santeewelding?

I would have been there, if CBSi had not decided through the agency of a contractor that I was no longer eligible to write for TR.

Somehow, I never know about those discussions until someone else points out that I was mentioned.

/me salutes.

Tell that to the doctors. It looks like I need a(nother) hernia surgery.

Very much not the cryptic, but a very real and vibrant personality, I will remember him in that light, so very glad I got to meet him.

Hoped to meet him again, guess that will have to wait for a later time.

Of course it's got to be electric as fitting a Big Petrol Motor just isn't feasible but it's going to be highly modified to suit my needs it looks like this

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj121/HAL9000_photo/davrosfinished7thmay007.jpg

It's not so much the Wheelchair as the problem it's the escort of 2 fully functional Darleks that I'll require that is causing the problem. ;)

Col

Santee was actually one of the staunchest defenders of TR staffers in the forums when trolls came here and tried to grandstand. While he may have hit TR staffers pretty hard himself, he would never stand for it if someone from the outside came around and started talking unintelligent smack. For that reason alone, he was quite well-liked by the staff.

Santee was kind of like that crazy charismatic uncle who always winked at you and slipped you a $20 bill when you were a kid.

I'll tell you my favorite Santee story. It was from the first TR Live event in 2009 when we celebrated the 10th anniversary of TechRepublic. On Saturday morning after the event had ended a lot of us met at Lynn's Paradise Cafe for breakfast (it's a nationally famous breakfast spot in Louisville). For most of it I was sitting next to Santee and he noticed me quietly making sure all the tables got their orders, seeing that everyone was settled, checking on the people who brought their families, and eventually collecting the check. When I finally sat down for a few moments and quit coordinating, Santee leaned over and whispered, "I forgot that unlike most of us, you're still on the clock." I smiled.

RIP, Santee.

Good to know such a good crowd awaits.

The three are probably flaming each other. :-)

It was my great pleasure to have shared a breakfast conversation with Santee several years back at the TR Gathering. I found him to be a witty man with a great observation of humanity's foibles. I called him friend and am sad to hear of his passing.

A friend recently remarked that we spend the first half of our lives building relationships and spend the last half learning to say goodbye.

Santee will be missed.

Hi, deepsand. Always good to see you.

Yes, the improvements haven't been improvements for everyone. Apotheon's measure of using tr-rectify does help.
bitbucket [dot] org [whack] sterlingcamden [whack] tr-rectify

As to Oz. IIRC, one point was that he was quite displeased with the changes at TR. Another was that he was fed up with some commenters with which he was adversarial (including one of the blog authors ↑). Further, at one point he indicated that the Oz Media profile had been handed around and in use by like six people for an unspecified period of time just to troll the forums for kicks.

I have no idea what other issues he may have now, be they personal or with TR. I hope he's doing well.

I hope you are doing well, too, deepsand.

I'll endeavour to not do so.

You, neither. Not allowed. Orders, ma'am.

I'm sorry you have lost so many people. I only recall your mention of a few of them, including the SO. Between one's health, and the health of one's others, it can become very trying at times. So, more power to you, dear.

I appreciate the kind regard.

Note that it wasn't that I didn't want to show up because I wasn't writing. Rather, it was that with expenses this year I found it much more difficult to justify spending the time and money on the trip if there wasn't a business relationship involved, even nominally.

Exhibit A: I just spent $3500 (give or take) on auto repair, and it's not done yet. Yeah, a trip to Louisville to talk about a small-revenue contract I used to have seemed like a bit of a frivolous expense.

I missed it.

It was . . . what, a couple months ago? . . . that I added it to userscripts. I just decided one day to look into what it takes to get the script on there, and discovered it was easy. Making a Ruby gem turned out to be more work, but I found a nice step-by-step guide to the basics in a book I bought for other reasons, and coupled with online documentation for Ruby gem management I put a gem together. (Now, Sterling and I are trying to fix it up so it's worth committing to the Rubygems archives for the whole world to use.)

Anyway . . . the reason I started writing this comment was to mention that it hasn't been on userscripts all that long, so it would be easy for you to not know it was there.

I did a lot of 110 to 240 V Conversions.

Some even said that I was the Resident Expert on things like that, though I would disagree I just had a lot of practice and could do them in my sleep. ;)

Col :^0

It wasn't my fault Honest. ;)

Col

And all will be forgiven... :D

(((hugs)))

Need to remember to hug the folks I love while I'm still bouncing...

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(Sorry. It [b]had[/b] to be said.)

I don't have too many issues running Ad-Block Plus, but it would be nice to see the discussions back in full-width.

Edit: disregard last transmission. I just read sean's post... B-)

That is as unexpected as it is apt.
And that combination (unexpected/apt) is what art is when it is best.
I love that in art, that it can send us reeling, spinning through spaces that defy prediction, and yet are full of the deja vu feeling of "I always knew this, and never knew it".

"I am into the idea that thought can behave as a fungus or a virus- I recently read an article about "Memes" which I shared with my Dad. I'm sure he already knew of this concept, but I wanted to relate it to my artwork- that an idea or a bit of information can certainly mimic a virus or a living organism. I am very interested in the similarity between systems that seemingly, have nothing to do with one another. I sense that there is a pattern or a system in all things, whether they be physical, emotional, ideological, or otherwise.

This is where it would get tricky with Dad, because he would want me to define all of those terms and then re-think my concept, but, man, my brain would just get tired so fast! I think I just processed things differently."

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/What-Defines-a-Meme.html

while you may be absent, you will never be forgotten. Would have been a great pleasure to have met you in person. The world was a brighter place with you present within it.

On a further note within this post. Has anyone thought of archiving all of his posts? Or, do I need to do that manually? Will be interesting to re-read many of them to see what I missed. And I know there are many things there.

I did think of memes when I looked at her artwork.
I have a thing for Emergence... something that happens in cognition where a mess of observations, perceptions, assumptions, deductions and inductions suddenly achieve a critical mass, then coalesce into something that transcends them and encompasses them.
It is related to abductive reason, but it happens subconsciously.
I think Richard had a thing for something similar, he referred to it with a word from sanskrit or hindi or urdu, it escapes me at the moment, but it refers to an insight which, once achieved, changes one's perspective on everything. I always mix it up with Utnapishtim, which is an entirely different kettle of fish ;) That, again, is due to another word from sanskrit Richard would occasionally use; Upanishads, an ancient scripture about the oneness of all (which ties in with Speaking of God ;) )
I think that often when Richard would instruct people to run some thought through again, he was referring to such a realization being "close". In that respect he showed incredible tact, the realization would not be achieved if he had pointed the way any more directly. Of course, I think that often "close" could mean that it's a few years out ;)

it was ok to lift the picture that I posted above and this was her reply:

Hi Mike: I would love you to have it!! Thank you SO much for all the TR dialogue- it is a treasure to me to read it. I miss him so much and thank you for honoring him with your writings. You all meant so much to him and he loved all the action and challenge he found in the TR community.

Sincerely,
Lea (Santeewelding JR)

ignore the idiot typo in the song title.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szNXh2xYeIQ

:^0
You go, girl!

What do you mean by "repository" in this context? Are you asking about where it is on your computer when you install it, or where on the Internet the source is stored?

If on your local system, I'm not sure. I don't use MS Windows enough to know where extensions install. On Unix-like systems, it should be in something like ~/.mozilla/extensions/blah/blah. If on the Internet, it's stored in Sterling's Bitbucket account (and seanferd described its location on the Web up this thread a little).

Of course, Firefox allows you to do something like clicking into View > Zoom and selecting the option you want, or using Ctrl and either + or - on the numpad to do it using keyboard shortcuts (or Ctrl and the number 0 to reset the zoom).

The 3 of them have got together and are making plans.

Now who should be concerned?

I know I'm not one of those people who need to be concerned. :D

Col

I've never made it to TRCon myself. But I do miss your writing, and I found some of your other spots on the intarwebs to be somewhat "down" or not updated when I've gone looking.

If you are taking a break, more power to you.

If you do mean "where on the HDD is the script stored", for Win it is
%userprofile%\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[i]rnd_string[/i].default\gm_scripts

I played around editing the script in a much earlier iteration. Firebug helps.

Zuckerberg made a tool for sharing too much information, and it's really good - for sharing too much information.
If you want to, you can use this "tool for sharing too much information" to NOT share too much information.
But that makes Zuckerberg cry. :D

See, now I need to find out more about Ruby gems. :^0 I've heard mention before, but I don't really know anything else about Ruby (or writing code in general), although I do enjoy reading about it.

So, I guess I'll
guides dot rubygems dot org whack what-is-a-gem

Even if Facebook was the NSA, I probably would still not be on it. As I noted, my brief experience taught me much I DIDN'T want to know about family, and I don't care at all about what their friends think or do.

Q&A and Discussions here tend to remain on technological topics. While WC conversations do tend to wander, you don't find many of us publicly airing our dirty knickers as e-therapy. The level of social interaction here is at just about right for me.

> "ESPECIALLY if Facebook was the NSA, I probably would still not be on it."

FTFY

edit: Holy crap. At one time, I used blockquotes to set off text quoted from other people in my comments, but then TR broke that -- then fixed it, then broke it again. I eventually switched to using a greater-than symbol at the beginning of each line of quotes, but now TR eats the greater-than symbol. I bet there are hundreds -- if not thousands -- of comments from me that are now almost unreadable hash because you can't differentiate at a glance which parts were my statements and which were someone else's.

This is getting outta hand.

I'm feeling a bit unmotivated to write for my personal spaces on the Interwebs. I'm phasing out SOB [0] kinda by default, because I find managing WordPress to be a tremendous pain in my fourth point of contact, and I'm slacking off on blogstrapping [1] (because I suck, evidently). I haven't gotten around to getting UnivAcc [2] set up (a new thing I want to do). I haven't added a proper "news" interface to the Copyfree Initiative [3] site yet -- there's just the @CopyfreeNews Twitter feed so far.

I should probably set up a (low-traffic) mailing list just so people who keep asking about whether I'm writing anything these days will have a way to get news from me if/when I start writing with some regularity again.

(Technically, I am writing right now, but it's fiction and not fit for human consumption until I give it an edit to produce a second draft.)

edit: I guess it's not so much "I'm taking a break!" as "I've lost momentum, and I've been too lazy to push-start this roller coaster again."

1: sob dot apotheon dot org (was temporarily broken, but I fixed it when I realized it was down)

2: blogstrapping dot come (my devlog, on a minimalist content management system I wrote myself)

3: univacc dot net (Universal Accelerant, to be about innovation, advancement -- technological and otherwise, economics of advancement, politics of advancement, et cetera)

4: copyfree dot org (advocacy and definition for copyfree licensing, plus resources; I'm currently working slowly on some tools for the site, including improvements for stuff that's already there as well as new things)

1. http://sob.apotheon.org (SOB): general braindump site, getting phased out because I loathe WordPress and want to specialize a bit more in several venues rather than stir everything together as mental gumbo

2. http://blogstrapping.com (blogstrapping): devlog, where I mutter about programming stuff

3. http://univacc.net (UnivAcc): futurism and speculation

4. http://copyfree.org (Copyfree Initiative): working toward a better world by freeing the product of the intellect for everyone

since there were ways to break an entire thread downstream from a mangled set of brackets... which could be exploited to immunize spam to tagging.
It probably had to do with tags left open carrying over to the thread downstream... I guess html doesn't have a catch-all capper, to cap any and all formatting tag left open upstream?
Now they even have a little in-reply-box guide for which code tags can be used for what... although I have no idea when it displays... I guess it only displays in the "add your opinion" box, not in regular reply boxes... although I haven't checked.

I think a lot of people would be interested in following a link-dump stream, maybe in a dedicated "persona" on Google+? If it wouldn't be too much trouble, I think that'd be a popular initiative, and via the reasonably useful commenting system there, it could maybe help you regain focus in that area, since there'd be feedback and stuff.
Just an idea.

TR allows certain BB code tags.
[b][ i ][/b] does [i]italic[/i]
[b][ b ][/b] does [b]bold[/b]
etc.
(delete the spaces, of course)

As Ansu said, sometimes the code key is there, sometimes it isn't. tr-rectify appears to strip it out.

For a while, bbcode didn't work, and only HTML did. It seems like they've gradually swung the other way, again.

1. It's not all that difficult to sanitize HTML without breaking links and the like. Really.

2. I wish they'd just pick a way to do it and stop screwing around with it.

Because of the change in how they handled italics for a while, I stopped using italics. I'm not terribly inclined to start again, because they might change their minds again.

My brother, Dick (the name I knew him as from childhood before it migrated from a formal noun all the way to a verb) lived for this forum. I've seen him compose his submissions. Sometimes it would take hours. Even He would have to refer to His ever-present New Oxford American Dictionary every now and then and use a definition if He agreed with it. When he was ready to launch that economy of words containing so much thought I almost felt the urge to move my chair back a little before he hit the "send" button.

Yeah, I'll miss him too. - Santee's brother, Doug