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Comment on Master Cleanse, Day 3 by sarah

sarah — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:42:18 +0000

Oh my god, that Jenkem comment has me laughing my ass off! I ran across your site looking for blogs about people’s first few days on the master cleanse. Made it only 5 days a few years ago when i tried it and then had to go to a funeral, and broke it. ugh. Anyway, never had anything amazing happen with the saltwater flush, but hopefully will this time around. Haha. Jenkem. I had to look it up.

Comment on Master Cleanse, Day 4 by IceGiant

IceGiant — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:37:13 +0000

That’s a bit retarded: Saying you don’t recommend a movie because in your opinion, a certain genre is “crap.” I guess you’re a vulgar commoner who appreciate the crappy movies we’re bombarded with constantly. This isn’t hate, btw. Just an observation. ROFL

You should’ve said not to watch the movie because it was biblical, which is a book of myths people take too seriously. Hehehe

Anyway, I’m on day 4, and came for some information. Not opinions on a fault experience. xD

Comment on Seesmic WordPress Plugin Breaks Some Themes by michael gallagher

michael gallagher — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:57:04 +0000

i tried to put the plugin fix in url box and it does not work?

i have been trying to fix ever since windows media upgrade messed up my seesmic video. the comment video is blank.

Comment on Civilization 5 Early Feature Impressions by omar

omar — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:31:55 +0000

I’m not down on the game. I just don’t see how they are going to make the game better with the conditions they have laid out. Chalk it up to my lack of imagination. Like you said in your post, I trust their quality control.

There is one issue you didn’t mention that I’m having a hard time wrapping my head around – no tech trading. In the article, they say you can make tech-learning alliances so you both work together to earn a tech. I picture this working exactly like it does when you play multiplayer teams in Civ4. But from there, no tech trading? I can’t imagine they don’t allow any transfer of knowledge between players. Maybe the other players learn what you learn after a while naturally.

I like to play fast and lose with taking a primitive civ, holding them under my thumb, and raising them to a warp civilization when I need a friend.

And I REALLY hope they expand on the vassal state mechanic. It was a great idea that, imho, was a little underplayed in Civ4.

To address your point about protecting your trebs…they are going to let ranged units shoot over a couple tiles. This is, imho, probably a more accurate picture of a battle. On the other hand, if they are trying to increase realism of battle formations, I would think a normal battlefield in a RTS would take up one hex and all the units for both teams fit into the same screen. One unit per tile makes the game look more like a legit boardgame.

Comment on MongoMapper with Formtastic: Almost Perfect by Matt

Matt — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:22:20 +0000

Ah yes, I should have mentioned that caveat about form.inputs (I don’t use it often enough, so it wasn’t an issue for me)

Comment on MongoMapper with Formtastic: Almost Perfect by loren

loren — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:17:12 +0000

Great, thanks Justin! I’ll look into it when I have time and file reports, pull requests, etc.

Thanks for the direction!

Comment on MongoMapper with Formtastic: Almost Perfect by Justin French

Justin French — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:45:36 +0000

Hi, looks like if there’s an object, we expect/assume that it has reflections. It’s around line 460 of formtastic.rb. So you’d either need to offer the reflection object, or we need to check that it exists before calling it.

It’s not clear to me which way we should roll, need to look into where Rails 3 / ActiveModel is headed. Please fire up an issue on Github and we’ll take a look.

For some instant gratification, you can probably change line 459 from:

if @object.present?

to:

if @object.present? && @object.respond_to?(:reflections)

Comment on Atlanta Javascript Meetup Cappuccino Talk, 12/10/09 by loren

loren — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:33:22 +0000

No worries, Skylar!

Yes, the JS meetup clashing with 3 other meetups including a duplicate talk is epic failure. I’m just glad the group got started again! I’m sure Jaye, the organizer, will be aware of these things going forward.

Hope to see you in 2010!

Comment on Atlanta Javascript Meetup Cappuccino Talk, 12/10/09 by Skylar Saveland

Skylar Saveland — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:28:49 +0000

Sorry I missed it. I bolted for the Python meetup after Jenny’s talk. Hopefully we will start doing it monthly (and not on the night that the python meetup is on .

Comment on Investment Club Blog by loren

loren — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:40:46 +0000

Great question, Pam.

We do have an extra fee associated with leaving the club. It is more of a processing fee than a penalty, and it is very small when compared with an equal equity stake in the club already.

When we are seeking out new members, we are looking for people who we don’t expect to ever want to leave the club. The club itself isn’t about money, but rather education. The intent is that you make your money on your personal investments, fueled by the knowledge gained in the group environment of the club.

Still, obviously circumstances arise where a member may want or need to make an exit from the club. We don’t seek to create artificial barriers to exit (‘penalties’), but we do have to take into account the actual cost of making our various investment assets liquid for such an occurrence (transaction fees if we sell stocks, opportunity costs for having an empty bank account, etc.)