Bushwhacking
Submitted by PamWalking on May 3, 2010 - 12:39pm
bush·whack (b
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, -wk) v. .
1. To make one's way through thick woods by cutting away bushes and branches.Courtesy of the thefreedictionary.com
I went bushwhacking in the Borough on Sunday, unsucessfully, I might add. If you want to try it yourself, go to E. Cherry Lane, head to the end, cut through one yard and see if you have any better luck making it to the bike path that leads to Sunset Park. I got close enough so that I could SEE my destination, but the woods were just too much for me. At one point I was completely surrounded by forest, no paths, nothing in sight but trees and scrub. It was entertaining and for a fleeting moment, terrifying.
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as opposed to bushwhacking a rascally varmint?
which was my first association with that word, altho since I've been a kind of serious woodsman since I was young I was of course familiar with the outdoorsman's definition.
Did you know you can get an embed code that lets you put a map like that into your post visibly? Lets see, lets see if I can do it...
Hah! I see. You had a Traffic Map open, and google wont let you embed a trafic map. Well, you learn something new every day. However, I can research the address, 311 e Cherry Lane State College PA, and get a regular map, and viola, embedding is possible:
I click the little button on th eeditor that says "source" - and that reveals the raw code of the post....
View Larger Map
and paste in the iframe code from google maps - and a box appears showing where the map will be.
Lets see if it posts.
I just bushwhacked cherry lane
And it does! Success! so, to post code into a post with this editor I have to click teh "source" button, paste in the code (sometimes figuring out just where to paste it is tricky, because a posts code isn't as clearly formatted and positioned as an actual post, and is full of control characters and wierd things like "<p> </p><p><</p>", whaich says in code, I believe:
paragraph begins
space bar pressed once
paragraph ends
paragraph begins
return
paragraph ends
In any case, back to where I was - to post in an embed code, like from google maps or a youtube video, you click the "source" button, which switchs the editor to show you the raw code of the post. Then paste in the embed code which you have copied from google or youtube. Then click source again - which will take you back to teh visual or wysiwig style editor screen, and check to bve sure the embeded widget is where you want it to be.
Once the widget has been embedded, you can usually move it around by dragging and dropping or by copying and pasting - usually but widgets aren't always reliable, sometimes they break or do wierd and unexpected things. In which case, delete it, and start over, and try to paste it into a better spot in trhe raw code of the post.
Sorry if I'm being a geekmeister by blah blahing about embedding such things. Occupational hazard - I AM a geekmeister, lol
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Aha! Thanks for showing me where the embed codes are embedded....Geekmeisters rule the world, after the performance artists, of course. My current theology posits the Creator as some sort of nerd/installation artist/punk rocker. It's one of the few explanations that accounts for everything.