I may have to go underground for a while. I’m not sure what I did that broke the look and feel of the site, and I got my head on a swivel looking for that big tail. They say you never see it comin’ when it gets you.
That clip is pretty funny … until you start to actually think about it. Then it gets scary.
There’s a 45-page PowerPoint deck that a guy I know sent me that’s even funnier, but I only have it as a pdf file, and I don’t know how to turn it into a slide show that can run in WordPress. Yo, Peanutbutter, you out there?
Fat C, I have an email in to PaTrex to try to rectify the problem. Can you edit you own posts? If you can, try to put a few hard returns after the youtube and check where you have things spaced horizontally. you didn’t use a page break, did you?
powerpoint is not pdf. if you’re in windows, see if you can use the images from the power point and do a slide show in windows-movie maker. have not yet figured out how to do that one on a mac.
The other thing to check — did you use the code or html editor? There’s usually a tab in the upper right corner of the box where you enter the text of your post. Should be html. Best way to embed a video clip is to lift the embed code from the youtube page and use the html version of the word press editor…
View the source for this page. Search on YouTube to get to the right area. Check out the balance of div’s right aorund there. Wordpress labels its own div’s, you’ll see that the one that opens the entry (labeled “entry”) closes on an unnamed div within the text fat charlie put in, and the *next* div after that is labelled “entry”, so we have one too many. That causes the unbalanced layout, since something else before the entry is now being closed at the wrong time and so on.
(This assumes firefox browser, though this is basically doable in any decent browser.)
Fat Charlie, if you are coming out of hiding to check comments, just want you to know this is great. But sometimes funny things can make one want to cry.
Wonder if Ben Bernacke has seen this clip. And if he has, did he understand it?
I was born a suspect. I can walk down any street in America and women will clutch their purses tighter, hold onto their Mace, lock their car doors. If I look up into the windows of the apartments I pass I can see old ladies on the phone. They’ve already dialed 9-1- and are just waiting for me to do something wrong. (Chris Rock)
33 Responses to “Fat Charlie Presents: The Definitive Explanation of Why the Markets Are FUBAR”
By Laura on Mar 21, 2008 11:11 pm |
We’re back to happy daze again!
By Betsy on Mar 22, 2008 12:07 am |
hi fat chuck!
By Fat Charlie the Archangel on Mar 22, 2008 12:14 am |
Hey, yo, everyone.
I may have to go underground for a while. I’m not sure what I did that broke the look and feel of the site, and I got my head on a swivel looking for that big tail. They say you never see it comin’ when it gets you.
By Fat Charlie the Archangel on Mar 22, 2008 12:17 am |
That clip is pretty funny … until you start to actually think about it. Then it gets scary.
There’s a 45-page PowerPoint deck that a guy I know sent me that’s even funnier, but I only have it as a pdf file, and I don’t know how to turn it into a slide show that can run in WordPress. Yo, Peanutbutter, you out there?
By Betsy on Mar 22, 2008 12:17 am |
Fat C, I have an email in to PaTrex to try to rectify the problem. Can you edit you own posts? If you can, try to put a few hard returns after the youtube and check where you have things spaced horizontally. you didn’t use a page break, did you?
By Betsy on Mar 22, 2008 12:19 am |
powerpoint is not pdf. if you’re in windows, see if you can use the images from the power point and do a slide show in windows-movie maker. have not yet figured out how to do that one on a mac.
By peanutbutter on Mar 22, 2008 12:24 am |
The other thing to check — did you use the code or html editor? There’s usually a tab in the upper right corner of the box where you enter the text of your post. Should be html. Best way to embed a video clip is to lift the embed code from the youtube page and use the html version of the word press editor…
Eep…wish I could do more to help fix it.
By Betsy on Mar 22, 2008 12:29 am |
Hey PB. Thought you were reading in bed? Reading this?
By peanutbutter on Mar 22, 2008 12:30 am |
I see the problem — you have a closing </div> in your text. Can you see that at the end of it when you edit it? If you can, then remove it and save.
By peanutbutter on Mar 22, 2008 12:31 am |
Ah, put the book down for a break
But since I have a laptop, that is perfectly possible
By Betsy on Mar 22, 2008 12:32 am |
peanutbutter said
how can you tell that?
By peanutbutter on Mar 22, 2008 12:34 am |
View the source for this page. Search on YouTube to get to the right area. Check out the balance of div’s right aorund there. Wordpress labels its own div’s, you’ll see that the one that opens the entry (labeled “entry”) closes on an unnamed div within the text fat charlie put in, and the *next* div after that is labelled “entry”, so we have one too many. That causes the unbalanced layout, since something else before the entry is now being closed at the wrong time and so on.
(This assumes firefox browser, though this is basically doable in any decent browser.)
By Betsy on Mar 22, 2008 12:44 am |
Hey PB! Thanks for linking to me!
By burnspbesq on Mar 22, 2008 1:57 am |
Betsy, did you get the email I sent you the other day? Was it helpful?
By Laura on Mar 22, 2008 1:58 am |
Thanks for trying tonight, FC! (The Johns are funny, although the one they do about Iraq is so accurately Shock Doctrinish that it makes me shudder).
By Betsy on Mar 22, 2008 2:03 am |
night Trexicans. see you tomorrow.
By Betsy on Mar 22, 2008 2:04 am |
burnspbesq said
which email? can you resend? tex betsy gmail
By Betsy on Mar 22, 2008 12:17 pm |
Morning y’all. Just put a post on the queue. Should be up at 3:30 eastern if I hit all the right buttons. I should be back by then.
By Sharonlee on Mar 22, 2008 12:17 pm |
Fat Charlie, if you are coming out of hiding to check comments, just want you to know this is great. But sometimes funny things can make one want to cry.
Wonder if Ben Bernacke has seen this clip. And if he has, did he understand it?
By TheOtherWA on Mar 22, 2008 2:50 pm |
I have a 45 page version of a Google document. Is this the same thing?
The Subprime Primer.
By TheOtherWA on Mar 22, 2008 2:51 pm |
The Subprime Primer.
(Let’s try this again.)(Hee, I forgot we can edit.)
By e on Mar 22, 2008 3:27 pm |
Here is a sad tale of the subprime meltdown from the other end of the spectrum:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032103512.html?hpid=moreheadlines
By burnspbesq on Mar 22, 2008 3:51 pm |
TheOtherWA said
That’s the one. Fat Charlie sent it to me yesterday. Unbelievably funny.
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betsy’s upstairs with the news
By Betsy on Mar 22, 2008 4:49 pm |
new post upstairs: http://www.iamtrex.com/?p=551
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I was born a suspect. I can walk down any street in America and women will clutch their purses tighter, hold onto their Mace, lock their car doors. If I look up into the windows of the apartments I pass I can see old ladies on the phone. They’ve already dialed 9-1- and are just waiting for me to do something wrong. (Chris Rock)
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