Cole is away healing, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have blurry, poorly lit pet pictures:
Having a pretty quiet night here. I’m simultaneously reading a book, watching the Rays beat the Cardinals and fighting the dogs for sofa space. The mister is snoozing away already, poor thing. He works outside, which is exhausting this time of year.
What are y’all up to this evening?
Ahasuerus
Those poor little doggies! It looks like they haven’t been fed for entire minutes!
schrodinger's cat
Doggies look sad.
Karen in GA
Adorable puppybeasts!
In a free FYWP blog, is there a way to use several different fonts in a blog post? Like, some text in, say, Times New Roman, other text in Arial, other text in Helvetica (or whatever)?
Tim C.
My own Black lab constantly complains of his own undernourishment, the vet suggested once that we just leave the bag open until he just learned to moderate himself. I declined on the principle that I didn’t want to try any LD-50/50 testing at home.
Elmo
@Tim C.:
The vet suggested free-feeding a LABRADOR???
That vet is quietly running a clinical weight-loss and heart bypass clinic in his wife’s name, mark my words.
Betty Cracker
@Karen in GA: I’m sure that’s possible, though I’ve never tried it myself. Have you tried using HTML to change the default font within a post?
David Koch
What, no photos of your rooster? What are you chicken?
JPL
Please get rid of the annoying ads that decide that I have to hear what they are selling. Please, John won’t mind.
Mike E
What dainty toes they have!
schrodinger's cat
@Betty Cracker: So, have you decided on your vacation destination?
SiubhanDuinne
I just need to say, Lindt’s “Passion” Caramel and Sea Salt Dark Chocolate is fucking fantastic. Especially with a robust red wine.
And I can feel virtuous about this, because I had an appointment with my cardiologist yesterday and my blood pressure was the best it’s been in 20 years. And I’ve lost about five pounds since my last appointment. So the dark chocolate-red wine protocol is working just fine AFAIAC.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mike E:
They have lovely feets.
catclub
@SiubhanDuinne:
As Far As I Ate Chocolate
Betty Cracker
@David Koch: I don’t keep roosters. Hens only. And they are roosting in their hen house since it’s dark.
@JPL: I hate those goddamned autoplay ads too, but there’s not a damn thing I can do about it.
@schrodinger’s cat: Not yet, though I got a lot of fantastic ideas in the earlier thread. We’re not going anywhere until sometime next year, so there’s plenty of time to mull it over.
schrodinger's cat
Open thread needs kittehs
Mike in NC
Just getting ready to “enjoy” the next several days of triple digit heat index.
Karen in GA
@Betty Cracker: I haven’t. My HTML skills are horribly rusty. I’ll try it — a quick Google search should refresh my memory — but I was also wondering if there’s something in the WP dashboard, or a plugin.
SiubhanDuinne
@catclub:
Heh. You know me too well.
opiejeanne
Washington state has an election coming up on August 5 and in the mail today was a large postcard with a big picture of W on one side and a shot of Cheney’s smirk on the other, claiming that the only Democratic candidate for our State Senate, 45th District and endorsed by the local and state Democratic Party, is not a ‘real Democrat” Their accusation is that he volunteered in the White House during W’s tenure, and donated once to a pro life candidate. Oh, and Matt’s wife worked for Cheney for years.
The group behind this hit piece is something called the Good Government Leadership Council, a group that brags about winning a mayor’s race in Spokane, I think the goal is to confuse enough people who might have voted for the Democrat enough that they leave that spot blank and don’t vote for either.
The best part is that the flyer doesn’t actually endorse Hill, just says things like: “He’s a sheep in wolf’s clothing, willing to say anything to get elected. Just like his mentors, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. That’s pretty funny.
Suffern ACE
In yet another attempt to become the master of all digital media, I am trying to become the ruler of the flipboard magazine. Someday, I’ll have more than 10 readers. Someday….
JustRuss
Needz mor blrrrr if you’re channeling Cole.
ruemara
Those are some purty doggies! It’s really odd, now that I work with animals EVERYDAY, I finally get to experience the joy of daily dog lovin’. Even the naughty ones are quite sweet. So far, I’ve petted dogs, cats, kittens, bearded dragon, king snake, some chickens and a bunneh. And I’ve learned to do backward repeat sits. But nobody gives me treats for them I think I’ll open up some old scripts and add a few more scenes. Just looking over the synopsis and first season breakdowns for my cartoon reminds me that I truly saw some potential there. Not sure how I can get it made, since I can’t draw the way it needs to be drawn at the speed it would need, but I’d really like to have the first ep under my belt and a good second ep.
Major Major Major Major (formerly J.Ty)
I for one am about ready to stab whatever screwed up version of Ubuntu our new VM image is running right in the face. It doesn’t have SQLite or g++? Fine. Aptitude can’t locate build-essentials or SQLite? Fuck youuuuuu
Origuy
@Karen in GA: It’s done using CSS styles. PZ Myers’ blog Pharyngula has a predefined class creationist that uses Comic Sans to quote creationists and other idiots. Little Green Footballs has the same thing, called wingnut. Someone would have to add a style to BJ’s CSS file to get the same thing easily.
However, it should be possible to do it with inline HTML style. Let’s See.
This should be in Comic Sans.
Well, that didn’t work. WP stripped out the tags I was using.
Steeplejack
@JPL:
You got multiple helpful suggestions after your previous complaint.
Steeplejack
@Karen in GA:
That way lies madness. You can solve your “different voices” problem in your blog the same way fiction writers do in their dialogue—periodic identification of who’s talking.
Or use play/screenplay format:
Steeplejack
@Origuy:
Thank God.
burnspbesq
Somebody finally did it.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/11253861/cleveland-browns-fan-urinates-late-baltimore-ravens-owner-art-modell-grave
grishaxxx
Such sweet anticipation on your pups’ faces…. Now that Cole seems to have passed the first gate, I do hope he gets regular news from and about his piglets. They have kept him together, body and soul, through years, it seems, of great difficulty, and they must miss him right now as much as he misses them. Looking forward to a happy reunion. <3
Karen in GA
@Betty Cracker: @Origuy: I found a $4.99 app — BlogPad Pro. I just tested it; I didn’t get every font that appeared to be available, but I was able to use four different ones. If I need more than two in a post, I’m in trouble.
@Steeplejack: It feels like there’s more… immediacy, I guess, for want of a better word, when I don’t identify. The reader is just thrown straight into the conversation. Easy enough when it’s just me and Iggy — one in quotes, the other not. The cat appears occasionally, always in bold type because of how intimidating Iggy finds him, but I think with the cat posts, it’s still clear who’s speaking.
There’s confusion, I think, when Iggy sings, raps or recites poetry. I haven’t been consistent with the format of that text from one post to the next. I was “saving” italics for the Chihuahua, assuming he makes another appearance, but with BlogPad, the Chihuahua can yip in Courier New — so I’ll be italicizing Iggy’s artistic expressions from here on.
In any case, I don’t plan on having a post with more than one extra character besides me and Iggy. Any more and I think it would be too much work for the reader to follow.
Keith P
Talk about a damn earworm – I watched some of the Weird Al videos earlier this evening, so I was sitting in bed and could not get “Word Crimes” out of my head. It was keeping me up until I had to go into my office and watch the video again. I hadn’t listened to his stuff since the Fat days, but all these songs were really well done, IMO.
ET
I am looking at that picture and wondering what those pups did. They sort of guilt-face going on.
WaterGirl
I saw the pups in this thread last night but it made me happy seeing them again this morning. What sweet faces.