Welcome back, Friday! It’s that time again, when we turn the joint over to our bookish and clever commenters to visit in the open thread. We’ll be checking in to chat all weekend, while we prepare another awesome week of Persephone.
In case this is your first visit this week, check out these pieces you might have missed.
Help Slay make a musical holiday miracle.
BBC03’s Cherry Almond Bark recipe
Learn about Christmas in New Zealand
Have a great weekend, and happy commenting!
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Yay! You changed things and now I can comment again.
sooooo…..I’m still waiting to be totally vindicated on the 11th grade test. Â But I’ll take the lack of official answer posting as a sign that I got them all right. Â =)
Nonetheless, I’m curious about the very last question…
Gah! Sorry, I got busy doing a little bit of stuff around the place.
Sara B.’s answers are 100% right, so if you match her, you’re money.
Never have I been happier to be a Pomegranate! Look at this beautiful new homepage, look at all the shiny thiiings!
This weekend’s been an awesome one: I was in a flashmob on Sat (video to come later this week), went to a movie with some great friends and then worked at a busy mall today making friends with little kids in a big red shiny cape as part of a caroling quartet. Now I’m kindasorta trying to study for my exam tomorrow night while my parents (and visiting Gran) watch Downton Abbey in the other room. I want to focus but the accents are JUST SO PLUMMY.
Glad to hear that most thread-denizens are doing well this Sunday night :D
Eeeeee date number 2 was tonight! We went and saw Young Adult, which was fabulous BTW, and then had hot cocoa, and planned date number three which is tomorrow! And eeeeeee!
a date immediately following a date the very next day is a really awesome thing
Yesh. And I will be cooking dinner, and really really need to get some cleaning done! Aaaaaaah!
Sounds full potential :)
It’s different! Like, different different. This is going to take some getting used to… But huzzah all the same, because shiny new buttons and wheeeeeeeeeeeee things to to play with!
Tomorrow’s LTP will explain all the stuff I did, and what’s still not working the way I want it to. Feel free to let me know if you find any problems/bugs/ugly stuff. (We’re still working on the text color.)
And it says I have seven friends in my profile, but only one shows. Bug? Or has the friends part been cleaned up?
Apparently the database kept all the friend connections from last time, so if you were around in those days, you have bonus ghost friends.
Oki doki! Me and my ghosties will just chill here.
Today is the last full day of my holiday – Iceland is amazing, everyone, and I’m hoping to write something on it soon – and I’m celebrating by probably buying ill-advised but gorgeous shoes.
Which I like to ask to the coding monkeys .. top right is a box which forever asks me to sign in/register, even when I’m signed in. Could it be destrooooyed? Or should I just let my glare shirk away from it?
I think we can, in the old theme there was no way to log-in otherwise, unless you went directly to the page from a bookmark. This theme has other options.
Somehow this theme reminds me of my school blog .. but I’m secretly loving the ranks.
We get points for logging in, commenting and friending people? This will definitely motivate all of us drug-free, achievement-oriented readers to participate more. Any idea how the ranks work?
No clue. Haven’t looked at other people’s ranks yet .. maybe they just appreciate my pomegranateness.
It’s by number of points, but I went through the user list by hand and gave our regulars a good start. : ) I know I missed a few though, so holler at me if I didn’t get you.
I noticed that, thanks for the upgrade to Pomegranate! (Whatever that means! What does it mean?)
That you can easily be pitted against the best of the writers! (ha, see what I did there?)
It also means you got a lot of pip, which in Dutch means you got guts.
Ha! Or! It could mean that I have an explosive wit, since the word for pomegranate in Spanish is the same as the word for grenade!ÂReally? You learn something new every day!
It’s pretty random, you start out a newbie then work your way up to unicorn. ; p
It goes: Newbie
Apprentice
Friendly
Regular
Pomegranate
Cerberus
Glittery Superstar
Unicorn
I am Newbie, hear me roar!
You can’t be a newbie, you’ve been here forever! Hopefully an editor will notice and upgrade you to one of the awesomer categories…
We’ll get you out of newbie status soon! I’d do it, but I don’t know how.
Got you! There were 20 Lisas in the mix (we’re popular with Lisas) and I gave someone else your points.
Awesome! I’m just two steps away from becoming a Glittery Superstar!
Now that I think about it, I DID feel kinda glamorous when I woke up this morning.
Testing the notifications
Happy Saturday, y’all!! I’m still trying to
Figure it out, but I’m liking the new gadgets with the theme. I’ll have to play around with it more tomorrow.
Woah, new theme, neat!
And happy happy weekend!
New theme! WooHoo!
Some of the stuff is still broken, but you should have seen it a few hours ago.
You can now add friends and send private messages, forums and groups coming soon!
I was surprised to see the “Chatterbox” tab… How come the forums and groups are coming back?
They finally (almost) work the way they’re supposed to, without dragging down the database.
Whoa, when did the theme change?! Or is it just that I’m on a Windows computer instead of my Mac…? Not too shabby.
Hi everyone! I can’t even remember the last time I commented in an open thread… My teaching load has been huge this semester – I’m starting to forget what my friends and family look like, what with spending twelve hours a day on campus and all. But this weekend I’ll be grading a whole semester’s worth of papers, so I thought I could hang out here while I do that. How is everybody doing?
I’ve been crazy busy, but it’s good to see you around these parts again!
Thanks! When I have time I do a quick scan of the day’s posts and the open thread comments, but most days I’m too busy to do even that. What I’ve noticed is that there’s more than 2,000 users but very few chatty commenters hanging out in the open threads, why do you think that is?
It is good to see you around again – hopefully you’ll have some downtime between semesters!
Thanks! Yes, I’m sooo looking forward to the holidays… How are you? Last time I was around, you were planning to move, adopting a puppy and starting a gaming vlog, how did that go?
I moved and have a puppy! Vlog never happened, which is fine by me, since the first two are pretty awesome on their own. That is my puppy in my avatar :)
PUPPY!!
The puppy does look pretty awesome (and this is the third time I've used this word in this thread, I may be turning into an American teenager). How are the living-on-your-own-ness and the pet-owner-hood going?ÂPretty well! I loooooove having my own space, and I loooooove having a dog, even if she is a bit of a neurotic sickie sometimes.
New theme! I like it!
I miss you, Persephoneers! I went from being unemployed to having two jobs which is wonderful, but I’ve missed this community. I’m working as a research assistant to a post-doc fellow at the university here and we’re researching healthcare professionals in non-healthcare fields, and it can be a little tricky because there isn’t much literature on the topic. plus it’s way, waayyyy out of my field (I’m english and religious rtudies, and my boss is health sciences and works as an audiologist) so I am learning new research styles which will definitely help me out later on for sure. actually, it was because of my writing here that she hired me in the first place! Turns out hermeneutics is not just something useful when reading ancient religious texts but also something that is discussed in some health care settings, and my boss said my article here at Persephone helped her with her doctoral dissertation! :) so I’m feeling pretty warm and fuzzy right now and I think you all are pretty wonderful.
I am sooooo close to finishing this quilt. All I have to do is the actual quilting part (where you stitch through all the layers).
Why did I leave this until the last minute? Need to have it done by 5 PM tomorrow. Eugh.
I feel ya. I just started a knitting project I should have done weeks ago and I have glasswork to finish that I meant to have mailed last week.
In my defense, I have been sick. That’s why I’m behind, not because I’ve been procrastinating, I swear.
I have been wicked sick all week. Fortunately, I have (I estimate) about 2 hours of quilting left, and then the whole thing will be done!
QUILTING. If you ever want to write an article or two on it, I would love to read about your creative efforts. I’m just learning to knit right now and bought a big book of needlecraft- my sister and I have quilting lust.