On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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Jessica - Aug 18, 2013 9:53:31 am PDT #22898 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Am I the only one who finds the snazzy new graphics less responsive than the old game? I like the new zombies and plants, but it feels harder to actually play. (Wah wah get off my lawn I'm old and I don't like change.)


le nubian - Aug 18, 2013 2:21:57 pm PDT #22899 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

I have not had a problem with responsiveness, Jessica. Seems okay by me.


SuziQ - Aug 19, 2013 7:52:57 am PDT #22900 of 25496
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

I need some HTML help. Actually it is for CJ's search and rescue team. We want to add a button on the ARP page, under the Donate button that is a link to the silent auction page.


Ginger - Aug 19, 2013 8:07:54 am PDT #22901 of 25496
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

<a href="http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e7qqhex97811d950&llr=8i8ivklab"><img src="button.jpg" alt="Silent Auction" width="40px" height="10px"></a>

(with the actual name and size of your button after img src.)


§ ita § - Aug 19, 2013 8:44:36 am PDT #22902 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Does anyone have a favourite OS X clipboard manager? I'd like one that handles images, since that's a large part of my heavy lifting, and I'm willing to spend a little money on it.

Can you believe (Opera 15 rant continues) the new Opera doesn't have title bars? Like, I can't see ita !: Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens" if I were to navigate this page. Just the tab, where you can see the start of it, and that's rarely enough to read the whole thing, and is definitely subordinate to the favicon.

I think Bank Of America no longer supports Opera 12 too. I can't get to eBills in it anymore.

Fuck you, BofA! I paid on my tablet instead (I like that app now that I can deposit cheques with it).


SuziQ - Aug 19, 2013 8:47:07 am PDT #22903 of 25496
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Thank you Ginger!!! I'll pass the html along. It looks like someone added a text link to the page while I was looking for help. We totally need a new webmaster.


§ ita § - Aug 19, 2013 9:09:59 am PDT #22904 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Man, I was about to ask how to get the date on the OS X menubar, but I tried Google first, and I tried all these hacks for it, and and and then I clicked on Time and Dates and it's now an option, no hacks required.

Though maybe I do need the day there.

Interesting--I had all my date formats DMY, but it was displaying the date M/D in the menu bar. My region is "custom" because of that--but I never set it to custom. In fact, the measurement system was set to metric.

If I set the region to UK the menu bar rights itself and then if I change the currency and measurement to $ and lb respectively, I get to keep the D/M order in the bar--but I can't find a setting that controls menu bar format explicitly.

Where are you hiding, tricksy precious?


Cass - Aug 20, 2013 9:05:38 pm PDT #22905 of 25496
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Fuck a duck. Time Warner is awful even when you are leaving them. I called to have my phone and cable shut off NEXT Tuesday and guess what was gone this evening. If you are cutting the cord, I'd say no notice is best.


le nubian - Aug 20, 2013 10:50:07 pm PDT #22906 of 25496
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

oh good grief.


§ ita § - Aug 21, 2013 5:44:15 am PDT #22907 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I hope they stop billing on the same schedule, at least.