March 22, 2005

GIRL SICK. BOY SICK. NEED COMMENTS NOW

Bloggranddaughter VW Bug of One Happy Dog Speaks has a boy in the hospital with the croup, and she's battling the flu herself.

Please go here and say something comforting.

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March 21, 2005

FRED THE GNOME WORLD TOUR

I blame Nick.

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Feel free to steal the Fred the gnome over to your own blog, and leave a trackback to the original post at NickQueen.com

If you're trackback impaired or just think sending one via Haloscan is a pain in the ass, just use the Wizbang standalone trackback form.

Here's the URL to ping:

http://blog.mu.nu/cgi/mt-tb.cgi/71993

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BAD EXAMPLE'S WINDOW PEEPERS

From time to time - not very often these days, but still, it happens - I find myself having finished my blogrounds and wanting more to read.

Usually during slow days at work.

Times like these, I'd like to go someplace where I know the writing is good (or at least the blogger is interesting), but I don't have anything bookmarked.

...Problem solved.

Via Blogrolling, I've set up a little auxilliary blogroll way down on my right sidebar, comprised mostly of good blogs that show up in my referer logs now & again.

Although I reserve the right to throw anyone in there I darn well please.

Or not.

It's not a recipri-roll, per se. Just because you have a Bad Example link on your site doesn't get you a free pass onto my sidebar - I'm all stuck-up & snooty like that - but I'll be fairly open-minded about throwing people on there.

Now, unlike the Annoying Neighbors blogroll, being a Window Peeper doesn't mean I'll be able to stop by every day. However, it does make it more likely that I'll stop by on occasion, once my blogfamily obligations are complete (being a blogfather isn't all ham & plaques, you know).

As for Brian J. Noggle, I'm still holding out for him getting comments, after which he'll be an Annoying Neighbor and a daily read.

Come on, Brian, tell me - what do I have to do to get you to go to Haloscan and hit AutoInstall? Name your price. We can negotiate.

Anyway, I'd like to thank Pam of Pamibe for creating the logo for me. I have to say - once again - she does great work on short notice, and doesn't stop until you're satisfied with the finished product.

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TWEAKING THE FAMILY BLOGROLL

Trying something new.

Recently Beloved Wife commented to me that it's hard to find a given blogfamily member on the Family blogroll, and also hard to remember all the names.

I thought she had a good point, so I took the liberty of alphabetizing the family blogroll, and - if you hover your mouse over the link - the blogger's name will also appear in a little text box.

Does that make things better, worse, or about the same?

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SINCE YOU GUYS ARE BORED

I know everyone's sad about being kicked out of the pudding pit, and you're looking for other trouble to cause.

Seems that blogson Chuck of Class Mishaps is off on Spring Break, and has left us with more promises of new cartoons instead of actual cartoons. Also a threat:

Anyway, I know Harvey and his gang like to sneak in to people's places when they're out of town and have comment parties, so I have my pet gnome here to gaurd my comments to make sure that doesn't happen.

Pity Fred the gnome wasn't there to gAUrd against typos.

Anyway, Chuck is a film student at some college in Arizona (I think), and makes poorly-drawn comic strips on the side. Go steal his pencils or something.

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TODAY'S LOVE NOTE

(Introduction)

[Something a little different tonight. Amanda of Aussie Wife sent me a link to a poem she wrote for her husband. I'm stealing it and modifying it slightly to make it better fit my situation. Please go read the original at her place, though. Figure if I send her enough traffic, she won't be upset by my sneakthievery]

In the morning's clear light
I study the face I know so well
I am filled with a boundless love
as my gaze travels over familiar curves and contours
I see the peacefulness that deep sleep brings
when the essence of the person hides within
then she awakes and the face is transformed
a sleepy smile and a request for morning loving
the weekend has begun

(CAUTION: Romantics beware - comments may contain naughtiness)

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Totally True Tidbits About ANWR

Over at IMAO

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March 20, 2005

TODAY'S LOVE NOTE

(Introduction)

Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love
That inward beauty and invisible;
Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move
Each part in me that were but sensible:
Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see,
And nothing but the very smell were left me,

Yet should I be in love by touching thee.
Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me,
And that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch,
Yet would my love to thee be still as much;

(CAUTION: Romantics beware - comments may contain naughtiness)

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Things I Learned While I Was on Liberty in Pattaya Beach, Thailand, and Really, Really Drunk - Part 14

Over at Drunken Wisdom

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Condoleezza Rice Apologizes for "Outpost of Tyranny" Remark

Over at IMAO

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QUICK AND PAINLESS GUIDE TO ADDING HALOSCAN COMMENTS WHILE KEEPING YOUR OLD BLOGGER COMMENTS VISIBLE - UPDATED 5-24-05

Thanks in equal parts to blogchildren VW Bug of One Happy Dog Speaks and Contagion of Miasmatic Review for inspiration and technical assistance.

Blogger comments suck because they're miserably slow and can be hard to access, depending on how they're set up on an individual's blog.

Bug explains in her link above how to manually install both the Haloscan code and add back in the Blogger comments code so that you can still see your old comments.

The important thing to take from her post is that you need to back up your Blogger template. You can just copy & paste it to your favorite word processing program (I use NoteTab Light) and save it - just in case. If you're REALLY paranoid, you can back up your entire blog and Bug explains how. Whether you think it's necessary is up to you. Personally, I don't think there's THAT much risk involved, but again - your call.

Then Contagion got gutsy and tried an experiment. He used Haloscan's super-nifty AutoInstall feature to add Haloscan comments and - after it was done (and it worked perfectly for him) - he went into his Blogger template & manually added the code to display Blogger comments.

Which also worked perfectly for him.

I tried it out on one of the Blogger blogs I keep around for experimentation purposes, and it worked perfectly for me, too.

What to paste:

 | <a class="comment-link" href="<$BlogItemCommentCreate$>>"<$BlogItemCommentFormOnclick$> <font="1">Pre Haloscan <$BlogItemCommentCount$></a>

Where to paste it:

Haloscan will have placed its code in a section of your template a little below the tag

<div class="PostFooter">

It's the code that starts:

<a class="comment-link" href="http://www.haloscan.com/... blah blah blah...

and ends:

</script><noscript>Trackback</noscript></a>

The code I give you starts with a blank space, a vertical line, another black space, and then the critical code. Be sure to include the blank-line-blank at the beginning so there's space between the Trackback link and the old Blogger comments.

ADDITIONAL NOTE: Looking around in my experimental template, I noticed that the Haloscan comment code appeared twice. Once for the main page, and once for the individual archive [permalink] pages. Assuming it's the same in your template, be sure to add the code I gave you at the end of BOTH pieces of Haloscan code. I didn't see the second one at first, and had no Blogger comments on my permalink pages. One more copy-&-paste and the problem was solved.

SUMMARY: Bacnts.k up your template, sign up at Haloscan, do AutoInstall, copy & paste old Blogger comment code, live a life of joy and happiness free of the evil of Blogger comme

UPDATE: Sissy of And What Next... mentions this in the comments:

If you want to keep the ability to forward a post, you will still need <$BlogItemControl$> this code after the "Pre Haloscan" code.

UPDATE 5-24-05: [If you've found this post useful enough to blog about, send a trackback or e-mail the permalink to me at harvolson-at-gmail.com and I'll add you to my Bad Example Groupies blogroll. See this post for details]

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BACK TO WORK

Things are relatively back to normal, computer-wise. Except for the loss of some e-mails, no permanent damage. I think I'm switching my main contact e-mail over to Gmail, though, since their servers seem to be more reliable that my twitchy little Windows machine.

While I clear out some of the llamas & pudding, here's something to entertain you...

Susie of Practical Penumbra is looking at having to hire more movie-serfs and is asking for suggestions on what to ask them in the interview.

Slightly off-topic in the comments, blogdaughter Machelle of Quality Weenie mentioned the best job she ever had - working for Dairy Queen. Good pay (for the work required) and FREE ICE CREAM.

Which reminded me of MY dream job - pizza delivery.

Not the kind of job that gets you bragging rights at cocktail parties, but the hours were mostly all evenings and weekends, so it's not like I could make it to any cocktail parties, anyway.

My job duties consisted of driving around all night as fast as I could without getting pulled over, while doing my level best to blow out my car stereo speakers. Base pay was total crap (aka minimum wage), but add in tips & mileage, and I averaged about $12 an hour.

Plus any "mistake" pies or burned orders became "crew food".

Not to mention that we had a deal with the gas station across the street where they gave us their old donuts at the end of the night.

mmmm... donuts...

But I gave it all up for a respectable banking job - suit, tie, human hours...

So... how about you? Best job you ever had?

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March 18, 2005

LESSON NOT LEARNED FROM TAMMI WORLD

Gee, you would think some people would have learned something from our family reunion. However, apparently Mr. Bad Example missed out on this golden opporunity.

I have to say, it is sort of nasty of me (Smiling Dynamite) to take advantage of him when he is having computer issues, but that's just the scheming kind of wench I am! However, he did leave his Movable Type page up and ready for entry.

SO...I think Mr. Bad Example be punished for his inability to learn by example from Tammi World.

What do you think would be a proper punishment? 100 whip lashings (but he mighe enjoy that), loss of "Brownie Points", what???

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CRASH!

[blogging from Beloved Wife's computer]

My C drive just crapped out on me. Odds of recovering the data are unknown at this point, but I'm not hopeful.

The big problem right now is that this would mean I've lost all the e-mail I had flagged for follow-up.

So, until further notice please use harvolson-at-gmail.com if you want to contact me.

Also, if you've sent an e-mail recently to harvolson-at-charter.net that I haven't responded to, I'd appreciate it if you could re-send it to harvolson-at-gmail.com

Meanwhile, until I get my system re-configured, expect blogging to be light or non-existent.

Crap.

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March 17, 2005

AWWWWWWW...

The best part about blogparenting?

Watching your blogkids be sweet to each other, and knowing you had a hand in making it all possible.

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MARINES, PARATROOPERS, AND THE PEACEFUL IRISH

Blogson Mike the Marine of From the Halls to the Shores has posted a review of the movie Gunner Palace - along with a review of the movie theater he saw it in and the people who watched the movie with him, which is at least as good of a read as the movie review itself, and includes lines like:

And then there were your burned out hippies... the kind that take as much pride in the "Kerry '04" bumper stickers on their Volvos as they do in the "Mondale/Ferraro '84" stickers that are still there as well.

This is the kind of post that demonstrates why I wanted this guy to get his own blog in the first place.

Now, Matty O'Blackfive has been raving about how wonderful this movie is for months (as Mike points out in his post). So why haven't I said anything until now? Why haven't I linked any of Matty's reviews?

Because I suspected him of blogging sober.

And when Matty's sober, he starts talking like a liberal. "Save the whales!", "No blood for oil!", "Do it for the children!". A tragic affliction, which he normally controls via medication.

So for all *I* knew, Gunner Palace could've been as evil as Fahrenheit 9/11.

The moral of the story:

Never trust a sober Irishman.

Meanwhile, it IS St. Patrick's Day, so I figured I should share a few:



FUN FACTS ABOUT THE IRISH

Ireland has long been famous for the crabby temperament of its inhabitants, and used to be called Angerland, until St. Patrick realized that "ire" is a MUCH more sophisticated-sounding word.

The symbol of Ireland is the Shamrock. Which used to be called the "Samrock", but the new pronunciation quickly took over, since that's how a liquored-to-the-gills Irishman would pronounce it, anyway.

The Irish are clever and inventive people who are popularly credited with inventing several different types of bar soap, none of which they've been able to sell to France.

Which really sucks because France is upwind of Ireland.

The first Irishman in America, Paddy O'Tatertot, was also the man who built Notre Dame college and started it's legendary football program. This caused the mass immigration of the Irish to America in the late 1800's, as they all wanted to see this union of the two best aspects of their home country - devout religion and open-field brawling.

Another important symbol of Ireland is hardwood cudgel known as the "shillelagh". Which used to be called a "Sahlay", but changed for same reason as the Samrock.

Ireland is a land filled with verdent green grasslands. Plants grow well there because of the soil's incredibly high content of organic minerals, which come from the Irish peeing all over the place as they stagger from pub to pub.

The Irish choose their leader by having a drinking contest where the contenders match each other - drink for drink - until there's only one man left standing, who is then declared President.

The election of 1324 continues to this day.

Matty O'Blackfive is the current leader.



Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go find something green to drink.

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TODAY'S LOVE NOTE

(Introduction)

To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.

(CAUTION: Romantics beware - comments may contain naughtiness)

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Things I Learned While I Was on Liberty in Pattaya Beach, Thailand, and Really, Really Drunk - Part 13

Over at Drunken Wisdom

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Star Wars Episode III - Dark and Diabolical

Over at IMAO

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March 16, 2005

TODAY'S LOVE NOTE

(Introduction)

Whenever we're apart it feels like part of me is missing... and then I remember, you have my heart.

(CAUTION: Romantics beware - comments may contain naughtiness)

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