Open Thread - 01-17-25 - One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
I'm still working on the site upgrade. It's been an eye opening experience to say the least. Things are much different in the Drupal community from when I built this site ten years ago.
I've learned about how a bunch of developers can ruin perfectly fine open source software for, IMHO, their personal gain. Anyway, I'll write more about that later.
I'm working on it on a local environment. What that means is I installed Apache server software, a Mysql database, a new version of PHP and the site building software on my computer at home. It doesn't need to function with the internet, so I don't have to worry about screwing something up on our c99 server.
I can't build the new site and upload it to our server, it doesn't work that way. I've pretty much built the new site on my local computer, but I'll have to rebuild it again once I install the new software on the c99 server. What I'm doing is familiarizing myself with the process so that when the time comes to go live I can save time so the site wont be down so long. As it is, we're looking at probably a day or two of the site being offline while I configure everything. A day or two, at least. I hope.
The site will still function pretty much like it does now, only with a new look and feel. I think you all are going to like it, there's a lot more functionality, especially the text editor. It will be much easier to compose great looking essays and comments. Uploading images will be much simpler, as will adding textual hyperlinks, links that show as text rather than a full URL address.
I've made the new site to match the current site as much as possible, esthetics wise. Same color, same layout. But it will look a bit different.
Well, that's enough for now.
In the end, it will all be worth it.
This is what I do to keep myself centered and level in a world gone mad, and in between bouts of intense study and zen-like contemplation. I am pacing myself in this endeavor.
Yeah, that's me.
2:01
The audio is not so good since I recorded this with my cell phone.
I started playing the dobro (resonator guitar) about 20 years ago. I didn't go very far with it because of work and a lack of practice time, so I gave it up. I took it back up seriously about two years ago. I'm still not very good but it keeps me sane, somewhat.
Please note on the video, at the end, the squeaky noise is not my guitar, it's otc come in through a door with a squeaky hinge. That's her contribution to my composition.
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Good morning Free Rangers...
We've recently had a full moon, not a harvest moon, but a full moon none the less.
This is an open thread so tell us what's on your mind.
Just after the full moon
There will be a planet parade.
Looks like Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will parade across the sky. Maybe the moon too or it might be Pluto.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
I miss ...
my telescope. I noticed a planet below the left quadrant of the moon. By the slight reddish tint I'm pretty sure it is Mars.
Speaking of seeking sanity
This site helps in that regard.
Thanks for all you do here!
question everything
That's exactly why...
it needs to be saved from extinction.
Thanks for all you do as well. This site would be nothing without our members.
Neil Young's got nothing on you
Nice cover of Harvest Moon.
Looking forward to the new and improved c99.
I'm great at multi-tasking. I can waste time, be unproductive, and procrastinate all at the same time.
Well...
that's a stretch to say the least, but thanks for the compliment.
Resonator guitar can't do what standard guitars do, specifically that is, to play minor chords. Major chords are no problem, but since the left hand fretting is done essentially with one finger since it's played with a tone bar, one can only get a couple of full minor chords per the key that the song is played in. To play the rest of the minor keys one has to play only one or two notes of the triad to make a reasonable facsimile of a minor chord. Because of that it's difficult to play a song on the resonator exactly as it was written.
Single notes and solos are no problem though as all of the notes are readily available in the different scales.
I'm looking forward to the new and improved c99 as well.
Heh, I once asked one of my much younger nephews what
the hell these "power chords" he kept mentioning in discussing "modern" music and he said:
, so there you is right up there is post punk metal music.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Heh...
watch out Slash. Gotta get me a wall of Marshall amps.
Good morning Johnny, Glad to hear that progress is being made
on the upgrade even though it's a PITA and the sofware has been disimproved in some respects. When you make the change to text links, try not to think about some of the places that less than clear links have taken you in the past.
great video. Living proof that a dough-bro isn't some dude who works in a bakery.
37 and foggy here, making our journey southward hat much more inviting, though it means that winter planting probably won't happen beyond what is already done. C'est la vie. Will leave 01/19 and not return 'til the end of the month to what we hope will be better weather. With luck we'll be able to avoid the vast majority of the gnus during that period but maybe still catch some yankee style "football" highlights somehow.
So I saw that Biden had commuted some sentences. Couldn't help but notice that commute means to change ones sentence or to travel to ones employment. There's an obvious connection there, but I can't put my finger on it.
Already phasing in the no gnus behavior, thanks to busy, and early withdrawal. Ennywhom, keep up the good work and good luck with the programming.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Thanks for a glimpse...
of the recent gnus, I haven't been keeping up because of extenuating circumstances, like re-educating this old brain of mine.
I was shocked at how much Drupal has changed in ten years, not to mention the changes in the process of building a site. Open source was supposed to be about the "free beer". Drupal is still free but the beer is no longer gratis.
About the video, in retrospect I should have put new strings on the guitar, those sound dead. It's been a while since I've restrung it and those strings have lost their brightness.
Starting Sunday night we're going to have nightime temps in the mid 20s for two or three days, that's pretty cold for down here. I thought I had left that weather back in Illinois.
Thanks as always, mi hermano, and have big fun on your trip!
Parasites gonna feed.
That is what they do. When the host is dead, they look for a new one.
Mary Bennett
I concur...
money will do that.
I think it was
Mark Twain who once said
Many software development groups, especially in open-source, can certainly be thought of as committees-on-steroids... (;-)
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Yes...
and this Drupal "committee" is shooting themselves in the foot. They're driving away small time site builders like myself. Drupal has had a dwindling user base for some years now and it will shrink even more because of the complexity of the software. It used to be much easier, now you almost have to have a very expensive development team to build and maintain a site. That's all by design, I suppose.
Speaking of News, with a word to the wise:
https://www.reuters.com/science/meat-was-not-menu-human-ancestor-austral...
As we know, Australopithecus didn't make it. Just sayin'
be well and have a goof one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --