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you, sir, are a nincompoop

OK, but I’m not sure I understand why you removed my response to it from your site.

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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
-- Mark Twain

I’ve set up TrackBack capabilities on my blog.  I don’t know if you want to use that on this post instead of copying things out of my blog and posting it on your blog.

doesn’t this just sort of make you go yeah, uh huh and nod your head through the whole thing? i even said alright! quite a few times as i read it.

thanks les. i’m so glad other people understand.

I have description tags set up for the non-blog site content, and I just use the largely-unused $MTEntryMore$ and $MTEntryExcerpt$ tags to insert the content. Since the rants, games, tutorials, and such are all essentially on individual-entry templates, there’s no problem.

With my blog itself, though, I want to have description and keyword tags on the weekly archive pages, and have them populated with the key words and short descriptions for any entries for that week. The MTEntryExcerpt tag isn’t used for anything after the entry isn’t displayed on my site’s front page any longer; but the MTEntryMore tag is still, occasionally, used for its actual intended purpose. Also, the entry descriptions won’t accumulate on the weekly pages. Only the last entry to have data in the MTEntryExcerpt field will display a description. That’s not enough to catch everything on the page.

Perhaps someone’s done an add-on module for them already. I should go check those out, or put out a call in the support fora.

Well, that and learn how to use mySQL databases (databii?)

Absolutely! I’m still working on the first real topic at the moment which is more about the history and origins of the legend of Santa and his reindeer, but I’ll post up bits as I come across them.

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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
-- Mark Twain

Hmmm. Not sure if it’s in there or not, but you can check out the change log by clicking here. I don’t think meta tags are included just yet, but I could be wrong. Couldn’t you just set them up in the templates? Suppose I need to try and better understand what you want it to do.

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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
-- Mark Twain

Oh no...a whole rash of “Yeah...what they said!!”

LOL

Les, do you know of a list of the other new features that made it into this incarnation? The biggie I’m watching for is the ability to include description and keyword meta tags on pages, particularly multiple-entry pages.

Greedy me wants to keep my #1 pagerank...even if it’s for something as inane as THAT search string.

::maniacal laugh::

I don’t know why a manaical laugh. Just seemed appropriate. I’m installing 2.22 when I get back from work today. Now when you talk about atheism and video games, I can… um.... agree.

I come to visit in the evening, and not only do I see a public thank you, but someone who agrees with me about the pledge being declared unconstitutional.

Yhiiiii, I feel all faint with utter glee.

If you get the time, would you post some of the neater tidbits for us?

Nope, never realized that Diana Lewis was in Rocky either. I’m so fucking clueless sometimes. For those not from the Detroit area, she’s a local TV news reporter as well.

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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
-- Mark Twain

*laughing* A duh, if anyone would know this, it’s Hairboy, King of Trivia!  Why am I not surprised??? 

You DID know that Diana Lewis (sic) is in Rocky, right?

Silly boy.  Of course I’ve known this for years, just ask me. 

Dana - ya know, I think you’re on to something. *wink*

Well, give them credit for making it to the dinner, at least ;->

Heh.  My Web site host uses Unix servers and open source software.  The ONLY concession they make where Microsoft is concerned is they will allow FrontPage extensions to be installed on a user’s account.

Works for me… even if I am on a Windows system at home.  Ain’t geek enough to use another OS yet, I’m afraid.

Kiiriana—Your last sentence in your comment sent me off on the following tangent:  "Silly fundies, you’re supposed to DANCE to the damn thing, not MARCH to it!!"

And that, I feel, sums up the number one problem with fundamentalism.  If you think about it.

I’m still trying to decide what I want to play long-term. I’ve already played a half-orc barbarian to level 4 (all the way through the first quarter of the first mission) and then I turned around last night and made a half-elf monk/druid (3/1) that made it to the same point in the story. Tonight I’m debating an elf Ranger/Wizard to see if I like that any better. Been too long since I last played AD&D in general and have never played 3rd edition before so I’m still getting used to the new flexibility in character design. Kinda bummed that I can’t do a straight illusionist of some sort, but not at all surprised. Woulda been a bitch to implement in the game. So, I’ll be going through the same part of the story for a third time tonight. Maybe I’ll move on to a new section before the weekend is out.

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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
-- Mark Twain

It was 4am before I slept last night. It’ll be the same tonight, I’m sure. I’ve been playing the single player campaign, level 4 half-elf paladin who I’m thinking of multiclassing on the next level. I spent some time in the level editor last night and it’s one of the better ones I’ve seen for a game, easy to use, but still pretty powerful. It lists all of the functions needed to build scripts along with their variables, so you don’t have to go hunting (much) for documentation. I’m not too impressed graphically, but I can understand that it’s easier to LAN party if everyone can play, plus, the playability more than makes up for it.

*smiles* Oh dear, I should have guessed you’d be first on the bandwagon. I am hoping to get it Friday - hope there are some left in the damn state by then. :D

It wouldn’t cost much at all. I’m know Chinese, I’m very good with Photoshop, and then there’s cafepress.com.

Armed with the right tools, I can be a force for high pranksterism.

I’m very much with you on this one. Knee-jerk jingoism is just as bad as blindly running about saying “My country sucks” yet not doing anything positive and constructive about the problem. There are no easy solutions, there never are. But pasting one’s home, desk, and transportation with pictures and slogans only puts on a surface veneer of patriotism. It’s the folks who stand up and ask thoughtful, pointed questions of the politicians and elected officials that are the patriots.

Which means, I suppose, that it’s currently dangerous to be a staunch American patriot.

Didn’t this happen during that little dust-up with the British in the 1770s? I think history books refer to it as “the American revolution”.

Cheers to that - I 100% agree. And thanks for the reminder - sometimes we all need to be reminded that yep, it’s all (that’s the good, the bad, AND the ugly!) part of that little journey we call being human.  :D

Oh man! That would be hilarious! I’d love to have a shirt like that! What would something like that cost to have you whip up?

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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
-- Mark Twain

Want me to make you up a graphic, and you could have it put on a tee shirt? *g* Then on the back, put in slightly smaller characters: I know what it says. But you got a laugh out of it, didn’t you?

You could be a real walking urban legend.

*shivers* Haven’t perused the entire site, but I went straight to the article you linked. And I can say but this… I care not what banner they carry, or whom they call divinity - the fact is that religious fanatics of any flavor are a scary scary bunch of people. The notion that the entire world must march to one specific drumbeat is about the most frightening thing I can conceive of.

Thanks, Les! I was a little concerned about making my points in that one - it kind of runs counter to what most people are used to hearing in these bouts of textual harrassment.

Here’s another really good rebuttal. It takes down Microsof- ah, I mean, the ADTI’s paper point by point. Excellent stuff.

My favourite question was:

The force should be used to…
...make me some decent coffee, maybe.

As a staunch caffeine addict, I of course had to select that choice ;->

Some of the questions were a little too transparent as to which character you’d score points as if you picked it that answer. As I went a long I debated with myself as to which of the characters I was most like and I wasn’t too surprised by the result. My attitude toward life always has been a bit more like Han’s than any of the other characters though there is a part of me that thinks being an Evil Emperor would be pretty cool.

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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
-- Mark Twain

...yeah, well, my cats talked me into it, so I’m more pathetic.

But then again, I’m a jedi master with a lightsabre that says “bad mothafucker” on it, so hey, can’t all be bad ;->

Ooooooooo scary, will you hold my hand if I watch with you?  (And then the rest of me all night?)

Check out my results:-) I couldn’t help it… I thought this one was too funny.  I just had to get hubby to do it.  I guess we match, since supposedly Lea was destine to become a Jedi.  Doesn’t that mean that she would evetually progress to Master, status?  So Cool.

2400? Man, I wish I could’ve had 2400 baud on my C64. I think the fastest I got there was the 1200 baud modem Commodore sold and that was a little flaky connection-wise. I didn’t hit 2400 until I got my Amiga and my first SupraModem 2400, which shocked all of us by coming out for less than a quarter of the price of the Hayes 2400 baud modem. Ah, the joyous days of running my BBS on my Amiga 3000 using C-Net software.

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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
-- Mark Twain

I was hacked too.  That was not a fun experience.  I too ran a BBS in the old C64 scene back in the days when 2400 baud was screamingly fast.

Or Dumbass
or Asshole
Or clueless
or getalife
Or pathetic

I loved Max Headroom. I even bought the Art of Noise CD just for Paranoimia.

And damn, now I don’t get TechTV…

...but I did just spend 20 minutes surfing around that linked Max Headroom site and its various resources. Ahhhh, nostalgia. Why is it the thought-provoking shows are always cancelled.

Oh.

Wait.

Thought provoking. As in, May make American viewers realise how much they’re being scammed by Hollywood and the various entertainment industries.

Never mind...I think I know why it was cancelled.

*still wiping away tears of laughter* Ohhhh, that was a good read. And it’s so easy to take someone who apparently can’t even run spell check seriously!

Is it just me, or does anyone else find that bit about female homosexuality a bit suspicious? Methinks ole’ Tom Wells was just leaving the door open in case his wife wants to bring a friend to bed. *laughing*

I’m thinking of printing the darn thing out and checking all the wrong boxes, or writing some satire on the whole thing.  Just something to contradict the scary insanity.

Heh.  I’m still waiting for that church-state separation.

Good thing I ain’t holdin’ my breath!

I am sooo out of touch with the anime scene these days. You just HAD to show me that box set. I soooo want that box set. I soooo don’t have the money for it. Arrrgh.

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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
-- Mark Twain

Thanks. I’m glad you enjoyed the write-up.

Yoko Kanno rules. I just ordered this last week. Here’s a link to all of her Cowboy Bebop stuff (including mp3s of the hard to find songs [my fave]).

Of course, this comment makes no sense once the BlogAmp list changes.

I’m still learning how to work with a totally CSS-driven layout, which is what my page here is. There’s still bits that I just can’t seem to get my head around so I save my experimentations for my own site and go with more familiar methods when working on Anne’s. Someday I’ll be a CSS god, but for now I’m limping along.

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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
-- Mark Twain

I don’t want a lightsaber. I want that double-bladed one that Darth Maul had. Now that was truly cool. And I already know how to use a quarterstaff.

I’d just have to retrain myself not to grip the blades. Though realistically, I’d only make that mistake once.

Les, I’ve seen the transcript that you linked in your first answer to me and I believe that John Edward did very well regarding that he could not see the people he was talking to. This is quite relevant as “Cold Readings” requires the FAKE mediums to get information from their subjects face to face, for example body language, the clothes the subject is wearing etc.

I’m not saying for sure that John Edward is the real thing, only he knows for sure. But I am saying if he uses “Cold Readings” he is really good and experienced at it. If I had to get that book “Tradecraft: The Art And Science Of Cold Reading” I could tell you I would not be able to convince a single person I could talk to the dead.

I have read two of John Edwards books “One Last Time” and “Behind the scenes of Crossing Over” and have felt that John required the gift as he was growing up, as he was against his mother and family going to mediums because he felt they were Fake. The book “Behind the scenes of Crossing Over” did not hide the fact that the media were trying to prove what John was a Fake by getting his staff members to talk to people prior to the show starting. Crossing Over told the media this infromation was false as John would not be able to remember where everyone was siting and all of their family trees within an hour of recording.

This book also told the reader that the producers where trying to do theme programs such as getting families from people who all died of the same conditions such as heart attacks or from disasters like bombings. However, John was totally against the idea as it was against his gift as it would be more for entertainment value rather than for people who needed closure at that time.

Do you think this is from a man whose only interest is money?

Well, we do have a with a “Daily Gripe” section we could always use.

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When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn’t know.
-- Mark Twain

Netscape 4.* has a buggy implementation of CSS, which may be where most of your problems are coming from. I finally gave up the ghost just over a year ago and moved to a completely CSS-driven layout. It’s a LOT easier to maintain, especially when you suddenly decide you want that element over here << to be over there >> Instant site change with no MT regeneration, yay.

*snicker*

Sorry, Eve, I’m definitely not putting down your idea. I just had a mental flash of all the rings for all the current trends, and how fast their memberships fill up; and a memory of my friend saying about the college kids with goatees: “That’s right, you’re unique, just like everybody else.”

We need something, though. Someplace we can all get together and trade quips, rant and rave, listen to each other’s gripes about the idjits currently in power (the names may change, but the dissatisfaction remains the same), and so forth.

Someplace besides Les’ comments, I mean.

Maybe it’s time to start a “counter-culture” ring!