The Good News

I gotta confess a preference for this forum over the New Coming and would like to extend an additional thanks to the Eva one for her diligence. While it may be the resurrection that has freed all of us to continue posting here--even if we ignore the Messiah his own damn self--it is rather the eva doers of the world who provide us the access. Only through Eva can you get to him who we have to go through to get to Him.

Long live Non Sequitur! Long live Eva's Pics!

OK, I yield

I've taken a couple of steps to take care of the problems that we've been having Google has caused us.

Step one is that I've enabled comments for anyone. The downside is that any retard with a computer and a modem can enter comments in our little playhouse. The upside is that all of the retards in this family, myself included, will be able to comment.

Step two is that I've given in to the fact that they're not going to be able to convert this here monster over to the new blogger. Therefore, I've created a new Blog, which is located here at "http://nonsequiturtwo.blogspot.com/". It's currently open for all to comment, but hasn't got some of the things (chatterbox, for example) that we're used to, at least not yet, and you won't be able to create new posts until I send you an invite (see next paragraph).

I need for *everyone* that wishes to comment or post to get a Google ID ("Papers, please. Please show us your papers.") if you haven't already, and email it to me (use the excite address that starts with smithbob2). When you do, I'll send you an invite to that address. I have koALa's, and I know Gock has one, but don't have anyone else committed to memory. I don't know if GoogleZon will let you tie your current Profile to that ID or not.

I'm really very sorry for the inconvenience, and will try to convert the original Non-Sequitur if and when I can. Assume for the moment, however, that http://nonsequiturtwo.blogspot.com/ is our new home, though you can always come back here, and to EvaPictures, and read the archives.

Sorry, Eva.

Dear Eva:

This Fuuuuuuckoogle thing must be hugely annoying and frustrating to you. I can't imagine dealing with administering this blog for all skill levels. It must be sort of like teaching creative writing to a class whose capability level is broken down into two percent developmentally disabled, one percent genius, and ninety-seven percent somewhere in between. While that one percent has already been published and is touring the circuit (and either doesn't come to class anymore or comes to class and poses questions about esoteric theories in literary tradition and poetic logic), that frickin' two percent still can't master the alphabet. The balance of the class just throws out a lot of clichéd commentary about poets and writing, like a bunch of college professors or book critics, sometimes making ridiculous suggestions that a polite professor chooses to ignore.

Aspiring to move up and out of the mentally impaired faction of our little group, I am about to make one of those ridiculous suggestions indicative of an average member: I think that my personal posting problem might be fixed if I were somehow made a team member again. I tried using the link that you provided, and it did not allow me to log in using my old identification and password. This whole circular thing happens. Can you invite me again? Must I have a gmail address? In case it helps, I have printed below this paragraph the text that pops up when I try to post a comment.

"Comments on this blog are restricted to team members. You're currently logged in as King of Fools who is not a team member of this blog.
To login as a different user, fill out the following:
Username
Required field cannot be left blank
Password
Required field cannot be left blank
Switched to the beta?
Sign in with your Google Account"

New Post, Harmony

I had the same problem as the chatterboxer-- like Koal, but eventually forced into the bloogle. Then it wouldn't let me post. A shame because my comment on the issue was classic. Never written such beautiful stuff. Anyway, my guess is that I'll have to copy and paste this into a new post. We'll see won't we?

Sure enough. But oddly, my chatter entries were gone every time I came back (I tried to use it as a way to communicate what was going on). Anyway, now my dashboard is the two here, and my "other" thing that I do. Don't really care for the consolidation, now I'm connected, and all the unpleasant things I post there, will prolly put Pert in gitmo. Go Google!!

All my data over der was tranferred to the new way, though.

:-p

No problems here.

"Login Issues", or, "Violating Rule One: Be Evil"

I suspect that I know what the problem is, but I'll need for yous guys to check it out to see if it works. I believe that they fucked up the dashboard widget so that it automagically goes to the "new" blogger login, which (a) won't recognize your old login id, and (b) won't let you comment in this blog with your new "gmail" id.

So go to this link: http://www.blogger.com/home, and log in with your old id there. It should let you post or comment again. I'll keep checking with Google to see when they fix the problem. Please check it out, and let me know what happens. If it doesn't work, let me know, and give me your gmail name (in the floogle box, but don't make it "cut and pasteable", to avoid phishing), and I'll send an invite to it so that you can use it to log in here.

In the long run, it looks as if they're going to have everyone use Google ids to log in, but they can't do that until they can import all of the old blogs into the new blogger, which they can't for some reason. I think most of us have got gmail accounts now, so you might as well start planning for that, unless I'm mistaken.

Beautiful Photographs

Can't comment, but can post; hence, this post. Thanks for sharing the pictures. Welcome home; envious you get to go back. Absolutely awesome.

My dinner with Srikrishna

I've posted a few of the over 500 pictures I took in Chennai (and points south) here . It was an incredible trip, and I can't wait to go back, though it probably won't happen for five or six months.

I'll try to get to this post and edit it this weekend, so that I can share some of the experience with you.

Spoogle

I'm not sure I like the whole "new" Blog thing, what with the consolidation of previously used blog-passwords and such. I expect Gock might agree considering his paranoia vis a vis using names on the net and such. Kinda makes my spirocy theories look tame.

But-- I guess if future usage proves to be easier...

Clint Black, Alice Cooper, Rosa Parks

and koALee. Happy Birthday to all of them, particularly the one who gives up her seat on the bus whenever any of us needs it. And Wayne is right: We're not worthy. I love you.

Not really important, but . . . .

Was there ever, in any apartment, any house, or any trailer, throughout the history of ownership or tenancy, during any period of time of their lengthy adulthoods, a garbage disposal that our parents actually allowed us to use?

Something New - Something Different

I started a Google Group for a few reasons:

- I was curious about what kinds of things people could do in a Google Group

- I was interested in the possibility of having a private online community whose core consists of members of the immediate family, but is significantly more inclusive.

- I had, to a large extent, lost interest in other online communities that had grown quite large.

I've "invited" everyone in the immediate family for whom I had an email address "handy". Those who have accepted the invitation, I have changed their account to "owner", and configured them to recieve a "summary" of activity via email (as opposed to a notice for every message posted, or nothing at all). Feel free to make changes to that as you wish.

I hope someone will pass invites along to JoJo and Agatha. (I am using my gmail account for the purposes of this service; anyone that wants a gmail invite, lemme know where to send it.)

I also invited R* and her younger daughter K*. I hope that each of you will feel free to invite people that you would like to participate. What I envision is that the intimate family topics will be held out of there, but maybe we can have some fun and lively discussions about current events or entertainment or who-knows-what. I also think that with a healthy population, it won't feel so much like cobwebs covered things up if you get distracted for a week or two.

Love,
Gock