About raincoaster

The view is more beautiful now that it is mine

Power Rocks

Power Corrupts

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

But It Also Rocks Absolutely

174 Comments (+add yours?)

  1. Fruning Graplecard
    Sep 12, 2006 @ 10:22:52

    I find this blog fascinating, entertaining and compelling.

    I thought your comments on the Guido blog have been spot on. Keep it up.

    My two pennyworth: All wars are predicated on lies.

    Sorry about my lousy blog.. it’s my third attempt and I am too scatter brained to have a clear purpose.

    (first attempt…. wrinkledweasel.blogpsot.com

  2. raincoaster
    Sep 12, 2006 @ 22:36:41

    Thank you. I enjoy your posts over at Guido’s as well, and generally learn something from them, if only how to spell big words.

    All wars ARE predicated on lies.

    And don’t sweat the blog thing; I steal everything I post here!

  3. biellen
    Sep 18, 2006 @ 08:50:45

    This is a really nice-looking place you have here. Is that Isadora up at the top of the page? I am immigrating from BloggerBeta as soon as I can manage to figure out the intricacies of WP. There are some things to be said for the simplistic approach Blogger used. Sigh.

  4. raincoaster
    Sep 18, 2006 @ 09:25:07

    Thanks. I prefer WordPress (I’ve got blogs at both places, and believe me, WordPress was easier to figure out and has more options). You do have to be able to survive without Java widgets, though, which some people find really limiting.

    Wait on the migration, though; there are some issues with transferring files from Blogger Beta right now. Give it a couple of weeks and things should be okay.

    It’s Theda Bara at the top of the page. I was looking for an old picture of Ming the Merciless, but saw that and knew I had to have it. Isn’t she cool? There’s nobody like that nowadays; Elizabeth Hurley might want to be like that, but because she doesn’t eat she’s just too frail.

  5. Juvenal
    Sep 22, 2006 @ 13:00:26

    As with Fruning, enjoy your contributions on Guido immensely. Good site, too.

    Also thinking of moving to WordPress, if only to build my own Terror Alert Levels – your collection is impressive!

  6. Frontier Editor
    Sep 22, 2006 @ 23:35:32

    Accusing me of looking like a 1980′s hair-and-Izod band reject. God, you are so cold and heartless . . . . hmmmmm >B^D>

  7. raincoaster
    Sep 23, 2006 @ 00:38:03

    You expect anything else from me? Silly boy. Besides, I didn’t say they rejected you!!!

    Thanks, Juvenal. I appreciate it. WordPress is easy, but Blogger is even easier for terror alert levels and suchlike, because they allow Javascript. Everything you see on this blog could also be hosted on Blogger or many other sites, but not everything you see on Blogger etc could be hosted here. If you want some tips on WordPress, click on the category Professor Raincoaster’s Little Lectures in the sidebar.

  8. Frontier Editor
    Sep 23, 2006 @ 01:20:28

    If you weren’t cold and heartless, I wouldn’t keep coming back for more of this ongoing tapdance from hell ;^D

  9. Frontier Editor
    Sep 23, 2006 @ 01:36:19

    Oh, and if you haven’t checked Dance Party, I did it all to . . . for you

  10. raincoaster
    Sep 23, 2006 @ 01:40:52

    Oooooh! I can hardly wait.

  11. moko
    Sep 25, 2006 @ 00:24:39

    Nice Blog,love the lady at the top of this page.Always enjoy your insightful comment on Guido,think some of mine are a bit strong for the old duffer,keeps deleting them,so much for radical eh?Best wishes,moko(misunderstood all over the net…………but still bashing away)

  12. raincoaster
    Sep 25, 2006 @ 06:13:51

    The old duffer is about half my age, from what I can gather, so I have no comment on that.

    Do tell what he keeps deleting, though. For some of us, it was the loss of our comments that got us blogging in the first place. Think about it. Blogging is free (moreso than Comment is Free, which is heavily moderated and devoid of trackbacks, very Web 0.25)

  13. peter hitchens
    Sep 26, 2006 @ 23:28:20

    I find this place full of very sick people and now I am scared.

  14. raincoaster
    Sep 27, 2006 @ 05:17:12

    “Very full of sick people.”
    You say that as if it’s BAD!

  15. Thomas Fuller
    Sep 27, 2006 @ 21:48:46

    I am sorry to have found both Peter Hitchens and Fruning Graplecard lurking here. They are murderers:

    http://scottonpinkney.blogspot.com/2006/08/sad-news.html

    They outed Sir Aubrey de Tocquaine on Cranmer’s blog, and have no shame.

    Otherwise I just popped in to say “hullo”.

  16. raincoaster
    Sep 27, 2006 @ 21:55:30

    Shocking, shocking. Murderers, you say? They’ll fit right in with my friends.

    Welcome.

  17. Chan
    Sep 28, 2006 @ 03:21:31

    raincoaster, I DO hope you are being sarcastic about the “Murderers, you say? They’ll fit right in with my friends.” comment. P-u-leassse … be ethical, blog-master.

  18. raincoaster
    Sep 28, 2006 @ 03:26:49

    Come on; it’s possible to be both ethical and sarcastic. These guys are all pretty much all from the rough-and-tumble Guido Fawkes political site; they’re Brits, probably never heard of Kimveer Gill.

  19. Fruning Graplecard
    Sep 28, 2006 @ 12:24:18

    Just give me Chan’s address, $200, and the deed is done. No more wussy comments on your blog.

  20. raincoaster
    Sep 28, 2006 @ 12:33:39

    Chan’s all right, no worries. Besides, I live in the Downtown EastSide. I can get somebody whacked for fifty! You’re rolling way too high for me!

  21. Jessica Doyle
    Oct 13, 2006 @ 23:03:42

    God – where do you live raincoaster!

    Maybe we are neighbors….

    nu-ne-nu nu
    nu-ne-nu nu
    Nice place you got here! Cheers!

  22. raincoaster
    Oct 13, 2006 @ 23:26:35

    Thanks!

    I live very near Main & Hastings, which upsets my sister no end. I think we probably are neighbors, as well as both Searchgrads, yes? I’m relatively sure we’ve met face to face at least once. Are you on the next Culture Crawl? That should be coming up soon, shouldn’t it?

  23. Jessica Doyle
    Oct 16, 2006 @ 22:19:14

    I live very near Nanaimo and Hastings. We are but a five minute busride away. :)

    I am not, sadly on the next culture crawl. Dammit! *shrugs* During the summer thought about the culture crawl but did not act upon it. And only now through your response to my comment have remembered it.

    I will however being attending the crawl on foot.

    And delusions of Grandeur… my boyfriend mentioned that to me last night. I had to laugh. We are all delusional. I wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s akin to dreaming. Except now our dreams have a place to be shared on a much grander scale than that of our own minds; through blogging.

    Cheers dude!

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  25. Alabaster Crippens
    Nov 04, 2006 @ 20:38:38

    Sarcasm and Ethics…a heady mix.
    Good blog. Keep it up…you provide me with amusement…and that makes you one of the most important people in the world.
    Hmm

  26. narnia
    Nov 13, 2006 @ 17:41:36

    i’ve come to appreciate your blog. one of the few commenters to, how we say, “do more than comment?” whats the deal though, no email contact? i’ve got all this juicy gawker gossip for you and nowhere to send it…

  27. raincoaster
    Nov 13, 2006 @ 19:08:28

    Dayum! Can’t have that. Try downtowneastsidereporter@hotmail.com. And thanks for the compliments; will you be my reference the next time I bug Denton for a job?

  28. maureen o'hairy
    Nov 18, 2006 @ 07:37:34

    raincoaster, remember me???? it’s Daring Denis…from the D. I. days. Forgive me, but I’m a little drunk, but I do recall seeing you and your friend Ferko? I think, at the racetrack, you had a coffee and Ferko had that knit cap?? Must confess, my name is not Daring Denis, but who cares? so have you been watching Intelligence? Not too shabby, altho looks like Chris is trying to save on lighting costs, either that or my TV needs a new picture tube….Mr. Campbell can still be seen at the track, as well as moi, getting a little soggy out there these days, how the heck are you woman? Still on the downtown eastside beat I see……how bout Ferko and Dangergirl? from the OLD days of DI. Say something….

  29. raincoaster
    Nov 18, 2006 @ 07:54:10

    Good god, haven’t heard from you in a few years. Haven’t heard from Ferko and DG in at least that long, unfortunately, and haven’t hooked the rabbit ears up to watch Intelligence, although I hear, of course, many great things about it.

    Email me and we’ll hit the track again sometime. And maybe the Ovaltine as well.

  30. maureen o'hairy
    Nov 18, 2006 @ 07:59:40

    …..but I now remember that your TV was on the fritz and your roomie was getting weird and you were living in the cellar and you were about to be evicted….hope all is still going well……Mo

  31. maureen o'hairy
    Nov 18, 2006 @ 08:05:42

    that’s a date!

  32. raincoaster
    Nov 18, 2006 @ 08:32:12

    The roomie ended up trying to throw me downstairs; the police arrested him but couldn’t make charges stick because my friends were all cowering in the living room rather than coming to my aid, thus preventing them from being witnesses to the event…I did lose the house but got an apartment…the co-op president gave the roomie a 2-bedroom apartment in the same building…

    But if the ex-roomie says two words to me now I can get a restraining order against him at least, as everything was documented at the time, including the bruises he left me with.

  33. azahar
    Nov 19, 2006 @ 13:50:04

    Aha – I see you were the first beneficiary of the Trick or Treat Domain thingy. Cool!

    I also see that you’re Canadian – should have guessed by your nickname. I’m originally from Winterpeg but then moved to Toronto, then England and I’m now living in Spain. Anyhow, just popping in to say ‘hola’ as I keep seeing you over on Archie’s blog.

    Nice blog, by the way!

  34. raincoaster
    Nov 19, 2006 @ 20:11:54

    Thanks! Way to escape Winterpeg; how is Spain in January?

  35. azahar
    Nov 20, 2006 @ 11:53:33

    Well, in southern Spain (where I am) it’s probably similar to Vancouver except not so much rain and it doesn’t snow (except in the mountains). Of course no central heating and old balcony doors that don’t close properly means that it’s usually as cold inside as outside … actually often warmer outside at midday. But way better than -40º.

  36. azahar
    Nov 20, 2006 @ 12:27:12

    ps
    have just added you to my ‘amigos’ list … hope that’s okay with you.

  37. northwetcoaster
    Nov 24, 2006 @ 22:02:57

    Hi, dropped in because of the similarity in our nicks. I am indeed just a little north and west of you on the far side of Molly’s Reach.

    I think between us, we account for a lot of diversity and that’s what I like most about where you and I live.

  38. raincoaster
    Nov 25, 2006 @ 00:58:02

    Thanks, I like that, too. Welcome to the blog, northwetcoaster. Az, thanks for the add. I appreciate it.

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  40. maureen o'hairy
    Dec 15, 2006 @ 06:45:27

    Hi it’s just Mo (formerly Daring Denis), and just so you know, the Penthouse is used in
    Intelligence as home base for Ian Tracey but it’s called the Chick-a-Dee Club (they put a faux sign for outshots), guest shots by Stuart Margolin, Charles Martin Smith, and a regular spot by Matt Frewer (Max Headroom), who was raised in Victoria did you know?
    A few weeks ago I saw Camille Sullivan in LQ store lower Davie, very petite. Shes one of the carry-overs from DaVinci. (Sushi? the undercover detect.). You simply must get those rabbit ears dusted off and catch some epi’s. Speaking of Mr. D, caught part of “A Bridge Too Far” couple weeks back, featuring amongst a cast of thousands (the end credits found it easier to list who WASN’T in the movie rather than who was) a 25 yr old Nicholas Campbell being rescued by James Caan in a jeep deep in enemy territory. Now hows that for some dedicated reporting not from the east side but the west. Mo

  41. herson
    Dec 30, 2006 @ 01:48:55

    well talk about a lively comment box. i do hope to have at least half of your blog hits and misses before my first year :)
    yup, wordpress is better than blogger but i still can’t figure out how to install the script on the server. aargh.
    *patience dear apprentice*

  42. raincoaster
    Dec 30, 2006 @ 01:53:38

    You can’t install scripts. Period. Welcome to WordPress.

    It’s still better than blogger, but if you HAVE to run scripts and/or ads, this isn’t for you. Go to WordPress.org and download their free software, then install it in your own webspace. Then there are no restrictions.

    And thanks for the compliments. Gratefully accepted at all times.

  43. azahar
    Jan 03, 2007 @ 14:26:33

    Question … how did you transfer the first 16 comments from Saddam’s Last Words to the Would You Watch Saddam Die post? I’ve been trying to start a new post using some comments from a previous one and can’t figure it out at all. Help?

  44. azahar
    Jan 03, 2007 @ 21:55:23

    Never mind, I seem to have more or less figured it out. Except I lost all the paragraphing in the copied comments. Ah well, could’ve been much worse.

  45. raincoaster
    Jan 03, 2007 @ 22:01:43

    I tried to answer, but the WordPress gremlins ate it. I just copied and pasted, and it kept all the formatting including the links.

  46. azahar
    Jan 04, 2007 @ 09:19:27

    Oh, no worries but next time I’ll just copy and paste (duh)! I can’t even remember what I did now but it was a bit more complicated and the result wasn’t as good.

  47. jonathantu
    Jan 04, 2007 @ 09:41:25

    47 comments on your shortest entry? Huh.

  48. raincoaster
    Jan 04, 2007 @ 14:29:41

    My people are very long-winded.

  49. Hazel8500
    Feb 10, 2007 @ 00:13:36

    I Love Theda! She’s been a big inspiration for one particular series of art of fiction I’ve been (Slooowwwwly) working on.

    Great photo of her btw.

  50. raincoaster
    Feb 10, 2007 @ 06:52:18

    Glad you like her. The image and the life story are inspirational!

  51. Joe
    Feb 25, 2007 @ 13:00:22

    What a fruitcake. You sure look 100% idiot ,and i should also mention moron too.

  52. raincoaster
    Feb 25, 2007 @ 20:56:41

    Yes, and you should keep it to short words so that you can spell them all. Welcome to comment #51 on one post of my blog…did you read any of the others? Or perhaps I should ask can you read any of the others?

  53. i mean what i
    Feb 28, 2007 @ 00:19:31

    I’m sorry but comment#51 didn’t need to read any of your other posts to immediately appreciate the absolute shite presented on this site. I’ve had a look at the nature of blogging for the first time today and I must say it is a complete waste of time, the only people who read them must be socially and creatively inept. Thats perfect, yes lets all turn the internet into a monster mass of ripped off shit.
    And before you feebly attempt to comment of the irony of me posting this on a blog, stop and re-examine your over-inflated ego, think of me laughing my ass off, and no I’m not lmao because I can spell.

    Your right… “Power Corrupts

    Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely

    But It Also Rocks Absolutely”

    Please reply, I’ll never read it!

    Yours sincerely… an experiment more powerful than you…

    edited by raincoaster to add IP: 82.152.203.161

  54. raincoaster
    Feb 28, 2007 @ 00:27:55

    Sweetheart, therapy is often discounted in cases like yours. The mentally deficient deserve our pity. You can’t even get your own email address, and if you think the blogosphere is nothing but ripped-off content, you’ve obviously got impaired vision, probably due to the fact that your head is so far up your ass.

    Welcome! Also, dialup? Can’t they afford anything better at the institution?

  55. Metro
    Feb 28, 2007 @ 00:54:40

    Now, now. Don’t tease da widdlle twoll. It’s so cuuuute, twyin’ to tawk wike da big peopwe …

    And dial-up is probably the best it could manage. You need a brain size or two larger to use cable properly.

  56. raincoaster
    Feb 28, 2007 @ 01:08:31

    I’m not even sure cable internet is available in the St Louis area.

    Honestly, don’t people know how stupid they look when they talk bullshit like this? Yeah, I am the high priestess of Cthulhu, and I look just like that photo, which was taken last week by my good friend Karl Lagerfeld. TOTALLY.

    Ask Metro.

  57. Metro
    Feb 28, 2007 @ 05:46:29

    You’ll get no argument here. Although I notice the picture has been digitized to emphasize your eyes. Well, two of them, at least.

  58. raincoaster
    Feb 28, 2007 @ 06:01:47

    The others were Photoshopped out, same as the tentacles.

    Do you know, I actually think I may have tracked down this gibbernaut.

    Holy shit, if that’s the case Gawker is getting seriously desperate about ramping up the hits and the heat in the commentisphere. Mohney? Oddjack-dude? I know it’s great for their hits, but wow. He’s not exactly a character out of Saki.

  59. Julio Irles
    Mar 07, 2007 @ 13:17:07

    No, I will not send you a comment to your bolg following your entirely injustifiable description of me as a dyslexic.

    Jules Dirles

    PS: I trust you have taken note of the fact that above comment is spelt perfectly, giving you no opportunity whatsoever to make cheap gags at my exponse.

  60. raincoaster
    Mar 07, 2007 @ 18:32:51

    Sorry to say, I only abuse the abusive, Julio. Better luck next time.

  61. Metro
    Mar 07, 2007 @ 20:01:16

    As you have “no opportunity whatsoever to make cheap gags at [his] expense”, will you please allow me to make cheap gags at his expense?

    Julio Dirles, or “Irles” (the spelling seems to be optional) is absolutely right, following your characterisation of him as dyslexic, not to comment on your “bolg”.

    But he might do well to run the above comment through a spell check or similar crude tool before pronouncing it “spelt perfectly”, no?

    And grammar check might pevent him from making “injustifiable” errors, though I would tend to be forgiving as English seems to be his second language.

  62. raincoaster
    Mar 08, 2007 @ 05:59:22

    Hook. Line. Sinker.

    You’re so predictable, Metro.

  63. GermanJohn
    Mar 13, 2007 @ 23:59:41

    Dear Blogger
    We read often and with interest your posts. It is important that people like you try and protect our animals. Sad to know that we lose so many rare species every day.
    But unfortunately I must report that with all your research you have missed one animal.
    This little critter from the Northern Territory, Australia is almost gone.
    Today we ask you for your support to save it; please read our article:
    http://www.darwinnewsblog.com/?page_id=95

  64. Metro
    Mar 14, 2007 @ 01:30:42

    Yeah. I know. I wrote it, published it, and felt the little tug in my lower lip. Then I said “screw this” and went off to play poker. With little more success.

  65. raincoaster
    Mar 14, 2007 @ 02:46:33

    Is there good eatin’ on a hairy-nosed wombat?

  66. GermanJohn
    Mar 15, 2007 @ 04:57:55

    And you rule man, a great blog

  67. raincoaster
    Mar 15, 2007 @ 06:59:46

    Thanks, glad you enjoy it. More coming up daily, although I may train my faithful blog readers to lower their expectations on the weekends to one or two posts a day. Feeling lazy lately.

  68. Metro
    Mar 15, 2007 @ 21:47:16

    Trust me. Anyone reading this blog has already lowered their expectations about as far as possible.

    And based on what I saw of the critter while I was there, there may be good eatin’ by a hairy-nosed wombat. I always thought they were gopher-sized, but they’re actually about the size of a pitbull and up. Only with massive great claws.

    As usual in Oz, said claws are mounted on a cute, cuddly-looking furry mammal.

    In fact it reminded me of you in other ways too …

  69. raincoaster
    Mar 15, 2007 @ 22:16:22

    Why, do they reproduce by meiosis and fart musical butterflies, too? But that’s MY trademark!

  70. Thunder Bob
    Mar 20, 2007 @ 22:56:43

    Hey, I saw your post on a forum somewhere about trying to put your pic permanent on your side bar, Its pretty easy, I can walk you through it if you would like, BTW nice looking blog, and great content, Im going to go back and take a look around, Bob

  71. raincoaster
    Mar 21, 2007 @ 05:27:05

    Thanks, but I got it. Dunno why I’d want MY pic up there; maybe it was the Evilness ranking I wanted up there.

  72. southofreality
    Apr 20, 2007 @ 16:05:54

    I enjoy looking around inside your blog. I put you in my blogroll. Hope you don’t mind.
    Cheers!

  73. raincoaster
    Apr 20, 2007 @ 16:13:39

    Thanks! Mo links mo betta! I’ll take a look at yours as well. I appreciate your comments in the Bath Disaster thread.

    Update: I took a look around and u b blogrolled, yo.

  74. southofreality
    Apr 20, 2007 @ 17:46:43

    Thanks for the hook-up.

  75. dubesor
    Jun 06, 2007 @ 09:40:25

    hey, seen you around on wordpress.com forums (i’m “dubesor” on there) and now stumbled on your blog when looking for other vancouver bloggers online. nice site! i like your content like the story about pivot. blogrolled you :)

  76. raincoaster
    Jun 06, 2007 @ 10:49:49

    Howdy, and thanks for the blogroll. I’ll check out your blog (note: you’d make it easier on people if you linked your name to your blog; you can do that in your profile). See, I’m lazy: a true Vancouverite!

  77. Chris Brennan
    Jun 08, 2007 @ 05:57:11

    Hi,

    I like your blog and I was wondering if you could answer a question for me. I was just wondering how you get all of the little buttons at the bottom of your posts to del.icio.us, blinklist, digg, etc. Not the images of the buttons, but how you actually do that for each post. Do you just have to go through and manually insert each button or is there some sort of script that does it for you? I assume that you are still hosted here on wordpress.com at this point instead of hosting on your own?

    Thanks for your time,
    Chris

  78. raincoaster
    Jun 08, 2007 @ 08:24:43

    I’m hosted at WordPress.com, and there’s no script to input those buttons. I do it by hand, in Word or Notepad every time. If you click on the sidebar category: Professor Raincoaster’s Little Lectures you’ll find a couple of posts on social bookmarking that will give you what you need to get started. It’s not difficult, actually. The instructions are also in the forum if you search for Social Bookmarking, or “Add This” which is one button that lists many more services than I’ve got buttons for, and it works for all of them.

    There, now that I’ve told you the secret, can you go vote up my “My blog is covered with porn and so is yours” post at reddit and/or digg? :D

  79. Chris Brennan
    Jun 08, 2007 @ 15:09:41

    Thanks! Consider it done.

  80. Hazel
    Jul 21, 2007 @ 20:56:23

    Oh Theda My Heart Be Still!

  81. Hazel
    Jul 21, 2007 @ 20:57:49

    Oh PS Hope you don’t mind, I got you a little something…
    http://hazel8500.wordpress.com/2007/07/21/schmoozies/

  82. raincoaster
    Jul 21, 2007 @ 21:14:02

    I don’t mind, but I totally suck at memes. I simply never pass them on and hardly ever respond to them, however flattering they may be, and I am flattered. You can ask envelope filter: he tagged me before Christmas for the eatery meme and is still waiting.

  83. Hazel
    Jul 21, 2007 @ 21:58:12

    Ehhh no worries, as long as you get the point- you’re admired. :)

  84. raincoaster
    Jul 21, 2007 @ 22:01:52

    Thanks!

  85. Kimiko
    Jul 28, 2007 @ 04:57:47

    Heya Raincoaster! *wave*

    I thought I’d let you know that I’m having trouble viewing your blog unless I turn off Javascript. My browser (Firefox 2.0.0.5) just keeps reloading the page, without actually displaying it. Looking through the source of your front page, it seems that the problem may be the JS function to do with onload() stuff. If others have the same problem you might want to look into fixing or removing that bit.

    That’s all for now. Let’s go see what this blog is about..

  86. wordguru
    Jul 28, 2007 @ 07:02:04

    How very weird. That’s a WordPress.com backend function that I have no control over. I’ll send an email to staff, thanks for the update.

  87. Hez
    Jul 31, 2007 @ 05:08:03

    Howdy from a fellow Defamer commenter and DTES neighbour (you can probably see me waving from Victory Square, beside the Woodwards’ pit!)… I bid you welcome to my blogroll.

  88. raincoaster
    Jul 31, 2007 @ 05:13:13

    Greetings, Defamerite. Y’all in the Dominion Building with Haddock and Co? Gorgeous place.

    Your name is totally familiar to me. Do you know somebody called Lorraine Murphy? That would be me. I’m 90% sure we’ve met somewhere. Vancouver’s a small town.

  89. vse
    Aug 18, 2007 @ 18:01:13

    I see that you write a lot about books. If you want to save money on any books including textbooks, visit http://www.valorebooks.com and use the coupon code: cheap100
    You can also sell books once you are done with them. They give you the cheapest books and the coupon will give you extra 5% discount.

  90. Daniel J. Gall
    Aug 22, 2007 @ 08:13:53

    And if you need a book to completely shatter your sanity, call on me. I’ve got something here that says it’s called the Necronomicon.

  91. raincoaster
    Aug 22, 2007 @ 08:22:07

    Ya, ya. Which edition? I don’t read those crappy Sumerian/English versions. It’s Wormius all the way, bay-bee!

    PS what the hell is that Chalmers expedition thing? Looks intriguing but there’s nothing to link it directly to Lovecraft.

  92. Daniel J. Gall
    Aug 22, 2007 @ 14:27:10

    It’s a CoC campaign, from what I picked up – and it refers to Nyarlathotep, which is -

    a) a shape-shifting entity from the stars.
    b) an endearing little short story by HPL, which I’ve just recently milked, strangled, and wrangled in my diss, for all it’s worth in its 3-page-glory.

    The edition of the unnamable book is a re-print of the 197-something edition by George Hay, with contributory material by Dr Stanislaus Hinterstoisser (who, I think, is not a real person – at least, Google doesn’t deliver any hits on him outside the George Hay-Necronomicon-context). I sometimes whisper some of the incantations when I’m queuing somewhere, but to no effect so far – “Mr. Cashier, may I introduce a friend? One of his tentacles holds a wallet, another one – damnation, and yet another one – a culinary experience for…with you!” – never works, though. I’ve even tried taking the thing to church once, & hoped to see some immediate results, some interaction between Judaeo-Christian and Lovecraftian theology, but no, nothing happened.

  93. raincoaster
    Aug 23, 2007 @ 08:48:42

    You need to have a seance and call up Derleth. He was the only guy who could mash those two up and make it work.

  94. walkingbetween
    Oct 30, 2007 @ 14:04:32

    hi, great blog… I’m curious how you managed to show the post count in your Tags list… have never seen that on a wp.com blog… I like the way you sidebar looks…

  95. Jolie Porter
    Nov 05, 2007 @ 23:30:45

    very interesting, very entertaining. gives me hope.

  96. raincoaster
    Nov 06, 2007 @ 21:21:01

    walkingbetween, I didn’t design that. In fact, I want to tweak it a little and then when it’s just the way I want I’ll make the CSS available. Devblog at Coderlabs designed the CSS for me.

    Jolie, Glad you like it. There’s a lot to see; hit the raincoaster randomizer to get a random post from the past.

  97. tuffy
    Nov 20, 2007 @ 13:49:10

    Hey there, just wanted to say that for some reason I thought you were a boy up to now. I only realized you were a girl when you mentioned that thing about being sold to a Saudi prince! I guess in my world, boys are not sold to Saudi princes. And girls are not named “raincoaster.” I’m not sure if that means I have entrenched sexist tendencies or what.

  98. raincoaster
    Nov 20, 2007 @ 22:45:16

    I myself thought rain was pretty genderless, but your experience is virtually universal. EVERYBODY thinks I’m a dude for the longest time; you’d think they’d have noticed my magnificent tits!

  99. Trackback: I found my dream job! « raincoaster

  100. K
    Feb 25, 2008 @ 16:12:11

    What is media domination project all about?

  101. K
    Feb 25, 2008 @ 16:12:13

    What is media domination project all about?

  102. raincoaster
    Feb 25, 2008 @ 16:17:14

    Operation Global Media Domination is simply my famequest. So far I’ve broken online and print journalism and television. Radio is next on the hit list. Soon all global media shall be nothing more than the tool of raincoaster, mwahahahahahahaha!

  103. K
    Feb 25, 2008 @ 17:06:46

    That would be so good, I guess you can give a little space to Kashmir :) then! But, why should I donate for your famequest?

  104. raincoaster
    Feb 25, 2008 @ 17:10:34

    Because I am so charming, and I have marvelous tits!

  105. K
    Feb 25, 2008 @ 17:29:49

    How does that help me!? And you did not reply to my first question!

  106. raincoaster
    Feb 25, 2008 @ 17:36:43

    You only asked one question. How does it help you? I have no idea, but experiment is always the best way to find out. Donate and see what happens!

  107. K
    Feb 25, 2008 @ 17:52:26

    Oh, It should have been a ? instead of !
    btw, don’t mind, was just kidding! Will donate when I earn.

  108. raincoaster
    Feb 25, 2008 @ 18:02:59

    This is an admirable approach.

  109. kanadianbakin
    Mar 30, 2008 @ 07:33:22

    What’s this BS.
    You should be rated as one of the top Canadian Blogs or am I missing something. You’re not even in the top ten.I’m looking at 2007 blog awards.Sorry to be a pain, but right is might.
    BAKIN

  110. Baikong
    Apr 18, 2008 @ 03:39:09

    I just want you to know I have included you in the list of top women bloggers – http://baikong.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/series-2-another-top-women-bloggers-invasion-of-the-interactive-communications/

  111. raincoaster
    Apr 18, 2008 @ 09:53:56

    Thanks! I’m honoured!

  112. raincoaster
    Apr 18, 2008 @ 09:58:08

    Bakin: last year I cared about blog awards. This year, although nominated for a few, I’ve done nothing to pursue them. I won a couple last year, and the big prize was…a free ticket to an awards dinner where I’d have to pay for my own food. Fughedaboudid.

  113. corphacks
    Apr 25, 2008 @ 19:53:45

    How’s it goin? I’m not sure if you remember me, you had commented on one of my tutorials a while back, for corphacks.com just wanted to let you know me and my friend are starting up a funny blog based on Man Law. If you or anyone you know might be interested here’s the link http://themanlaw.wordpress.com/

  114. raincoaster
    Apr 25, 2008 @ 21:11:08

    Man Law? There are special laws for men???? Oh, this just confirms what I’ve always suspected!

  115. Gabriel...
    Apr 30, 2008 @ 18:12:15

    Hi… for whatever it’s worth my post about the links feature is up. It was for the best that I waited until this morning to finish it, the first draft was just variations on the words “fuck”, “this” and “shit”.

  116. raincoaster
    May 01, 2008 @ 05:48:35

    Thanks, I’ll take a look but it’ll have to wait till tomorrow, I think. I’m emailing back and forth with Matt and I do not know whether or not he understands what I’m saying about this. I do know that the “closing of the threads” phase has begun; this could simmer down, or it could escalate to the “inactive status” suspension. From there, the “temporarily locked out of blog” and the “identity locked” phases are the traditional path. We shall see which way it goes.

  117. Gabriel...
    May 01, 2008 @ 06:28:18

    If I can offer some advice, the issue of communication between WordPress and us content providers is probably the centrepiece right now. I think it comes down to:

    If we had been told in advance what was happening, we could’ve had the time to make our really personal posts totally ‘Private’ so they wouldn’t be picked up by Sphere. We were told we could opt out, but we weren’t told it could take days for our blogs to be removed from the system, so again we weren’t given the opportunity to make our private work private.

    Don’t blow up too hard at Matt, and don’t bang your head against this wall for too long. There’s no point in getting yourself banned from anywhere. It’s a state of mind, a way of doing business that’s been around for a long time. I really believe that we, as content providers, have been extraordinarily naive when it comes to our part in this process.

  118. raincoaster
    May 01, 2008 @ 07:08:51

    Profound thoughts, and I appreciate them. I don’t think anyone at Automattic is an ogre, but I do think there’s self-interest at play here on both sides, and that those two things will only align in the absence of ethics in this particular case. I’ll elaborate on that some day when I haven’t had five glasses of wine. Or perhaps some day when I have had ten. Saturday night is looking good, it’s Derby Day and I’ve got my hat, just need my bourbon.

    Matt and I are emailing and I would far rather have the discussion in public. After all, it’s a community trying to work things out, it’s not just “keep raincoaster happy and for god’s sake, was that video supposed to be about US?” Doing things behind the curtain like that, while the default communication mode at WP.com, isn’t helpful. What you have is an open-source product with a top-down management, at least from the blogger’s point of view. Naturally, this pre-selects for conflict.

    I’ve seen it SO. Many. Times.

    God, I’m old.

  119. jimconnolly
    May 01, 2008 @ 10:23:16

    Hi Raincoaster,

    Just a quick ‘thank you’ for being one of those magical people who always try to help.

    I really appreciate your help through the forums!

    Jim Connolly
    theideasblog.com

  120. raincoaster
    May 01, 2008 @ 11:15:03

    Thanks, Jim. Best of luck with your blog, and I hope when your stats come back they’re impressive!

  121. BabaliciouS
    Jul 10, 2008 @ 06:35:39

    Hmm … nice personality
    wrapped up beautifully
    in a perfect entity — anarchy

  122. Cassie
    Aug 28, 2008 @ 15:17:07

    Hi there! Do you accept advertisers? I’m interested in your site. Please email me to discuss further.

    Thanks!

    Cassie

  123. raincoaster
    Aug 28, 2008 @ 17:21:55

    No.

  124. Jules Joyce
    Aug 31, 2008 @ 09:29:51

    Wow, there’s a lot to take in here on your blog! It looks worthwhile to me. I must explore it more…

  125. raincoaster
    Aug 31, 2008 @ 09:58:53

    Thanks, happy hunting! I’ll probably steal that Simon Says post of yours… have a huge crush on Simon Cowell. What can I say? I love the arrogant ones: Steve Jobs, Simon Cowell, and anyone played by Jeremy Piven.

  126. Jules Joyce
    Aug 31, 2008 @ 10:06:08

    Hey, no one’s ever mentioned stealing one of my blog posts before, lol. Hmm, maybe I’ll steal one of your posts ;-) We’ll call it an even trade: Barter blogging!

  127. raincoaster
    Aug 31, 2008 @ 10:20:58

    Sure thing! Just make with the linkie luv and you can have anything you want!

    (that line is surprisingly unsuccessful at bars)

  128. Jules Joyce
    Aug 31, 2008 @ 10:38:56

    Linkie luv, eh? I haven’t mastered that on my blog :-( I have to figure it out. I wouldn’t really steal unless I know how to properly do it (properly link, that is — not steal ;-) As for you, my friend, you are both funny and smart…

  129. raincoaster
    Aug 31, 2008 @ 21:14:10

    Thanks. Alas, being both funny and smart are also shockingly unsuccessful at bars unless you REALLY work the “kinky librarian” look.

  130. andretoman
    Sep 01, 2008 @ 01:59:20

    In lieu of writing on my own blog, I’m now reading your blog, you sabotaged me, wtf! Well, there’s only like 5 people that have looked at my stuff. You are now in the company of this elite crowd. I enjoy your work and comment, you can invest in my Baby Rental/Daycare business as a venture capitalist by directly depositing your life savings into my Swiss bank account, by the way this will automatically qualify you as a member of my cult as an added bonus.
    andre

  131. raincoaster
    Sep 01, 2008 @ 05:22:35

    Sounds fantastic! Let the enriching begin!

  132. gemarrs
    Nov 21, 2008 @ 11:30:57

    Hello rain. I’ve seen much from you over the forums, and broke down and had to throw a comment your way. Quite a comfortable-looking and experienced blog here I must say. I’m still pretty young to WordPress, but not young to blogging.

    Stop by anytime.

  133. raincoaster
    Nov 21, 2008 @ 12:18:23

    Thanks for the welcome! I’ll check your site out once I have a minute. Things are pretty pressed for time around here lately.

  134. thenakedlistener
    Dec 02, 2008 @ 23:40:09

    Many thanks for adding The Naked Listener’s Weblog to your blogroll. I have enjoyed your blog and have added it to my blogroll. Cheers from Hong Kong, Robert.

  135. freddieMaize
    Dec 04, 2008 @ 13:41:58

    Hi, I ll have to learn a lot from you on ‘how to blog’. Thanks

    Freddie

  136. Sonic
    Mar 07, 2009 @ 00:15:58

    I don’t get this either. :(

  137. raincoaster
    Mar 07, 2009 @ 16:33:53

    What don’t you get? It’s my About page. It’s all About Me!

  138. Sonic
    Mar 07, 2009 @ 16:37:07

    …it’s a picture of an old lady pulling, no, ripping her hair out.

  139. raincoaster
    Mar 08, 2009 @ 17:43:54

    It’s not an old lady: it’s Theda Bara, and she’s about twenty-two in that picture!

  140. Gabriel...
    Mar 08, 2009 @ 21:19:10

    OMG 22 is soooo ancient. RAFL LMAO

  141. Sonic
    Mar 09, 2009 @ 03:34:16

    But she looks old. Your about page lacks the aboutness. Where’s the “oh hae ther I’m Rainfoaster a 107-year-old woman who tweets every two minutes”?

  142. raincoaster
    Mar 09, 2009 @ 04:50:33

    And you claim to be good at algebra! I’ve been on Twitter since last August. Do the math…

    Also, I spell correctly, and do not have a Scottish accent. And my About page is all About me; in fact, it’s ALL ABOUT ME!

    Duh.

  143. Vikas Gupta
    Apr 05, 2009 @ 16:15:17

    I have heard and seen you so often on WP! It was about time I left my footprints here!

    I wish this page had more info on you! Will read the posts to know more for sure. Subscribing to feeds, better late than never! :)

    I am a new blogger but learnt the ropes rather fast!

  144. raincoaster
    Apr 06, 2009 @ 22:32:12

    Being raincoaster is more a matter of attitude than biography. Welcome.

  145. Vikas Gupta
    Apr 07, 2009 @ 03:37:34

    Very smart reply raincoaster! Will read your posts sooner or later and will build a biography for sure! :)

  146. Vikas Gupta
    Sep 24, 2009 @ 18:24:33

    Which web host you use? I am looking for suggestions to self host my primary blog. Thanks.

    And how come I am logged in here while writing my comment. On other self hosted WP blogs I have to fill my name and email and website!

    P.S.: [I am aware of Nodaddy!]

  147. raincoaster
    Sep 25, 2009 @ 15:03:35

    I recommend WordPress.COM, where this blog is hosted. Why would you think it’s hosted elsewhere?

    If you want advice about self-hosting your blog, I’m available for consulting, but it’s not free.

  148. Vikas Gupta
    Sep 25, 2009 @ 17:15:26

    OMG Raincoaster thanks a ton!

    I was such a fool! This is simple domain forwarding! I used to think that domain forwarding has utility only where you want to forward it to your new domain when you have shifted your blog to WP.org!!!!!!!

    This will really help. I may reconsider my decision on self hosting now.

    I do not have money for official consultations. Besides I want to struggle and learn and do it myself. May come to Raincoaster Media someday when I have enough money. Meanwhile thank you for the ‘priceless’ info.

  149. Vikas Gupta
    Sep 25, 2009 @ 17:52:27

    Err correction: the correct term is ‘domain mapping’

  150. raincoaster
    Sep 25, 2009 @ 18:46:40

    Yes. The ONLY reason i’d move off WordPress.com was if I wanted to run ads and for whatever reason they wouldn’t give me a VIP blog for free. Don’t they KNOW what a VIP I am?

  151. Vikas Gupta
    Sep 25, 2009 @ 19:18:56

    Your sense of humour is VVIP indeed! WP’s sense of humour unfortunately is not up to par.

  152. raincoaster
    Sep 25, 2009 @ 19:54:00

    Well, I haven’t asked them yet. Sure, Matt can take a joke, right? RIGHT?

  153. Vikas Gupta
    Sep 25, 2009 @ 20:21:58

    Go ahead and try it! He can see the joke and take a joke I guess! Someday it will be beyond a joke and everyone will be a VIP on WP.

  154. Vikas Gupta
    Oct 25, 2009 @ 21:31:20

    This is why I am wary of moving to self hosting and may just domain forward like you! http://www.snaphow.com/a-very-painful-tragic-incident-for-snaphow-blog/

    This tech guy lost 900 posts and site down for one week [DreamHost; though Dreamhost are good people]. Blame him too; he never backed up! :(

  155. raincoaster
    Oct 25, 2009 @ 22:50:12

    Yep, absolutely!

  156. 4854derrida
    Oct 26, 2009 @ 19:31:26

    The forum volunteers may have been stymied by my inquiry so I will pose the question to you. The web analyst Quantcast suggests adding a tag to each post in order to analyze visitor demographics. As far as you know is it both safe an effective?

    Here is the tag:

    `

    _qoptions={
    qacct:”p-05_DrYhoSlCWo”
    };

    `

    Thank you

    [email deleted; don't feed the spambots]

    http://empireglassdarkly.wordpress.com/

  157. raincoaster
    Oct 26, 2009 @ 20:43:04

    The question has been answered in the forums already, and I’ve decided to charge my full consulting rate for questions I answer here. Up to you: check the forum or pay me $150 an hour.

  158. VIKAS |vikas-gupta.in
    Oct 30, 2009 @ 05:47:15

    I bought the domain forward option! Thanks. :)

    Can you tell me if I need to edit my feedburner feed and email subscription details. I guess not. It’s working fine!

    Sorry, I’m asking you here and not searching in the forums; feel free to ask me 150 dollars [which will be of course not given] or curse me!

    Thanks again.

  159. raincoaster
    Nov 01, 2009 @ 21:33:07

    Since I have deliberately avoided dealing with Feedburner, I’m not going to touch those questions until I see the cash sitting in my Paypal account.

  160. VIKAS |vikas-gupta.in
    Nov 02, 2009 @ 21:24:34

    Hmm, thanks just the same.

  161. BobG in Vancouver
    Nov 08, 2009 @ 06:39:40

    Hi there raincoaster.com,

    I believe you and I talked on the Greyhound into Penticton Fri evening. How was the course?

    My meeting went splendidly and I tasted some delicious liquers at MapleLeafSpirits.ca hosted by Jorg Engel, ever nice and knowledgeable stillmeister and crafter of excellent liquers and eaux de vie!

  162. raincoaster
    Nov 08, 2009 @ 17:03:00

    Hey Bob, nice to see you again. I have yet to talk to Jorg, but I have heard some good things about him and got a spot for the interview in a cocktail site, so I’d better drop him a line. Thanks for the tip!

  163. Gabriel...
    Dec 09, 2009 @ 15:10:23

    160

    Bonjour. If you’ve got numbers on people unwilling to click through partial feeds, or links to blog posts / sites I’d like to get the source so I can maybe use it in a future story. Seriously.

    “sonic kitty”, the girl who left comments here thinking you were 107-years old, deleted her blog. She was funny.

  164. raincoaster
    Dec 09, 2009 @ 15:32:59

    Ah, blogs. Easy come, easy go I guess.

    I’ll try to dig it up for you, but I think you can probably find fresher information just using Google. You can also compare the number of views your blog gets each day with the number of Clicks and estimate.

  165. LostWeeknight
    Jun 22, 2010 @ 23:39:25

    Raincoaster. What a delightful odyssey. I journeyed from Outer Space to Mother’s Day (which I hate too, for different reasons) to “What You Did Today” to Betty White to Shebeen to Screenwriting to Experiments with Gummi Bears to Guerrilla Marketing to the NY Public Library to Barack Obama to Vancouver, BC to Lolebrity and back again (with a few side trips in between). It was splendid. You have been busy³! How do you do it? (Don’t answer that until I get my Visa) It appears you are so multi-handy at it you teach others. I am very impressed and will come back and visit; there’s so much to check out. I couldn’t quite figure out how many blogs you have, or are with, or post on, but it’s mind-bloggling how prolific you are. Congratulations and good work; it’s beautiful, easy, and you should be very proud of it, (and I have just barely scratched the surface). I look forward to my return, especially to flesh out fully my future favorite tag: Porn (191)

    There. Done. I’m getting better at this.

  166. raincoaster
    Jun 23, 2010 @ 05:20:18

    Wonderful! Thanks a bunch.

  167. LostWeeknight
    Jun 24, 2010 @ 02:09:14

    I do love your name, it encompasses two of my favorite things: Rain and Coasters, I absolutely live for rain, in fact I’m a rain chaser…and I positively hate setting my drinks down without something underneath. I actually love roller coasters too, which I thought might be at play, but now that I know your locale, it all makes sense. I had never thought I could be a Raincoaster, I live in SoCal most of the time, and it is far too dry a desert for me. I spend a great deal of time on the East Coast for the weather. But Vancouver is my second favorite city in N. America, actually it’s a tie for first. I have been there for work and for pleasure, and never want to leave it once I’m there. Everything is so tasteful. I was curious, at first, why you don’t want to accept advertising? Isn’t that every blog’s goal, I thought to myself? But knowing how free your city is of that type of clutter, I can see why you would not want to junk up your beautiful space with shiny-blinky crap. Is there another reason perchance? How many other blogs do you have, and how many do you wish to have? Feel free to tell me it’s none of my business, or send me a PM.

    And do you have a Crosstalk area? Or is this it?

    I should think when I inevitably start my own blog I would like to put you on retainer.

  168. raincoaster
    Jun 24, 2010 @ 03:45:41

    “Everything is so tasteful.”

    I can see you haven’t noticed the architecture.

    I’m too expensive to put on retainer, but sometime this week I’ll put up my new raft of online courses at my social media blog.

    Altogether I have:
    TheCelebrityIndustrialComplex
    raincoaster
    raincoastermedia
    ayyyy
    lolebrity
    TheShebeenClub

    and that’s it for the moment. And as for Crosstalk, I just use Twitter. Where I am also called raincoaster.

    I don’t have ads on this blog because I’m smart and know a thing or two about blogging and return on investment. The Manolo blog, Ayyyy, has ads because that’s his blog and I just work for him. He makes a fair bit off it, but that’s partly because it’s on the Glam network. I’m going to put ads on Lolebrity, because a celebrity blog looks almost incomplete without them, but I don’t want them mucking up the look of MY material or competing for attention with what I wrote. Also, this blog is on WordPress.COM, where ads are not allowed. There are many other forms of compensation, and I’m very happy with this setup. It gets me all my paid gigs.

  169. raincoaster
    Jun 24, 2010 @ 03:46:53

    Oops, forgot one. Been on vacation:

    http://www.offsitedatabackup.com/blog/

    Got to get back to blogging for that one!

  170. LostWeeknight
    Jun 24, 2010 @ 05:28:14

    Jeebus, how much are you? My attorney is $500 an hour and I have him on retainer. You do know that means I give him 10K at a time, in advance, and he bills me monthly and deducts it from the account? Never be too expensive to be put on retainer.

    But thanks for the info, I can see you may be too busy to be put on retainer. ;)

  171. raincoaster
    Jun 24, 2010 @ 15:18:09

    Well, my hourly rate is only $150, and I will MAKE time for you if you’ve got a connection to a good lawyer! Always comes in handy for anyone as contrarian as me.

  172. babaloo13bonzai
    Aug 11, 2010 @ 02:59:07

    Hi Rain :-) Could you please email me? I need some technical help and I’m not sure even what category it would go in. My email address is:

    ———>>>edited out by raincoaster <<<———

    Thank You!

  173. cantueso
    Aug 21, 2010 @ 00:20:46

    I also enjoyed this blog, but…..
    BUT NOT the “everybody draw the prophet” idea and much less the audience it drew. It is awful to behold, how easy it is to make 1000000000000000 humans get together to hunt down the dissidents.

    Geez!

  174. raincoaster
    Aug 21, 2010 @ 01:37:25

    Uh, did you read it? It wasn’t about hunting down the dissidents, it was about exercising freedom of speech. You’re free to be offended, but don’t distort what happened.

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