Uhh…did I lose more than I thought I did? Did this used to tell us who posted? And how many posts were in each category?
All I did was drag and drop! I broke the internet….
OH CRAP!!!! THIS IS BAD. I did not mean to change the theme. This is going nowhere fast. Apologies while I sort it out…
Perhaps the moon-one is OK? Of course we’ll need a new picture in the header, and I’m not a fan of the yellow…but it puts the names of people near their posts on the front page.
Sweet, I like the way Recent Comments works (I expanded it to 15 instead of 5). And honestly, it was the only real complaint I had about Blogger. [EDIT: That and editing comments, like I'm doing here].
So I’m more-or-less sold.
Noticed this when I was going through and obsessively making myself the author of all my old posts, you know, just in case, for posterity.
You can actually attribute old posts to their respective authors, once they’ve become WordPress members, in the Users section of Dashboard if you click on Imports and then Set Authors. Which I’ve now done for those of us who’ve joined.
What I really wanna do is fix the categories. Give Brian’s Opening in Dallas one, Reviews one, the 08 election one, and so on.
But that will have to be later, have to go to school, oh wonderful school.
Hmm, I don’t see an Imports in the Users sections of Dashboard. There’s an Import under Manage, but it just prompts me for something to import.
Yeah, sorry, Manage. When it prompts you for something to import choose Blogger, and then you can see the number of imported files, and next to that is Set Authors. I just set the recently joined Wagstaff and Slim as authors for their old posts.
Not that I have anything against SVENSKA but the color scheme really doesn’t work with blue, yellow, and light green…. What happened to that other picture with the flag on the back of a boat? That might work.
I said it before, and I’ll say it again; I find the current theme uuuuu-gly. Except for the flag, of course, but I could skip that in a spirit of pragmatism.
So we have to choose between Categories and Monthly archives? Didn’t know that.
Tough choice. I’d go for monthly out of the two, but I’d rather have both. Maybe skip Links?
We don’t have to choose. They both exist. Right now Monthly Archives is right below Categories. We have a lengthy sidebar!
Yeah, our sidebar has a lot of shit on it. I added a search widget, too.
The boat flag looks much better (imho). And does no one want to say hi from meebo? You just type and hit enter…I’m tired of sending it back and forth to myself…. ;-)
What happened to that other picture with the flag on the back of a boat?
Done, and done. Looks a little better.
Nick, care to explain what is so uuu-gly? The colors? The way it’s structured? That the post button says “Submit Comment” instead of “Say It!”
Come on, man, be constructive.
Nick, care to explain what is so uuu-gly?
I’ll try and be as constructive as one can be about these subjective things.
The colors?
Yes, all these lightish green pastel colors. They’re giving me daycare flashbacks.
The way it’s structured?
Well, yes and no. It’s more these little ‘touches’ here and there that annoy me. Like the felled paragraph icon between posts, and those small little patchworks at the bottom of each comment. What are we, running a Legolas appreciation sewing club?
And, seriously, I was kidding about the flag, take it away, please, my eyes. I’m sure the state of Sweden appreciates your sentiments but it looks horrible, especially with this theme.
That the post button says “Submit Comment” instead of “Say It!”
No, I’m cool with that.
If no one is opposed, I can begin removing categories leaving only the broad descriptions….
I must have misunderstood. I thought we were talking about removing the tag thingies. And I think, before we start categorizing those into proper categories, that we should all be agreed on what the categories ARE.
Sorry I wasn’t clear. I mean like remove “Alt-country” from the category list on the sidebar. What this will do is move the post with alt-country into the Uncategorized category. Then we would have to re-categorize it into “Music” or “CDs” or whatever we come up with.
OR, we can create parent categories and move all current categories underneath the parent categories.
Or we can just do that going forward and leave everything the way it is.
And Nic is right, we should discuss. It just clutters up the sidebar
May I first suggest Reviews for, well, reviews?
Coming Soon for upcoming movies (whether or not they have come out later on, since most of these are old posts).
Brian’s Opening in Dallas definitely deserves it’s own category.
Politics, since that does come up now and then.
Then, like Olaf said, Music
A Weird and Wonderful World (?) for strange stuff. Or maybe just call it (?), or I Don’t Know.
I put up posters now and then, plus we had a long discussion about them, so Posters(?).
And then Wells and Poland.
Can’t come up with any more right now at the top of my head.
I apologize for the header!
Why is there no way to back out of changes??? I wanted to try out the old Poets Corner header and…well…it’s not high-res enough and it’s not that great to begin with.
Sounds like you’re trying to recreate forums through categories…
Perhaps subconsciously! I wasn’t doing it intentionally, that’s for sure. Anyway, does that sound bad?
I’m down with one-word titles with “Opening In Dallas” being an exception.
I’m going to mess around with it. Not delete anything…only add. If it works, great. If not, we’ll keep moving forward anyway.
You would only “mess it up” until we find the proper parent category. I don’t mind a little administration now and again….
We’re all learning here!
So I changed the hierarchy. Many posts will fall into many categories. I propose if it’s a review of any kind we put the word “Reviews” and then the title of the movie/book/cd/whatever as the next tag. If it is more of a person/director thing, you can put the person’s name as the tag. Posters have a “Poster” tag…etc…
Of course, this is not set in stone at all. There’s room for random tags and we can improve as we go. (I’ve also retitled Categories as Tags just in case it helps)
How about if I use the tag “uncategorizable”?
I’ll put it under “North Carolina”.
Honestly, I don’t have all the answers. But if you have a tag “Slingbox” you can add another tag to your post entitled “Television” which would put the post under both categories…
I honestly thought the subcategories would not show up…but they are…even whether or not you check the “show hierarchy” box. But it feels good to have posts fall into categories!
I’m sure there are other designs that might help, but then we lose all the other “features” this design has. We really need that CSS expert to come onboard.
I know what you mean.
This doesn’t suck. I think it’s a little unattractive but nothing I can’t live with.
You know, if we’re going to agree to stick with WordPress, I don’t have a problem with springing for the Custom CSS upgrade. I can’t make any promises apropos of my CSS abilities, but I could probably handle changing colors and other minor things if those are the only things that we don’t like about a particular theme.
I thought you didn’t like toolbars on the left, jaydro?
Dunno, jaydro. I personally haven’t changed themes for a couple days now, and it’s still on the Andreas theme that it was on when you posted about it last night.
What’s this XHTML thingy above? Ooooo, can we edit our comments now before we post them?
EDIT: Yes, indeed it seems we can. Still prefer to do it like this though. More comfortable.
I am not a fan of this layout. I thought Connections was starting to look nice, but I will go with what the group decides.
Uh, well, I’m a fan of how things are put right now, but not so much how they look. Though I prefer this to the Legolas tunnels.
Caching doesn’t seem to be as bad an issue with this theme, so that’s a plus. There have been times I set something in the options only to have it reset something else I had set previously because I was going to a cached options page. Therefore, it had the old settings and not the intermediary ones.
For the time being, I am doing a shift-refresh on the options pages before I make/save a change. It might just be me and my proxy/firewall, but I hate screwing things up for everyone else….
remember to shift-refresh…many many many times….
I changed the title of the category “Blogroll” to “Links” in the hopes that it would work. Perhaps it has?
It’s been bugging me that everytime I browse away from this site and/or close my IE window, it basically logs me out. No matter how many times I check “remember me” it never remembers. So that is why you’ll see posts from Joe Webb on occasion because I’m all set to make a comment and then I realize I’m not logged in. So I have to go to the wordpress homepage, login, go to dashboard, then view site, then click comments on the post in order to comment.
Is there a shorter way?
In the meantime, I put “A Login” at the top of the Links page (and on about) because it lets you login right away. Many other blogs have it in the footer, but that’s something we can’t edit yet. If there is a different way of doing this, please do tell!
Get Firefox.
wow. firefox remembers my login. And the site looks slightly better. But in my experience browsing the internet is SO SLOW compared to IE that Firefox is mostly annoying. Maybe I’ll use it for wordpress only
I use IE 7 and it seems quick and displays stuff right. It never remembers my login, though. Although, come to think of it, I probably don’t have ‘remember me’ selected. Be right back.
I have tried IE7 at home. It’s nothing spectacular (in my opinion) and I can’t write enough about how I despise tabbed browsing (I know you can turn it off, but it’s just another reason to dislike firefox).
But seriously. In all of my browsing experience over the years (mosaic then netscape and on down) IE6 has been the best. I’ve tried opera, regular mozilla, firefox and other little ones that come and go. The quickest and most consistent experience has been with ie….and I’m no Microsoft evangelist…I just use what works and what seems logical to my way of thinking.
I didn’t mean to start a fight! ….and I have decided to use Firefox for wordpress because it works well here. So Nick’s opinion(s) helped me out and I thank you.
Well, a few tests have left me unable to have myself remembered. Now I know how Bender felt when his statue was destroyed.
So I can’t recommend IE 7 on that score. I really love tabbed browsing though. To each his own and all that, but it seems like an odd thing to despise.
OoooOoooo, Brian has his own blog.
Hey, how was The Host?
i like multiple windows…tiled viewing. “Open In New Window” is practically my favorite feature of right-clicking or shift-clicking a link. Copying things between windows while viewing them at the same time is commonplace. It’s also something I’ve been used to for 10+ years, so it fits with how I currently/logically think. Some things I can embrace real quickly, but there is so far no benefit to tabbed browsing for me and results in me taking longer to find things…hence my despisement.
OoooOoooo, Brian has his own blog.
Actually started it on Blogger last week, right before the move. So naturally, I moved it over to WordPress.
Not really a blog, though. Just a convenient way to keep a listing, since I use multiple computers and it’s therefore inconvenient to save it on a hard drive.
Hey, how was The Host?
You know what? Now that recent comments from old posts show on the front page, I can go back to your review and post my thoughts there.
Jaydro, your genius is showing. Thanks for that.
Something like “Site Links” or “Admin” or something would be good….maybe.
And I took meebo out. It kind of cluttered things up and everyone loves to chat in the comments anyway.
Funny stuff. I had a beta version of IE7 last year too, before the official release. But when the official release came out, it installed via auto-update. So no inconvenience to me except, of course, for the good 20 minutes or so it takes to install.
But, at least you went through all that for the sake of a product you hate anyway. That must make you feel better about it.
You know, after a few weeks at WordPress, the novelty has worn off. But I’m still really enjoying the new site. I’ve even come to like the current theme a lot. So congratulations to all for a great move.
I hope I’m not the only one feeling this way.
I like that it has encouraged people to post more often. The other site got positively moribund at times. As for the differences between the sites, I don’t think there’s much, but this site is fine.
I think it’s good that the novelty has worn off. Beginning was way more chaotic than I thought it’d be.
Can’t say how much I appreciate editing my comments. I really, really hated not being able to do that in Blogger.
The look’s okay. I’m not really digging it, but it’s practical, which is the more important thing.
I want to post more than I do, but I haven’t seen a lot of films lately and this course doesn’t leave all that much free time. Most of my postings have been from the library.
I say it’s totally up to him. If it were up to me it would haven been up there a long time ago.
I don’t care either way.
More than four weeks into changing format. I think it’s worked out pretty well. 14,743 views (as of this post). More than one post a day on average. I believe we’ve had more comments per post this month than any other month previous. Not that that is what this place is about, anyway, but still.
Personally I’ve felt something of a recharge for the blog, even if there’s still more things that can be done. I’ve tried to contribute as well as I could, but I’ve just been inundated with exams and reports since starting this latest course.
But maybe I’m not the most objective of judges on this matter. What do you guys think? Happy, unhappy with the change?
I’m still happy. I feel like my posts are up, too. I’d like to post more still, but it’s a tough time of year as far as topics go. Not much going on right now, either movie-related or not.
Although I was thinking about writing a manifesto. I’m tired of only crazy people getting to write manifestos, and it’s high time for sane people to reclaim the format.
But, lazy.
I’m happy because this post and the drive post have the “most.comments.evar!!1!”
But it really looks horrible on IE6…I’m forced to use Firefox for fear (phobia) of finding finagled future folios!
Can I remove “Top Clicks” from the left sidebar? The links keep spilling into the main body (yes, even in firefox) for an aesthetically unpleasant look.
It doesn’t appear to overrun for me anymore either. Well done!
just an fyi…I’m switching over to Joe instead of the ol’ count. He’s run his course, the books are done, the movie was crap, it’s over. :-)
testing…testing
Nice new avatar, by the way. Trying to think of what it reminds me of, but can’t quite figure it out…
ouch. I know I’m not cover material, but that’s cold…maybe I’ll put up a tobias fünke
Might as well be Jack Internett…. ;-)
That’s hilarious in its own right…but speaking of Jack, the common thing people ask me when I introduce myself is “are you related to Jack?” To which I respond “Just the facts, ma’am.” Of course, no one under 30 usually gets this joke….then when I tell them I work with computers they always say “well, you’ve got the perfect name for it.”
I’ll forever be a fan of Spud, though
Uhh…did I lose more than I thought I did? Did this used to tell us who posted? And how many posts were in each category?
All I did was drag and drop! I broke the internet….
OH CRAP!!!! THIS IS BAD. I did not mean to change the theme. This is going nowhere fast. Apologies while I sort it out…
Perhaps the moon-one is OK? Of course we’ll need a new picture in the header, and I’m not a fan of the yellow…but it puts the names of people near their posts on the front page.
Sweet, I like the way Recent Comments works (I expanded it to 15 instead of 5). And honestly, it was the only real complaint I had about Blogger. [EDIT: That and editing comments, like I'm doing here].
So I’m more-or-less sold.
You can actually attribute old posts to their respective authors, once they’ve become WordPress members, in the Users section of Dashboard if you click on Imports and then Set Authors. Which I’ve now done for those of us who’ve joined.
What I really wanna do is fix the categories. Give Brian’s Opening in Dallas one, Reviews one, the 08 election one, and so on.
But that will have to be later, have to go to school, oh wonderful school.
Yeah, sorry, Manage. When it prompts you for something to import choose Blogger, and then you can see the number of imported files, and next to that is Set Authors. I just set the recently joined Wagstaff and Slim as authors for their old posts.
Not that I have anything against SVENSKA but the color scheme really doesn’t work with blue, yellow, and light green…. What happened to that other picture with the flag on the back of a boat? That might work.
I said it before, and I’ll say it again; I find the current theme uuuuu-gly. Except for the flag, of course, but I could skip that in a spirit of pragmatism.
So we have to choose between Categories and Monthly archives? Didn’t know that.
Tough choice. I’d go for monthly out of the two, but I’d rather have both. Maybe skip Links?
We don’t have to choose. They both exist. Right now Monthly Archives is right below Categories. We have a lengthy sidebar!
Yeah, our sidebar has a lot of shit on it. I added a search widget, too.
The boat flag looks much better (imho). And does no one want to say hi from meebo? You just type and hit enter…I’m tired of sending it back and forth to myself…. ;-)
What happened to that other picture with the flag on the back of a boat?
Done, and done. Looks a little better.
Nick, care to explain what is so uuu-gly? The colors? The way it’s structured? That the post button says “Submit Comment” instead of “Say It!”
Come on, man, be constructive.
I’ll try and be as constructive as one can be about these subjective things.
Yes, all these lightish green pastel colors. They’re giving me daycare flashbacks.
Well, yes and no. It’s more these little ‘touches’ here and there that annoy me. Like the felled paragraph icon between posts, and those small little patchworks at the bottom of each comment. What are we, running a Legolas appreciation sewing club?
And, seriously, I was kidding about the flag, take it away, please, my eyes. I’m sure the state of Sweden appreciates your sentiments but it looks horrible, especially with this theme.
No, I’m cool with that.
If no one is opposed, I can begin removing categories leaving only the broad descriptions….
I must have misunderstood. I thought we were talking about removing the tag thingies. And I think, before we start categorizing those into proper categories, that we should all be agreed on what the categories ARE.
Sorry I wasn’t clear. I mean like remove “Alt-country” from the category list on the sidebar. What this will do is move the post with alt-country into the Uncategorized category. Then we would have to re-categorize it into “Music” or “CDs” or whatever we come up with.
OR, we can create parent categories and move all current categories underneath the parent categories.
Or we can just do that going forward and leave everything the way it is.
And Nic is right, we should discuss. It just clutters up the sidebar
May I first suggest Reviews for, well, reviews?
Coming Soon for upcoming movies (whether or not they have come out later on, since most of these are old posts).
Brian’s Opening in Dallas definitely deserves it’s own category.
Politics, since that does come up now and then.
Then, like Olaf said, Music
A Weird and Wonderful World (?) for strange stuff. Or maybe just call it (?), or I Don’t Know.
I put up posters now and then, plus we had a long discussion about them, so Posters(?).
And then Wells and Poland.
Can’t come up with any more right now at the top of my head.
I apologize for the header!
Why is there no way to back out of changes??? I wanted to try out the old Poets Corner header and…well…it’s not high-res enough and it’s not that great to begin with.
Perhaps subconsciously! I wasn’t doing it intentionally, that’s for sure. Anyway, does that sound bad?
I’m down with one-word titles with “Opening In Dallas” being an exception.
I’m going to mess around with it. Not delete anything…only add. If it works, great. If not, we’ll keep moving forward anyway.
You would only “mess it up” until we find the proper parent category. I don’t mind a little administration now and again….
We’re all learning here!
So I changed the hierarchy. Many posts will fall into many categories. I propose if it’s a review of any kind we put the word “Reviews” and then the title of the movie/book/cd/whatever as the next tag. If it is more of a person/director thing, you can put the person’s name as the tag. Posters have a “Poster” tag…etc…
Of course, this is not set in stone at all. There’s room for random tags and we can improve as we go. (I’ve also retitled Categories as Tags just in case it helps)
How about if I use the tag “uncategorizable”?
I’ll put it under “North Carolina”.
Honestly, I don’t have all the answers. But if you have a tag “Slingbox” you can add another tag to your post entitled “Television” which would put the post under both categories…
I honestly thought the subcategories would not show up…but they are…even whether or not you check the “show hierarchy” box. But it feels good to have posts fall into categories!
I’m sure there are other designs that might help, but then we lose all the other “features” this design has. We really need that CSS expert to come onboard.
I know what you mean.
This doesn’t suck. I think it’s a little unattractive but nothing I can’t live with.
You know, if we’re going to agree to stick with WordPress, I don’t have a problem with springing for the Custom CSS upgrade. I can’t make any promises apropos of my CSS abilities, but I could probably handle changing colors and other minor things if those are the only things that we don’t like about a particular theme.
I thought you didn’t like toolbars on the left, jaydro?
Dunno, jaydro. I personally haven’t changed themes for a couple days now, and it’s still on the Andreas theme that it was on when you posted about it last night.
What’s this XHTML thingy above? Ooooo, can we edit our comments now before we post them?
EDIT: Yes, indeed it seems we can. Still prefer to do it like this though. More comfortable.
I am not a fan of this layout. I thought Connections was starting to look nice, but I will go with what the group decides.
Uh, well, I’m a fan of how things are put right now, but not so much how they look. Though I prefer this to the Legolas tunnels.
Caching doesn’t seem to be as bad an issue with this theme, so that’s a plus. There have been times I set something in the options only to have it reset something else I had set previously because I was going to a cached options page. Therefore, it had the old settings and not the intermediary ones.
For the time being, I am doing a shift-refresh on the options pages before I make/save a change. It might just be me and my proxy/firewall, but I hate screwing things up for everyone else….
remember to shift-refresh…many many many times….
I changed the title of the category “Blogroll” to “Links” in the hopes that it would work. Perhaps it has?
It’s been bugging me that everytime I browse away from this site and/or close my IE window, it basically logs me out. No matter how many times I check “remember me” it never remembers. So that is why you’ll see posts from Joe Webb on occasion because I’m all set to make a comment and then I realize I’m not logged in. So I have to go to the wordpress homepage, login, go to dashboard, then view site, then click comments on the post in order to comment.
Is there a shorter way?
In the meantime, I put “A Login” at the top of the Links page (and on about) because it lets you login right away. Many other blogs have it in the footer, but that’s something we can’t edit yet. If there is a different way of doing this, please do tell!
Get Firefox.
wow. firefox remembers my login. And the site looks slightly better. But in my experience browsing the internet is SO SLOW compared to IE that Firefox is mostly annoying. Maybe I’ll use it for wordpress only
I use IE 7 and it seems quick and displays stuff right. It never remembers my login, though. Although, come to think of it, I probably don’t have ‘remember me’ selected. Be right back.
I have tried IE7 at home. It’s nothing spectacular (in my opinion) and I can’t write enough about how I despise tabbed browsing (I know you can turn it off, but it’s just another reason to dislike firefox).
But seriously. In all of my browsing experience over the years (mosaic then netscape and on down) IE6 has been the best. I’ve tried opera, regular mozilla, firefox and other little ones that come and go. The quickest and most consistent experience has been with ie….and I’m no Microsoft evangelist…I just use what works and what seems logical to my way of thinking.
I didn’t mean to start a fight! ….and I have decided to use Firefox for wordpress because it works well here. So Nick’s opinion(s) helped me out and I thank you.
Well, a few tests have left me unable to have myself remembered. Now I know how Bender felt when his statue was destroyed.
So I can’t recommend IE 7 on that score. I really love tabbed browsing though. To each his own and all that, but it seems like an odd thing to despise.
OoooOoooo, Brian has his own blog.
Hey, how was The Host?
i like multiple windows…tiled viewing. “Open In New Window” is practically my favorite feature of right-clicking or shift-clicking a link. Copying things between windows while viewing them at the same time is commonplace. It’s also something I’ve been used to for 10+ years, so it fits with how I currently/logically think. Some things I can embrace real quickly, but there is so far no benefit to tabbed browsing for me and results in me taking longer to find things…hence my despisement.
OoooOoooo, Brian has his own blog.
Actually started it on Blogger last week, right before the move. So naturally, I moved it over to WordPress.
Not really a blog, though. Just a convenient way to keep a listing, since I use multiple computers and it’s therefore inconvenient to save it on a hard drive.
Hey, how was The Host?
You know what? Now that recent comments from old posts show on the front page, I can go back to your review and post my thoughts there.
Jaydro, your genius is showing. Thanks for that.
Something like “Site Links” or “Admin” or something would be good….maybe.
And I took meebo out. It kind of cluttered things up and everyone loves to chat in the comments anyway.
Funny stuff. I had a beta version of IE7 last year too, before the official release. But when the official release came out, it installed via auto-update. So no inconvenience to me except, of course, for the good 20 minutes or so it takes to install.
But, at least you went through all that for the sake of a product you hate anyway. That must make you feel better about it.
You know, after a few weeks at WordPress, the novelty has worn off. But I’m still really enjoying the new site. I’ve even come to like the current theme a lot. So congratulations to all for a great move.
I hope I’m not the only one feeling this way.
I like that it has encouraged people to post more often. The other site got positively moribund at times. As for the differences between the sites, I don’t think there’s much, but this site is fine.
I think it’s good that the novelty has worn off. Beginning was way more chaotic than I thought it’d be.
Can’t say how much I appreciate editing my comments. I really, really hated not being able to do that in Blogger.
The look’s okay. I’m not really digging it, but it’s practical, which is the more important thing.
I want to post more than I do, but I haven’t seen a lot of films lately and this course doesn’t leave all that much free time. Most of my postings have been from the library.
I say it’s totally up to him. If it were up to me it would haven been up there a long time ago.
I don’t care either way.
More than four weeks into changing format. I think it’s worked out pretty well. 14,743 views (as of this post). More than one post a day on average. I believe we’ve had more comments per post this month than any other month previous. Not that that is what this place is about, anyway, but still.
Personally I’ve felt something of a recharge for the blog, even if there’s still more things that can be done. I’ve tried to contribute as well as I could, but I’ve just been inundated with exams and reports since starting this latest course.
But maybe I’m not the most objective of judges on this matter. What do you guys think? Happy, unhappy with the change?
I’m still happy. I feel like my posts are up, too. I’d like to post more still, but it’s a tough time of year as far as topics go. Not much going on right now, either movie-related or not.
Although I was thinking about writing a manifesto. I’m tired of only crazy people getting to write manifestos, and it’s high time for sane people to reclaim the format.
But, lazy.
I’m happy because this post and the drive post have the “most.comments.evar!!1!”
But it really looks horrible on IE6…I’m forced to use Firefox for fear (phobia) of finding finagled future folios!
Can I remove “Top Clicks” from the left sidebar? The links keep spilling into the main body (yes, even in firefox) for an aesthetically unpleasant look.
It doesn’t appear to overrun for me anymore either. Well done!
just an fyi…I’m switching over to Joe instead of the ol’ count. He’s run his course, the books are done, the movie was crap, it’s over. :-)
testing…testing
Nice new avatar, by the way. Trying to think of what it reminds me of, but can’t quite figure it out…
ouch. I know I’m not cover material, but that’s cold…maybe I’ll put up a tobias fünke
That’s hilarious in its own right…but speaking of Jack, the common thing people ask me when I introduce myself is “are you related to Jack?” To which I respond “Just the facts, ma’am.” Of course, no one under 30 usually gets this joke….then when I tell them I work with computers they always say “well, you’ve got the perfect name for it.”
I’ll forever be a fan of Spud, though