Metapost: Comments are down (not on purpose)
It has come to my attention that the comments pop-up on the main page has suddenly stopped working. This, I promise, is not something that is happening on purpose as part of a scheme to force you all to go over to the new forums. It’s a garden-variety technical screw-up. I’m on it, to the extent that I in my technical quasicompentence can be said to be “on” anything in this regard. More soon.
Update: You’ve no doubt all noticed, comments are back up and running. The problem was at my Web host — they just installed some server doohicky that interfered with some other server thingamabob that was in charge of the popup comments. They fixed it while I was out enjoying a vigorous swim. Ah, to have people who take care of things (even if they caused the problem in the first place).
Also, as a note for posterity, today is my one-year anniversary, and this is my 365th post. In other words, despite my long absences, I really am averaging a post a day!
Josh
July 11th, 2005 at 3:29 pm
And yet *this* comment seems to work! What the … arrrgh!
jf
Sassy_Rocks
July 11th, 2005 at 4:10 pm
Premonition – If Mary Worth’s cheezy memorial swans are porcelain and not some Pleazall Plastic Company rub-a-dub bathtub swans crafted with pride by forced Chinese prison labor in a sweatshop, as they appear, then Rita may break a swan in a drunken stupor.
yellojkt
July 11th, 2005 at 4:18 pm
Consensus seems to be that the swans are toast. The Rita Rampage will go on until Charterstone Condos are a smoldering pile of rubble and Rita is saying, “It’s not my fault. I thought if I had some food with my booze, I could operate heavy machinery. I didn’t mean to knock down your wall, I just needed to get to the bottle of nail polish you had locked in your bathroom and this bulldozer was just down the street. Please forgive me. Pleeeeze. Did I mention my daughter is dead?”
dalton
July 11th, 2005 at 4:37 pm
Here’s a test post for ya. Did it work?
Something clever
July 11th, 2005 at 5:17 pm
>Consensus seems to be that the swans are toast.
My ingrained perversity would like this to be a literal statement. Mary worth, sitting in a darkened room. Clutching stale, moldy, painted toast shaped into swan outlines, muttering “my late husband is sending me messages…pretty swan, pretty pretty swan.”
Islamorada Girl
July 11th, 2005 at 5:18 pm
It’s working now!
Can’t wait for Ritzilla’s drunken scene by the Charterstone pool! And you knooooow it’s coming!
lynette
July 11th, 2005 at 6:33 pm
Remember the GENUINE reproduction painting, from Reader’s Digest? The swans were available from the same PRESTIGIOUS PUBLICATION! Mary’s dearly departed knew FINE ART when he saw it. We can only hope Rita calms her grief frayed nerves, and returns the HEIRLOOM QUALITY figurine to Mary’s coddling hands.
Sassy_Rocks
July 11th, 2005 at 7:50 pm
Perhaps Rita needs to sit in a darkened room chanting “Mary Worth”. This may exorcise the meddlesome biddy hag from her life once and for all. Then she can throw back a few scotches with Doc Jeff, get jiggy wit him and have the kind of inappropriate intimacy that the sex staved doctor never got from Mary Worth.
http://www.snopes.com/horrors/ghosts/bloody.htm
Mishi
July 11th, 2005 at 9:43 pm
Congrats on a whole year!! I enjoy this site so much and all its followers. Many more years, mule!
Beasley
July 11th, 2005 at 10:00 pm
Suddenly, I feel surrounded by lurkers!
Welcome into the light, folks.
;)