I have one huge question. What happens to us peons?

You eat off the old grill?

I don’t understand your question, Tammy.

I am laughiing hysterically. Eating off the old grill?

You see, Jd, when I read this I scarecly read about our precious grill. I had eyes only for your remarks on your site redo. So my question was directed toward your last several paragraphs; What happens to us peons when you redesign? Do we keep the old templates or how is that effected?

I am laughiing hysterically. Eating off the old grill?

You see, Jd, when I read this I scarecly read about your precious grill. I had eyes only for your remarks on your site redo. So my question was directed toward your last several paragraphs; What happens to us peons when you redesign? Do we keep the old templates or how is that effected?

Well, I had certainly assumed that the new grill was only for Special Occasions, like when the Pope comes over and stuff like that.
When I look at the redesign, there are thin dark lines running vertically and horizontally through the side columns (where the Flotch is kept), almost as if they were acting as a table in a word processing document. The text, however, overflows the boundary marked by the small lines.
Jesus, I feel like Maturin trying to describe a ship’s rigging.

Are you not carrying over your greatest hits column?

I’ll incorporate the greatest hits into the archives and the “about this site” page. I think it’s helpful for new readers to have access to a selection of better/more popular entries, but there’s no real need to have them on the front page.

Every time I scroll up, I’m booted back to the bottom of the page. Bah!

Those of you having issues should post your browser flavor and version number at the same time. Mozilla Firefox displays it perfectly on both Windows (0.8) and Linux (whatever is in debian unstable).

JD: my main gripe is with the typeface. the georgia used now is so much more readable. the new sans-serif is more trying on the eyes, especially over the course of the long-winded-type passages we’ll likely encounter here.

hate the blue bkgd too, like the orange one.

Mart said: my main gripe is with the typeface. the georgia used now is so much more readable. the new sans-serif is more trying on the eyes, especially over the course of the long-winded-type passages we’ll likely encounter here.

I agree. The sans-serif typeface is just temporary. I haven’t started working on the fonts yet. I don’t know if I’ll keep the Georgia, but I’ll have something serifed so that when we get full of hot air, it’s easier to keep track. I’ll probably keep the default font for the sidebars, etc.

I’ll try to get a new font up shortly.

Wal*Mart does not allow its employees to unionize, but at least Fred Meyers employees are unionized. Whether you support a union of your own or not shouldn’t affect your support of the right for others to collectively bargain. Walmart Sucks!!! Please reconsider your actions in regards to supporting that company.

I’m not sure that two purchases in five years totaling perhaps $200 can be properly described as “support.”

I shop Wal*Mart all the time. I understand all the reasons for not shopping there but frankly I don’t have enough money to shop just anywhere. A quilt I bought for my son was 19.99 at their store. The same quilt was 59.99 at Fred Meyer. With that kind of savings, whether or not they’re unionized means little. I’m just trying to keep a roof over our heads, clothes on our backs, quilts on our beds and food in our mouths. If Wal*mart is the only way I can do that then Wal*mart is where I will shop!

Walmart’s sins are far worse than merely not allowing their workers to unionize. Walmart’s low prices come at a cost far more offensive to my moral foundation: employing the worst kinds of foreign sweatshops, applying their massive purchasing power to force suppliers into unprofitable agreements, using their massive purchasing power to act as censors on books, music, movies and games, using contract workers, illegal immigrants and other powerless and desperate people in order to get away with paying outrageously low wages and no benefits.

Shopping at Walmart is not affordable, if you look past the price sticker and see what it’s costing you in the policies of foreign manufacturing, low benefits, high deductables, low wages, and all the other policies that Walmart has honed to a razor’s edge (and which other companies are desperate to adopt in the name of “fair competition”).

Amen Nikchick!

I will go to a big box store (Walmart, Home Depot, etc) only if I can’t find something at my local hardware store (with the friendly old duffers who know everything about everything).

I don’t mind paying a little extra for something to support the local stores (and I get a little bit of customer service in the process).

The newest addition to misc. flotch is really bad. I’m going to pretend it’s not there.

The redesign is very cool. Love the background pattern, the color scheme of creme and red, the logo, and the nice thick dividers between sections. Not so fond of the blue text for the links.

Also, what has Fred Meyer done to rank it below WALL*MART? That’s a dubious accomplishment that I didn’t believe was possible.

The Canby Fred Meyer. Only the Canby Fred Meyer, which destroyed perfectly good farmland and expanded this town in a way that was not necessary (and further hastened its descent into homogenous suburbia) and for which the city government bent over backwards to accommodate, and then to screw. I have a long history of hating the Canby Fred Meyer.

In general, Fred Meyer is no more or less evil than other similar regional conglomerates. At least they’re local to Portland; that assuages my guilt to some extent, you know?

WAL*MART is most definitely evil, and I avoid them when possible, as evidenced by my two visits in five years. I think that Tammy needs to ask herself “What would Jesus do?” I can guarantee he would not shop at WAL*MART.

In other news: I used the grill for the first time tonight. The chicken looked great. Then, when I cut it open, it was undercooked.

Hmmm.

I need to work on my technique.

JD said: In other news: I used the grill for the first time tonight. The chicken looked great. Then, when I cut it open, it was undercooked.

You need to crank that puppy up to high, man! Actually, if it was done outside and undercooked inside, you probably need to turn the heat down a little (or just give it a little more time with the lid closed).

how do you like the brinkmann 2200 gas grill..i am looking at the same one.
thanks