I have some questions (they're easy, I promise)

@Shrdlu

/giphy "good at waiting"

@Shrdlu

Ok, that giphy is kinda funny, but it does not seem to describe you very accurately

/giphy impatient

@snapster I hesitate to point out (because I’ve already been pathetic about it once), but I am still waiting on nearly half the wine I bought over yonder. I grant you that the Two Jakes I’d purchased on the 18th said “Delivery by December 29th” (which I didn’t see until after I’d bought it, not that it would have stopped me). I even admit that all the others have delivery dates that are in January, starting with (tapping foot impatiently) the 4th, which is, after all, today…

Seriously, I’m okay with when things arrive. I’m very grateful that you stepped in on the Wine, because (don’t let this frighten you) I trust you more than Bezos. Much more.

Stripe’s a pretty decent choice. I hope that’s the one you go with.

I’ll lift a glass to you later this evening (Thurston Wolfe, Cabernet Sauvignon, 2013). Probably too small a place for you and WineDavid to bother with, but they make some very pleasant wines.

Thank you for the answers, and have a pleasant evening.

@Shrdlu It’s like Christmas where enough time goes by that I forgot I ordered something, and then I’m surprised when I see a missed delivery and it’s something I have to sign for… “what did I order?”

@Shrdlu what you bid is what you pay. Now as for a 2nd remote party pack. One way to do this is to make another kickstarter account. I
Seeing as they are limited in amount I don’t know of you could just double your pledge. This is something for @Dave , or @winedavid49, or @snapster

@Shrdlu What you pledge is what you pay. The fees are taken out of that amount.

To my knowledge, Kickstarter does not allow multiple rewards for a backer, so the only official way to get a second reward would be a second Kickstarter account, which probably means a second email address.

If you merely pledge an extra $100 it will allow oversubscription of the remote party pack. This is probably not a problem for the first few but I’m guessing that there are not an unlimited number of them available.

@Shrdlu It’s far different to add $60 for a year of free shipping as those are rather easy to make.

@jml326 and @baqui63: You guys are helpful, and also funny. Those last few lines of my original post above said that I’d figured out that buying a second remote party would require a second Kickstarter account. It was strange enough to set up one. There’s just no way I’d make a second one.

Besides, it feels like cheating, and that’s not something that would make me comfortable. I’m just sticking with the original $100 plus $60, and calling it good. Last I looked, there were still 70 of the remote party packs left. They sold at a pretty rapid pace the first day, but it’s slowed down quite a bit since then. The estimated delivery is January 2018; hey, did you know that we’re in that month?

I should also point out that the VMP standalone offer was sold out days and days ago. I keep seeing people say that they’ve just signed up, and I keep quiet. I dunno, maybe they’re seeing something I don’t.

For those brave souls who want to hang out in Sonoma in January, there’s still 31 slots left. I just now noticed that you can pony up an additional $50 per extra human, and bring a guest (or so).

Add $50 per additional guest to attend the party (without the
additional benefits listed above).

Thank you both again. I have the answer I cared about. I’ll go drop the Amex to zero on Monday, which will be a few days before the other charges show up.

@Shrdlu

I should also point out that the VMP standalone offer was sold out
days and days ago. I keep seeing people say that they’ve just signed
up, and I keep quiet. I dunno, maybe they’re seeing something I don’t.

We’re seeing that when somebody drops the plan for whatever reason it becomes available to someone else. Until the closing date, there is the opportunity for movement on any of the offers.

@Winedavid49 Ah. So that’s why my case of WW Help Yourself spent an overnight in the middle of nowheresville Montana in a truck lot next to a Travel/America going from Sonoma to St. Louis.

I google mapped it and it is literally a truck stop and a holding lot with an exit. Maybe there’s a stop sign, but couldn’t tell from the overhead aerial view. I looked it up because id never heard of the <ahem> “town” and wondered WTF is my wine doing in Montana.

That said, it arrived safe and sound. Haven’t drankeneded any, as it’s for the counter tree, cooking, and gifting mostly.
https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81klYf5nVOL.SL1500.jpg

Sorry about the bad link. Can a volmod fix it?

TechTip: The link parser is truncating at the first period encountered instead of the last one, to check the extension for jpg/png etc. A good programmer would auto-strip Amazon’s embedding of image size info in the image file ‘name’. Then again, this is a Mediocre enterprise.

Utoh… @shawn, I think @mike808 is calling you out.

@baqui63
Those coder people prob just laze around on the weekends.

@Winedavid49 Okay, I’m excited, now. Four out of five remaining just got shipping notifications. :-}

Luckily, one of them is the additional Wellington Ports (I bought some, tasted it, realized the error of my ways, and bought more). Life is good.

@baqui63 good news for @mike808, he can fix the code at https://github.com/mediocre/mehdown and show us how good a programmer he is.

@shawn I don’t want to rob a Meh programmer who gets paid for that the joy of discovering the solution.

If I gave away my professional talents for free, there wouldn’t be a job at Meh for someone to do it and contribute to their local consumption economy . So in my own way, I’m doing my part to create jobs. You’re welcome.

@baqui63 I wasn’t calling @Shawn out. I was noting that since this is a Mediocre site, our expectations of technical excellence should be appropriately lowered. I was referring to the ‘nice-to-have’ part about removing the Amazon sizing from the image link, not the defect in extension parsing.

@shawn Here’s the offending code:

var extension = filename.toLowerCase().split('.').pop();

In lib/plugjns/images.js.

split() scans left to right. The first match is not guaranteed to be the last one. So why code like it is? You need to scan right to left (or reverse, strip before first match, then reverse again). If you can do Perl regexes, this is easy. JS, not sure. Haven’t coded in years.

P.S. You’re welcome.

@mike808 pop() gets the last element from the array, so this doesn’t seem like the offending code

@Winedavid49 While you’re here…any word on that missing Wellington random case I keep hearing about?
Also, I love that there is coding discussion of how this stuff is written.

@shawn actually, pop() gets everything after the first period from the split (). You’re forgetting about the implicit casting to a single element string object. Thats why the Amazon image link I pasted kept breaking. QED. Try it for yourself. It breaks every time. Ergo, the code is provably broken.

If it behaved as you claim, it wouldn’t be provably and repeatably broken, now would it?

@Winedavid49 Never mind…it showed up today without warning! Thanks for taking care of it, as always.

@mike808 Here’s a JSFiddle that proves Array.pop() returns the last element from the array as expected: https://jsfiddle.net/ack6atwf/

I haven’t looked into the root cause yet, but my guess is the two underscore characters are being interpreted as italic modifiers in Markdown before or after the image plugin is doing its work.

@klezman

it showed up today without warning!

anything interesting?

@rjquillin I posted it over in w.w. 2x 2013 Victory, PV, CF, and Sonoma Cab. 1x 2013 Malbec, Charlie’s Syrah, Meeks Zin, 1x 2012 Meeks Zin. A bit annoyed to have gotten the SC Cab instead of the listed bottles, but happy to have all reds and more PV, CF, and Malbec.

@klezman I need to remember to go back and look at those…
One of mine actually had three of the Vic’s.

@shawn ooh, good idea. Something else was splitting the URL before the image inline parsing fired.

Pre- and Post- processing exception flows are a PITA. <cough> XSLT <cough>.

@Shrdlu I’m jealous, I wanted that port, but it didn’t ship to Connecticut!

@shawn Here’s the orig link that breaks:
images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/
81klYf5nVOL._SL1500_.jpg

I had to escape the _s. Good news is that it is a size designator and can be removed. It also explains why the link is broken when it gets stripped somewhere in the parsing.

@rjquillin Lucky bastard

@ScottHarveyWine Hot dang!
Good to see you, and hopefully some offers, over here already.
Hard to believe WD hasn’t already twisted your arm tho…

Hi to Jana and Monica.

@ScottHarveyWine Hi Scott! Great to see you here. How did you like your selection of Victory (assuming that was the offer you are referring to)?

@ScottHarveyWine Here’s a couple of helpful hints. If you wanted to reply to someone, the easiest way is to just use the “Reply” link at the bottom of their post. It’s also important to use the “@” sign in the name, and then there’s spelling it correctly (replying would have automatically provided the link with his name, of course).

I’m tagging @klezman, here, so that he’ll see your reply. Luckily, I’m properly caffeinated, which provides some small measure of competency. :-}

I also am very happy to see you here.

@mkenny2307 hope this helps
https://meh.com/forum/topics/mehdown-slash-commands

@mkenny2307 also if on mobile turn your phone from portrait to landscape and more options should appear in typing area.

@mkenny2307 Okay, here’s the quick answers:

There are multiple slash commands, of which “/giphy” is one. They have to be at the beginning of the line, or they don’t work. If you look at the bottom line of your reply, you will see multiple things, including a little item you can click on, and which will allow you to attach images.

/giphy white roses

@mkenny2307 switch between portrait and landscape on mobil

@jml326 Yeah, still doesn’t give me options, but I can just wait and use my laptop when I need to post pictures. Banking on not needing to upload pics in life or death situations on CM. Or I’ll just go imgur route in worst case scenarios

@mkenny2307

@mkenny2307 very interesting

@rjquillin I know nothing about the future of casemates, but you could jump into the local thread (or start one if no one has for your area) and ask people near you if they have bottles from previous offerings that they’d be willing to sell/swap. I know that I ended up with more bottles of the first one than I was really hoping for and would be happy to make room for something new and shiny.

@arielleslie local like San Diego or Greater SoCal?
There is a bit of a blend between the two; I’m SD.
Likely we could just post there rather than add yet another thread, we’re already exchanging sharing thoughts on both of the above threads.
I’ve also seen a lot of activity in the individual offer threads regarding sharing.

Would either of those potential solutions seem to work for what you are asking?

@snapster posted earlier they are working on setting up some sharing capability, but, as you know, for now we’re on our own.

@Shrdlu
View: burgundy violet
Nose: raspberry, plum
Mouth: soft, kind tannins
Pairing: canapés, sandwiches, mature cheeses, red meats, chocolate.
Serving temperature: 18 ° C
Alcohol
content : 12% Packaging: Bordalesa 750ml.

@InFrom and @catcoland: Thanks to both of you for the suggestions. I suspect that a non-vintage wine that I bought out of curiosity is not really worth adding to CT. It was $12.99; I’ll open it tonight, and see. I’ve been known to take a bottle outside and give it to the roses, more than once. Any review I do will probably just be here.

@Shrdlu It may not be vintage, but it’s a good year for the roses?

@InFrom Turns out this one graduated to rose food right after the first sip. Roses do like an acidic soil, and I was happy to make the offering. I also like George Jones. :-}

@Shrdlu right now you buy one time. Either a case or a small bottle pack. Unless you want to create multiple accounts and pay shipping. The other option is to find Casemates in your area who don’t want the wine and have them buy and hold it for you.