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This isn’t what we had in mind…
Worse is the new better.
Remember when we announced with a great deal of excitement that we would be moving to a new hosting provider and that all would be well and gay once we had? Oh, such promises were made… And now? Now, we’re starting to miss the old folks and chances are you are as well.
We’re currently looking for bigger hamsters and hope to have the situation resolved soon.
The obviously overwhelmed and undertalented management
mikey said,
March 28, 2007 at 0:14
…and that all would be well and gay…
I dunno about well, but this new site is pretty much teh gay…
We’re currently looking for bigger hamsters
Can’t help you there, but they did find a really fuckin big toad in Australia. If it helps…
mikey
Ann Althouse said,
March 28, 2007 at 0:20
This is god’s punishment for being cruel to me. You know I have a tremendously fragile ego and self-image, because in my heart of hearts I see who and what I am.
fish said,
March 28, 2007 at 0:30
Can’t help you there, but they did find a really fuckin big toad in Australia. If it helps…
Okay, that was just awesome.
J— said,
March 28, 2007 at 1:21
We’re currently looking for bigger hamsters
Splurge! Go all out and upgrade to a capybara.
And seriously, pass the collection plate if you need or would like help.
Smiling Mortician said,
March 28, 2007 at 1:24
Overwhelmed I believe. Undertalented I do not accept.
However, I will say that I look forward to huge-toad-sized hamsters as I have been locked out of SN! for three days. The only way I could access y’all today was to use Explorer (*shiver*). Apparently neither Mozilla nor Opera knew the secret knock. Please don’t make me keep using Explorer. Please?
Innocent Bystander said,
March 28, 2007 at 1:37
“Apparently neither Mozilla nor Opera knew the secret knock. Please don’t make me keep using Explorer. Please?”
They hate Mozilla for their freedoms….
justme said,
March 28, 2007 at 1:53
You are going to be serving ice cream with those hamsters, aren’t you?
Righteous Bubba said,
March 28, 2007 at 2:03
A comedy blogger called Gavin
Displayed all the fun he was havin’
At the blog Sadly, No!
But the server won’t go
So fewer and fewer are laffin’.
Get it? I made a joke about nobody laffin’! Ha ha!
Okay, I’ll go.
Henry Holland said,
March 28, 2007 at 2:21
On last week’s episode of LOST, Ben snarked to John that The Others electricity was supplied by “two hamsters on large wheels in our top secret lab”. I immediately thought of Sadly, No! when Ben said that.
all would be well and gay once we had?
Woah, woah. Don’t lump us polesmokers in with the suckage of your servers, we’ve got enough problems as it is.
aplomb said,
March 28, 2007 at 2:26
Saying that the site is not gay enough, and saying you need bigger hamsters to bring it to the level of gayness that you promised, is highly offensive and buys into disgusting stereotypes.
I’m going to bring this to Ann Althouse’s attention, because I’m sure she will be equally outraged. I will let her explain it in length, because this issue, like all others, are much more about her than any of us.
steve ex-expat said,
March 28, 2007 at 2:36
I don’t know. When I hit enter and wait for your site to appear, I have time for a nice hot cup of tea.
the dryyyyyyy cracker said,
March 28, 2007 at 3:11
Sadly, Slow!
I’m very disappointed. You guys have given me countless hours of free entertainment (and every once in a while, I just might’ve learned a thing or two), and THIS is how you repay me?
Psycheout said,
March 28, 2007 at 4:12
Sorry, it must be all the traffic coming from Blogs 4 Brownback. Your site got really slow when I put you on our blogroll!
Mo's Bike Shop said,
March 28, 2007 at 4:21
As someone who “works in AyeTee,” may I recomend that the cat–the one driving the powder blue Volkswagen–be put in charge of all future server negotiations?
You guys should call up Clik n Clack, you could work up a theory of the evolution of “auto mechanics” into “server monkeys.”
o
Some Guy said,
March 28, 2007 at 5:10
“As someone who “works in AyeTee,â€? may I recomend that the cat–the one driving the powder blue Volkswagen–be put in charge of all future server negotiations?”
Haha! Raowr! Ffft! FFfftt!! Spam Blocked!
Request photoshop of the crazy mrowly one at a keyboard/monitor, calling forth an airstrike of cat bombers!
Moxie said,
March 28, 2007 at 5:27
I thought the Atari thing was a joke. Can’t take it…going to go outside and watch the global warming. And there’s some paint drying down the street…
Dakota Blue said,
March 28, 2007 at 7:07
[Panting] Finally got through… for the first time in like days. I’ve been going through withdrawl, man. It hasn’t been pretty.
Greg said,
March 28, 2007 at 8:18
Wait. Is this a Denial of Service attack from blogs for brownback, or continued DoS from Gathering of Eagles/Malkin, or is it just bad servers? ‘Cause, damn, if it’s DoS, those fuckers are obsessed, and ought to be prosecuted.
That’s okay, I needed the time off. Sometimes staring into the dark heart of dark darkness that is the right is bad for the soul (you too, blogs for brownback.)
Twisted_Colour said,
March 28, 2007 at 8:29
Just like bein’ back on crappy chinese dial-up, it makes my arse bleed.
P.S. Speaking of Gathering of Eagles check this comment(http://gatheringofeagles.org/?p=231) from Bareback Rider
“Should we bring a plate? Crusts off the sandwiches I should imagine. I also have a spare tea urn. Bring ‘em on!!!!!”
Silly buggers were given a diuretic and don’t even know it.
Neil Peart said,
March 28, 2007 at 8:30
We can make an album faster than your site loads. Let me know if you need Lerxst’s roady to help out with the tech stuff.
Anne Laurie said,
March 28, 2007 at 8:35
Woah, somebody needs to photoshop Karl Rove onto that cane-toad picture. It wouldn’t take all that much photoshopping, either.
Maybe you should offer Alberto “Little Fredo” Gonsalez a job on the server treadmills. I hear he’s got his resume out all over town, and you’d save the expense of buying a larger wheel…
Sifu Tweety said,
March 28, 2007 at 8:46
Them hamsters on meth, Seb.
I seen it.
owlbear1 said,
March 28, 2007 at 9:14
You ought to ask you provider why it is that between 12am pst and 5am pst load times become normal.
Sifu Tweety said,
March 28, 2007 at 10:18
owlbear1 I might be taking a flyer here but maybe everybody’s asleep?
judeanpeoplesfront said,
March 28, 2007 at 10:43
anyone seen this? it’s dan rather with a 20ish karl rove. skinny karl.
kiwifruit said,
March 28, 2007 at 11:58
Some have claimed the frog’s secretions are hallucinogenic but there is no evidence that the species has actually produced any sort of high in humans.
Part of that urban myth was that licking these toads could produce a halucinatory state similar to that brought on by mushrooms. It’s the same species that inspired Mojo Nixon to name one of his bands “Mojo Nixon and the Toad Liquors”.
Your Toad Trivia du Jour.
The Dark Avenger said,
March 28, 2007 at 12:47
The secret is, you put two hamsters to a cage, and put the males in with the males, etc., unlike last time.
zebbidie said,
March 28, 2007 at 13:35
No problems loading in Australia. I’m afraid this is a US only problem, probably caused by your government.
The only solution is to ditch the whole “King For 4 Years” nonsense and move to a mature democratic system. Only then will your servers serve as they should.
You’ll thank me for it later.
Anne Althaus®©³² said,
March 28, 2007 at 13:46
The internet is not a big truck.
It’s a series of boobs!
Tangled up boobs!
Herr Doktor Bimler said,
March 28, 2007 at 13:46
We’re currently looking for bigger hamsters
That’s the whole ‘bigger is better’ fallacy. Massively parallel nano-hamster arrays are the way of the future.
Qetesh the Abyssinian said,
March 28, 2007 at 13:54
That’s the whole ‘bigger is better’ fallacy. Massively parallel nano-hamster arrays are the way of the future.
Fnar fnar fnar. But then you’ve got to spend centuries worth of geek-hours thread-safing the buggers. Why not just go for huge, mutant hamsters, the kind that can kick down the door of the local egg tart shop, break the fingers of three or four heavies, and convince the local triad boss to make things run smoothly.
Well, that’s how it works in Hong Kong.
Bistroist said,
March 28, 2007 at 14:40
No problems loading in Australia. I’m afraid this is a US only problem, probably caused by your government.
Not likely. It’s utter shite here in sunny Scandinavia, as well. I vote for bigger, gayer, less dead hamsters.
FGFM said,
March 28, 2007 at 15:14
Looks like a job for one Charles Johnson.
Moominpapa said,
March 28, 2007 at 17:24
I’m very glad you’ve posted this. Since the server move, it has been taking 20-30 seconds to bring up any page on Sadly, No! (for those times the HTTP request doesn’t simply time out), even after flushing the DNS cache. But on the few times I managed to get through, I saw regular posts with no mention of these problems. I was beginning to get a complex thinking I was the only person you were trying to shut out of the site.
Please move to a host who knows what they are doing - I’m missing my Sadly, No! fixes.
furry sort-of-tailless commenter said,
March 28, 2007 at 21:14
I think it’s time to quit maligning hamsters. We could do better
Herr Doktor Bimler said,
March 28, 2007 at 22:54
The Massively parallel nano-hamster Array…
huge, mutant hamsters…
The Bigger, Gayer, Less Dead Hamsters…
At least we’re accumulating a stockpile of band names.
tigrismus said,
March 28, 2007 at 23:36
furry sort-of-tailless commenter said,
I think it’s time to quit maligning hamsters. We could do better
Back to work, you!
owlbear1 said,
March 29, 2007 at 12:35
owlbear1 I might be taking a flyer here but maybe everybody’s asleep?
Hmm, that would explain why office is so empty.
To be more precise, at exactly 12am load times dramtically improve and at 5 am the go back to the slog.
I’m at work so I have time to track these minutia.
mdhåtter said,
March 31, 2007 at 6:44
better is good’s worst enemy