I've been working on something for a while now and I think its time to unveil it
The Gerbil Cage
Comment here or there... The question is, do I give it up, or do I set this site to redirect there?
posted by Sinner @ 3:28 PM
126 comments
126 Comments:
Hey Sinner!
Can you give a run-down on how the avatar system will work on the Gerbil Cage?
Other than that, see my very first comment over there!
Go to gravatar.com and sign up for a gravatar. It finds your uploaded image based on the email you provide, so if you have multiple email addresses you can have multiple gravatars.
I understand lots of other blogs use this system, so if you comment at one of them you get the gravatar there too.
No photo, strictly a description of the perfect woman
Gravatar does have issues... Like it takes weeks to et an avatar approved... I am still looking into other options.
Oh, I like it. I was worried about what would happen to *this* (gesturing to the corners of the window) when the madness subsided.
IF the madness subsides!
Go for it. I'll sign up. A site is only as lively as its commenters. Ask Charles Johnson -- or Kos.
I'm getting tired of having to register at different sites. I can't remember all my passwords from work to home.
I'm registered with Wordpress, but I don't remember either my username or password.
Can we stay with google?
Now, Denny, don't blame the victim!
There is no need to register, it is not required to comment.
If there really is an oppisition to this, I will not make the move.
victim nothing.
How can you tell a horny gerbil?
brings his own duct tape.
Lord, I apologize for that last joke...
Hawk:
I ended up registering anyway, so I could post. Try that and see if that works.
I tried to comment over at the new digs and was told I had to log-in.
Ruh roh.
Pretty-looking, I also liked the numbered comments.
However, I'd miss the ease of changing avatars without waiting for some sysadmin to "approve" them. And the "preview' feature as well.
It won't let me post without logging in - so, I created an account, logged in and...still can't comment.
I'm with Fatwa on the avatar thing, too.
I like it here.
Denny Crane! -
Armageddon! Armageddon!
It's gerbilicious.
sbh:
Thanks for the appreciation! But my brother and I were still lame geekazoids for going through all that. Hee!
Whew! Finally caught up on all the posts! And as Sulla mentioned, it's...red! No judgment, just observation. The lack of a free-for-all avatar system is a little disappointing, but then again, lots of sites don't allow ANY avatars at all. The idea of an avatar for each account may work, even if a bit unwieldy.
And yes, there are plenty of geekasaurs still left to be discovered.
Elelator go down to hooo-oole!
I've now tried twice to register at the Gerbil Cage.
The first time, I was prompted to create a user ID and enter a password twice. Didn't get a confimation email; couldn't log in.
Tried again to create a user ID; was told that I'd be mailed a generated password. No email confirmation from that attempt either.
Arrrrrgh!
fatwa - did you check your junkmail? confirmation emails may be in there.
Fatwa - dunno, I got my password almost immediately
Sinner's other blogsome blog works okay without the registration and has preview also. Perhaps Sinner's not done adding all the bells and whistles.
Dude - probably a default setting for the site that needs to be set to off.
Pet -
Yup...checked and double-checked the bulk box (which is generally pretty empty at that address, anyway).
One snafu could be user-impedance or a glitch. But two stretches my credulity a bit.
I can only conclude that either:
a) I am a complete and utter wanker,
b) There's something about both Safari and Netscape, my breakthru.com email or something else in my rig which Blogsome doesn't play well with, or
c) I'm being discriminated against. (Being a Mac-wrangling Hebe puts me in a really small minority.)
Whatever it is, I'm sure it's actionable.
Ah, that's better.
fatwa - I'm sure it's a conspiracy involving technorati and the priory of scion against Macs.
Oh! Did you try to create a username with a space in it? That could be the issue. Try an underscore, or no space.
Fatwa:
You could try [gasp] explorer too.
Dude - It's a Mac, and if fatwa's using OS 10.3 or higher, there IS no version of IE he can use [gasp]
Dude - [arched brow, nod]
Pet -
Good thought; I believe I tried it both ways but I'm not certain.
I'm gonna knock off for the night and try again in the a.m.
Another possibility occurs to me...Perhaps I've already got a political enemy after less than 24 hours as MoP.
(Memo to self: Carefully examine undercarriage of car for explosives before turning key.)
What's the funny look for; even paranoiacs have real enemies.
I may download Firefox tomorrow and see what happens; I appreciated the suggestions from you and Joe.
I'm over and out. Night-night, kids.
see ya Fatwa.
Fatwa:
G'Night! Firefox should work too, but I believe James' suggestion of the space in the name is mangling blogsome's database.
Dude - no comment about my Baby Plucky avatar?
Dude:
Big deal, Ha! Whose turn is it to push the button?
Noo!
Dude - If I'm going to be a gerbil, I want to be either this one...
Dude:
3rd Set Tiebreak! Blake's gotta win it, or it's all over.
Dude:
Pika, pika!
or this one.
I think Blake is done
woop! spoke too soon about Blake
Hey, I was going to use Ling-ling!
Sure, go ahead with Ling-Ling...maybe I'll just use Hamtaro.
Dude - the tie breaker that won't die.
Dude:
Hamtaro is too cute. It's hypnotizing me with it's eyes!
Maybe Denny Crane! has a point about gerbils.
woo! blake finally took the set.
We gotta help Sinner find something better than Gravatar. One of DHD's pillars is sockpuppeting. How can we play sockpuppets if we have to wait 2 weeks for an avatar to be approved?
Dude:
No kidding. How ya like my real life hamtaro?
awww...look at the little bugger...
Wait...gerbils, buggers...not good.
This little guy is a japanese flying squirrel, and apparently every anime animal is based on it.
Definitely has shades of "Peeka Peeka!" in there.
Federer's a finalist again!
aw well, that's it for Blake. Glad he's back in form after such a long illness.
Oh, semi-finalist again!
If Federer wins the U.S. Open, doesn't that make it 8 slams for him?
I think that's right.
Oh, he'll get nine if he wins it all.
He hasn't won a French Open yet, though. But he's only 25!
I thought he had 8 already, just too lazy to look it up.
Well, back to more Naruto for me!
Oh and Sinner - found this in the Gravatar forum topic about slow approval. If posters have a central place for their ico file, they can just change their URL in the commenter profile to switch avatars.
Sinner - free favatar hosting here. Instead of changing their Urls in the profile URL, users can just modify their favator there and it will change instantly (in theory) at the next posted comment.
Favatoooor! By the power of Grayskull!
I mean, duh, favatar.
hey!
You, with the real lives!
some of are working here...and trying to stay...awa...ke....zzzzzz.....
Off the hamster wheel! Neow!
Sulla! Sulla! Sulla!
Hey, after all the puppetry, I did contribute something useful for...um...puppetry.
awww...[kicks pebble with toe, which is hard to do inside a hamster wheel]
Sulla:
Looks like someone needs more woodchips to munch on. Those incisors are getting a little long!
Sulla:
Looks like someone needs more woodchips to munch on. Those incisors are getting a little long!
Evenin all you VBS'ers. Whuts da haps my brosizzles?
Wha! The dreaded double post!
What happened? Did all the hot babes leave already? Is this a big sausage fest again?
Hose:
Yah, you'd think they'd stick around with all the cute looking avatars running around. Seriously, I got a freakin' japanese flying squirrel up there!
Hey there Hose!
Dude - where da ladies at? I thought Hamtaro was going to be my visual GHB on them.
I mean, who could say no to dis widdle guy?
Dude:
visual GHB
OMG! That's just so wrong!
Dude - just sayin'
Dude:
Aww, look... da widdle guy is nibbling on his pencil!
OK..you guys have been in the Nitros Oxide again, haven't you.
Hose:
It's cu-uute. Do not deny the cu-uuteness.
You DISGUST me!
Buy my record!
that much cuteness is what felled Richard Gere.
Just say NO to teh cuteness!®
I dunno about the other site. Kinda confusing and hard to follow the thread
Sulla!
When does the album drop?
Cute? I got "Wallace and freakin Gromit" as my avatar. I am cute and chic
I'm so money I should be in a wallet
Hose - if we move, it's going to take some getting used to, that's for sure.
Hose:
Yeah, the other site seems a bit too labor intensive.
Sulla - Must respect the cuteness!
Respect my Cute-i-tah!
I mean we have to refresh and scroll down here, but at least you can read it.
And it is very red. Great for chicks and babes hair, but for a web site?
Sinner like teh Red™
Blogger just has all the tools together already. They just need to finish this beta version already.
So...how is Teh Crazee over on that other little site of hers doing. Is she still getting smacked around by her betters?
My gravatar got ok'd, I went over there, and it is on everyone's post.
Hose:
I still see the blankface that showed up to begin with. Very odd, settings still need to be tweaked.
Hose - What the blogsome programmers really need to do is get their act together and beef up the commenter profile area so that we wouldn't need to play this game. Add one column to a table, fetch photo url...yeesh, what's the big deal?
brb - gotta reboot here. windows explorer burped on a rundll command.
September 26.
Straight Outta Lynwood, boyee!
Oh well...I will go where the High Hokie Phanokie leads us. Here or there, the quest is the same. just doesn't seem to be as much fun.
Forget cute!
Homely is the new cute!
Pink is the new blog!
Sing with me!
Harvey, harvey
harvey the wonder hamster
he doesn't bite
and he doesn't squeal
he just runs around on his hamster wheel
harvey, harvey
Harvey the Wonder Hamster
Yeah Harvey!
hose:
She just got reminded not to resort to ad hominem attacks over this comment:
But back to your claim refuting my claim that it's a joke that BDJM published a manuscript that should have been submitted to the Journal of Jerkoff Science. Maybe white men find that kind of research inherently more interesting than those of us without both risk factors. That hypothesis fits the data so far. Or maybe it's something about you. What exactly does it mean to be "director of dissemination research?" Do you focus
exclusively on research that involves the distribution of semen or are your interests broader than that?
She just can't seem to argue the merits of a topic for very long when people disagree with her.
Oy.
I think the good folks from Jolt Cola have released WTF Energy Drink.
That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.
Sulla:
Hey I have that album!
Sulla - When does Weird Al's new album come out again?
And how's that for homely!
shoot, I should read faster, Sept 26 you said.
doy.
It should be a good album. Believe it!
Let the power of Youth explode!
Don't give up your dream to be a Splendid Ninja!
Unleash the TWiT Army!
Sulla - what was that about Cute, again?
Aww... I'm supposed to be a tough guy!
Dude - right, right, at least I survived opening the 5th gate.
Did you see? Bush is so smart. He is now trying to cover more of his tracks. Seems those incredibly smart 20 year olds who cracked the 9-11 case wide open, really messed things up. So to cover his ass, Bush got all the same actors together, went out into the mountains somewhere and filmed a new video showing the "hijackers" meeting with "Bin Laden" to make it look like he really was responsible. Then he even included "footage" of these so-called "terrorists" training for the "atwtack"
Did you ener notice that their faces are always covered in these films? That's because they are really white CIA guys. Who else would know how to do these things. Certainly not these cave dwelling neanderthals. They don't even have electricity.
Anyway, just when things start getting a little hot for Bushitlercochenyrovericeliburton, out comes this video. Do they think we are this stupid? And with the election coming up, here they go again touting the 9-11 "attack" for all the sheeple.
Damn...that Bush is such an evil, brilliant mastermid. Thank God for those guys. If it weren't for them and all of us fighting for truth, we might actually start to think we were at war and people are trying to kill us and destroy this country.
Who do they think they are, those damn evil republicants.
Okay, that's enough of the anime. Unless you're interested in this.
What did they say to her and what was her response? Or did she woose out like usual?
Hose - the conspiracists have a lot of ink to spill in the next few days after that little video.
Oh, and liked how the MSM takes 1 minute out Bush's speech about the prisons in other countries, and turns that into the headline, "Bush admits secret prisons!"
Hose:
Bush Derangement Syndrome is so irrational, because it requires Bush to be so stupid, but such an evil genius to be the face of the conspiracy.
Hose:
Here was the very next post:
JDM-SOCIETY list members are reminded that ad hominem attacks
are not appropriate for this list.
she woosed out, though I haven't checked the listserve in the last couple of hours to see if she responded to the general etiquette post about ad hominem attacks.
Sulla - you still around? How about a new thread? We're wearing this one's topic a little thin.
I'm going to back to more Naruto. I'll check in a little later.
All right dude. I'm off to some more Star Wars pr0n. Gonna start the new Legacy book with Boba Fett in it.
You got it.
new thread!
And NO MORE CUTE! I HATE CUTE!
BRING ON THE AUBURN-TRESSED HOTNESS!
g'night Dude, Hose, any lurking VBSers.
and thanks, Sulla.
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