Hambone v3.0

New Comment System & O.C.

Okay we have a new commenting system.  There are a lot of new toys in here.  I do not delude myself, not everyone will be happy with the settings I have installed.  All I can do is find a happy medium.  Following is a list of things you are going to discover.

  • You no longer need to reload your browser to see new comments.

  • New comments load automatically

  • Look to the left and  you will see a floating ball that gives the total of comments.  When a new comment is posted you will see a ball in the ball with the number of new comments.
  • the new comments come in automatically and are highlighted.
  • New comments will be at the top. You will thank me for this when there are several comments.
  • The comment box will always be at the top. I cannot change that.
  • We now have threaded comments.  Yes I know some people hate it.  the thread can only go for 6 comments.  These collapse so they are ignored if you desire.
  • Hover over your comment and just lower right there is a sprocket with an edit button.
  • There is a “reply to” button under every comment.  This way you can reply directly to a comment.  
  • At the top of the comments to the right there is a NEWEST/OLDEST drop down list.  Pick one and that is how the comments will be listed.
  • You can rate comments.  (This may not last long)
  • Comments are automatically “READ MORE” after 40 words.  I did this in memoriam of ******, who used to drive me nuts with his long comments he would drop right in the middle of quiet discussion between 3 or 4 people.  THIS FUNCTION IS NON-NEGOTIABLE.
  • There is an automatic spell check
  • And a reminder: No need to hit the refresh button.  New comments will load for you about 1 minute after the author posts their comment.

There are other functions.  I still have work to do on the whole blog.  When I get done  I know that all the parts fit together because they are all WORDPRESS products.  That last theme burned me bad.  ENJOY

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81 responses to “New Comment System & O.C.”

  1. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Good morning. I had no way to comment yesterday. I was logged in but there was no comment box. Today mo’ better.

  2. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    Looking good, Squawk. Good job.

    1. Bonecrusher Avatar
      Bonecrusher

      We the people are actually in control, the big fish don’t seem to understand that YET!
      This post is supposed to be under the fish.

  3. Dooood Avatar
    Dooood

    This.

  4. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Here.

  5. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    I am at the office looking at a full sized screen and using a full sized keyboard. This is far superior to using the phone to blog. I really don’t know how Shannon keeps his sanity or eyesight using his phone to blog.

    Once again I would like to extend a hearty handclasp to Mr. Squawk for fixin da blog. U da Man

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      I keep expecting Shannon to go blind from looking at that damned phone all day long. He’s got an expensive Apple laptop that doesn’t do anything but collect dust. Send ’em to school and all they do is eat the books.

  6. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    From last night;

    Super Dave I highlighted “pear salad” hit the link button pasted the URL and all worked well. It ain’t me or the mechanics of the blog.

    That is exactly what I did twice and the picture popped up.
    Also;

    Aha if you paste a picture link into the comment box it posts the picture. so be careful out there.

    So what is the difference in a picture URL and a picture link? I used the URL as always but got the picture both times.Oh comment box, I didn’t put in the comment box I put it in the little square that popped up.
    That said; Computers hate me and I hate Bill Gates, so there. 😉
    Mornin’ Gang

    1. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      SuperDave – between last night’s discussion and this morning, I’m gonna have to get a can of pears – you’ve got me craving that stuff and I haven’t had it for decades – it was the very first thing I ever learned to “make” and part of earning my cooking badge in Junior Girl Scouts… LOL

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        Sister has been bringing them over for a few years now and when she brought the first ones, I’d not had them in at least 50 years, maybe 60. The ones she brought yesterday were especially good because the cheddar was extra sharp.AND they had the cherry on top, ain’t everyday you get the cherries. 😉

        1. wagonburner Avatar
          wagonburner

          Get a load of fancy-pants dave with cheddar and a cherry.

          We had cottage cheese and didn’t matter if we liked it or not.

  7. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    BTW; Thanks Squawk for working on the blog and getting it up and running. I guess you spent most of the weekend on it?

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is interesting, but subconsciously I expect to see the old theme when I open the site. I’ll get used to it and we have a new toolbox to play with.

  9. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Dooood’s image at 5:50 AM is excellent.

  10. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well tomorrow is election day and I think we’ve lost out district. We’re in district #1 and our representative is Barry Moore but with redistricting, to make it more fair doncha’ know, the new #1 goes over and takes in most of old #2, Jerry Carl’s’ district so now Moore and Carl are running against each other.New #1 has 60% of old #2 and 40% of old #1 and Carl is ahead by 8 points! ~SPITS~ A few months ago a PAC started playing attack ads against Moore and now they’re going both ways, ads every few minutes on local TV. No telling how much is being spent on this one congressional seat.
    Oh and Marjorie Taylor Greene showed up in Enterprise last week to campaign for Barry Moore and she called Jerry Carl a liar! Imagine that? 😀 Both candidates are of course trying to tie themselves to Trump and Greene said; “I’ve been to Mar A Lago and have seen Barry Moore with trump but I’ve not seen Jerry Carl there, I don’t think Trump even knows who he is”.

  11. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    So far I’m liking the new theme and the “Read More” is a very good idea. I also like the “reply to” and the +/-.

  12. bsue54 Avatar
    bsue54

    Wow – I watched while Squawk worked on this – and still don’t understand where everything is – but I WILL learn…

  13. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Testing; International Scout
    OK looks good,title is blue and underlined, crossing fingers. 😉

    1. bsue54 Avatar
      bsue54

      and when I clicked, I saw the picture 😉

  14. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Looking good. Thank you Squawk.

    I don’t know what a “sprocket” is, nor where to find it.

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      It shows up in the lower right hand part of your post. You can’t see it until you Hoover over it. 😀

      1. Super Dave Avatar
        Super Dave

        BTW; I DO know the difference hover and hoover. 😀

      2. GJT Avatar
        GJT

        Guess my iPhone does not have a Hoover button.

        1. GJT Avatar
          GJT

          Ok I see the sprocket now.

          1. Super Dave Avatar
            Super Dave

            Remember if ole Dave can find it, ANYBODY can. 😉

    2. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      sprocket /sprŏk′ĭt/

      noun

      1. Any of various toothlike projections arranged on a wheel rim to engage the links of a chain.
      2. A cylinder with a toothed rim that engages in the perforations of photographic or movie film to pull it through a camera or projector.
      3. A tooth or projection, as on the periphery of a wheel, shaped so as to engage with a chain.

      😀 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SCRAAAM>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

      1. GJT Avatar
        GJT

        Yes, but what ratio?? 😀

  15. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well Gawd Bless Amerika! I think I know what went wrong last night. I highlighted “Pear Salad” and it show up in the little box where I was to paste the URL so I did and the picture showed up in the middle of the comments. I did this twice but now I pasted the URL over the existing title “International Scout” and obliterated the title. So that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. 😉

  16. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I was reading articles on Carl Sagan this weekend and I came across this episode.

    In 1994, engineers at Apple Computer code-named the Power Macintosh 7100 “Carl Sagan” in the hope that Apple would make “billions and billions” with the sale of the PowerMac 7100. The name was only used internally, but Sagan was concerned that it would become a product endorsement and sent Apple a cease-and-desist letter. Apple complied, but engineers retaliated by changing the internal codename to “BHA” for “Butt-Head Astronomer.” In November 1995, after further legal battle, an out-of-court settlement was reached and Apple’s office of trademarks and patents released a conciliatory statement that “Apple has always had great respect for Dr. Sagan. It was never Apple’s intention to cause Dr. Sagan or his family any embarrassment or concern.”

  17. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Carl Sagan died 28 years ago in 1996. This prescient commentary from him certainly applies today.

    Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness… The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

    Carl Sagan, from Demon-Haunted World (1995)

    1. Super Dave Avatar
      Super Dave

      WOW! Spot on! And it’s happening everyday now. 🙁

  18. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I spent the last 25 years running country roads and blogging on a phone. No big deal.

  19. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I just heard on Fox that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Trump in the Colorado case barring him from being on the ballot. Unanimous decision, 9-0 even Sotomayer ruled correctly. No link yet, film at 11. 😉

  20. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    The Court ruling is great news! To get all 9 justices to agree on a Constitutional issue is monumental but sadly rare.

  21. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Trump Can Stay On Colorado Ballot, Supreme Court Rules.

    Former President Donald Trump will not be disqualified from Colorado’s presidential ballot under the 14th Amendment, the Supreme Court ruled Monday, killing critics’ legal efforts to disqualify Trump for being an “insurrectionist” as justices ruled states can’t unilaterally remove him from the ballot.

  22. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Jeez.

    get busy a couple days and all heck breaks loose.

    dave finally killed it to death an squack had to do a forklift upgrade.

  23. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    If you have the sort order set to “Oldest” and enter a comment, your new comment is at the top still, but the rest is in “Oldest” order.

    if you then refresh, the sort order goes back to “Newest”.

  24. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Wagonburner said:

    If you…. set to “Oldest” and enter a comment, your new comment is at the top still, but the rest is in “Oldest” order.

    if you then refresh, the sort order goes back to “Newest”.

    .
    And if you like the oldest first DON”T REFRESH, you can have your cake and eat it too. REMEMBER that the comments automatically load tou don’t gotta refresh.,

    1. wagonburner Avatar
      wagonburner

      Right. , but the new comments don’t follow the sort order.

  25. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    This is dangerous for us and Americuh

  26. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in the newspapers.
    Thomas Jefferson

  27. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    I did a flyby yesterday to see the new decor. Squawk, thanks many times over for all you do to keep the Big Comfy Couch from ending up on the curb.

    I arrived home after getting my cuddle tank refilled with sweet girl and baby boy refills. Hubby had surf ‘n turf dinner waiting for me. I had only a few hours’ sleep Saturday night, but I stayed up for my internet gathering of my CDA group that is working through a consecration program. After that I started falling asleep on the couch. My couch. In my living room. I decided to drag my rather ample butt off of the living room furniture and finish unpacking before I totally crashed, which happed at the unheard of (for me) hour of 10:30 pm.

    So, here I am after wrangling my rosaries this morning. I had string one of them 3 times, despite all of my efforts to ensure that the word “decade” still had some tie to the amount “10”. /sigh/ The struggle is real. Then Hubby needed my help with some stuff, I had to handle some urgent banking business.

    So, here I am. I still haven’t had anything to eat and I haven’t reviewed the C&C for today, either. This page was my first stop on the internet highway today.

    I like the color theme. It shouldn’t blow my eyeballs out in dim lighting.

  28. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    Morning, gang! I’m getting used to the changes…

  29. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Before I head out to pick up rent and go by the bank & grocery store, I just want to say: There are few things sweeter than a baby falling asleep in your arms.

    Just sayin’. Miss the little guy already.

  30. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    SCOTUS just ruled 9 – 0 that Colorado (or any other state) may not arbitrarily remove Trump from the ballot for “insurrection.”
    I ask the question: How can he be removed from the ballot for “insurrection” when he has never been charged, let alone convicted of same?

  31. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Swing by for a free sammy.
    I seem to have made enough tuna salad to feed an army.

  32. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    You know what I won’t miss from the old format???

    The stupid forced line spacing!!!!

    Hurrah!

  33. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Unanimous Supreme Court rulings are not rare.

    • Despite a widespread belief that the Supreme Court is hopelessly divided along partisan lines, 9-0 rulings aren’t rare at all. Since at least 2008, they’ve usually accounted for a plurality of rulings, and they never fell below 36% of all rulings during that period. 

    • While 5-4 rulings tend to attract more public and media attention, they have consistently trailed 9-0 rulings in frequency.

  34. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    So, if your comment is extended by Read More, the hyperlink isn’t “live” until the Read More is clicked on?

    1. squawkbox Avatar
      squawkbox

      Apparently not. I see on your prior comment that the link was dead until the comment was more opened.

  35. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Heh.

  36. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Test 2

  37. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Hello Hamsters,

    Am poking around trying to figure out how this all works, little by little.

    Delighted that SCOTUS did a fast commentary on the Colorado folks’ wanting to remove Mr.Trump from their presidential primary election list. Fast as they could, the Supremes voted 9-0 and threw that in the trash can.

    Hope the Turkeys who tried that are bruised! Must have been a Colorado High but not on any mountain.

  38. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Be very careful about blindly following Trump endorsed candidates. I know it’s difficult for presidential candidates to properly vet everybody running in every one of the 435 congressional seats, but this hypocritical SOB needs to be canned and hard.

    Editor Paula Bolyard at PJMedia writes:

    Moreno, who former President Trump has endorsed, joined Michael Hudak on his podcast “Fortify Your Data,” the conversation veered toward political issues. Moreno was the first to bring up guns.

    “On the gun debate, we can’t say this is how many magazines you are going to have? What kind of gun do you need to have a hundred bullets in it?” he asked.

     

    “That doesn’t mean I’m going to take your g-d gun away. Do you really need a hundred bullets at one time? I mean, do you have that kind of ADD? ‘No, no, I want to shoot a hundred bullets?’” Moreno and Hudak laughed hysterically at the notion that someone might want to stock up on ammo.

     

    “There’s a lot of deer out there,” Hudak quipped. 

    “And are you going to eat a deer that has a hundred bullets in it?” Moreno added. More hysterical laughter over one of our most sacred rights.

     

    “Can we have some types of guns that you say it’s kind of like porn? ‘PG,’ ‘R,’ ‘not-R’?” [more laughter]

    “Can’t there be some common sense that says that one [gun] is probably out, right, without infringing on someone’s rights? Can’t we have universal background checks?”

    No and no.

     

    Moreno went on to insist in the 2019 interview that he had no interest in getting involved in politics.

     

    That makes two things he’s flip-flopped on. 

    RTWDT.

  39. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    SCOTUS ruled tonight to revive the stay against Governor Abbott’s law to arrest illegal aliens that the Fifth Circuit decided against.

    Abbott deserves plenty of criticism, but any honest critic has to admit Abbott changed the whole game when he started busing and flying illegals to New York City, Martha’s Vineyard and Chicago. No single person in America but Greg Abbott turned the immigration invasion into a 24/7 media story across America.

    1. Dr phil Good-E=1984 Avatar
      Dr phil Good-E=1984

      Supremely kangarooed penguins gotta kangaroo the courts.

      government conducts the invasion.
      Government doesn’t arrest illegal aliens.
      Texas passes laws to arrest illegal aliens.
      kangarooed penguins say that’s the feds job even though the fed won’t do their job and haven’t for 3 straight years.

      clown show produced and directed by supremely corrupt kangarooed penguins in kabuki makeup.

      ignore the ruling governor.

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I created a simple meme post for tomorrow and set it to be scheduled for 12:30 AM tomorrow, March 5th, but it has vanished.

  41. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat
    i looked in the trash can, drafts and dude it is not there. It has not even been posted. You cheatin on us at another blog and got confused?

    1. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      i looked in the trash can, drafts and dude it is not there. 

      So did I.

      When I tried to set the date and time, there was no “schedule” button so I clicked on the highlighted date/time I had entered and it went off into thin air. I couldn’t see any other way out of that place.

  42. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Keith Oberman had a bad day.

    https://x.com/joeconchatv/status/1764745262361178521?s=46&t=nx7YtcQe9k8qGDx31L8lMQ

  43. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I cannot believe that Oberman is allowed unchained and outside of a rubber room.

  44. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texpat
    Check your text messages.

  45. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Texpat there is a schedule button. Not knowing exactly what you are looking at I can’t tell you how to get there. BUT IT IS THERE,

  46. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    ALWAYS SAVE DRAFT till you finish.

  47. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    Y’all have a nice night. I am going to bed.

  48. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I was trying to create a Friday OC and decided to blow it off. I am completely lost inside the dashboard now because it is totally different now when drafting a New Post.
    I’m out of the Posting business until someone shows me why maneuvering inside the Dash is completely different.
    It is even possible that I accidentally deleted Texpat’s OC for tomorrow.

  49. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    I will put together a fast and nasty email in the next day or so and get you guys up to speed on the new dash board.

  50. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 4th, is Judgement Day in Austin, Texas.

    They will either choose a normal, reasonable new District Attorney for Travis County or they will follow this Soros-funded Jose Garza into the pits of hell.

    The old Texas Monthly hand, Joe Nocera, came back to Texas to write the story.

    It took a new resident, A New York City billionaire, to provide the momentum to get something done. That says a lot about the catatonic state into which the leftist establishment has driven the local populace. Fear is the weapon of the Stasi-like commies.

    “You can literally connect Garza’s policies to these outcomes,” Lubetzky told me over the phone recently. “I’m independent, but I’ve voted for Democratic presidents my whole life. But this is a case of ideological extremism harming our community. I asked, ‘Why isn’t somebody challenging this guy?’ I had to do something.”

    What he did, with the help of some other prominent Austin residents, was look for a more moderate Democrat to challenge Garza in the primary on March 5. They landed on former prosecutor Jeremy Sylestine, who had previously spent 15 years in the Travis County DA’s office.

    A Native American who grew up on the Alabama-Coushatta reservation in East Texas, Sylestine has lived in Austin since 2006 and went into private practice in 2021, eleven months after Garza took office. And though he had assumed his days as a public servant were over, the group persuaded him to throw his hat in the ring.

  51. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Ah, growing pains.

  52. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    You now have the classic editor back
    texpat shannon

    1. Shannon Avatar
      Shannon

      Okay, thanks.
      Onward thru the fog.

    2. Texpat Avatar
      Texpat

      Thanks. Really.

  53. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Seventy comments. All’s you gotta do is blow up the blog I guess. Whatdaya think Squawk, do this every couple months or so?
    >>>>>scram>>>>

  54. squawkbox Avatar
    squawkbox

    GJT
    OH HELL NAHHH. LOL

    1. GJT Avatar
      GJT

      😛 😛

  55. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Screwed around and did not early vote, so will tomorrow. Some reason I kinda like voting Election Day, but that’s not the reason I procrastinated, purposely anyhow.

  56. Tedtam Avatar
    Tedtam

    Lost another Carmel Light this evening, a friend from my old parish. It was sudden and unexpected. We’ve been watching him over the past years, as it seemed he was in in mental decline. He was taking care of his wife, a rather odd duck but he loved her. She has had constant medical issues with her gut and whatnot for years, and without him I don’t know what she’s going to do.

    The Carmel Lights text group all prayed a rosary at 8:30 for the repose of his soul.

    Another one gone…

  57. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I was going through to clean out my phone contact list and was surprised at how many deceased friends and acquaintances I need to delete. It was a sad thing.

  58. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I always vote early because unlike Democrats I can’t vote if I’m dead.

  59. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Test

  60. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Shannon,
    I see the state flag.

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