COLLECTIVE MADNESS


“Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people."

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Back by Popular Demand - The Reprobates' Corner

Post 'em if you got em.

191 comments:

  1. Fuck the Petro-Jihadists; We've got GRASS!!

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  2. 96 gallons/ton - 16 tons/acre = 1535 gallons/acre - in Florida


    W/O Tillage


    Where's my calculator?

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  3. Gas was down to $2.35/gallon for reg unleaded here today.

    Another interesting note: We recently got our first E85 station in my town.

    I wish I had the money to get out in front of the ethanol movement. Some people are going to get very very rich.

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  4. Pump Water w/Ammonia, Pump Your Fists while Flying High on Nitrous Oxide

    DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - An Iowa alternative fuel engine manufacturer has reached an agreement with an irrigation pump maker in California to make the world's first ammonia-powered irrigation pump system.

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  5. Rufus,
    W/no tillage, does that mean they'll be building up the soil at the same time?

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  6. Whit, they're leaving up to eighteen tons of peaches/acre laying on the ground in Ca. They can't get them picked.

    I would guess you're talking about 2,000 gallons of ethanol/acre. Laying on the ground. Thousands of acres.

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  7. It's better than that, Doug. Switch grass stores it's carbon deep in the ground. When you burn ethanol produced from switch grass you actually "Remove" CO2 from the atmosphere.

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  8. Doug, if you actually harvest the grass at ground level I think you Would gradually deplete the soil; I'm not sure. A smart farmer (most of them are) would find the proper technique for growing the grass, and maintaining the integrity of the soil.

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  9. "I'd Rather Switch Than Fight!"

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  10. So, we go to California and vacuum peaches off the ground. Peach Gold!

    Califourniaaa or Bust!

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  11. That's been part of the problem. Carbon sequestration. Switch grass does it for us.

    There's some reasonably priced land in central Georgia.

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  12. Gas can be prohibitively expensive to professional stoners, as picking up stuff when the tanks on E can preclude you from taking the risk to drive to the Sheetz or Giant Eagle later on. Delivery becomes an option, what with the proliferation with campusfood.com, but wandering the halls of a supermarket and admiring the rainforest's worth of consumer goods is a transcendent experience to the high.

    But the E-tank situation means stonership becomes an ambulatory endeavor. John McCain is said to be sympathetic towards increasing transportation access to the high, stoned or similarly enabled, as it is our minds which write the best IMDB posts and film class essays that our professors have probably ever seen.

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  13. Yeah, here they used to burn the Cane.
    Pretty difficult stuff to deal with, not sure how much is still burned.
    Always fun when the Tourists thought a Volcano was eruptin over them thar hills!

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  14. I'm interested in small, farm-sized stills. I think in the future farmers will produce their own fuel. It just seems like a natural. I'm, actually, thinking about leaving retirement to work on it.

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  15. Hey rufus, I can write internet for you.

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  16. Have we ever had sausage and the asprin gentleman in the room at the same time?

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  17. That's some first class Literature right there, Sausage!
    A Tip of the Tube two you.
    (Nitrous and Sausage)

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  18. Rufus, where will this switch grass grow?

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  19. Finally made it back two Titty!

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  20. That Bird's Bi-Petroil, I tell you.

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  21. Sausage is workin on Cartoon Sequestration.
    Tortured Humor.

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  22. Perpetual Perversity Unleashed.

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  23. Whit, in your normal ethanol refinery approx one lb of CO2 is produced for every gallon of ethanol. If that CO2 was released back into the atmosphere it would be okay, because it would be taken back in by the next crop. It would be "Neutral."

    However, more and more of that CO2 is being sold to domestic oil companies and used to flood old oil fields. Of course, that CO2 is sequestered pretty much forever. So, your standard ethanol production cycle is slightly positive for CO2 reduction; switch grass just takes it considerably farther.

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  24. Sausage and I concentrate on Methane Production as our part of the War Effort.

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  25. im gonna blush right through my casings, doug :D

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  26. I think Habu and teresita are in Bora Bora together. Teresita thought she would see what it was like and invited Habu. Habu got an immediate hard on cause he thought she was taking him to Tora Bora.

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  27. It grows best in the South Eastern U.S. duce. It doesn't need great dirt, but it does need water, and it don't like it too cold.

    The Southwest will be humongous when desalinization gets right. Probably within 5 years that worthless Texas/N Mexico, Arizona scrub will be valuable real estate.

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  28. The Valley of the Vulcanizers.

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  29. if radials = wtf
    then x = query.google {radial + "casings"}
    say x to doug


    Doug, why, yes, of course.

    where you aware that goodyear's are better than dunlop?

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  30. Maybe we need to switch New Orleans.

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  31. Slap on a Vulcanized Radial?

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  32. Sausage:
    Ms T is Testin as we Type.

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  33. Thank Habu for the Sacrifice:
    Service above Self.

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  34. Mz T vulcanized it and called it a Dildu.

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  35. I cant decide which Teresita is desktop background worthy:

    the prostrate couch one
    or
    the horseback one

    Maybe ill make a collage of them

    I can make the EB header alternate between Ms T images if anyone would find that welcoming

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  36. There's some Tough Testin goin on in Torrid Bora Bora.

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  37. I thought you were the expert in Self Service, doug.

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  38. Ms T, Habu, and the Elephant.
    Possum over in the corner, Oliphant Style.

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  39. I preferred the squat shot. Habu mentioned it in passing and she 86'd it.

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  40. or better yet, a Teresita cloud erected by social bookmarking

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  42. We should get him as a guest speaker.

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  43. maybe mrs t is a re-created sonia-belle once someone found the hegre model archive she ripped off for her identity

    tho i guess i guess im a cultural projection of a google image search so i cant criticize.

    ask aristides if teresita can scale in a small world thingamabob

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  44. First you bring Allen up short,
    Now you bring up my Jooish Root!
    You and C-4, and Webb, 'Rat.
    3 Peas.

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  45. Buddy does a lot of Prostate pondering on the Couch.
    Sucks to be Old.

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  46. Whit, I guess when we put up a post that bombs, all we need do is to go repro.

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  47. All in the space pod.

    Hey check out the Westhawk site, the link to an interesting idea,
    There are three types of Generals, now.
    1) The Angry Generals School.
    2) The Transformation School.
    3) The Introspective School.

    Great descriptions of each schiil of thought, I gaze into the my Seer role through great introspection....

    But it is an interesting Civil war at the Pentagon

    Pick your favorite military future.

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  48. Anyone care to explain why my html tags do not work in Safari? I will read it later, I don't want it flaming my Bordeaux.

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  49. Uh, I kinda liked that uh, "titties" post.

    Jes sayin . . . .you know?

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  50. Maybe Teresita has simply transcended space and time, having become bored with it. A simple query of the universal quantum computer and she was off to queueless threading into the beyond.

    Phallus-esque GUI in blog comment threads reminded her of the more sophisticated sapphic dimensional spaces in the universe. Some would think her matrioshka brain would open a "worm" hole; she'd just laugh at our sexually-constrained string theory reasoning as she de-materialized and became pure energy, dissolving into an incomprehensible world with all the quiet elegance one would expect from a post-female life form.

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  51. The Patton School Remains Unused.

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  52. Not even in the running, dog, doug.

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  53. I'll have to check with the art department on our inventory on tittenalia. Is it urgent rufus?

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  54. we should disguise the t1tty talk, lest people not be able to access this from work.

    common convention with pr0n

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  55. Hey, doug, you were well into diapers before I was born, and, after a brief interrdiaperum, will be again.

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  56. we will simply call them t-2 lines.

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  57. Doug are you drinking up inthe art department?

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  58. The Dyson Sphere as a Black Hole:
    Esther Dyson on the Internet, ICANN and Doing Business Abroad ...Back in the heyday of the Internet in the late 1990s, Esther Dyson was often ... "ICANN has become a real cesspool," said Dyson,...

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  59. we got to 69 and not one word about bestiality.

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  60. The problem with Teresita is that her computational capacity is so vastly large, she may be thinking our thoughts.

    We may be simply digestive or menstrual subroutines running cellular logic algorithms that she felt amusing to construct in these shapes and colors.

    I once mentioned cartesian space and she nearly shot ecto-cooler through her nose.

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  61. Didnt Sarah Conner nearly kill Dyson?

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  62. "The problem with Teresita is that her computational capacity is so vastly large, she may be thinking our thoughts."

    .......I almost drowned on my bordeaux.

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  63. Perhaps the clash of civilizations is simply an identity crisis going on in her distributed brain?

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  64. Teresita said:

    Doug was beginning to think:

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  65. Sausage, trust me, accessibility from work is not a major concern. I mean, the name of the post IS Reprobates, right?

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  66. But, just in case of something that I can't even fathom I'll call'em "Peaches" from now on. Kay?

    Peaches.

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  67. I have to get teresita to help me just think html links.

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  68. Seems like "retrobate" should be a word, doen't it?

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  69. I think sausage is teresita. Both write alike.

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  70. They discussed the Mastabatoom in Real Time on the Retrobate Thread.

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  71. doug, be a pal and put a link on your next post to ms T's web site.

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  72. I'm Runnin On Retreads:
    Wouldn't be Prudent!

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  73. rufus, kelly ann conway on kudlow's show just now said that corker's non-DC identity will be the margin in TN.

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  74. How many tons of Peaches are lyin in the California Sun?

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  75. Makes one think of Californicatin

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  76. "rufus, kelly ann conway on kudlow's show just now said that corker's non-DC identity will be the margin in TN."

    Huh?

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  77. Teresita Links:

    Wikipedia User

    google search check out bottom result lol

    encyclopedia teresita - i vote for the Mp3s myself. hopefully theres a podcast in the offing. god were jerks

    shes a social butterfly on the internet. hard to keep track of - she's everywhere. this is a notch in my corner that she isnt human. she's a spirit whose testing us, like Athena or something but with mad HTML skills - tho she insists its Xhtml w/e

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  78. Is sausage now an official new member?

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  79. Them folks in TN are PREJUDICED!
    ...against DC
    fancy that.

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  80. Yeah, he can pass as four members.

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  81. I think sausage should be vice president of IT.

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  82. If we get a retreadin do we become Remembers?

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  83. I never counted them before. Do you check out everyone's sausages doug?

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  84. I think Corker will win it Buddy. He's running a really strong border ad right now, and if it's an example of his organization he'll do fine. They're, also, running a very strong anti-Ford ad.

    He's going to have an UnGodly amount of money, and Ford is non-caucasian. I would put it 7-5 Corker.

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  85. doug, seriously, just listen to her siren songs - just make someone tie you to the desk first

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  86. you can guarantee there are at least 3-5% that will lie to a polster and not admit they will vote against Ford for racial reasons.

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  87. I told you I appreciate Links, Deuce!

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  88. the only thing I hear about Ford is on the Imus show, and Imus gets damp talking to him.

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  89. Sausage is the only one with the "guts" here to hear those mp3s.
    I'm workin up to it.

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  90. Duce, Tn is an "Open" seat. Corker is a Businessman, not a professional politician.

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  91. well I wish one of you linkers would instruct me and allen on how it is done on a mac?

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  92. I thought Imus was Terminally Dehyderated.

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  93. Buddy is the Expert Linker-Teacher.
    Or, he was until Teresita Came along.

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  94. You're right Duce, Tn is a Southern (kind of) State. Gore couldn't even carry it.

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  95. Deuce,
    Could you install Opera or some other Browser that might do the trick?
    Have you checked Blogger Help/FAQ?

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  96. 2164,

    i dont understand what you mean it wont work on a mac

    you mean the < a > tag fails? its not a mac or safari thats the issue is my first impression. where are you creating these links? in the wysiwyg editor?

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  97. Man that Bout was a Dict Bender!
    Teresita can Benda Dict.

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  98. I tried doing the tags and no luck. I looked at the help and they said their were some problems with safari that they were working on. I assums that as quickly as you get them up there must be some tool you use, that I do not see.

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  99. walk me through this. say I am typing and want to link to the BC, what do I do?

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  100. You start by Genuflecting to the Cat.

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  101. I think I burned a bridge too far.

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  102. google [hyperlink], 2164, and check out the wiki entry.

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  103. How do you spell wysiwyg?
    Is it pronounced phonetically?
    Who is buried in King Tut's Tomb?
    What does this have to do w/the price of the Mastabatoom in China?

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  104. and being Catholic, i am quite a proficient genuflector.

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  105. Were the Phonecians Hooked on Phonics.
    Would be a Hoot on the Hookah.

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  106. I will do it now buddy. standby.

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  107. well, you have two interfaces in blogger


    -the what you see is what you get one
    -and the html "code" one.

    if the insert link button with the chain and globe on it is not working in safari (is that what you're saying), you need to follow the similar syntax, which is basic W3C specifications that safari apparently follows much closer than IE:

    < a href='linkypoo'>nameoflink< /a>

    note, remove spaces on the left of the first "a" and left of the second "a" - blogger has issues with writing tags as i understand it

    is that what youre doing?

    view the html of your post and see if it follows that syntax

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  108. Stuff it Sausage!
    You're a two faced interfaithed, 4 membered retread remember?

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  109. The Goat Demoed the Islamic Interface.

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  110. < a href='http://fernandezbongmanship.au'>woahdude< /a>

    becomes woah dude

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  111. The Dude cannot be displayed

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  112. andoullie or italian?

    You'd better hope you have sausage stuffing if its turducken, another one of them things god uses to play with our senses

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  113. But he would be, as godaddy has a special now on .au but i dont want him to track me down and liu kang bicycle kick me

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  114. He failed at Turdducken.
    Now he Senses Turdstinkin.

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  115. 2164, if you fail at links, Teresita is better than you. sry :/

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  116. Has godaddy got a good rep and record?

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  117. I keep getting the message that HTML cannot be accepted: tag is broken

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  118. email your links to kittycatmeowmeow@gmail.com

    and i can return an html thing you just cut and paste that will work - would it make sense for EB to create a workflow for link aggregation? id happily aggregate and assemble a neat list daily based on submission with one line explanations/editorials to accompany - its normal weblog behavior you dont often see at the BC

    you can post via email, you know? you could simply email those links to the email youd setup for your blog and blogger would render them with < a > markup i believe

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  119. did you include the > after the .com'
    ?

    or your final < /a> tag?

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  120. I'll go to the apple store in the morning and see if they can assist me.

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  121. a href='http://something.com'> checkout something! < /a>

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  122. lol yeah the dudes at the genius bar will set you up right

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  123. call apple tech support il duce

    or just go here

    simple no bs html tutorial

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  125. sausage, if you have some ideas on customizing the site. welcome aboard!

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  126. 2164,

    Cant you use the globe with the chain link icon on that toolbar you use to post?

    This button is immediately RIGHT of the italics button. click it, insert link in the popup and then insert your text (that will be underlined indicating Link Is Here!) between the > and < tags.

    OR

    If you are really hax0r, you will select the text you want to use as your link text and click that icon and then insert the link in the pop-up window.

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  127. That is the problem, in safari there are only two icons on the tool bar, spell check and an upload button for images. nothing else.

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  128. Ok, I sent you a gmail. It renders fine in gmail. Im screenshoting it and imageshacking it just in case. Image forthcoming

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  130. Problem solved. the buttons are displayed in firefox.

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  131. the next post I do will be under firefox. now you guys are in real deep shit.

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  132. Ah - does that provide the globe option?

    NOTE: tag broken means you are not "ending" the link properly - thats blogger detecting the error - otherwise itd go through and all subsequent text would become the hyperlink...

    is it the right slash? no spaces just plain old < /a> (minus space :/ )

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  133. great idea--repro it in 'paint', then send as a jpeg. want me to?

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  135. not a bad reference - that button can't "fix" link problems

    itd be best if 2164 could just fix it hyperlink issues if they occur.

    they even happen at the BC sometime

    link to a hyperlink syntax image

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  136. I just saw part of the new Harold Ford ad (the one in the church.) It's very good. He's a likeable TV personality. He's a "tough" little politician. I can't help but pull for him on some level. It'll be interesting.

    BTW, here's a Good Alternative Polling site.

    Watch out for Steele in Md. He's making a race out of it.

    I'll tell you, though, it's too early to pay "Too Much" attention to polls. 48 days is 48 lifetimes in politics.

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  137. As in redirect from here to elephantbar.com or from elephantbar.com to here?

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  138. for posting I will do it in firefox. It does not look as elegant as safari, but it seems to function fine.

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  140. If you want to get a bit fancy, you can use Flock (fancy firefox), which allows you to instantly blog about a given site, image etc and it integrates to blogger.

    I use wordpress at the moment and so im kept from using this feature. Something to think about - no coding needed - just patience to learn what to click etc

    think of it as a "front end" to your blog i guess - one as easy to use as any internet browser basically.

    flock.com

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  141. Does anyone object to me trashing this post when we are done?

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  142. on blogging in flock

    If you think you found a hilarious or scandalous article or even an image of note, you can easily click and blog it with added commentary - and of course its uploaded to your blog already incase you want to add onto it or edit it later. Cool capability...

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  143. sausage, i will make an appointment with apple and discuss the .mac capability. i will let you know what i find.

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  145. To be honest, you really only need a redirect if you have a huge following - just post the new link in a post and people will click and theyll remember.

    I figure youre more concerned about transferring old posts to the new site? that can be done pretty easily - im just looking for the specific instructions.

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  146. thanks for your help gents. i am off to sleep.

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  147. I've been down the "fashionable" front end side of blogging (Oh textpattern! Oh Drupal! Oh wordpress!) - it leads nowhere -blogger is pretty capable, especially blogger beta that allows tagging etc which for the longest time was not there and a real disadvantage.

    unless you are an apple employee, im not sure i see a huge incentive for .mac - thats all.

    Is there something you want to do that blogger wont let you?

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  148. celebrity womyns is so 20th century

    you gotta get into the amateurs mang

    flickr.com and type "babe"

    just watch out, thar some dudes on there

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  149. i just 'painted' a full example and emailed it to the site--it's the simplest way, it's direct.

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  150. i mean a hyperlink code--not an Ashley.

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  151. no--not better--I just hadn't seen that one yet.

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  152. well make a hxor of 2164 yet

    soon hell be all up in W's dataz

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  153. ha--a hyperlink is out at the limit of my code abilities--you'll have to be the hxor--i'm just the old extra in the crowd scene--

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  154. Went to a conference Monday night at the CO School of Mines. One of the speakers put a 40 lb. bag of wood pellets on the table = $3.79/bag. Then he put eight 5-lb. bags of wood chips on the table at 3.99/bag. New lable = 8X.

    Then he showed slides of the devastation the "pine beetle" has done to CO forests. His estimate is that 600,000 acres are dead tress that need to be thinned.

    He asked why these dead trees couldn't be made into wood pellets, which burn cleaner than wood or coal in stoves that don't need chimneys, and can be burned on "Red" (no-burn) days, here in CO. Any loggers in the group?

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  155. The issue with so many "system perturbations" is that the solutions are out there, rationally designed and persuasive.

    The problem lies in executing them and integrating them with everything else.

    A widget isn't anything if it its a widget drawing, or even a widget proof of concept. You need to have a widget factory.

    Or rather, you need to have a method for quickly making a Widget 2 factory when Widgets are found to cause cancer or is destroyed by Muslims.

    And when Widget 2's fail, you need to rapidly setup and distribute Widget 3's. The issue is no longer production, per se, but rate of creating producting: capacity generation or something.

    There are so many darned energy solutions out there, its just a matter of integrating them all, and setting up new ones when something happens with the old ones.

    "Plug and play" is perhaps the best term for the ideal.

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  156. Rat: 8:38

    Westhawk goes with the lean and mean model but seems to ignore the China threat. Also, remember the talk of 1 1/2 front capabilities?

    Speaking of the China threat, there seems to be a D.C. school of thought that views China suspiously. Others not so much. Knowing should be our priority.

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  157. Rat: 8:38

    Westhawk goes with the lean and mean model but seems to ignore the China threat. Also, remember the talk of 1 1/2 front capabilities?

    Speaking of the China threat, there seems to be a D.C. school of thought that views China suspiously. Others not so much. Knowing should be our priority.

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  158. Not Newsworthy?

    35,000 Protest outside the U.N. against Amafuckhead.

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  159. Its lacking in the truth to power ratio

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  160. that's what it lacks, alright. not worth covering, because it's the "standard" boo-jwah position.

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