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Eric: Slight Service Change, For Your Convenience, Citizen.
Hoy, chummers.
Just an administrative note. With the slowdown of posting, I've switched the behind the scenes mechanism from showing the previous seven days worth of posts to instead show the last eight posts themselves here on the front page. That way, we can camouflage a lack of output keep things looking nice out here on the front page, and give anyone who comes by several entries to have a look at.
When (if?) we ramp posting back up, we'll switch back to a time based format to keep newer entries from dropping off the page for irregular visitors to see. Thanks, and enjoy a soy based fruit smoothie beverage.
Posted by Eric Burns-White at April 27, 2006 10:36 AM
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Comment from: larksilver ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.websnark.com/nav-commenters.gif)
posted at April 27, 2006 11:14 AM
hmm. a soy based fruit smoothie beverage? Uhm.. I'll let you have those. I'll stick with my.. uhm.. well, just about anything else, methinks. hehe
See you 'round the funny farm.
Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at April 27, 2006 1:11 PM
Aww... I was hoping for an orange juice base.
Comment from: Montykins posted at April 27, 2006 1:30 PM
Hmm. In my experience, a "slight service change" is usually followed by a hail of laser fire.
Comment from: miyaa posted at April 27, 2006 2:27 PM
Soy based fruit smoothie? Isn't that like drinking pureed tofu?
Eww...
Comment from: McMartin posted at April 27, 2006 2:36 PM
So, what's the Essence cost for a blog?
Comment from: HydrogenGuy posted at April 27, 2006 2:42 PM
A soy-based fruit smoothie, citizen? Surely you mean a cool, freshing, traitor-free Bouncy Bubble Beverage?
Comment from: Canuck-Errant posted at April 27, 2006 6:40 PM
B3? Can I get CruncheeTym Yeast Twists too?
Comment from: STrRedwolf posted at April 27, 2006 6:47 PM
Bah. No self-respecting digihead geek will go for that. Give me a mocha mint frapachino, and add a shaved expresso bean on top of it.
Comment from: Alexis Christoforides posted at April 27, 2006 11:09 PM
That's no way to announce such things.
Websnark shows the last eight posts on the front page.
Websnark has always shown the last eight posts on the front page.
Comment from: kirabug posted at April 28, 2006 12:47 AM
STrRedwolf: what's the difference between that and a Mint Chocolate Bomb from Gloria Jean's?
Barkeep: I'll just have the Oregon Chai from the google ads, thanks.
Eric: Nifty, thanks :)
Comment from: Paul Gadzikowski posted at April 28, 2006 7:26 AM
Websnark has always shown the last eight posts on the front page.
I don't think so. There was a day about a week ago when there were only two or three posts on the front page; and short enough posts that they didn't even extend down as far as the Recent Posts list. It was very disorienting to those of us (if any besides me) who regularly leave our browser window at the top of the Recent Comments list and refresh every once in awhile: one's first thought was that the page hadn't finished loading.
Comment from: Johnny Assay posted at April 28, 2006 9:05 AM
I don't think so. There was a day about a week ago when there were only two or three posts on the front page; and short enough posts that they didn't even extend down as far as the Recent Posts list.
An Eastasian sympathizer! Get him!
Comment from: Dave Van Domelen posted at April 28, 2006 9:33 AM
Citizen, are you cleared to know of the existence of Eastasia? I'm afraid you'll have to report to the nearest R&D lab for mandatory test subject duty.
Comment from: Eric Burns posted at April 28, 2006 9:50 AM
We have always been at war with Eastasia.
Still, there are clearly ten items on the front page. There have always been ten items on the front page. The idea that the administration would restrict us to eight items on the front page is propaganda from Eastasian sympathizers who resent our way of life and seek to undermine our confidence.
Comment from: Mike Russell posted at April 28, 2006 10:29 AM
Okay, today, I must admit, was the first day I really missed the more-frequent updates.
Because today I saw the Trashspotting message boards -- and actually raced here before reading them all to see if Eric and/or Weds had penned a poeti-theoretical appreciation of same. And lo, there was none.
(And BTW, do please note that there's a level to that Trashspotting message board above the one Onstad directly links to from his site.)
Comment from: Axonite posted at April 28, 2006 12:46 PM
I keep reading that title as "slight service *charge* for your convenience." Even though I know it says "change."
It has always said change!
Comment from: Aerin posted at April 28, 2006 2:44 PM
Axonite: Me too. It takes me a moment to process what it actually means.
Comment from: Nentuaby posted at April 28, 2006 4:39 PM
I'm confused... Are you guys referencing George Orwell or Friend Computer? Or mixing both into some sort of uber-dystopia?
Comment from: Dave Van Domelen posted at April 28, 2006 5:10 PM
Nent-U-ABY-5: Yes.
Comment from: Paul Gadzikowski posted at April 28, 2006 7:12 PM
Fine. Just get off my lawn.
Comment from: miyaa posted at April 29, 2006 1:47 AM
Wait, is Eastasia west of New New York?
Comment from: Alexis Christoforides posted at April 29, 2006 5:04 AM
I'm confused... Are you guys referencing George Orwell or Friend Computer? Or mixing both into some sort of uber-dystopia?
And now I wonder how it would be to live in an uber-dystopia! All Big Brother crying in his room, unable to stop oppresing his people, all Friend Computer creating and funding secret societies to destroy it because it cannot do it itself.
Comment from: miyaa posted at April 29, 2006 7:47 AM
Methinks someone has been playing way too much Paranoia XP.
Comment from: Copper Hamster posted at April 29, 2006 11:32 AM
There is no such thing as too much Paranoia XP. Report to vaporization chamber 34141-AZX4 for termination, happy citizen.
Comment from: Sean Duggan posted at April 30, 2006 12:24 AM
Eric, I think people will probably wait patiently on your next word for an eternity. Which, admittedly, on the Internet is barely a week if you're a really rivetting speaker. I wish you luck in recovering your internet writing mojo. I enjoy reading what you write.
Comment from: Dave Van Domelen posted at May 1, 2006 1:32 AM
Comment from: Prophet of Cod posted at May 1, 2006 12:37 PM
Why not have it show the last 7 days worth of posts, or the last 10 posts, whichever is greater?
Comment from: Nentuaby posted at May 4, 2006 12:53 AM
So, combining them... There has thus been a plusunbig service change for my convenience?
Comment from: Doug Dawson posted at May 4, 2006 12:52 PM
So, has anyone commented on Eric's and Wednesday's appearance in the latest Order of the Stick yet? I haven't seen any such comments.
Comment from: quiller posted at May 4, 2006 2:07 PM
It was mentionned in the Snarkoleptics LiveJournal
Comment from: Canuck-Errant posted at May 5, 2006 1:29 PM
Mm, Paranoia. Anyone here use the JParanoia client? I play the odd game on there, albeit mostly with teenagers. They're just so... trusting... I almost feel guilty about stabbing them in the back, you know?
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