[IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS] IS THE AMERICAN WAY! But I have learned to take personal satisfaction in things that money cannot buy-my bible study, spiritual experiecnes, trying to begin to figure out CLASSICAL GAS on accoustic guitar, having collected 200-300 Radio Verification Cards from around the world. Completing studies of seven Old Testament Bible Prophets plus Revelation! I think of people in POW camp movies or prison movies and the little acheivements that make their day. Some due to my poor health, some due to hate from others. But here is a fun word in my vocabulary [DOOMSDAY]! I made a photo book last year of some of the high points of last year-my gladioulus garden for mom, my first two ebooks getting published, putting 20 years of past bible studies in Sterlite boxes. It almost sounds like a Bob Seeger song THESE ARE THE MEMORIES THAT MAKE ME A WEALTHY SOUL!
i wouldn’t consider myself successful just yet. what i mean is there are some goals i hope to accomplish this summer. one of those things is to finish my book. yes the ranting zinnaku is writing a book. when i finish it and it sell decently, and i lose the weight i want to lose, then i would consider myself successful.
Lookin good… Happy Valentine’s Day ! Success to some is keepin up wit da Jones; which is kinda tough living in Hollywood paying 25$ per hr. for a parking space and Washington Fat-cats live like stars.
Not all success is a matter of money. Lately I have succeeded in protecting my tenant’s rights after a winter where the heating system went out and the landlord neglected to fix it. I not only succeeded in hiring my own person who successfully replaced a defective part, I also took a deduction for that repair when I paid rent, and when the landlord tried to evict me and also to raise my rent after the repair, I also hired a legal advisor who wrote a “cease and desist letter.” The legal advisor also has told me how to achieve success in enforcing my rights which are well protected in California when there have been habitability issues. Ah, success!
Dylan put it best in “Love minus zero no limit”
“In the dime stores and bus stations
People talk of situations
Read books repeat quotations
Draw conclusions on the wall
Some speak of the future
My love she speaks softly
She knows there’s no success like failure
And that failure’s no success at all”
Hi animalntaz, where are you located?
I’m in So Calif and have had zero problems for some time now.
I see there are routers out in Texas, Wisconsin, Virginia and Colorado.
My email thing is working now. I can click on the comment link in my email and it brought me right to this comment of yours. WWeeeeee Beautiful day here. Cool breeze, no humidity just a perfect day not a cloud in the sky.
Richard Bramson on twitter ! Yeah right, funny how all the posts are about Virgin. I hate that, I would be so pissed off if all Marina did was post about hotforwords..
But he is richard branson… the big bearded bastad in the sky. And who am I?? Who am I?? WHO AM I???!!! GOD DAMN YOU RICHARD BRANSON UNLESS YOU BUY ME A NEW PAIR OF ARMANI JEANS ANOTHER JOHN GALLIANO TOP ANOTHER PAIR OF UGG BOOTS A LOUIS VUITTON WALLET AND 100,000 CIGGIES I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU! Oh, I also want a lamborghini please.
Sorry, but all you are getting is a three-month-old half-eaten package of corn nuts and a used plastic airline cup with a mouthful of warm Pepsi in it.
Oh, and there is some little bit of stuff floating in the Pepsi, but you don’t have to drink it if you don’t want to.
Shame this video wasn’t very succesful, feels like its been up for ages… I think soulja boy has dried up now, I think he is a bit of an idiot. He looks like one too with “soulja boy” on his glasses.
My 2 cents: this video is doing well, but YouTube has tweaked the algorithm for “Most Viewed” also — and it is the new algorithm for “Most Viewed” that is making this video climb slowly.
Algorithm directly effects not the number of views, but the ranking on the “Most Viewed” page — it took a while for this video to show up at all on any of the Most Viewed page.
However, being on some of the Most Viewed page helps generate views — so there is an indirect effect.
How will SouljaBoy’s fans know about this video?
Perhaps adding this as a video response to SouljaBoy would help (if it hasn’t already been done)?
OK.. sorry .. trying to figure out this code for my website so that it doesn’t show a page with only one comment. (ie: minimum number of comments per page)
First, there is a minor bug in the system: Page 1 has comments from 0 to 24, Page 2 has comments from 26 to 50. What happened to 25? (I say “minor bug” because it shouldn’t be hard to fix.)
Anyway, because of the bug, the following is not precisely accurate, but it illustrates the ideas.
Not sure how much tweaking you do to CodePress; so the following may or may not help.
Suppose
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Comments are numbered from 0 to (T-1)
T = total number of comments (=103+1=104 now)
P = comments per page (set to 25 now)
Then N = the number of pages needed will be:
N = (int)( ( T + P - 1 ) / P )
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At present, the systems allocates comments to pages starting from page 1, as follows:
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Display of page k (1 <= k <= N) will have
comment starting from
(k-1)*P
and ending at
(k * P) - 1 (when k < N)
or (T - 1) (when k = N)
and the number of comments on page k will be
P (when k < N)
or (T % P) (when k = N, % is remainder function)
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What you would like the system to do is to allocate comments to pages starting from the last page. So the parameters would be:
What you would like the system to do is to allocate comments to pages starting from the last page. So the parameters would be:
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Display of page k (1 <= k 1)
0 (when k = 1)
and ending at
T - (N-k)*p (when k > N)
or (T % P) - 1 (when k = 1, % is remainder function)
and the number of comments on page k will be
P (when k > 1)
or (T % P) (when k = 1)
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In the above, the formulas are written in two lines (e.g., one line k1 and another for k=1). It is possible to write them as single line formulas using conditionals.
Is the above within or outside the scope of the CodePress tweaking you perform?
I cannot create the way the system works, I can only use the parameters that Wordpress has already set up. There are arguments for the paged comments as I showed in this link, I just don’t know how to put them in and what they do. I do know that one of the arguments controls the minimum amount of comments that a page will show.
I did look at that link you provided (before I made my comments) and had also looked at http://codex.wordpress.org/Migrating_Plugins_and_Themes_to_2.7/Enhanced_Comment_Display I don’t see any parameter that might affect the minimum number of comments per page — but the page you referenced has the line “If you want more control, you can also use the simpler next and previous functions:” which is mysterious to me. I could not find any reference to either of next_comments_link and previous_comments_link. Anyway, I started this: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/243276
Perhaps this is the problem —> If you use < and > symbols typed from the keyboard, WordPress thinks that everything between them is an HTML tag — a giant illegal tag — and deletes it. If you want to show those symbols in your text, instead of typing them, substitute < and > and it will not think they form tags. This applies only to WP, not the forum.
Do you want me too see what I can do? Whats having paged comments in aid of anyway? I think it will be a pain in theass going through all those comments.
Another option would be to ask a question along the following lines in the WordPress Forum:
At present, when comments are organized from newest at top to oldest at the bottom and pagination is turned on, the systems allocates comments to pages starting from page 1. This results in the last page (the page that has the most recent comments) being partially filled. How would one get the system to allocate comments starting from the last page (so as to ensure that the last page with newest comments is always full)? See discussion at the site here: http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/02/10/success/comment-page-5/#comment-110191
Another thought: It might be OK to organize “Recent Comments” chronologically. In such a case, its page 1 might be full of extracts of the latest comments (with the extract of the most recent comment at the bottom of its page 1).
I really do hope the you are not going to pages in the comments. That is an absolute bummer. One spends all day clicking and waiting for pages to load, which is a real pain. And if anything goes wrong with ads or something else that is called, it just adds to the wait for each page and you can’t search across page boundaries. If it is to overcome a huge list of comments, then I see nothing to overcome; I can zip up and down the comments at will.
Perhaps you are trying to overcome a slow loading time for someone on dial-up or maybe some small device. If so, they should have a personal preference to choose pages if they want, but please don’t saddle the rest of us with it. (Oh, to heck with the rest of us; don’t saddle me with it. )
1) Would it be possible to support all comments in one page, either with an “All” button, or by having individual users specify a preference in their profile?
2) Font and/or icons in “Recent Comments” has become bigger — so the amount of information in that column has reduced. Would it be possible to support seeing more entries?
3) After pressesing “Login to Reply” to a comment and logging in, one is redirected to the top of the page; would it be possible to be redirected to somewhere near the comment one used for logging in?
4) As I am writing this comment, went to the dashboard and saw that Marina is saying something … haven’t seen it yet.
Paged comments with “Recent Comments” is a good idea. How about clicking on “Recent Comments” takes one to an entire page (or even several pages) of “Recent Comments”?
OK.. guys.. I am working on the comments so that it doesn’t show just one comment when the previous pages fill up. Which is what it is doing right now.
Hello Capman911, CK, John, PageDoll, hs4mm, etc:
Regarding:
The positioning of the YT video playback head.
Capman911’s time code appears to be correct on the surface:
youtube/video_id#t=2m20s
This format #t=XmYYs has these results:
Notice single digit minute format.
FF – works
SeaMonkey – fails
MSIE 6 – fails
iPhone – works <– iPhone rocks!!!
This format #t=XXmYYs has these results:
Notice the 2 digit minute format
FF – works
SeaMonkey – works
MSIE 6 – works
iPhone – works
I finally found you. The email back to the comments thingy isn’t working. I had to hunt you down. I tried it again and sometimes it might work but most of the time it doesn’t. I am using FF latest edition so it couldn’t be that. So thanks PK for the kind help.
I wonder if it only works the first time you view the video, because it was working for me for another video a few days ago.
Or maybe YT has plugged the hole by now.
Notice that I don’t have Java installed. If I go to web sites that requires me to have a Java plugin, I say no thanks, and go back to watching HotForWords video lessons.
Since you have it installed, and I presume you may need it for certain web sites, then go ahead and update your Java as requested. Otherwise, you can un-install it under the Control Panel and Add/Remove programs. If you find later that you desperately need Java for a certain web site, you can re-install the plugin.
I would like to make a word request. Seeing your video of the Bill O’Reilly show reminded me of the sexual harassment scandal he had a while back. Without going into vulgar, disgusting details, there seems to be something called a “falafel” involved. So, I just wanted to know, Marina, what’s a “falafel”, and why does that man want to use it as a sex toy? Perhaps, that’s a question you could ask him on your next television appearance. I feel it’s important that we all remember that he is disgusting and repulsive. By the way, he seems to be partial to soap suds also, but I already know what those are. This may help you to understand why his eye contact tends to drop about 8 inches below your eyes.
Why don’t you tell us all what your political leanings are, and TRUTHFULLY how many episodes of The O’Reilly Factor you have actually seen?
Aw, nevermind. Both answers are obvious.
Not so long ago, score meant making a point, goal, touchdown, etc. in a sporting contest. Now you “score” sex, drugs, a sandwich, or whatever. How about it?
I think the good Soulja is going to go the same route as M.C. Hammer and the Spice Girls. In ten years they will be doing an episode of “Where are they now” on him. Which, is kind of sad because he obviously relates his estimate of his self worth with how much money he makes and other peoples’ opinion of him. You’ll notice that he said the one word that best describes him is successful, and not happy or content. A lot of people find it very difficult to get one without sacrificing the other.
PLAYBOY: In your emphasis on reason, you are in philosophical conflict with contemporary writers, novelists and poets — many of whom are self-admitted mystics, or irrationalists, as they have been called. Why is this so?
RAND: Because art has a philosophical base, and the dominant philosophical trends of today are a form of neomysticism. Art is a projection of the artist’s fundamental view of man and of existence. Since most artists do not develop an independent philosophy of their own, they absorb, consciously or subconsciously, the dominant philosophical influences of their time. Most of today’s literature is a faithful reflection of today’s philosophy — and look at it!
PLAYBOY: But shouldn’t a writer reflect his time?
RAND: No. A writer should be an active intellectual leader of his time, not a passive follower riding any current. A writer should shape the values of his culture, he should project and concretize the value goals of man’s life. This is the essence of the Romantic school of literature, which has all but vanished from today’s scene.
PLAYBOY: Leaving us where, literarily speaking?
RAND: At the dead end of Naturalism. Naturalism holds that a writer must be a passive photographer or reporter who must transcribe uncritically whatever he happens to observe around him. Romanticism holds that a writer must present things, not as they are at any given moment, but, to quote Aristotle, “as they might be and ought to be.” -refer.co,82.1.1.1
Good post. That’s my favorite author. I believe she was from St.Petersburg. When I first read her books, I was surprised with her depth of understanding and dislike of Communism. Then I found out that she was from the USSR and it made a lot of sense. It’s sad that a lot of the things that she mentioned in her books are taking place now and were very prophetic. She even believed in the gold standard, and a lot of people believe that getting away from that is a big reason for the problems we face economically today.
I don’t buy into this lofty jazz; too much self-ego driven for my tastes. I believe writing is a creative art form; writers work their art with thoughts expressed through words the way painters express through imagery with brushes and colors and sculptors through shapes and forms with tools and physical materials. At the end of all these processes is artistic impression. Here is some artistic writing by Robert Louis Stevenson (A Lodging for the Night) :
It doesn’t take egomania to create great artistic works or advance philosophy and science, though many highly talented artists, authors, scientists, musicians etc. certainly may be ego freaks. I did not like the related message in Fountainhead, though I do concede that strong ego can be a primal driving force in creative endeavor but like many things it is a double-sided knife that can hurt the wielder (and hapless souls in close proximity) if let run too far amok. The book (Fountainhead) certainly would be reflective of the commentary above though (which is why I take exception to it also).
You are so right Marina, here is someting from wiki ” he suffered a nervous breakdown which led to a suicide attempt and hospitalization. Upon his discharge from the hospital, Goddard renamed himself Adam Ant. He formed the Adam and the Ants in 1977″Bow Wow Wow – I Want Candy and also the band then worked with Annabella Lwin. So it goes…
Yes, and when ants arrive at a picnic the first dish they sample is the antipasto. It’s also a fav choice of food with which they haul on their backs during their departure.
Hi Marina,
Here is another phrase I have heard a lot. request : [ look before you leap ]
p.s. I looked thru your words and phrases done before I leaped.
Does anyone know why the #T=00m00s doesn’t work any more on YouTube. I have tried it three or four times and tried the one Marina put up as a display and that one doesn’t work either.
Have you tried one of the site videos yet? It probably has to do with video producers wanting people too watch the entire vid instead of allowing people to use them to advantage their own ideas.
I found the official info source on this feature here, where I mentioned the problem. I will check there to see if there are any replies.
In all of the places explaining deep links, this was the only one I saw that mentioned the automatic converstion of time references in YT comments to deep links to within the subject video. I have not tried one yet.
The following will “work” with some drawbacks — see only video, not the youtube page; video takes up entire browser; won’t auto-start — need to press play. But it will start at the time specified in seconds (1m20s = 80s):
I’ve had more money than I knew what to do with, and I’ve been so broke I was on foot. I’ve had great friends and relatives, many of whom are gone now. I’ve had some power and authority, and I’ve been scorned when I was down and out. I believe if you have great love in your life, and if you are surrounded by a cadre of true friends, and if you have a deep relationship with your
God, then you can consider yourself successful. The rest will fall into place, or
it won’t matter.
I hope that wasn’t too sappy for ya’ll. Just doing my homework.
Marina, I have noticed that your You Tube Channel has almost absolutely nothing favored or featured that does not concern your role as HotForWords, Does Teacher live, breath, eat, and sleep her HotForWords persona 24/7? Why no personal things such as music you may like, videos or activities you enjoy or participate in? This can’t be healthy , we all would like to know more about you as a person other than you seem to work 24/7 HotForWords. Just asking/saying be well.
(John, you arn’t asking me, so I’ll say this parenthetically. I think it is proper for a person to be driven by his choice of productive work — to “live, breath, eat, and sleep” his work — and to not mix personal aspects with business. I think it is healthy to be this way. If you consider good, productive people in any endeavor (janitors, gardeners, sports people, singers, CEOs etc.) you will find that they discovered their passion early and have lived that way ever since.)
Your right I didn’t ask. However thank you for answering my questions In Marina’s stead. I am considerably reassured now. I have seen behaviors from others that suggest otherwise.
If it is written in Playboy magazine, the bible for men, it must be true: http://www.ellensplace.net/ar_pboy.html (I have no idea who “ellen” is). (I am just joking about the importance attached to that magazine.)
I think the limitation of non-personal info is a purposeful erection of a kind of firewall between her Web persona and her personal life. If there was a leak between the two, it is possible that it could invite unwanted contact between M and “a thousand maniacs.” Once such a leak occured, she would have a hard time putting the genie back in the bottle. I don’t know whether she thought this all out herself before she started or was advised by someone of the wisdom of staying private, but so far, her “Websphincter” has been fairly well clenched.
I would say success is coming from a foreign country and putting down roots. Then starting your own business and watch it grow every day from infancy to adulthood until you have to expand and venture out to a self owned internet business. You worked hard to achieve top status among your peers where you are recognized for your efforts by thousands of adoring fans all over the world and go on to magazine articles, radio spots and now appearances on tv. The sky is the limit for a person like this. I for one hope you make it to where you want to be in this world as you help others learn from your knowledge and teachings on the way upward. May success always be yours to find and to keep. Thank you Marina for letting us be part of your success and to be apart of your life.
Yes I have! (Only electric though) I even sat in the back of the sled and rode one for about 6 feet. This little things have a lot of power for their size. Electric motors have a lot of torque.
Have you seen my demo flight I made about a year ago? http://bit.ly/uEtk2
I have this little amazing helicopter that can do some impressive stunts. I just have to get my skills up to speed. Looking at getting a new simulator so I can practice some 3D maneuvers and not have to worry about damaging my heli.
Really? That was like my 5 flight ever, on a very difficult heli to fly. This model is extremely aerobatic and you can’t look way for one second or you end up ditching it. I should upload a new video for now I have been flying over a year. I’m not doing any crazy aerobatic yet for I want to get better on the simulators before attempting in real life.
Take just spices. She could get carawayed with it and pepper us with videos once a day and still run out of thyme before the year was out. It would be savory, but not sage.
Most likely it’s the painful result of too much titty twisting leading to a purplish bruising. Then there’s piercings. For some folks it takes longer for nipple piercings to heal and their nipples stay sensitive for months. Just a slight tug from a sweater snag and- “eow!”
Lockdown mode was started at comment block 68. So lockdown mode is for when there is a rush of people trying to write a comment — for example, when people are trying to make comment #69, or when the O’Reilly show airs. Is the inference correct?
Lockdown mode is for when there is a rush of people trying to write a comment — for example, when the O’Reilly show airs, correct? For the case in hand, there was no O’Reilly show, but lockdown mode was initiated at comment block #68 — thereby helping handle the rush of people trying to make #69 .
PS: Marina used the word “crushing” — that evokes the thought of lovers crushing themselves in each other’s arms!
Anyway, seriously, I think it was a coincidence too. But it seems to be such a good opportunity for a joke. But then again maybe I am stretching things too far.
Marina, I don’t understand how Perez Hilton website can handle many times more traffic daily and HFW crashes with a little spurt. Something mis configured or is it the hosting provider that is unable to handle the loads?
The traffic capability is probably directly related to the amount of money paid to the hosting company. One would not want to needlessly pay a big monthly bill to accommodate the occasional spike. M probably gets the minimum package and that works fine for everyday use by us.
I was thinking that the problem could be directly related to the servers bandwidth capacity. Some providers offer burst service for temporary needs. Not sure if they provide that kind of service. It’s a small company in Florida.
Yes, so far I’ve been successful at beating the odds as far as growing up and maturing in my neighborhood! I’ve managed to: stay alive for 33 years so far, avoid becoming a felon, not have any unwanted kids, and finally start getting my mind on the correct path. And on top of all that, I can still walk on my own after getting hit w/ a round from an AK-74(or 47?) assault rifle 7 1/2 years ago in the wee hours of the morn, my running buddy at the time died on the spot. But anyway, love you Lady Marina!!
A story from my success, is when reporting and interviewing of “pop culture”, from university days…I got to know these guys. Skyhooks – Ego Is Not A Dirty Word (1975) {RIP, Shirley Strachan} please, listen to his words—Shirl was a [BRAIN] PS…thanks Marina for the Quote
“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.” – Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900
For the record, Soulja boy is NOT successful by any means. Success is a sumit. You have to climb the mountain for years in order to truly appreciate the view. Not only that, but it actually requires a skill to climb a mountain side. What soulja boy did was get dropped off at the top via helicopter and, like most rap artists, deemed himself successful based on the fact that he had high income instead of living in the slums. Being a rapper is the equivilant to hitiing pay dirt. It does mean you have money, but by no means does it make you YOURSELF successful. it means you are lucky for a few years. The average football player makes well over 2 million a year, but has an average career of 5 years. These kids with their high dose of income, will fade away with fame. They will deterioriate like Lindsey Lohan or the Olsen Twins, once they’re spitting image and youth dies out. Drugs, eating disorders, and teen parenting are common for them bc they have no true skill. They do these abnormal things to stay in the lime light of their “success” to suppliment for the “skills” that they never really possessed.
Call me old school, but I happen to like being old money because it teaches you how to not only obtain affluence with actual skills, but it also teaches you how to master and maintain money properly so you don’t become a “soulja” BOY, you learn to be a MAN, hold your own, and take care of your loved ones. To me, the definintion of succcess is finding someone to share it with.
[Is Russian preevyet (meaning hello) - related to Sanskrit/Hindi priya (meaning a beloved or a dear or a loved one)? The ending of priya can be changed to form preyea (meaning my beloved or my dear or my loved one).] I know very little of Sanskrit and Hindi, so I could be off a little in the meaning.
Anyway, when I hear “preevyet”, it sounds to me like “preyea”!
Hi Marina!
I wanna know the origin of the word [headquarters]
I looked it up in American Heritage Dictionary AND Merriam-Webster. and got nothing etymology~
thank you!
While driving in Pennsylvania , a family caught up to an Amish carriage. The owner of the carriage obviously had a sense of humor, because attached to the back of the carriage was a hand printed sign… ‘Energy efficient vehicle: Runs on oats and grass. Caution: Do not step in exhaust.’
The next person that sings the “Happy Birthday” song I’m turning your name to Time Warner for copyright violations! Just kidding…. about turning you in. Happy Birthday song is in fact copyrighted until 2030. Have you ever notice restaurants sing their own version of Happy Birthday song?
No one here was singing. If you had seen the expression on my face and my body language you would have known I was joking. See the written word lacks the full communication of human language. Maybe it would have been better if there was a way to post a video comment? Wouldn’t that be interesting.
The reason for my post is it was brought to my attention that the birthday song is still copyrighted and in fact it still being enforced. I think it’s funny that some company could own the rights for such a old song and still attempt to collect royalties on it, but that’s how the intellectual rights work now days. It’s just too much greed in today’s society.
Since my sons birthday is the 20th of this month who do I pay royalties too. That’s about absurd to hold a song over peoples head that they have to change it for a special occasion.
Yes sir you should pay them the standard rate. LOL just kidding. But yeah its really stupid that they where able to purchase the rights and extend the time. I have always wondered why restaurants had modified b-day songs. I thought it was to change it up to make things more interesting. It’s just another example of corporate greed.
Hey Jack, your full of vinegar to day with all the quotes. I like the one about “Treasure your friendships as if it was your last days for in the future all you will have left is the memories of what once was.” That one has a lot of value to it.
We have tried this long about the moose and squirrel I think now that I have a web cam I will do a video request and use M&S as the requesters. Glade to see you have a internet connection again. I know it’s frustrating.
Thanks for the comment on my quotes. I sometimes feel as it falls on deaf ears. Never sure if my thoughts are appreciated to those who find it useful. Normally I’m not that bothered with things like this, but lately with very few boaters on the docks over the winter I feel rather isolated.
Yes, a little known or unknown secret is if you make a video request your chances of it getting pick is much greater, for Marina says it makes her videos a bit more interesting, which I agree. She still does text requests.
Thanks! It’s nice to have internet again. Well I never lost it, it was just being penetrated in a way I could not lock out the hacker without taking away from other users of the service. I used to run multiple internet connections to make sure I had reliable internet connection and the ability to use one connection for uploading and the other for downloading.
Oh I would love that. Thanks for the invite! It’s on my list of things I must do. I don’t think I would sail over there. Too much work. Though I hate flying in pressurized cigar tubes. Let me get back to you on that. Keep a cold one for me.
Long beach? I know 2 or 3 places called long beach. Long Beach Washington and Long Beach California and one other on the East coast. Maybe some long beaches in Europe.
Who does own the publishing rights to “Happy Birthday to You”? They were acquired by a New York accountant named John F. Sengstack when he bought the Clayton F. Summy Company in the 1930s; Sengstack eventually relocated the company to New Jersey and renamed it Birch Tree Ltd. in the 1970s.
Warner Chappell (a Warner Communications division), the largest music publisher in the world, purchased Birch Tree Ltd. in late 1998 for a reported sale price of $25 million; the company then became Summy-Birchard Music, now a part of the giant AOL Time Warner media conglomerate.
How do you define success?
I think the best definitions I ever heard went something like this:- Success is the continuous, progressive realisation of predetermined steps towards a worthy goal or purpose.
Step 1. You’ve got to have a dream; if you don’t have a dream, how’re you going to have a dream come true?
Step 2. You have to make your dream the most important thing in your life. Everything else should be subservient to your dream and should be supportive of it, so it must be an honourable objective and be shared with your significant others. If there are things in your life which are working against achieving your dream, you’re never going to succeed. Get rid of them.
Step 3. As Marina mentioned in her New Year Resolutions video, you need to break down the process of working towards your objective into smaller, easily achievable steps. The ultimate dream should be overwhelming for you at your present stage of development, so you need to make the next step on the way just challenging enough to stretch you, but not so much that you won’t be able to achieve it.
There are thousands of self-help books available that go into this in depth; go Google! Here are some quotations by famous people about Success.
It feels so good to be back in class again, I missed you all while my computer was down with a Microsoft problem. And teacher you are looking better than ever.
Click the link next to my screen name for a Marinated Marina Orlova.
BTW what’s the scoop on the voting thing? Is the big M still on the #A1 list? Funny, I just had A1 on my lamb chop. Don’t worry I don’t eat meat that much. I’m allergic to the toxic poisons in the fat tissue. Trust me it’s a good thing.
Preach it brother! Wish more people think the way as you do. Unfortunately most people are after materialism to the extreme levels thinking that this is the measure of success. Or acquiring extreme amounts of money as a level of success. Some say they worked very hard for their great fame and fortune which is true, but how do you measure the ones who gave their lives in Iraq or Vietnam? Or how about Paris Hilton wealth vs Firefighter tries to rescue a cat from a tree dies when he fell 40 feet from a tree? (The cat was treated and returned to owners) Is it show or actions that should be the measure of ones success?
I ask the question to everyone is how should success be measured or judge? Should it even be measured?
Perhaps the definition of success is achieving the goals that we have set. It is a very simple idea, that I sometimes take for granted. My realtionship with God and my family, striving to be a good neighbor, to continue learning, to show respect to all people (even stupid, or self-serving people – those are the hard ones.) These are my goals. Material excess has never been a goal for me. Someone else in my shoes may consider himself a looser: I work in retail, do some substitute teaching, and I definately do not have alot of monetary wealth. I have what my heart holds most dear, and that is my success.
No, I would not consider myself successful, primarily because I am still in school. I give it another five years or so before I need to start worrying about being successful.
Dude!!!! Your still in school! That is success. I have friends that were high school drop outs. BTW school is a life long endeavor. You will never get out. Once you do, in time you will have to return. And if you end up like me you might end up teaching. Look at our dearest teacher Marina. She is still in school as a teacher and a student. But I know what your feeling. I too felt the same way when I was in grade school. I had dreamed to be the worlds greatest computer programmer. I thought Bill Gates was a no body. I even learned how to program on Applesoft Basic programing language he wrote. Now those days are long over. Who knows what you will end up doing that in your mind will be your success story.
To be quite honest: Success doesn’t matter. Money doesn’t matter. When you don’t give a shit, when you don’t give a damn, that’s when it suddenly becomes magical. Yeah, only then things will become magical.
The freedom to do what ever the hell you want to do when ever you want do to with no restrictions? Is it magical or should it be the norm?!?! If it’s not the norm, then what is it that suppresses this?
Others. As soon as one of your goals comes into direct competition or opposition with someone else’s goal, then the notion of justice comes in. Where neither you or me can be proved right or wrong, so the issue has to be escalated to another level. If I choose to compete, try to push my way and kick you aside unjustly to pursue my own personal set of goals and agenda, then I’m nothing more than a stupid bully, and I’m only running faster towards the Nemesis that will bring me down sooner or later.
Yeah your so right. That’s the major problem with society allowing everyone to pursue their own goals. What’s interesting is there’s this game called Second Life. It’s a 3D online world. They experiences the same issues we have in the real world. Even though there is plenty of room to move around and control your own part of the world, conflicts arise. People just need to learn to back off and search for other ways they could pursue their goal in away that doesn’t interfere with others.
The freedom to do what ever the hell you want to do when ever you want do to with no restrictions? Ok so whom is left too do the work. Hmmmmmmm I think the Government should today open a trust fund for each and every American citizen living and those that are being born and deposit a million dollars (drawing interest) in it and when The living reach 55 years of age you can start drawing it out and when the newly born reach 21 they should be able too draw theirs out, Everyone in America deserves to be millionaires.
I wasn’t referring to labor. Sorry I should have been more descriptive. I was referring to that success should be measured by the people who in their own mind are successful.
No argument from me there Cap except for the no restrictions part, as long as people have too work for some one other than themselves, they have restrictions from “freedom to do what ever the hell you want to do when ever you want do” because of financial concerns and obligations. A lack of financial independence is a strong motivation for a strong work ethic.
That’s one of my biggest issues with working for companies for the place you into a box and place many restrictions on what and how you should do things. One reason I left the military to get away from being told what to do and how to do it. I’m happy I joined the Navy and I’m sure glad I got out.
Hey mb7art, Here’s a little help to adding your web site to your nick name.
Adding a Web link to your name or handle.
If you want to link a web page to your name go to the Dashboard at the top of the page on the right and enter it then click on Profile. There you will see about halfway down the page a place to put a web address, this turns your name blue and members can visit your site or Youtube site. If you run into any problems just ask and we will help.
MB7ART, is that your ham radio call sign? It fits the format of FCC amateur radio call. I used to have KB7GFF. Now I’m using N7MFE among a few other federal radio licenses I hold.
Speeking of see or use, I saw yesterday that you changed your screen name and was wondering how you did it. I can’t change mine and I wouldn’t, but I would like the P and the D to be a capital and not a lowercase.
It’s easy PD. Go to your dashboard and click on your profile. Where your nick name is retype it the way you want it to look. Then go to the bottom of the page and save your results. Go back up to the name area and under that is “Display name publicly as” and click on the down arrow button. You will see where your old name is and the new one you made. Click on the new one and save your work at the bottom of the page again. Your name should come out like PageDoll. You may have to clear your cache before you see the results in a comment .
Now I don’t know what I like the best. Photo of Gorby or your friend photo of Page. I still envy your special friendship with Page. I hope you treasure it as if it was your last for in the future all you will have is the memories.
This comes from my old quote I did back in 2001. “Treasure your friendships as if it was your last days for in the future all you will have left is the memories of what once was.” That was not the exact quote I have it written down somewhere. Interesting thing is that caught the attention of a friend that is so moved by it so much, she became a life long friend. This quote I created I myself need to follow. For I am haunted by refusing a car ride to a party with some good friends that ended up wrapped around a telephone pole. This happened near where you live in San Diego. Interesting how our worlds are so close and intertwined and we don’t even know it. Had I accepted the ride you would not be reading this message.
Wow! Even my own thinking amazes me. Someday I hope to meet this person face to face when he is complete.
I missed the Moose and Squirrel. Hey if you really want Marina to say Moose and Squirrel we the people can get her to say it. Just let me know. I know I can move the moon and stars so people can do what they need to do. I moved them before and onces completely rested I think I can move them again.
That is fascinating to learn that ‘Success’ means to gain for oneself rather than originally to inherit through succession. What is interesting is that I recently learned in the Documentary Sequel to Esoteric Agenda, Kymatica, that the English Language itself, is entirely opposite of Ancient Hebrew; And other similar languages such as Sanskrit and Gaelic. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I believe it is so.
If the #t=ms thing doesn’t work for you start here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6gvHvn9itM&feature=related and go to the ‘Logos’ chapter at 8:54 and just keep watching on into part 3 if you are still interested or not frightened away.
My kids are grown up and happy, and we still love each other; I would call that a success. I love my teaching gig, but the night job is just income to put beans on the table.
That was pretty cool.
Now, you wanna see something completely insane?
Check THIS out!
Watch the guy in the gt3 get way out of shape when the bikes cross in front of him.
From what I know about HotForWords, Marina is a success story. For me, success is being here. Too many varaibles to ascertain measurement. Ascendency to be good is success enough [ego]
Marina, I was watching Jeopardy today. I don’t remember the catagory, but I believe the answer was, “Etymology is the study of this – and what you should respond with” or something like that.
All I could remember thinking was, “Why didn’t they have Marina introduce that?”
Anyway, you have achieved great success, Marina, and we look forward to seeing and hearing more from you tomorrow. Losers for
$200, Alex.
S-ouija Boy (Swee-gee boy)?
Never heard of it… is he gay?
What is his “claim to fame”?
Another rapper with a bad attitude?
No thanks – I pass
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Homework: I am a success (no inheritance)
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The news is that the bailout money is up to three trillion dollars! That comes to $9836.07 for every person in the USA!
(I’d like mine in cash directly paid to me, thank you.)
Obama is a fuck-nut thinking this is a good plan…
My minuscule understanding: Soulja Boy released self-made music videos through YouTube, and became famous for his Crank That dance. His recent Kiss Me Thru The Phone has some interesting lyrics (but there are superior techniques than those illustrated in this video — perhaps one can excuse the remiss in creativity by referring to his youth).
All this in just 2 years — starting from age of 16 to current 18.
He plays to a demographic, then.
No wonder I never heard of him.
If he gets shot, does that make
him more, or less successful?
(punching your wife in the face
doesn’t count)
It is government that needs checks and balances, capitalism needs to be laissez-faire. Whenever capitalism was tried, it always had government controls; and the controls led to disasters — but capitalism always got the blame and people introduced more controls — talk about pouring oil on fire! Whatever part of capitalism was free resulted in unprecedented success, but the cause — laissez-faire — was never identified and upheld.
I completely disagree with your opinion that government needs the check and balances and not capitalists.
It’s a known fact that big business indirectly controls the government. Businesses get laws made that affect other businesses and not their own works. It’s a war going on you might say. I find it ironic that the same laws that business complain about are the laws that are drawn up by their competitors in business. The government is caught up in the middle. Don’t get me wrong that I’m defending the Feds. Far from it.
I am not able to list my sources (I signed several non-disclosure agreements) other than I have been next to the front line with a company that was in litigation of such a practices that I mentioned.
Captain, your answer actually proves my case — here’s how: You say: “Businesses get laws made that affect other businesses …”. My point is that the government should not be making any laws that affect commerce and trade — laissez-faire. If government left the marketplace alone, no business would be able to get any law made to restrict anybody else — there would be no such laws.
Yes I see your point. If the companies were not able to get new laws passed it would solve one problem but creates other problems as well. We would have a lawless capitalist running around not able to get anything done for no one would invest without some sort of protection. Do I need to explain further what the problems would be if there were no laws protecting businesses?
I consider myself Successful, because I requested this word perhaps 12 to 15 months ago and now that my request has been answered.
thank-you very much.
murat
[IT'S ALL ABOUT THE BENJAMINS] IS THE AMERICAN WAY! But I have learned to take personal satisfaction in things that money cannot buy-my bible study, spiritual experiecnes, trying to begin to figure out CLASSICAL GAS on accoustic guitar, having collected 200-300 Radio Verification Cards from around the world. Completing studies of seven Old Testament Bible Prophets plus Revelation! I think of people in POW camp movies or prison movies and the little acheivements that make their day. Some due to my poor health, some due to hate from others. But here is a fun word in my vocabulary [DOOMSDAY]! I made a photo book last year of some of the high points of last year-my gladioulus garden for mom, my first two ebooks getting published, putting 20 years of past bible studies in Sterlite boxes. It almost sounds like a Bob Seeger song THESE ARE THE MEMORIES THAT MAKE ME A WEALTHY SOUL!
i wouldn’t consider myself successful just yet. what i mean is there are some goals i hope to accomplish this summer. one of those things is to finish my book. yes the ranting zinnaku is writing a book. when i finish it and it sell decently, and i lose the weight i want to lose, then i would consider myself successful.
Lookin good… Happy Valentine’s Day ! Success to some is keepin up wit da Jones; which is kinda tough living in Hollywood paying 25$ per hr. for a parking space and Washington Fat-cats live like stars.
TEACHER, would you please explain [philematology] .
“What does [Jai Guru Deva, Om] mean in “Across the Universe”?.
Not all success is a matter of money. Lately I have succeeded in protecting my tenant’s rights after a winter where the heating system went out and the landlord neglected to fix it. I not only succeeded in hiring my own person who successfully replaced a defective part, I also took a deduction for that repair when I paid rent, and when the landlord tried to evict me and also to raise my rent after the repair, I also hired a legal advisor who wrote a “cease and desist letter.” The legal advisor also has told me how to achieve success in enforcing my rights which are well protected in California when there have been habitability issues. Ah, success!
Dylan put it best in “Love minus zero no limit”
“In the dime stores and bus stations
People talk of situations
Read books repeat quotations
Draw conclusions on the wall
Some speak of the future
My love she speaks softly
She knows there’s no success like failure
And that failure’s no success at all”
The way the internet is running lately, I think we may be heading for a crash if they don’t fix the problem quickly.
Hi animalntaz, where are you located?
I’m in So Calif and have had zero problems for some time now.
I see there are routers out in Texas, Wisconsin, Virginia and Colorado.
hi Marina, I wonder if you could describe the word [kindergarden] to (y)our community.
“Intelligence is sexy” – ooooh yes!
Can any one tell me where comment 110157 is. I would like to reply to PK.
Ok I found him.
110157
at your service, Sir.
Thank you Bob, but the email thingy is working now. M must have unbugged it. Thanks M.
Yeah It’s annoying to me to but Im waiting for Pk to let me know that Marina is ahead in the listings that I can drop it.
I can’t comment back to who sent me an email. It will only load the page and not go to the comment. Hmmmm, another
Bug to deal with.
Im having the same issues also Cap. M must be tweeking again.
I thought she went to the gym and left us hanging with a broken web site.
Funny! I do the same damn thing when I get frustrated with a project I’m working on.
Your name is really annoying!!! It makes it look like Marina posted a comment!
Well blame my parents!
It’s the ‘Click here for…’ bit he’s talking about, Jack.
I found the bug. It’s M’s paging thing. If she turns it off it will fix the problem.
My email thing is working now. I can click on the comment link in my email and it brought me right to this comment of yours. WWeeeeee
Beautiful day here. Cool breeze, no humidity just a perfect day not a cloud in the sky. 
That’s cool. I only reply to the emailed comments. It’s much faster than pouring over pages of comments.
Richard Bramson on twitter ! Yeah right, funny how all the posts are about Virgin. I hate that, I would be so pissed off if all Marina did was post about hotforwords..
He’s doing what you have been doing in the past. Plugging your video’s, etc. There is nothing wrong with it. It’s a fact of life get over it.
But he is richard branson… the big bearded bastad in the sky. And who am I?? Who am I?? WHO AM I???!!!
GOD DAMN YOU RICHARD BRANSON UNLESS YOU BUY ME A NEW PAIR OF ARMANI JEANS ANOTHER JOHN GALLIANO TOP ANOTHER PAIR OF UGG BOOTS A LOUIS VUITTON WALLET AND 100,000 CIGGIES I WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU! Oh, I also want a lamborghini please.
oh, and some kris vanassche trousers and chilli and chocolate crisps. or onion bahji I dont know… but not cajun squirell…
Sorry, but all you are getting is a three-month-old half-eaten package of corn nuts and a used plastic airline cup with a mouthful of warm Pepsi in it.
Oh, and there is some little bit of stuff floating in the Pepsi, but you don’t have to drink it if you don’t want to.
Well I like Richard! I might want to have his baby! LOL!
Wow! We’re being paged. Don’t worry, Marina. Whatever you do, it will be fine with us.
Will it?
Word request: [Camouflage]
Shame this video wasn’t very succesful, feels like its been up for ages… I think soulja boy has dried up now, I think he is a bit of an idiot. He looks like one too with “soulja boy” on his glasses.
My 2 cents: this video is doing well, but YouTube has tweaked the algorithm for “Most Viewed” also — and it is the new algorithm for “Most Viewed” that is making this video climb slowly.
Why would any alogrithms affect the views?
Algorithm directly effects not the number of views, but the ranking on the “Most Viewed” page — it took a while for this video to show up at all on any of the Most Viewed page.
However, being on some of the Most Viewed page helps generate views — so there is an indirect effect.
How will SouljaBoy’s fans know about this video?
Perhaps adding this as a video response to SouljaBoy would help (if it hasn’t already been done)?
I think youtube is being a retard
OK.. sorry .. trying to figure out this code for my website so that it doesn’t show a page with only one comment. (ie: minimum number of comments per page)
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/paginate_comments_links
I don’t know how to put the arguments in the tag.
Arrgghh… going to the gym..
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First, there is a minor bug in the system: Page 1 has comments from 0 to 24, Page 2 has comments from 26 to 50. What happened to 25? (I say “minor bug” because it shouldn’t be hard to fix.)
Anyway, because of the bug, the following is not precisely accurate, but it illustrates the ideas.
Not sure how much tweaking you do to CodePress; so the following may or may not help.
Suppose
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Comments are numbered from 0 to (T-1)
T = total number of comments (=103+1=104 now)
P = comments per page (set to 25 now)
Then N = the number of pages needed will be:
N = (int)( ( T + P - 1 ) / P )
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At present, the systems allocates comments to pages starting from page 1, as follows:
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Display of page k (1 <= k <= N) will have
comment starting from
(k-1)*P
and ending at
(k * P) - 1 (when k < N)
or (T - 1) (when k = N)
and the number of comments on page k will be
P (when k < N)
or (T % P) (when k = N, % is remainder function)
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What you would like the system to do is to allocate comments to pages starting from the last page. So the parameters would be:
continued in 103.2 …
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continuing from 103.1
What you would like the system to do is to allocate comments to pages starting from the last page. So the parameters would be:
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Display of page k (1 <= k 1)
0 (when k = 1)
and ending at
T - (N-k)*p (when k > N)
or (T % P) - 1 (when k = 1, % is remainder function)
and the number of comments on page k will be
P (when k > 1)
or (T % P) (when k = 1)
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In the above, the formulas are written in two lines (e.g., one line k1 and another for k=1). It is possible to write them as single line formulas using conditionals.
Is the above within or outside the scope of the CodePress tweaking you perform?
–Hs4Mm
I cannot create the way the system works, I can only use the parameters that Wordpress has already set up. There are arguments for the paged comments as I showed in this link, I just don’t know how to put them in and what they do. I do know that one of the arguments controls the minimum amount of comments that a page will show.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/paginate_comments_links
Marina,
I did look at that link you provided (before I made my comments) and had also looked at http://codex.wordpress.org/Migrating_Plugins_and_Themes_to_2.7/Enhanced_Comment_Display I don’t see any parameter that might affect the minimum number of comments per page — but the page you referenced has the line “If you want more control, you can also use the simpler next and previous functions:” which is mysterious to me. I could not find any reference to either of next_comments_link and previous_comments_link. Anyway, I started this: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/243276
Well I hope Marina can make sense of that because I was lost at “k”
Something is messing up the input in the code block. The formulas in 103.2 should begin as follows:
I keep trying and the input keeps getting messed up, even with blockquote!
Perhaps this is the problem —> If you use < and > symbols typed from the keyboard, WordPress thinks that everything between them is an HTML tag — a giant illegal tag — and deletes it. If you want to show those symbols in your text, instead of typing them, substitute < and > and it will not think they form tags. This applies only to WP, not the forum.
OK (but shouldn’t WP not try to interpret material within a
block?)Re-enter without using mathematical symbols:
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Display of page k (1 le k le N) will have comment starting from
T - (N-k+1)*P (when k gt 1)
0 (when k eq 1)
and ending at
( rest as above )
Other parts in the original 103.1 and 103.2 might be messed up too; I can provide the correct version, if anyone is interested.
Well this is new.
Do you want me too see what I can do? Whats having paged comments in aid of anyway? I think it will be a pain in theass going through all those comments.
I think she actually wants “Recent Comments” paginated. Paginating all comments is just temporary experiment.
I remember before she said something about why she didn’t use paged comments.
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Another option would be to ask a question along the following lines in the WordPress Forum:
At present, when comments are organized from newest at top to oldest at the bottom and pagination is turned on, the systems allocates comments to pages starting from page 1. This results in the last page (the page that has the most recent comments) being partially filled. How would one get the system to allocate comments starting from the last page (so as to ensure that the last page with newest comments is always full)? See discussion at the site here: http://www.hotforwords.com/2009/02/10/success/comment-page-5/#comment-110191
–Hs4Mm
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Another thought: It might be OK to organize “Recent Comments” chronologically. In such a case, its page 1 might be full of extracts of the latest comments (with the extract of the most recent comment at the bottom of its page 1).
–Hs4Mm
Curse at it a few times it always works for me.
input code does not show up properly — will send info by different method
I really do hope the you are not going to pages in the comments. That is an absolute bummer. One spends all day clicking and waiting for pages to load, which is a real pain. And if anything goes wrong with ads or something else that is called, it just adds to the wait for each page and you can’t search across page boundaries. If it is to overcome a huge list of comments, then I see nothing to overcome; I can zip up and down the comments at will.
Perhaps you are trying to overcome a slow loading time for someone on dial-up or maybe some small device. If so, they should have a personal preference to choose pages if they want, but please don’t saddle the rest of us with it. (Oh, to heck with the rest of us; don’t saddle me with it.
)
Whoops.. that was weird.. let me see where this comment goes.
It ended up at this spot
Crazy…I must get back to the [chores]….I bet you do a lot of [donning] and [doffing]…{drying my clothes}:-)
Hi,Marina.
I want to know the origin of the word [qwerty]
Take a look at the key directly above your left pinky finger. Now look at the one above your left ring finger. And so forth.
Hi Marina!!! You’re just awesome! I would like to request for the word [paramour] and how it relates to the band Paramore. Thanks!!! :]
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1) Would it be possible to support all comments in one page, either with an “All” button, or by having individual users specify a preference in their profile?
2) Font and/or icons in “Recent Comments” has become bigger — so the amount of information in that column has reduced. Would it be possible to support seeing more entries?
3) After pressesing “Login to Reply” to a comment and logging in, one is redirected to the top of the page; would it be possible to be redirected to somewhere near the comment one used for logging in?
4) As I am writing this comment, went to the dashboard and saw that Marina is saying something … haven’t seen it yet.
Thanks,
–Hs4Mm
Oh! Dear. We’ve been paginated, which means that the links in the ‘Recent Comments’ box don’t work any more, if they’re on a previous page.
I am trying to figure out a way to make paged comments work with Recent Comments.
Paged comments with “Recent Comments” is a good idea. How about clicking on “Recent Comments” takes one to an entire page (or even several pages) of “Recent Comments”?
I don’t like paged comments for all comments — see Comment 98 above.
OK.. guys.. I am working on the comments so that it doesn’t show just one comment when the previous pages fill up. Which is what it is doing right now.
Arrggh
It’s also messing up feed burner(emailed comments).
Seems to be working fine now, Marina; for me anyway – brilliant! What a wizard you are!
This is another one of those “simple, yet oh so difficult.”
I understand.
I agree,
but damn if it ain’t hard to do.
Marina you got competition in the calendar biz, Google ads a offering “Nice Jewish Guys” calendar for 2009
Call that competition?
Hello Capman911, CK, John, PageDoll, hs4mm, etc:
Regarding:
The positioning of the YT video playback head.
Capman911’s time code appears to be correct on the surface:
youtube/video_id#t=2m20s
This format #t=XmYYs has these results:
Notice single digit minute format.
FF – works
SeaMonkey – fails
MSIE 6 – fails
iPhone – works <– iPhone rocks!!!
This format #t=XXmYYs has these results:
Notice the 2 digit minute format
FF – works
SeaMonkey – works
MSIE 6 – works
iPhone – works
So, try Mike’s link again with the leading zero in the minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZ5bYfErdk#t=02m20s
Your welcome.
Good work PK, that was a SUCCESS!
I finally found you. The email back to the comments thingy isn’t working. I had to hunt you down. I tried it again and sometimes it might work but most of the time it doesn’t. I am using FF latest edition so it couldn’t be that. So thanks PK for the kind help.
Mike
Humm! doesn’t work for me in Firefox 3.0.5
Me either Bob. That vacuums. I liked that feature.
I wonder if it only works the first time you view the video, because it was working for me for another video a few days ago.
Or maybe YT has plugged the hole by now.
Karl, what are Java Updates & should I be installing them?
There is an icon in my tray saying “Java updates ready to install”
Tks in advance
Hi Che Volay,
You are probably familiar with a Adobe Flash plugin which facilitates the playing of videos that use the Flash format.
I’m sure you have experienced a time when you’ve watched a video and it tells you that you need to update your Flash player.
Java is a programming language that facilitates certain types of dynamic web content such as menus, animation, graphs, etc.
Most people have Java installed, and like most plugins, they require updates, which is what you are getting.
You can go to this web site to test if your Java is working and what version you have.
http://www.javatester.org/version.html
For me, here is what I see when I go to that web site.
http://i41.tinypic.com/6zlt07.jpg
Notice that I don’t have Java installed. If I go to web sites that requires me to have a Java plugin, I say no thanks, and go back to watching HotForWords video lessons.
Since you have it installed, and I presume you may need it for certain web sites, then go ahead and update your Java as requested. Otherwise, you can un-install it under the Control Panel and Add/Remove programs. If you find later that you desperately need Java for a certain web site, you can re-install the plugin.
Thanks Karl
more lucky than successful i think
Is that Gorby’s cage beside the night table ==
No its for that dingy raccoon that tore up the cabinets
I would like to make a word request. Seeing your video of the Bill O’Reilly show reminded me of the sexual harassment scandal he had a while back. Without going into vulgar, disgusting details, there seems to be something called a “falafel” involved. So, I just wanted to know, Marina, what’s a “falafel”, and why does that man want to use it as a sex toy? Perhaps, that’s a question you could ask him on your next television appearance. I feel it’s important that we all remember that he is disgusting and repulsive. By the way, he seems to be partial to soap suds also, but I already know what those are. This may help you to understand why his eye contact tends to drop about 8 inches below your eyes.
Whilst sitting on his ‘High Horse’, Bill O’Reilly fell af and landed in a Falafel.
WOW…Thanks Bob, Video jug and that falafel [recipe] was excellent…high horsey(broom stick riding)
webcorruptor:
Hey, genius,
Why don’t you tell us all what your political leanings are, and TRUTHFULLY how many episodes of The O’Reilly Factor you have actually seen?
Aw, nevermind. Both answers are obvious.
Marina,
[SCORE]
Not so long ago, score meant making a point, goal, touchdown, etc. in a sporting contest. Now you “score” sex, drugs, a sandwich, or whatever. How about it?
Always.
a [score] means 20 too , i second
I think the good Soulja is going to go the same route as M.C. Hammer and the Spice Girls. In ten years they will be doing an episode of “Where are they now” on him. Which, is kind of sad because he obviously relates his estimate of his self worth with how much money he makes and other peoples’ opinion of him. You’ll notice that he said the one word that best describes him is successful, and not happy or content. A lot of people find it very difficult to get one without sacrificing the other.
PLAYBOY: In your emphasis on reason, you are in philosophical conflict with contemporary writers, novelists and poets — many of whom are self-admitted mystics, or irrationalists, as they have been called. Why is this so?
RAND: Because art has a philosophical base, and the dominant philosophical trends of today are a form of neomysticism. Art is a projection of the artist’s fundamental view of man and of existence. Since most artists do not develop an independent philosophy of their own, they absorb, consciously or subconsciously, the dominant philosophical influences of their time. Most of today’s literature is a faithful reflection of today’s philosophy — and look at it!
PLAYBOY: But shouldn’t a writer reflect his time?
RAND: No. A writer should be an active intellectual leader of his time, not a passive follower riding any current. A writer should shape the values of his culture, he should project and concretize the value goals of man’s life. This is the essence of the Romantic school of literature, which has all but vanished from today’s scene.
PLAYBOY: Leaving us where, literarily speaking?
RAND: At the dead end of Naturalism. Naturalism holds that a writer must be a passive photographer or reporter who must transcribe uncritically whatever he happens to observe around him. Romanticism holds that a writer must present things, not as they are at any given moment, but, to quote Aristotle, “as they might be and ought to be.” -refer.co,82.1.1.1
Good post. That’s my favorite author. I believe she was from St.Petersburg. When I first read her books, I was surprised with her depth of understanding and dislike of Communism. Then I found out that she was from the USSR and it made a lot of sense. It’s sad that a lot of the things that she mentioned in her books are taking place now and were very prophetic. She even believed in the gold standard, and a lot of people believe that getting away from that is a big reason for the problems we face economically today.
webcorruptor-You are soul right on…very good of your “my space”
I don’t buy into this lofty jazz; too much self-ego driven for my tastes. I believe writing is a creative art form; writers work their art with thoughts expressed through words the way painters express through imagery with brushes and colors and sculptors through shapes and forms with tools and physical materials. At the end of all these processes is artistic impression. Here is some artistic writing by Robert Louis Stevenson (A Lodging for the Night) :
http://www.geocities.com/helenvict0r/Anon_Villon.html
It doesn’t take egomania to create great artistic works or advance philosophy and science, though many highly talented artists, authors, scientists, musicians etc. certainly may be ego freaks. I did not like the related message in Fountainhead, though I do concede that strong ego can be a primal driving force in creative endeavor but like many things it is a double-sided knife that can hurt the wielder (and hapless souls in close proximity) if let run too far amok. The book (Fountainhead) certainly would be reflective of the commentary above though (which is why I take exception to it also).
Hi Marina,
What is the origin of the phrase, [goody, goody two shoes]?
Thank you.
P4W
phillips4words, this song might help
Adam And The Ants – Goody Two Shoes [shoes]
So funny.. cause the name of his band is Adam Ant!
You are so right Marina, here is someting from wiki ” he suffered a nervous breakdown which led to a suicide attempt and hospitalization. Upon his discharge from the hospital, Goddard renamed himself Adam Ant. He formed the Adam and the Ants in 1977″Bow Wow Wow – I Want Candy and also the band then worked with Annabella Lwin. So it goes…
Adam Ant fans are called Antpeople. I think they may also be into farming.
Do they call each other by their antonyms, I wonder?
“Little, goody, TWO SHOES…”
hey! i would like to request the phrase: [Run out of...] for example, run out of clothes, or money. Thank you
~Maddie Blaylock
Hi Marina,
Here is another phrase I have heard a lot. request : [ look before you leap ]
p.s. I looked thru your words and phrases done before I leaped.
thanks
Jordi
Does anyone know why the #T=00m00s doesn’t work any more on YouTube. I have tried it three or four times and tried the one Marina put up as a display and that one doesn’t work either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fZ5bYfErdk#t=2m20s
Have you tried one of the site videos yet? It probably has to do with video producers wanting people too watch the entire vid instead of allowing people to use them to advantage their own ideas.
Yes John I tried a couple. This site is the one Marina made up for us to go by and it doesn’t work either. Must be something with a You Tube change.
I’ve had that problem too.
…haven’t tried it in about a month though.
That feature only works for me about a 1/3 of the time.
aah, I see you got your PD the way you wanted it. I just got it to work for me one time and that was all.
Is an answer, to be had? Was there a way to stop the video from its completion? You tube and the sense of cents.
twitter-pater
I found the official info source on this feature here, where I mentioned the problem. I will check there to see if there are any replies.
In all of the places explaining deep links, this was the only one I saw that mentioned the automatic converstion of time references in YT comments to deep links to within the subject video. I have not tried one yet.
The following will “work” with some drawbacks — see only video, not the youtube page; video takes up entire browser; won’t auto-start — need to press play. But it will start at the time specified in seconds (1m20s = 80s):
http://www.youtube.com/v/6fZ5bYfErdk&start=80
I like that better. It’s in full screen. Thanks
Reporting to Capman911: same here
[minute] [seconds]
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Hi Mike,
See my answer up above.
I’ve had more money than I knew what to do with, and I’ve been so broke I was on foot. I’ve had great friends and relatives, many of whom are gone now. I’ve had some power and authority, and I’ve been scorned when I was down and out. I believe if you have great love in your life, and if you are surrounded by a cadre of true friends, and if you have a deep relationship with your
God, then you can consider yourself successful. The rest will fall into place, or
it won’t matter.
I hope that wasn’t too sappy for ya’ll. Just doing my homework.
Marina, I have noticed that your You Tube Channel has almost absolutely nothing favored or featured that does not concern your role as HotForWords, Does Teacher live, breath, eat, and sleep her HotForWords persona 24/7? Why no personal things such as music you may like, videos or activities you enjoy or participate in? This can’t be healthy , we all would like to know more about you as a person other than you seem to work 24/7 HotForWords. Just asking/saying be well.
(John, you arn’t asking me, so I’ll say this parenthetically. I think it is proper for a person to be driven by his choice of productive work — to “live, breath, eat, and sleep” his work — and to not mix personal aspects with business. I think it is healthy to be this way. If you consider good, productive people in any endeavor (janitors, gardeners, sports people, singers, CEOs etc.) you will find that they discovered their passion early and have lived that way ever since.)
Your right I didn’t ask. However thank you for answering my questions In Marina’s stead. I am considerably reassured now. I have seen behaviors from others that suggest otherwise.
If it is written in Playboy magazine, the bible for men, it must be true: http://www.ellensplace.net/ar_pboy.html (I have no idea who “ellen” is). (I am just joking about the importance attached to that magazine.)
I think the limitation of non-personal info is a purposeful erection of a kind of firewall between her Web persona and her personal life. If there was a leak between the two, it is possible that it could invite unwanted contact between M and “a thousand maniacs.” Once such a leak occured, she would have a hard time putting the genie back in the bottle. I don’t know whether she thought this all out herself before she started or was advised by someone of the wisdom of staying private, but so far, her “Websphincter” has been fairly well clenched.
to prevent [stalkers] ?
Not least the one who asked the question.
Bob, why are you here? Oh defending your territory, or something?
Hello i have a word request [ sesquipedalophobia] it would be great to see it.
i know you did the word but not hte phobia
thanks , mr. e
My username on Youtube is “oscheissen”
Thank you
Hi Marina!
I’m curious where the word [bill], which can mean an invoice, a proposed law or a beak of a bird, comes from.
I would say success is coming from a foreign country and putting down roots. Then starting your own business and watch it grow every day from infancy to adulthood until you have to expand and venture out to a self owned internet business. You worked hard to achieve top status among your peers where you are recognized for your efforts by thousands of adoring fans all over the world and go on to magazine articles, radio spots and now appearances on tv. The sky is the limit for a person like this. I for one hope you make it to where you want to be in this world as you help others learn from your knowledge and teachings on the way upward. May success always be yours to find and to keep. Thank you Marina for letting us be part of your success and to be apart of your life.
Mike
I’d like to think that success will come to those who have known defeat.
(I don’t know if that is yet a well known quote or not, but if its not, I just coined it.)
I love that quote! It’s so true. I hope you are the first to coin it.
R. C.( radio control) Jack ever done any of this?
http://tinyurl.com/bc5enj
Yes I have! (Only electric though) I even sat in the back of the sled and rode one for about 6 feet. This little things have a lot of power for their size. Electric motors have a lot of torque.
Have you seen my demo flight I made about a year ago?
http://bit.ly/uEtk2
I have this little amazing helicopter that can do some impressive stunts. I just have to get my skills up to speed. Looking at getting a new simulator so I can practice some 3D maneuvers and not have to worry about damaging my heli.
Hey that’s really good flying , I’ve seen dragonfly’s that couldn’t fly that good
Really? That was like my 5 flight ever, on a very difficult heli to fly. This model is extremely aerobatic and you can’t look way for one second or you end up ditching it. I should upload a new video for now I have been flying over a year. I’m not doing any crazy aerobatic yet for I want to get better on the simulators before attempting in real life.
Well if you haven’t crashed and broken it yet that must be good flying right?
I’m rather good on the sticks. I don’t have the smooth calculated skills as some do but I can hold my own. I’m defiantly above average.
Lady Gaga – Beautiful, Dirty, Rich I would love
to think! “Coins are successfully knowned not to think!”
u
“failure is the mother of success” – Chinese proverb
Happy Valentines Marina!
Yes I Know it’s a few days Early yet.
I would like to request the word [Methylchloroisothiazolinone] tnks ^^
Are you nuts? If she started in on chemical compounds, she could do a video every half hour for the rest of her life and never finish.
Take just spices. She could get carawayed with it and pepper us with videos once a day and still run out of thyme before the year was out. It would be savory, but not sage.
I have never found out if Parsley save Rosemary in time…
Where did the word [orange] come from? And why does nothing rhyme with it? Thanks!!!!!!
Sounds to me like it has something to do with the ange part of the word orange.
Orange you going to give us something a little more definite?
Well ange will rhyme with flange sort of so it must be that other part of the word.
What word rhymes with “purple”?
(maple syruple?)
purple nurple
The result of sucking incessantly?
Gee kinda sharp tongued around that time of the morning aren’t you Bob?
A lesson about the origin of the word [Macho] sounds good.
What is the meaning of the word [Bukkake]?
Hello! What is the origin of [macho] ?
From the Villiage People.
Test UNLOCK mode. New comments may now magically appear!
(heh heh)
Hey Doug can you do this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10xQpwVQ8Fo&feature=channel_page#t=31s
I wonder if Marina can do the trick at 32 secs.
The slo-mo video part, or the OTHER part? LOL!
You ask her Bob. I like to be able to comment on here tomorrow.
Look like jello, and I like jello.
If I could do that, I’d never have to buy dinner, again!
I don’t know what I did wrong, but I couldn’t get it to start at 31 seconds like in the url I left you. Any suggestions?
To link directly to a specific time in YouTube videos,
append this to the end: “#t=2m20s”
In this case, it would be “#t=0m31s”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10xQpwVQ8Fo&“#t=0m31s”
I want a lesson on the world [MOVIE]
Test LOCKDOWN mode. New comments will not appear during lockdown mode.
Lockdown mode was started at comment block 68. So lockdown mode is for when there is a rush of people trying to write a comment — for example, when people are trying to make comment #69, or when the O’Reilly show airs. Is the inference correct?
yes you have been paying attention.
I will be putting the website into lockdown mode when O’Reilly appears on Friday. It will help the website handle the crushing traffic that occurs
I hope you make it to the “View”. It will be worth watching to see you there.
Capman911, can you reformulate 68.1 so that the reference to 69 becomes humorous?
Even though I tried to make a joke about 69, my request to confirm the need for the lockdown was serious; thanks for the confirmation!
Test reply on page 3 of comments.
testing 68.1.2.3
hey
testie
Sorry hs4mm, only Marina has those powers.
But it would be funny. 
Here’s an attempt:
Lockdown mode is for when there is a rush of people trying to write a comment — for example, when the O’Reilly show airs, correct? For the case in hand, there was no O’Reilly show, but lockdown mode was initiated at comment block #68 — thereby helping handle the rush of people trying to make #69
.
PS: Marina used the word “crushing” — that evokes the thought of lovers crushing themselves in each other’s arms!
I think it was just coincident she tested lock down at this number
Can’t reply directly to John because of levels …
Anyway, seriously, I think it was a coincidence too. But it seems to be such a good opportunity for a joke. But then again maybe I am stretching things too far.
It may be you just make it sound so serious I felt like I suppose that I had too comment.
Marina, I don’t understand how Perez Hilton website can handle many times more traffic daily and HFW crashes with a little spurt. Something mis configured or is it the hosting provider that is unable to handle the loads?
Please avoid using the phrase ‘a little spurt’ on the same block as people talking about 69.
The traffic capability is probably directly related to the amount of money paid to the hosting company. One would not want to needlessly pay a big monthly bill to accommodate the occasional spike. M probably gets the minimum package and that works fine for everyday use by us.
“I am few and far between.” — CampKohler
I was thinking that the problem could be directly related to the servers bandwidth capacity. Some providers offer burst service for temporary needs. Not sure if they provide that kind of service. It’s a small company in Florida.
LOCKDOWN Mode
That sounds incredibly exciting
Does that mean we don’t have to go home?
yellow
Yes, so far I’ve been successful at beating the odds as far as growing up and maturing in my neighborhood! I’ve managed to: stay alive for 33 years so far, avoid becoming a felon, not have any unwanted kids, and finally start getting my mind on the correct path. And on top of all that, I can still walk on my own after getting hit w/ a round from an AK-74(or 47?) assault rifle 7 1/2 years ago in the wee hours of the morn, my running buddy at the time died on the spot. But anyway, love you Lady Marina!!
Hi there, can you tell me what is the origin of [Sergeant at Arms]
thanks
take care,
So Mrs. Whoopi, where are you?
I know it means the transfer of energy to a different form, but Why is it called Entropy?
It means energy is lost, transformed to heat (hysteresis).
It also means bringing chaos to orderly systems.
What is the origin of [Entropy]?
A story from my success, is when reporting and interviewing of “pop culture”, from university days…I got to know these guys. Skyhooks – Ego Is Not A Dirty Word (1975) {RIP, Shirley Strachan}
please, listen to his words—Shirl was a [BRAIN] PS…thanks Marina for the Quote
“Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.” – Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900
Id that true?
Skyhooks – Smut (1975) Id true, I tell ya….
“At first you don’t succeed, keep on sucking till you do succeed” -Curly The Three Stooges
That explains the sucking sound…
For the record, Soulja boy is NOT successful by any means. Success is a sumit. You have to climb the mountain for years in order to truly appreciate the view. Not only that, but it actually requires a skill to climb a mountain side. What soulja boy did was get dropped off at the top via helicopter and, like most rap artists, deemed himself successful based on the fact that he had high income instead of living in the slums. Being a rapper is the equivilant to hitiing pay dirt. It does mean you have money, but by no means does it make you YOURSELF successful. it means you are lucky for a few years. The average football player makes well over 2 million a year, but has an average career of 5 years. These kids with their high dose of income, will fade away with fame. They will deterioriate like Lindsey Lohan or the Olsen Twins, once they’re spitting image and youth dies out. Drugs, eating disorders, and teen parenting are common for them bc they have no true skill. They do these abnormal things to stay in the lime light of their “success” to suppliment for the “skills” that they never really possessed.
Call me old school, but I happen to like being old money because it teaches you how to not only obtain affluence with actual skills, but it also teaches you how to master and maintain money properly so you don’t become a “soulja” BOY, you learn to be a MAN, hold your own, and take care of your loved ones. To me, the definintion of succcess is finding someone to share it with.
Well wrote, excited4etymology…money is the means to share and not beg for.
Hats off to excited4etymology for gracing us with some timeless wisdom!
Just giving credit to where it’s due.
Very well said my friend, very well said.
I agree with you , their success are quite like winning the lottery , sooner or later they’ll fade away
HI Marina:
I want to know tho origin of these words:
[Schoolgirl]
[oil wrestling]
Thanks
“And look up bodkin while you’re at it.” — Herb Tarlick, WKRP in Cincinatti
[Is Russian preevyet (meaning hello) - related to Sanskrit/Hindi priya (meaning a beloved or a dear or a loved one)? The ending of priya can be changed to form preyea (meaning my beloved or my dear or my loved one).] I know very little of Sanskrit and Hindi, so I could be off a little in the meaning.
Anyway, when I hear “preevyet”, it sounds to me like “preyea”!
Hi Marina!
I wanna know the origin of the word [headquarters]
I looked it up in American Heritage Dictionary AND Merriam-Webster. and got nothing etymology~
thank you!
You will have too look in a military dictionary to find this word except their Top Secret
I’m #113 !!! YES !!!!
And I’m 55.1,soul successfull
have a great day 
According to Mark Twain– ” All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, then success is a sure thing”
I like this one. Sexy!
Hello!
I´d like to request the word [labyrinth].
Bye
I like that movie.
The next person that sings the “Happy Birthday” song I’m turning your name to Time Warner for copyright violations! Just kidding…. about turning you in. Happy Birthday song is in fact copyrighted until 2030. Have you ever notice restaurants sing their own version of Happy Birthday song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D28hhaU9RU
I can’t blame the dog… that is a lousy song.
Sometimes Jack your comments just seem out of left field for me, who was singing?
No one here was singing. If you had seen the expression on my face and my body language you would have known I was joking. See the written word lacks the full communication of human language. Maybe it would have been better if there was a way to post a video comment? Wouldn’t that be interesting.
The reason for my post is it was brought to my attention that the birthday song is still copyrighted and in fact it still being enforced. I think it’s funny that some company could own the rights for such a old song and still attempt to collect royalties on it, but that’s how the intellectual rights work now days. It’s just too much greed in today’s society.
Since my sons birthday is the 20th of this month who do I pay royalties too. That’s about absurd to hold a song over peoples head that they have to change it for a special occasion.
Yes sir you should pay them the standard rate. LOL just kidding. But yeah its really stupid that they where able to purchase the rights and extend the time. I have always wondered why restaurants had modified b-day songs. I thought it was to change it up to make things more interesting. It’s just another example of corporate greed.
Hey Jack, your full of vinegar to day with all the quotes. I like the one about “Treasure your friendships as if it was your last days for in the future all you will have left is the memories of what once was.” That one has a lot of value to it.
Glade to see you have a internet connection again. I know it’s frustrating. 
We have tried this long about the moose and squirrel I think now that I have a web cam I will do a video request and use M&S as the requesters.
Thanks for the comment on my quotes. I sometimes feel as it falls on deaf ears. Never sure if my thoughts are appreciated to those who find it useful. Normally I’m not that bothered with things like this, but lately with very few boaters on the docks over the winter I feel rather isolated.
Yes, a little known or unknown secret is if you make a video request your chances of it getting pick is much greater, for Marina says it makes her videos a bit more interesting, which I agree. She still does text requests.
Thanks! It’s nice to have internet again. Well I never lost it, it was just being penetrated in a way I could not lock out the hacker without taking away from other users of the service. I used to run multiple internet connections to make sure I had reliable internet connection and the ability to use one connection for uploading and the other for downloading.
If you get too lonely on that side of the world, sail around here and stay at Long Beach for a while and we can hang out and drink a beer or two.
Oh I would love that. Thanks for the invite! It’s on my list of things I must do. I don’t think I would sail over there. Too much work. Though I hate flying in pressurized cigar tubes. Let me get back to you on that. Keep a cold one for me.
Long beach? I know 2 or 3 places called long beach. Long Beach Washington and Long Beach California and one other on the East coast. Maybe some long beaches in Europe.
Wrong Warner.
Actually, because the song used the tune of another song, only the words are copywriteable. So, you could sing it without infringement as,
Parsley moon dance, poo choo,
Parsley moon dance, poo choo,
Parsley moooooon dance, dear {insert name here}
Parsley moon dance, poo choo.
Of course, everyone will know what is being sung about, so why not?
Who does own the publishing rights to “Happy Birthday to You”? They were acquired by a New York accountant named John F. Sengstack when he bought the Clayton F. Summy Company in the 1930s; Sengstack eventually relocated the company to New Jersey and renamed it Birch Tree Ltd. in the 1970s.
Warner Chappell (a Warner Communications division), the largest music publisher in the world, purchased Birch Tree Ltd. in late 1998 for a reported sale price of $25 million; the company then became Summy-Birchard Music, now a part of the giant AOL Time Warner media conglomerate.
Like I said, Time/Warner.
Successful not in the way I would prefer and not in the eyes of most, I suppose.
John I see success as being alive and having friends, like you do on here.
Thanks capman
How do you define success?
I think the best definitions I ever heard went something like this:-
Success is the continuous, progressive realisation of predetermined steps towards a worthy goal or purpose.
Step 1. You’ve got to have a dream; if you don’t have a dream, how’re you going to have a dream come true?
Step 2. You have to make your dream the most important thing in your life. Everything else should be subservient to your dream and should be supportive of it, so it must be an honourable objective and be shared with your significant others. If there are things in your life which are working against achieving your dream, you’re never going to succeed. Get rid of them.
Step 3. As Marina mentioned in her New Year Resolutions video, you need to break down the process of working towards your objective into smaller, easily achievable steps. The ultimate dream should be overwhelming for you at your present stage of development, so you need to make the next step on the way just challenging enough to stretch you, but not so much that you won’t be able to achieve it.
There are thousands of self-help books available that go into this in depth; go Google!
Here are some quotations by famous people about Success.
Bob, you have successfully made my environment and behavior respond back to you. Shaping development becomes the stage and we all get to play.
It feels so good to be back in class again, I missed you all while my computer was down with a Microsoft problem. And teacher you are looking better than ever.
It couldn’t have been a Microsoft problem,
maybe malware or a virus.
Whatever
Microsoft couldn’t figure it out, I had to reinstall Microsoft.
See if they couldn’t figure it out it must not have been a Microsoft problem.
Next time I have a problem on my computer,I” just ask you for help genius!
Sure i will walk you through a repair install so you won’t lose any programs or documents.
Thank you!
Success is …
Well Henry Ford went bankrupt about 4 times before becoming a successful automobile manufacturer.
While trying to manufacture automobiles i might add.
To me, Success is having control of your life, living it to the fullest, and helping everyone you can along the way!
Just like in Real Estate. Thank You, Thank You, Thank You.
Click the link next to my screen name for a Marinated Marina Orlova.
BTW what’s the scoop on the voting thing? Is the big M still on the #A1 list? Funny, I just had A1 on my lamb chop. Don’t worry I don’t eat meat that much. I’m allergic to the toxic poisons in the fat tissue. Trust me it’s a good thing.
For the last few days, every time I click on M’s up arrow, the count goes down? What’s with that?
I’ve also noticed if you click, leave and re-enter, the vote for you cast for Marina magically goes away, while the other votes remain intact.
this homework is an invitation to a very social debate..
first i wonder what you- marina – considers a “success” ?
personally i value friendship, love of God, piece, working and living together, ..
if I can contribute just a little to that, i consider that a success…
Amen Brother!
Preach it brother! Wish more people think the way as you do. Unfortunately most people are after materialism to the extreme levels thinking that this is the measure of success. Or acquiring extreme amounts of money as a level of success. Some say they worked very hard for their great fame and fortune which is true, but how do you measure the ones who gave their lives in Iraq or Vietnam? Or how about Paris Hilton wealth vs Firefighter tries to rescue a cat from a tree dies when he fell 40 feet from a tree? (The cat was treated and returned to owners) Is it show or actions that should be the measure of ones success?
I ask the question to everyone is how should success be measured or judge? Should it even be measured?
Perhaps the definition of success is achieving the goals that we have set. It is a very simple idea, that I sometimes take for granted. My realtionship with God and my family, striving to be a good neighbor, to continue learning, to show respect to all people (even stupid, or self-serving people – those are the hard ones.) These are my goals. Material excess has never been a goal for me. Someone else in my shoes may consider himself a looser: I work in retail, do some substitute teaching, and I definately do not have alot of monetary wealth. I have what my heart holds most dear, and that is my success.
I got a phrase I want ti know where does [-ese] as in Japanese and [-ian] as in Italian… where did these came from?
Hey Marina,
No, I would not consider myself successful, primarily because I am still in school. I give it another five years or so before I need to start worrying about being successful.
Dude!!!! Your still in school! That is success. I have friends that were high school drop outs. BTW school is a life long endeavor. You will never get out. Once you do, in time you will have to return. And if you end up like me you might end up teaching. Look at our dearest teacher Marina. She is still in school as a teacher and a student. But I know what your feeling. I too felt the same way when I was in grade school. I had dreamed to be the worlds greatest computer programmer. I thought Bill Gates was a no body. I even learned how to program on Applesoft Basic programing language he wrote. Now those days are long over. Who knows what you will end up doing that in your mind will be your success story.
To be quite honest: Success doesn’t matter. Money doesn’t matter. When you don’t give a shit, when you don’t give a damn, that’s when it suddenly becomes magical. Yeah, only then things will become magical.
depends if you find “succes” and “money” the same thing..
The freedom to do what ever the hell you want to do when ever you want do to with no restrictions? Is it magical or should it be the norm?!?! If it’s not the norm, then what is it that suppresses this?
Others. As soon as one of your goals comes into direct competition or opposition with someone else’s goal, then the notion of justice comes in. Where neither you or me can be proved right or wrong, so the issue has to be escalated to another level. If I choose to compete, try to push my way and kick you aside unjustly to pursue my own personal set of goals and agenda, then I’m nothing more than a stupid bully, and I’m only running faster towards the Nemesis that will bring me down sooner or later.
Yeah your so right. That’s the major problem with society allowing everyone to pursue their own goals. What’s interesting is there’s this game called Second Life. It’s a 3D online world. They experiences the same issues we have in the real world. Even though there is plenty of room to move around and control your own part of the world, conflicts arise. People just need to learn to back off and search for other ways they could pursue their goal in away that doesn’t interfere with others.
The freedom to do what ever the hell you want to do when ever you want do to with no restrictions? Ok so whom is left too do the work. Hmmmmmmm I think the Government should today open a trust fund for each and every American citizen living and those that are being born and deposit a million dollars (drawing interest) in it and when The living reach 55 years of age you can start drawing it out and when the newly born reach 21 they should be able too draw theirs out, Everyone in America deserves to be millionaires.
I wasn’t referring to labor. Sorry I should have been more descriptive. I was referring to that success should be measured by the people who in their own mind are successful.
No argument from me there Cap except for the no restrictions part, as long as people have too work for some one other than themselves, they have restrictions from “freedom to do what ever the hell you want to do when ever you want do” because of financial concerns and obligations. A lack of financial independence is a strong motivation for a strong work ethic.
That’s one of my biggest issues with working for companies for the place you into a box and place many restrictions on what and how you should do things. One reason I left the military to get away from being told what to do and how to do it. I’m happy I joined the Navy and I’m sure glad I got out.
I see nothing wrong with this plan It’s just electronic numbers stored on computers some wheres anyway.
O.K., Marina,
I have a word for you.
What is “square shooter”?
MB7Art
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http://twitter.com/mb7art
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It’s square on the top and square on the bottom and it shoots, so I guess this qualifies.
PS: Don’t forget to enclose your word in square brackets, else it will “grate” on M.
Hey mb7art, Here’s a little help to adding your web site to your nick name.
Adding a Web link to your name or handle.
If you want to link a web page to your name go to the Dashboard at the top of the page on the right and enter it then click on Profile. There you will see about halfway down the page a place to put a web address, this turns your name blue and members can visit your site or Youtube site. If you run into any problems just ask and we will help.
I forgot one thing. Click on the bottom to update profile so it will save your changes.
MB7ART, is that your ham radio call sign? It fits the format of FCC amateur radio call. I used to have KB7GFF. Now I’m using N7MFE among a few other federal radio licenses I hold.
With all this talk about words what does [word] mean and where does it come from?
Well it still looks and works the same.
So it must have be something we can’t see or use. 
Speeking of see or use, I saw yesterday that you changed your screen name and was wondering how you did it. I can’t change mine and I wouldn’t, but I would like the P and the D to be a capital and not a lowercase.
It’s easy PD. Go to your dashboard and click on your profile. Where your nick name is retype it the way you want it to look. Then go to the bottom of the page and save your results. Go back up to the name area and under that is “Display name publicly as” and click on the down arrow button. You will see where your old name is and the new one you made. Click on the new one and save your work at the bottom of the page again. Your name should come out like PageDoll. You may have to clear your cache before you see the results in a comment .
Thanks Cap.
Those exact words entered my head as I was staring at the comment I left you, and before I read your reply.
Now I don’t know what I like the best. Photo of Gorby or your friend photo of Page. I still envy your special friendship with Page. I hope you treasure it as if it was your last for in the future all you will have is the memories.
This comes from my old quote I did back in 2001. “Treasure your friendships as if it was your last days for in the future all you will have left is the memories of what once was.” That was not the exact quote I have it written down somewhere. Interesting thing is that caught the attention of a friend that is so moved by it so much, she became a life long friend. This quote I created I myself need to follow. For I am haunted by refusing a car ride to a party with some good friends that ended up wrapped around a telephone pole. This happened near where you live in San Diego. Interesting how our worlds are so close and intertwined and we don’t even know it. Had I accepted the ride you would not be reading this message.
Wow! Even my own thinking amazes me. Someday I hope to meet this person face to face when he is complete.
I used my old Moose and Squirrel and changed the name and gravatar on that one.
I missed the Moose and Squirrel. Hey if you really want Marina to say Moose and Squirrel we the people can get her to say it. Just let me know. I know I can move the moon and stars so people can do what they need to do. I moved them before and onces completely rested I think I can move them again.
Dear HotForWords,
That is fascinating to learn that ‘Success’ means to gain for oneself rather than originally to inherit through succession. What is interesting is that I recently learned in the Documentary Sequel to Esoteric Agenda, Kymatica, that the English Language itself, is entirely opposite of Ancient Hebrew; And other similar languages such as Sanskrit and Gaelic. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I believe it is so.
Here’s the link to Kymatica (What does that word mean
) to where it says the above http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6gvHvn9itM&feature=related#t=8m56s and into part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgggsutPnZc&feature=related
Your Student,
ThoughtOnFire
PS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgggsutPnZc&feature=related#t=1m36s for where it says that from Hebrew to English is reversed.
(I know it is a weird movie)
If the #t=ms thing doesn’t work for you start here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6gvHvn9itM&feature=related and go to the ‘Logos’ chapter at 8:54 and just keep watching on into part 3 if you are still interested or not frightened away.
BTW Marina, I didn’t know you have a blow up Soulja Boy
Okay, I said that because I’m extremely jealous
I’ll be a sucsexful blow up doll one day, too.
My kids are grown up and happy, and we still love each other; I would call that a success. I love my teaching gig, but the night job is just income to put beans on the table.
Soulja Boy?
What are we, 12 years old over here? And what the heck is “SU-SESS”?
Word Request : [ Duped ]
Su-sessful wheelies!
That was pretty cool.
Now, you wanna see something completely insane?
Check THIS out!
Watch the guy in the gt3 get way out of shape when the bikes cross in front of him.
Some crazy folks even ride 500BHP++ turboed 2 wheelers.
Here is a successful wheelie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqwg4ngtgzA
And here is an not so successful wheelie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7F_jEbeW0g&feature=related
Not su-sess — it is Sucsexful. Marina is kick-ass creative!
From what I know about HotForWords, Marina is a success story. For me, success is being here. Too many varaibles to ascertain measurement. Ascendency
to be good is success enough 
[ego]
Marina, I was watching Jeopardy today. I don’t remember the catagory, but I believe the answer was, “Etymology is the study of this – and what you should respond with” or something like that.
All I could remember thinking was, “Why didn’t they have Marina introduce that?”
Anyway, you have achieved great success, Marina, and we look forward to seeing and hearing more from you tomorrow. Losers for
$200, Alex.
I would like to request a definition for [balderdash]
A few decent friends, some good food each day, a pastime & job to enjoy… yup! I am a success.
No, I don’t want to see the rest of the interview; I am not interested in anything said by someone who does not know where the front of his head is.
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AMEN!!And how, Camp Kohler.
I would not consider myself a success.
Maybe my standards are too high.
Success is nothing. Success is dust in the wind. Ashes and bones. Nothing more.
S-ouija Boy (Swee-gee boy)?
Never heard of it… is he gay?
What is his “claim to fame”?
Another rapper with a bad attitude?
No thanks – I pass
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Homework: I am a success (no inheritance)
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The news is that the bailout money is up to three trillion dollars! That comes to $9836.07 for every person in the USA!
(I’d like mine in cash directly paid to me, thank you.)
Obama is a fuck-nut thinking this is a good plan…
My minuscule understanding: Soulja Boy released self-made music videos through YouTube, and became famous for his Crank That dance. His recent Kiss Me Thru The Phone has some interesting lyrics (but there are superior techniques than those illustrated in this video — perhaps one can excuse the remiss in creativity by referring to his youth).
All this in just 2 years — starting from age of 16 to current 18.
He plays to a demographic, then.
No wonder I never heard of him.
If he gets shot, does that make
him more, or less successful?
(punching your wife in the face
doesn’t count)
Capatialism is a failed plan without it’s checks and balances.
It is government that needs checks and balances, capitalism needs to be laissez-faire. Whenever capitalism was tried, it always had government controls; and the controls led to disasters — but capitalism always got the blame and people introduced more controls — talk about pouring oil on fire! Whatever part of capitalism was free resulted in unprecedented success, but the cause — laissez-faire — was never identified and upheld.
I completely disagree with your opinion that government needs the check and balances and not capitalists.
It’s a known fact that big business indirectly controls the government. Businesses get laws made that affect other businesses and not their own works. It’s a war going on you might say. I find it ironic that the same laws that business complain about are the laws that are drawn up by their competitors in business. The government is caught up in the middle. Don’t get me wrong that I’m defending the Feds. Far from it.
I am not able to list my sources (I signed several non-disclosure agreements) other than I have been next to the front line with a company that was in litigation of such a practices that I mentioned.
Captain, your answer actually proves my case — here’s how: You say: “Businesses get laws made that affect other businesses …”. My point is that the government should not be making any laws that affect commerce and trade — laissez-faire. If government left the marketplace alone, no business would be able to get any law made to restrict anybody else — there would be no such laws.
Yes I see your point. If the companies were not able to get new laws passed it would solve one problem but creates other problems as well. We would have a lawless capitalist running around not able to get anything done for no one would invest without some sort of protection. Do I need to explain further what the problems would be if there were no laws protecting businesses?