Disqus - Friends of rcktman

Re: Welcome to my Tumbleblog!

Scott — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:51:06 -0000

And that's why I love you bestest of all!

Re: The Coyote's Byte

Scott — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:19:06 -0000

While the privacy is nice, it tends to kind of break apart
neighborhoods. I grew up in the Midwest where the most that might be
separating you from your neighbors was a chain-link fence or some
bushes. It forced you to get to know your neighbors and built a sense
of community.

Re: Yawn … Good morning!

Scott — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:16:10 -0000

I love the new look! Simple is best.

I also love that you're using Disqus for comments.

Re: FriendFeed

Scott — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:32:50 -0000

Let me get clarification on how this will work:

-I post to my blog.
-The feed for my blog show's on my friend's Friendfeed page.
-They leave a comment on that blog feed entry on Friendfeed.
-Disqus pulls the comment from Friendfeed back into my Disqus comments.

Is that correct? I believe this is already how it works with Plaxo. If not, that's what I'd like to request.

Also, any updates on this? Looks like there hasn't been anything new mentioned on the status in about a month.

Re: Yawn … Good morning!

Scott — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:42:40 -0000

Oops... the first comment had not been imported yet when I left the second one. You can delete it if you want.

Re: The Coyote's Byte

Scott — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:12:06 -0000

Funny you say that because that's yet another of my "books I bought
with the intention of reading immediately but have let gather dust on
the bookshelf" collection.

It's a very large collection. I blame Costco.

Re: The Coyote's Byte

Scott — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:05:05 -0000

Color me jealous!

Re: The Coyote's Byte

Scott — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:35:10 -0000

I didn't mean to imply it was a gay- only phenomenon. There's lots of reasons people choose not to or cannot have kids. I just get sick of having to make exceptions all the time for the people who do as if their lives are somehow more important, and Daryl and I can be inconvenienced because we don't have kids.

Re: The Coyote's Byte

Scott — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 20:52:07 -0000

I doubt it. Once your coworkers got to know you and saw how truly warped you are (just like me), they would call Child Protective Services because no one in their right mind should leave you in charge of children. ;-)

Re: FriendFeed

Scott — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:04:00 -0000

Would those comments then appear back on the original blog? That would be great.

I've always been a little concerned over the issue that Friendfeed takes the discussion away from blogs and puts it somewhere else. That's the primary reason I don't use Friendfeed. I feel FF hijacks the conversation on content created elsewhere.

If Disqus creates the roundtrip syncing of comments, that would be a killer feature for Disqus. Yes, I know, you're working on it and you have to get FF to buy into it too.

Re: Various suggestions

Scott — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:08:48 -0000

Ew. Yuck. I hate Identicons. If someone doesn't want to choose their own avatar/gravatar, then I think they should get the boring icon. If you implement Identicons, please make them optional.

Re: Request to put back the Reply button in Dashboard

Scott — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:10:11 -0000

I'll add my voice of support for this suggestion only to help the Disqus team prioritize this.

Re: Need Ability To Choose E-Mail Address Shown To Blog Author

Scott — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:26:13 -0000

I was thinking a little more about this. Perhaps Diqus could allow a person to set-up different profiles under one account. The person could use different e-mails (and even avatars) on different profiles.

When logged in, the Disqus user would be given a drop-down menu where the could select which profile they wanted to use to post the comment. This would eliminate the need for setting up multiple Disqus accounts.

This is really an important issue for me personally when using Disqus. It would help me maintain a certain level of privacy when posting to public/unknown blogs but share more information when on friend's blogs.

Other Disqus users out there- what do you think?

Re: The Coyote's Byte

Scott — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:57:09 -0000

I would tell them "Nope- I'm going to spend it all before I die having
a fabulous time which is something you'll never be able to do because
all your money will go to baling your kids out."

Re: The Coyote's Byte

Scott — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:37:20 -0000

After reading this, Daryl mentioned he has on the TiVo an episode of The Twilight Zone with Agnes Moorehead. He also told me about how one of Elizabeth Montgomery's first roles was on The Twilight Zone opposite Charles Bronson.

See what I mean?

Re: I’ve been totally read!

Scott — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:31:28 -0000

I don't buy it. It's like a horoscope. The answers are awfully vague and could be applied to almost anyone.

We see the answers as being true and fit them to our lives accordingly.

Re: The Coyote's Byte

Scott — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:35:51 -0000

You don't need to travel all the way to Arizona to drive me nuts. You do it quite well from where you're at now. ;-)

Re: The Coyote's Byte

Scott — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:14:10 -0000

Mission accomplished.

Re: The Coyote's Byte

Scott — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 23:58:45 -0000

Sounds like something they would do. Let's get them!

Re: What’s Bugging Rick? (Episode #483)

Scott — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:27:32 -0000

RE #1 - I believe you can change that on the configuration page of your blog on Disqus. Mine shows # of comments, etc.

Re #3 - Can you hook up and have dual monitors? I have a second monitor hooked up to my Macbook Pro and like being able to keep different windows on different screens.

Re #5 - I got mine at 1:50am my time (3:50a yours). The text wasn't supposed to go out to this morning, but once some "anonymous" official leaked it to the press, they had to move things up. A shame really. The Associated Press said that the Democratic Official who leaked the information asked to remain anonymous so as not to steal the thunder from today's official announcement. Are you kidding me? Did he (or she) really expect the press not to go apeshit over it?

Re #6 - There has been a fair amount of attack ads against McCain in recent days (did you not see the ad about the 7 houses?). Once of the things about picking his running mate is now Obama has someone to do the attacks against McCain while he (Obama) tries to remain on topic and not sling mud. I don't think it has anything to do with him needing to grow balls. I think he's trying to keep the image of him being the "change" candidate. If he starts slinging mud, it will be seen as politics as usual.

Re: What’s Bugging Rick? (Episode #483)

Scott — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:28:00 -0000

P.S. What the hell were you doing up at 4:00am?

Re: The Coyote's Byte

Scott — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 22:22:06 -0000

I have to agree. As much as I like Hillary and supported her run for
President, I think she would have probably hurt the ticket more than
helped it. I still think most Hillary supporters (despite their tough
talk) will vote for Obama. By choosing Biden, Obama stands to gain
*new* voters to the ticket rather than just reconfirming the Hillary
supporters' votes.

I would like to see Hillary as a possibility for Secretary of State,
although Bill Richardson would probably be excellent choice for that
role. Hillary is a strong Senator, so maybe that's where her talents
are best utilized for now.

Re: Blast from the Past: Great Space Coaster!

Scott — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:05:37 -0000

Can't say I remember this per se although it does look vaguely familiar.

With the Olympics going on, I've been recalling the Laff-A-Lympics. Remember those? Here's a couple links to take you back down memory lane:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
http://www.scoobydoowelovey...

Re: The Coyote's Byte

Scott — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:20:03 -0000

That makes you officially old.

Don't worry. I didn't recognize a lot of them either.

Re: The Coyote's Byte

Scott — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:10:17 -0000

I believe it is the norm to "hide" the presumptive candidate until the
night of the nomination and acceptance speech. That way it builds
anticipation and doesn't steal the focus from the other speakers.

But I could be wrong. To be honest, I have rarely watched the
conventions in previous years.

Disqus - Friends of rcktman

Re: Welcome to my Tumbleblog!

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Re: Request to put back the Reply button in Dashboard

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Re: What’s Bugging Rick? (Episode #483)

Re: What’s Bugging Rick? (Episode #483)

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Re: Blast from the Past: Great Space Coaster!

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