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I'm also happy with the current solution.
Closing time soon
Since the last monthly fee will not cover the entire month of October, we're setting October 15 as the day we'll freeze this place. If you want to establish your new space together, we suggest you either set something up by then or chose somebody's blog as an interim meeting room to finalise plan...
I agree with Nenya--if we're just looking for a place where all of us will be able to find each other for discussions, a message board where people can post whatever may be the way to go.
Closing time soon
Since the last monthly fee will not cover the entire month of October, we're setting October 15 as the day we'll freeze this place. If you want to establish your new space together, we suggest you either set something up by then or chose somebody's blog as an interim meeting room to finalise plan...
I have the same handle at LJ as I do here, and I know I don't have most of you friended. I don't post a lot though, and it is usually kid pictures and kid stories.
I have not been able to get the OpenID at DW to work consistently with my LJ, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. So if we go to DW, I will probably get a DW account, too.
A New Day
We'd originally planned to post this on Friday to give everyone time to comment, but as there's clearly some effort in the threads to come up with some new systems, we think this might be a good time to suggest our ideas a day early, as we think it might fit in very well with what people are sa...
Of those two, I'd vote for LJ, since I'm already there and under the same handle.
A New Day
We'd originally planned to post this on Friday to give everyone time to comment, but as there's clearly some effort in the threads to come up with some new systems, we think this might be a good time to suggest our ideas a day early, as we think it might fit in very well with what people are sa...
Unfortunately, I am unable to take on any other commitments at this time. I'm barely keeping my head above water with the ones I do have.
I will be sad to see the Slacktiverse go, if it does go.
I would prefer option 3 if it comes to that, but I think we should send the contents of 'our' tip jar to Fred's tip jar.
Time For a Re-Think
We set up this place at the request and with the agreement of the community when Fred Clark left to go to Patheos. The understanding was always that it would be a 'group blog', with content provided by volunteers from the community. At the time of writing this, it looks very much as if the pl...
Chris, that's got to be the longest parenthetical I've seen appended to a signature yet!
Updated This week in The Slacktiverse, September 15/16 2012
The Blogaround Nick Kiddle reports: Two pieces on the Iron-On Line this week: Resolved about my latest commitment to baby steps in the right direction (vague talk about depression) and A Scribble or short worldbuilding sketch. Also potentially of interest to slacktivites: I've just booked ...
Of course the characters in Winnie the Pooh are selfish--with the exception of Kanga and Owl they're written as children!
Rereading The Old Favourites
The Guardian newspaper is currently running a series entitled 'Rereading Stephen King', in which the writer and King devotee James Smythe rereads each of King's books in chronological order and discusses the change between his reactions as a teenager and as an adult. Have you ever done this with...
A sitter, here, for a whole evening, is ~$30 for three kids, and movie tickets are $11 apiece.
Tonight I'm going to go cook dinner for and watch my BFF's six kids so she and her husband can go out to dinner for their 21st wedding anniv. They'll reciprocate for our 22nd anniversary in December. (If, unlike the past two years, one set or the other of kids does not have stomach flu in December.)
That's the only way we can afford to go out these days.
(Nearly) Open Thread, September 5 2012
TBAT would like to thank everyone for their thoughtful and civil participation in the atheist roundtable discussion. We hope you all enjoyed yourselves. We'd like to see more such discussions in the future, but the way to kick them off is to have interesting pieces to publish. Submit some wor...
TBAT, I think I have a post caught in the spam trap.
(Nearly) Open Thread, September 5 2012
TBAT would like to thank everyone for their thoughtful and civil participation in the atheist roundtable discussion. We hope you all enjoyed yourselves. We'd like to see more such discussions in the future, but the way to kick them off is to have interesting pieces to publish. Submit some wor...
I never believed in an omnipotent, omniscient, onmibenevolent deity. In my religious upbringing the 'three omnis' were omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. Which made sense to me because the Old Testament makes perfectly clear that God isn't OMNIbenevolent.
I didn't encounter omnibenevolence as a claimed attribute for God until I was an adult.
An Atheist Roundtable
After well-received multiple-authored posts on "Depression 101" and "Paganism 101", there were several requests for similar posts on various religious worldviews, especially atheism. It soon became obvious that anything approaching a comprehensive and authoritative "Atheism 101" was beyond the s...
The most recent Ice Age.
Krakatoa. (says cjmr's husband, who just read a book on it)
Winter in Russia during any war in which someone from the west is trying to conquer Russia.
Ill winds blowing
While Tropical Storm / Hurricane Isaac directly disrupts the lives of millions of Americans it is also posing a challenge of the organizers of the Republican National Convention currently under way in Tampa Florida. This brings to mind the question: What weather events have had the greatest imp...
Ah yes, I remember that discussion. I think I might have participated in that discussion.
The folks round here do say...
What local customs or superstitions have you found to be unique to where you were born or live now? The Board Administration Team (hapax, Kit Whitfield and mmy)
Somewhere, my mom has a photo of little baby me being held up to the TV to watch Neil and Buzz on the moon.
I feel like a part of me has died--I wanted to be Neil Armstrong 'when I grew up'.
The folks round here do say...
What local customs or superstitions have you found to be unique to where you were born or live now? The Board Administration Team (hapax, Kit Whitfield and mmy)
Ah yes. And for some reason they always buy bread, eggs, milk, and toilet paper. Even people who don't usually eat bread, eggs, or milk will buy bread, eggs, milk, and toilet paper.
People in our area seem to only do that when there is actually snow falling and it is expected to be a lot. And they buy all kinds of groceries.
The folks round here do say...
What local customs or superstitions have you found to be unique to where you were born or live now? The Board Administration Team (hapax, Kit Whitfield and mmy)
Yes, I used to carry inside shoes to school and church. Other kids kept them in their lockers--we weren't allowed to wear our boots in school. I longed for the day I'd be old enough to get dress boots to wear to church (Mom wasn't going to go to that expense until my feet stopped growing so quickly) but was very disappointed to find out that dress boots don't keep your feet WARM.
My knees and ankles are now so bad I have to wear shoes (proper shoes, with arch support) all the time or I am in pain. I'm glad I'm the grownup now and can make my own rules about shoes in the house.
The folks round here do say...
What local customs or superstitions have you found to be unique to where you were born or live now? The Board Administration Team (hapax, Kit Whitfield and mmy)
We have a number of mix CDs for the car--60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 'driving music', 'instrumental'. The criteria for selection were: 1) songs must not get annoying after only a few repetitions, and 2) songs must not contain lyrics that would be embarrassing if a four-year-old were to start singing zir version of them in public. The current youngest's version of Bohemian Rhapsody is kind of interesting...
Turn the Record Over
Certain songs become maddening after only a few hearings, others (maybe most) get maddening if they're repeated a lot, but others seem to stay good even if you hear them over and over. What songs do you find bear repetition? What qualities do you think make a song bearable or not bearable for r...
Ross' post reminded me of another thing my mom says:
"Now we just have to cut it out and put it together." Used when you have done 10% of the project which has used 90% of the time available, and have to move on to the other 90% of the project (which will use the other 90% of the time). Refers back to an incident where the sewing pattern required a particularly complex cutting layout on the fabric.
Private Slang
Many families and other close-knit groups seem to develop a private set of slang that can seem baffling to outsiders. (For example, the designation "Real True XXX" and the welcome "Please don't kill us with sheep" that originated on this site.) What are some of these expressions that you have e...
My mom used to say 'curse, swear, mutter, grumble' when she'd have preferred to use a stream of expletives. Husband and I just say 'expletive deleted' in that circumstance, thanks to the internet.
Private Slang
Many families and other close-knit groups seem to develop a private set of slang that can seem baffling to outsiders. (For example, the designation "Real True XXX" and the welcome "Please don't kill us with sheep" that originated on this site.) What are some of these expressions that you have e...
Oh, and we also use "noon-thirty" and also "o' dark-thirty". (The latter means 'way too damn early').
Private Slang
Many families and other close-knit groups seem to develop a private set of slang that can seem baffling to outsiders. (For example, the designation "Real True XXX" and the welcome "Please don't kill us with sheep" that originated on this site.) What are some of these expressions that you have e...
Our family slang often includes words that the current youngest member of the family mispronounces, for instance, right now we are keeping our food cold in the 'fridger', and carry 'umbrerllellas' when it is raining.
Private Slang
Many families and other close-knit groups seem to develop a private set of slang that can seem baffling to outsiders. (For example, the designation "Real True XXX" and the welcome "Please don't kill us with sheep" that originated on this site.) What are some of these expressions that you have e...
Content Note: Labor and Delivery experiences
When I was ~10, I had a very bad sore throat--bad to the extent that I wouldn't drink soda or even suck on a popsicle. They gave me a codeine-based cough syrup. I got my first dose before bedtime. That was a horrible experience--I hallucinated ginormous spiders crawling all over my body in the dark. The pediatrician said it was an idiopathic adverse reaction and recommended that I not ever take any related drugs.
Fast forward 24 years to the birth of my second child--the anesthesiologist asked if I'd be willing to try having a related drug in my epidural, since my previous (non-narcotic) epidural had not been very effective. I agreed. I didn't see actual spiders this time, but it *felt* the same.
So, no more narcotics for me, TYVM. I hope I don't end up with a chronic pain condition.
Drugs and Medicines, Good and Bad
Whether legal or illegal, chemical substances can be potent things. What's the best/worst drug or medication experience you've had? And what laws or principles do you think would best serve everyone's interests as regards that drug or medication? The Board Administration Team (hapax, Kit ...
According to FC's FB post in the wee hours of the morning, it is a permanent thing.
This week in The Slacktiverse, August 11/12 2012
The Blogaround This week Ana Mardoll posted: Twilight: A Healthy Dose Of Fear (Content Note: Abusive Relationships, Rape, Examples of Misogynist/Ableist/Harmful Language) Edward has issues with anger and ableism and trust and intimacy and everything else with Bella because, fundamentally, ...
As long as you've bought the Kindle content from Amazon, if your Kindle gets lost or destroyed you are supposed to be able to retrieve it from 'The Cloud'. If you hack other e-format books to read on your Kindle, not so much.
Neither A Borrower Nor A Lender Be
The library community has been struggling with the increasing demand for e-books among their patrons. Wildly inflated prices (often ten times what consumers pay), severe restrictions, and outright refusal to loan by many publishers has led libraries to slash budgets for other materials, and to ...
TV and/or Movie trope I hate--potty humor, esp. flatulence jokes.
Favorite and Un-Favorite Tropes
Is there a theme or trope or type of character in a story that you find irresistible, even though everything else about that work is terrible? On the flip side, what themes or tropes in books, movies, and other media will keep you from reading/viewing/playing something that you think that you w...
This spam @4:56 on Friday isn't in French or English--just html...
Open thread AND Board Post, July 27 2012
Irregular Business Treat this as an open thread. If you want to discuss the new policies, please wait till the appropriate thread reopens. Regular Business Don't forget to send in items that you want included in This week in The Slacktiverse July 28/29 2012. The three sections of the we...
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