Not to worry, Leepin. Some of the best posts in awhile are on it - especially that one at the very top. ;-| Might as well give even more people a chance to read 'em.
Larry, I haven't been on the site much today and then I was and saw your post which made me aware of this change on the cover. With luck the four hour feed will be back by the morning!!
I think changing up the feed cycle is a great idea. The 4 hr feed exclusively tends to result in a lot of good stuff not being seen by those of us who can only pop in and out at random times. I like the variety of 4-hr, one-day, and three-day cycles switched up frequently. Thank you Emily for the variety.
Darn. I have loved having the immediacy of constantly-current info on what people are reading and rating. Sometimes the four-hour feed is the only section of the front page that I look at. This will probably inspire some OSers to waggle their fingers and say, in their most schoolmarmish voices, "All it takes is two clicks to get to that information." If pages only loaded reliably fast, that would be no problem, but they don't always. OS sometimes moves at glacier pace. Don't know if it's because of all the spammers, or if it's my wireless network connection, or both.
Tink wanders off to eat his fourth Feed for the day. No worry. We can survive with three Feeds per day. Leepin' Larry. You can run a Fourth Feed Double Chin Diner Feed. Ya Friend on the porch can may chief cooker Feeder. We'll TIP if he serves 4- pieces of apple pie a la mode. We demand 4- muffins. Folks no wander to nut house. Four Square Double Chin and Belly Feed @ Leeepin' L. Kerry L. might play the bagpipes at Table @ 4- Feeds? Goofy Donald Minnie or, 3- Muscadet bottles of French dry white wine. No whore.
Could someone ''splain to us newcomers what the 4 Hour feed is? I'm still trying to get a handle here, but I know that if one posts at Midnight from the Left Coast the Earth rotates backwards and Superman saves Lois Lane again. Yet my full service piece about the ten people who could replace Charlie Sheen--carefully researched with a a dartboard and a beaker of Bourbon at hand--ended up in the slush pile. Not saying it didn't deserve such, but I want to know whether I should drink the good stuff next time. Also, Leepin', and I mean this with the utmost respect, what's the deal with your hair?
I know and if you rate after you comment it takes forever, so I noticed that a lot people who comment positively on blogs aren't rating. I figured out a shortcut: If you rate before you comment, then viola!! You can go to another site with no hold up! Rated of course!!
Larry, as they say on the Xfiles: "The Truth is Out there" Somewhere, anywhere.... Could you hear my Canadian accent when I said the word "OUT"??? Maybe that will bring the 4 hour feed back. This really confuses me though about the lack of announcements. I announce everything hahahaha
I like bonnets, I usually use them to cover my butt, cause well, it gets cold in the winter time.
What were we talking about again?
Oh yeah, I think Emily is still around, she just wants to make it look like old Ed I Tors are back in charge to scare us!! She likes doing that for some reason!! PFFFFT!!!
@ all -- The four hour feed is not permanently gone. (And I too am still alive, kicking and responsible for Trig's EP.) We're just experimenting a bit with featuring different feeds (4 hour, 12 hour, 1 day, etc).
Once, a long bit back, the feeds were cycled. I wouldn't mind if it was like that again. Maybe, four hour shifts. The great 4 hour feed revolt of O ten was because of what seemed to be a permanent three day activity feed, which we mostly all agreed, sucked.
Good on Emily (supposing it is the real Emily) for coming here and shedding some light on the subject. That alone is a break from the usual "management" policy of just letting us guess. Also for temporarily removing my avatar from the black list!
I do have a question Larry.. I am watching the original True Grit now with Kim Darby.. How did they let her get away with that pixie cut and was she bopping Glen Campbell during that movie?
@Linda: Even though Clem Gumball really needed some woman to muss up that hairdo of his, that smarmy pants Kim Darby can't hold a candle to the young girl-woman in the new movie. This whipper snapper Hailee whoever she-is has true grit.
@Scarlet. It's Hailee Steinfeld. Like Seinfeld, only not. She's 15 years old, lives in Thousand Oaks, CA., and her father is Jewish; her maternal grandfather is of half Filipino and half African American descent, and her maternal grandmother is Caucasian. She keeps Obama's birth certificate in her clutch.
Her Uncle is fitness trainer Jake Steinfeld who can snap any of us like a twig.
Coming on Summer Larry could use a hat. Maybe a sombrero or a beret though. Or a pith helmet, what ho ! Joan already has a fetching straw arrangement she wears in the garden, I seem to remember. The Australian "sheep herder" Akubra is made out of bunny rabbit fur and takes a couple of years to go all soft and dreamy again. Why not go the full Rita and get a Panama, Larry ? No-one would comment on your hair then. Was that 4 hours ?
Ha! good on you Padraig! Yes.. go full on Rita, Panama by way of Christie's Larry. tilt it down a bit. hey you somehow drew Emily out to your post, like finding out the reason for the crop circles or something. very cool.
I'm so confused. Everything is surreal on OS. No, wait.... It is reality that seems surreal. OS just seems disjointed and sluggish... I fell asleep waiting for a comment to post on Tuesday. What day is it? Am I supposed to be somewhere? Nothing is moving. Am I dead?
I ain't complaining, but I actually have a more current post up that isn't in the feed, and prolly won't make it there with the switcheroo sampling Emily's playing with. it was meant to be a sequence, so I'll just hold off on publishing the next part until traffic starts moving again.
Nutella.. if it's hazelnuts. My kid talked me into buying a jar of it once. I think we still have most of it. No need for refrigeration like peanut butter yet different darker muskier reminiscent of the musk forest
Personally, I think Emily is a HORRIBLE editor. When she was gone at the first of the year and that new guy was here, it was a world of difference for the better. The SKC is one issue I have. Sometimes the cover looks like The National Enquirer and I have to wonder if they have high school kids as stand-in's for editors or something.
Now who would think that you would stay up there on the right side for so long after having written only 3 lines. Personally, I think my picture of my dog, Phoebe, should be on the cover by now. At least she makes smiles.
A whole day has past and this thread is still alive! Larry, you are da' bomb, man. I'm over here preparing my picket signs for the next Feed Riot, now that I'm a Libyan. (Thanks, Zuma!!!!)
Flower child.. I can do housework jobs in between loading posts to read it is that slow to load.If you like do something in life for like 30 minutes all the posts on the side have disappeared and you have no way to find them except scrolling through all of them.
Larry. Dear dear larry. Thank you for providing this above ground truck stop to chitty chatty bitchitty bitch about the stagnant four hour feed. I'm tempted to go get my black square.
Yep that was be in the reversed "Rutgers" neg. Naaah, I don't write for the Enquirer, I write for the people of a little country I like to call America. That's not actually my Ferrari in the current picture. But it is my ugly shirt.
Thank you, Kind Sir, for inviting me into your own Salon; I'm very new at this, and I realize that the little ole wisps of Hey, Y'all that I throw out there are definitely not everybody's jar of 'shine.
I appreciate your adding me to your own list, and I have but two questions about your header photo:
How did you sneak up on Cousin Clete's house without the dogs raisin' a ruckus?
Comments
The last time this happened was when Judy Berman left and Thomas came back to OS as the interim editor.
What is this Front Cover anyways??
:D
**Wanders off**
No worry. We can survive with three Feeds per day.
Leepin' Larry.
You can run a Fourth Feed Double Chin Diner Feed.
Ya Friend on the porch can may chief cooker Feeder.
We'll TIP if he serves 4- pieces of apple pie a la mode.
We demand 4- muffins. Folks no wander to nut house.
Four Square Double Chin and Belly Feed @ Leeepin' L.
Kerry L. might play the bagpipes at Table @ 4- Feeds?
Goofy
Donald
Minnie
or,
3- Muscadet bottles of French dry white wine. No whore.
If you rate before you comment, then viola!! You can go to another site with no hold up!
Rated of course!!
"The Truth is Out there"
Somewhere, anywhere....
Could you hear my Canadian accent when I said the word "OUT"???
Maybe that will bring the 4 hour feed back.
This really confuses me though about the lack of announcements.
I announce everything hahahaha
http://open.salon.com/blog/trig_palin/2010/05/07/off_with_his_head_my_robots_discuss_the_4_hour_feed
What were we talking about again?
Oh yeah, I think Emily is still around, she just wants to make it look like old Ed I Tors are back in charge to scare us!! She likes doing that for some reason!! PFFFFT!!!
Garcia was shot!!
Much like that Brando imposter with his little friend on South Park hahaha
It's how long it takes OS to load.
Nice Carolyn Forsythe. She foresaw.
But,
Emily's read sounded sane kind.
Gentle
Spirited
We be okay
It's so beautiful, yet so sad.
The song is a perfect choice, Larry.
My dog let's me know when the mailman arrives.
Is it really you or is this a "Weekend at Bernie's" plot?
Well, at least you made grif happy.
I use to say that back in the day too!! Teeheehee!!!
Remember Emily, if they ask you to 'Get in the Barrel' DON'T DO IT!!!!
Teehehehe!!
Linda, mine comes on at 10am, so I seen that episode earlier!! :)
As usual you're right on top of current events. But will this get to the top of the feed in a day? Only time will tell ... :)
Is this the cool kids' clubhouse? --Cork
Good on Emily (supposing it is the real Emily) for coming here and shedding some light on the subject. That alone is a break from the usual "management" policy of just letting us guess. Also for temporarily removing my avatar from the black list!
BTW, Joanie wants you to send her a hat.
Do you know how hard that is??
Tough!!!
PFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFT!!
Oh well.....
Since when??
Sheesh.....
DOWN WITH THE BLACK LIST!!!
NO BLACK LIST!!!
When do we want it?
NOW!!!
It's possible that spot will be all ads tomorrow.
I am watching the original True Grit now with Kim Darby..
How did they let her get away with that pixie cut and was she bopping Glen Campbell during that movie?
Larry: If I had the equipment I would do floor shows hahah
Maybe Tink can post a primer.
Her Uncle is fitness trainer Jake Steinfeld who can snap any of us like a twig.
It was surely just a little glitch...
Time goes by quickly! Is a glitch the same thing as an experiment?
to "Riot like a Libyan"
I thought I left a tab open on my browser from yesterday's cover.
Deja vu all over again.
Joan already has a fetching straw arrangement she wears in the garden, I seem to remember.
The Australian "sheep herder" Akubra is made out of bunny rabbit fur and takes a couple of years to go all soft and dreamy again.
Why not go the full Rita and get a Panama, Larry ?
No-one would comment on your hair then.
Was that 4 hours ?
hey you somehow drew Emily out to your post, like finding out the reason for the crop circles or something. very cool.
I prefer mine roasted and mashed into a paste with cocoa, I get it by the jar and eat it with a spoon, and it is mine, all mine.
My kid talked me into buying a jar of it once.
I think we still have most of it.
No need for refrigeration
like peanut butter
yet different
darker
muskier
reminiscent
of the musk forest
Suzi, no you're not dead and it's Tuewensday. Wake up!
Lezlie
Yep that was be in the reversed "Rutgers" neg. Naaah, I don't write for the Enquirer, I write for the people of a little country I like to call America. That's not actually my Ferrari in the current picture. But it is my ugly shirt.
Such a bunch of militant OS'urghs.
I love it - please continue.
"Press send please FRed(tm) and then we're orf to vanity classes".
I appreciate your adding me to your own list, and I have but two questions about your header photo:
How did you sneak up on Cousin Clete's house without the dogs raisin' a ruckus?
and
How'd you get him to put on pants?
rachel
Either that or this is another experiment by the Open.Team. I keep wondering about these 'experiments' and what they're discovering?
:D