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All the how to information for this system is well and truly buried most of the time.... (And ugh, configuring new image subdirectories... they always end up with at least one wrong template, and now guide as to what they should be.)
Posted by: Mauser at Thu Mar 28 18:19:31 2019 (Ix1l6)
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Yeah, I absolutely need to fix that and update the docs. The directory configuration is probably the worst part of the system.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thu Mar 28 18:36:58 2019 (PiXy!)
Status Update
It appears that our posts are being lost between chair and keyboard and we have decided that this is due to tachyon interference from transmissions emitted by the
Dero from far beneath the Earth's crust in an attempt to break the tyrannical hold
on their third and fourth chakras that is being exercised by the
Shapeshifting Reptoids from Draco who have taken refuge with the
Antarctic Space Nazis in the hollow Earth after having to abandon their
forward operating base in Cydonia after the Greys razed it with
ortillery to prevent the Reptoid's and Nazi's joint (and evil) plan for global
domination from interfering with the Greys' seedy and completely illicit
fetish tourism and surprisingly lucrative manipulation of local (Terran)
cattle futures.
It is possible that the situation may be more or less complicated than that, but further investigation is needed and in any event things are hectic here, so we've decided to conclude this second rambling run-on-sentence with a picture of Grea who is a shining example of the societal virtues facilitated by hybrid vigor (and who has probably appeared in more TV series than any other half-dragonette).
There are at least two other shows that preceded it, neither of which I've seen and while I'm interested, I'm both busy and unclear on whether to start with Grand Blue or Bahamut.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Tue Mar 26 21:26:49 2019 (xOgT9)
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I went into Manaria/Mysteria Friends with no prior knowledge of the world or characters, and it's lots of fun. I don't know if I'll ever look into the other series set in the same world.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Wed Mar 27 01:04:37 2019 (ZlYZd)
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Yeah, there's no backstory to worry about. It's Cute Girls Doing Cute Things While Attending Hogwarts, without the evil wizards.
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at Wed Mar 27 14:35:04 2019 (v29Tn)
Oh Wow. Look at All the Positive Feedback I'm Getti.....Oh.
Greetings gentle reader, we are working diligently to keep our comments free of salt, water, modified potato starch, sugar, sodium nitrite, pork and.......ham.
So, as I run down the ingredients on a can of SPAM,
I note the ingredients list both pork AND ham.
The world is all muddled,
and I am befuddled
so I'll just throw up my hands and scream "Damn!"
While I contemplate this conundrum, here is a period panorama by Pochi.
Pochi's blog is here and you can purchase Pochi pictures here.
Oh fabrijous day! Minx's superscripts and subscripts work in New Moon. (They don't in Epic, Safari or Opera. At least not on my Mac. And Vivaldi's got...issues.)
Lets see. How about videos? That ought not to be an issue, but it is with Vivaldi. Let's go with something that's stripped of enough context to be SFW and forgotten enough that it doesn't incriminate me in any way.
How about formatting quotes and running animated .gifs? Let's try a reaction shot.
I’m not going to discuss the relative merits of astrology, but I’m going
to say when an entire civilization formed on the enlightenment
principles chases after it, things have gone seriously wrong.
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I have a solution to the automatic content generation. I can't promise it will be good content. In fact, I can promise it will be bad content. But it will be content, dammit.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Mon Mar 4 22:13:45 2019 (PiXy!)
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When I was migrating my blog from MovableType to Hugo, I used Wikipedia's randomizer to generate test content.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Mon Mar 4 23:25:20 2019 (tgyIO)
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I'm not seeing that last thing, unless it's supposed to be whitespace. Windows firefox, Noscript and AdBlockPlus running. Hmmm, says two items blocked. Let's see with that off.
Posted by: Mauser at Tue Mar 5 23:34:18 2019 (Ix1l6)
Research Papers & Boxes & Boxes & Papers & Research & Boxes & No Sleep For 37 Hours & A Kidney Stone & Boxes & Can't Lift My Arms & So Very Many Boxes
Everything hurts.
No blogging now.
Papers first.
But here is Weiss, with a more pleasant take on the season.
Hiatus (Bumped)
Between my final (as in no more!) term papers and the holiday rush at work I'm going to be scarce for a bit. As compensation I'll leave you with something that ought to be completely non-controversial.
BEST four armed, one eyed, curvy, red headed, plague doctor!
Quadriri, the indisputable best in her category is by Lansane. (Who you can support here)
If one is in an online forum and something involving an issue that is on the borderline of the established rules requires a decision from a moderator, a call by the moderator that is against one's liking does not make the moderator a marxist. It means they are moderating...that is their job. They don't get paid. And on a large forum they are having to make a LOT of calls and do a lot of work as well as tend to their own lives so if one is told to stop pushing the envelope (which will then entice a whole bunch of edgelord shitposters to shitpost on the edge and make the mod's life even harder) then one should probably not go all derp-chan & call them a Marxist. A Marxist is every bit as bad as a Nazi and we ought not to throw these words around higgly piggly. Yes. I know. Some people do. A majority of them are Marxists. They're also dicks. Don't be a dick. I have confidence that one is better than that.
Notice to Readers
This blog is a test, an experimental transmission from a secret facility.
Far beneath the guano mines of Niue.
When Mee.nu first started up, a number of tech savvy individuals were given blogs to run as alpha and beta tests. When that was successful there was one more step before going live. Another beta test...with someone who was NOT tech savvy. That's where I, the paragon of PEBKAC, came to be a beta tester and one of the earliest bloggers at Mee.nu. Now I understand basics of information technology of course, but I have no formal certifications in the care and maintenance of electro-pneumatic tubes, the complex interactions between isolinear silicon fibers and ley-lines, how such phenomena affect the transmigration of data between Samsara and "The Cloud" or the ultimate cathexsis of these discrete packets of id on a hard drive.
Therefore, it was decided that mine was the perfect blog to run the final beta on.
To this day Brickmuppet Blog is still a test blog as per our agreement, and experiments of various natures are still conducted here preceding any upgrades to the Mee.nu community.
Like spammer mitigation.
Be advised that there may be some disruptions of the blog over the weekend.
UPDATE: Well, it appears that the epic formatting issue in the previous post has been fixed and that sea monsters were not responsible in any way. We apologize for the hurtful, unwarranted and irresponsible speculation.
The Killer App of Mu.Nu
I started to mention this in a previous post, but it deserves to be above the fold.
A bit over 10 years ago, after 1021 posts on Blogger, I was about to throw in the towel. Google had bought BlogSpot shortly after I started blogging in 2003, but this was of no concern until early '07 when 2 things happened. There were some system crashes and issues with the image posting system. More importantly The Netroots types began a campaign to file complaints with Google/Blogger about "offensive content" in blogs whose opinions they found uncongenial and report others as spam blogs. Blogger/Google was only too happy to oblige. As a result of that, numerous blogs whose opinions vexed the Netroots were threatened, locked pending review, or just vanished. There had been a similar purge of right leaning You Tube Channels that had happened a bit earlier, (remember when Hot Air was mainly a companion site to their You Tube channel?). That censorious annoyance had been similarly instigated by complaints from the Netroots.
Brickmuppet Blog was protected from this mainly by my lack of talent which placed me near the bottom of the blogosphereic ecosystem and the fact that it's not really a political blog. Still, I did actually get one vague threat from a reader to have me taken down...because I guess getting a Z-list blogger with 6 readers to shut up is a real power trip. Between that and the short lived technical glitches, I was about to throw in the towel. I had been made very aware of how ephemeral any work consisting entirely of electrical zeroes and ones actually is.
Since then I've come to appreciate even more the absolute importance of the fact that Pixy Misa (the owner, proprietor of Mee.nu) is completely dedicated to free speech. Unless they are spammers, child pornographers or malware-bots, he and his crackerjack team of pixel elves aren't going to screw with any of the 65,000 odd websites hosted here.
Additionally, unlike some other platforms, Mee.nu doesn't have a truth and safety council, doesn't shadowban users, and allows one to type as many characters as one needs to get out a coherent thought (actual level of coherence is the typists responsibility).
Furthermore, unlike some services Mee.nu doesn't integrate seamlessly into every aspect of one's online existence. That may, at first, seem like a bug, but in an age of weaponized empathy...it is not. The other day I noted noted an online poll that concerned a politically charged topic. It required one to log in via a service we won't name (but it rhymes with SpaceCrook). This of course means that everyone in one's feed knows how one voted, and sets off all manner of flags. Rejoice Mr. Parsons! The telescreen has arrived!
But not here in Mee.nu.
Operating from a vast underground bunker hidden somewhere in the guano mines of Niue, Pixy Misa interacts with the world mainly through a surprisingly lifelike teleoperated animatronic in Sydney. Pixy oversees several servers scattered across the globe in places that are not North Korea, China or The Platt River Networks men's room.
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Unfortunately a lot of those 65,000 sites are indeed spammers (of the link farm variety, not the more aggressive email/comment sort). I'm going to have to spend a day weeding the garden soon.
Otherwise certified 100% accurate.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tue Jun 6 21:58:49 2017 (PiXy!)
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The irony of the above comment being spam is probably lost on the spammer.
Posted by: Mauser at Sun Dec 8 01:15:13 2019 (Ix1l6)
1Apologies for the content deficit gentle readers.
There's nothing to apologize for--you've got more important things to deal with right now. Keep your chin up, do what you gotta do to get through the next two weeks, and we'll be here waiting for free entertainment in the new year.
Posted by: Peter the Not-so-Great at Tue Dec 13 22:09:26 2016 (jS1F0)
Much Like This Individual...
...I've been distracted by trivialities that have caused me to loose focus regarding rather more consequential things that need to be dealt with.
A Test of Testable Things
Well there's been....TALK.
I walked into the cafeteria the other day and noted that all the cool kids were talking, presumably about cool things, so I walked over to say hi, but before i did I realized that they were actually venting about some dork...and then I realized, it was probably me so I hid behind the soda machine before they saw me and then skipped lunch and then I ran home and cut myself checked the blog in Epic, Opera, Vivaldi, Safari, Midori and Chrome and didn't see a problem but realized that the complaint was about IE...which I don't use because it tries to upgrade my Windows 7 into Windows 10...so I just gave up because the day was terrible since I'd already gotten a "D" in English because of something called a "run-on-sentence".
Ahem...
I noted that my page was set at 25 posts per page, I've cut it down to 5. As a stress test, since two other posts have embedded videos in lieu of content, I'll put this animated .gif of a girl passionately explaining why duodecimal is just better.
Let me know if cutting the the page count addressed the issues.
Did Mitsuki really have 6 fingers in the anime or is this some kind of fan-sourced joke?
Certainly she's not canonically asymmetrically polydactyl
A Google Search of the image seems to indicate that it's just an animatioj glitch, like the infamous cabbage.
However, it is entirely possible that it was an intentional gag.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Sun Jun 5 20:12:29 2016 (/4jFR)
Posted by: Rick C at Mon Jun 6 09:59:29 2016 (ECH2/)
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I got one of those "helpful corrections" a while back, trying to replace a broken link to the ATF's site with a link to a commercial site filled with anti-gun "home safety" tips. When I pointed and laughed, he actually wrote back complaining about how I was cyber-bullying him because I'd included his name on the blog. It took four or five email exchanges for him to finally go away.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Mon Jun 6 13:28:15 2016 (ZlYZd)
Don't want emails from us anymore? Reply to this email with the word "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject line.
WhoIsHostingThis, 27 Mortimer Street, Fitzrovia London, W1T 3BL, United Kingdom
LOL, I guess. They are trying my to change links to point at a domain "wiht.link". It's a thing now.
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Mon Jun 6 18:12:28 2016 (XOPVE)
We're trying to check out the blogs compatibility with Vivaldi, and double-checking a few things in our 5 other browsers. One annoying peculiarity is apparent right away
The banner images are not visible in Vivaldi. While It's certainly possible that this is an adblock issue, it should be noted that enen the privacy optimized Epic browser (which has an always on, near perfect ad-block) does not have this issue.
Additionally, some combination of keystrokes associated with the "BACK" key reverts the page to the previous page in the tab...thereby dumping the post.
Naturally, this is a break from format and therefore of limited appeal to our readers. Thus, sacred honor dictates that we post this picture...
Because few things over the last several weeks have been quite as refreshing as Blizzard's response to those who feel that the greatest problem in the world is Tracer's epic bodankey.
As to the upcoming game itself, I thin....
Ahem.
While I detect the foeted aroma of sarcasm in that outburst, in fairness, it should be noted that we do count amongst our loyal readers those who are not explicitly catered to by the first image.
To that end...
All nekoboys are 18 years of age or older. proof of age was on file in annex C of section 42 of the basement of the Ministry of Education Truancy Division Sector 8, Orion Arm Local Office Copies Division, Located orbiting Alpha Centauri B Planet 3 Moon 2 Quadrant 1, Sector 81, Spoo County, at the corner of 8th Street and Dogwood Avenue and was retained there until the nekoboys alluded to reached the age of majority at which point such records were burned pursuant to the child welfare act. That is our story, and we are sticking to it.
However, this can digress to an alarming degree since our diverse audience boasts a number with...unconventional interests.
,,,and there's always that ONE guy...
...which would just not be keeping with our format and so that is why we generally subcontract such matters to 4-Chan.
Let's try a quotation now
...might not be so bad, with all the lazy bums we got panhandling relief nowadays, and living on my income tax and yours—not so worse to have a real Strong Man, like Hitler or Mussolini—like Napoleon or Bismarck in the good old days—and have ‘em really run the country and make it efficient and prosperous again. ‘Nother words, have a doctor who won’t take any back-chat, but really boss the patient and make him get well whether he likes it or not!â€
― Michael R. Meyer, It Can't Happen Here
Ok...that covers most formatting tools and our ongoing nightmares..
Perhaps that's enough for now.
UPDATE: Does anyone note any oddness?
The banner images are working now. I suspect I have a broken banner in the rotation. I still cant figure out quite what selection of keys causes the page to jump back though.
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