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[the_rck]

I am a little frustrated. I was just getting back into the habit of doing my exercise programs, and now I really can't. I can't even use our treadmill. I suppose I could do parts of Sit and Be Fit as long as I did the last segment seated instead of standing up. The program's set up to allow that, so I could. There would just be a fair number of leg exercises that I'd have to skip for my right leg. I'm also not sure about the work of setting up to do it-- That requires clearing part of the living room and carrying a chair in from the dining room.

I'm having bad luck with this week's library CDs. I got seven. The two I've tried playing so far were both so scratched that they crashed iTunes completely. I guess I'll see what happens with the others.

I'm trying to figure out Tumblr in terms of metanews linking. Our policy is only to link to recent meta, so I need to know when something was originally posted. The difficulty is that Tumblr doesn't seem to give a year when it provides the date of posting. I'm not at all sure what to do about that. It's not like I'm familiar enough with most of these fandoms to guess when these posts might have been written. Anybody know how to get Tumblr to cough up a year of posting?

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[lady_songsmith]

I dislike tumblr so I'm far from an expert in it, but it must have something to do with your personal settings - layout, maybe? - because I see a full date/timestamp on posts. Ex: the first one on my dash right now reads "March 24th 2015, 2:30:27 pm · 2 minutes ago". If I view those posts individually, some of them lose the time stamp, but still retain the full date, which suggests it is something about layout.

I notice metanews tends to link all tumblr posts as /mobile/ and that layout does seem to strip the date to just month/day. This one from the last post says Mar 05, but if you go to the non-mobile link it just says "two weeks ago"... which is less information but more helpful in terms of determining 'recent' status.

So, I guess what you need is the tumblr answer to style=mine and a time-stamp friendly layout? No idea how to do that, though; you need a more expert user. :(

[ken-3k.livejournal.com]

Library CDs: heh, every now and then I am horrified by the scratches on some of them -- more the rock ones than the classical ones. (That probably just means that those who check out classical CDs are the older customers.) For those of us who grew up handling LPs, I just can't imagine being so careless with a CD. I've seen some library CDs which probably have more scratches than my entire collection has. :-)

Ah well, can't complain about the price.

[evalerie.livejournal.com]

Ken, you should see the children's CDs from the library!! Most of them are so scratched up that very few of them will play at all. Only maybe 30% of what we check out is playable. It always makes me imagine parents leaving kids completely unsupervised with the disks while the kids scribble on the disk and slide it all over the floor, wipe their noses on it, then try to build with a combination of library disks and Lego. It is awful!

[the_rck]

I haven't had any worse luck with children's CDs from the library than I have with adult CDs. Maybe I'm just picking less popular stuff that hasn't been checked out enough to get really bad?

[the_rck]

I remember Scott getting a library book on CD that ran 23 CDs, and the 18th CD was unplayable on a couple of tracks.

People really aren't very careful with library CDs. I tend to be more careful with them than I am with my own CDs because they're borrowed, but I guess not everybody feels that way.