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SCOOPtacular Tuesday Edition
Here’s a cool trick I shared with the late night cafe on Friday:
- Click on your User Page from the top menu bar, it should say [your UID]’s page
- Click on Settings
- Select ‘Comment Preferences’, the link is green right underneath
- You’ll see a bunch of empty boxes, put the number 40 in the ‘Nested up to’ box.
- Put a plus (+) sign in the ‘Dynamic Minimal up to’ box.
- Click ‘Save’ at the bottom of the menu and you’re set.
What does this do? It allows any diary under 40 comments to have the default setting of Nested view. Diaries with over 40 comments will have the Dynamic Minimal view and will show only the comment headlines until you open them individually. This helps alot with page loading, as well as allowing you to rate faster (test it out on a comment in the last cafe diary, you’ll see what I mean).
What other tips have you discovered using Scoop?
S T R E T C H!!!!
Enjoy that thready freshness. I’m off to find me some caffeine to keep me going until the 5:00 hour when I can slide off the tail of my brontosaur and….wait, I think I just blacked out.
Thanks Manee for reminding me about the setting preferences, I wondered where it went and never noticed the headline, comment preferences.
How are you today manee, btw, say do you have a spare lighter, mine went out and now I am using the long firestarter kind to light my cigs. and that is starting to go out as well, soon I will be using matches…
Doing okay today, been having one of those eerie Twilight Zone days, perhaps it’s the residue from last night’s Harvest Moon. Everyone at work has been alittle off-kilter.
that was fast, thanks for the lighter, looks like a genuine zippo, can you really spare it…I have felt the Twilight Zone for months now….have to always pull myself back to earth.
Are you getting any of this rain over there.
a good downpour yesterday and it has been cloudy all day, but so far no rain. The temps are perfect tho: mid 60’s. I’ll take that over the hell that is summer anyday.
A bit more levity from Crony Jobs (curly just sent me the link):
and there is more – including an application form.
Well, I’m off. Heading home and then to Drinking Liberally’s meet-up.
I like to use Dynamic Threaded instead of Dynamic Minimal. The difference is that Dynamic Threaded leaves the first comment in a thread open. This makes it easier to see what is being discussed and I think it makes the page easier to read.
Dynamic Threaded
Dynamic Minimal
ooooh, thanks for the screen captures.
Thanks, I like that lots better!
Nice! Thank you and thanks, too, for the larger wallpaper version of your photo this morning.
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For all that, and just for being an incorrigible mensch you get a
Incorrigible mensch = nicely depraved?
Ah well, my Aunt Sylvia always said I should learn to accept compliments graciously, so thanks for the bottom of my disreputably good heart. 😉
And look how happy you made me.
lol! I’d know you anywhere.
… are the cutie patooties of BT. Seriously. :^)
Aw shucks! My patootie is cuter than Andi’s patootie. Wait. How would I know this?
I’ve seen your author photo — though I don’t actually understand how a tenuta-leibowitz mindmeld can physically manifest itself as an uber-gracious Glenn Close lookalike.
Ha! I was younger then. Reminds me of the time when I went to a book something or other and my publisher’s sales rep was there. When we met, his face fell. He held up the cover of one of my older books, pointed to the photo of me on it and said, “I wanted to meet her!”
I laughed before I killed him.
to my husband and he laughed so hard he couldn’t breathe.
He says you’ve got to put the line “I laughed before I killed him” in one of your books. I was thinking it would make a great title.
It sounds as if I’m trying to kil your husband.
seeing as I haven’t killed him yet, he’s clearly got a charmed life.
Here are two cutie pootie-patooties for you.
Observed in the compound we are renovating in Juba.
An awwww before bedtime.
you’ve called me cute — which now puts you one up on my mom. I think I’m in love.
Ya gotta not use emotionally explosive words like “scoop” in cafe and diary titles!! At least for a few days.
Some of us are on pins and needles out here!
I agree — I just woke up from a nap, came back to the site, and between this item and Boo’s PISS acting up, I thought there was something major coming down this afternoon!
Gotta set up to DVR “Countdown” tonight — will be so glad to have the spouse home at a reasonable hour one of these years…
you’re feeling alittle bit like this?
but this is my favorite Pinhead…
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LOSING THE VP THIS WEEK … OR NEXT WEEK?
Just a reminder – LOL.
One year before the President would resign – happy days are here again!
New comments to my diary ::
▼ ▼ ▼ A MUST READ
For a minute there I thought he was wearing the blue turban that Nostrodamus says the anti-Christ will be wearing.
Whew. How anti-climactic would that be, to have Kaddafi turn out to be the a-C?
Too funneh!
Kansas, that was funny as sin. Especially the anti-climatic part. Thx!
I just came back in and Lou Dobbs has a bit about Wal-Mart banking — what the hell is up with this?
I just did a cursory Google search and found that Walmart has filed an application with the FDIC to open up a bank in Utah. Here’s an article from The Nation; also a link to the actual FDIC application with .pdf links
Markups may be 10,000% on 4th-world imports but a prince could starve on such a paltry diet. Who’d want to pass up the chance to charge 100% APR interest on that 10,000% markup?
I guess we’ve just found our Anti-Christ…
what would you do this weekend?
Yeah, you’re right. Just another hurricane. Ho hum. Everyone’s invited to my place and we’ll play Add a Name to the Indictment List.
Bring a canoe.
I’m a Equal Opportunity Partier so I say bundle all the celebration-worthy topics together and have a huge paranda.
Let’s combine them into a Hurricane Fitz party.
Here’s a good indictment party game – plug-the-leak-in-the-elephant’s-ass. A variation of pin the tail on the donkey.
Which is just about Gground Zero for now.
I’d say the hurricane is more likely and it affects me more directly.
I have a question.
Are there any openings for FBC cafe hosts? If not, can i put myself on the list for an alternate when folks need a stand-in? I would need some templates and/or HTML that make the cafes what they are, but I would be honored to be a sub, should I be needed!
Hats and socks off to all who make the FBC what it is!
We have templates set up via yahoo, which is a great resource. My hunch is that we could use a sub/host on Wednesdays. I know Abbott started school and has been busy, diane would probably know more on his situation.
Thanks for your willingness brinn, hopefully diane will chime in with more info. You rock!
Brin…good’ you can take Wed…this week….I will send you invite from the Social Group site where you can find templates and info…If that’s ok with you…let me know. Email me.
as in tomorrow??
I have a dentist appt. and the hub is seriously considering calling into work “deathly ill” — would next week work?
Yeesh. I suck already!
Next week is perfectly fine…consider yourself down for that date….Ok…10-26….if for some reason you can’t do that, let me know the night before…
How are you Brin,…
10/26, will do — that means the whole day, yes?
I’m ok, diane, thanks for asking — things are things are things as per usual…a little less stress now that the bankruptcy filing is in and the trustee date set (11/28) — so we’ll be having a Thanksgiving and then we’ll be having a Monday of groveling (or at least that’s the way I see it at this point…)
Who knows when the actual decision for full discharge will actually occur — CitiBank is STILL calling — I take great pleasure in telling them that they are breaking the law…and yet, the phone still rings.
Yes. I’m fine!
😉
This is great news. You’ll be terrific at it, Brinn. It’s a lot of fun. Thanks for volunteering!
Oh fun! I’ll be looking forward to next week!
I’ll give your comment settings a try.
I tend to read all of the comments, add an appropriate comment if I have something to say, BUT I usually only rate if the diary is less than 50 or 60. Get too far past that and I get a cramp in my clicking wrist! (I really do! That wasn’t a joke, believe or not?)
Is there a way to set it so that every comment turns to 4s automatically with one click? lol
Now that would be a scoop!
for Bay Area sports fans; longtime sportscaster Bill King died today at age 78 of complications following hip surgery…
And longtime Cleveland sports writer Hal Lebovitz died at 89 today. He was a fixture in my hometown for 60 years.
I’m a very new girl here, only nine days old. When I introduced myself my first day on the “Tell Us Why You Came” diary, Kansas kindly invited me to drop in to the cafe. I’ve checked it out most days, but you all seem to know each other so well, I’ve felt shy of speaking up.
But enough of that. Hello, all, I’m glad to be here. This has rapidly become my favourite blog, the first one I check in to, the main one I comment on (though I’m very fond of My Left Wing, as well).
It’s rainy here in Vancouver (what else is new?). We’re in the 7th day of a province-wide illegal teachers’ strike. The court has frozen the union’s assets, so they can’t pay the teachers strike pay, and later in the week, there will probably be large fines imposed, but I was out on a picket line in support yesterday, and spirits and resolve are amazingly strong. Go teachers!
I’m glad you decided to comment, I assure you we have plenty of snarky laughs to go around so hopefully you will feel free to hang out in the cafe. These threads have evolved over the months from Welcome Wagons to mosh pits to coinkidink memorials. It’s a good escape from the daily atrocities committed by the Bushistas.
Awesome job on the picketing, you should do a diary on your experience. Seriously! We have a bunch of canucks here in the frog pond and I know I’d love to hear how the unions are doing in Canada.
Paz and Cheers!
Always nice to see a fellow Canuck! My bro lives in Vancouver (I’m so jealous). I’m in Ottawa – the money pit province and the federal sinkhole to boot. Although, it does tend to be politically exciting … at times. :o)
I’ve been hearing a lot about the strike out west. The last I heard was that they were thinking of suing the union on behalf of parents who have had to miss work/wages and/or pay for baby-sitting. It sounds downright unruly. Like Manny above said, let us know what’s happening.
And don’t feel shy – the people here are very welcoming. Just (dare I say it?) hop right in!
Hi fellow Canuck! I don’t know if there’s anything for an Ottawan to feel jealous of Vancouver for, except the weather. I have a sister who lives in Ottawa, and when we talk on the phone in February or March, I taunt her by mentioning casually that the daffodils are out.
That lawsuit was an attempt at a class-action suit on behalf of parents, but in a bizarre development, the supposed plaintiff has declared that she knows nothing about the suit, and that it was brought without her knowledge by a former lawyer of hers. So it may go nowhere, but there is a class-action suit currently making its way through the courts related to the illegal strike by hospital workers a year and a half ago. So we may yet see more on the parents’ suit.
Sibling in Ottawa / Sibling in Vancouver… Interesting. And yes, I hear regularly about the weather and the plant material and how they have no screens on the windows for bugs etc.! I know you guys are secretly jealous of all of Ottawa’s ice storms, right? :^) No. I didn’t think so. I could do w/out them myself.
The unknowing plaintiff – now that is interesting. Hmm. I think we’re all looking at this situation very closely in part b/c of the ‘tough’ talk coming from the government toward the teachers.
Yeah, the government and the teachers’ union are eyeball to eyeball on this one, and so far, nobody’s blinking.
The B.C. Federation of Labour has joined in, with rotating walkouts in support of the teachers, first Vancouver Island on Monday, today the North, and tomorrow rumoured to be the Okanagan. It’s been public sector unions so far, but Jim Sinclair, head of the B.C. Fed, has hinted that tomorrow private sector unions will join in.
This is both encouraging and worrying — encouraging because it shows such a strong degree of public support, worrying because any time the Fed gets involved, you can smell “sell-out” in the air.
I don’t know if you remember the strike here in the spring of 2004, by the Hospital Employees’ Union? They were out on strike, got legislated back, and stayed out in defiance anyway — this came from the membership, not the leadership. There was huge support from other unions, who were planning to join in with walkouts, when the Fed waded in, and together with the leadership of the other big unions, and H.E.U., brokered a sell-out deal that pulled the plug on the job actions. I have friends who were in H.E.U. then who still won’t speak to their leadership, they’re so bitter.
I have high hopes of the BC Teachers Federation, that they won’t sell out, but hey, I’ve been wrong before.
I did watch that case w/ interest. Good luck w/ the current strike – I know we’ll all be watching. Keep us updated if anything happens – and write a diary on it – you sound very informed!
Bughouse! You came, you lurked, you spoke! I’m so glad. Believe me, in no time at all. . .like by the end of today. . .you’ll feel like an old-timer. I’m pretty sure that’s a good thing. 🙂
Here, have a blue dot. . .
(Blue dots have a history having to do with me making a fool of myself by mistaking an AndiF photo of the Colorado River with a person dressed in blue. What? You’ve never confused a person for a river?)
And thanks for the explanation of the blue dot — I’ve been wondering.
If you visit the cafe, you’ll see “blue dot” photos appear every with some regularity on kansas’ cafe hosting days (but these are always photos in which I do appear as a reasonable facsimile of a small dot).
Now really, wouldn’t anybody think that’s a person in blue sitting on a rock?
Okay, that looks exactly like a person in blue standing on the rock — in fact, if you look closely, you can see them waving at the camera. (sort of)
The defense rests!
kansas, I remember when I first saw this photo, I just assumed the blue dot was a waving person.
Another option didn’t occur to me at all.
I was reading and lurking from work that day, and I did one of those stiffled laugh-gasps when the whole river/not-a-person thing was revealed.
My eyes still go cross-eyed shifting to river-mode when I look at it.
Ha! And just becauses katiebird also happens to live in Kansas means nothing, nothing I tell you. We have NOT all been afflicted with the short-sightedness of our Republican neighbors!
Thank you, kb. I am vindicated! Or you are blind.
the first time around — but yes, that does look like a person in blue perched on that rock, though I’m damned if I can figure out how the hell they would get there…
(I’m so stressed from PISS that I’m swearing even more than usual…)
Welcome Bughouse! (Bughouse…sounds like a perfect description of my life!)
How’d you get that photo of Andi’s whole family, Goose?
Don’t be shy about commenting. All of us were strangers just a short time ago. This is just a very easy group to get along with.
And it’s great that you are supporting the teachers.
All of us were strangers just a short time ago
That’s true, isn’t it? For me, less than 6 months, but I have known you all for always it seems.
Welcome BC, glad to see you — comment away! Here there and everywhere that prompts you to say something!
We have big mouths, but bigger ears, and even bigger hearts!
Thanks for the chorus of welcome, all of you! Makes a girl feel right at home.
There are quite a few Canucks in BooTrib land… And “other worldly” members.
I was born and raised in Montreal. I live in Connecticut now, not that you couldn’t have quessed that from my name.
Welcome the Booman Tribune!
And just because you were nice enough to respond to some of your welcomes… You managed to get 3 free perfect 4 ratings out of me!
Is it ever your lucky day, eh?
Three free 4’s? Beauty, eh?
I didn’t know that you were from Montreal! The Habs thing makes total sense now! (btw – did you see the game last night vs Boston?) I wondered the other day what the connection was when you were talking Cdn in another thread (eh, beer etc.) … (just went to look for it and can’t remember which thread it was in).
Kewl.
Lived in the St. Lambert area for about 27 years. That is just over the Victoria bridge from Montreal on the South Shore. I have some Friends and family in Ottawa. Then again I have family across Canada and the US, and most of my friends left Montreal after graduating college or high school.
I miss Montreal… I miss it even more when hockey season starts!
And I listened to the game on the internet while I was Blogging last night! I always do that. Another WIN! lol
While I think the Habs could easily end up anywhere in the top five in the East… Ottawa is built even better for the new rules than the Habs are. Picking Ottawa for first in the East, and maybe even the league, is easy to justify this year.
I expect that a lot of NHLers will retire and/or be cut from their teams sometime during the season, or at the end of the season, just because they don’t have the speed needed for the new rules.
I expect that a lot of NHLers will retire and/or be cut from their teams sometime during the season, or at the end of the season, just because they don’t have the speed needed for the new rules.
Brett Hull for instance. I heard on the local radio station that Gretzky told him he needed to get in better shape, and that they would send him for some extensive training w/ cardio and diet etc. Grets said Hull could take a month off (inj reserve I guess) to do it. He didn’t want to, so he retired.
There is SO much hockey on TV up here right now … I’m giddy. In fact, we’ve got hockey, baseball p-offs, NFL and CFL. There’s at least one game of something on every night (I hate sitcoms and other TV, and mostly watch sports). Good time of year.
(PS I’ve got family in Connecticut! Hubster’s family is American.)
I’m a very new girl here, only nine days old.
I tell ya, kids are getting smarter every generation…
9 days old and not only can she use a computer, but she knows how to protest and has great taste in blogs too!
Incredible!
(Are you, by any chance, genetically enhanced?)
LOL JK
Curses! You’ve discovered my secret — now I’ll have to kill you.
Although I might spare you if you can tell me where you were when Paul Henderson got the winning goal in the Canada-Russia hockey series. (Is there an emoticon for a fiendish grin?)
I was at my parents home watching the game on TV… I was only about 7 when Henderson took “the shot heard round the world”… But at 9 days old, how do you know all this? lol
All Canadians know this, it’s part of our cultural DNA.
We can almost see you over the horizon from partway down Puget Sound. We can see the Island on a clear day. Which in our case we have not got.
Saw the BC Teachers’ Strike story on The National last night–very big crowd, it would scare the b’jaysus out of U.S. mainstream Democrats.
Don’t be shy, join in any time.
Yeah, we can be a pretty rowdy bunch up here. I just heard on the late news that Vince Ready, who’s a very respected and experienced arbitrator, has been in talks today with both sides, so maybe our rowdiness is having the right effect. Cross your fingers for us.