Tech Note: Drag and Drop Avatar Uploading

Making personal icons easier
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The new feature of the day: you can now drag and drop an image to upload it as your personal icon (also known as your “avatar”).

This drag and drop feature works in two places:

  1. Your Account Settings page. Click the Menu button at the top right for a link to this page.
  2. From your pop-up User Profile dialog, which you display by clicking on your avatar wherever it appears.

Just drag and drop an image into the area where your avatar is displayed, and a green dashed border will appear around it, to show that you can drop a file there. The new avatar will be uploaded to LGF, and instantly appear as your personal icon for all Pages and comments you post.

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213 comments
1 freetoken  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 1:56:24pm

Since we are on the topic of drag and drop, when I try to drop a text clipping into this box I now get an error that says “wrong file type”.

Is this a bug? I’m using Spy mode.

2 freetoken  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 1:58:17pm

Since we all have evolution and creationism on the brain today, here again I plug John Hawk’s Human Evolution: Past and Future

Though on week 3, I think you can still sign up for it.

3 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:05:54pm

re: #1 freetoken

Since we are on the topic of drag and drop, when I try to drop a text clipping into this box I now get an error that says “wrong file type”.

Is this a bug? I’m using Spy mode.

It’s a bug, all right, but unfortunately it’s in the outdated version of Safari you’re using so I can’t do anything to fix it. Safari 5 didn’t properly support drag and drop.

If you can’t update to version 6 or 7, you’ll have to use the old cut and paste method instead.

4 Kragar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:07:26pm

I honestly didn’t realize what an insufferable asshole Piers Morgan was till today

5 Lidane  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:10:01pm

re: #4 Kragar

6 freetoken  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:11:40pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

I’m using Chrome version 21.0.1180.75 as my browser. Is that too far out of date also?

7 Kragar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:12:09pm

Piers Morgan attacks trans guest who criticized him for ‘sensationalizing’ her story

CNN host Piers Morgan erupted at a transgender guest after she complained that he had sensationalized her story in an appearance on his program. Media Matters reported that Morgan took to Twitter to denounce trans activist Janet Mock, who appeared on “Piers Morgan Tonight” on Tuesday, Feb 4.

Luke Brinker at Media Matters opined that Morgan seems to be offering a lesson for media figures in “how not to treat transgender subjects.” During the interview with Mock, Morgan made the mistake of mixing up gender and sex.

Mock, Morgan said, “was a boy” until the age of 18. In greeting Mock and welcoming her to the show, the host told Mock he would never have guessed “you had ever been a boy.”

While Mock may have been biologically male prior to transitioning, transgender people emphasize to the cisgendered (people who are born into bodies that do not cause them to experience gender dysphoria) that their gender and their biological sex are incongruent, hence the need to transition. So, Mock said, to call her “a boy” prior to her transitioning process is “reductive” and shows a profound lack of understanding on Morgan’s part.

8 b.d.  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:13:26pm

Can CNN go ahead and get rid of Piers Morgan? Throw another half hour each onto Wolf and Anderson’s 6 hour shows, they won’t even know the difference.

9 Dr. Matt  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:14:04pm

re: #6 freetoken

I’m using Chrome version 21.0.1180.75 as my browser. Is that too far out of date also?

Here is my version: Version 32.0.1700.107

It appears to be a bit out of date just judging by the number.

10 freetoken  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:14:41pm

re: #9 Dr. Matt

It’s the last version available for my version of OSX.

11 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:14:54pm

re: #7 Kragar

Piers Morgan attacks trans guest who criticized him for ‘sensationalizing’ her story

They seriously used the line- “Was a boy until the age of 18”. I think CNN wants to be the new Fox because that’s just sad.

12 chadu  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:15:15pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Charles, either no one’s been able to answer this for me, or I keep missing the answer, but how do I change text size in a comment? I tried the usual HMTL FONT tag to no avail.

I wanna make my footnotes eensy, and text bigger when BRIAN BLESSED is required.

13 Dr. Matt  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:15:16pm

re: #10 freetoken

It’s the last version available for my version of OSX.

Ah. I’m on Windows. Likely explains the difference.

14 Lidane  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:16:05pm
15 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:16:58pm

re: #6 freetoken

I’m using Chrome version 21.0.1180.75 as my browser. Is that too far out of date also?

Yes, unfortunately it looks like it probably is.

16 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:17:38pm

re: #13 Dr. Matt

Ah. I’m on Windows. Likely explains the difference.

No, the latest Chrome for Mac OS is also version 32.

17 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:17:53pm

re: #14 Lidane

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Agh. Knew Brown was a jerk but why.

18 Kragar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:18:02pm
19 freetoken  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:19:27pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

That’s not the answer I wanted.

Maybe if I presuppose that Chrome 21 does indeed allow for text clipping into your window, then it will be true?

20 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:21:48pm

re: #19 freetoken

That’s not the answer I wanted.

Maybe if I presuppose that Chrome 21 does indeed allow for text clipping into your window, then it will be true?

I think Chrome relies on the KHTML code built into Mac OS, so in that older version it probably uses the same buggy drag and drop library.

21 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:23:02pm

Just tested with Chrome v32, and text dragging works fine in Mac OS.

22 freetoken  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:23:02pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

I think Chrome relies on the KHTML code built into Mac OS, so it probably uses the same buggy drag and drop library.

You only believe that because your autonomous Chrome 32 worldview doesn’t accept the truth of Chrome 21.

23 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:25:17pm

I am old enough that I recognize the sign of the sponsor on the side of the barge…
sigh…

24 jaunte  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:27:46pm
25 thedopefishlives  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:28:13pm

Evening Lizardim. I love seeing tech notes from Charles - Charles, you do so many slick things here at LGF. I was wondering something the other day: Would there be any interest in a mobile app of any flavor? I am a bona fide Windows Phone developer, and I’ve had experience working with iOS (although I don’t own a development platform at the present, I’m sure something could be arranged). Android is the only variable, but that wouldn’t be a problem either. What say you, Webmaster? Is there any functionality that you think would go better with a native app?

26 Bubblehead II  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:28:50pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

It’s a bug, all right, but unfortunately it’s in the outdated version of Safari you’re using so I can’t do anything to fix it. Safari 5 didn’t properly support drag and drop.

If you can’t update to version 6 or 7, you’ll have to use the old cut and paste method instead.

Found that out this morning when I tried to drag a picture over to the dialog box. Got a browser does not support HTML 5 error. Using Safari 5.1.7 for Windows.

27 darthstar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:31:56pm

Sochi mess

businessinsider.com

28 wrenchwench  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:32:40pm

I can has bebeh kittehs avatars?

29 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:37:47pm

MOAR TEA PARTY CREATIVE ORTHOGRAPHY

30 psddluva4evah  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:39:13pm

Love this. My own mother was the first person in my family to go to college. I was the second. I’ve shared this one with all my younger fam and friends who are able to or who are thinking about going to college.

First Lady Michelle Obama ‘I’m First’ Video
Youtube Video

31 Lidane  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:42:24pm


It’s an honorable movement, it’s bathed in prayer. We’ve got a tab on our website where we’ve got a list of prayer warriors that are working every day in prayer for us. We’re bathed—it’s under God and we’re going to move up there and trust Him that it will work out because we believe it’s noble, it’s an honorable effort.

“Bathed in prayer”? Is that anything like the African soldiers that douse themselves in holy water because they think it makes them invulnerable?

These people are certifiable.

32 dog philosopher  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:47:11pm

i’m testing schlep und dripn on the farblunget v6 browsereh

33 jaunte  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:48:15pm

re: #31 Lidane

“We have 1.8 million definite militia members coming”

No one expects the Definite Militia.
motherjones.com

34 Stanley Sea  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:49:33pm

re: #27 darthstar

Sochi mess

businessinsider.com

Perpetuates the unreliable contractor doctrine.

35 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:51:05pm

re: #30 psddluva4evah

Love this. My own mother was the first person in my family to go to college. I was the second. I’ve shared this one with all my younger fam and friends who are able to or who are thinking about going to college.

First Lady Michelle Obama ‘I’m First’ Video
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Nice!
I was the first in my family ever to go to college (BA, MA, graduate fellowship). Parents, grandparents…nope. But in the next generation (niece & nephew), there are two. Both are working in good paying jobs they enjoy and both are now pursuing their master’s degrees.
OTOH, two of my five siblings went to trade schools and both have good paying jobs that they also enjoy.
MrBWS went through IBEW apprenticeship (and the coursework is brutal!) and is now a Journeyman Lineman.
Education (college, trade school, apprenticeship) is the key.

36 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:51:05pm

HURR HURRRRRR!!!!!!!

37 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:51:38pm

re: #27 darthstar

Sochi mess

businessinsider.com

These Winter Olympics are not going to be called “the best ever” at their conclusion. Putin is going to get a PR black eye, not the boost that China got in 2008.

38 Kragar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:54:25pm

re: #34 Stanley Sea

Perpetuates the unreliable contractor doctrine.

Nope, perpetuates the Russians are corrupt bastards doctrines

Migrant workers at Sochi faced unpaid wages, deportations

“A lot of workers have felt trapped,” said Jane Buchanan, associate Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch, which last year documented an extensive list of violations based on interviews with 66 migrant laborers.

“They felt trapped by the expectation that they would be paid,” Buchanan said. “Some were trapped because employers were withholding passports or identity documents.”

Since 2007, when Russia won the coveted bid to host next month’s Winter Games, thousands of laborers have traveled to Sochi-a Black Sea resort community and one of the warmest places in the country-to build two clusters of venues, packed with over 100 Olympic sites. They came looking for work from countries like Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. But hundreds have since complained about lack of pay, excessive hours, overcrowded housing, inadequate food, and, in recent months, unlawful detentions and hasty deportations.

39 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:55:35pm

re: #31 Lidane

[Embedded content]

“Bathed in prayer”? Is that anything like the African soldiers that douse themselves in holy water because they think it makes them invulnerable?

These people are certifiable.

That’s “Prayer Warrior” talk, a rather specific kind of dominionist battle cry. See: Pain, Sarah/Bachmann, Michele.

40 freetoken  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:56:41pm

re: #33 jaunte


Did you know that “Patriots For America” is an anagram for “I Face A Traitors Prom” ?

41 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 2:58:24pm

re: #25 thedopefishlives

Evening Lizardim. I love seeing tech notes from Charles - Charles, you do so many slick things here at LGF. I was wondering something the other day: Would there be any interest in a mobile app of any flavor? I am a bona fide Windows Phone developer, and I’ve had experience working with iOS (although I don’t own a development platform at the present, I’m sure something could be arranged). Android is the only variable, but that wouldn’t be a problem either. What say you, Webmaster? Is there any functionality that you think would go better with a native app?

One of the things I’ve had on the to-do list for a while is an iPhone/Android app, but I have to learn Xcode first and there never seems to be enough time. I also have a responsive redesign in the early stages of development. I’d really like to have better mobile support, definitely.

42 Kragar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:00:11pm

Texas rules that black man found with throat slit and severe trauma died of “drug overdose”

The official autopsy found that Wright had died from an accidental drug overdose after toxicology tests showed cocaine and methamphetamine in his body and no evidence of severe trauma.

But Wright’s family was baffled, because they said he never had been known to use drugs - and his partially unclothed body had a slit throat and missing an ear, tongue and two teeth.

His body was found clothed only in boxer shorts, tennis shoes and a single sock, which had his cell phone tucked inside.

The medical examiner attributed the injuries to animal and insect activity.

The family’s attorney said the Sabine County sheriff had suggested a drug overdose before Wright’s body was discovered, and relatives believe the medical examiner’s report was based on conclusions made by law enforcement without any evidence.

“The presence of drugs in Alfred’s system fails to explain the very apparent signs of severe trauma found on his body,” the family said in a Dec. 27 press release.

43 thedopefishlives  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:01:51pm

re: #41 Charles Johnson

One of the things I’ve had on the to-do list for a while is an iPhone/Android app, but I have to learn Xcode first and there never seems to be enough time. I also have a responsive redesign in the early stages of development. I𠆝 really like to have better mobile support, definitely.

Well, whenever it comes up on the Roulette Wheel of To-do, drop me a line. I’d be glad to help out with whatever you need.

45 jaunte  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:03:22pm

re: #27 darthstar

Sochi has a humid subtropical climate according to the Koppen climate classification,
similar to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Odd they decided it should be a winter sports venue.

46 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:04:08pm

re: #44 jamesfirecat

The f#%k is this?

An episode of CSI I guess.

47 kirkspencer  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:04:55pm

re: #42 Kragar

Texas rules that black man found with throat slit and severe trauma died of “drug overdose”

the updated version of “suicide. he shot himself 22 times then threw himself down the elevator shaft.”

48 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:05:50pm

re: #47 kirkspencer

the updated version of “suicide. he shot himself 22 times then threw himself down the elevator shaft.”

Hate is a hell of a drug.

49 darthstar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:08:14pm
50 thedopefishlives  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:10:42pm

re: #49 darthstar

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In Putin’s Russia, hotel build you.

51 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:12:28pm

heh…

52 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:13:34pm

re: #46 Feline Fearless Leader

An episode of CSI I guess.

No, its the attitude of people who don’t want to spend money or have poor murder stats. So they class a homicide as an “accident” which frees them from having to investigate it or note it in crime statistics.

BBL

53 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:13:59pm

re: #49 darthstar

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54 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:15:59pm
55 dog philosopher  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:18:24pm

re: #45 jaunte

Sochi has a humid subtropical climate according to the Koppen climate classification,
similar to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Odd they decided it should be a winter sports venue.

that’s exactly what Unfrozen Siberian Girlfriend said to me the other day

must be some monkey business here somewhere. russian reaction to the choice of sochi for winter sports seems to be a big wtf

56 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:18:39pm

I can hardly believe these pictures coming out of Sochi of the “hotels.” If this is how they treat a world-class event with huge public attention, imagine how Edward Snowden is living right now.

57 BongCrodny  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:19:23pm

re: #23 Backwoods_Sleuth

I am old enough that I recognize the sign of the sponsor on the side of the barge…
sigh…

[Embedded content]

My New York World’s Fair story:

My parents and I went to the New York World’s Fair in 1964. I was too young to remember any of it, except for one thing.

At some point during the visit, my father lost his glasses. 1964 was a different economic era altogether, I doubt if my dad took home much more than $80 a week. The World’s Fair trip took a lot of scrimping and saving, and a lost pair of glasses was a good sized hit to the family budget.

We visited the lost and found department, and they were unable to do anything for us. There were hundreds of pairs of glasses lost, and without anything to identify the glasses, they were unwilling to search through all the pairs they had on the odd chance they might be able to find his glasses.

As we were leaving the parking lot, my mom had a brainstorm: “Willie! The toothpick!”

Yes, the toothpick. The screw holding one of the arms had fallen out, and my dad had used the broken-off end of a toothpick to hold the arm and the rest of the frame together.

He went back to the lost and found department, described the glasses. I guess they were impressed by his ingenuity (or perhaps, his cheapness!), because they had actually set those glasses off to the side.

The funny thing is that if he had been like most *normal* people and simply had replaced it with another screw, we likely would not have been able to salvage them.

58 Kragar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:19:34pm

re: #54 NJDhockeyfan

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“The act of people being dragged out by security forces, thrown into unmarked trucks, and dumped at the border are also part of the test.”

59 klys  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:21:31pm

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

Nice!
I was the first in my family ever to go to college (BA, MA, graduate fellowship). Parents, grandparents…nope. But in the next generation (niece & nephew), there are two. Both are working in good paying jobs they enjoy and both are now pursuing their master’s degrees.
OTOH, two of my five siblings went to trade schools and both have good paying jobs that they also enjoy.
MrBWS went through IBEW apprenticeship (and the coursework is brutal!) and is now a Journeyman Lineman.
Education (college, trade school, apprenticeship) is the key.

I’m pretty sure my parents were both the first in their families to go to college (both got their BS and MS).

It made one-upping them difficult.

60 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:22:21pm

re: #56 Charles Johnson

I can hardly believe these pictures coming out of Sochi of the “hotels.” If this is how they treat a world-class event with huge public attention, imagine how Edward Snowden is living right now.

You would think they would have at least got the hotels where the press is staying fixed first. They are having fun describing their rooms.

61 Kragar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:22:32pm
62 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:22:56pm

re: #60 NJDhockeyfan

You would think they would have at least got the hotels where the press is staying fixed first. They are having fun describing their rooms.

[Embedded content]

There are four lights!

63 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:23:30pm

re: #56 Charles Johnson

I can hardly believe these pictures coming out of Sochi of the “hotels.” If this is how they treat a world-class event with huge public attention, imagine how Edward Snowden is living right now.

The photos I’m seeing are strikingly similar to what are called “hotelový dům”, hotel houses, in the Czech Republic. Many of them are badly antiquated buildings, mostly built during the communist era here, that have been converted into hotels or hostels.

The conditions in many of these buildings is appalling; I lived in one for awhile, and I was pretty damned happy to get out. The photos you’re seeing from Sochi are no different from what I lived in here, aside from the fact that the bathroom facilities are newer.

At least we didn’t have orange water which burns your face. Thank heavens for that, at least.

64 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:23:42pm

re: #62 Targetpractice

There are four lights!

Three lights and a microphone.

65 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:25:57pm

re: #64 Decatur Deb

Three lights and a microphone.

The two turntables are on backorder.

66 thedopefishlives  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:26:52pm

I’m a bit puzzled by the Russians here. I get that not everyone has the high standards of accommodation that we’re used to here in the US, but I’m failing to see how slapping some lipstick on a pig and saying the Russian equivalent of “Meh” is supposed to impress ANYONE.

67 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:28:46pm

re: #63 Dr Lizardo

“hotelový dům”.
Is that remotely pronounced like “hotel of doom”?

68 kirkspencer  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:29:00pm

re: #55 dog philosopher

that’s exactly what Unfrozen Siberian Girlfriend said to me the other day

must be some monkey business here somewhere. russian reaction to the choice of sochi for winter sports seems to be a big wtf

Topology.

The Caucasus mountains come almost to the sea. You reach altitudes in excess of 1000 meters as close as 10 km from the coast. And temperatures at altitude are consistently below freezing during the winter.

Think of the mountains of California for a guideline.

69 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:29:27pm

re: #63 Dr Lizardo

My second-favorite hotel in the world:

yesilkoypansiyon.com

70 Kragar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:29:54pm

re: #66 thedopefishlives

I’m a bit puzzled by the Russians here. I get that not everyone has the high standards of accommodation that we’re used to here in the US, but I’m failing to see how slapping some lipstick on a pig and saying the Russian equivalent of “Meh” is supposed to impress ANYONE.

Allow me to answer that:

71 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:31:35pm

re: #64 Decatur Deb

Three lights and a microphone.

Ah, microphones are so 1980s…


Richard Engel reported last night on NBC that all visitors to the Sochi Olympics are getting hacked as soon as their electronic devices connect to any Russian network:

…”As tourists and families of athletes arrive in Sochi, if they haven’t been warned, and if they fire up their phones at baggage claim, it’s probably too late to save the integrity of their electronics and everything inside them. Visitors to Russia can expect to be hacked. And as Richard Engel found out upon his arrival there, it’s not a matter of if, but when,” reports NBC’s Brian Williams.

72 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:32:20pm

re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth

“hotelový dům”.
Is that remotely pronounced like “hotel of doom”?

LOL. Close.

Hotel-ovee doom, phonetically. And maniacally appropriate, actually. The one I lived in was hopelessly infested with bedbugs. They called in exterminators to fumigate the room, but it did no good. The bedbugs were back in less than two weeks; they came in from the room across the hall.

The entire building was bedbug heaven. Power failures were a weekly occurrence, as the building’s main electrical panel was built in the late 1950s and never replaced. It was also built in the USSR, not the Czech Republic.

73 jaunte  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:32:50pm
“Anyone who wants to attend the Olympics needs a Spectator pass, which requires registering on the official Sochi 2014 site, a procedure that includes taking a photo. What is curious is that when clicking to take a photo, a MacBook immediately warns the user that the site “is requesting access to your camera and microphone. If you click Allow, you may be recorded.”
worldpolicy.org
74 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:33:36pm

re: #69 Decatur Deb

My second-favorite hotel in the world:

yesilkoypansiyon.com

Nice. When I go to Istanbul, I stay with friends, but that’s a mighty nice-looking hotel, and not terribly expensive, either.

75 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:33:49pm

re: #71 NJDhockeyfan

Ah, microphones are so 1980s…

[Embedded content]

No doubt all by the shadowy hands of the NSA!!!

76 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:34:28pm

re: #72 Dr Lizardo

LOL. Close.

Hotel-ovee doom, phonetically. And maniacally appropriate, actually. The one I lived in was hopelessly infested with bedbugs. They called in exterminators to fumigate the room, but it did no good. The bedbugs were back in less than two weeks; they came in from the room across the hall.

The entire building was bedbug heaven. Power failures were a weekly occurrence, as the building’s main electrical panel was built in the late 1950s and never replaced. It was also built in the USSR, not the Czech Republic.

Good to know for future traveling reference…

77 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:36:15pm

re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth

Good to know for future traveling reference…

It was this place.

tripadvisor.co.uk

78 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:37:24pm

re: #74 Dr Lizardo

Nice. When I go to Istanbul, I stay with friends, but that’s a mighty nice-looking hotel, and not terribly expensive, either.

The Treaty of San Stefano, ending a war in 1878, was signed there. Stayed there a half dozen times in the 1980’s because they had phenomenal communication with the US bases and the embassy in Ankara.

79 Jack Burton  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:39:50pm

re: #70 Kragar

Allow me to answer that:

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Many Names of David Putin

For the Rifftrax/MST3k fans. I know they aren’t “correct Russian” but it was the best I could do fast with Google translate.

80 dog philosopher  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:40:24pm

re: #77 Dr Lizardo

It was this place.

tripadvisor.co.uk

hotelový štěnice

bedbug hotel

81 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:42:03pm

re: #77 Dr Lizardo

It was this place.

tripadvisor.co.uk

Whiney reviews. All hotels are in a sense ‘homeless shelters”.

82 Bridgeghazi: Never Forget!!11!!!!11  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:42:46pm

If anyone ever has to go to Fairbanks Alaska, you must stay here:

Aurora Express Railroad Hotel

83 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:42:52pm

re: #80 dog philosopher

Pretty much.

84 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:42:56pm

re: #77 Dr Lizardo

It was this place.

tripadvisor.co.uk

oh dear…

85 Internet Tough Guy  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:43:34pm

I wonder if any of our intrepid reporters will make the connection between their computers getting hacked and fuckton of knowledge about it that is in Snowden’s head.

Nah…

86 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:44:33pm
87 dog philosopher  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:45:41pm

putin has got teh manboops sorry duud

88 wrenchwench  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:45:57pm

re: #64 Decatur Deb

Three lights and a microphone.

re: #69 Decatur Deb

My second-favorite hotel in the world:

yesilkoypansiyon.com

My favorite hotel shower was in Istanbul. It was down the hall. They lit the wood fire under the water heater (in the same room with the shower and the toilet) in advance, so the whole room heated nicely. It was January.

89 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:46:06pm

re: #81 Decatur Deb

Actually, HD Areal really does double as a homeless shelter, and it’s no joke that the police are camped out there. The city of Ostrava is contemplating shutting it down this year as a public nuisance. The cops log five calls per day, usually for theft, violence or drug-related issues. One of my “neighbors” was busted for being a meth dealer; one of the bigger dealers in Ostrava, according to the cop I talked to.

It’s cheap enough, but for no more than a night or two…..that’s all I recommend.

90 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:46:22pm

re: #11 HappyWarrior

They seriously used the line- “Was a boy until the age of 18”. I think CNN wants to be the new Fox because that’s just sad.

You need to read her own words in Marie Claire (from 2011). She says she was born a “boy named Charles” in that interview. Obviously, she’s been doing a lot of reading herself and has her own website, touting her book.

marieclaire.com

Most people know little to nothing about it transgendering. It can be very tricky reading, too. I didn’t even know what “cis” meant until today (a lot of writing about gender is very academic). People undergoing sex changes are also a phenomenon that’s hard to understand for most people, although most have a “live and let live attitude”.

I didn’t see the show so I can’t judge anything about it, but if you’re prepared to go on national TV to talk about your life, you need to develop a thick skin. Piers Morgan may not have been practicing very good journalism interviewing Mock, but his aren’t the worst comments.

I guess it’s bad form now to be “supportive” of something you don’t quite understand without being slammed for being “ignorant”. I admit I don’t quite understand it, and besides, why would men give up all that privilege? : )

91 Bridgeghazi: Never Forget!!11!!!!11  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:46:36pm

re: #82 Bridgeghazi: Never Forget!!11!!!!11

The train doesn’t actually move, they moved all the cars up to the side of a hill that overlooks the whole Fairbanks valley.
I stayed in the caboose, which at the time was the “Old West Cat House” car. It even had a ladder for you to climb up and look at the stars at night.

92 Bridgeghazi: Never Forget!!11!!!!11  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:47:33pm

re: #88 wrenchwench

That sounds fantastic.

93 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:48:55pm

re: #88 wrenchwench

My favorite hotel shower was in Istanbul. It was down the hall. They lit the wood fire under the water heater (in the same room with the shower and the toilet) in advance, so the whole room heated nicely. It was January.

Heh. I always carried a battery fire alarm when Uncle sent me to strange places. I gave one to the owner the first time I left the Yesilkoy. Came to love the place—used to sit on the balcony drinking Efes and eating pistachios while the hummingbirds buzzed us.

Its other claims to fame—Agatha Christie and the astronaut who was looking for the Ark of the Covenant stayed there.

94 Kragar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:51:33pm

re: #88 wrenchwench

My favorite hotel shower was in Istanbul. It was down the hall. They lit the wood fire under the water heater (in the same room with the shower and the toilet) in advance, so the whole room heated nicely. It was January.

Some of the Japanese hotels I stayed at had awesome showers. Big bathtubs, roomy, almost sauna like.

95 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:57:25pm

This is first best hotel—a 1-star in Florence. If I win the Powerball, Wife and I are reserving our room permanently.

ilbargellino.com

96 Kragar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:58:25pm
97 dog philosopher  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 3:59:22pm

are there any other countries besides italy where the concept of ‘enclosed shower that doesn’t leak water all over the bathroom floor’ has failed to catch on?

98 Bridgeghazi: Never Forget!!11!!!!11  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:00:12pm

re: #94 Kragar

OMG. Asia knows how to bathe.
When I was living in Guam, they had a “relaxation” club near me for the Japanese men who would come to town.
I decided to join for the heck of it and it really wasn’t much money.
Almost everyday, I would go to the bathing room where they had a cold pool, hot pool, and massaging whirlpool. I even got my friends hooked on it. we would just strip naked and spend hours just jumping into the cold, getting out and then showering off quickly at this row of bamboo showers, then jump into the hot pool, then the massage pool and so on.
I miss that so much!

99 Kragar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:00:26pm

re: #97 dog philosopher

are there any other countries besides italy where the concept of ‘enclosed shower that doesn’t leak water all over the bathroom floor’ has failed to catch on?

Some of the Japanese hotels basically turned the whole bathroom into a shower.

100 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:00:35pm

LOL!

101 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:01:04pm

re: #97 dog philosopher

are there any other countries besides italy where the concept of ‘enclosed shower that doesn’t leak water all over the bathroom floor’ has failed to catch on?

Korea plays it differently—the entire hotel or apartment bathroom is waterproofed and treated as an extension of the shower.

102 Skip Intro  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:01:07pm

re: #60 NJDhockeyfan

You would think they would have at least got the hotels where the press is staying fixed first. They are having fun describing their rooms.

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Jeez, it looks like Obama got to Putin and is doing to Russia what he’s doing to the Constitution!

103 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:02:45pm

Be careful out there…

Woman killed by snow plow in Barrington

abclocal.go.com

February 5, 2014 (BARRINGTON, Ill.) (WLS) — A 51-year-old nurse was killed by a snowplow in a Barrington hospital parking lot early Wednesday.

“Around 5:30 a.m., the Lake County Sheriff’s Office responded to Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital at 450 Rt. 22 in Barrington. A red, 2012 Ford F-450 truck with a snowplow attached was backing into a parking lot when the driver struck a Diane Shogren, of Ingleside, who was pronounced dead in the hospital’s ER around 6 a.m. She was arriving for work and had parked her car when the accident happpened.

“It was snowing heavily and there was limited visibility at the time of the incident, the sheriff’s department said. Police say the amber lights, reverse lights, and back-up alarm on the Ford were functioning following the incident. Both the driver of the Ford and the victim are employees of Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital.”

So tragic.

104 Kragar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:04:33pm
105 thedopefishlives  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:10:29pm

Ahh, a hot shower and a good shave. Luxuries that are, apparently, too first-world for Putin’s Russia.

/half

106 dog philosopher  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:11:04pm

re: #101 Decatur Deb

Korea plays it differently—the entire hotel or apartment bathroom is waterproofed and treated as an extension of the shower.

seems to me then if one person in the bathroom is taking a shower, all persons who might also be in the bathroom will also be taking a shower. whether they want to or not

107 Kragar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:12:04pm

re: #106 dog philosopher

seems to me then if one person in the bathroom is taking a shower, all persons who might also be in the bathroom will also be taking a shower. whether they want to or not

So stay out of the bathroom then.

108 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:14:16pm

re: #106 dog philosopher

seems to me then if one person in the bathroom is taking a shower, all persons who might also be in the bathroom will also be taking a shower. whether they want to or not

Just pack all the kids in together.

109 dog philosopher  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:14:23pm

re: #107 Kragar

So stay out of the bathroom then.

mom!! kragar’s hogging the bathroom!!!

110 Kragar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:15:11pm

re: #109 dog philosopher

mom!! kragar’s hogging the bathroom!!!

I should note that most of the hotels I stayed at in Japan were not family hotels.

111 Bridgeghazi: Never Forget!!11!!!!11  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:19:13pm

re: #110 Kragar

That explains the dominatrix!

112 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:20:15pm

re: #104 Kragar

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Greenwald: But I’m a reporter—I stayed at a Holiday Inn once.

113 Bridgeghazi: Never Forget!!11!!!!11  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:21:29pm

re: #110 Kragar

I remember the first time I walked into a “Love motel” by accident.

114 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:22:16pm
115 Amory Blaine  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:22:34pm

The Ukrainian activists know how to ad hoc a village lickety split.

116 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:22:43pm
117 thedopefishlives  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:23:02pm

re: #115 Amory Blaine

The Ukrainian activists know how to ad hoc a village lickety split.

Full-on Blazing Saddles style?

118 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:23:06pm

re: #110 Kragar

I should note that most of the hotels I stayed at in Japan were not family hotels.

Worst motel room/bath experience was a British Petroleum gas station motel in Frankfurt. Seventh Army stuck their less-favored visitors there. The common shower was down the hall, out the door, across the snowy walkway in another building. (On the upside, the dining room had the best coffee ever.)

My replacement on a subsequent visit threw a heart attack and died in the tiny room, whose door was too narrow to let the medics’ gurney in. They brought a small stretcher in, strapped him firmly to it, and took him out the door vertically.

119 dog philosopher  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:23:16pm

re: #110 Kragar

I should note that most of the hotels I stayed at in Japan were not family hotels.

hmm just how many people did you shower with at the same time?

120 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:23:57pm

re: #110 Kragar

I should note that most of the hotels I stayed at in Japan were not family hotels.

“Inn of the Happy Ending”?

121 Bridgeghazi: Never Forget!!11!!!!11  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:25:06pm

re: #118 Decatur Deb

That’s hilarious!

122 TedStriker  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:26:51pm

re: #56 Charles Johnson

I can hardly believe these pictures coming out of Sochi of the “hotels.” If this is how they treat a world-class event with huge public attention, imagine how Edward Snowden is living right now.

That said, is bad of me to not really give a flying fuck about Snowden’s living arrangements? Any misery he’s currently suffering is by his own hand.

123 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:27:45pm

re: #121 Bridgeghazi: Never Forget!!11!!!!11

That’s hilarious!

Almost all of us thought so.

124 klys  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:28:21pm

re: #110 Kragar

I should note that most of the hotels I stayed at in Japan were not family hotels.

Business hotels are not exactly known for their space.

But they are reasonably priced! Our trip to Japan was under $100 per person per night. Scored a really nice business hotel in Hakodate for $35 per person per night, and a new one in Sendai that must have been cheaper because nobody knew about it yet.

That one was awesome. Shower/bathing area enclosed separately, Japanese style, big tub, the washing area, fill the tub while you clean yourself up and then soak in the nice hot water.

125 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:29:23pm

Looks like white boy is getting his privilege.

Judge orders Ethan Couch to spend time in undisclosed rehab facility, attorney says

crimeblog.dallasnews.com

Updated item at 5:50 p.m.: The attorney for Ethan Couch said the judge assigned him to a rehab facility at an undisclosed location that his family will have to pay for, KXAS-TV (NBC5) reports. There are no details yet about the length of time he will have to spend in the facility. He’ll get to go to college and if he can keep from getting caught if he drinks or takes drugs, he won’t pay any penalty for taking 4 lives.

I’ll bet it’s no more than 90 days in rehab. And 10 yrs probation.

126 thedopefishlives  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:29:36pm

re: #122 TedStriker

That said, is bad of me to not really give a flying fuck about Snowden’s living arrangements? Any misery he’s currently suffering is by his own hand.

No, not really. You said it yourself: He earned it. He voluntarily chose to go to a bona fide surveillance state and give up a life many of us here would kill for. As far as I’m concerned, he’s already way ahead of what I would wish for him.

127 CuriousLurker  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:31:47pm

I’m getting really tired of the snow (but probably not nearly as tired of it as the people who have to shovel sidewalks or dig their cars out). And there’s more coming this weekend and into next week. Ugh.

I wouldn’t mind so much if it was at least sunny out, but the endless gloomy grayness really bums me out. I don’t think I could live somewhere like Seattle or Portland where it’s cloudy & rainy all the time. My hometown in TX has 220+ days of sunshine per year and the area where I live in NJ has 200+, but Seattle & Portland? 164 & 142, respectively. Uh-uh, no way.

Monday 2/3/14 at 3:20pm

Monday 2/3/14 at 3:24pm, people digging out their car

Today 2/5/14 at 4:28pm, more people digging—I guess they’re trying to get in, not out

128 Skip Intro  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:33:11pm

re: #125 Justanotherhuman

Looks like white boy is getting his privilege.

Judge orders Ethan Couch to spend time in undisclosed rehab facility, attorney says

crimeblog.dallasnews.com

Updated item at 5:50 p.m.: The attorney for Ethan Couch said the judge assigned him to a rehab facility at an undisclosed location that his family will have to pay for, KXAS-TV (NBC5) reports. There are no details yet about the length of time he will have to spend in the facility. He’ll get to go to college and if he can keep from getting caught if he drinks or takes drugs, he won’t pay any penalty for taking 4 lives.

I’ll bet it’s no more than 90 days in rehab. And 10 yrs probation.

Does dad get to write off the cost of rehab on his taxes (assuming he pays taxes)?

129 thedopefishlives  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:33:38pm

re: #127 CuriousLurker

Those city streets look like what I was navigating last week after our last Big Snowstorm. I took a detour through downtown to avoid the tunnel (blocked due to a crash) and had a great deal of fun dodging between parked cars on a two-lane, two-way street. It was a grand old time.

130 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:34:59pm

re: #127 CuriousLurker

I’m getting really tired of the snow (but probably not nearly as tired of it as the people who have to shovel sidewalks or dig their cars out). And there’s more coming this weekend and into next week. Ugh.

I wouldn’t mind so much if it was at least sunny out, but the endless gloomy grayness really bums me out. I don’t think I could live somewhere like Seattle or Portland where it’s cloudy & rainy all the time. My hometown in TX has 220+ days of sunshine per year and the area where I live in NJ has 200+, but Seattle & Portland? 164 & 142, respectively. Uh-uh, no way.

Monday 2/3/14 at 3:20pm

Monday 2/3/14 at 3:24pm, people digging out their car

Today 2/5/14 at 4:28pm, more people digging—I guess they’re trying to get in, not out

But so pretty! That first photo looks like xmas; just add some lights. : )

131 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:36:42pm

re: #56 Charles Johnson

I can hardly believe these pictures coming out of Sochi of the “hotels.” If this is how they treat a world-class event with huge public attention, imagine how Edward Snowden is living right now.

If that’s what the Russians get for $51 billion, someone’s made off with a few billion dollars (or a whole lot of billions).

Can’t drink the water.
Can’t flush toilet paper down toilets.
Missing shower curtains.
Missing floors.
Missing manhole covers.

Someone’s built themselves something pretty fancy with all the missing items.

But no one will suffer those consequences because they’re all connected to Putin. Those who complain - like the people affected by the Sochi construction - will be ignored (or railroaded - literally).

The games? They better hope that the venues are in better shape than the accommodations, because if they’re of the same standards, it wouldn’t surprise me to see sewer overflows at venues.

132 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:36:59pm

re: #56 Charles Johnson

I can hardly believe these pictures coming out of Sochi of the “hotels.” If this is how they treat a world-class event with huge public attention, imagine how Edward Snowden is living right now.

Fuck him, I hope he is living in a chicken coop with a whole herd of chickens.

133 dog philosopher  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:38:06pm

re: #132 Pie-onist Overlord

Fuck him, I hope he is living in a chicken coop with a whole herd of chickens.

flock that!

134 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:38:58pm

re: #126 thedopefishlives

No, not really. You said it yourself: He earned it. He voluntarily chose to go to a bona fide surveillance state and give up a life many of us here would kill for. As far as I’m concerned, he’s already way ahead of what I would wish for him.

None of us would kill for Snowden’s life in Hawaii, but we would all work according to the job description and not commit crimes.

135 thedopefishlives  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:39:28pm

re: #131 lawhawk

Don’t know if anyone has posted this or not, but snow sports superstar Shaun White pulled out of the first-ever Olympic slopestyle competition due to concerns over the safety of the course. Some people (including some ESPN analysts) are doubtful as to if that’s his true motivation, but knowing White’s propensity to compete no matter what, I’d be surprised if it wasn’t a legit concern. Especially since several other slopestyle competitors suffered severe injuries on the course during training runs.

136 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:40:07pm

Texas kills another one.

Texas executes woman for slaying of mentally impaired man she lured with promise of marriage - @AP

137 dog philosopher  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:40:08pm

chicken herd

i’m getting images of being chicken-stomped

138 Jack Burton  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:42:01pm

re: #117 thedopefishlives

Full-on Blazing Saddles style?

Right down to orange roof on Khovard Dzhonson’s outhouse.

139 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:42:17pm

NBC News redesigned their page. What a mess. Time was, you could look at their page, see all the headlines, and then pick articles. Now? Everything’s backed by photos, and nothing makes sense.

Who the heck green lit this?

140 dog philosopher  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:43:09pm

re: #139 lawhawk

NBC News redesigned their page. What a mess. Time was, you could look at their page, see all the headlines, and then pick articles. Now? Everything’s backed by photos, and nothing makes sense.

Who the heck green lit this?

i had a similar reaction

looks like the part of windows 8 everybody tries to escape from

141 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:43:35pm

re: #138 Jack Burton

That’s brilliant.

142 darthstar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:45:20pm
143 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:46:52pm

Starting to look a bit post-apocalyptic.

The barricades of Kiev.

uk.reuters.com

144 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:48:09pm

Yogurtgate!

145 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:48:37pm

re: #143 Justanotherhuman

Starting to look a bit post-apocalyptic.

The barricades of Kiev.

uk.reuters.com

Makes the Tahrir photos look like a summer resort.

146 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:50:30pm

re: #140 dog philosopher

Someone puked up an instagrammed version of Win8. And brought out the worst aspects of both.

147 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:52:02pm

re: #145 Decatur Deb

Makes the Tahrir photos look like a summer resort.

If the weather were a bit warmer, I’d expect to see a semi-naked bodybuilder, clad in black leather shorts and wearing a metal hockey mask striding up and down the fortifications, being announced as the “Ayatollah of Rock-‘n-Rolla”.

148 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:57:24pm

re: #147 Dr Lizardo

If the weather were a bit warmer, I’d expect to see a semi-naked bodybuilder, clad in black leather shorts and wearing a metal hockey mask striding up and down the fortifications, being announced as the “Ayatollah of Rock-‘n-Rolla”.

“I am gravely disappointed. Again you have made me unleash my dogs of war.”

149 TedStriker  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:57:28pm

re: #125 Justanotherhuman

Looks like white boy is getting his privilege.

Judge orders Ethan Couch to spend time in undisclosed rehab facility, attorney says

crimeblog.dallasnews.com

Updated item at 5:50 p.m.: The attorney for Ethan Couch said the judge assigned him to a rehab facility at an undisclosed location that his family will have to pay for, KXAS-TV (NBC5) reports. There are no details yet about the length of time he will have to spend in the facility. He’ll get to go to college and if he can keep from getting caught if he drinks or takes drugs, he won’t pay any penalty for taking 4 lives.

I’ll bet it’s no more than 90 days in rehab. And 10 yrs probation.

I hope the victims’ families sue the fuck out of this “affluenza”-affected killer and his enabling parents for every penny they can get…

150 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:59:13pm

re: #147 Dr Lizardo

If the weather were a bit warmer, I’d expect to see a semi-naked bodybuilder, clad in black leather shorts and wearing a metal hockey mask striding up and down the fortifications, being announced as the “Ayatollah of Rock-‘n-Rolla”.

You have to admit, the Ukrainians come from good peasant stock. : )

151 CuriousLurker  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:59:40pm

re: #139 lawhawk

NBC News redesigned their page. What a mess. Time was, you could look at their page, see all the headlines, and then pick articles. Now? Everything’s backed by photos, and nothing makes sense.

Who the heck green lit this?

Oh, yuck. It seems like they’re trying to make it look like a mobile device version so the look & feel would be consistent across all platforms. I don’t know who thought that would be a good idea, but I’m pretty sure it wasn’t anyone with a web design or usability background because they didn’t manage to execute it very well at all.

They tried to make it responsive, but they didn’t make it usable… it’s clunky. And it’s lacking the visual hierarchy cues we’re accustomed to looking for. #FAIL

152 Bridgeghazi: Never Forget!!11!!!!11  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 4:59:47pm

re: #125 Justanotherhuman

During Couch’s trial, a psychologist called by the defense in the case said Couch suffered from “affluenza,” saying his parents’ wealth stunted his development

And that was his defense team saying that!

153 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:00:17pm

re: #149 TedStriker

I hope the victims’ families sue the fuck out of this “affluenza”-affected killer and his enabling parents for every penny they can get…

Yeah, he’s going to a resort that costs more than the average working person makes in a year.

I really do hope they’re lawyering up with the best.

154 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:00:35pm

re: #152 Bridgeghazi: Never Forget!!11!!!!11

And that was his defense team saying that!

They would probably know…

155 Skip Intro  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:01:31pm

re: #149 TedStriker

I hope the victims’ families sue the fuck out of this “affluenza”-affected killer and his enabling parents for every penny they can get…

Why do you always want to punish the job creators?

156 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:03:07pm

A really cool little Javascript function to resize images proportionally to fit into a certain area.

/**
  * Conserve aspect ratio of the original region. Useful when
  * shrinking/enlarging images to fit into a certain area.
  *
  * @param {Number} srcWidth Source area width
  * @param {Number} srcHeight Source area height
  * @param {Number} maxWidth Fittable area maximum available width
  * @param {Number} maxHeight Fittable area maximum available height
  * @return {Object} { width, height }
  */
function calculateAspectRatioFit(srcWidth, srcHeight, maxWidth, maxHeight) {

    var ratio = Math.min(maxWidth / srcWidth, maxHeight / srcHeight);

    return { width: srcWidth*ratio, height: srcHeight*ratio };
 }
157 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:03:11pm
158 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:05:16pm

Read Stubbs’ story on the medics linked here.

159 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:06:08pm

re: #152 Bridgeghazi: Never Forget!!11!!!!11

And that was his defense team saying that!

I taught at a private school for a long time, and many of my students were upper middle class or higher. To the best of my knowledge, none of them have killed anyone, or been responsible for any deaths — aside from a few who have been in the military. Maybe their parents aren’t rich enough to create homicidal tendencies in their kids.

160 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:06:19pm

The Russians have got to be embarrassed by what is going on there.

161 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:06:24pm

re: #157 NJDhockeyfan

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What, they had no pictures of Comrade Stalin or Comrade Lenin?

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162 thedopefishlives  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:07:01pm

re: #157 NJDhockeyfan

Comrade Putin approves of your choice of residence.

163 kirkspencer  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:07:53pm

re: #159 wheat-dogghazi

I taught at a private school for a long time, and many of my students were upper middle class or higher. To the best of my knowledge, none of them have killed anyone, or been responsible for any deaths — aside from a few who have been in the military. Maybe their parents aren’t rich enough to create homicidal tendencies in their kids.

On the other hand, while my wife went to a upper class private high school on scholarship, the quarterback killed a man in a DUI. And much the same scenario played out there.

164 b.d.  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:12:12pm

Hey Putin! You didn’t build that!

165 RadicalModerate  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:12:41pm

re: #31 Lidane

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“Bathed in prayer”? Is that anything like the African soldiers that douse themselves in holy water because they think it makes them invulnerable?

These people are certifiable.

So, they are saying that they will use their religiously-guided forces to demand the removal of publicly elected officials at the national level, and if we don’t acquiesce to their demands, they will engage in acts of violence against the government.

Exactly how is this different from Al-Qaeda?

166 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:14:56pm

re: #163 kirkspencer

Dare I ask if the QB was a white kid?

I have to say, however, that the big problem at our school was not violent crime, but alcohol and drug use by some very privileged kids. None ever went to jail. All went to rehab. Some more than once. There were some attempted suicides, too — not drug related AFAIK.

Affluenza is just a fancy word for “emotionally distant, absentee rich parents” — the kind who substitute money and things for love and attention.

167 TedStriker  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:16:40pm

re: #165 RadicalModerate

So, they are saying that they will use their religiously-guided forces to demand the removal of publicly elected officials at the national level, and if we don’t acquiesce to their demands, they will engage in acts of violence against the government.

Exactly how is this different from Al-Qaeda?

Because Christianity, that’s why…

168 thedopefishlives  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:17:45pm

re: #166 wheat-dogghazi

Affluenza is just a fancy word for 𠇎motionally distant, absentee rich parents” — the kind who substitute money and things for love and attention.

Nailed it.

169 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:18:44pm

“Volodymyr Gulidov, a Ukrainian living in the United Kingdom, said that EuroMaidan inspired him and some of his friends to match up a video of events in Ukraine with the soundtrack from Charlie Chaplin’s stirring final exhortation from the 1940 anti-Nazi classic film “The Great Dictator.”

“I am originally from Ukraine, currently pursuing a master’s degree at the University of Edinburgh,” Gulidov said. “In light of recent events in Ukraine, the idea was to create a clip that would inspire people in both the Ukrainian and the international communities to support the movement for a better future of Ukraine.”

“Gulidov said the scenes of Ukrainian protests combined with Chaplin’s speech from the “The Great Dictator” movie “seemed to form an emotional impact on the viewers, as is evident from their comments below the video. The clip was uploaded on Jan. 27 and has already gathered popularity in Western Europe and North America. From my experience thus far, and from the feedback that I have received, it seems that the video needs to be targeted more at the Ukrainian population. We thought that displaying it on your page would accomplish that goal.”

kyivpost.com

Youtube Video

170 Kragar  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:19:27pm

re: #124 klys

Business hotels are not exactly known for their space.

But they are reasonably priced! Our trip to Japan was under $100 per person per night. Scored a really nice business hotel in Hakodate for $35 per person per night, and a new one in Sendai that must have been cheaper because nobody knew about it yet.

That one was awesome. Shower/bathing area enclosed separately, Japanese style, big tub, the washing area, fill the tub while you clean yourself up and then soak in the nice hot water.

They had business hotels too?

171 CuriousLurker  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:21:46pm

re: #159 wheat-dogghazi

Last night I watched that video you posted a Page about last week, Last Train Home. This might sound weird, but my favorite part was the grandma telling her grandson (I’m paraphrasing), “Eat your bitter melon. It’ll be bitter at first, but then the sweetness will come after and you’ll know which one is better.”

That was pretty profound, though I don’t expect the boy will realize it until many years in the future when life has taught him some of its harder lessons.

172 kirkspencer  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:22:36pm

re: #166 wheat-dogghazi

Dare I ask if the QB was a white kid?

I have to say, however, that the big problem at our school was not violent crime, but alcohol and drug use by some very privileged kids. None ever went to jail. All went to rehab. Some more than once. There were some attempted suicides, too — not drug related AFAIK.

Affluenza is just a fancy word for “emotionally distant, absentee rich parents” — the kind who substitute money and things for love and attention.

Wichita Kansas was, back then, almost nothing but white.

173 CuriousLurker  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:25:27pm

Okay, I guess I’m out. Later, lizards.

174 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:33:26pm

Cheeeeez. How could calling attention to breast cancer be considered “hypersexualizing” kids? This is such bullshit.

‘Boobies’ bracelet fight could go to Supreme Court

bigstory.ap.org

Haven’t you got better things to do and spend money on in PA? Like smaller class room size? More books? More equipment? More of everything teachable?

175 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:42:18pm

re: #174 Justanotherhuman

Cheeeeez. How could calling attention to breast cancer be considered “hypersexualizing” kids? This is such bullshit.

‘Boobies’ bracelet fight could go to Supreme Court

bigstory.ap.org

Haven’t you got better things to do and spend money on in PA? Like smaller class room size? More books? More equipment? More of everything teachable?

OTOH, the kids at that school will learn more Civics than most.

176 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:46:11pm

re: #171 CuriousLurker

Last night I watched that video you posted a Page about last week, Last Train Home. This might sound weird, but my favorite part was the grandma telling her grandson (I’m paraphrasing), “Eat your bitter melon. It’ll be bitter at first, but then the sweetness will come after and you’ll know which one is better.”

That was pretty profound, though I don’t expect the boy will realize it until many years in the future when life has taught him some of its harder lessons.

The Chinese have several proverbs to that effect.
先苦后甜 (xian ku hou tian) “No sweet without sweat.”
苦尽甘来 (ku jin gan lai) “After suffering comes happiness.”

Patience is a virtue that has to be learned.

177 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:46:49pm

re: #172 kirkspencer

Wichita Kansas was, back then, almost nothing but white.

Oh, gotcha.

178 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:50:59pm

No expectation of privacy in Sochi—you’re sure to be hacked. The only question is, how soon?

nbcnews.com

179 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:54:24pm

re: #178 Justanotherhuman

Or being spied upon?

180 RadicalModerate  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:54:43pm

re: #52 Dark_Falcon

No, its the attitude of people who don’t want to spend money or have poor murder stats. So they class a homicide as an “accident” which frees them from having to investigate it or note it in crime statistics.

BBL

No, in this case it is very likely the case of a racially-motivated murder, and coverup by the sheriff.
Some established facts of the case:
Douglas Wright’s body was found very near a well-traveled area after more than three weeks’ worth of searching, and according to the “official” medical report, was only dead a few hours, but had degradation due to insect and animal activity.
According to witnesses, his body was positioned in a fashion that indicated he was neatly laid, and there was a lack of blood at the scene - atypical for someone who had his throat cut. Also there is the issue of the missing ear - which is a typical body part that is collected as a trophy during a lynching - a theory supported by the fact that Wright (an African-American) was married to a white woman in an area of rural east Texas that is well known for neo-Nazi and KKK activity. Lastly, the victim and Sheriff Maddox’s daughter both worked in the health care industry, but she supposedly didn’t know him. However, she has apparently decided to not speak of this to anyone anymore.

181 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:56:38pm

Scary. Even scarier is the denial by the FBI. I understand they don’t want their investigation compromised, but why not call it was it was?

Former federal official: Attack was terrorism

bigstory.ap.org

182 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:57:56pm

re: #178 Justanotherhuman

No expectation of privacy in Sochi—you’re sure to be hacked. The only question is, how soon?

nbcnews.com

I wonder whether the surveillance is by hackers, or by the government or police. Russia is surely worried about terror attacks and would have no qualms about monitoring private communications.

All that I have read so far about these Winter Olympics makes me think they will be a disaster in many respects.

183 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 5:59:27pm

re: #182 wheat-dogghazi

I wonder whether the surveillance is by hackers, or by the government or police. Russia is surely worried about terror attacks and would have no qualms about monitoring private communications.

All that I have read so far about these Winter Olympics makes me think they will be a disaster in many respects.

Well, they sure aren’t getting good PR.

184 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:02:00pm

re: #181 Justanotherhuman

Scary. Even scarier is the denial by the FBI. I understand they don’t want their investigation compromised, but why not call it was it was?

Former federal official: Attack was terrorism

bigstory.ap.org

Many years ago, in the late 1980s, there was an article I read in the now-defunct “Omni” magazine, written by G. Gordon Liddy that laid out a scenario of how a relative handful of terrorists, armed with little more than rifles and crude homemade explosives, could do significant damage to the nations’ energy infrastructure by attacking key points in about five or six (or maybe it was ten?) vital locations.

The gist of the article stuck with me over the years; but I can’t remember the exact name of the article now, or the exact year of publication.

185 Killgore Trout  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:04:24pm

re: #181 Justanotherhuman

Scary. Even scarier is the denial by the FBI. I understand they don’t want their investigation compromised, but why not call it was it was?

Former federal official: Attack was terrorism

bigstory.ap.org

They released the video of the attack last year. Very odd, they snuck around and used full auto rifles to shoot at transformer boxes and stuff.

186 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:08:53pm

re: #185 Killgore Trout

They released the video of the attack last year. Very odd, they snuck around and used full auto rifles to shoot at transformer boxes and stuff.

That’s somewhat like the scenario postulated by Mr. Liddy in my #184; it wasn’t a sophisticated or elaborately-planned attack, say like 9/11, but potentially quite effective at disabling the US power grid, albeit temporarily.

187 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:10:50pm

Just discovered the Spell Check button wasn’t working in LGF Spy, and fixed it. I guess not too many people are using that lately, with the proliferation of browser-based spell checking, but it was an easy fix.

188 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:12:07pm

re: #184 Dr Lizardo

Many years ago, in the late 1980s, there was an article I read in the now-defunct “Omni” magazine, written by G. Gordon Liddy that laid out a scenario of how a relative handful of terrorists, armed with little more than rifles and crude homemade explosives, could do significant damage to the nations’ energy infrastructure by attacking key points in about five or six (or maybe it was ten?) vital locations.

The gist of the article stuck with me over the years; but I can’t remember the exact name of the article now, or the exact year of publication.

This sounded domestic to me. CA has its share of hate groups, 80+ according to the SPLC, although they could have been from anywhere.

189 dog philosopher  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:13:18pm

re: #181 Justanotherhuman

Scary. Even scarier is the denial by the FBI. I understand they don’t want their investigation compromised, but why not call it was it was?

Former federal official: Attack was terrorism

bigstory.ap.org

any info available on any ideological motivations in regard to these attackers?

190 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:13:41pm

If I removed the spell checking option from the comments, would anyone miss it? Please chime in if you depend on it and would miss it greatly if it suddenly went away and saved us some Javascript loading time.

191 austin_blue  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:15:09pm

re: #190 Charles Johnson

If I removed the spell checking option from the comments, would anyone miss it? Please chime in if you depend on it and would miss it greatly if it suddenly went away and saved us some Javascript loading time.

Eye are a gud speller. I due knot knead it!

192 dog philosopher  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:16:02pm

re: #190 Charles Johnson

If I removed the spell checking option from the comments, would anyone miss it? Please chime in if you depend on it and would miss it greatly if it suddenly went away and saved us some Javascript loading time.

no prblem my speling is always purfect

193 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:16:32pm

re: #190 Charles Johnson

If I removed the spell checking option from the comments, would anyone miss it? Please chime in if you depend on it and would miss it greatly if it suddenly went away and saved us some Javascript loading time.

Whatever is easiest for you, Charles. : ) I’ll just read mine after posting anyway and edit if I have to. Somehow, it’s easier to proof after posting. Go figure.

BTW, 5 showed in your blockquote here. : )

194 Romantic Heretic  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:17:06pm

re: #18 Kragar

Those of us that have been in a foxhole, we don’t want to see a violent condition erupt in our nation. - See more at: rightwingwatch.org

Who do you think you’re kidding, buddy? You want violence so badly you can taste stabbing.

195 BishopX  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:17:35pm

re: #190 Charles Johnson

If I removed the spell checking option from the comments, would anyone miss it? Please chime in if you depend on it and would miss it greatly if it suddenly went away and saved us some Javascript loading time.

I just use my browsers spell check.

196 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:18:08pm

re: #188 Justanotherhuman

This sounded domestic to me. CA has its share of hate groups, 80+ according to the SPLC, although they could have been from anywhere.

Sounds domestic to me as well; when I read that long-ago “Omni” article, I believe Mr. Liddy was discussing foreign terrorists, but it certainly occurred to me as I was reading it that domestic terrorists could pull off something like that just as easily.

197 PhillyPretzel  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:18:11pm

re: #190 Charles Johnson

I would miss it.

198 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:18:50pm

re: #196 Dr Lizardo

Sounds domestic to me as well; when I read that long-ago “Omni” article, I believe Mr. Liddy was discussing foreign terrorists, but it certainly occurred to me as I was reading it that domestic terrorists could pull off something like that just as easily.

Yeah, and who tends to hoard all the gunz…

199 b.d.  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:21:40pm

re: #190 Charles Johnson

I love the spell check and use it all the time.

200 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:24:30pm

re: #182 wheat-dogghazi

I wonder whether the surveillance is by hackers, or by the government or police. Russia is surely worried about terror attacks and would have no qualms about monitoring private communications.

All that I have read so far about these Winter Olympics makes me think they will be a disaster in many respects.

“Hey, why is the snow… green?”

;D

201 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:25:36pm

re: #198 Justanotherhuman

Yeah, and who tends to hoard all the gunz…

I looked it up.

“Rules Of The Game”, by G. Gordon Liddy, published in Omni Magazine, January 1989.

Written like an ex-post facto procedural.

202 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:26:07pm

re: #190 Charles Johnson

If I removed the spell checking option from the comments, would anyone miss it? Please chime in if you depend on it and would miss it greatly if it suddenly went away and saved us some Javascript loading time.

I use it fairly often to verify words I am pretty sure I spelled wrong.

203 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:26:16pm

Here’s a story from 2012, also, which says a 1999-2009 study found most plots white supremacist, anti-government.

Homegrown terror isn’t just Islamist

cnn.com

204 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:26:57pm

re: #200 Feline Fearless Leader

“Hey, why is the snow… green?”

;D

Well, with the toilet situation, it’s more likely to be yellow or brown.

205 Bear  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:27:28pm

Spelling and singing were the first two subjects I flunked in school, so spell check is of use to me.

206 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:29:05pm

re: #203 Justanotherhuman

Here’s a story from 2012, also, which says a 1999-2009 study found most plots white supremacist, anti-government.

Homegrown terror isn’t just Islamist

cnn.com

I found a link to the story: archive.org

207 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:29:31pm

re: #195 BishopX

I just use my browsers spell check.

Wont solve grammar issues - browser’s (or browsers’, if you’re using multiples), not browsers. :) /editor off

208 Romantic Heretic  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:32:20pm

re: #66 thedopefishlives

I’m a bit puzzled by the Russians here. I get that not everyone has the high standards of accommodation that we’re used to here in the US, but I’m failing to see how slapping some lipstick on a pig and saying the Russian equivalent of “Meh” is supposed to impress ANYONE.

They don’t want to impress anyone. They just want money. Which they have.

As Marcus Kincaid says in Borderlands 2, “It’s a fine day for capitalism!”

209 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:32:32pm

OK, cool, that answers my question! Spell checking will remain.

210 Romantic Heretic  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:34:16pm

re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth

“hotelový dům”.
Is that remotely pronounced like “hotel of doom”?

Why do you think the Hostel movies were filmed in Slovakia? ;)

211 Killgore Trout  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:36:33pm

re: #189 dog philosopher

any info available on any ideological motivations in regard to these attackers?

I don’t know but I suspect they hate electricity.
/The above is a humorous stamen said in jest. it does not reflect the views of KT, TroutCo Int or any of its subsidiaries

212 dog philosopher  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 6:37:01pm

re: #209 Charles Johnson

OK, cool, that answers my question! Spell checking will remain.

yay! spelt Czech is grate!

213 CuriousLurker  Wed, Feb 5, 2014 8:24:45pm

re: #130 Justanotherhuman

But so pretty! That first photo looks like xmas; just add some lights. : )

Yikes, my apologies for inadvertently ignoring you—I totally missed this earlier! Yes, it is indeed kind of Christmas-y. ;-)


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