thnidu

I just registered my account. I was glad to be able to do so, but when I chose the label or caption for my custom picture, I got an error message, approximately "Please enter text in approved form."  There was no further information about the approved form or about what was wrong with the label I had entered.

I clicked the question-mark on the page, and the description said something like "at least 6 characters using letters and numbers". My text was about 15 characters long and it had letters and numbers, so it satisfied the requirements as stated. I entered it again, but got the same message.

My text also included spaces and an apostrophe. I took out the word that had the apostrophe, but not the spaces, and your system accepted the new caption.

I strongly urge that you make your explanation say what you mean. If you want ONLY letters, numbers, then say so -- not "include letters and numbers". But since you allow spaces, say "Use only letters, numbers, and spaces."

thnidu

BEIRUT (Reuters) - At "Buns and Guns" you can order a "Kalashnikov" sandwich from a bullet-shaped menu, prepared by chefs in military fatigues with the roar of explosions as background music.

This new fast food restaurant in Beirut's southern suburbs, where the Hezbollah movement holds sway, was the brainchild of co-owner Ali Hammoud. He said the war theme was a novel concept that had nothing to do with Lebanon's bloody recent history.

thnidu

• 1/2 level spell
• Physical component: Shaking a container of dry cat food to produce a loud noise.
• Verbal component: Pss-pss-pss! or Here, kitty, kitty! or other possibilities. It really doesn't matter and usually isn't even necessary.
• Material component: Some chow will be consumed by the summoned cat. Failure to provide for this may result in the spell's failure next time and/or injury to the caster this time (saving throw at -3, or 1-3hp damage)
  
• Effect: The house cat will come running at top speed toward the caster, who had better be ready to provide the material component (see above).

mdlbear

No idea when the Wolfling's party broke up last night; we old fogeys went to bed around 11:30 or so, if I remember correctly. I got up 7ish -- so much for needing only 5 hours' sleep. We got in some good cuddle, though.

Since the sewing room, which would normally serve as a guest room, is currently full of sewing and assorted other clutter, we finally made use of the curtains we bought back in February; these partition off part of the living room (the part that used to be the master bedroom, in fact) to give guests sleeping on the couch a little privacy. The couch has two foam cushions that fit together on the floor to make a king-sized bed.

I need to watch out for parties: I put on a couple of pounds, even with my clever substitution of lettuce-leaf wraps for hamburger buns. The slices of baguette with either olive oil or cheese, not to mention the birthday cake, probably made up for it.

mdlbear

... to my lovely and talented Older Daughter chaoswolf!!!!! Hope it's a great one, and may your year be filled with joy.

dglenn

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2007-01-17:

"Facile se ipsum excusat, quem non pudet; facile consolatur alium, qui non dolet." -- Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)

["It is easy to defend yourself when you feel no shame, and easy to console others when you feel no grief."]

(submitted to the mailing list by Terry Labach)

mdlbear

OK, wtf did I do to my left knee? Grumble.

Apart from that, it's been a pretty quiet day, spent entirely at home except for an hour's walk around the Rose Garden at 12:30.

The chaoswolf has been having a quiet barbecue/potluck party to celebrate her birthday (a day early); I got stuck doing the barbecuing, of course. Not too bad; chipuni came out to keep me company, and we had a good conversation, if a little short. Made some of Colleen's infamous onion-and-blue-cheese burgers; yummy, but they tend to make a mess all over whatever you're cooking on. Somebody will have to clean the grill.

What time I haven't spent cooking or walking has been spent puttering around the website; steve.savitzky.net/Songs/ is now basically complete, with all the links fixed. (I'll need to do a little more work before I add any more songs; there's no code to add new song directories at present.) But at least it's functional, and the links on the lyrics pages are right. Other parts of the site are mostly functional.

Publishing is still messed up; basically nobody but me can maintain it at the moment. That's ok for now, but there are other sites in the same tree that will need to have other people working on them.