Author: jbenton

first post in movable type

(Warning: geektalk ahead.)
If you’re wondering why I’ve been quiet the last few days, I’ve been busy moving the software that runs this site over from Greymatter to Movable Type. It’s been a laborious switch.
Not because of any problems with MT, which is elegantly assembled and easy to use (once you get past an install a newbie might find threatening). Mena and Ben have put together a terrific program I’d recommend to anyone. My problems arose (a) because I had to hack a way to get my comments imported, since they weren’t Greymatter-native but used dotComments instead, and (b) because I used GM’s connected-files features for everything on crabwalk.com except the main blog, each page of which had to be manually transported to the new templates.
But it’s all done now. Please poke around and tell me if you see anything that looks wrong (or, more accurately, more wrong than it usually does). The only changes should be: (a) having the permalink date stamp and the comments tag on a separate line (MT, for all of its blessings, insists on wrapping posts in a P tag if you want it to convert line breaks, which means there’s no way to have other tags on the same line as the post itself unless you’re willing to manually change every P tag in all of your past posts); (b) a less attractive pop-up comments window (since to my knowledge MT can’t put comments in alternating-color table cells, at least not without some code hacking I’m not willing to get into); and (c) switching the archives from the /archives/ directory to /archive/ (I kept the old GM archives there to avoid link-rot).

man shot in scrotum sex play

I feel sorry for headline writers sometimes. They get a story like this handed to them and they can only write something like “Woman charged in husband’s shooting.”
A criminal complaint said rescuers found [Mr.] Winkler bleeding from a gunshot wound to the groin at 11:40 a.m. May 7 at their home in the 800 block of Howard Street. Winkler was wearing shoes and socks and his pants were down at his ankles.
When asked what happened, [wife] Susan Winkler told police,

you do too much, peter. you’re not superman

From the geniuses at Fametracker, some rejected Spiderman lines that nearly took the place of Aunt May’s late-movie jibe, “You do too much, Peter. You’re not Superman”:
“You can’t compel ants to do your bidding, Peter. You’re not Ant Man.”
“You can’t change into any water- or ice-based object, while your sister changes into the animal of her choice, Peter. You’re not the Wonder Twins.”
“You can’t leave a comprehensive and compelling collection of letters detailing public and private life in the heyday of the Roman Empire, Peter. You’re not Pliny the Elder.”