the otherwhirled

Otherwhirledly Relocation Substantiation Declaration

Synthaetica — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:10:19 +0000

Well, actually, don’t say ‘GOODBYE’, say ‘Hey, that Commander Other guy moved his blog’, because that would be far more honest and appropriate. And we all know how much honesty and appropriateness is worth these days!

You can now find the otherwhirled at its new, highly-guessable domain of OTHERWHIRLED.COM. If you enjoy reading the otherwhirled via RSS feeds, the new feed is OTHERWHIRLED.com/FEED/.

If you are kind enough to link to the otherwhirled, I respectfully request that you change your links to the new location. It’s as easy as removing “wordpress.” from your existing link to me, even though that’s kind of weird because the otherwhirled is proud to remain a WordPress blog.

See you over in the ‘real’ otherwhirled! Don’t be strangers!

Impending Otherwhirledly Migratory Relocation

Synthaetica — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 22:05:14 +0000

okay, here’s the skinny:

i’ve secured a certain, highly guessable domain name and gotten wordpress installed and running on a hosted server. i’ve even imported all the content over, and setup the site for a seamless transition. i still have a few things pending:

i’m still hunting down the plugins that i would have liked to have had up here in the first place, but couldn’t use on the public wordpress. once upon a time i had made a list…
i have to rebuild my blogroll by hand. i’m going to do that in my google reader (no, they’re not all in there), export it, then import it.
then i’ve got to do the re-registration tap-dance with all the aggregators, etc.

those of you who are kind enough to link to the otherwhirled are welcome to change your links to that highly guessable domain name (which doesn’t include the word “the” in it) anytime after Friday, but please do not do so yet. i will try to contact you all personally to beg your forgiveness for the inconvenience. as you can see from visiting that highly guessable domain, with this post, i have made the two divergent. i’m not worried about that. when i’m completely ready to fully engage the engines over there, i will simply re-import. that part of things is cake.

i haven’t yet decided how i’m going to handle pushing people from here to there once i get everything finished. anyone with ideas and/or experience on that are welcome to chime in in the comments. before you ask, securing the domain and pointing it here (the standard and recommended method) didn’t suffice because the very few issues that i’ve had with wordpress revolve around hosting and the desire to use certain plugins.

UPDATE: for those of you who figured out where the new blog will be (not that it’s really a secret or anything), please be patient. i have discovered several major bugs that may stall the migration through the weekend. and, predictably, my clients seem to feel that i should do work for them…all at the same time, lol….

Hey! Look Over Here!

Synthaetica — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:07:32 +0000

(various things found while tubing down teh internets)

Tim at A Progressive on the Prairie has a great review of “Living Blue in the Red States”
Matty Boy at Lotsa ‘Splainin’ 2 Do has great short articles on James Thurber and Albert Schweitzer
FranIAm begins the tale of her history with 9/11
Bing McGhandi at Happy Jihad’s House of Pancakes wonders if Frank Pastore is a worse preacher or scientist
nonnie9999 at Hysterical Raisins sings the song of the Lonesome Chickenhawk
DistributorcapNY takes issue with Whoopi Goldberg using really flimsy logic to defend Michael Vick

Worthy readings, all. Be inquisitive and clickify!

It’s Kinda Like the Sound of One Hand Clapping

Synthaetica — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:57:53 +0000

“President Bush…should I shake your hand I would have to make a special pilgrimage to Mecca to have it specially washed and blessed, and I would still never be able to touch my children with it ever again. So, thank you, but I will decline. It is enough that Prime Minister Al-Maliki has once again sacrificed his honor on our behalf.”

photo credit: AP Photo/Charles Dharapak

Brokeback Bushie IV

Synthaetica — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:43:59 +0000

“There ain’t no reins on this one.”

photo credit: Jason Reed/Reuters

Brokeback Bushie III

Synthaetica — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:34:49 +0000

“You ever get the feelin’… I don’t know, er… when you’re in town and someone looks at you all suspicious, like he knows? And then you go out on the pavement and everyone looks like they know too?”

photo credit: Jason Reed/Reuters

Brokeback Bushie II

Synthaetica — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:29:05 +0000

“Ya know it could be like this, just like this always.”

photo credit: AFP/Jim Watson

LOLcons: Brokeback Bushie

Synthaetica — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:22:34 +0000

‘LOLcons’ concept created by Jon Swift and named by Marita.

original photo credit: Jason Reed/Reuters

International Acumen.

Synthaetica — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 16:03:54 +0000

“Naw, done be bashful, ya’ll, gimme a hug! Ah brotcha a case o Lone Star, buddy! Issa hella lot better thun that Fosters Larger crap ya’ll make, Ah tell ya whut! An Ah’ll brung ya s’more if’n ya’ll keep yer soldjers in th’raq fer meh!”

photo credit: AP Photo/Rob Griffith

The 3 Stooges Take on Iraq

Synthaetica — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:54:19 +0000

“…in the ~~brown~~ green zone. Soldiers were treated to the comedy stylings of George ‘Teh Surge, Stoopid’ Bush, Bob ‘I Dunno’ Gates and Condi ‘Blackublican’ Rice in a surprise visit by this latest revival of the classic comedy trio.”

photo credit: Jason Reed/Reuters

What a Jerk.

Synthaetica — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:35:31 +0000

I mean, what kind of guy just stands there waving when the one woman in the world who actually loves him has to open the car door herself? Gah.

photo credit: Will Burgess/Reuters

Happy Labor Day

Synthaetica — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:40:04 +0000

Oh yeah, lest I forget…a big shout out to all the expectant mothers who were in labor last night, today and/or tonight. And to all you expectant dads who have been getting your hands firmly squeezed while horrendously personal epithets are being shouted at you, as well.

I mean, that *IS* what “Labor Day” is all about right?

A-F*@KING-MEN

Synthaetica — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 18:47:06 +0000

via Digby, via Perlstein: PUH-RICELESS!

Alex Linder the founder of VNN and the lead organizer of the rally kicked off events by rushing the clowns in a fit of rage, and was promptly arrested by 4 Knoxville police officers who dropped him to the ground when he resisted and dragged him off past the red shiny shoes of the clowns.

And it only gets better from there. My hat’s off to the 100th ARA for their tour de force. Awesome!