If they had a blog, they would just send you email telling you to read their new blog post. Or maybe they'd show up on your blog whining that no one reads their blog. Or maybe they'd deliver a package to your office, and start a conversation which assumes you've been keeping up on their blog posts.
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Or just come here and comment off topic.
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Did you hear about what 瀞唲 did?
In her anger, she squashed the beverage cup in her hand.
5: "human flesh search engines"
Awesome. I am changing my job title and printing new business cards.
Sir Kraab
Human Flesh Search Engine
Kicking ass for the working class
Well, it is interesting. Is a blogpost + comment section like a coffeehouse or dinnerparty conversation, where there would be little expectation of controlling the topic? Unless it was "polite conversation" about sports or weather. Or is it an oped or small academic paper? Or a conference panel? Is a blog public or private space?
Interaction among blogs & posters (trackbacks) seems usually polite and focused (and mostly boring), it's those damn comment sections that irritate.
I stopped watching those CSpan conference panels long ago, because it was really irritating to see Josh Mashall trying to be civilized with Richard Perle. Stopped watching TV talk shows for the opposite reason. On the streets I talk of the weather and dogs.
Did you guys hear Murdoch is buying my blog?
When I signed up to be a human flesh search engine, I thought it would be great. Then I found out my wife had robots.txt files in all her undergarments.
I do not want to get a job, because work is tiring and there is no freedom.
10 contains the least controversial statement I've read in years.
Since this seems to be yet another open thread, I'll toss out some links.
In the spirit of Good Stras, Brad Plumer points to a promising development in wave power technology, which might one day supply a decent chunk of clean energy if we handle it right. Neat!
In the spirit of Plain Ol' Regular Stras, NOAA just released a report saying that half the coral reef systems around the U.S. are rated in the bottom two categories ("fair" or "poor") and that reef systems as a whole are in serious decline, which, and I'm getting technical now, could really fuck up stuff in the ocean.
I suspect that running a clothing store counts as work.
I suspect that running a clothing store counts as work.
There's an expensive clothing store in Harvard Square that is almost always empty, but it's been there for a long time. Friends of mine have speculated that it's a front for a drug operation OR that some rich woman's husband is subsidizing it as a way of keeping her busy.
There's an expensive clothing store in Harvard Square that is almost always empty, but it's been there for a long time.
I know that store- For a while I used to go by and think "pretty colors! Nice simple cut!" Then one day I went in and looked at the price tags...They probably only have to sell about a garment a month to pay the rent.
They probably only have to sell about a garment a month to pay the rent.
There's a new kids' clothing store in the nearby schmancy shopping district that's like this. Like, $90 onesies.
Over in our Little Italy (Bloomfield), the long-standing White Dresses for Catholics store is closing after who knows how long. I wonder how many generations in that neighborhood have had baptism, first communion, confirmation, and wedding dresses all from that store?
This has been your Pittsburgh Retail Report.
This is a very large store, and the rents in Harvard Square aren't cheap. I know people who had money to spend, were treated badly and then went across the street to another boutique. Back when that other boutique was not teeny bopperish and was still in business.
The stuff there costs thousands.
front for a drug operation
It would seem that that niche has been vacant since Revolution Books moved out of the Square, so you could be right.
In the spirit of Plain Ol' Regular Stras, NOAA just released a report saying that half the coral reef systems around the U.S. are rated in the bottom two categories ("fair" or "poor") and that reef systems as a whole are in serious decline
So no sense worrying about them any more, right? Let the coastal drilling begin!
Since this seems to be yet another open thread
Which of the new bloggers here will be doing the baseball posts? Surely, if the analogy ban and the prohibition on the word "fart" have fallen by the wayside, baseball can no longer be verboten. Possible topics include: the payroll of the current best team is nearly 20 percent less than the combined salaries of Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter, who play for one of the suckier teams; "Boof Bonser" is a funny name.
nobody reads my blog, so what to do
sigh
This has been your Pittsburgh Retail Report.
Any word on whether McCain ate a #2?
?!?!?
that many exclamatory marks :(
why, can't i have a blog?
read I think everybody wants to know where your blog is.
but i don't write it regularly and it's in my language, mixed, so no use to know
i'm not complaining, just tried to play along to Becks' advice
I for one am disappointed that I can't read read's blog.
Any word on whether McCain ate a #2?
As a matter of fact, it was the picture on the cover of the P-G today. Yes he did.
That bastard probably talked about Myron too, didnt he???
I think we have to make John translate read's blog for the rest of us.
30: I did not see any embarrassing Steel City sucking up, but there may well have been some.
I still get the willies b/c Rudy! ate a meatball hoagie at another venerable Strip establishment that I frequent. I just keep telling myself that it was nothing more than Italian solidarity.
"My friends, when I was in Vietnam, Charlie wouldn't even give us Terrible Towels. I say Yoi; indeed, I say Double Yoi."
33: "My friends"?!?!? GWB would've said "Yinz".
Did y'all ever see when Jeb (I think) came to Pittsburgh in '04 and was so harried by protesters that he ducked into a janitor's closet?
Now that I think about it, that was the best thing that happened that year.
Now that I know her blog exists and that I cannot partake of it I find read's name to be an unbearable taunt.
Ah, on further research, it was '06. Also, I know I saw pics somewhere, but they're not showing up on the first few hits.
32: I've grown to increasingly loathe the required stop for signature down-to-earth cuisine when candidates come to town. Just more authenticity traps for the Dowds* and Brookses et al to exploit. The 2004 Philadelphia "wit' whiz" bullshit still irks me to no end. (Really though it is just yet another avenue to see the media narratives play out, if it weren't local cuisine it would be some other bullshit.)
*It was nice to see Dowd take some shots from the new NYTimes Public Editor Clark Hoyt (he used to be at Knight-Ridder back in the day, has some integrity and guts, don't expect him to last long in his post). It was less gratifying to see Gail Collins feel the need to write a letter in her defense.
His best line: But the relentless nature of her gender-laden assault on Clinton -- in 28 of 44 columns since Jan. 1 -- left many readers with the strong feeling that an impermissible line had been crossed, even though, as Dowd noted, she is a columnist who is paid not to be objective.
The consequences of the link in 3 are pretty funny.
40 needs to think -- if not outside the box -- maybe a little closer to the edges of the box.
36 gets it exactly right. I bet read's blog is all schematics for personal teleporters and recipes that allow one to live for 700 years.
We have no signature down-to-earth cuisine, and ever since the Bush I staff christened Portland "Little Beirut" after protests (the analogy is totally inapt, but whatever), national Repub candidates generally don't visit Portland proper. So it's nice to be spared the "wit' whiz" kind of bullshit.
you should start some sort of Rose City rose-eating contest, and hire local yokels to pretend to eat roses, and invite the candidates to participate if they think they're man enuff. Fill the niche!
43: Geoducks are really more Seattle, eh?
"wit' extra thorns? And habaneros?"
The case of the curious click on the link in 3 could have been my doing. That's where I work. I wondered "why the change from one pseud to another?" and thought that maybe you were indirectly announcing something. I clicked over and saw the Palooza post. I'd already read it, so I clicked back here.
Speaking of the Palooza post, I didn't expect Hogan to seem so determined about moving these cases forward.
You can actually eat roses. You wouldn't need to pretend.
Geoducks are really more Seattle, eh?
Yeah, geoducks have nothing to do with Portland, IYKWIM. We could maybe challenge candidates to choose between camas and death camas, the difference between which has tripped up more than a few PNW visitors.
43: What's wrong with a nice Pinot?
50: Nothing really, but, you know, too French.
50: Nothing Geawrg Woshingtan Corvur couldn't fix.
51: Which is why someone really needs to sell McCain's advance folks on the idea that the only way to show Oregonians that you're down with the gente is to be photographed enjoying your Pinot in the traditional way. I don't have enough inspiration at the moment to figure out what the traditional way should be.
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Hey, some of he keys on my keyboard jus sopped working; does anybody have any houghs? I'm uie unclear as o how o resolve his.
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try to shake the keyboard holding it vertically so that the crumbs'd fall out
Write a novel in the dialect of some hitherto unknown ethnic group that doesn't use the letters in question.
Unforuneely, he problem is liud raher han crumbs. I hink i's whie wine. Bu I'll ry i!
Now balance on your left foot, and hop three times widdershins around your desk chair while holding the keyboard to your forehead. Hold that position until further instructions.
57: This is more of a last resort, but keyboards tend to stand up pretty well in the dishwasher, and it does get anything out from under the keys or inside. Make sure it's dry before you plug it in again, though.
Now comes your chance for joining an Oulipo mode of expression, Sifu. All you need do is work around your missing key, as if your brain were rewiring around a group of dead neurons. Easy-peasy.
Probably no he bes idea on a lapop.
54: Here's my "they don't make them like they used to" story of the day. Once upon a time I saw an old keyboard laying in the trash on the side of the road, with a little sign saying "keyboard works if anyone wants it". I had no need for a keyboard, but thought having a spare couldn't hurt. It was an old IBM; I tested it to confirm that it did indeed work. Then, I left it laying around for 3 or 4 years, collecting dust.
Fast forward to my current life, with a baby who loved to try and pick the keys off my keyboard. Bastard child. I remembered the old spare IBM, which I didn't really need (and had never used), and I thought he might enjoy poking around it. But I didn't want to give him the thing all dirty, so I undertook a fairly elaborate process of sanitation, which involed SOAKING THE ENTIRE KEYBOARD IN A BUCKET OF LYSOL, rinsing it in several buckets of water, etc. I gave it to him, and although he was unable to pluck the keys off as he could with my laptop (his favorite), he did quite enjot banging it on our wooden floors and throwing it down the stairs at our apartment.
Okay. One night I spilled a tiny amount--tiny--of beer on the HP keyboard on my home desktop. Total system failure. I mopped up the beer as best I could and let the thing dry, but it was completely useless. More than half hte keys were nonfunctional; all were incredibly sticky. Damn.
I figure I need a new keyboard, but this was late at night and I needed to finish something then. So on a long-shot, I decide to steal the old IBM from my son and plug it in. Works perfectly. Better than the HP before the beer got to it, honestly. This is after it's Lysol bath and months of abuse from my son and god knows what else.
60: I've been hinking of ha, of course, and in fac commened on he poor man along hose lines, bu: no.
62: hose old-school IBM keyboards are dynamie; I know a lo of people who hung ono hem well ino he mid-90s, jus because he keyboard acion was so much beer han any modern keyboard.
I have a manual typewriter if anybody wants it.
(Actually, I don't want to get rid of it.)
My keyboard doesn't give me any beer at all.
The key action is indeed great! And I bet this thing is 20 years old. AND, I got a replacement keyboard frmo HP that sucks ass. I should really plug that IBM back in and give the HP to my kid.
66: well cripes NPH maybe you need a beer keyboard.
61: Probably not. Next best bet: well turned off and unplugged, very heavily-diluted bleach from a spray bottle and a gas duster. If you can fold up the keyboard (most laptops they're only slightly attached, often with a clip at the front for maintenance) that will work better. I don't think you have much chance; this is mostly only for when the keys stick down rather than just not working.
Otherwise, you're out a few hundred to get it replaced. The parts are exorbitantly expensive.
Also, you can't get the spray onto the screen, or it'll eat the coating. You'll get a spotty keyboard anyway if you aren't able to fold it up.
63: Such an exercise would of course involve some cramping of your usual graphological approaches. However, as an avenue for Webbily purveying your parlance, I'd say "Wash your Dell" is less promising advice.
What does "Very heavily-diluted" mean? 1:100 dilution? 1:10,000?
Sifu, if you need a keyboard i can give you a spare you can plug into your laptop. Makes the thing a little less convenient for hauling around, but works.
If you are operating solely from a laptop and do not have a spare keyboard + cable to plug it in, you are silly SOL, my friend not much of an ex-techie-guy person, NOW ARE YOU?
And plus also, a mouse sitting around. Just in case.
Also, don't you have an i-phone? Type on that!
DS, such approach as you recommend is of course readily supposed, however such demands as brief and concise add's compel are less easily realizable, opposing our suspicion.
Throw in a spare monitor, what the hell. Though I don't know how that works.
Components, people, components! I just never trusted these one-piece arrangements. Oh, clever, you think you are, eh?
81: Wow, if that warrants an apology around here ....
72: I use a dash of bleach to just under 350ml of water (size of the spray bottle) - about the least amount I can pour out. It isn't a terribly scientific measure, just intuition. You do find out pretty fast if there's too much bleach because it's alarmingly destructive, but it's a useful mix just to keep in a drawer about the place.
However, maybe not useful for this case, especially if you can't get in under the keys. Replacement is probably your only option.
eh I'm hinking i'll fi iself by omorrow. he wine will dry.
I once spilled most of a bowl of chicken soup on a late-90s standard issue Apple keyboard. My dad took off the keys and went at it with my mom's hairdryer. Eventually--perhaps the next morning--we reassembled the sucker and it worked just fine.
Is it under warranty? Claim no knowledge of the white wine! I recommend you act offended they would even suggest you might drink such a thing.
I suspect Sifu of trying to play the Unfoggedtariat such that we would buy him a new keyboard. Ha, then, we caught you.
You can live without the Q and X. Just reprogram the tilde key to be the T.
84: In the meantime may I suggest "& # 116;" (etc.) or maybe you just wish to continue to highlight your plight.
If it isn't dry yet, nothing will fix it until it is. They can be pretty resilient, so it might just work. They can also fail at the slightest provocation.
Copy-and-paste of a T also works, or whatever your operating system's version of the on-screen keyboard is.
It's no longer under warranty. I have also switched to my telephone, putting the stupid laptop upside-down, for luck. We'll see.
Hard indeed is proceeding clearly in absence of "t".
I recommend developing and typing in a new system wherein you use a two letter digraph to represent each of the 26 letters of the English alphabet. E.g., jj = a, ju = b, ji = c, etc. Since 6^2 = 36, all you need are 6 working keys to have the whole alphabet covered. It'll take awhile, but eventually we'll all be able to read your comments easily. Or someone will write a greasymonkey script to translate them into standard English.
Either that or you could type in space-delimited ASCII character codes.
No easy way forward. Even less easy if your sig URL has one of the dreaded. However, who's keeping a log?
93: consequences abound such as exclude huge realms of solid and meaningful expression from one's canon.
Actually, with six letters, the following scheme is feasible. Suppose the letters are q, w, e, r, t, and y. Then we say that, for instance, "q" stands for "s" and "e" stands for "e"; no digraph ever begins with either a "q" or a "e". Then all the other letters are represented by two-letter digraphs beginning with either "w", "r", "t", or "y". Since 6*4+2 = 26, this will work perfectly, and since "e" and "s" are among the most commonly used letters, a substantial space savings is effected.
Naturally you could choose other letters than "e" and "s"; I'm not even sure if "s" is more frequent than "a".
96: praise graces for "remember info".
Woe and merciless anguish befall him who fails in believing Sifu's keyboard vexing in excelsis!
OT: Man, the Olbermann show is really tilting. Big questions today (paraphrased):
"How badly did the TV interview of Obama, his wife, and his adorable kids hurt him?"
and:
"How badly did it hurt Obama when Jesse Jackson Sister Souljahed himself so that Obama could forgive him?
My questions on #2: Was Jesse in on the Obama game this time? Was Fox?
32: I did not see any embarrassing Steel City sucking up, but there may well have been some.
Then get a load of these apples from a KDKA interview.
"When I was first interrogated and really had to give some information because of the physical pressures that were on me, I named the starting lineup -- defensive line -- of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron-mates!"
Found via Dailykos where the diarist points out that when McCain's went into prison no one (even in Pittsburgh) knew who the fuck the defensive line was (1969 was when they drafted Mean Joe Greene but still went 1-13). Better yet is that in his book he claimed it was the Green Bay Packers offensive line (more plausible given the timing of his captivity).
What a fucking phony. This should be a huge local story given the sensitivities of the local population, but have heard nothing as of yet.
Mavericky!
I vote that Sifu be required to continue using his broken keyboard, so that all his comments henceforth shall be written in the lipogrammatic style of 78.
I suppose I could do such lipograms as you describe, however, said broken keyboard is far from my now-required locale. I will pleasingly welcome, upon evening's arrival, such encouraged suffering.
Fucking complicated process, 105.
No problem, when you are on a computer with Q, X and T keys, just type comments consisting entirely of those letters. by the time you get home you will be so sick of those letters that you will be glad to avoid them.