Sure, buddy. This is a great way to get me to read your spam message:
I started having weirdness a couple of days ago with Firefox. First my Twitterfox plugin stopped working. Then I started having some general flakiness. I finally tracked it down to one specific add-on: Adblock Plus, which was breaking absolutely everything.
Even after a very comprehensive wipe of my Mozilla profile, every setting, every registry entry, every folder, every remnant of the program, and a completely new install of Firefox 3.5, everything breaks when I try to install Adblock Plus.
Here are the symptoms once I try to install it:
First off, there is no “ABP” stop sign button showing up.
Second, my statusbar has a resizing bar on top of it….
…which lets me expand a great big window of nothing.
I also get items missing (actually blank) on the popup menu…
…and the tools menu.
I can’t figure out what’s going on, why wipes and fresh installs are not fixing it, and I can’t find anything online about other people with this problem. Help!
For a brief time this afternoon, this was the “filmography” section of Michael Cera’s Wikipedia article:
After reading this story about overreacting to church bells, I was reminded of the bells at my old school, St. Bonaventure.
I don’t know if they do it now, but when I was there they used to ring the bells every quarter hour during the day. It was amazingly handy, since you could know rougly what time it was even if you weren’t wearing a watch. Or didn’t bother to look at it.
But the best thing was the songs that would play each day at noon. At 12, the full Westminster Chime and 12 bongs for the hour would be followed by a song. Quite often it was a hymn or classical piece, but two modern ones stick out in my memory.
For dreary, drizzly days, the person programming the bells would often be tempted to drop in “Singing In The Rain,” which would occasionally cause a few chuckles.
And it seemed to be almost a tradition that the last day before finals, the song at noon was almost always “If I Only Had A Brain.”
It’s hard to believe that I’ve managed to get by for 18 years without the bells tolling the hours of my life.
“There are four boxes used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order.” ~ Ed Howdershelt, author
The soapbox didn’t help us.
The ballot box didn’t help us.
The jury box didn’t help us.
There’s only one box left.
Next week, The New Adventures of Queen Victoria takes aim at J.J. Abrams’ ham-fisted “reimagining” of Star Trek by imagining what he would do if asked to re-launch my comic strip for a “younger, hipper” audience.
Since J.J. has to use Greg Grunberg in everything he does (it’s the law!) Bryan suggested I use him in the strip.
I don’t even feel like asking for permission to use his image, but I did do a mock-up just for fun…
Greg Grunberg IS Queen Elizabeth I!
Dreamed that the playreading committee for Cumberland Players was meeting, but it wasn’t Cumberland Players. It was at college. And the Idiot Box people were there instead of the people I did theater with at college.
One of the people flipped open their copy of the stage play of “Are You Being Served?” but instead of the normal playscript, it was a series of short sketches. The one that we opened to was entitled “IF MEL BROOKS WROTE THE FAMILY CIRCUS…”
That was when I woke up. Sad, though, because I would have liked to see how that worked out.
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To Whomever:
Enclosed please find, unopened, an unsolicited mailing from your company.
I have already informed your company that I will never again stay in any of your hotels because of your Ellicotville, NY’s hotel’s policy of forcing attendees in the breakfast room to watch The 700 Club. The managers of this hotel forcing those who choose to avail themselves of the “free” breakfast to sit through right wing religious propaganda and proselytization is, in my opinion, unforgiveable.
The refusal of either the franchisee in question, or the home company, to explain, end, or even apologize for this policy ensures that I will never allow your company to collect one more dollar from me, and will actively encourage my friends to also avoid your company.
Any further unsolicited mailings from your company may now be construed as harassment, and I will not hesitate to act accordingly should any be received.
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