It comes to all of us with age. As hairlines recede and waistlines expand, cosmetic surgery becomes more attractive. While this blog is just around 2 years old, in human-to-blog years that is almost middle aged. In the last few weeks, various regulars have suggested that the site needs work to handle the large number of visitors and entries. This is an attempt to see what you would like to do with the site. I view this site as belonging to all of the regulars and I would like to solicit your thoughts on changes that you would like to see from different cosmetic touches to different structure. This entry will also allow discussion of those things (not people) that you least like.
I cannot promise immediate changes (I am swamped in litigation), but it seems like the regulars would like to see some changes in structure etc. Remember: I am a chimp. I have little skills or knowledge in this field.
Everything is on the table (beyond my removal and forced retirement), so do not hesitate to recommend anything from the most mundane to the most magnificent.
Gravatar is the service WP uses to track icons. It ties an icon to a specific e-mail. You can either get an avatar by setting it up in your WP account (which will use Gravatar by default), but if you want to just get a Gravatar account without WordPress you can at http://www.gravatar.com
FF Lso writes: I should not answer you because of strawberries; however an avatar is that little thumbnail graphic like buddha’s green, grinnin’ toothless face. It is more difficult to hijack a face like hisn’!
me: sorry about the strawberries. I have a hard time resisting food talk. It’s like this game I play: talk about it, write about it, don’t eat it.
I’m kind of a foodie and I sometimes do it for money.
anyway — so the avatar….it’s that little picture …ohhhhh. I’d put one on my posts but have no idea how you do this. is this an option you choose when you first sign up for the blog? can you go back to some profile and add it?
ask me anything about food and I am so right there. ask me about this computer stuff and I’m lost.
I did finally find out how facebook works. what I can’t figure out is why anyone wants it to work.
GWLawSchoolMom,
I should not answer you because of strawberries; however an avatar is that little thumbnail graphic like buddha’s green, grinnin’ toothless face. It is more difficult to hijack a face like hisn’!
Okay experts, I will leave the rest to y’all…
FF Leo writes: Former Federal LEO
Comment:
Lottkatz, buddha, et al. have suggested using an avatar, and although that has been discussed many times throughout many different threads, this nip ‘n tuck topic is a good place to catalog how getting a avatar is best accomplished.
If you already have a WordPress (WP) account with a different screen name than used on the Turley blawg, can you have one avatar (gravatar) for just one screen name and not the other under the same WP account (most likely not) ?
If you have a non-WP account and/or just randomly post with various same screen names, will a single gravatar follow you around regardless of the screen name changes used and only if you use the same e-mail address?
Etc…
I do think an avatar is important to help prevent nom de plume hijackings as unfairly and recently happened with Patty C.
Thanks
me: okay. what’s an avatar? Is this going to be one of those ridiculously simple things to explain that everyone under 30 knows about but I missed while trying to be an adult?
Lottkatz, buddha, et al. have suggested using an avatar, and although that has been discussed many times throughout many different threads, this nip ‘n tuck topic is a good place to catalog how getting a avatar is best accomplished.
If you already have a WordPress (WP) account with a different screen name than used on the Turley blawg, can you have one avatar (gravatar) for just one screen name and not the other under the same WP account (most likely not) ?
If you have a non-WP account and/or just randomly post with various same screen names, will a single gravatar follow you around regardless of the screen name changes used and only if you use the same e-mail address?
Etc…
I do think an avatar is important to help prevent nom de plume hijackings as unfairly and recently happened with Patty C.
Thanks
Please, Professor Turley, have one very ‘trustworthy’ person act as a moderator to remove comments *after* they are posted if they do not meet some basic decorum standards. If you make no other changes, that one effort would be enough.
I hate to see this site devolve into one of those many crass locations available ad infinitum throughout the Internet. We all know you are exceptionally busy and monitoring a site can be time-consuming.
I ask the regulars, please do not allow the childish detractors to drag you down to their base level. Firm, cogent refutations are important and most welcome, although mirror reflective responses of the nonsense are extremely counterproductive and disruptive.
First Amendment rights are expressible with a modicum of decorum.
dear Buddha,
What a great idea! I’ll get to work on that!
cheers!
Can we make the blog smell like fresh baked cookies? Sure, it’s a technical challenge, but think of the uptick in traffic.
uhhh…before some ‘wag’ has at me for the comment…’do I have the right?’…I will amend it to say, ‘do I understand correctly?’ LOL! One can just never be too careful around here! ROFL!
cheers!
Dear LEO,
Thank you for the link-I read the entire thread…and I do have to say, what a fantastic bunch! Funny, smart, and just ‘wow’…I am still chucking over the Atticus Leach comment!!
I was a bit confused about the Brandenburg test…nothing too dramatic…I take it that the line is only crossed when an illegal act is both articulated and asked to be done? So ‘burn the house’ is not enough. It has to be both ‘burn the house’ and ‘would someone please’ burn the house. And even there, if there is no likely hood, then there is no violation? Do I have that right?
cheers and thanks again!
thatmtnman,
We discussed the topic at length at the link below and also see Professor Turley’s Maddow segment posted in a link there.
O’Reilly was okay with his speech.
http://jonathanturley.org/2009/06/01/police-arrest-alleged-killer-of-dr-george-tiller/
And look at that-I just thought you were one of those young whipper snappers! LOL! Thank you for the welcome. Very kind of you.
So-I don’t know a lot about the constitutional free speech guarantees-other than what is the popular domain. I was wondering…there has been a lot of criticism of Bill O’Reilly and how he practically goaded someone to take out a doctor whose practice O’Reilly despised. O’Reilly says it’s his free speech right to say anything he chooses.
I seem to remember that there were limits to free speech-the whole can’t shout fire in a theater idea.
My question is, is that literally true? Can a person in America literally say anything they choose with no worries? If ‘no’ what would the limits be?
Many thanks anyone who responds.
cheers!
How about listing threads active in the past 24 hours?
Welcome thatmtnman!
Post away. I am also in my 6th decade of life so I know ’bout lost…
Former Federal LEO,
Dear Mr. Leo…
Thank you for the help. Us old guys sometimes get lost…its the age thing…I hate it…you’ll understand one day too 🙂
cheers!
Archiving the material here is important because movement between topics and when posting causes the reloading of 122 items and needlessly consumes downloading bandwidth for those of us with limited/restricted Internet access.
Oh shit, I made a typo?
1. I’m Dutch, I’m allowed
2. I’m not a law professor
3. K-i-s-s it.
Mespo writes:
t’s a “foolish consistency,” as in:
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.”
R.W. Emerson (Self-Reliance, 1841)
Thank you, Doll.
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/æmˈbɪgyuəs/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [am-big-yoo-uhs] Show IPA
–adjective
1. open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal: an ambiguous answer.
2. Linguistics. (of an expression) exhibiting constructional homonymity; having two or more structural descriptions, as the sequence Flying planes can be dangerous.
3. of doubtful or uncertain nature; difficult to comprehend, distinguish, or classify: a rock of ambiguous character.
4. lacking clearness or definiteness; obscure; indistinct: an ambiguous shape; an ambiguous future.
I guess all of the worlds words are perfect and any misspelling should always be over looked. I get ya. Now shall we feed on trolls which are the vermin of this site.
GWLSM:
“is it consistency or obsession with perfection that is the hobgoblin of small minds?”
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It’s a “foolish consistency,” as in:
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.”
R.W. Emerson (Self-Reliance, 1841)