Anyone interested in getting together for a bloggersnacker? It will likely be in Lethbridge; unless we do it next week Monday or Tuesday as Mary and I will be in Calgary.
I know my mum is coming to Lethbridge in January, but anyone want to get together before then as well?
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But that’s because we asked them to. Or rather, I did.
Did I ask it because they offended me? Nope. Do I disagree with any of their past actions? Nope. Do I find them repulsive? Nope. Do I think they are censors or totalitarian? Nope. You can fill in the rest of the rhetoric, and likely my response will still be no.
Mormon Archipelago has become the de facto (and publicly-declared) official aggregator of the bloggernacle. So much so in fact that when someone’s blog gets kicked off or moved to a box below the fold, that someone go into a hissy fit. I’m tired of it.
The Mormon Archipelago is a good idea and one of the best implemented when it was first released. Heck, I even helped start it. I used it occasionally to keep up on new posts around the Bloggernacle. I still think it’s a good service and tool. But we don’t tie our success to it. In fact, for every 100 visitors, only 25 come from the MA. We have more visitors coming from Google than we do from the MA.
The Mormon archipelago is not the Bloggernacle. Nor does it say who is part of the Bloggernacle and who is not. The sooner more people realise this, the sooner we’ll stop having sandbox fights and mudslinging matches.
So why did we leave? To prove a point. The Bloggernacle doesn’t revolve around the Mormon Archipelago, and the Mormon Archipelago doesn’t revolve around you.
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Anyone in the bloggernacle going to be in the Vancouver area during the first week of September? We’ll be out there for my parents’ anniversary, which is on the 2nd, from the 31st to the 6th.
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We added a new feature to Our Thoughts: polls. And no funky [Survey] monkey business either. We added a poll to our sidebar and from time to time, we will add a new poll.
Lately, I have been noticing comments around the bloggernacle that led me to believe a significant number of Bloggernacle RMs went on Spanish-speaking missions. Hence the first poll.
Take a look and have your say. Or at least cast your vote. Or whatever.
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For those in the Bloggernacle who maintain lists of group blogs on their own blogs, this is a reminder that Our Thoughts is a group blog. In fact, this fall will mark two years as a group blog.
Come to think of it, the same blogs that have such lists never have a representative come here to comment. Maybe it’s fruitless to say anything at all.
Oh well, it’s a slow day.
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We introduced a new feature on Our Thoughts. All posts are now assigned a popularity rating, which is located next to the author and date posted information.
Popularity is determined by analysing several elements of a post. For example, it checks to see how many times a post has been viewed, how many comments it has, how many people have linked to it, and so forth.
We also have our ten most popular posts listed in the sidebar. Over time, this will show more accurately how popular a post is than comments or views could alone. As a result, we scrapped the comments and views lists.
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We’d like to announce the addition of frequent commenter JM to the Our Thoughts team. He’s had many insightful comments and he’s had to deal with being an EQP too.
He’s actually an acquaintance of Rick, but I’ll leave the intro at that and leave it up to JM if he wants to say much more.
Anyhow, we’re glad to have him aboard, and we know he’ll have lots to say.
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You know, just for the record, Lisa’s not the only one who has poop chronicles.
My 5-year-old son, my 10-month-old daughter, and I were waiting at the YMCA for my other daughter and my wife to finish getting the daughter changed from swimming lessons.
Our son said to me, “I’ll be right back.” and I watch him walk down the hall and turn into the male washroom. After three minutes, I thought to myself, “why is that boy taking so long”, so I went in to check on him, baby in my arms.
I asked him if he was alright and he unlatched the stall door and said he needed my help. I didn’t think much of it because he still hasn’t quite mastered the art of wiping yet. So while in the middle of wiping him, he says to me, “Papa? Can you wipe out my underwear too?”
Sure enough, he hadn’t quite made it to the toilet?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùdespite the deposit sitting in the toilet.
So here I was sitting in a bathroom stall with a baby in my one arm trying to think of how I was going to deal with his dirty?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùand quite wet might I add?¢‚Ǩ‚Äùunderwear and shorts. Then it hit me.
I went back to the waiting area and came back his backpack. Luckily he brought a plastic bag to hold his wet swimming suit and towel and, for some odd reason, had packed another set of shorts.
I put the baby on the floor, swished his underwear a few times in the toilet bowl to clean it out (flushing between swishes of course), put his shorts and slopping wet underwear in the same plastic bag, wiped off his feet, legs and the wall, and put new shorts on him. All this while moving my baby daughter away from the toilet twice and bringing her back from crawling under the stall door three times.
Then we both washed our hands. I washed mine twice.
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