I want to thank everyone for their hosting and making this such a spectacular success. This has really given me a place to come and unwind after reading to many diaries that can drive you crazy or tear your heart out.
Now I know that when I log onto Bootrib I can not only become better informed-instead of sticking my head in the sand-but have a place to decompress right here also.
Well, Saturday night is date night. So what’s everyone doing or have any worst or funny date night stories to regale us with.
My husband-now ex-proposed after 2 days and in the middle of a knife fight -half assed knife fight but fight none the less..oh yeah it was also Friday the 13th. No doubt a harbinger of our 11 year marriage.
I’m so sorry, I once was stuck in the middle of a knife fight (a couple of guys came tumbling out of a bar holding knives on each other, just as I came walking by) ….shiver….
Usually we spend the evening looking at the pay-per-view movie list and end up watching SNL.
To host one of these diaries yourself Choc o late…and I think you should, please say yes and you could be a floater for the team, which means substitute for one of us when we cannot or don’t want to do one..
I will send you an invite to the group yahoo team site and you can hang around there and see if you can finally do a diary….they are easy to do and no one can get mad or flame or fight…say yes….
Anyone else want to be a floater, email me.
You know diane I’ve never done a diary..mostly cause I have so little computer skills for links etc…that’s really been one of my main drawbacks to doing any kind of diary.. To do a decent diary you should know how to post links etc to back up whatever you may be writing about….all this is my round about way of saying I’ll consider your suggestion.
I’ve never been worried about anyone getting mad or whatever-that I think I could handle ..just the whole computer skills thing is my biggest hurdle.
Ok I will send you an invite and on the site there are all kinds of instructions in the file, catagory for posting pics, etc…we will help you…so just look around and make any comments there you want…k..
And note my motto in my sig line! Bless its heart, it gets me to try new things all the time–including my first diary here and my first “boxes”here–and I can guarantee my own sterling, magnificent incompetence at all of them.
I have a date tonight — with Mary Shelley. I’ve been on a Mary Wollstonecraft kick lately (reading the new biography by Lyndall Gordon and Vindication of the Rights of Woman), so I decided it was time to reread Frankenstein, by Wollstonecraft’s daughter. Unfortunately, it shows no signs of being a dark and stormy night…
When I used to go to Kareoke bars, was My Way,,,also Delta Dawn,Strangers in the night and my childhood favorite song was Tenn. Ernie Fords ’16 tons’,,Is that the right title…Also like Brass Bed and Take your love to town Ruby….I know all the titles are not exactly, but you get the jist.
I will now sing My Way, applause at the end please, thank you……lol and smile
Trailer for sale or rent
Rooms to let…fifty cents.
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain’t got no cigarettes
Ah, but..two hours of pushin’ broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I’m a man of means by no means
King of the road.
Third boxcar, midnight train
Destination…Bangor, Maine.
Old worn out clothes and shoes,
I don’t pay no union dues,
I smoke old stogies I have found
Short, but not too big around
I’m a man of means by no means
King of the road.
I know every engineer on every train
All of their children, and all of their names
And every handout in every town
And every lock that ain’t locked
When no one’s around.
I sing,
Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let, fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain’t got no cigarettes
Ah, but, two hours of pushin’ broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I’m a man of means by no means
King of the road.
During the handful of times I’ve been to a karaoke bar (and after raising the blood alcohol level sufficiently), my performance of choice was always the old Skeeter Davis tune “End of the World.” Pitiful, I know.
Mike test, Mike test… can you hear me? this thing working?
I’ve an announcement to make…
Good evening everybody! I’ve gotta HUGE FAVOR TO ASK!!!! Many of you might not know this but zander has posted her very first non-welcome wagon, non-froggy bottom diary.
Hey – I tried to sneak that diary in at like 3am… cause that’s my MO, aim for a time when no one will really notice….but now it is on the rec list, and … um… I’m kind of, kinda’ intimidated by it…
ahem AHEM, anecdote coming on… hey, fend off anyone who tries to grab that mike!
i saw this video one time, interview with garcia, the guitarist.. he was talking about this very thing… he was telling a story about a show they did once. and how it was going so badly, about how he just couldn’t find his center and everything he did felt wrong and how as the show progressed he got angrier and angier. he said afterwards, on the way backstage he let his anger show and said a few things that he always regretted…
anyway several months later he was in the studio listening to show tapes looking for tracks to put onto a live album they were working on. and he started listening to the same show, the one where he felt so bad about his performance…and as he listened he realized that the entire show was first rate and his performance crackled with energy. they used a lot of it on the album.
so don’t worry about feeling intimidated, if that’s how you feel, its ok to feel that way. just keep in mind that how you feel about your work and how it really is can be two different things. your diary was excellent, exactly like garcia’s guitar. crackling with energy!!!!
and now,:::smiling mischeviously::: just sit back and let me sing!!!!!! and keep everyone away from this mike!!!!
It’s either The Grateful Dead Movie,Grateful Dead: Ticket to New Year’s, or Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead (I bought all three at the same time, and they kind of blend in my memory).
As I recall, didn’t Jerry also throw some chairs or something you wouldn’t expect from him? Definitely an interesting insight there.
But I suspect zander knows how good her diary is (I personally think if she can keep up that level of quality, she ought to be a front page writer). She’s just shy (or at least, so she claims in her BT profile), and thus is getting “first diary jitters” and whatnot. 🙂
Something I never thought would ever happen is going to happen.
A few weeks back SusanHu did a write-up of the Live-8 series of concerts to stop world poverty and hunger. Check it out here for the background.
Now, on to the important stuff. Some of you may have seen my comments professing love for the band Pink Floyd. Well, THEY’RE GETTING BACK TOGETHER FOR ONE OF THE G8 CONCERTS!!
Here’s what David Gilmour had to say:
Like most people I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world. It’s crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations. Any squabbles Roger (Waters) and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if re-forming for this concert will help focus attention then it’s got to be worthwhile.
Ahh, if only our politicians could be so good at putting things in perspective…
ejmw — were yout he one who said your were born between Animals and the Wall??
Yep, that’s me!
From which Floyd album was the song:
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave Grooving With a Pict??
Ummagumma, studio disc 🙂 Any idea what the scottish (?) dude says at the end? I can pick out parts of it.
I went through a period of about 2 years when all I would listen to was Pink Floyd (1999-2000). My roomate and I watched my Pulse videotape so many times that I had to buy a new one. I read several different biographies of the band. The song ‘Coming Back to Life’ from Division Bell got me through some really tough times.
I still go back about every 6 months or so and listen to PF exclusively for a few weeks. Their stuff is all just so fantastic.
doing a sort of improvised poetry rant…apparently you have to have actual vinyl (and abuse it at differnt speeds and whatnot) to hear what he’s saying clearly….
PS You passed my sorry-ass test with flying colors! 😉
Ron is semi-retired though he still has his studio ‘Headrest’ down in Sussex. You can also hear his voice on Townshend’s ‘Give Blood’ at the beginning. (Gilmour also contributes guitars on same piece) Pete is a mutual friend since the early 60s – in fact I met Ron thru Pete.
Once when we were playing Dungeons and Dragons and I was the Dungeon Master, I told the group “You round a bend in the cave and hear the following” and put on “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave Grooving With a Pict.” They had never had a soundtrack to a campaign before and were quite impressed.
However, one was still badly injured in the resulting melee…
who really needs to learn something by doing it. I got very frustrated trying to find a good web site for learning this sort of thing. So I decided to try and learn this way. Eventually I will then be able to go back and learn more from the online tutorials.
Ooo ooo ooo!! You inspired me to try some stuff I never have before. First color. First choice of font, font size, margins,centering. I got it off your template, Katiebird.
You are welcome. I was just right clicking and getting the sorce code for the whole page and trying to figure out what it was I was looking for. I don’t know what inspired me to try highlighting a specific test or border. If you haven’t figure it out yet, if you wanted to find the sorce for say, a border, but can’t hilight it..just highlight the whole post. It still saves you a lot of searching through code.
A few years ago I actually went on TWO different blind dates where the guys brought along their huge dogs! I’m talking Shetland pony size. One of the dogs was an enormous un-neutered Akita that had to be reminded to sit/stay every few minutes. The psychological implications of the owner’s actions were too interesting for me to want a repeat performance.
Unfortunately, dating has always been a recipe for disaster so I tend to run with herds of humans these days.
Check out the free, browser games at Little Fluffy. Most are totally crossplatform. All are (quite accurately) reviewed. The best are maddeningly addictive.
I just posted an exceptionally long comment on a thread over at dKos. As I clicked the POST button, I suddenly became concerned that such a long comment was self-indulgent. I assuaged myself by thinking, well, in the greater order of things, this is probably not such a long comment.
And then a question dawned on me: I wonder what the longest blog comment ever posted was? Of course, there’s probably no good way to figure this out (there have presumably been billions of comments posted on blogs around the world). There’s probably no way to scientifically (or even pseudo-scientifically) answer this question.
But rather than simply file this under “idiotic thoughts that are of no interest to anyone but yourself,” I decided to post this on a Froggy Bottom Cafe thread, in the vague hope that someone wishes to recall an epically long blog comment that they posted, read, or chose to ignore (in awe or annoyance).
I do not know what the longest comment is but I do know that DuctapeFatwa posted the longest diary I ever saw here on booman, or maybe ever, it was 26 pages on word, single space, and that was only the first half, the second half he posted as a comment and that may actually be the longest comment, I think, but did not check it might have been close to 26 pages…and here is the diary in question!!!!!!!
my (first and only) diary here was really a comment. by the time i finally got around to saying what i wanted to say it was a lot longer than the diary i was going to post it too. i felt so bad about that and didnt want to post it thinking it’s length alone amounted to a hijack. i worked through it a few times and then i had a friend look at it and she cut quite a bit. it was still longer than the diary. i finally gave up and posted it as a stand alone.
Spouse and I went to great fish place here in Miami — whole grilled pompano for me (the Regal Fish). With it tried my second ever bottle of Chateau Ste. Michelle, Columbia Valley, Washington. As a long time drinker of French, German, Chilean, and some American wines — WHO KNEW?! — I’m twice surprised at the quality of the Merlot (1st sample) and Chardonnay (tonight’s treat) the winery produces. Lucky you Washingtonians who have several years up on me drinking this product.
Now let’s discuss key lime pie. The difference between a good and a bad one.
Key lime pie “Dos” — Graham cracker crust, condensed milk, real Chantilly sparely, paper thin slice of fresh lime to garnish, or sprinkling of lime zest (even better). Finishes on the tongue with a tangy “bite.”
Key lime pie “Don’ts” — Any other kind of crust, out of the box filling, out of anything but a cow topping, no lime slice or zest, any other garnish. Absolutely no half cherry thingies, especially green dyed ones!!
Share a slice. Fighting over the last bite is a tradition!
Of course, this cafe serves only the best.
Next time let’s talk about the best cole slaw and conch fritters.
(tap, tap, tap, blows wind into the mike, hears loud screaching feedback)
OK, all you Republicans move to the far right of the room,,,,yah,,you too you wanna be, and get that hand off that liberals sun dress,,,geeesh, Neo cons…Now keep moving to the right,,,that’s it,,further,,,further….(loud screaming and crashing sounds)
Oh shit,,,I forgot, that part of the lounge has’nt been built yet…Ooooooooh well, at least their outta the way for the party ; )
(turns the mike off)
Now, I’ll have a double Stoli’s with a splash of seven, and a twist of lime ; )
called “The Sailor’s Bonnet.” Believe it or not, it’s actually available on iTunes as a standalone under Arlo Guthrie because a fiddler (who sounds to me like Kevin Burke) seems to have done it as a short solo at a concert.
It’s a joyous D-pentatonic reel. Here it is in ABC format. There’s freeware software to translate ABC into sound or print it as sheet music as I understand. I don’t do much with computers and music, I play it the old fashioned way. Musicians who do much folk music can learn to read this like sheet music.
X: 1
T: Sailor’s Bonnet, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: Reel
K: Dmaj
A2 FA d~f3|dfef d~B3|A2 FA dfef|1 dBAF ADDB :|2 dBAF ADD2||
|:~a3 a afef|afef d~B3|fb (3bbb bafa|bfaf feef|
b~f3 afed|afef d~B3|(3ABA FA dfef|1 dBAF ADD2 :|2 dBAF ADDB||
Aw what the hey, to mellow things down just a little, here’s a more thoughtful reel that stands up to playing as a slow air. Martin Wynn’s #2
They ARE extreme. I think we’re going to have to let it purr along on its own for hours at a time, sometimes. These guys have NO trouble talking among themselves. 🙂
I’m off. I’d try to slip out without paying the tab, but that would make me a Republican.
Just got back from seeing Batman Begins. Pretty good. Just make sure you remember that it is a comic book-based movie.
OK. Some of you pac-coasters may still be up, but for the rest of us, it’s late.
I don’t usually do this karaoke thing, but…what the hell. ahem
Closing time
Open all the doors and let you out into the world
Closing time
Turn all of the lights on over every boy and every
girl
Closing time
One last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or
beer
Closing time
You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
Take me home
Closing time
Time for you to go out to the places you will be from
Closing time
This room won’t be open till your brothers or your
sisters come
So gather up your jackets, move it to the exits
I hope you have found a friend
Closing time
Every new beginning comes from some other
beginning’s end
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
Take me home
Closing time
Time for you to go out to the places you will be from
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
Take me home
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
Take me home
Closing time
Every new beginning comes from some other
beginning’s end
So stack those chairs upon those tables
And stack those empties upon that bar
And count your money
And count my money
And hear those bottles ringing
You know where you are
Closing time
Unplug them people
And send them home
It’s closing time
Closing Time, Lyle Lovett
yeah. thats the ticket..unplug those people, send ’em home and let me get to sweepin’ up.
Everyone’s welcome here
Is the mike on?
Testing….
Testing…
Testing..
Hello?.
I want to thank everyone for their hosting and making this such a spectacular success. This has really given me a place to come and unwind after reading to many diaries that can drive you crazy or tear your heart out.
Now I know that when I log onto Bootrib I can not only become better informed-instead of sticking my head in the sand-but have a place to decompress right here also.
Well, Saturday night is date night. So what’s everyone doing or have any worst or funny date night stories to regale us with.
My husband-now ex-proposed after 2 days and in the middle of a knife fight -half assed knife fight but fight none the less..oh yeah it was also Friday the 13th. No doubt a harbinger of our 11 year marriage.
Oh, Dear.
I’m so sorry, I once was stuck in the middle of a knife fight (a couple of guys came tumbling out of a bar holding knives on each other, just as I came walking by) ….shiver….
Usually we spend the evening looking at the pay-per-view movie list and end up watching SNL.
I think we still have some pastries from this morning…
To host one of these diaries yourself Choc o late…and I think you should, please say yes and you could be a floater for the team, which means substitute for one of us when we cannot or don’t want to do one..
I will send you an invite to the group yahoo team site and you can hang around there and see if you can finally do a diary….they are easy to do and no one can get mad or flame or fight…say yes….
Anyone else want to be a floater, email me.
You know diane I’ve never done a diary..mostly cause I have so little computer skills for links etc…that’s really been one of my main drawbacks to doing any kind of diary.. To do a decent diary you should know how to post links etc to back up whatever you may be writing about….all this is my round about way of saying I’ll consider your suggestion.
I’ve never been worried about anyone getting mad or whatever-that I think I could handle ..just the whole computer skills thing is my biggest hurdle.
Ok I will send you an invite and on the site there are all kinds of instructions in the file, catagory for posting pics, etc…we will help you…so just look around and make any comments there you want…k..
We are a very helpful bunch and some of us would be happy to post templates of code that do anything you need.
Please don’t let technical issues stop you.
And note my motto in my sig line! Bless its heart, it gets me to try new things all the time–including my first diary here and my first “boxes”here–and I can guarantee my own sterling, magnificent incompetence at all of them.
Dare to be incompetent!
Don’t let the techy stuff be a deterrent. Links are straightforward enough (though I’ll freely admit images remain a complete mystery to me).
Look forward to seeing your diaries.
Vodka gimlet, please!
I have a date tonight — with Mary Shelley. I’ve been on a Mary Wollstonecraft kick lately (reading the new biography by Lyndall Gordon and Vindication of the Rights of Woman), so I decided it was time to reread Frankenstein, by Wollstonecraft’s daughter. Unfortunately, it shows no signs of being a dark and stormy night…
(Scurrying around looking for a recipe)
Be just a minute…
Here it is!
Ah, thank you!
It is right over here
When I used to go to Kareoke bars, was My Way,,,also Delta Dawn,Strangers in the night and my childhood favorite song was Tenn. Ernie Fords ’16 tons’,,Is that the right title…Also like Brass Bed and Take your love to town Ruby….I know all the titles are not exactly, but you get the jist.
I will now sing My Way, applause at the end please, thank you……lol and smile
Can we afford a Karaoke set-up???
Please? Who’s running the budget here, anyway?
It’s already here, was in the budget, unlimited budget we have in the blog o sphere….So start singing…
It is already there just upthread a couple of clicks
During the handful of times I’ve been to a karaoke bar (and after raising the blood alcohol level sufficiently), my performance of choice was always the old Skeeter Davis tune “End of the World.” Pitiful, I know.
Mike test, Mike test… can you hear me? this thing working?
I’ve an announcement to make…
Good evening everybody! I’ve gotta HUGE FAVOR TO ASK!!!! Many of you might not know this but zander has posted her very first non-welcome wagon, non-froggy bottom diary.
Pride Week – in Canada
If any of you have the time could you please follow the link and read it? and if you like what you read, could you please recommend? Please????
and fours all around!!!!!
Hey – I tried to sneak that diary in at like 3am… cause that’s my MO, aim for a time when no one will really notice….but now it is on the rec list, and … um… I’m kind of, kinda’ intimidated by it…
That’s great, congratulations!
intimidated?
ahem AHEM, anecdote coming on… hey, fend off anyone who tries to grab that mike!
i saw this video one time, interview with garcia, the guitarist.. he was talking about this very thing… he was telling a story about a show they did once. and how it was going so badly, about how he just couldn’t find his center and everything he did felt wrong and how as the show progressed he got angrier and angier. he said afterwards, on the way backstage he let his anger show and said a few things that he always regretted…
anyway several months later he was in the studio listening to show tapes looking for tracks to put onto a live album they were working on. and he started listening to the same show, the one where he felt so bad about his performance…and as he listened he realized that the entire show was first rate and his performance crackled with energy. they used a lot of it on the album.
so don’t worry about feeling intimidated, if that’s how you feel, its ok to feel that way. just keep in mind that how you feel about your work and how it really is can be two different things. your diary was excellent, exactly like garcia’s guitar. crackling with energy!!!!
and now,:::smiling mischeviously::: just sit back and let me sing!!!!!! and keep everyone away from this mike!!!!
It’s either The Grateful Dead Movie, Grateful Dead: Ticket to New Year’s, or Grateful Dead: Dead Ahead (I bought all three at the same time, and they kind of blend in my memory).
As I recall, didn’t Jerry also throw some chairs or something you wouldn’t expect from him? Definitely an interesting insight there.
But I suspect zander knows how good her diary is (I personally think if she can keep up that level of quality, she ought to be a front page writer). She’s just shy (or at least, so she claims in her BT profile), and thus is getting “first diary jitters” and whatnot. 🙂
-Alan
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Something I never thought would ever happen is going to happen.
A few weeks back SusanHu did a write-up of the Live-8 series of concerts to stop world poverty and hunger. Check it out here for the background.
Now, on to the important stuff. Some of you may have seen my comments professing love for the band Pink Floyd. Well, THEY’RE GETTING BACK TOGETHER FOR ONE OF THE G8 CONCERTS!!
Here’s what David Gilmour had to say:
Like most people I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world. It’s crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations. Any squabbles Roger (Waters) and the band have had in the past are so petty in this context, and if re-forming for this concert will help focus attention then it’s got to be worthwhile.
Ahh, if only our politicians could be so good at putting things in perspective…
Man, I wish I could go to that concert.
Where where where, oh, sorry got carried away…will follow link. Oh, G8 concert, as if I would get to be there….
ejmw — were yout he one who said your were born between Animals and the Wall??
You have another Floyd fan here….but I gotta give you the test:
From which Floyd album was the song:
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave Grooving With a Pict??
I swear, if I ever start my own blog, that’ll be the name of it! 😉
not only did I not spell DG’s name right, I left out the wrod AND in the song title… AND Grooving with a Pict, AND…
makes all the difference…..
After checking out the website, looks like Geldof shamed RG into it, as well he should be able to…heh.
ejmw — were yout he one who said your were born between Animals and the Wall??
Yep, that’s me!
From which Floyd album was the song:
Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave Grooving With a Pict??
Ummagumma, studio disc 🙂 Any idea what the scottish (?) dude says at the end? I can pick out parts of it.
I went through a period of about 2 years when all I would listen to was Pink Floyd (1999-2000). My roomate and I watched my Pulse videotape so many times that I had to buy a new one. I read several different biographies of the band. The song ‘Coming Back to Life’ from Division Bell got me through some really tough times.
I still go back about every 6 months or so and listen to PF exclusively for a few weeks. Their stuff is all just so fantastic.
doing a sort of improvised poetry rant…apparently you have to have actual vinyl (and abuse it at differnt speeds and whatnot) to hear what he’s saying clearly….
PS You passed my sorry-ass test with flying colors! 😉
It is a friend of mine called Ron Geesin who produceed Atom Heart Mother
Really?? Wow, Sven, that’s pretty damn cool! What is Geesin up to these days?
Ron is semi-retired though he still has his studio ‘Headrest’ down in Sussex. You can also hear his voice on Townshend’s ‘Give Blood’ at the beginning. (Gilmour also contributes guitars on same piece) Pete is a mutual friend since the early 60s – in fact I met Ron thru Pete.
http://www.rongeesin.com
Once when we were playing Dungeons and Dragons and I was the Dungeon Master, I told the group “You round a bend in the cave and hear the following” and put on “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave Grooving With a Pict.” They had never had a soundtrack to a campaign before and were quite impressed.
However, one was still badly injured in the resulting melee…
I have figured out the secret…..
Bwwwwhhahahhahahhah
Was I back in the kitchen or something?
Secrets? What Secret?
by looking at the sorce code of any effects I like. I am saving it in a word program so I can go back and use it when I want. Such fun!
brought the biggest smile to my face. Congrats to you!
yup it works
who really needs to learn something by doing it. I got very frustrated trying to find a good web site for learning this sort of thing. So I decided to try and learn this way. Eventually I will then be able to go back and learn more from the online tutorials.
Yes! That is the secret. The rest of the story is to look at the list of allowed HTML on the Post Comment or Diary pages.
That tells you which HTML tags accept styles or other options. If a tag accept tags, then you can stick just about anything in there.
I learned long ago to do underline, bold etc…
But the colored font, blockquote and such is all new to me.
Ooo ooo ooo!! You inspired me to try some stuff I never have before. First color. First choice of font, font size, margins,centering. I got it off your template, Katiebird.
But for some reason I can’t seem to find/do underlining. Can I get a clue for a buck?
Sorry, I couldn’t get the underline either
Thanks for trying. Maybe Katiebird will know.
How do you find the source codes for stuff you see that you like?
highlite it and then right click. It will give you the option to view selection sorce.
Thank you!
You just taught me something I didn’t know (and I’ve already passed it along).
Now, I don’t have to make the elaborate effort of reversing the HTML for my examples!
Thank you again!!!
You are welcome. I was just right clicking and getting the sorce code for the whole page and trying to figure out what it was I was looking for. I don’t know what inspired me to try highlighting a specific test or border. If you haven’t figure it out yet, if you wanted to find the sorce for say, a border, but can’t hilight it..just highlight the whole post. It still saves you a lot of searching through code.
<div style="height: 1px; border-style:solid; border-width-thin; border-color:white;
background-color: Black;"></div>
<div style="color: #2E8B57; font-family: ‘Comic Sans MS’; text-decoration:
underline; font-weight:bold; font-size:large;">Underline</div>
<div style="font-family: Garamond; color:Orange; font-size:large; text-decoration:
overline;">Overline</div>
<div style=" text-decoration: line-through; font-family: ‘Courier
New’; color:Blue; font-size:large">line-through</div>
<div style="color:Red; font-size:xx-large; text-decoration: blink;">blink</div>
Did you really think it was gone forever?
WOW! Thank you so much!
So much earlier, if I knew that wonderful trick about highlighting -> view selection source.
Also, I didn’t know until I was putting it together that we could still do BLINK.
Oops, I should have said:
Open Mike? Okay, but will he appreciated it?
I just flew in from Houston and wow are my arms tired. Da Dum Dum.
How many republicans does it take to screw up a country?
Just one, all the rest are reading their talking points.
What will St. Peter say to Karl Rove at the Pearly Gates?
Black is white and up is down. Pick a direction.
You pick up?
WRONG!
Who will succeed where Dubya has failed?
Just about anyone.
What will Dubya do during his retirement?
Learn to read and speak English.
lightbulb?
None, they prefer to stay in the dark.
What’s the difference between a soprano and a piranha?
The lipstick.
What’s the definition of an alto?
A soprano who can sightread.
Where is a tenor’s resonance?
Where his brain should be.
How many basses does it take to change a lightbulb?
None. They’re so macho they prefer to walk in the dark and bang their shins.
A few years ago I actually went on TWO different blind dates where the guys brought along their huge dogs! I’m talking Shetland pony size. One of the dogs was an enormous un-neutered Akita that had to be reminded to sit/stay every few minutes. The psychological implications of the owner’s actions were too interesting for me to want a repeat performance.
Unfortunately, dating has always been a recipe for disaster so I tend to run with herds of humans these days.
This is cool — A slider puzzle!
I don’t think I’m wasting quite enough time, but this should help.
Katiebird, go back upthread and look at what I just learned to do thanks to teresainpa’s inspiration and your template!
Look at me, Mom, look at me, Mom!
Check out the free, browser games at Little Fluffy. Most are totally crossplatform. All are (quite accurately) reviewed. The best are maddeningly addictive.
Enjoy!
I just posted an exceptionally long comment on a thread over at dKos. As I clicked the POST button, I suddenly became concerned that such a long comment was self-indulgent. I assuaged myself by thinking, well, in the greater order of things, this is probably not such a long comment.
And then a question dawned on me: I wonder what the longest blog comment ever posted was? Of course, there’s probably no good way to figure this out (there have presumably been billions of comments posted on blogs around the world). There’s probably no way to scientifically (or even pseudo-scientifically) answer this question.
But rather than simply file this under “idiotic thoughts that are of no interest to anyone but yourself,” I decided to post this on a Froggy Bottom Cafe thread, in the vague hope that someone wishes to recall an epically long blog comment that they posted, read, or chose to ignore (in awe or annoyance).
I do not know what the longest comment is but I do know that DuctapeFatwa posted the longest diary I ever saw here on booman, or maybe ever, it was 26 pages on word, single space, and that was only the first half, the second half he posted as a comment and that may actually be the longest comment, I think, but did not check it might have been close to 26 pages…and here is the diary in question!!!!!!!
http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2005/4/26/185023/927
my (first and only) diary here was really a comment. by the time i finally got around to saying what i wanted to say it was a lot longer than the diary i was going to post it too. i felt so bad about that and didnt want to post it thinking it’s length alone amounted to a hijack. i worked through it a few times and then i had a friend look at it and she cut quite a bit. it was still longer than the diary. i finally gave up and posted it as a stand alone.
Spouse and I went to great fish place here in Miami — whole grilled pompano for me (the Regal Fish). With it tried my second ever bottle of Chateau Ste. Michelle, Columbia Valley, Washington. As a long time drinker of French, German, Chilean, and some American wines — WHO KNEW?! — I’m twice surprised at the quality of the Merlot (1st sample) and Chardonnay (tonight’s treat) the winery produces. Lucky you Washingtonians who have several years up on me drinking this product.
Now let’s discuss key lime pie. The difference between a good and a bad one.
Key lime pie “Dos” — Graham cracker crust, condensed milk, real Chantilly sparely, paper thin slice of fresh lime to garnish, or sprinkling of lime zest (even better). Finishes on the tongue with a tangy “bite.”
Key lime pie “Don’ts” — Any other kind of crust, out of the box filling, out of anything but a cow topping, no lime slice or zest, any other garnish. Absolutely no half cherry thingies, especially green dyed ones!!
Share a slice. Fighting over the last bite is a tradition!
Of course, this cafe serves only the best.
Next time let’s talk about the best cole slaw and conch fritters.
And no mile-high pile of whipped cream on top please. I looove key lime pie.
is the original French (and chef’s) name for “whipped cream.” A little vanilla always present and sometimes flavored with lemon or brandy.
For KL pie, though, no flavorings on mine. I’m with you!
Yes, I see you said “sparingly.” <gr> Excellent. And thanks for the info about Chantilly. I didn’t know that’s what it meant.
(tap, tap, tap, blows wind into the mike, hears loud screaching feedback)
OK, all you Republicans move to the far right of the room,,,,yah,,you too you wanna be, and get that hand off that liberals sun dress,,,geeesh, Neo cons…Now keep moving to the right,,,that’s it,,further,,,further….(loud screaming and crashing sounds)
Oh shit,,,I forgot, that part of the lounge has’nt been built yet…Ooooooooh well, at least their outta the way for the party ; )
(turns the mike off)
Now, I’ll have a double Stoli’s with a splash of seven, and a twist of lime ; )
called “The Sailor’s Bonnet.” Believe it or not, it’s actually available on iTunes as a standalone under Arlo Guthrie because a fiddler (who sounds to me like Kevin Burke) seems to have done it as a short solo at a concert.
It’s a joyous D-pentatonic reel. Here it is in ABC format. There’s freeware software to translate ABC into sound or print it as sheet music as I understand. I don’t do much with computers and music, I play it the old fashioned way. Musicians who do much folk music can learn to read this like sheet music.
X: 1
T: Sailor’s Bonnet, The
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: Reel
K: Dmaj
A2 FA d~f3|dfef d~B3|A2 FA dfef|1 dBAF ADDB :|2 dBAF ADD2||
|:~a3 a afef|afef d~B3|fb (3bbb bafa|bfaf feef|
b~f3 afed|afef d~B3|(3ABA FA dfef|1 dBAF ADD2 :|2 dBAF ADDB||
Aw what the hey, to mellow things down just a little, here’s a more thoughtful reel that stands up to playing as a slow air. Martin Wynn’s #2
X:1
T:Martin Wynne’s
R:reel
D:Bothy Band: 1975
D:Tommy Healy & Johnny Duffy: Memories of Sligo
Z:id:hn-reel-328
M:C|
K:D %K:Bm (Original Transcription)
F2AF E2FE|DB,~B,2 DB,A,2|B,E~E2 FEDE|FB~B2 dBBA|
~F3D E2FE|DB,~B,2 DB,A,2|B,E~E2 FEDE|FBBA ~B3A:|
|:FBAF A2FA|Bdeg fdde|f2af egfe|dfed BAFE|
FBAF A2FA|Bdeg fdde|f2af egfe|dBAF ~B3A:|
“Variations:”
|:~F3D E2FE|DB,EB, DB,A,D|B,E~E2 FEDE|FABc dcBA|
FBAF EGFE|DB,~B,2 DB,A,D|B,E~E2 FEDE|FBBA ~B3A:|
|:F2BF ABdA|(3Bcd eg fede|f2af gefe|dBAd BAFE|
FBAF A2FA|(3Bcd eg fede|fgaf (3efg fe|dBAF ~B3A:|
Have a shamrock on the house!
Because I can’t put my book (Generous Gardener by Trisha Ashley – who wrote the absolutely weirdly wonderful Every Woman for Herself) down.
Honey, it’s your bar tonight. You can do annnything you like.
I started work at like 8 o’clock this morning, when will my shift be over for God’s sake?
Thankfully, the pay is great and the job is wonderful. Because the hours are extreme. I think.
But I immediately started fading. So, I think someone else is going to have to close this place down.
Goodnight everyone! It’s been fun
They ARE extreme. I think we’re going to have to let it purr along on its own for hours at a time, sometimes. These guys have NO trouble talking among themselves. 🙂
I’m off. I’d try to slip out without paying the tab, but that would make me a Republican.
G’night! You run a really fun cafe.
Just got back from seeing Batman Begins. Pretty good. Just make sure you remember that it is a comic book-based movie.
OK. Some of you pac-coasters may still be up, but for the rest of us, it’s late.
I don’t usually do this karaoke thing, but…what the hell. ahem
Closing time
Open all the doors and let you out into the world
Closing time
Turn all of the lights on over every boy and every
girl
Closing time
One last call for alcohol so finish your whiskey or
beer
Closing time
You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
Take me home
Closing time
Time for you to go out to the places you will be from
Closing time
This room won’t be open till your brothers or your
sisters come
So gather up your jackets, move it to the exits
I hope you have found a friend
Closing time
Every new beginning comes from some other
beginning’s end
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
Take me home
Closing time
Time for you to go out to the places you will be from
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
Take me home
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
I know who I want to take me home
Take me home
Closing time
Every new beginning comes from some other
beginning’s end
So stack those chairs upon those tables
And stack those empties upon that bar
And count your money
And count my money
And hear those bottles ringing
You know where you are
Closing time
Unplug them people
And send them home
It’s closing time
yeah. thats the ticket..unplug those people, send ’em home and let me get to sweepin’ up.