Comments on: Super Bowl Open Thread

By: John O

John O — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:28:18 +0000

“I don’t know how you can be any kind of coon-ass legend when you ain’t got no x’s or u’s in your name.”

“Shoat means of course that everybody from LSU seems to have a name like Bou-ax or Loubedo.”

Dan Jenkins, Semi-Tough

By: Jane2

Jane2 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:24:17 +0000

Who Dat? NOBODY!!

By: Yutsano

Yutsano — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:44:30 +0000

Yeah checking in way late but GEAUX SAINTS!!

By: metalgirl

metalgirl — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:38:34 +0000

OMG, the Aints look like they are going to roll over the Colts! I have a good friend from NOLA at the game who is sending updates on FB. Good for him—at least I can root for his team this time (since it’s not basketball and LSU, since I’m a KY fan)!

By: Morbo

Morbo — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:11:36 +0000

Except for that drop, Colston has been a monster for the Colts to defend.

By: minachica

minachica — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 02:07:54 +0000

@PurpleGirl: This! That bouncy gator is literally migraine-inducing.

By: PurpleGirl

PurpleGirl — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:59:17 +0000

I’ve actually clicked through quite a few times to Project Wonderful sites from the ads… but the animated gator was creating a problem for me. I’m sensitive to sounds and light and sometimes to repetitive motions like that ad. The end result can be physically painful. The alternative for me until I discovered that right-click thing was to leave Balloon Juice and I didn’t want to do that. I’ll check back for when the gator and gone and re-engage images.

By: Max

Max — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:52:01 +0000

@Keith G: Apparently, it's either old men playing old songs or Nickleback.

By: WaterGirl

WaterGirl — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:51:14 +0000

@Laura W: That helps a lot! I have to confess that I pretty much tune out all advertising instinctively (sorry!) so I would never have clicked on your site anyway. (sorry again!) That gator ad was driving me wild and I was about a minute away from taping a strip of cardboard over that part of my laptop screen when someone suggested an ad blocker, so that's what I did. I appreciate learning more about the way things work; I surely don't want to take revenue away from my favorite blog. Thanks again

By: Keith G

Keith G — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:49:36 +0000

@South of I-10: I love the Quarter on non holiday holidays. Up tempo partying, but still a sense of calm because it is so under (max) populated. If that makes sense.

By: Keith G

Keith G — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:45:35 +0000

@Max: Red Hot Chili Peppers or, hell, I'd settle for Match Box 20 or Prince again. But please no more acts from my childhood. They are not relevant or entertaining. Watching the Who now would is like Rudy Vallee performing in a 1970s half time show.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:44:12 +0000

@WaterGirl: OmniWeb has a lot of other nice features. For one, it saves state on all your pages when you quit, so everything just jumps back up where you left it.

Another, it has what are called ‘Workspaces’ which are basically different snapshots of your saved states, so you can have a bunch of pages and tabs open for some task like house hunting or car shopping and then switch that workspace out to do your day-to-day stuff.

One of the best features is that it makes all text form fields resizable, so I can take this submit box and stretch it out so it’s a reasonable width. I can also open up the text form into it’s own window that looks like a Textedit window with standard fonts and such and type there and everything gets mirrored to the actual form field. Nice stuff.

You can enable javascript per-site (or enable it for all sites and disable it per site) and lots of features like that. Makes the whole experience a lot nicer.

By: South of I-10

South of I-10 — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:41:27 +0000

@Keith G: 140 miles? A couple of hours.

By: justme

justme — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:40:18 +0000

Ooohhh. New thread.

By: Laura W

Laura W — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:39:36 +0000

@WaterGirl: Lost my edit window. What I meant to say was that you take no money away from BJ if you block Project Wonderful ads, but you know, many of us who advertise there are BJ regulars and we might get our tender feelings hurt. I see Martin has addressed Google Ads. They are probably pay-per-click.