I had to update our security plugin, and in the process all the plugins got de-activated. So we’re back, hopefully to as normal as this place will ever get.
By the way, this gave me a chuckle:
Warning: User authentication failed. User name: comrade-john-cole
MikeJ
It all frrzf fine on guvf end.
Villago Delenda Est
“Comrade”? Not “Grand Poohbah?”
Citizen_X
I blame Comrade Obama.
jeffreyw
The html button things are gone. Nothing a puppeh can’t fix.
Mustang Bobby
We were about to organize a search party.
dmsilev
Am I the only one imagining Captain Kirk shouting out “Scotty, reactivate the plugins!”?
Probably.
evolved beyond the fist mistermix
@jeffreyw: Fixed, thanks.
jeffreyw
@evolved beyond the fist mistermix: Thank the puppeh. LOL
MomSense
@jeffreyw:
Such a sweet snuggle bug.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Gophers survived the best game I’ve seen Wisconsin play in three years to move on to the final against Clarkson tomorrow afternoon with a chance to threepeat.
The best thing about your team making the national championship game is you never face that moment when your team loses and you have to ask yourself, “Well, fuck. Who do I root for now?”
scav
hhgyugfyfytgn? ihgtfbmhtd. cffee rboot n prgresss.
PsiFighter37
Going to be a very temperate (if overcast) day here in NYC – breaking 60 degrees for the first time since early November, probably. That equates to solid 8-mile run weather on the East River…2 more weeks until the SF half, which I’m hoping doesn’t have too many killer elevation changes (aside from running across the Golden Gate).
The last couple weeks at work have felt like an absolute slog…think my mood will change for the better when the calendar turns to April. Most of my free time nowadays is spent contemplating wedding stuff, which is a pain in the ass. All the big-picture stuff is nailed down, but we still have to get the details figured out. Like officiant at the ceremony…who gives a flip if you’re not religious?
Higgs Boson's Mate
Peak Wingularity?
Source
dmsilev
@Higgs Boson’s Mate: Needs more Benghazi.
Villago Delenda Est
@dmsilev: Win!
Amir Khalid
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
If there’s one thing that’s obvious to me about Capt Zaharie, it’s that he’s no wild-eyed religious fanatic.
Villago Delenda Est
@Amir Khalid: Amir, as far as the wingnuts are concerned, anyone who mispronounces “God” as “Allah” is a religious fanatic.
Never mind it’s the same supernatural entity. Jesus spoke the Sermon of the Mount in Elizabethan English.
geg6
Well, I’m about to sit back and watch my beloved Panthers get crushed by the Gators. So there’s that.
In news in which I’m more optimistic, I’m going grocery shopping for the ingredients for crab cakes and an orzo salad for dinner. Not sure what I’ll make tomorrow, though. It’s supposed to be dropping temps tonight and cold tomorrow, so some sort of comfort food, I guess. I’m so sick of winter weather I could just scream. Apparently, it won’t warm up again until Thursday or Friday.
scav
@dmsilev: The Jihad waged by our Muslim Atheist Commie leader against the Atheist Commie Chinese is a clear proof of his weakness in defending “Merka against our Greatest Geopolitical Threat (now that the Ruskies have ripped open their shirts and shown their manly Grizzly-Old-Propaganda attracting charms, we are back to the next thing La Palin can see from her porch, no?).
Omnes Omnibus
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
Huh? I mean I know all the words in that sentence, but it still doesn’t make any sense.
Villago Delenda Est
@dmsilev: Damn, that stupid kid took out all the isolinear control rods. Data, you don’t suppose you can put them back in the proper order in under two minutes?
Villago Delenda Est
@scav: Somewhere in there you needed “Romney and McCain were right!” but otherwise I think you’ve hit most of the high points.
scav
@Villago Delenda Est: Too many high-points to hit in a mere few bloody sentence any more. Entire Himalayas with a touch of the frosty Caucasus thrown in too. Enough mass in those high points to bend space-time around them.
Mike in NC
@Villago Delenda Est: It’s a known fact that Jesus addressed his disciples as “Y’all”.
Cervantes
@Omnes Omnibus:
Wouldn’t you be worried if it did?
imonlylurking
Redesigning my fabric storage cupboard for the upteenth time. Finally came to the realization that I should type out my instructions and review them so I can make a proper shopping list, then realized I should chart it out in Excel and am now on version 4. I think. My original idea would have been a joke. I think this iteration will work. (Plus it’s half the width so if I screw it up I can fix it on the next one.) There will be three, plus a smaller one to fit the leftover space.
By the time I have finished, EVERYTHING will be in a wooden cupboard with a door. With a magnetic catch. And maybe some locks. (Can you tell I’m tired of trying to get cat fur off of my fabric??)
Amir Khalid
@Omnes Omnibus:
After going through this guy’s list of MH370-related accusations against Obama, I wonder about his mental health.
Omnes Omnibus
@Cervantes: Why, yes. Yes, I would. On the other hand, do the insane necessarily know that they are insane?
ETA: If my neighbor’s dog started telling me to shoot people, I would like to think that I would recognize that I have a problem and seek help. However, if the neighbor’s dog was telling me to shoot people, I might well be too far gone to recognize the problem.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
What I like is that President Obama blew up the plane in the first graph and then had it land in the second.
Two things.
Can they not make up their tiny little minds which lunatic thoughts to let leak out?
What drugs are they taking? I need to know so that I can avoid them at all costs and work to have them removed from the world.
dmsilev
@Villago Delenda Est: I was just reading this proposed list of worst TNG episodes, and that was number one.
dmsilev
@Ruckus: I assume the plane was blown up after being forced to land at
Area 51Diego Garcia. Presumably that’s how They disposed of all of the surplus passengers.Sigh.
Meanwhile back in reality, it sounds like there’s at least a chance that some debris has been spotted.
WereBear
@Omnes Omnibus: To me, it explains why their imagination is so stunted. All that brainspace is busy rationalizing all the ways their worldview does not match reality.
Leaves very few neurons left over for other work.
Cervantes
@Ruckus:
The second-hand (or was that third-hand?) version made even less sense than the original? Color me unsurprised!
Here’s (part of) the original:
Cervantes
@Omnes Omnibus: Maybe it depends on which people the dog is telling you to shoot.
gogol's wife
@dmsilev:
We were in a hotel this weekend and watched a vintage Star Trek episode. It was about the coming of computer automation — Kirk was afraid to lose his job. The super-modern computer, which was about the size of an IBM 360, turned evil of course. We were laughing hysterically through the whole thing. I’m with Kirk.
Amir Khalid
Garrow’s theory is all kinds of crazy. If China wanted to develop “classified” leading edge computer/internet control software, whatever that is, why involve Freescale Semiconductors, an American company? Why bring Malaysians into the project? Why carry hardware onto the plane, when you can electronically send the plans to China and have it made there?
Cervantes
@Amir Khalid: That’s DR. Garrow to you, pal.
Amir Khalid
@Cervantes:
He probably got his doctorate at the same university as Dr. Evil.
scav
@Cervantes: Dr Garrow to bookend Dr Homodemons, neither of which need any mere “Reality” or “Chain of Logic!” to express their Deep Transcendent Truths to an Unready and Unbelieving populace! The Shackles of Mental Oppression and SpaceTime Physics have been shed by these brave Truth Revealers.
MomSense
@Amir Khalid:
All kinds of crazy is right. The president launches aggressive jihad against China and then sends his wife, MIL and daughters to China. Uh huh. Makes total sense.
CaseyL
Garrow isn’t the only one to theorize China grabbed the plane so it could kidnap the tech-savvy passengers. But that doesn’t make sense even on the face of it, even without wingnut theories giving the idea a special gloss of Crazy.
Isn’t China alleged to be where the hackers are who’ve stolen mass quantities of credit card numbers live?
Isn’t China alleged to be where the hackers are who’ve launched various attacks against financial and governmental databases live?
Why would China need to hijack an entire jet in order to score experts in high-tech data control systems? Seems they’ve got plenty of ’em already.
Cervantes
@Amir Khalid:
Yes, I’m sure he does not have an actual doctorate from anywhere. I see that he was given an honorary doctorate by some sham “theology” school in North Carolina. (I’m going to call them on Monday to see if they’ll give me one as well.)
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@jeffreyw: Want that puppeh.
Ruckus
@Cervantes:
At least they know they are going down the rabbit hole.
And with those clues I’d say it’s the brown acid. They were told about it, some guy with a bull horn went around telling everybody but do they ever listen?
Ruckus
@CaseyL:
Especially since the plane was headed there anyway. They go to all the trouble and expense and risk when they could have just let it land at their airport.
Frank
Can anyone remember the term the Bircher’s used to describe when a crypto-commie did something anti-commie to obscure their obvious secret commie-ness?
Cervantes
@Frank:
Er … fluoridation?
Mnemosyne
@Higgs Boson’s Mate:
I freely admit to being a lifelong civilian, but WTF does this even mean? Is he actually picturing a 777 — a 242-foot long, 660,000-pound jet liner that needs about 10,000 feet of space to safely land — landing on a 300-foot aircraft carrier runway?
I think that when this guy is playing with his model airplanes in his sandbox, someone needs to show him this clip to explain the difference between his toy planes and an actual airplane.
Mnemosyne
Moderation? Really?
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Amir Khalid:
I think that horse has been out of the barn for quite some time now, as a guess.
Gravenstone
@Amir Khalid: I don’t believe there’s much question, he has no mental health.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Amir Khalid: Freescale has offices in China, Singapore and Malaysia (and elsewhere). The conspiracy theories are not just crazy, they’re stupid. Unsurprisingly. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
danielx
Confirmation of what I have long suspected. Yes, Cole is an islamofascistsoshulist.
@Amir Khalid:
I’d say we’re way past the wondering stage. But then after years of observing such leading lights as Louie Gohmert, Steve King, Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, etc…I may be a tad jaded.
Mnemosyne
@imonlylurking:
Glass doors. That way, you can see what’s on the shelf without having to open the door.
craigie
Genius:
Yes, that would be the meaning of the word “clandestine”.
muddy
@Mnemosyne: I thought I was being very organized when I photographed all my fabric and made a file where I can look by location, type of fabric, amount etc. I never look at it though, as of course one wants to get the fabric out and fondle it periodically.