"As they passed the rows of houses they saw through the open doors that men were sweeping and dusting and washing dishes, while the women sat around in groups, gossiping and laughing.
"What has happened?" the Scarecrow asked a sad-looking man with a bushy beard, who wore an apron and was wheeling a baby-carriage along the sidewalk.
"Why, we've had a revolution, your Majesty -- as you ought to know very well," replied the man; "and since you went away the women have been running things to suit themselves. I'm glad you have decided to come back and restore order, for doing housework and minding the children is wearing out the strength of every man in the Emerald City."
"Hm!" said the Scarecrow, thoughtfully. "If it is such hard work as you say, how did the women manage it so easily?"
"I really do not know," replied the man, with a deep sigh. "Perhaps the women are made of cast-iron.""
- L. Frank Baum, "The Land of Oz"
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
If you're like me, you've been missing our friend Blo who is, reportedly, a real person and not just a mythological man-beast.
You've been wondering, hoping, and waiting for his return to Thinklingdom.
I think I found out where he's been these past few weeks. I was researching the Olympic standings/results and discovered, to my great joy, that our Blo has done good. He is indeed in Athens, where he just won the Gold in the women's gymnastics all-around championship!
Yay Blo!!!
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Trackback URL: http://thinklings.org/bloo.trackback.php/1342.
Comments on "The Blolympic Games":
2. Bill
- 08/26/2004 1:11 am CDT
Hmmm. You aren't the first one to have that problem. Garn.
The basic answer: Gatorade is the skin of the day, and skin of the day is the default if you haven't picked a skin. If you've picked a skin (cigarband in your case) it's stored in a cookie. Sometimes the cookie gets missed - I'm not sure why and need to do some research into that. So when the system can't find the cookie (for whatever reason) it defaults to sotd, which today is gatorade.
Do me a fav - let me know if this persists for you, or if it was a one time thing.
Maybe when Blo gets back from Athens (assuming he's not just a figment of our collective whimseys) he can help me debug this :-)
3. Bill
- 08/26/2004 3:10 am CDT
Also - just like Blo, browser cookies are evil. Man - I despise cookies!
4. Jared
- 08/26/2004 3:37 am CDT
Well, it's doing it again right now. Does the time between midnight last night and nine this morning count as the problem "persisting"?
If it keeps doing it all day, I'll let you know.
Blo's not evil. He's ideologically neutral. Also, imaginary.
5. Jared
- 08/26/2004 3:50 am CDT
Another thing it just did. I clicked on a permalink from the commentary page, and the new page loaded in the Gatorade skin. It also stayed Gate when I refreshed to the main page, but I just selected Cigar again.
Funny thing:
Macy walked up as the main page was refreshing, saw your clumsy photoshop of the Blolympian, and said, "What is that, Daddy?"
I didn't know whether to say it was Blo (and thereby show her my friend as a leotarded chick) or a girl (and thereby confuse her about the decidedly masculine face). So I just said, "That's a gymnast."
She said again, "What is it?";"0
6. Jared
- 08/26/2004 3:50 am CDT
Whoa! Now the comments box has a white background!
It's a maaaaaaaadhouse!
7. Bill
- 08/26/2004 3:56 am CDT
The cigarband comments is white-background, so I "think" you're ok now. I just think a cookie got trashed (notice my pathetic attempt to continue to blame this on cookies?)
Hmmm. all this talk about cookies . . . .
Mmmmmmm. Coooooookiessss.....
Whoa - snap out of it bill! About Macy - wow - Sorry man. Good thing kids are resilient. It's Blo's fault for squeezing himself into that skimpy leo.
8. jen
- 08/26/2004 5:04 am CDT
That picture is so wrong. Just wrong. And hilarious.
I got the Gatorade green comment page too - my default is the movie skin. Just sayin'.
9. Bill
- 08/26/2004 5:08 am CDT
I got the Gatorade green comment page too - my default is the movie skin. Just sayin'.
It's BLO's FAULT!!!
10. Bill
- 08/26/2004 5:21 am CDT
Jared:
"saw your clumsy photoshop of the Blolympian"
I'll have you know that this isn't a clumsy photoshop, it's a clumsy editing job done in GIMP on Linux.
Don't need no stinkin' photoshop.
12. Bill
- 08/26/2004 6:02 am CDT
Stinks to be you guys. My comments skin is working great! :-)
J/k - I'll have to figure out what's going on.
And I would not deign to enter a debate about graphics packages with the king sultan of graphic design, Rob T. I use GIMP because I'm cheap (it came with my linux distro)
14. Bill
- 08/31/2004 11:27 am CDT
Blo
Because you're a chick.
Or at least, if you existed you would be a chick.
But you don't exist
There is no Blo!
p.s. Post something and maybe I'll believe in you again.
15. Jared
- 08/31/2004 11:41 am CDT
Post something and maybe I'll believe in you again.
No kidding!
Post about your imminent conversion to Calvinism. ;-) You know you want to!
You know, Bill, today is a special today. First Kenny broke his silence and commented. Now Blo. If we get a comment from Asbell, this day will be complete!
LOL!
I miss our Where Is Blo games. This is sure to bring him out of hiding, if at least just for a second.
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Btw, why, if my skin selection is Cigar Brand, did the comments box bring up the Gatorade color? Weird.