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When I posted my previous metapost about moving servers, I said this:

Hopefully all will go smoothly, but comments you post here and in the forum during the transition period might not make it over.

Perhaps I should have been clearer. This does not mean that I will be capriciously removing comments or forum posts during the transition. This is an unavoidable part of the server transition process. Basically, to make the switch, I had to copy the entire site, comments and all, to the new server; once I did that, I needed to switch the domain information so that joshreads.com points to the proper server. But it takes 24-48 hours for that domain information to percolate across the Internet, so for a brief period, your Internet service provider may have been pointing you to the old site. If you made any comments or forum posts on the old site after the copy, they will be lost. Perhaps I should have made it clearer in my original post, but I didn’t think I had to. If you have further questions, e-mail me.

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I’ve found a new server host and am going to take a stab at moving over this afternoon. Hopefully all will go smoothly, but comments you post here and in the forum during the transition period might not make it over. I will post an update here when the move has happened, letting you know that you’re looking at the new server. If all goes well, this shouldn’t take more than 24-48 hours. Sad that this must happen just as Mary Worth hits a fever pitch of thrills, but them’s the breaks!

UPDATE: Well, if you can read this, you’ve succesfully made the transition to the new server. Congrats! More deathless prose and less tech gibberish to follow.

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Apartment 3-G, 9/3/06

Ted: I could use some decorating tips.

Tommie: I’m afraid that’s not my strong suit.

Ted: Never mind, because that’s NOT ACTUALLY WHY I’M INVITING YOU UP TO MY APARTMENT. Jesus, you’re dense. How about dinner? Will dinner work? Great. See you at seven. Don’t wear underwear.

Ted at least can pull off his smooth talk without resorting to scare quotes, unlike some people would-be lotharios we could mention…

Mary Worth, 9/3/06

Note that “talk” and its variant “conversation” only appears in pervert-quotes when Aldo uses it. Mary is too forthright to resort to that kind of euphemism. Still, since nobody ever discusses this subject with Mary, we need somebody to just tell it like he means it:

Of course, we all are desperate to know just what it is that Aldo is looking at in the last panel, but sadly we won’t find out until at least Tuesday, since Monday will inevitably be a recap of today, and because Monday is a holiday, Tuesday may need to be a recap of Monday. My guess: a phalanx of cops, or the exhumed corpse of his wife. I’m enjoying the look on Mary’s face in that final panel; she’s thinking, “Oh, Aldo, I didn’t want it to come to this, but, well, you started things: I’m just finishing them.”

For Better Or For Worse, 9/3/06

“You kids are right into the ‘pop culture’?” Christ, even by Canadian standards you couldn’t possibly say anything dorkier than that without collapsing into some sort of black hole of dweebishness. The quote marks are just icing on the cake. No, there’s only one word that can properly describe Dr. P.:

Of course, 4Evah and Eva’s bassist is wearing a turquoise tank top, so maybe they aren’t exactly arbiters of cool themselves.