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Tuesday, July 27. 2021

Trying a new Dog Days of Summer link format

As editor of this eclectic site, I am sent interesting links from contributors, readers, friends and family, etc. daily. Not to mention links we all appropriate from other sites without deserved acknowledgment.


As a Dog Days experiment, I'd like to ask our folks to directly post their links onto the website whenever they feel like it.


Run the links through Notepad first though, or the font will be screwy.  Sort-of the way Instapundit's contributors do.


It will lighten my load, and, remember, besides the $300 k I get annually from Dunkin (just kidding), this is not a paid job and my life is busy with fun, and with some difficult challenges, always. And yeah, I am not retired and never want to be. (Mrs. BD complains that I can not learn to relax. I hope I never will, although I do read at night in bed.)


In July and August, we tend to run a fair number of re-posts. Our contributors are welcome to repost past stuff that would be interesting.  Especially on weekends.



Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 12:00 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (0)

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How/where do we post the links?
#1 RJP on 2021-07-27 12:04 (Reply)
I am making nearly 8 cents per hour spamming links for a Chinese bot-farm and you can, too! Ask me how!
#2 Jerryskids on 2021-07-27 12:16 (Reply)
I have posted links in the "Comments" section that have been re-posted.
#2.1 oolioo on 2021-07-27 12:17 (Reply)
Your wife is right. It depends on how you define "productive." On my walks I am learning like never before by listening to podcasts, and boring all my friends with information about Indo-Europeans, recent CS Lewis scholarship, ancestral DNA, Asian and Asian-American conservatives, and the Great Books at NPR. What esle would you want in life other than to learn things and teach them, fix a few simple things around the house and walk up and down every hill in a 20 mile radius while thinking about things? You can even sing out loud all you want, because few others are there, and those others always compliment you, even when you are terrible.

I will pay attention to the method for posting. I've got lots, and would love to annoy a wider audience than usual.
#3 Assistant Village Idiot on 2021-07-27 15:45 (Reply)
What is Notepad and how do I "run it through"?
#4 Apple Pie on 2021-07-27 20:06 (Reply)
Notepad is a very basic text editor (for Windows; Apple has a similar program). Unlike Word, WordPerfect, etc, it doesn't have hidden markup tags that specifies fonts, so when you "run it through" he means copy your links, and then paste them into Notepad, then copy them from Notepad and paste them into the website's comment box ... this strips all the other hidden tags so that only the plain text gets pasted.
you won't have to worry about weird fonts showing up in your comment & links.
#4.1 nunnya bidnez jr on 2021-07-28 12:07 (Reply)
I’d like to ask for recommendations please.

Does anyone know of a good website for learning about and keeping up with regular, everyday technology for the common man, such as iPhone, Mac, and other gadgets that we use every day? Speaking for myself, I am really slow to learn more than the most basic functions.
#5 LP on 2021-07-29 17:09 (Reply)

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