The Not Happy Thread

So the place I'm hiring a car for my and the bf's trip to see his family don't make it clear that they normally run their data from noon to noon, but when they were fixing the problem, the car they were going to hire out developed a fault, so I'm going to the local shopping mall while they scramble to fix things.

 

I'd be tempted, but once it's been through the post it'll probably be looking pretty sorry for itself, so I'll pass, thanks.

My flatmate did say, however, that her father always buys a Valentine's card for next year on the 15th.

 

My mom bought a "sun lamp" for my birds a while ago, while she was taking care of them. When I moved the birds back to my flat I hung a t-shirt, as a temporary solution, over a corner of the cage to provide some shade if the birds want to get out of the light. Removed the t-shirt today, and... apparently it must have been real tasty.

Glad it was just a plain white one, and not one of my favourites...

 

Woke up this morning, checked my email, then checked this forum. 18 new posts in my feed since I went to bed, clicked a "like" on most of them, then wanted to go back and hide under the bed in a panic.

The last thing I watched before I went to sleep last night was Black Mirror: Nosedive. If you don't remember the title, that's the Instagram episode.

 

If you ever visit Finland with a problem of too much chocolate, I can get you a team of 5 voluntary Chocolate Gravity Pits.

You know... Chocolate Gravity Pit is a bit like pits in motor racing. Just that instead of changing tires/wraps/whatever this chocolate bar accelerates itself instantly to another dimension system. We can call it T.U.M.M.Y Deep Space.

This CGP pit crew is awesome. They really push themselves to limits when working with inter dimensional gobbling.

 

Nietzsche. I hate Nietzsche, but have to read him again for reasons.

 

Oh, come on. How can you hate a guy who writes a book (Ecce Homo) including a chapter called "Why I Write Such Excellent Books"?

 

All right...

You hate Nietzsche. But does Nietzsche hate you?

Maybe you should write a book "Nietzsche by Crayons” or ”Human Layer Cake According to Nietzsche" so that you can have bilateral hate-respect -relationship?

 

Given I'm not of pure European stock, probably. Given I'm socialist, definitely.

 

Listening the blues and calming the storm tonight. Couldn't sleep last night, haven't drunk a single cup of coffee today and instead of whiskey, I'm drinking milk. I think I'm transmuting. Transmutation is a bitch.

 

After careful experimentation and a-b testing, it appears that I'm allergic to beer. I'm not sure life is any longer worth living.

 

^ Damn. D: That... That sucks. :c I have a co-worker who is allergic to beer -- he breaks out into rashes if he has them.

As for my Not Happy: I'm sick of the constant cloudy/rainy weather we're having here. I've hardly seen the sun at all in two months!

Nietzsche? I hate I can't even pronounce his damned name, and I'm scared to ask 'cause I know I'll look like an ignorant clod-brain whose parents are a hog and an ape.

 

I want to set up a mailing list subscription thing on my website and it's all SO COMPLICATED AND HARD.

 

Agreed. I’m good at this stuff and always have to ask someone for help with mailing lists. Ask @bigsoftmoose . He may be able to offer advice.

 

My needs are simple, finding them, not so simple

 

How can anybody get semicolons THIS wrong, and why am I the one who has to edit it?

 

What's the problem with it? I do this kind of thing a lot, can probably help out if you don't have it sorted yet.

 

Aw thank you. It's done. I was just stunned; that someone puts random semicolons; in sentences. I'm used to correcting weird commas and inappropriate capitalisation and all sorts, but this is a new one on me.

 

I meant the mailing list, but that's cool too I'm sure you can deal with bizarre sem;colons, even if it does involve some time staring at the page wondering if the author drank paint as a child.

 

Oh man, apparently I can't even read now.

That would be great! I want to add a mailing list to my Wordpress site, and I can't find a way to do it that doesn't involve paying £20 a month for the business plan. There are plugins (only available on the business plan) and MailChimp gave me Javascript for a pop-up (only available on the business plan). Do you know if there's another way to do it in Wordpress?

 

There should be plenty of stand-alone plugins that can do this for you. Mailchimp's a common integration. I'll have a look through the ones I've used in the past and PM you some recommendations. It'd also be worth checking the theme you're using - some of them actually have this built-in, though you may need to dive into the widget options to find it.

(Fair warning, you might have to pay for the plugin depending on how many bells and whistles you want, but there's no way you should need to pay £20/month)

You should also be able to get HTML from Mailchimp and add it to a text widget, though if you don't know HTML then you basically get what you're given in terms of design.

ETA: Ninja'd, cheers Moose