mu.nu - "My Tamagotchi!" she said. "It has to poop."
September 06, 2003
Susie and Jennifer have come up with some good suggestions for potential Munuvians, all of them Blogspotters. So I was thinking, what the heck, I'll send the letter out to all of them. I'll just make sure I have their email addresses -
And Bugsplat is down. Which should make them easy to convince, but certainly makes them harder to contact.Posted by: Pixy Misa at 11:25 AM | Comments (170) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
September 05, 2003
... It is to have a thankless serpent. Munuviana is a hissing slitherer. Or perhaps a slithering hisser.
Meanwhile - I don't know if this will last, so be quick - look here and see who is right above Instapundit!Posted by: Pixy Misa at 07:21 PM | Comments (157) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
I should have taken a screenshot 
Just checking out the Ecosystem to find out who's linking to me (mostly Susie) when I find that The Patriette, a fine blog that I hadn't encountered before, has not only blogrolled a number of us Munuvians, but is looking to move off Blogspot and onto Movable Type.
So I made The Offer, even though she's a follower of Ethel. Susie has also made a couple of suggestions of Blogspotters who might make good Munuvians, though I'm not very familiar with them and need to take a look first. (Actually, I trust Susie enough to make The Offer sight unseen, but if Susie likes them I probably want to read their blogs anyway.) The question that arises from this - and it's something I've mentioned to Susie - is How big should Munuviana be? Right now there's 11 of us, plus the group blog, and I'm setting up Roxette Bunny right now. (Or I will be as soon as I finish this post.) My server should be able to cope with a hundred blogs easily enough, assuming that it's average-size bloggers like us and not Instapundits. (I calculated that I could host about half an Instapundit. Or the whole Alliance four times over, if you want to look at it that way.) I want to foster a sense of community here - and that seems to be working well so far. It helps of course that citizenship of Munuviana is by invitation, and to known bloggers. It seems to me that things will be just fine with twenty blogs rather than ten. But with fifty? A hundred? Will we get sub-groups forming (though that isn't necessarily bad), or just get more friends? I have no problem with having both the Axis and Alliance here, or having both John Collins and whoever he was feuding with - Tim? What do people think? I was also thinking of making a little "powered by mu.nu" button that people could put on their blogs, which would link back here. Something like this:Oh, and possibly a group Sitemeter counter, if I can make that work semi-invisibly.
And here are some without the shadow:
And here's a Susie Special to blend in with her background:
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:28 PM | Comments (176) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
I found this rather amusing...I know you all read PP(*cough*), so you know I installed Mozilla so that I could see what I was missing at Pixy's site (it looks really good). Well, I was browsing around with it, and I notice that Tuning Spork's also displays differently than in IE (with Mozilla his blogroll and stuff is on the side, not the bottom). But those were the only real differences (Pixy's, Munuviana and Blather Review). Until today, when LeeAnn joined "we few, we happy few, we band of bloggers." Her site was bizarre looking, with a bird in the middle and blogroll all over the place...until I stopped by again with IE. Terrific looking blog, Lee Ann! Everything is where it's supposed to be! It was Mozilla that was wierd.... LOL!
Posted by: Susie at 04:31 AM | Comments (160) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Everybody say hi to our newest Munuvian, LeeAnn (or is that Lee Ann with a space?)
Now I have to go see a server about a rabbit...Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:47 AM | Comments (178) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
September 03, 2003
I'm all settled in (pretty much) at Redeemer University College in Ontario, Canada. Blogging will be light (but hopefully, not non-existent) at The Michigander (the name of which may change) for the next week or so as I get into the swing of actual work after a long summer...
Posted by: Tim at 08:28 PM | Comments (164) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
In case any of my fellow Munuvians haven't seen this blog yet, I recommend it--Mr. Green's (I wonder if that's from Reservoir Dogs?) adventures in the library were particularly amusing (especially to the vast majority who think Michael Moore is an Idiot)....
Posted by: Susie at 07:32 PM | Comments (185) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
mu
1.(micrometre, a millionth part of a metre). Sometimes written
as a 'u', the ASCII character nearest in appearance. 4.
denotes the least value of x for which E = x, i.e. the least
fixed point of the function \ x . E. The recursive
function mu f . H f satisfies (and is defined by) the equation mu f . H f = H (mu f . H f) An alternative notation for the same function is fix H = H (fix H) See fixed point combinator. 5.
6.
question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?". Assuming
that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the
answer "yes" is wrong because it implies that you used to beat
your wife and then stopped, but "no" is worse because it
suggests that you have one and are still beating her.
According to various Discordians and Douglas Hofstadter the
correct answer is usually "mu", a Japanese word alleged to
mean "Your question cannot be answered because it depends on
incorrect assumptions". Hackers tend to be sensitive to logical inadequacies in
language, and many have adopted this suggestion with
enthusiasm. The word "mu" is actually from Chinese, meaning
"nothing"; it is used in mainstream Japanese in that sense,
but native speakers do not recognise the Discordian
question-denying use. It almost certainly derives from
overgeneralisation of the answer in the following well-known
Rinzei Zen teaching riddle: A monk asked Joshu, "Does a dog have the Buddha nature?"
Joshu retorted, "Mu!" 7.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:31 PM | Comments (172) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
nu
1.This is an exclamation used in the same sense as "well" "eh" and "hey." It could be used in the Hebrew/Yiddish translation of any of the following: i. Well, do you want the egg roll or the knish?
ii. Hey! Stop throwing paper airplanes in class.
iii. My experimental tofu-liver-garlic cholent tastes good, eh?
iv. So, Becca, I hear you and Izzy went out last week. Well?
v. A rebuke (on small kids): "Nu, nu, nu, you spiled all the milk!
vi. To express doubt: "I heard that Rabin met Asad. Nu."
vii. When the news ain't new no more: (The change is in the tone of the "nu").
viii. As "come on": Nu bemet.
ix. When one can't talk (i.e. in the middle of Shmone-Esre, after Netila before Hamotzi, etc.) 4.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:31 PM | Comments (169) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
September 02, 2003
Oh Benevolent Bloglord, Keeper of the Templates of Munuviana, Marvelous Mentor of the Myriad Munuvians and Geek God, is there any way you could list "recent comments" in the side bar thingee?
Posted by: Susie at 04:47 AM | Comments (183) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
September 01, 2003
So where is John Collins, hmm? He's missing out on all the fun! And Tim really needs to post something here (although he is probably franticly packing at the moment....)
John ! Turn on your trackbacks! All my lovely pingage has been going to waste!Posted by: Susie at 03:57 PM | Comments (150) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
What did Susie's idiot commenter have to say, anyway? Anything like Tiger's?
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:52 PM | Comments (162) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
August 31, 2003
I go away for a weekend, and all of a sudden there is another blog here!
28 posts in one weekend is not bad going, although we can't expect much input from Pixy today, as he has to go to school... You all seem to have settled in nicely. D'ya mind if I bring a pet?Posted by: Cherry at 11:02 PM | Comments (171) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
You can reduce how wide it is by finding the spot where its located in the main index template and changing the cell spacing. So instead of
<div align="center" class="calendar"><table border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0" summary="Monthly calendar with links to each day's posts">
<caption class="calendarhead"><$MTDate format="%B %Y"$></caption>
<tr> Change the Cellspacing="5" (or what ever number it is) to something like 2. The calander wont be as wide now.
Posted by: Mookie at 03:48 PM | Comments (167) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
If you want to show sample HTML code in a post, the trick is to replace the < at the start of each tag with <. That way it doesn't get interpreted by the browser and shows up as readable text instead.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 03:15 PM | Comments (154) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
So asked our youngest citizen, Mookie Riffic. My response was, of course:
"We all are--we are all Munuvians! And Pixy is your King! "Listen. Strange Aussies, lyin' in...uhh, Australia...distributin' blogs, is NO basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power should derive from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical Australian ceremony! I mean, if I went around, sayin' I was an emperor because some moistened bint had lobbed a blog at me, they'd put me away!" OK, I need a life.The little self-deprecating humour (I'm using the Queen's English spelling, just for pretentiousnous's sake) was just to give my response a little further touch of light-heartedness. Just a gay little repartee in the comments section. So what does Our Little Mookie respond with? Thats okay Victor. People with no life make good entertainment. No respect, I tell ya, NO RESPECT for her elders! Who raises these kids, anyway? I'd talk to her father about that, but he's probably jealous he didn't think of it first.
Posted by: Victor at 03:01 PM | Comments (182) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Something that Sitemeter doesn't tell you:
So, who's who?
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Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:31 PM | Comments (174) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
Blogpatrol counts visitors, but Sitemeter counts visits. So if someone comes back three times in a day, that's one visitor but three visits.
I think.Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:24 PM | Comments (158) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
For putting the category in the "posted by" line, here's what I do:
Obvious, really.<MTEntryCategories glue=" ">
<a href="<$MTCategoryArchiveLink$>"><$MTCategoryLabel$></a>
</MTEntryCategories>
Posted by: Pixy Misa at 02:15 PM | Comments (169) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
I got all tangled up trying to add the category to the last line of each post, ya know where it says "posted by..."
I thought it would be a simple thing to tack it on after the comment/trackback bit, but the code there is beyond my current skills $MTCategoryLabel$ - that's what I need to tack in there somewhere, I know that. But how?Posted by: Ted at 01:55 PM | Comments (167) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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