Man Eegee, Author at Progress Pond

AspenWeave: Jennifer Millerwise Dyck

Posted by Man Eegee | Oct 19, 2005 | Uncategorized |

[From the diaries by susanhu. You put Nancy Drew to shame, Man Eegee!] No wonder everyone is suffering from Pre-Indictment Stress Syndrome, new details emerge each day on the tangled and incestuous relationships that exist between the various government agencies in the D.C. Beltway.

Yesterday the Washington Post ran an article that gave us some new players from Dick Cheney’s office who are under investigation from Fitzgerald. Susanhu has a frontpage story on two of them–David Wurmser and Catherine/Cathie/Kathy Martin; catnip also did some sleuthing on John Hannah, who has apparently flipped and is now aiding the investigation.

This diary will be a springboard of information regarding a new cast-member, Jennifer Millerwise Dyck, who has served in several PR positions that are key to unraveling the Aspens. (picture taken from pbs.org archives)

More below…

[editor’s note, by Man Eegee] I corrected the spelling of her married last name. Mea culpa.

Froggy Bottom Cafe – SCOOPtacular Edition

Posted by Man Eegee | Oct 18, 2005 | Uncategorized |

Newbies, Lurkers and Splashers
Welcome to the
Froggy Bottom Cafe

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?

Froggy Bottom Cafe – Blogitist Edition [CLOSED]

Posted by Man Eegee | Oct 18, 2005 | Uncategorized |

Welcome to the
Froggy Bottom Cafe

Newbies, Lurkers and Splashers

do you get the shakes when you lose your internet connection?
do you hit the refresh button like a feening mouse?
do images of skulking trolls haunt your dreams?

if so, you may be suffering from

Accute Boo Blogitis Syndrome

symptoms may include:

violent, PISSy urges to catch frogs and handcuff them
overloaded email inbox from online petition requests and ATM transaction requests from congress critters
repeated references to your elected officials as congress critters
usage of terms AFAIK, IOKIYAR, IANAL, IIRC, or IMHO
emailed jokes that are littered with HTML links to provide sourcing
instant rage while watching cable news networks (excluding Keith O, of course)
unsatisfied craving for cheesecake
a perceived reality where Primordial Ooze is no longer goo and spiderleaf is neither spider nor leaf
naming pets after government officials or political heroes
an attitude where snark is more than a mood, it’s an art and a lifestyle

What other symptoms are you experiencing?

SEC Subpoenas Bill Frist

Posted by Man Eegee | Oct 13, 2005 | Uncategorized |

[From the diaries by susanhu.] From today’s WaPo:

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) has been subpoenaed to turn over personal records and documents as federal authorities step up a probe of his July sales of HCA Inc. stock, according to sources familiar with the investigation.

The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the subpoena within the past two weeks, after initial reports that Frist, the Senate’s top Republican official, was under scrutiny by the agency and the Justice Department for possible violations of insider trading laws.

Nothing like some gasoline to throw on the fire, eh? Here’s hoping for some added momentum to the Culture of Corruption meme.