Haines His Way

September 13: Mercury sextile Jupiter

Mercury did what to Jupiter today?  

(JRand, you and your planetary euphemisms!   )

My goodness, that was a long post, wasn't it!

I get that way when I'm in storytelling mode.  

Don't stop-I like it when you are in a storytelling mode

Will somebody please explain-maybe BK can-that we show all these new members signing up but they never post. Strange!

Speaking of Jessica's Biscuit, I spent much of yesterday compiling a spreadsheet wishlist.  So far, the wishlist runs to seventy-five items, at nearly $850!

Fortunately for der Brucer, I'm not greedy, I can accept my wishes being fulfilled in fifty dollar installments.  That's what the first installment ran, and I've already decided which books I want in the second installment.

 

Der B -  

(One of the books in the second installment is called Food, and was written by Ogden Nash.  I'd like to see if this would be a good book for the younger grandlad, who is having trouble learning how to read but loves wordplay.  Nash should be perfect for him.)

A hurricane is coming.

But can you say it backwards?  Or is that just showing off?

Undoubtedly...

Arnold asked this question:

Will somebody please explain-maybe BK can-that we show all these new members signing up but they never post. Strange!

And Woody responded:

It has something to do with a linkage engine, or something.  These people sign up for a different group, and end up being included on our membership list.

Actually, that's not quite the explanation. It has to do with something called "pinging" which I won't try to define. When Bruce posts the daily notes, this Web site "pings" around the world and many different Web sites and mail services are notified that a new posting has occured. This causes "bots" to come to the sight. Bots are (obviously) not human posters. They are computer operated and they are able to "sign up" as a member of the site. They do this because the software is old (in technology terms) and the sight doesn't use any kind of verification to prevent random sign-ups. You (the royal you) may have been to other sights which require registration and you may have had to type in a random series of letters or numbers into a box as a way to prove you are human. The bots can't do that and so fail to register. We don't have that kind of verification here.

If you look at many of the "user names" and their e-mail addresses you will see that the majority of them come from .ru which is Russia or other Eastern European countries. You can also tell when a "member name" is something like greatsex dot com or something equally unbelievable.

Bruce has no real Web master for the site (Mark Bakalor who helped him get this version of the site up and running helps him out on occasion when the photo uploader needs to be emptied) so the new "members" register and stay in the list even though they are not real. There are ways to purge the membership list to get rid of these bots but that takes time and someone who knows the software.

BTW (by the way in Internet lingo) I'm not saying that all new members who register but don't post are "bot" registrations but a large majority of them are of that type. I think many people think you have to register to read the notes but you don't. You can lurk and read the posts, you just don't see the pictures of our loverly faces and you can't post.

Anyway, that's a LONG answer to your question Arnold. I hope it made sense.

And now back to Foundation Land (Larry goes to Toyland, I go to Foundation Land).

The vet called this morning to tell me that Callie passed about 1/3 of what she needs to pass before she can come home.  They have x-rayed and it's all in the lower colon which is where it needs to be right now. So, the poor girl got another enema.  I'll go visit her later this afternoon, but I don't think she'll be home until tomorrow or Saturday at the earliest.   The good news is if she can do this naturally, she won't need surgery. The other good news is that she was very healthy going into this,   so far so good....

Arnold asked this question:And Woody responded:

It has something to do with a linkage engine, or something.  These people sign up for a different group, and end up being included on our membership list.

Actually, that's not quite the explanation. It has to do with something called "pinging" which I won't try to define. When Bruce posts the daily notes, this Web site "pings" around the world and many different Web sites and mail services are notified that a new posting has occured. This causes "bots" to come to the sight. Bots are (obviously) not human posters. They are computer operated and they are able to "sign up" as a member of the site. They do this because the software is old (in technology terms) and the sight doesn't use any kind of verification to prevent random sign-ups. You (the royal you) may have been to other sights which require registration and you may have had to type in a random series of letters or numbers into a box as a way to prove you are human. The bots can't do that and so fail to register. We don't have that kind of verification here.

If you look at many of the "user names" and their e-mail addresses you will see that the majority of them come from .ru which is Russia or other Eastern European countries. You can also tell when a "member name" is something like greatsex dot com or something equally unbelievable.

Bruce has no real Web master for the site (Mark Bakalor who helped him get this version of the site up and running helps him out on occasion when the photo uploader needs to be emptied) so the new "members" register and stay in the list even though they are not real. There are ways to purge the membership list to get rid of these bots but that takes time and someone who knows the software.

BTW (by the way in Internet lingo) I'm not saying that all new members who register but don't post are "bot" registrations but a large majority of them are of that type. I think many people think you have to register to read the notes but you don't. You can lurk and read the posts, you just don't see the pictures of our loverly faces and you can't post.

Anyway, that's a LONG answer to your question Arnold. I hope it made sense.

And now back to Foundation Land (Larry goes to Toyland, I go to Foundation Land).

It is certainly an explanation ! Thank You Ben for being so astute

It has something to do with a linkage engine, or something.  These people sign up for a different group, and end up being included on our membership list.

Either that, or we're being infiltrated by some terrorist group.  Yeah, that's the ticket.

Terrorist Group. That sounds interesting. Thank you for answering.
I believe, knowing our leader at the present time, it might be Aliens.

Callie vibes

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(And this from a dog lover!   )

Well, it's only in the mid-60s right now here in NYC, and only supposed to reach the mid-70s later today.  I may go ahead and wear a light sweater to rehearsal today.  

It's 1959 where i am.

I'm still sending you all goodvibes and wonderful thoughts--- whether you think you need them or not.  We ALL need them!

Mercury did what to Jupiter today?  

(JRand, you and your planetary euphemisms!   )

Well, it IS a family site.