Disqus - Latest Comments for andwat

Re: Largehearted Boy: Contest - Win Peter & Max: A Fables Novel and Fables: The Deluxe Editiion, Book One

andwat — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:36:01 -0000

The person who traded the beans to Jack for a mere cow.

Re: ReoCities: One Man’s Quest to Bring GeoCities Back from the Dead

andwat — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:42:11 -0000

I applaud REOcities, in much the same way I applaud REO Speedwagon. Not that I want to visit ReoCities, or hear REO Speedwagon's threatened Christmas album. But I'm glad that they are there for those who want them.

Re: Largehearted Boy: Contest - Win Josh Bazell's Beat the Reaper Novel & A Brooklyn Industries T-shirt

andwat — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:58:03 -0000

Ponyo. I admit I'm biased, because it was the first time we've been to the movies as a family. My daughter is 5, my son is 3, but was still 2 when we saw it.

Re: Social Media Users Rally Behind Vermont Brewery vs Monster Energy Drink

andwat — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:08:42 -0000

Laws are laws, yes. That doesn't mean we have to like the laws, or the bullies who hit with them. This case makes me almost regret I've never used Monster (TM, WTF, YDUFO, whatever other letters are appropriate) NRG drinx, since that prevents a meaningful boycott. It does make me thirsty for a Vermonster microbrew.

Re: Largehearted Boy: Contest - Win Nick Hornby's New Novel "Juliet Naked"

andwat — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:38:05 -0000

I'll go along with The Shining.

And I'll offer the observation: given the choice, see the movie before reading the book on which it's based. Otherwise, you risk the "What are they doing to the book in my head" and "How could they leave out..." reactions drowning out other responses to the movie.

Case in point: I was very disappointed with the movie of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It was nowhere near, and nowhere near as good as, the novel I'd read before.

Re: Largehearted Boy: Contest - Win Two of 2009's Novels

andwat — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 11:24:59 -0000

I'll go with David Lodge, and How Far Can You Go (given the silly title Souls and Bodies in some US editions).

Andrew, who was at the Newport Folk Fest yesterday:
http://changingway.org/2009/08/02/newport-folk-...

Re: To Splurge Or Not To Splurge

andwat — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:47:54 -0000

Fred, re your suggestion that Bush "send Paulson and Bernake to their cubicile and tell them to do the numbers and come back with the return projections..."
I don't think that P&B would do that. I think it's more likely that they would tell their staff the result of the calculation, and have their staff build the assumptions and equations to obtain that result.

Re: External spam fighting services

andwat — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:05:45 -0000

David, that is what I was checking, and you do understand correctly. I don't know how many requests the Disqus folk have had to provide the sort of control you refer to - I get the impression not many, but would be interested.

Re: External spam fighting services

andwat — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:23:50 -0000

Tightly linked would mean that Disqus uses Akismet, and probably always will. Loosely linked would mean that a blog admin could use, for example, Mollom for spamfighting while not having to give up the features of Disqus.

Re: External spam fighting services

andwat — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:42:58 -0000

I hear that Disqus uses Akismet... any comments from the Disqus people? Yes or no? How tightly linked?

Re: AntiSpam Plugins

andwat — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:08:51 -0000

I just deactivated Mollom in order to install Disqus, which does its own spam policing.

Re: Disqus responds to critics: local comment hosting

andwat — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:36:33 -0000

Andy C pointed out that "not all blogs run WordPress." I'll add that not all WordPress blogs can run Disqus. I'm referring to those of us who blog at WordPress.com

Re: green plastic radiohead: All Radiohead albums now available on iTunes

andwat — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:08:38 -0000

Just checked on Rhapsody. Kid A has joined IR. I expect to see the other stuff there soon, R is often slow to add stuff.

Re: Blogging 2.0: It’s All About The User

andwat — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:46:23 -0000

Duncan, "blogging 2.0 is about enabling the conversation across many blogs and supporting sites and services." So if I post about this from WordPress*, the ping will show up here, right?
We'll soon see - or perhaps we won't.
But thank you for providing the prod that made me set up a Disqus account.
* http://changingway.org/2008/05/19/one-20-too-ma...