Kasey Mopes

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Thanos

This year Kasey doesn’t like wearing the funny hat so much, here you see her moping about it.

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Three Days until Christmas

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Thanos

Three days left until Christmas, here’s wishing everyone the joy of the season.

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Why I’m Seriously Considering Registering as Democrat

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Thanos

I can’t believe this sad sickness displacing reason within the Republican party.

I will never get in bed with Birchers, ever. Anyone Speaking at this convention will receive zero dollars from me, and zero support. In fact, anyone speaking is going to be constantly slammed by me as someone who spoke at a Bircher convention.

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New Theme

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Thanos

I’m switching to a new Theme, while I love Inanis’s theme he’s put out the final version and the sidebar’s gone all wonky and I don’t feel like messing with it this am. So you have this theme which will be the stand in until Inanis puts out a new theme based on W7, or such time as I find another theme I really like. If you miss the old theme terribly you can switch back with the theme changing widget in the sidebar, but I don’t recommend it right now.

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Test of WordPress 2.9 Cropping feature

Posted on December 22, 2009 by Thanos

I’m going to do another test of WP 2.9 crop feature, and you are 100 percent safe in ignoring this post. It turns out that my diskspace was full due to an uncleaned supercache directory after I upgraded the plugin during my last test. So, let me try again and check results.

There you have it, a great new feature in WP 2.9, that works fine. What would be nice is the ability to do this outside of the gallery window however, like when you click on an image in edit to pull up the “edit image” GUI.

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World’s Highest Glacier Set to Disappear

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Thanos

World’s Highest Glacier Set to Disappear

My father spent some time in Bolivia and La Paz, and sometimes we debate global warming, so I’m posting this for him to see if he remembers the Glacier.

h/t Kilgore Trout

UPDATE: This isn’t the world’s highest glacier – there are glaciers on Mt Mckinley, and many other taller peaks so apologies for going with the video title for this post. It’s the highest glacier ski run, or was…

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Exuberant in Spirit; Quiescent in Action

Posted on December 21, 2009 by Thanos

Exuberant in Spirit; Quiescent in Action

Chewey is always happy when she goes to the off the leash park, even though she mostly just shadows me. If I didn’t walk and run around to chase Kasey, Chewey would not get very much exercise.

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Substance Dualism and Thought

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Thanos

Dualism and Thought

A new video from Qualiasoup that will make you think.

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Glen Beck: Sowing Parnoia for Profit?

Posted on December 20, 2009 by Thanos

Glen Beck: Sowing Parnoia for Profit?

Jon Stewart performs a hilarious but truthful examination of Glen’s paranoia and his penchant for pimping gold.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
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h/t Ed Brayton

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Testing WordPress 2.9: Photo Cropping and Video Embedding

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Thanos

Testing WordPress 2.9: Photo Cropping and Video Embedding

This is a test post to see how the photocropping feature works in WP 2.9, as well as the video embedding – you are totally safe ignoring it completely.

First an embed using a naked url:

Warrior Jesus Kills Comericial Capitalist Santa

For the record according to authorities Jesus was born in summer, likely around July, and Christmas started with Pagan solstice festivals.This guy has a right to be stupid however, even at Christmas.

Now a photo not cropped in WP:

And another photo, this one cropped in WP:

Not so good. While the image crop tool is there you can’t get the “save” button to ungray or go live, so the crop itself never takes. Looks like I’m still using P-Shop for cropping and sizing until they get this fixed. Also there doesn’t appear to be a way to edit a photo once it’s inserted into a post from the gallery, you can only crop and size when you freshly upload it. There’s work to be done here devs.

UPDATE: After clearing up some disk space the feature does work, buttons grey and ungrey when they should.

The good news is that the naked URL embed of a video does work, hats off for that.

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