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MiSTed: [ 0 / 1 ] Imagine! Your Christmas Greeting Inside A Chinese Fortune Cooky! [message #178796] Thu, 31 December 2009 22:41 Go to next message
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Happy New Year! And what better way to see in the end of the
old year and the start of the new but by returning to the joyful art
form of the MiSTing? And what better thing to MiST than the goofy
advertisements from a fifty-year-old copy of Diners Club magazine? I
knew you wouldn't be able to gainsay that plan. And if you did try to
gainsay it I would point out you didn't know what exactly was meant by
'gainsaying', and in any case you haven't seen original advertisement
with one of the more unsettling images of this holiday season yet.
Trust me on this one:

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/01/29/imagine-your-chris tmas-greeting-inside-a-chinese-fortune-cooky/


But in the meanwhile please enjoy a MiSTing set in those strange
and wondrous days slightly after TV's Frank and yet before Professor Bobo,
in a land known only as Kind Of In Season Seven, I Guess. Thank you,
won't you?

And please do check out my little Web Site Number Nine successor
page at
http://www.nebusresearch.com/mst3000/
before the big changeover.

--
Joseph Nebus
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Re: MiSTed: [ 0 / 1 ] Imagine! Your Christmas Greeting Inside A Chinese Fortune Cooky! [message #178800 is a reply to message #178796] Fri, 01 January 2010 17:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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In article <nebusj.1262316911@vcmr-86.server.rpi.edu>,
nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:

> Happy New Year! And what better way to see in the end of the
> old year and the start of the new but by returning to the joyful art
> form of the MiSTing? And what better thing to MiST than the goofy
> advertisements from a fifty-year-old copy of Diners Club magazine? I
> knew you wouldn't be able to gainsay that plan. And if you did try to
> gainsay it I would point out you didn't know what exactly was meant by
> 'gainsaying', and in any case you haven't seen original advertisement
> with one of the more unsettling images of this holiday season yet.
> Trust me on this one:
>
> http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/01/29/imagine-your-chris tmas-greeting-insi
> de-a-chinese-fortune-cooky/
>
>
> But in the meanwhile please enjoy a MiSTing set in those strange
> and wondrous days slightly after TV's Frank and yet before Professor Bobo,
> in a land known only as Kind Of In Season Seven, I Guess. Thank you,
> won't you?
>
Ooooh, a New Year's treat from Mr. Nebus! Thank you!

> And please do check out my little Web Site Number Nine successor
> page at
> http://www.nebusresearch.com/mst3000/
> before the big changeover.

A big changeover?? Please explain.

Judith

Cluckcluckcluckcluck
Please don't do that with your head on.

-Ned and Gritpype
Re: MiSTed: [ 0 / 1 ] Imagine! Your Christmas Greeting Inside A Chinese Fortune Cooky! [message #178919 is a reply to message #178800] Thu, 07 January 2010 10:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Judith <JUJU@withouta.net> writes:

> In article <nebusj.1262316911@vcmr-86.server.rpi.edu>,
> nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:

>> Happy New Year! And what better way to see in the end of the
>> old year and the start of the new but by returning to the joyful art
>> form of the MiSTing?

> Ooooh, a New Year's treat from Mr. Nebus! Thank you!

Ah, thank you. I hope you like and I'm trying to get more done
more frequently. It helps that I just found one of my favorite cranks
hasn't disappeared after all, he's just gone to a different newsgroup.


>> And please do check out my little Web Site Number Nine successor
>> page at
>> http://www.nebusresearch.com/mst3000/
>> before the big changeover.

> A big changeover?? Please explain.

I'm working hard on a complete rewrite of the system that's based
on using a lot more database work and various bits of XML. This ought to
make it much easier for me to add new features as I think of them, for
one thing, and also to enable --- if I can get it working --- stuff like
full-MiSTing-database searches. Already I've got a variant of the site
working where the introductory page pulls up a quote drawn at random from
*all* the text of *all* the MiSTings, instead of the tiny set of specially
chosen riffs that the /mst3000/ page has. This will make it take longer
to get tired of hitting reload on the index page to see the random riffs.

Critical parts of the new scheme aren't in place yet, but if you
want to peek, try using http://www.nebusresearch.com/mst3k/ instead of
/mst3000/.

--
Joseph Nebus
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Re: MiSTed: [ 0 / 1 ] Imagine! Your Christmas Greeting Inside A Chinese Fortune Cooky! [message #178921 is a reply to message #178919] Thu, 07 January 2010 16:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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>>> Happy New Year! And what better way to see in the end of the
>>> old year and the start of the new but by returning to the joyful art
>>> form of the MiSTing?
>
>> Ooooh, a New Year's treat from Mr. Nebus! Thank you!
>
> Ah, thank you. I hope you like and I'm trying to get more done
> more frequently. It helps that I just found one of my favorite cranks
> hasn't disappeared after all, he's just gone to a different newsgroup.
>
I liked it very much (unquote)!

But I have to confess something: those decorative boxes with the
fortune cookies inside sounded kinda cute!

>>> And please do check out my little Web Site Number Nine successor
>>> page at
>>> http://www.nebusresearch.com/mst3000/
>>> before the big changeover.
>
>> A big changeover?? Please explain.
>
> I'm working hard on a complete rewrite of the system that's based
> on using a lot more database work and various bits of XML. This ought to
> make it much easier for me to add new features as I think of them, for
> one thing, and also to enable --- if I can get it working --- stuff like
> full-MiSTing-database searches. Already I've got a variant of the site
> working where the introductory page pulls up a quote drawn at random from
> *all* the text of *all* the MiSTings, instead of the tiny set of specially
> chosen riffs that the /mst3000/ page has. This will make it take longer
> to get tired of hitting reload on the index page to see the random riffs.
>
> Critical parts of the new scheme aren't in place yet, but if you
> want to peek, try using http://www.nebusresearch.com/mst3k/ instead of
> /mst3000/.

So will that URL be replacing the old one?

Judith

Cluckcluckcluckcluck
Please don't do that with your head on.
-Ned and Gritpype
Re: MiSTed: [ 0 / 1 ] Imagine! Your Christmas Greeting Inside A Chinese Fortune Cooky! [message #179188 is a reply to message #178921] Thu, 28 January 2010 11:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Judith <JUJU@withouta.net> writes:

>> Ah, thank you. I hope you like and I'm trying to get more done
>> more frequently. It helps that I just found one of my favorite cranks
>> hasn't disappeared after all, he's just gone to a different newsgroup.
>>
> I liked it very much (unquote)!

> But I have to confess something: those decorative boxes with the
> fortune cookies inside sounded kinda cute!

They are, yeah. I could see one of those Stuffy Boxes Of Food
stores selling them successfully. Just ... not with Chinese Santa,
please, ever.


>> Critical parts of the new scheme aren't in place yet, but if you
>> want to peek, try using http://www.nebusresearch.com/mst3k/ instead of
>> /mst3000/.

> So will that URL be replacing the old one?

Haven't decided. For now it's convenient having a functional and
a development site. I suspect, for the sake of people's bookmarks, that
I'll move things over to /mst3000/ when they're ready, but boy does an
/mst3k/ directory feel more natural.

--
Joseph Nebus
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Re: MiSTed: [ 0 / 1 ] Imagine! Your Christmas Greeting Inside A Chinese Fortune Cooky! [message #179189 is a reply to message #179188] Thu, 28 January 2010 16:57 Go to previous message
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In article <nebusj.1264695723@vcmr-86.server.rpi.edu>,
nebusj-@-rpi-.edu (Joseph Nebus) wrote:

> Judith <JUJU@withouta.net> writes:
>
>>> Ah, thank you. I hope you like and I'm trying to get more done
>>> more frequently. It helps that I just found one of my favorite cranks
>>> hasn't disappeared after all, he's just gone to a different newsgroup.
>>>
>> I liked it very much (unquote)!
>
>> But I have to confess something: those decorative boxes with the
>> fortune cookies inside sounded kinda cute!
>
> They are, yeah. I could see one of those Stuffy Boxes Of Food
> stores selling them successfully. Just ... not with Chinese Santa,
> please, ever.
>
>
>>> Critical parts of the new scheme aren't in place yet, but if you
>>> want to peek, try using http://www.nebusresearch.com/mst3k/ instead of
>>> /mst3000/.
>
>> So will that URL be replacing the old one?
>
> Haven't decided. For now it's convenient having a functional and
> a development site. I suspect, for the sake of people's bookmarks, that
> I'll move things over to /mst3000/ when they're ready, but boy does an
> /mst3k/ directory feel more natural.

Please keep us posted.

Judith

Cluckcluckcluckcluck
Please don't do that with your head on.
-Ned and Gritpype
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