I deleted all but the last week's worth of comments (don't worry, I backed them up)
I am nevertheless freaking out. Little comments, where are you?
Apparently, I was so excited that I posted it twice. I just deleted the duplicate.
Don't worry, Standpipe. The comments have um, gone to live on a nice farm where they can run around free and play all day, yeah.
Now is the time to comment on old posts, knowing that what you say will vanish like the dew on the grass this weekend.
I once had a rabbit that I had to take to the shelter after I had to leave my apartment, and I asked them what happened to rabbits that didn't get adopted. The man told me they got sent to a farm, and I totally believed him, and vehemently argued with anyone who suggested otherwise. I was 22.
Do not even comment on old posts, or I'm going to poke you with a stick.
I only realized that my dog that "went to a farm" didn't go to a farm when I saw an episode of Friends when they made fun of one of the characters for buying that load of BS when they were growing up. Poor, poor Murphy.
I'm guessing the problem is that we haven't been doing enough nitpicking of the grammatical errors of others.
I've migrated Unfogged to a server in my pants.
So how old is old? can we pick up from yesterday on front page threads or only go forward?
Joe D, what's the status on the show that I thing you mentioned could be in the Fringe Festival?
It is, instead, going to be in the New York Musical Theater Festival, which is in September (this hasn't been officially announced, btw). They aggressively courted us and gave us a much better deal.
Mazel Tov Joe!
I'm looking at thing for think in 14. I do that kind of thing all the time in comments, substitute one correctly-spelled word for another. Yesterday ac called it's for its a typo, but that's not right either. It's a kind of typed malapropism, or substitution made because of the sound of words, so that mine are often hominyms(sp?) of what I meant to type.
Are typographical errors only so called in cases of a slipped finger on the keyboard, and the like? I suppose if you consciously mis-typed something, because of not knowing the proper spelling say, it would be merely a simple error, not one of the typographical variety.
Also, the site feels really snappy. Everything so quick, so shiny.
If you think those aren't typos, you've got another thing coming.
Also, Tia and Becks, are you trying to make Standpipe cry?
I find that most of my typos are of the type described -- not hitting a neighboring key, but typing as if I were taking dictation from myself and didn't know which of two homonyms I meant. It's as if there's an intermediate step between thinking and typing, and I'm transcribing the sound of an interior monologue rather than putting my thoughts down directly.
Exactly. Speed-reading teachers focus on learning to read visually, without hearing the words as you read, which describes most of us, I thing/k but writing is something else entirely, and I can always hear myself saying what I write. And the fact that I can hear my own sonorous, pompous voice probably effects my prose style.
Nit pick: are we talking homonyms or homophones?
The latter, you pedantic twerp. Thanks for the correction.
Stanley, you've sent me to the dictionary but I honestly can't tell the diffference, so I'm going to say both.
Except that I've often sat lonely on weekend nights, wishing the homophone would ring.
My first grade teacher (a hellish nun named Sister Noel) taught me this silly trick: homophones sound alike (but are spelled differently), just like phones make sounds. It's dumb but it works for me.
Also, I was hoping someone would beat me to the punch, so I could say I was homopwned.
homophone would ring.
Isn't that what one uses to summon the Gayatollah? And where is Labs anyway?
28 -- Sister Noel was basically teaching you etymology. She did not need to explain that ???? was Greek for "sound" when she could just point you to a telephone.
30: And later in the year, when Sister Noel made a young lady stand in the trashcan for awhile, was she teaching us about modern waste management?
Wow, this sounds like a brilliant lady! Investingating avant-garde theater with six-year-olds!
Wow Becks, the site performance is truly dreamy with a small comments database. This strengthens my opinion that you ought to go with number 2, "convert old comments threads to HTML and move the comments to an archive table in the DB". Then the site would always be fast, the isp would be happy and I'd be happy. A consummation devoutly to be wished!
You guys should start pimping for Amazon now. That way when the next problem comes you will have some money to deal with it. Put a link next to the book club info. Google ads are ugly though.
Er, uh, I guess 33 belongs more on the "Site Options" thread.
Or indeed, the thread at Tempting Defiance where most of the discussion is occurring.
I'm using Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary.
Def 1(a) for homonym is homophone
Def 1(c) for homonym is one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning.
Def 1 for homophone is one of two or more words pronounced alike but different in meaning or derivation or spelling.
I was taught, obviously incorrectly, that sail and sale were homonyms, when they were in fact homophones. Strictly speaking, homonyms are a subset of homophones, which subset specifically does not include the ones I was referring to.
"convert old comments threads to HTML and move the comments to an archive table in the DB"
I repeat what I said elsewhere: this would work only if we could get MT to use that table on the old threads.
Are other people seeing good performance/good responses now?
It's pretty snappy from where I'm sitting.
Oh wait nevermind ha ha ha I'm dumb.
I repeat what I said elsewhere: this would work only if we could get MT to use that table on the old threads.
MT doesn't know about the archive table. When it sees a request for an archived comment thread, instead of going to the database it will spit out the thread as previously archived to HTML.
Becks, I wanted to let you know that the raccoon in residence under my back porch, who has hencetoforth been pretty quiet and unobtrusive, at least during the daytime, has been making these strange deep growling/hissing noises every once in a while since sometime early this morning. Weird, huh?
Or scabies?
Or is it just irritated that the comment archives are gone? After all, on the Internet, nobody knows you're a raccoon.
What are you getting up to, Becks?
Nothing as productive as you. Just some minor fixes.