PM
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Has anyone ever seen them in the same room?

With or without a raccoon?


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 3:25 PM
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"raccoon" s/b "Ogged"


Posted by: Armsmasher | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 3:29 PM
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Yeah, down here at the coast doing my level best to eliminate the surplus of wine in this country. This is the first time I've checked in since we left.

Have we looked at whether Delay-by-Moderate (or whatever it's called) is the cause of the problems? I don't have anything I can point to specifically, but I gots some suspicions that it cooperates badly when placed in a room with MT and SpamLookup.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 4:30 PM
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Yeah, down here at the coast doing my level best to eliminate the surplus of wine in this country.

Show us your tits!


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 5:05 PM
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LONG LIVE UNFOGGED!


Posted by: David Weman | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 6:07 PM
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Hey, Apo is back.

LONG LIVE APOSTROPHER!


Posted by: David Weman | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 6:09 PM
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Perhaps, while sexing the raccoons, he also imitates them.

Does he wear a cute little mask, too, I wonder?

Viva Becks! Viva w-lfs-n! Viva Las Vegas!


Posted by: Paul | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 6:21 PM
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Wow, damn, that was quick.

So who put this shit on their credit card?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 6:45 PM
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Becks is the hero!


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 7:09 PM
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Are you going to be fundraising on this?


Posted by: benton | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 7:15 PM
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Is 37 an answer to 38? Because if so, Becks, WHERE'S YOUR PAYPAL BUTTON?


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 7:20 PM
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39, 40: Yes.

40: When it happens. Patience, grasshopper.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 7:22 PM
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Well, I don't want to hassle you or anything. I just don't want Becks to have to carry the balance!

And wow, Becks. You're a generous woman.


Posted by: bitchphd | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 7:24 PM
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I need to get the PayPal thing set up. I figured I'd put it up on Tuesday, after the holiday. We'll probably have good traffic that day because people will be back at work, bored, and looking to waste time on Unfogged. If I put it up now, it will likely get overlooked as people leave for vacation.

It's the Andy Card approach. As he would say: From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce a PayPal button right before Memorial Day.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 05-24-06 8:15 PM
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It looks like you had the same problem that got us kicked off a server at CT, so maybe you should ask Kieran what he did to sort it out.


Posted by: dsquared | Link to this comment | 05-25-06 1:30 AM
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Was there a server outage late last night? While I was watching The Daily Show I noticed something I wanted to throw in comments here but I could not access the site. Went to bed without really looking into it very thoroughly.


Posted by: The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-25-06 6:55 AM
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32: Woke up this morning with bits of lyric running through my head. I haven't really been able to get them to congeal into a song, but:


He was drinkin in the Outer Banks
When the Unfogged server crashed
Burdened by the presence of w-lfs-n
Or the absence of Ash


He started going to the Mineshaft
Cause he needed somewhere to bury, it
Looking to make a connection
With the Unfoggedtariat
Some of them are lawyers,
Some are skanks and ho's
One is a guy named M/tch,
One is his old friend Froz

The last line of the verse should be "Tangled up in mullet" -- maybe the rhyme would be "pouring wine down his gullet"...


Posted by: The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-25-06 7:14 AM
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Oh Yeah, I see from Tempting Defiance comments that Something Happened in a transitory way last night. Maybe Kieran will be able to help.


Posted by: The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-25-06 7:29 AM
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Thank God.

AND BECKS!


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 05-25-06 8:04 AM
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About 5:15 a.m. this morning in DMT we use here I couldn't get on either. It was accessible maybe 5 minutes later.


Posted by: I don't pay | Link to this comment | 05-25-06 8:09 AM
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Yeah, something spiked last night around 11 to (I'm guessing) 100% CPU. I couldn't even log into the server to check the load. It came back up about 5 minutes later when the processes finally died.

Fortunately, two amazing commenters (not naming b/c I'm not sure if it's an indiscretion error) have agreed to take a look at our scripts. And, since we're on a dedicated server, we can try all kinds of crazy crap out to fix it without worrying about getting in trouble or shut down.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 05-25-06 8:21 AM
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Where is Tia's post on American Idol? I just heard on NPR--"On Point," from WBUR with Tom Ashbrook--that Tia's man Taylor Hicks won.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 05-25-06 8:22 AM
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Please ignore this comment...


Posted by: mrh | Link to this comment | 05-25-06 8:59 AM
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A question about the new setup: when do comments threads get archived? Is it when they go off the front page?


Posted by: The Modesto Kid | Link to this comment | 05-25-06 9:18 AM
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53 - We haven't determined that yet. Probably every 2-4 weeks.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 05-25-06 9:33 AM
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This is a test...


Posted by: mrh | Link to this comment | 05-25-06 12:35 PM
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Testing...


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 05-25-06 10:29 PM
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Is this where we are suppposed to report evil things that happen with our comments? Sorry if this is the wrong location, but anyway I'm seeing the notice "Subroutine _hdlr_pings redefined at lib/MT/Template/ContextHandlers.pm line 2731." at the bottom of all the comment screens. It doesn't seem to be hurting anything, but I thought I'd let someone know. It's all greek to me.


Posted by: Urple | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 8:51 PM
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That's a known issue that is being investigated, Urple. Thanks for the heads up, though, in case it wasn't.


Posted by: Becks | Link to this comment | 05-26-06 9:08 PM
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