Disqus - Friends of sonofbruce

Re: Welcome

rr — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:47:22 -0000

That's a very good point. I'd rather imagined being a micro-hoover sucking up spangly stuff from around the place and posting it here, fully attributed of course... but rights, rights, rights. And wrongs.

Personally I'd be happy to check re-use conditions of stuff I find and, if it's unclear or copyrighted, ping the writer a 140-character request to repost here and continue accordingly. It might have the benefit of possibly pulling more people in. If someone refuses to allow reposting here but their work is of such profoundly laconic brilliance that it is felt more should know of its beauty then we're entirely legally entitled to post a link, pingback or no pingback. Even a brief description of the thing or reason for the link. Just not the thing itself.

I'd be less happy only being able to post things from existing group members.

I'd be profoundly unhappy if I had to post anything written by me.

Re: Welcome

rr — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:25:09 -0000

Yup. "I say old chap, nobody likes a show-off, bad form, what." It's encoded in my dna. I hope the younger generations get over it.

Re: Welcome

rr — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:03:44 -0000

As an insatiable feed feeder I would recommend putting a link to the comments feed somewhere obvious. I know it enhances my participation in discussions if I don't have to keep clicking back on a blog to check whether my brilliant point has been appreciated or not but have the response/s fed to me.

The url appears to be http://openmicro.disqus.com...

Re: loopy

rr — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:06:30 -0000

Thank you :-) Testing the "rss import" function from Ravelry. I'm slightly worried that it's going to give a new post every time I update any project which will be tedious. We shall see.

Re: Welcome

rr — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 16:36:05 -0000

Did you? I assumed you'd been using it for ages and extensively tested it. Which is why I added it immediately in my refound enthusiasm for tumblr. It seems excellent so far and does indeed send out mails, if you want it to.

Re: A few days of heavy rain and being kicked around... - loopy

rr — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:27:57 -0000

So, if you mess around with your URL you lose your comments. If you mess around with custom HTML you also lose your comments.

Hmm.

Re: Moon Poems: A Twitter Collage

rr — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:54:13 -0000

Oh wonderful.

Re: C's flotsam 'n' jetsam

rr — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:52:43 -0000

Um, given the dedication of Son1 and his male peers to smelling like something that claims to be "chocolate effect" with an advertising campaign showing men having their limbs torn off, I suspect the answer is "more males than you might expect".

Disqus comments FTW!

Re: stoney: This morning the fog is within & without and the sleep won't wash from my clouded eyes. - loopy

rr — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:28:17 -0000

Yes, if you assume that people scroll down and see it. I've just disabled a firefox script (AutoPagerize) which, while being very useful to speed scanning of multiple pages like google search results, meant that I never ever saw the bottom of anything other than single static pages which blogs, of course, tend not to be. I suppose a bottom bar is useful real estate to put stuff for the seriously enquiring but not so good for anything one might want noticed.

Re: C's flotsam 'n' jetsam

rr — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 04:56:18 -0000

That picture doesn't show where the minijack plugs in. It's probably a minijack for a reason.

Re: Sighs, tears. Lies, flowers. Chocolate, boxed. ... - Open Micro

rr — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:10:20 -0000

Perhaps this could be reposted tomorrow (14 February) as a corrective to the egregious disingenuous pap served up around the globe :-)

Re: Dented Fibs

rr — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:13:29 -0000

I particularly like the "Try to forget" pair. And the obsidian mirror.

Re: Droplet ellipses Written upright on windows. ... - Open Micro

rr — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:15:05 -0000

Having read the extensive remarks on the haiku form posted above I feel pretty sure I'll never call anything a haiku again.

Re: Waiting for Sleep

rr — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:36:32 -0000

I particularly like the last, the "cell tower to belfry".

Re: Sighs, tears. Lies, flowers. Chocolate, boxed. ... - Open Micro

rr — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:06:40 -0000

Well my original suggestion wasn't meant to be serious, merely the product of a particularly jaded moment, but your suggestion is a delightful one.

Re: Sighs, tears. Lies, flowers. Chocolate, boxed. ... - Open Micro

rr — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:51:58 -0000

Here we go:

the morning post brings
lone parent welfare factsheet
sealed, without a kiss

Re: the morning post brings lone parent welfare... - Open Micro

rr — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:11:23 -0000

And morningporch has written a response to the response. I'm just trying to work out how best to put it here... I think probably to add it to this post and add any further additions here too.

Re: the morning post brings lone parent welfare... - Open Micro

rr — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:23:42 -0000

Can't edit posts not ones own. Ah well. See above.

Re: Tricycle Community - loopy

rr — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:34:06 -0000

Well I've never knowingly Ninged before and your comment made me investigate. Interesting. I doubt it (the Tricycle community) is going to come close to the divinity that is Ravelry though.

Re: Droplet ellipses Written upright on windows. ... - Open Micro

rr — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 11:47:58 -0000

Well I'm not a poet at all merely an arranger of a small number of words for pleasure and am living proof of Ken's analysis of Dave's curatorial nurturing - once I'd had one tweet noticed it became my mission to fabricate arrangements which would make it into his favourites. So thank you Dave :-) And thank you Ken, yes I agree. Let the lassoos fly. I immediately renegued on the resolve not to label anything a haiku.

Re: the morning post brings lone parent welfare... - Open Micro

rr — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:37:48 -0000

Hurrah! what fun (sorry, went to bed for a few hours)

Re: In some other world the broken heart on my chest ... - Open Micro

rr — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:39:29 -0000

Whoa!

Re: the red-bud saving its heart-shaped leaves till... - Open Micro

rr — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 05:40:06 -0000

Superb.

Re: This is my father, ascending a staircase. The day... - loopy

rr — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:39:45 -0000

Thanks :-) It was entirely unexpected.

I shall have to google James Hillman. He sounds as though he talks a lot of sense, at least as far as my lived experience is concerned.