A few months ago, a friend and a reader of this site, a fellow by the name of Steve Cherry, gave me a call and told me that I was an idiot for not leaving Blogger. Steve, you see, is a programmer, and he thought that my site could be better… Steve saw potential where the rest of you saw shit… But, being a idiot, I kept right on doing what I was doing until Steve, reaching a point of frustration that he could no longer live with, offered to move me over to a new system himself. (If you think of Steve as a man with a wheelbarrow and me as a man with no arms or legs that needed desperately to cross a street, or, better yet, the information superhighway, you wouldn’t be too far off.) What you’re enjoying today is the handiwork of Steve. Steve, and Steve alone, is to be thanked for it. My hope is that you enjoy it as much as I do.
Thanks to Steve, you’ll now be able to search through the archives (once they all get transferred over), sort the posts by category, and even syndicate this site. Having no clue whatsoever as to how any of this works, I am now, and forever more, dependent upon Steve. Steve has complete control over me. Even if, in a fit of anger, I decided to post something bad about Steve, it wouldn’t matter. Steve has all of my passwords. If Steve doesn’t like a post, it’ll be down within minutes. “I am,” as the younger generation might say, “Steve’s bitch,” and I’m OK with that.
Lest you think that I accepted all of this work for free, I should tell you that I did buy Steve a glass of scotch whiskey, a plate of crispy bacon, and a pair of tattered Ypsipanties in trade. Maynards might be many things, but they are a proud people, and they don’t accept handouts… at least not when anyone’s looking.
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Nice surprise!
I like it.
Looks Great!
Though I find it visually pleasing, and possibly easier to navigate…PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS AGAIN!!! It is like when my ISP server changes the start page and once I learn to navigate it they change it again. I am too old and harried to spend to much time learning how to bitch on someone’s blogsite. And Mark, how’d you like that New York Time’s mag cover story on bloggers? That chick seemed too much and far less deserving than you. BTW, love the link option!!! For when you are on vacation or just boring that day.
What’s next, a ball shaving tutorial, an interactive monkey taint? I’m so excited to see what the future holds.
Mark, you know you shouldn’t thank me, Hillary will never have to buy underwear again.
Hey, Linette deserves the real credit. She’s responsible for the design.
Don’t thank me yet, I still have to transfer the archives from the arcane Blogger to the sligtly less arcane MT format. Only then can I roll it into this blog.
Unemployment rules.
I have no idea what you’re getting at, Steve…. Because of me, your wife will never have to wear underwear again? I’m not sure how to take that. I think it’s an insult… probably Polish in origin. I wish me great grandfather Florian was still alive so I could ask him.
As for the rest of you, thank you for your kind words. I like the new site too, and, as much as Steve doesn’t want to take credit, it really was all his doing. I would have been happy to have stuck with Blogger until the bitter end. He’s a good man, and I will never forget his intervention.
Keep me in mind for your next redesign. I like bacon and a free drink, although I’m not sure I need a bitch.
I really like the look Mark. It’s awesome! I can’t wait until the entire archive is pulled over so we can see what it is that you’ve talked about most since the beginning. Although I notice that “Ball Shaving” is missing from the list. Does that fall under “Civil Liberties”, “Pop Culture”, “Observations”, or “Other”?
Oh yeah, and DAMN YOU for leaving Blogger! Heh.
The classification, Collin, would depend upon whom it was that was having their balls shaved, I reckon.
I really like all the new additions to your blog. It makes it much easier to read at work!
Your layout matches my excel sheets and I can now page down to hide your headers.
this text is blue.
I just finished importing the archives. I managed to pry 999 posts from the clutches of the bloated blogger.
Posts going back to March 2003 are now searchable and have permalinks.
No fucking way! You rock, Mr. Cherry. Soon, you will have a brand new pair of Ypsipanties for yourself!
Never rip never tear Ypsilanti underwear.
I just did a search for “ball shaving”.
Now, I suspect you’ve done that before, Steve.
I see there are now 997 “Others”… Are you (Mark) planning on going through them and assigning categories, or is the past going to remain lumped in one category?
Mark, it’s possible to transfer them to another category like “pre enlightenment”.
I haven’t yet discoverd any elegant ways to wrestle your remaining posts from Blogger. The thought of deleting 999 posts to allow the old ones to “rise to the top” sounds horrible.
Talk about butchery! Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.
Yeah, it’ll take me a while, but I plan to go through and add categories to all the old posts. I figure I can do a dozen a week or so. The thought of going through and rereading all the garbage that I’ve written over the past three years doesn’t really excite me, but, since it’s for the good of humanity, I don’t think I have a choice.
(I’ll send you an email about the other stuff, Steve.)
All your comments are now switched on!
Mark-
Is that a monkey on your back or a squirrel? Why do your hands look like snakes?
Dave
That drawing was something that I did last year. It was an idea I had for an album cover. I was going to call the record, “Growing Rats on the Backs of Men.” Maybe I shouldn’t have told you that, and kept the mystery. As for the hands being like snakes, I’d like to say it was on purpose, as that’s a pretty cool idea, but I’m afraid it was just because I can’t draw.