October 07, 2004

• My advice: analyse the methods you use and get rid of them. When given a choice between methods, attempt all of 'em. Release yourself from desire. Fart in the face of adversity. It is the lottery of life.
• I like the multitude of links from anonymous in the sidebar. How long til the rest is restored, Tracy? If its going to be awhile, is it alright if we add another London meetup thread? (as its going to be next thrusday or friday, I think, but it still needs finalising)
• Also, dng has posted 1 links and 16 comments Hurrah! I'm new again (for a couple of days)
• Hello, I am a pen. This downtime gave me a good excuse to learn XUL and figure out how Mozilla does DNS resolution. Yay yak-shaving!
• We love you, tracicle. And #2, whoever he is.
• Monkeyfilter: We love you, tracicle
• Monkeybashi forever! Thank you, #2!
• Thanks, number one and number two. You guys rarely get the kudos you deserve - for running this great site, for skilful moderation of debates; for just being really fantastic guys. And hey, its not your fault that you're both named about things I do in the toilet. Sure, I laugh at you behind your back, and call you "pee-pee" and "poo-poo" - hell, we all do. But the point is: you shoulda chosen better usernames.
• The monkeys have had a big group enema.
• group enema?
• Many thanks for fostering this wonderful community, Monkeybashis 1 and 2. "May your troubles be as few and as far apart as my Grandmothers teeth."
• Are all the links working as they should now? The rest of the db won't be restored for a while -- if ever (bwahaha!) -- so feel free to add a meetup thread. We'll work on the code again before putting the rest up.
• Let me know if anything's broken. Well, my lawnmower is broken, but since we're about to enter winter I won't need it for a while. One of the toilets in our house has a slow leak in the tank. The doorknob to the garage is pretty loose. My car needs a new fuel injector. OH! You didn't mean that, didja Tracicle? But seriously -- I'm glad MoFi is back up -- I was having serious withdrawals for those few hours! Thanks!
• davidmsc: ballcock?
• You just wanted to say ballcock.
• It's good to have a reason.
• ballcockpunch *doffs hat at The One and The Two, prostrates self, holds up burnt offerings as humble show of gratitude* *realises the offerings got burnt. bugger. goes to try and find replacement offerings* *finds that offering shop is shut. goes home again.* *hopes that a thumbs-up and a cheeky wink will suffice.*
• A cheeky wink will never suffice
• Monkeyfilter: A cheeky wink will never suffice WHEW! It was touch and go there for a while. I was starting to get cranky and shake in the extremities. I had a facial tic, and kept stuttering. Then when I tried to log on this evening, there it was--Monkeyfilter. Thank the Holy Yellow Banana. And our Monkeybashi.
• Dear exalted Monkeybashi, and her trusted lieutenant #2, Will MoFi be getting her memory back, or will history for evermore begin on October the Fifth, Two Thousand And Four? Thanks, and sincerely I remain
• The short answer is yes. Probably.
• Monkeybashi, did you recieve my mail on the new stylesheets I made for MoFi? In any case, they are here: Brown Dark
• I did, Gyan. I've downloaded them and will add them to MoFi when I get a chance. I totally forgot to say thanks for doing them. So thanks, bananas, etc. :)
• must . . post to . . bashi . . thread . . . *chews on desk*
• *runs in, gives pete_best his towel back to chew on instead, scampers away*
• Call for pete_best... pete_best to the lobby phone please! Will this work again? Get ready to grab the towel!
• Hee hee hee, Mr. Hat, I like the way you think. *Hides behind the lobby chair
• Hello, err... my name is, um... best_pete and... I um, have this towel see, which you can take and then go away, OK. So just take this towel and leave this thread and don't come back and... what? What do you mean, of course I'm best_pete. See I even have the towel? And you are wrAAAAAAAA!!! Stop beating me, get those sticks away you crazy old people!!! Fuck! OK OK, sorry, I'm leaving, geeze! /Sorry pete, they didn't buy it.
• Yyyyello?
• Mr. _best, it has been discovered that your towel contains a dangerous security thread. Drop the towel and back away... NOW!
• Is this the party to whom I am speaking?
• Not much of a party... You know what this assemblage needs? ELEPHANTS!
• ELEPHANTS! You called?
• psst - wendell
• Is this the party to whom I am speaking? posted by pete_best at 06:03PM UTC on October 15 I read this as "Is this the party to whom I am spanking?"
• *spanks pete_best, steals his towel, scampers away (giving fuyugare a banana daquiri on the way out)*
• Unh, Hat? Can I come out from behind the chair now? *looks around, squeals Pete_best has his pants off again! And you don't WANT to know what he's doing with the phone cord. Get the elephants, QUICK.
• Perect entertainment for a Monkey Saturday Morning: "pete_best's playhouse"
• Will pete_best be arrested for indecent exposure and see his nascent tv career go down in flames? Tune in tomorrow, same time, same station!
• Well, suppose they do arrest one of pete_best, there's still a host of him left.
• Yes, Bees, but if you really looked CLOSELY at him/them when he/they had his/their pants off, you can tell their not actually identical petes. Ooops. *blushes No, I didn't look. Of course not. Not ME. Seriously, I didn't. I, er, heard that or read it somewhere.
• So, BlueHorse, which pete IS best? And do we now need to address him as Peter?
• EXTRA! EXTRA! Serial streaker at hotel! Couldn't resist...
• Oh man, that's great. Hey pete, you're famous!
• Christophine, that's FANTASTIC! We really need to archive that somewhere. *prissy matron voice Wendell, I really didn't look that closely at peter, unh, PETE. I SAID PETE. Look, behind that palm. THERE HE IS. Can we borrow a hat or something over here? Please, for the sake of decency and decor-room. After all, this is a high-klass establishment here.
• Christophine ROCKS!!!
• *returns towel to pete_best, agreeing that he is indeed the best pete she's seen all year*
• I'm still rather fond of Pete and Pete.
• What about Pete and Re-Pete?
• Well, good point, some of him/them must be Re-Petes. He may have another alias... ...and there's such funny meter to the roar of his re-Peter. How they run, because the western folks all know he's a high-falutin', rooton' tootin' sonuva gun from Arizona, Rag-time Cowboy Joe. --slightly altered, this extract from the ragbag of my memory
• Thank you, languagehat, BlueHorse, and Darshon! :) Since I have somewhat of an audience, I'll probably continue to make these things, when inspiration to create one hits. When you've all had enough, let me know. ;)
• Heh. Do more, Christophine!
• Seconded. That was rad.
• Thirded. Soopahdoopahrad.
• Dude. I am totally buff. Beefcaaaaake! BeefCAAAAAKE!! /pete_chippendale
• No more media censorship! Those big black blobs have got to go :) Bunches of ))))) for Christophine!
• Thank you for all the compliments! And great timing... I was just hitting the next phase after I've been doing something like these things I do (whatever you want to call them)... the hypercritical stage, where I hate everything I just did. I can say that there will definitely be more. This had an added benefit in the long run. I have a midterm assignment due in which I have to create a small site (minimum three pages) with graphics and using some of the other web design techniques we've covered. I've spent a week trying to figure out what kind of content to use. But after the newspaper silliness, I decided that was exactly what I'd do. So I intend to come through MoFi and see if anything else gets the creative juices flowing. And since there are so many of you interested, I'll put up a link to the site here when it's finished. (Okay, done rambling. As you were. ;) )
• How can you get anything but a perfect score using MonkeyFilter members for inspiration? :)
• Can't wait to see the finished product!
• Do languagehat! Do languagehat! *points*
• Well, if you insist... *starts unbuttoning blouse* Ohhhh languagehat... come here. The Collective wants to watch me do you, apparently.
• Yowza! (GramMa don't look!)
• *turns off light*
• *turns light back on, lights cigarette* *remembers he doesn't smoke, coughs violently*
• Wow! That's pretty good endurance.
• And I thought I loved having hats before! So, tell me, o Spokespete for the Collective, do I look good with a hat on?
• Boy, I sure picked the wrong week to become an Asexual.
• Well listen here girls, I'm telling you now: They call me lovin' Dan. I'll rock 'em, roll 'em all night long I'm a 60 minute man...
• From my count it was closer to 150 minutes. I think we need a new song.
• Okay, I'm back with the Cheetos - what'd I miss?
• Cn I taek my hans of my yees nwow? Ist haaard to type wiht my eblows.
• Ist haaard to type wiht my eblows. Fortunately, we males have another option (NSFW.)
• As promised, here is my midterm project for my web development class. Consider yourselves warned.
• Christophine, that's wonderful. And I'm glad you've been doing so well on blogshares. I'm sorry I sold out from under you, but I get ancy about staying with one blog for a while. Also, you're running about a million more than I am, though not as much as tracicle :)
• All hail Christophine! Who has replaced, if not restored, our missing Collective Memory! Very funny, wonderfully silly, thanks, Christophine. There's a Mr. BlueHorse?!!! EEEEK!
• ancy This word has a connection with "ants".
• Woo-hoo! National media exposure, here I come!
• Well done, Christophine! Your stories are far better written than most of the ones I see in actual newspapers. I especially love: "Armies of petes_best are flooding the streets, trying to find a clue to the mysterious sock disappearances." The pluralization of pete_best is pure genius. I would just like to say for the record that the movie Languagehat, Private Linguist, though very well made and deservedly popular, is a highly exaggerated portrayal of my career. I did not provide an instant translation of secret documents that led to the downfall of the Soviet Union, nor (needless to say) did I learn an alien language overnight and save Earth from space overlords. (It's all true about the women, though.) Are you spelling quidnunc "Quidnuc" to get his goat, or is it a typo? And if the former, what will you do with the goat once you've gotten it?
• *is impressed yet again*
• I thoght itt was briliant, despite sum minor speling errers.
• jb: Thank you so much! :) It's perfectly okay that you sold those stocks. I was holding onto longer than I normally would, in order to give you a chance to sell and make a decent profit on them. Since I made a bit over B$3,000,000 in my first three days, a couple of stocks taking a small dive wasn't a problem. :) beeswacky: You're very welcome, and thank you for the praise! I seem to recall that there was a Mr. BlueHorse, mentioned a couple times before we lost our collective memory. Or else that's the voices in my head speaking again. middleclasstool: May your poor, pining socks find their mates again. ;) languagehat: Thank you, but I must admit that where the pluralization of pete_best is concerned, it's not original with me. I was simply being an opportunist. It was something I spotted here on MoFi before we lost our memory. Just be glad (or disappointed, if that's your preference) that I didn't have time for what I really wanted to do with Languagehat, Private Linguist. Originally, I'd planned a comic strip, very film noir-ish. Hush on the Quidnuc/quidnunc thing! I don't want it to get out that I'm secretly allied with Count DracAllah to destroy the kid's publicity! *grumble* There's always gotta be something that escapes me, especially when working on something four hours after I should have been asleep. the_bone: Thank you very much! :) the quidnunc kid: Thank you, for the praise, the understanding about the typos, and the laugh this morning.
• Armies of petes_best are flooding the streets... *laughs ass off* This is awesome, Christophine. Will it be ongoing? If so, I may have to link it in the sidebar.
• My name's onna paper! My name's... gosh, Christophine, you're the best! *HUGS* It's really hilarious reading :)
• Christophine is hereby appointed the Orficial Monkey Chronic-leer! Rah. That was way cool--what a great imagination you have. Did you have to mention Mr. You-know-who? I'm trying to seduce the Bees here, ya know. Sure ruins a GramMa's chances.
• That's just awesome. Chirstophine rocks!
• I want to be seduced! Want a woman to talk to me suggestively Want to hear her say she'll be with me tomorrow morning Drinkin' hot jasminesmoky tea. -- rest of lyrics can be found here.
• wait wait wait . . there's a Mr. BlueHorse? *cries*
• tracicle: It's a huge time commitment, of which I've had little lately. I'd like to do more, but it depends on a number of things. The biggest, of course, is the time to do it among my classes and other projects. There's also setting up hosting, since my space on earthlink is pretty limited. I could keep doing it there, but I would have to replace everything rather than archive it for anyone who wants to go back and read the old stuff. And, finally, there's the necessary inspiration, which hits me randomly. Not everything starts off the, "Hey, wouldn't it be funny if..." reaction. So, if it's updated, it wouldn't likely be updated for a while, and without any kind of schedule. I've been mulling all this over, and if I solve all the issues, then I will continue. Once I know, I'll pass along whether this will continue or not. Alnedra: Thank you! *hugs* Of course you're there. How could I not put in you and your 100 ton hammer? It wouldn't be MoFi without you! BlueHorse: Praise from GrandMa! Yay! Thank you. :) And it was the voices in my head who convinced me that there's a Mr. B. There is no Mr. BlueHorse. Disregard GrandMa's attempt at humoring me. She is unattached, and I understand this now that the meds have kicked in. Better, GrandMa? Sorry about mentioning Mr. B. I didn't think it'd be a problem, since the only way I knew was from a mention you'd made yourself. Oops. BevosAngryGhost: Thank you very much! :) pete_best: Oh dear. I'm sorry. Don't cry. It was just the voices in my head telling me things that aren't actually true. It'll all be okay.
• Christophine: 's OK honey, no problem. GramMa and the Mr. B. really are happily married. But I have such fun flirting with the Bees. Guess that makes me an internet slut. And at my age. *hangs grey-haired head
• wait wait wait... Alnedra has a 100 ton hammer? *gets a warm and squishy feeling*
• BlueHorse: No need to hang your head, GrandMa. You're married, not dead.
• I thought it was 1000 tons?
• Married. dead, what's the difference?
• When you have sex and you're dead, it feels less fun. Or so I'm told. Read. Whatever.
• I thought it was 1000 tons? Oh, get serious, pete -- how could she lift a 1000-ton hammer?
• Languagehat is right (as usual :)) it's a 100 TON Hammer™.
• argh. Take two: 100. TON HAMMER™.
• I give up.
• Alnedra's hammered!
• Hammer Time! You can't touch this!
• I mean, I wouldn't mind if you touch this, but I don't think you can reach it.
• Can I get hammered with Alnedra, too? After this week, I could really use it. Breathe in, breathe out...mmm........Aaaauuuuugh!!
• I cannot believe I missed the latest Christophine effort until now!!!!!!!! Absolutely, fucking brilliant! That's the funniest damn thing I've read in a month! Thank you so much for the laughs.
• Thank you, Darshon! :) And you're very welcome. I'm glad you found it so funny. :)
• Lookit! Lookit! I got it back!! Yay no db! Yaaayyy!! *dances around with GramMa, runs out back door waving arms wildly*
• um, is petebest missing his underscore? should I point it out?
• *clueless lightbulb flickers above head* or, uh, are there ... 2 petes!
• well, that's what they'd have you believe.
• Did somebody say Two Petes?
• What the heck was that?? (referring to the recent outage of a few hours(?))
• I don't know, but it scared the heck out of me. But I'm proud to say I didn't start saying,"ohshitohshitoshit...." until I found I couldn't access tracicle's blog either.
• A glitch caused by a gremlin in glee? And cured by #2 and Tracicle, presumably.
• obviously the server is trying to get attention. it's still annoyed at monkeybashi for leaving it for so long.
• I was adrift...I didn't know what to do... Ohthankgodit'sbackon... Somebody hold me.
• *holds middleclass's tool*
• the_bone holds the tool. Oh my!
• aHOYven glavin! nice server not to hurt a person . . .
• I actually had to do work for a while. It was really annoying. Is there an emergency number we can call if this happens again?
• Actually, I didn't even know about it apart from an email from beeswacky a few minutes ago. We just got off the plane in Christchurch three hours ago. Sounds like the hosting server went down if both earthling.net.nz and monkeyfilter.com were unavailable. Any particular error message before I contact them to see what happened?
• *holds up crayon drawing of MoFi homepage taped over monitor*
• Tracicle - I just got a time-out and no page at all. Sometimes that happens to sites that get blocked by government censors here, so I was worried MoFi had made the Party's shitlist (they block blogspot and other community sites too). Sounds like a general server failure then?
• I got the same time-out thingie.
• yup, no message, just . . nothin'.
• Right, I'll check. Probably a power failure or something equally dumb (although I'd be concerned if that was actually the case...).
• Firefox just kept saying "document has no data", which is the equivalent of the time-out I think. It took a while to get that message though. I quickly tried getting to your earthling.net.nz blog, and got the same result. *drinking green tea to calm her nerves*
• OH, and, welcome home, tracicle! We, of course, engineered the failure to let you know how much you're needed. And, hey, we didn't lose our memory again, so we'll be all right once we get over the fear of a MoFi-less existence.
• Glad you're home again, tracicle!
• Welcome home Monkeybashi! Hope we didn't make too much of a mess while you were gone.
• Glad you made it home safely, traicle.
• Sorry to burden you with trouble the moment you get home, tracicle :( Have a good rest, put your feet up. Us monkeys are fine!
• Glad you made it home safely, tracicle! Hope you enjoyed your vacation as much as we enjoyed meeting you!