Companionship and geekitude

Today was bad-ass mamas coffee hour - I wrote for a while first, then went and talked books, held babies, heard a complicated story of property easements and meanie neighbors, everyone's thanksgivings including dinner analysis and family interrelationships. Then went off to lunch with Debbie and had to leave all too soon. We talked about wikis and ideas and feminism and grants...

Moomin dances with his class in a Whale Dance on Saturday in the town parade. I can't wait. What is the Whale Dance? We're burning with curiosity. Demonstrations are not forthcoming. The Whale Dance happens when it happens.

Now I"m going to spend a little while cruising the Mediawiki plugins. Oh, they're all so tempting! Which ones to use?

Comments

[kevin]

oh - I wasn't supposed to say, but what the hell:

The Whale Dance Will Not Be Televised

You will not be able to stay home, brother.
You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out.
You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,
Skip out for beer during commercials,
Because the whale dance will not be televised.

The whale dance will not be televised.
The whale dance will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The whale dance will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowing a bugle and leading a charge by John
Mitchell, General Abrams and Spiro Agnew to eat
hog maws confiscated from a Harlem sanctuary.
The whale dance will not be televised.

The whale dance will not be brought to you by the
Schaefer Award Theatre and will not star Natalie
Woods and Steve McQueen or Bullwinkle and Julia.
The whale dance will not give your mouth sex appeal.
The whale dance will not get rid of the nubs.
The whale dance will not make you look five pounds
thinner, because the whale dance will not be televised, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and Willie May
pushing that shopping cart down the block on the dead run,
or trying to slide that color television into a stolen ambulance.
NBC will not be able predict the winner at 8:32
or report from 29 districts.
The whale dance will not be televised.

There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of pigs shooting down
brothers in the instant replay.
There will be no pictures of Whitney Young being
run out of Harlem on a rail with a brand new process.
There will be no slow motion or still life of Roy
Wilkens strolling through Watts in a Red, Black and
Green liberation jumpsuit that he had been saving
For just the proper occasion.

Green Acres, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Hooterville
Junction will no longer be so damned relevant, and
women will not care if Dick finally gets down with
Jane on Search for Tomorrow because Black people
will be in the street looking for a brighter day.
The whale dance will not be televised.

There will be no highlights on the eleven o'clock
news and no pictures of hairy armed women
liberationists and Jackie Onassis blowing her nose.
The theme song will not be written by Jim Webb,
Francis Scott Key, nor sung by Glen Campbell, Tom
Jones, Johnny Cash, Englebert Humperdink, or the Rare Earth.
The whale dance will not be televised.

The whale dance will not be right back after a message
bbout a white tornado, white lightning, or white people.
You will not have to worry about a dove in your
bedroom, a tiger in your tank, or the giant in your toilet bowl.
The whale dance will not go better with Coke.
The whale dance will not fight the germs that may cause bad breath.
The whale dance will put you in the driver's seat.

The whale dance will not be televised, will not be televised,
will not be televised, will not be televised.
The whale dance will be no re-run brothers;
The whale dance will be live.

[blaize]

See if you can find a plugin that'll allow you to backup your db and the files, then zip and store the backups on the server. If that's not possible make sure to setup a cronjob to backup every 12 or 24 hours. This just saves headaches in the long run if/when the server experiences problems.