tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post8332940837435765163..comments2023-09-27T07:44:19.769-04:00Comments on Sabine Hossenfelder: Backreaction: Endless TalkingSabine Hossenfelderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comBlogger40125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-28878518847956322302010-02-19T11:15:28.723-05:002010-02-19T11:15:28.723-05:00This is a good sentiment from Chad. I appreciate h...This is a good sentiment from Chad. I appreciate hearing it. I wish he, I, and others would live up to it more often:<br /><i>For a real conversation, you need some give and take-- each party needs to give the other's arguments serious consideration, and ideally, there should be some development, some evolution.</i><br />OK ... Of course people aren't going to always agree, but we need toNeil Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04564859009749481136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-79332894305183152352010-02-19T10:18:45.319-05:002010-02-19T10:18:45.319-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Neil Bateshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04564859009749481136noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-38051152912652231232010-02-19T09:20:52.906-05:002010-02-19T09:20:52.906-05:00Jerome: I tried with MSIE 8 and just tried again, ...Jerome: I tried with MSIE 8 and just tried again, it works fine. What screen resolution do you have?Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-76761842981108494422010-02-19T09:17:15.846-05:002010-02-19T09:17:15.846-05:00Ah okay, it works only when you have selected one ...Ah okay, it works only when you have selected one post + its comments. It doesn't work when you have a whole column of different posts without the comments.<br /><br />Best,Jérôme Chauvethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02545307794681614263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-91656537376608582272010-02-19T09:13:29.468-05:002010-02-19T09:13:29.468-05:00Now it works!
okay, it's not that stable, but...Now it works!<br /><br />okay, it's not that stable, but it's better than before.<br /><br />ThanxJérôme Chauvethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02545307794681614263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-75050299066366748932010-02-19T09:12:28.378-05:002010-02-19T09:12:28.378-05:00Now it doesn't work anymore... Weird stuff ind...Now it doesn't work anymore... Weird stuff indeed :(Jérôme Chauvethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02545307794681614263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-72399471091747137202010-02-19T09:10:00.172-05:002010-02-19T09:10:00.172-05:00It works again.It works again.Jérôme Chauvethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02545307794681614263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-21127715868540488032010-02-19T05:59:22.172-05:002010-02-19T05:59:22.172-05:00No problem with Firefox 3.6.No problem with Firefox 3.6.Christine Cordula Dantashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05271747374185459530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-62633938116208299742010-02-19T05:56:58.043-05:002010-02-19T05:56:58.043-05:00Jerome: Can you check again whether it looks bette...Jerome: Can you check again whether it looks better now? Best,<br /><br />B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-72190866065120039422010-02-19T05:39:47.065-05:002010-02-19T05:39:47.065-05:00Hi Jerome: Thanks, I'll check this when I have...Hi Jerome: Thanks, I'll check this when I have the time. The template is exactly the same as before Valentines day. In any case, believe it or not, but the majority of visitors to this site uses Firefox (almost 50%) and not MSIE (20.5%) with Safari third (15.3%), and Google Chrome fourth (10.6%). Best,<br />B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-37452119706673531892010-02-19T05:26:38.555-05:002010-02-19T05:26:38.555-05:00Bee: I have just given it a try with Mozilla, and ...Bee: I have just given it a try with Mozilla, and it works fine with it! It seems like the problem comes from Explorer, which I use most of the time. <br /><br />Hint:It was not so before Valentine's day, when you changed the motif behind. <br /><br />Statistically speaking, most visitors may have Explorer, so I guess it may have some importance for the Backreaction blog.<br /><br />Best,Jérôme Chauvethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02545307794681614263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-656905823750872292010-02-19T01:54:48.874-05:002010-02-19T01:54:48.874-05:00Jerome: I didn't change anything on the layout...Jerome: I didn't change anything on the layout and it looks fine with my browser (Google Chrome). There are two applets in the sidebar, the one showing recent comments, the other one my twitter status. They both have a problem with linebreaks. If there's a long link in a comment, it doesn't fit into the predefined width and the column expands, which might - depending on your screen Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-21156237971548042512010-02-18T16:02:33.725-05:002010-02-18T16:02:33.725-05:00What happened to the Backreaction blog lay-out? Th...What happened to the Backreaction blog lay-out? The sidebar on the right has completely fallen underneath the posts column !!!<br /><br />I think you may sooner or later fix it.<br /><br />Best,Jérôme Chauvethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02545307794681614263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-16651027046018825632010-02-17T18:52:57.965-05:002010-02-17T18:52:57.965-05:00http://pubs.acs.org/cen/newscripts/88/8807newscrip...http://pubs.acs.org/cen/newscripts/88/8807newscripts.html<br /><br /><i>Chemical & Engineering News</i> praised the wonderfully awful pun-ditry of <i>Angewandte Chemie International Edition</i> (English). The German edition was found wanting. See what happens when the <i>Freude</i> is not floated by the <i>Schaden</i>?Uncle Alhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05056804084187606211noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-51899932168581859792010-02-17T12:37:18.896-05:002010-02-17T12:37:18.896-05:00@Steven:I mean, I could live here, on-line.
I gue...@Steven:<em>I mean, I could live here, on-line.</em><br /><br />I guess what you would miss being full-time on line would be playing football :)Jérôme Chauvethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02545307794681614263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-74780108701963423282010-02-17T07:36:44.168-05:002010-02-17T07:36:44.168-05:00Hi Bee,
Yes for sure we should not walk away and ...Hi Bee,<br /><br />Yes for sure we should not walk away and yet in some respect I can identify with Chad when he complains that blog comments don’t often result in constructive dialogue. However as you point out this has as much to do with the writer(s) of the blog as the commentors it attracts. As for myself I don’t read many blogs on a regular basis, other than this one and the reason for Phil Warnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15671311338712852659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-28568522843879381712010-02-17T07:17:59.508-05:002010-02-17T07:17:59.508-05:00Steven: Thanks, that's interesting. Chad isn&#...Steven: Thanks, that's interesting. Chad isn't giving up blogging, he's giving up <i>reading</i> blogs. Best,<br /><br />B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-12488156006907740232010-02-17T06:31:22.093-05:002010-02-17T06:31:22.093-05:00You should tell Chad he's not supposed to give...<i>You should tell Chad he's not supposed to give up something he doesn't like anyway. What do you feel is addictive about blogging? Best,<br />B.</i><br /><br />I'm not telling him anything, though I can tell he's in denial about not liking blogging. The fact he's giving it up shows he likes it, since he's an intelligent man so I'm sure he knows the rules, even if he&Steven Colyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10435759210177642257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-57007105339248013622010-02-17T06:13:12.527-05:002010-02-17T06:13:12.527-05:00Well, I'm a ghost on some other blogs :-) I ap...Well, I'm a ghost on some other blogs :-) I appreciate your concern, but if my future collaborators or employers have a severe problem with opinions I express on this blog, they better find out sooner than later. I find they better get an impression about me from my own blog than from less reliable sources. Best,<br /><br />B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-45618404662544759632010-02-17T06:07:13.104-05:002010-02-17T06:07:13.104-05:00Btw, one thing I should have mentioned in the post...<em>Btw, one thing I should have mentioned in the post is that on our blog, and I am sure on most other blogs as well, the vast majority of readers never comments.</em><br /><br />@Bee: I guess you are using Google Analytics or so, and saw some of them roaming around. I saw this for my own little blog: Google analytics shows you where they have clicked, which country they come from, and so on. I Jérôme Chauvethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02545307794681614263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-68166793559745467922010-02-17T05:59:31.851-05:002010-02-17T05:59:31.851-05:00Jérôme: Well, I guess one of the reasons is that m...Jérôme: Well, I guess one of the reasons is that my default starting point is "I'm wrong and just don't understand what they're saying." I've learned many things on this blog from our commenters and I'm very grateful for that. Best,<br /><br />B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-63283654572078815772010-02-17T05:55:03.677-05:002010-02-17T05:55:03.677-05:00Bee:It is unsurprising they will rarely change the...Bee:<em>It is unsurprising they will rarely change their opinion if they explain what they've been working on all their life, since most of the commenters will not be experts</em><br /><br />That's it! This is exacly the kind of spirit I felt to be not at the Backreaction blog when I came into it (does one say: on, into, at, into, onto?). <br /><br />Chad did not understand that blogging Jérôme Chauvethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02545307794681614263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-6229266216165109682010-02-17T05:54:57.032-05:002010-02-17T05:54:57.032-05:00Jérôme: It is good to hear you like the discussion...Jérôme: It is good to hear you like the discussions on our blog. It might sound funny but I didn't really have any expectations when I started writing this blog. I hadn't even been reading blogs before I started writing one. I just liked the idea of having an "online journal" but quickly noticed I'm way too introvert to publicly discuss my private life, anonymous or not. So Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-42328781252506586442010-02-17T05:41:30.313-05:002010-02-17T05:41:30.313-05:00In my opinion, an excellent blogging party needs b...In my opinion, an excellent blogging party needs both an excellent blog maker + excellent commenters. There is a great turn-over of commenters swarming throughout the Internet, so a good blog should finally find his commenters, but the blog is a stable node in the graph and it is up to it to attract them.<br /><br />What I find at the Backreaction blog is what I could not find in the real world Jérôme Chauvethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02545307794681614263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22973357.post-27345581793395582172010-02-17T05:39:53.035-05:002010-02-17T05:39:53.035-05:00Steven: It's the lyrics of a song called "...Steven: It's the lyrics of a song called "Atmosphere" by Joy Division, it says so at the bottom of the post. I never understood the Catholic desire for self-mortification. But yeah, good point <br />;-) You should tell Chad he's not supposed to give up something he doesn't like anyway. What do you feel is addictive about blogging? Best,<br /><br />B.Sabine Hossenfelderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06151209308084588985noreply@blogger.com