No readers’ wildlife today.

April 6, 2024 • 8:15 am

I have about three or four days’ worth of readers’ wildlife photos, but am going to dole them out every other day or so in the hopes that readers will step up and contribute. We shall, of course, have John Avise’s Sunday bird photos tomorrow, but I implore readers with good photos to sent them in.  We have never been so low before, and it’s worrisome. On the other hand, perhaps people don’t care if this feature remains, and in that case, I’ll let it taper off to the occasional post.

Truth be told, the world is quite depressing these days, with at least two wars in which one side is moral and the other immoral, the threat of Trump’s re-election looming, and, to top it all off, the Sun is going away on Monday. As le chien noir is here, posting may be light for a while

Please discuss what you want today: the wars, predictions about November’s election, or whatever.

Note to readers

January 9, 2024 • 7:30 am

Two items this morning:

If you’ve never posted here before, please read the commenting rules “Da Roolz” on the left sidebar (or here), paying particular attention to the comments about civility towards other readers and your host. There have been a lot of nasty comments here, laden with insults that will not be tolerated. Any comment that addresses me as “dude” will be deep-sixed, and I’m not keen on comments who call me “Coyne.” As I say in rule #7, “Pretend that you’re speaking to me in my living room which is, in a sense, what this website is.”  There are all too many readers who completely disregard not only the rules, but don’t seem to have read a post before commenting on it.

Second, I have one more day’s worth of wildlife photos after today’s post. If I don’t get any more, it’s possible that I’ll cancel this feature—part of the slow death of this website. If you like the photos and want to keep the feature going, please contribute your good photos. I needn’t point out that content here is free, unlike Substack, and I count on readers to pitch in from time to time.

Thank you,
Professor Ceiling Cat (Emeritus), whose origin is shown below::

Thank you!

 

Glitch apparently fixed, but note possible change

November 23, 2023 • 9:46 am

Apparently the old commenting form was in some way incompatible with “theme” (design) of my site, and so the “Happiness Engineer” at WordPress (yes, that’s what they call them) changed the comment form.

You may find, however, that the order of entering your name and email address has changed, so if you do things by rote, it may screw up. Please follow the instructions on the comment form. It also says, I believe, “Post” instead of “reply”.

So as long as you fill in the comment form correctly, things should work.

Happy Thanksgiving! you should be cooking or eating instead of reading, though!

 

No readers’ wildlife today

November 21, 2023 • 8:30 am

As I said, I’ve been running out of photos, and I’m nearly there. I have a couple of contributions from people who have posted recently, but I want to hold onto those (I space out readers’ contributions). And there may be a few other contributions in the works.

However, unless I get more photos, this feature will become sporadic and may well die. So if you have good wildlife photos, send them along as per the directions on the sidebar.

Thanks!

Please read: Tech support address for this site

October 9, 2023 • 8:00 am

If you’re having problems commenting, subscribing, getting comments sent to you from this site—or other technical issues about WEIT—my new tech helper has set up an email site where you can email your woes and we’ll try to help you out.

I’ve put the tech person’s message below; please forward your beefs/inquries, and other related stuff to that address.  On the other hand, queries or comments concerning the content of the site itself should, as always, be sent to Jerry.

I’ve set up this gmail account to reply to user tech support inquiries – please use it to forward their messages to me. These messages should be sent to to tech.weitrue@gmail.com
Again that email is tech.weitrue@gmail.com
Thanks, and don’t hesitate to write if you have issues.

New posters: read Da Roolz (and how to send photos)

September 3, 2023 • 8:15 am

Lately there’s been an influx of rather toxic new posters, people whose first posts are nasty, rude, clueless, or call other posters names. If you’re going to make your first post on this site, please read “Da Roolz”—the guidelines for posting on this site. You can find them here or on the site’s left sidebar. I’ve been rejecting comments that don’t follow these guidelines, and, if the comments are sufficiently obtuse (e.g., taking me to task for not accepting the “overwhelming evidence for God”), I’ll just ban the commenter.

I have no idea why this is happening; is it “post-pandemic meanness”? I’ll remind posters of rules 7 and 8:

7.) Do not insult your host. Pretend that you’re speaking to me in my living room which is, in a sense, what this website is.

8.) Most important, please try to refrain from insulting other posters, no matter how misguided you think they are.  I don’t like name-calling, for it lessens whatever class this site has and certainly doesn’t foster discussion.  I will often warn people about this behavior either on the site, or in a private email. About 70% of those who are warned respond with truculence, either insulting me or saying that their behavior is fully justified. That’s a good way to get blacklisted—almost as good as telling me to stop posting on cats or cowboy boots. If I ask you to apologize to a commenter whom you insulted, please do so.

Also, I’m delighted to get readers’ wildlife photos (but please hold off until Sept. 23), and there’s another link that shows you how to send then to me.  Please send good photos of the quality that usually appears here.

Glitch fixed (I think)

August 7, 2023 • 10:38 am

Several readers noted a glitch in the Jordan Peterson post, which involved the text running in a narrow column way down the page, making a mess of the whole thing.

Fortunately, Greg found the cause: some bad code that somehow got inserted into that post. He spent a fair amount of time fixing it, and now I think things are okay.

Many, many thanks to Greg for taking the time to do this. I hope we’ll be okay from now on.

Oh, and if you left a comment on the Jordan Peterson post that disappeared in the fix, please make it again. Thanks!

A question for readers about posting

April 27, 2023 • 8:00 am

My crack website tech person has attacked the issue of all the comments having to be moderated, and I think that one is solved. The resolution was technical, and I don’t need to go into details, for what I want to ask the readers is this:

      Are you having any problems at all posting or subscribing to comments? 

Please describe any technical issues in the comments below, and if there’s something afflicting several people, I’ll try to get it solved.

“We aim to please”