Also, I would have thought that MT would reject email addresses with a .invalid TLD if it's going to reject those with disallowed characters as invalid.
Once I talked to a pretty girl on the Metra. We only talked when the train stopped for an inordinate amount of time and we started speculating as to why that was.
This was the morning after I lost my virginity to a lesbian, so perhaps I was feeling more confident than usual.
Once I also linked to a post by "Ogged," and Ben Wolfson told me that it was actually Fontana Labs. Also, I think he once caught me mistaking John for Belle. All this to say: there is at least some evidence that he occasionally reads posts before commenting.
Irony of ironies -- I think one of the instances attributed to Ben above was actually Ogged.
While we're off-topic -- is there any way you can make it so that when the comment window opens up, it's scrolled to the top, rather than being scrolled to ten lines above the place to add a comment? It has happened to me in both Internet Explorer and Firefox. I prefer to read others' comments before posting my own, so that I can fume when it turns out one of those jackasses has stolen my idea.
While you're at it, any way of showing who's posted what to the blog? If only by signing your noms du net at the end of your entries.
At the moment your anonymity makes it hard to connect other than as "those guys at unfogged". Maybe we should just address you collectively as "unfogged", and let the unfs and the oggeds and the bobs and the FLs take credit, assign blame and whatnot as you will.
AkiZ, I'm not sure I understand your comment. What you should see near the top right of each entry is a "posted by ..." text. If you don't, send me a screenshot and your OS/Browser info and I'll look into it.
Adam, when I set it up that way, it was a choice between making people scroll to the bottom each time they return to a thread, and making them scroll to the top the first time. Does that make you reconsider?
It's easy: ogged capitalizes the first letters of each word in a post title; FL capitalizes the first letter of only the first word in a post title, and bob and unf don't post.
Ogged, I've complained about this before-- on Safari, everything is as it should be, but on IE (5.1 for os9) I get no author line. On the other hand, I can highlight the title and first line of a post, paste it in a comment box, and see who wrote what. So it's there, but, as Rex Mottram would say, we're too sinful to see it.
I do remember you mentioning that, FL. I'll look into it, though not having a Mac around, it's a bit hard to fix. If anyone knows off the top of their head why the "posted" code wouldn't show in IE on a Mac, I'd be much obliged.
And we're really stretching the definition of lesbian here, no? What kind of lesbian dates a guy for several years? I dated a woman for a few years who had been with a woman before, and took up with one after me, but I'm not sure "lesbian" quite captures it. She's married to a guy now...
What is it that you do, anyway, ogged?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 10-18-04 9:40 PM
Did you get her number? Or chemical composition? A fiber sample, perhaps?
Wolfson, close reader, this ain't me.
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 10-18-04 9:48 PM
Also, I would have thought that MT would reject email addresses with a .invalid TLD if it's going to reject those with disallowed characters as invalid.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 10-18-04 9:52 PM
Hey, I'm an idiot! The question stands.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 10-18-04 9:53 PM
Really, I should have been able to tell because the only the first word in the post title has an initial capital letter.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 10-18-04 9:55 PM
Would you like us to go away so you can play on the blog, Ben?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 10-18-04 9:58 PM
Now I'm just making comments to see what the MT email checking thing lets through, since it only tells you when you try to post, not when you preview.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 10-18-04 10:06 PM
ok, it doesn't let through the syntactically valid email address `(blah blah) "hi folks"@gmail.com'.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 10-18-04 10:09 PM
Gosh, Ben, I keep trying to email you, and it keeps bouncing back.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 10-18-04 10:55 PM
No, ogged, I didn't. I don't think she was interested, just conversational.
But, if you're in the bay area, and you know a lot about salt, and you want to email me, well, you know what to do.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 10-18-04 10:57 PM
Once I talked to a pretty girl on the Metra. We only talked when the train stopped for an inordinate amount of time and we started speculating as to why that was.
This was the morning after I lost my virginity to a lesbian, so perhaps I was feeling more confident than usual.
Once I also linked to a post by "Ogged," and Ben Wolfson told me that it was actually Fontana Labs. Also, I think he once caught me mistaking John for Belle. All this to say: there is at least some evidence that he occasionally reads posts before commenting.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 10-19-04 5:54 AM
Irony of ironies -- I think one of the instances attributed to Ben above was actually Ogged.
While we're off-topic -- is there any way you can make it so that when the comment window opens up, it's scrolled to the top, rather than being scrolled to ten lines above the place to add a comment? It has happened to me in both Internet Explorer and Firefox. I prefer to read others' comments before posting my own, so that I can fume when it turns out one of those jackasses has stolen my idea.
Posted by Adam Kotsko | Link to this comment | 10-19-04 6:32 AM
MMMM.
Robyn Hitchcock. Need to listen to that album this morning.
Posted by Rich | Link to this comment | 10-19-04 6:50 AM
While you're at it, any way of showing who's posted what to the blog? If only by signing your noms du net at the end of your entries.
At the moment your anonymity makes it hard to connect other than as "those guys at unfogged". Maybe we should just address you collectively as "unfogged", and let the unfs and the oggeds and the bobs and the FLs take credit, assign blame and whatnot as you will.
Posted by AkiZ | Link to this comment | 10-19-04 6:51 AM
AkiZ, I'm not sure I understand your comment. What you should see near the top right of each entry is a "posted by ..." text. If you don't, send me a screenshot and your OS/Browser info and I'll look into it.
Adam, when I set it up that way, it was a choice between making people scroll to the bottom each time they return to a thread, and making them scroll to the top the first time. Does that make you reconsider?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 10-19-04 7:04 AM
perhaps it would be possible to use some kind of color-coding to indicate authorship. It's all the rage...
Posted by baa | Link to this comment | 10-19-04 7:50 AM
It's easy: ogged capitalizes the first letters of each word in a post title; FL capitalizes the first letter of only the first word in a post title, and bob and unf don't post.
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 10-19-04 8:01 AM
Ogged, I've complained about this before-- on Safari, everything is as it should be, but on IE (5.1 for os9) I get no author line. On the other hand, I can highlight the title and first line of a post, paste it in a comment box, and see who wrote what. So it's there, but, as Rex Mottram would say, we're too sinful to see it.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 10-19-04 8:24 AM
Oh, and Adam...I once spent several years dating a lesbian. It didn't fill me with confidence, but it was a pleasant experience overall.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 10-19-04 8:26 AM
I do remember you mentioning that, FL. I'll look into it, though not having a Mac around, it's a bit hard to fix. If anyone knows off the top of their head why the "posted" code wouldn't show in IE on a Mac, I'd be much obliged.
And we're really stretching the definition of lesbian here, no? What kind of lesbian dates a guy for several years? I dated a woman for a few years who had been with a woman before, and took up with one after me, but I'm not sure "lesbian" quite captures it. She's married to a guy now...
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 10-19-04 9:18 AM
Maybe he means he lost no opportunity to make her feel old?
Posted by ben wolfson | Link to this comment | 10-19-04 9:36 AM
Good on ya!
I'm going to share one of my 'secrets' that works great when the airlines switched to paltry snack foods.
Before a plane flight buy a bottle of macademia nuts. Yeah, it is pricey, but splurge.
On the plane when they pass out the paltry beer nuts, or worse yet tiny packet of pretzels, open your macademia nuts and enjoy!
Share with seatmates if you wish. You'll be known as the guy with the good nuts!
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 10-19-04 10:07 AM
You'll be known as the guy with the good nuts!
Punchline...too...easy...
Posted by apostropher | Link to this comment | 10-19-04 10:14 AM
Wait a second; just reread the post. The longer leg was just 90 minutes? Isn't that strange?
Posted by ogged | Link to this comment | 10-19-04 11:25 AM
No, it's not so strange. I had to fly from hub to hub, then from hub to smaller regional airport. 2.5 hours in the air, 13 hours of travel. Oi.
Posted by FL | Link to this comment | 10-19-04 2:18 PM
Apostropher,
Go ahead. I'll set them up, you knock them down!
Posted by Tripp | Link to this comment | 10-19-04 2:45 PM