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Nothing very bad can happen to you
Hello. My name is Aconite, and I clicked on one of the sidebar ads. It put my eye out, but I'm discovering that life can be all kinds of two-dimensional fun, so it's all good.
Nothing very bad can happen to you...
Define 'bad'. Oh, and give a scale of the degreees of 'bad', with examples, so that we can tell what 'very' implies.
I recommend Escape Pod. Nothing bad has happened yet.
"Yet" being, of course, the operative word.
(I second the Escape Pod recco.)
I assure you, the Escape Pod ad is absolutely safe to click on. Our researchers have subscribed ten thousand laboratory rats to the podcast feed, and not a single one of them developed any aberrant growths.
(Didn't hurt our download numbers, either.) >8->
You know that annoying thing that happens when you click to look at posts, and every once in a while (but sometimes several times successively) the page advances to a blank page with the first couple lines of ad text on it?
I, ah, found a workaround. It's an extension for firefox called noscript, which lets you selectively enable javascript by domain name.* This page for instance, has javascript included from blogads.com and nielsenhayden.com. When I disable blogads...
...well, you get the idea.
I'm sorry, mine hosts. I feel like I'm being a bad guest by not loading the ads.
-r.
*this is a very good extension for user security purposes. By default javascript is off, so cross site scripting attacks don't work. You can selectively allow which sites you want to do what, and what kinds of alerts you want to have appear, if any.
Ack, I don't want to be the Comic Book Guy who's all "I Have Forever Blocked All Ads From Entering My Consciousness" but I literally read that post and thought, "Ads? What ads?" After checking, I do unfortunately use Adblock to block anything from blogads.com.
How about a Paypal link? (Unless I have somehow blocked one out that already exists, in which case I will feel doubly stupid.) I know some people don't like to post one because it feels weird to just ask for cash (not that I am saying that is your feeling!), but if so maybe you can have a special Making Light "subscriptions" account it goes into along with the blogads fees.
If there was a way to make a recurring periodic payment (Paypal doesn't seem to have it) that would be better yet. Not that I am some great philanthropist, but I can never remember who I gave money to & when.
I personally recommend Jim and Debra's Peter Crossman stories, which are in fact almost more fun than mere humanity can bear.
There is some way to do periodic payments/subscriptions on paypay [Darn! But I do like that typo.] I get a monthly email receipt from them for an online project I'm supporting.
Possibly the receipient has to set it up specially. Anyway, it's not out of the realm of possibilities. Even if not for here, it might be an idea for other people who might consider it for their onlinearity.
It put my eye out, but I'm discovering that life can be all kinds of two-dimensional fun, so it's all good.
Your two ravens will be dispatched shortly. Please do not object when, on arrival, they test your monocular vision (through means that are only briefly terrifying), as many questionable requests are received. Their names are Smartass and Google, though you may change this if you prefer.
Yours sincerely,
loki@beefroast.no
I clicked the ad for the Peter Crossman collection and am now waiting for Lulu to process my payment. $0.72! Why, it didn't hurt at all!
...although the waiting is beginning to itch.
For some reason, my mind processed 'Paypal Link' as 'Papal Link' and I wondered what Peter's Pence had to do with it.
OK, not a comment on the ads, but I noticed that the copyright notice might need updating?
Fragano: well, 72 of them will get you a nifty book on monasticism.
TexAnen:Make that militant monasticism.
I heard a guy on the train the other morning saying he was doing research on the Knights of Templars. He hasn't done nearly enough research, IMHO.
Thanks for the suggestion, TexAnne.
PJ: The Knights of Templars might be a society set up by the children of 'The Saint'.
Okay, I'll go along. Didn't know he had any children, but then there's a lot of books I haven't read.
PJ: There are a lot I haven't read either, but I don't recall children in any of them. ST, however, was sexually active, so they are a likelihood in that space between the text and reality that characters seem to inhabit when we aren't reading about them.
John, that hurt.
And now, I need to go explain to the lab tech that I'm really very sorry I got water all over the keyboard and screen and will he forgive me and not ban me from the labs? *sigh* i should know better than to be drinking anything while reading this blog.
He'll have to find his own source. Gone, and thanks.
Uh oh, someone's trying to sell us something...
EClaire @ 21... Last year, after my youngest newphew was born, I mentionned to his mother that he has the same birhday as Rush, and she exclaimed "Gross!"
Gone soon?
An' he writed this here: "Muster Flannigan:
Off agin, on agin,
Gone agin. - Finnigin."
And the hits just keep on coming.
And the hits just keep on coming.
And going, much like a karma chameleon.
Maybe the thread name is attracting them.
They really want to spam us. They really want to make us cry.
Time to close this thread?
I suppose that changing the thread name might discourage them. Or at least confuse them a little.
I think it may be time to close this thread, alas.