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Comment on Vroom by Grovere

Grovere — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:49:46 +0000

Have you looked at http://www.fordvehicles.com/cars/fusion/. I checked one out about 4 months ago, but I am just not a car person. The Escape is more to my likes.

Comment on Vroom by Tina

Tina — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:51:07 +0000

Remember with hybrids your maintenance and repair are different, them battery packs are expensive to replace and how far can you go before a recharge? Purely selfish on my part. Oh to dream!

Comment on Salt by Tina

Tina — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:40:41 +0000

thanks for the pic. He looks smaller then the white one. Miss Bob:(

Comment on Catch by Tina

Tina — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:27:35 +0000

Shiny? Is your Mom’s fondness for stainless steel rubbing off? Have fun with your new one.

Jes was showing me pic of Bobs last night at 11:45. ugh! I sure need my beauty sleep. I can email you some if you want. Love Mom.

Comment on Scrap of Paper by Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:21:26 +0000

@Sara: Encouraging, thanks for looking!

Comment on Scrap of Paper by Sara

Sara — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:55:08 +0000

I really like the mobile interface, to the point that I need to make a mental note to grab it myself. (I have no idea whether anyone reading my various blogs CARES, but it’s nice functionality to have just-in-case.) On a mobile browser, it definitely is much better than the standard theme. It’s pretty plain-looking, but I think that’s a good thing for a mobile interface because it makes for faster loading and easier viewing on a tiny screen. Functionality and simplicity wins over pretty-fancy every time, mobilly speaking. (Is that a word?…)

I should go upgrade too, I suppose…

Comment on Life, a Miscellany by Sara

Sara — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:39:56 +0000

I’m using IE8 at work. (Which I’m not happy about, but.) I thought it was surely just a work thing (wouldn’t be the first weird error that seemed to happen here but nowhere else), but… I checked it out at home in our various browsers, and oddly enough found I had the same problem in Google Chrome 5. The rest of the page loads just fine, but then the browser just sits there telling me there’s one item left and it’s waiting on the server. The framing around the jQuery slider is even there–I can see the arrows pointing left and right, and the “Taming the Banshee” and “Writers Wanted” titles below. It’s just the actual content of the slider that’s hanging up; I’ve got a big white box where the content should be.

Safari and Firefox work great and it looks wonderful, though!

I’m wondering if there’s some kind of security thing going on with the javascript that runs the slider. I think that’s out of my hands at work, but I’ll try to remember to poke around with Chrome tonight and see if I can find anything.

Comment on Life, a Miscellany by Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:28:10 +0000

Thanks for the feedback! What browser are you using at work? There’s a YouTube video next to the news feed, which I threw in there just to test media load-times on the front page. I’m more worried about the jQuery slider (right under the menu bar) that is hiding from you…

Comment on Life, a Miscellany by Sara

Sara — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:12:20 +0000

Site looks good. I’m having some problems loading parts of it (whatever’s in the big rectangle under the menu bar, and the video), but that may be an under-construction problem or it may just be that some stuff (*coughYouTubecough*) is blocked from work. I like the design, though–simple and clean while retaining enough “busy-ness” to be interesting.

Northanger Abbey I thought was a riot, but then I was specifically not looking for anything resembling depth. I’ll admit that the only character I had any fondness for was Henry Tilney, and even that was mostly because I found his uncomplicatedness rather a refreshing change. He’s just… a guy. Not a guy with a past, or a problem, or whatever, just… a guy. I doubt I’d want to read anything more about him, though; his uncomplicatedness might be refreshing, but also I guess does make him kind of uninteresting in the long run. ::shrug:: I dunno. I guess I kind of just got caught up in the story being told (or maybe the one being mocked), and this is one of those situations where character development kind of just wasn’t something I was that concerned about.

That said, if I read it now I don’t know what my response would be. I seem to have gotten more critical in my reading lately, something I didn’t realize until I was talking with Dad about Jasper Fforde’s Thursday Next series (which I found rather poorly-written) and he was doing basically the same thing I’m doing here: “Well, I, uh, liked it and I guess I just wasn’t really reading it critically, just having fun reading…” Which made me go, “Huh. When did I start reading like that?” Not that I think it’s a bad thing.

Meh. I babble…

Comment on No Joke by Sara

Sara — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 18:21:42 +0000

Aaargh! I totally forgot about BEDA. As for acronyms as verbs… I can’t really say much, as I was just drafting a “to NaNo or not to NaNo” post for Journal. So. Um. Yes! It’s allowed! ::grin::

Inches, not pounds: Likely. It does happen sometimes. :) That’s progress too! ::cheerleads a little::