Well, this won’t hardly be controversial at all, compared to their first season (she said sarcastically). From NYMag‘s Margaret Hartmann (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/upcoming-season-of-serial-covers-bowe-bergdahl.html):
Those eager to hear “Serial” dig into another little known true-crime story should start adjusting their expectations. Maxim reports (and the Hollywood Reporter has confirmed) that one of the upcoming seasons — either two or three — will focus on the widely covered case of Bowe Bergdahl, the Army sergeant who was held captive by the Taliban for five years after leaving his base in Afghanistan, and freed last year in exchange for five Taliban detainees from Guantánamo Bay.
There have been conflicting reports about why Bergdahl walked off base, and he was charged with desertion and endangering the troops who searched for him. During a trial last week that will determine whether he is court-martialed and sentenced to life imprisonment, Major General Kenneth R. Dahl, who led the Army’s investigation, testified that Bergdahl’s plan was to walk to a larger American base about 18 miles away to report what he considered serious leadership problems in his unit, according to the New York Times. “He absolutely believed that the things he was perceiving were true,” General Dahl said, adding that Bergdahl’s beliefs were “unwarranted but genuinely held.”
“Serial” host Sarah Koenig and at least one of the show’s producers were at Bergdahl’s hearing last week, as well as Zero Dark Thirty screenwriter Mark Boal. His company, Page One Productions, is working on a film based on Bergdahl’s story with director Kathryn Bigelow, and sources tell Maxim that Boal has provided “Serial” with research material, including interviews with Bergdahl. Deadline reports that Boal and Page One’s Hugo Lindgren have an even bigger role in the podcast, and will serve as on-air narrators…
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(This is also a test; if the links work, thank commentor Steeplejack… if they don’t, blame me!)
Keith
Linkys no worky
SoupCatcher
I’m guessing this gets moderated for too many links… but, working links.
Omnes Omnibus
That would not be desertion.
MomSense
This is a sad story and I’m hoping for the best outcome possible whatever that may be.
redshirt
Looks good!
And it’s better to look good than to feel good.
ruemara
My marine friends firmly believe he deserted & got 6 guys killed. It’s too ingrained in them that this finding is a cover-up. I won’t even mention it because it’s an argument that will get nothing but annoyed between us both.
The on-off nature of movie making is enough as it is. I also heard that a friend who I was counting on to aid me not only was trying to pull a fade on the project to suck up to someone who he thought had an in with some real media bigwigs; he’s also feeling like it would be beneath him to work under me since he’s been working in tv before. I’ve been working on productions since before your balls dropped, was my response. The word is he didn’t want me to get upset by an outright refusal, because I might not work on one of his projects. I’m feeling like everyone around me is secretly in kindergarten.
divF
@ruemara:
Harsh, but effective. I’ll have to remember it for an appropriate occasion.
MomSense
@ruemara:
Kids are still nice in kindergarten. It starts getting mean around 6th grade. Sorry this has been such a slog. Sending good thoughts your way.
srv
Too complicated, perhaps you can sandbox it. Is there anyone we can trade Bergdahl for?
SiubhanDuinne
Links don’t work. I can’t remember whom to blame. Obama is always a safe bet, though.
Completely unrelated, I’m in Chicago (Oak Park, actually) for the next week. Mostly family stuff, but if anyone is interested in a possible meet-up, I’d be glad to consider. I know satby said this morning she might be interested. Anyone else? Let me know in comments on this thread or email me at SiubhanDuinne (at) gmail (dot) com if you have ideas.
amk
@SoupCatcher: nice catch with the linkys.
amk
@SiubhanDuinne:
AL is a hillzbot. Kenyan muslin doesn’t like hillz. So, ….
ruemara
@MomSense: OH, I expected it to be work. I didn’t expect spend this much time doing it by myself. Especially since I could still wind up not being able to do it. But at least I’ve planned the food menu if this thing goes forward.
Omnes Omnibus
@ruemara: Craft services are important.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Like movie craft service?
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Yes.
Ruckus
@ruemara:
That is a good reply! To the point and properly snarky.
As you know some people never do anything that they don’t feel will benefit them. Their empathy gene has been turned off, surgically removed and burned in a secret ritual. It would take a baseball bat to reinsert a replacement in their tiny little brains and there is a serious possibility of rejection even if the proper tool is employed with the proper force.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: The snarky reply I learned for that situation is “I’ve been doing this since Christ was a corporal.” Not sure it fits all circumstances.
Ruckus
@ruemara:
I have marine friends and know some from serving and the VA. They seem to fall generally into two groups. The first is unbelievably good people who got better by being a marine. Self confidence, actual acceptance of the world not all being uniform and exactly like they think it should be. The second got even more of the self confidence and it allows them to know that everything they have in their heads is the absolute truth. And anything different is someone trying to fuck with them. There are degrees of each of course but this is my experience.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Gads yes. Being forced to sit through the Marvel movie credits has taught me that movies employee thousands of people and many of them have to be fed on site, which is a major logistical operation especially if there are touchy actors on the cast.
Props to the Props Department as well!
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Heard that one way to long ago to discuss. But ruemara’s is a bit more direct and pointed. Much better than the other old one, “I’ve been doing this since your mom was still dressing you in short pants.” which lacks a bit of sting since I live in CA and shorts are pretty much the uniform of the day. And not quite as obnoxious as “I’ve been doing this since when your mom was still wiping your ass.”
mclaren
@Ruckus:
Yes…but on the other hand, a bright future in the economics profession or policing beckons for such people.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: I just didn’t know if you Navy types used something like Boatswain’s Mate 3rd Class instead.
Yatsuno
@redshirt: Muscles Are Required, Intelligence Not Expected. True as it ever was.
And now I miss bnut. I hope he’s just lurking.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yatsuno: Bnut. Ah, the story of the girl with the houndstooth bra.
ETA: We may prioritize different things in our memories.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Usually it was just boatswains mate. Any level. Below that was seaman. And pronounced just like you’d expect.
fleeting expletive
There is a lot going on in the world. As for me, I trashed my right eye back in march, and wrote about it here. I had surgery land my faithful best friend gave me her time and company to get me to go to the eye medical center 30 miles away, many times. At long last i have glasses that incorporate my busted right eye and I can see. Not as well as before, but oh well.
I gave myself a little shock yesterday when I got into the shower. I took my glasses off and was suddenly reminded that –oh yeah, I really don’t have a right eye anymore. I had forgotten the 6 month deal.
So, thank all and everyone in science and in optometric fields. So many lives have been improved by science. I hope to get back among the living and feel okay to drive and challenge myself to get things done that I postpone way too much like driving and getting out there amongst the world. How did I get scared? I used to do stuff. I did two years in the Peace Corps, I got a law degree at 35 with a kid. I have not been a coward until now, and I don’t understand it.
Anne Laurie
Ruckus Also, from the less-than-politically-correct past, “I’ve been doing this since you were a twinkle in your old man’s eye”… or the much ruder version “… since the best of your old man’s load ran down your mama’s leg”.
redshirt
@fleeting expletive: Not being able to sense the world as you did before is not being a coward. It’s adaptation.
fleeting expletive
Thank you, redshirt, Adaptations that come along in this march to the grave for me will include probably a wheelchair, a ramp off my rent house (Would medicare pay for some of that?) and some home health care. It is a true bitch getting old. I don’t want to end up like my friend’s mom at 93, alzheimery and too frail to do anything, nor like either of my parents who died old and not well.
I live in hope to die in my sleep and be discovered before I go bad and have my kids able to come in and fix my shit…
Tenar Darell
@fleeting expletive: It happens. One too many shocks to the system, or something that really gets under the skin, and BAM! scared of things that used to seem easy.
Happened to me; I woke up and my sense of adventure and desire for more challenges was gone. Plus, it got harder, the older I got, to deal with change.
I have no recommendations; I’ve been trying to do baby-steps bucket lists for a while, with an added reward that isn’t related to food or couch based entertainment.
ETA: also, ditto to what redshirt (!) said. /typos
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@ruemara:
Well, now you have the perfect reply the next time he asks you for help — “Sorry, I’m busy.” He will whine and complain and try to guilt you, but actions have consequences. There is no project he will have, now or in the future, that will be worth your time unless he pays you cash in advance.
Much of working in entertainment is like being in junior high again, but he will discover quite quickly that if you screw people over, they will drop you as soon as they possibly can. There’s always a bigger, badder narcissist out there who won’t give a shit about him, and he won’t have a fallback position because he burned his bridges with people like you.
Omnes Omnibus
@fleeting expletive: Keep your chin up. Have you completely lost sight in the eye? If so, consider an eye patch for effect and confidence. Eye patches are intimidating. I am 75% serious.
Ruckus
@fleeting expletive:
A gentleman, and I use that phrase lightly, that I know once wondered why people of an elevated age didn’t take more chances. You’ve lived a while, or a long while and probably have experience of a number of things, so why do you take fewer chances? He came to the conclusion that it was exactly because of those experiences that you start to understand risk and what it can really entail. When most are 20 they have no real understanding of risk. May be able to conceptualize it but few have experienced it. I participated in, worked in as a hobby and then professionally for over a decade in a rather dangerous sport. When it came time to leave that job one of the very good feelings was knowing that I’d see far fewer mangled 20 yr old kids. They still be getting mangled of course, they are 20 yr old kids. But I wouldn’t have to deal with it as part of my job. Now I don’t think you could pay me enough to do that anymore.
Shorter. As we get older we learn what the concept of mortality really means.
Omnes Omnibus
@Anne Laurie: I intentionally avoided those.
Morzer
@efgoldman:
Steeplejack is my Lord and Non-Savior.
RK
So he was mentally ill in other words.
Ruckus
@Anne Laurie:
“… since the best of your old man’s load ran down your mama’s leg”.
Ahhh yes, that old chestnut. I never liked that one for some reason. Maybe because it’s rude to more than just the person receiving it. Of course being the rude, outspoken person that I am, you’d think I’d like it. Go figure.
Morzer
@Ruckus:
“I’ve been doing this for more years than you have IQ points.”
Anne Laurie
Omnes Omnibus : Yes, we both have our reputations to consider!
Omnes Omnibus
@fleeting expletive: Coward is a word that anyone who has suffered adversity should avoid. Don’t apply it to yourself because your situation has changed.
Roger Moore
@Ruckus:
And what they fail to grasp is that what goes around comes around, and what fails to go around usually fails to come around. If you never help other people, they’ll stop helping you. I guess you can try to find a string of suckers who will help you out in hopes of future help, but that often winds up being more effort than just reciprocating once in a while.
As far as the links go, I think you’re failing to include a http:// at the beginning of the link. If you make a link with href=”example.com/whatever”, that will be assumed to be a relative link, i.e. starting from the current page. If you make it href=”http://example.com/whatever”, it will link correctly.
Omnes Omnibus
@Anne Laurie: They came up when I was an army officer and saying any of those things was something that was just not done. NCOs damn well said those things and worse.
gwangung
@redshirt: “touchy actors” is a redundancy.
Tenar Darell
@Omnes Omnibus:
Agreed, I really hate that word, coward. One person’s “coward” is actually a BAMF for oneself or someone else.
@fleeting expletive:
Sounds to me like you’re a BAMF.
ETA: at some point I’ll be able to avoid the edit button tonight, really.
ETA2: Added “Agreed” Sorry Omnes! really, I can’t seem to stop it.
Omnes Omnibus
@gwangung: Says the director…
fleeting expletive
Ruckus, you are so right. My almost 27 year old daughter recognizes the risks I took and she has exponentially advanced them–tattooed, probably transexual, anarchistic sort of, but works full time for a non-profit. She is much bolder than I was. I still just wonder, as you said, will she see too many mangled 20 year olds. The world has a way of bashing everybody.. So yes, I’ve got to motivate myself to do baby steps. To tackle the four steps i’ve grot to traverse to get to my car and then to drive to get gas and get her to the mechanic whom I do not know. And then take a cab. And to make the fucking phone call in the first place. I swear I can fret over making a phone call for about a week, and I think what’s wrong with me? I’m not a coward. I’ve been a lawyer and travelled and done stuff.
It all seems hard. l”m sorry to ramble on and trouble you fine folks. Thank Cole for this here outlet.
Roger Moore
@Anne Laurie:
“I’ve been doing this since before you were born” is a perfectly good version that doesn’t require any crudity. I’ve started using it now that it’s sometimes actually true.
Omnes Omnibus
@fleeting expletive: What phone call do you need to make?
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Not to be snarking on @fleeting expletive: here but to really pull off an eye patch you need a rather generous handlebar mustache for the proper effect. No beard, just the mustache.
Fleeting expletive, to join you in misery I’ll let you know that I have cataracts (not eligible for surgery yet) and possibly a degenerative auto-immune disease, and docs are still looking at cancer in a couple of places. Life can be an unmitigated bitch at times, I’ve been hit head on by a truck and I wasn’t in a vehicle at the time and the pain of that was less than some seemingly random pains I get quite regularly. But I smile most days, at the sun, at the blue sky, the rain, music, among other stuff, because I’m still here at SS age, a situation 40+ yrs ago I figured I never would be.
Good luck with your situation. Find that eye patch, grow a handlebar mustache and have fun.
Omnes Omnibus
@Roger Moore: That is why the army version ” I was doing this since Christ was a corporal” works.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: That is crazy talk.
Morzer
@Ruckus:
Two handlebar mustaches would be better.
jayboat
@Ruckus:
Thank you for your insightful comments here in reply to fleeting expletive.
Timing is a funny thing, and reading them now I feel an order of magnitude better than I did when I crawled out of bed because of some similar demons that have been recently keeping me from sleep.
eta: I am not taking the ‘getting old is a bitch’ thing very well right now. Not at all.
Gian
@MomSense:
not the girls where my daughter was in kindergarten. “no-one likes the way you look” “and your hair is ugly”
or some variation
kid has ultra, blonde hair, which now, in first grade has just barely grown past her neck. I was blondish until about 4 years old. she shows no sign of changing. If I think hard there were mean 4 year olds in the preschool, although they were easily retrained then
Anne Laurie
Roger Moore:
Wanna know why FYWP is a meme? I was sure I’d typed out the full http-addys like you said, but when I looked at the layout at the dashboard, they were missing. So I painstakingly typed in all the correct address again, hit ‘update’… and they had been stripped out again!
FYWP is undoubtably the worst godsdamned blog platform on the planet… except for all the rest.
Ruckus
@fleeting expletive:
Hey we all need help some days. ALL OF US. There is no disgrace in needing help. There is no shame in not being what you were when you were 20. I work with kids, I’m the oldest one there. I have been doing the kind of work I do before most of them were born.
Most of us are here because we enjoy the company. Not all of the company for sure but most of it.
We all have something to contribute. I for example like to help people learn to think, most often how to use their brain to figure out how to do something they have the skills for but haven’t made some connection with all the evidence in front of them to use those skills.
Shorter, Come for the politics, stay for the humanity.
Ruckus
@Morzer:
I’ve never know a woman who could grow a handlebar mustache.
Anne Laurie
Fleeting Expletive You are not a coward, you have just learned at a cellular level that Pain HURTS. Nature’s way of telling us “That thing you just did? Well, don’t do *that* again” gradually introduces the concept of caution to us all (except for those rare ‘lucky’ few who
never learnmanage to ignore the messages).At least you have your memories. Some of us never progressed much beyond “survived my chaotic childhood” on the “what was the most adventurous thing you every did?” scale…
fleeting expletive
Omnes, and Ruckus, thank you guys, I need to call the mechanic shop guy to take in my car and tune up and whatever. The volvo wagon has a leak in the fuel tube line, whatever, connecting the filler line to the tank. It needs to be hoisted on a rack and something called liquid steel or some such applied to it and it will work itself out but also just a tune up because it sounds like a bucket of bolts and doesn’t get good mileage anymore. I drive very little and therefore am doing my 14 year old car no good. I do love the car though–Drove it right off the lot in 2011 brand new. I have kept a log since that day, every fill up, every tire change, all of it and still less than 80,000 miles at almost 15 years. I’m not proud of that, It could use some road miles.
I could have used an eye patch there for a while but I didn’t have one. Now I want my two eyes such as they are to work together. Again, Thanks, Science. And Optometry.
Indeed, life can be an unmitigated bitch. I decided against getting a contact lens that would have lended some color like my other eye to the black absence of an iris—they said medicare would pay for part of it—but it wasn’t a significant change in eye color (like painting blue watercolor on black paper) and I thought, I wouldn’t bother with a contact lens just to go to the grocery store, much less for my ownself in my home. So, maybe I”m done with this and I’ll just keep on with how far I’ve gotten.
fleeting expletive
2001, not 2011.
Anne Laurie
Ruckus says:
You’ll never know how many of us have been faithfully tweezing/waxing/lotioning various facial areas since puberty, just to keep up that facade…
RK
@Anne Laurie: Well, hello Dali.
Omnes Omnibus
@fleeting expletive: We are here. Different ones of us at different times. We all have dark nights. This place tends to try to help.
Ruckus
@jayboat:
It’s a rocky road, this getting old shit. I posted a while back that I was having a bunch of health issues and it was causing me to be rather depressed. I’ve been there before so I know that I can overcome depression. And if it gets me down too far that asking for help thing works wonders. And a week or so later I posted that I had decided that I was going to give this ride we call life a run for it’s money. Only thing that seems to work. Besides, that rude, outspoken person that I am is also a rather stubborn bastard.
Morzer
@Ruckus:
Damnit, man, enough with the negativity, this is America! We put a man on the moon, surely we can manage women with two handlebar mustaches!
fleeting expletive
Ruckus, Omnibus, Anne Laurie, I love you guys. I’d best be done for tonight. I hope I have the courage tomorrow to call the mechanic and tell him I’ll make it on Monday. Got to get this done before October 9 when tattooed precious daughter blows into town for a few days. It’s going to be a hilarious ride but that, too, scares me. I have much to learn and a long ways still until I grow up although I have lived for a long time.
Y’all take care and thank you.
Punchy
Just got attacked by a Magpie. Not sure if we have these in the States, but these Australian ones are simply bad-ass. Dove directly kamakazi-style into my bike helmet. Bastard tried to fade me. Crikey.
Morzer
@fleeting expletive:
Something to encourage you, a little, I hope:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/24/paraplegic-man-walks-with-own-legs-again
Truly, we can do wonders these days – so keep hoping and fighting.
Roger Moore
@Ruckus:
What a drag it is, getting old.
Morzer
@Punchy:
Was it a gold-trimmed, yuuge, classy magpie?
Ruckus
@fleeting expletive:
Cool.
I learned long, long, long ago that as far as looks go, as far as how others see me, I don’t give a shit. That alone saves untold hours a year not having to worry about what anyone else thinks. If they are that shallow to be concerned about my appearance then fuck them. I grow a beard (and a handlebar mustache!) because I like it. I still occasionally get comments that I should shave. If I’m feeling particularly snarky that day I tell them they should just fuck right off. Or they should shave off their head, at the base of their neck. They usually leave me alone after that.
Be who you are, when you are. I mean there are boundaries for sure but most of them are bullshit.
Ruckus
@Anne Laurie:
I know one lady that has a beard. I’ve know a few with mustaches, but a proper handlebar? I’m skeptical.
Punchy
@Morzer: It was black and white. Im calling it Obama.
Morzer
@Ruckus:
I’ve refused to allow anyone else input into my facial hair decisions for fifteen years now. Last time I gave someone a vote, she said she’d love to see me without the beard. Muggins shaves it off that night, goes to see her the next day and discovers he has just unlocked the not particularly coveted former boyfriend badge.
fleeting expletive
Ruckus, I like you a whole bunch, Love it, love it, love it.
Morzer
@Punchy:
Man, we could totally get single-payer if Obama would just quit futzing around with that were-magpie gig.
joel hanes
@ruemara:
marine friends
Tribalism is at the core of the Marine ethos, one of the goals of boot camp.
The ex-marines I know believe that being or having been a Marine means something important.
This is, IMHO, less true of the other services.
Ruckus
@Morzer:
I have friends (that hobby/job – dangerous sport) who are in wheel chairs. They eagerly await news that they might be able to walk again someday. People with artificial limbs and run marathons, triathlons, climb mountains, drive cars, race motorcycles and go carts. People in wheel chairs do a lot of those same things. I know some of them. We can do amazing things if we put our minds to it. Or we can leave it all to imaginary fairies and hide out in fear. I know which side of the equation I’m going with.
redshirt
Growling old is the reward for surviving your dumb ass youth.
Enjoy it, no matter the calamities.
Morzer
@Ruckus:
I’ve always liked FDR’s take: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. We need to get back to that spirit and shape our course to the future by it.
Anne Laurie
Morzer: When I met the not-yet-Spousal Unit (I was 19, he was 23) he had a full beard & mustache, and bore a strong resemblance to Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion. Much later, he showed me an old drivers license from his beardless youth, and the words rat-faced geek sprang unbidden to my lips.
I hope neither of us live long enough for me to have to see him shaven, because as his brothers have aged the family facial spectrum now runs more towards “Karl Rove” (also a Norwegian-American) while he remains “red-haired Jerry Garcia aficionado”. Much more attractive, with the facial hair!
Ruckus
@joel hanes:
Marines earned a bit of that comradery, that tribalism, more so than the other branches of the service. Some of them carry it a bit too far but they still earned the right to have a bit of it.
It’s a tough gig.
I had a Marine sargent friend who didn’t know any longer how to handle sending the men of his squad up a hill to die in Vietnam. That was his job, to pick and send men to overcome or die, no matter the odds. He couldn’t do it any longer. I’m not sure I could have done it at all.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Punchy: When in doubt, it’s always safe to blame Obama.
Ruckus
@redshirt:
Some days the reward sucks.
For conformation see all of the above.
How’s that old saw go?
Some days you’re the Titanic
Some days you’re the iceberg
And some days you’re the guy who jumped off and hit the propeller on the way down.
redshirt
@Ruckus: Better old than moldy in some hole.
Ruckus
@Anne Laurie:
Towards the end of a nearly 20 yr run with a wonderful girl, I shaved off my beard. She screamed when she saw me, she’d never seen me without a beard and thought I was an intruder. Oh did I leave out that I didn’t tell her I was going to shave it off?
That lasted one day. That’s the only day in over 40 yrs that I haven’t had a beard. One of the things keeping me from running for president. One of the many things.
redshirt
Death awaits us all. It’s part and parcel of living – the bargain we all make when born, unwittingly, it seems. Not fair, really.
Ruckus
@redshirt:
Thought it was wormy in some hole.
Hey folks, work night, gotta get my beauty sleep. Hasn’t helped in all these yrs but I keep trying.
joel hanes
@Ruckus:
marines earned
Every bit of it. I hope nothing in what I wrote suggests otherwise.
[grin]
One of my favorite ex-Marines is my sister-in-law’s sister, from whom I always get a big hug.
joel hanes
@redshirt:
It’s part and parcel of living
I’ve seen it explained that death is the price for individuality, which is the product of sexual reproduction.
Consider a creature that reproduces by fission, as some protozoans do — every one of them has been alive for millions of years.
Slime molds aggregate to have collective sex and maybe, just maybe, start a new individual.
I know that someday the voice in my head will go all-caps, a la Pratchett
redshirt
@joel hanes: LOUD NOISES!!!
Morzer
@joel hanes:
So that’s what the thing on Trump’s head is doing!
NotMax
Coding for links is not that difficult.
Linky 101 examples here. with pictures, even, here.
Or if video preferred, the first minute here.
Ruckus
@joel hanes:
Well I know some that carry it a bit too far, like at the expense of everyone else. All of us have a place to be and a role to play and marines are no different. It’s how you play that unscripted role that develops in front of you that counts. Playing it as a martyr or as a gift to the rest of us isn’t good acting. That’s being an asshole.
sharl
@NotMax: Did you see AL’s comment #57? Sound like WP is being extra FY’ish to her. It’s maybe her Verizon, but doesn’t seem like it based on my non-expert evaluation. (And I’m pretty sure she’s been doing basic html stuff for a while – at least since she was helping out at Sadly, No! back in the day.)
Honus
@Roger Moore: I like “I got skillets older than you.”
NotMax
@sharl
She seemed awfully grateful to Steep for providing the basic coding.
Having them stripped out in the backroom of WP is usually a sign that they were typed incorrectly. Something as inadvertent as one / instead of two // would do that.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Honus: Nah, “I got underwear older than you”.
NotMax
@sharl
(Purposely mistyped linky to your nym to check what WP is currently doing with it in the front room. Corrected version:
She seemed awfully grateful to Steep for providing the basic coding.
Having them stripped out in the backroom of WP is usually a sign that they were typed incorrectly. Something as inadvertent as one / instead of two // would do that.
NotMax
@BillinGlendaleCA
How you quietly sneaked the carbon dating apparatus into the room with the undies drawer is quite beyond me.
;)
BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: I’m quite resourceful.
sharl
@NotMax: Ahh, I only know WP as a lowly commenter. I have no familiarity with the situation presented to those with the keys to the back room.
When I hover my cursor over the “http://” in the Roger Moore blockquote in AL’s #57, my URL pop-up shows “http:///”, so that might be what you are talking about, unless FYWP is being REALLY freaky and adding that third “/”. That seems highly unlikely to me, but like I said, I’m not a WP ninja.
Amir Khalid
Even I know this is the wrong visual to accompany Yom Kippur greetings. Ye gods.
sharl
@Amir Khalid: Molotov!
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Actually a little surprised they didn’t put a smiley face on it.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: Oh, my.
Amir Khalid
Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones announces support for his team’s biggest fan.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: A really BIG fan. /snicker
Anne Laurie
NotMax: Check the new thread, see if *those* links work for you…
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
Other than the very first one, they are fine.
Anne Laurie
NotMax: The one inside the tweet? No help for that, I’m afraid.
But isn’t it a little counter-intuitive that FYWP requires an additional “http://” just so it can enjoy stripping it out?
satby
@Ruckus: very much this!
@fleeting expletive: Sight is such a basic thing that to lose significant ability in it requires reordering your entire interaction with the outside world.I think most people would still be reeling a bit at 6 months, not moving ahead and adapting as you have. So be proud of yourself, because keeping on is pretty much the only alternative to curling up and waiting for the end. Sad to say, a lot of people curl up and just mark time once serious health problems happen. You haven’t!
Another Holocene Human
@ruemara:
I feel your pain.
Another Holocene Human
@MomSense: Kids can be mean in kindergarten too. Ask me how I know.
joel hanes
@Honus:
Hell, I have a couple nice Griswolds that my grandmother bought for the cottage back in the 1940s.
In other words, they’re older than me, and about as old as efgoldman