Well, it does seem to be happening exclusively on my iPod touch 6th gen, so I wonder how I fix it. The GMail app has taken to doing something weird which contributes to the problem, possibly: when you click on a link to a webpage, instead of opening Safari, it opens the page in some interim viewer. I suppose it must be somewhere in the settings.
And I’m looking in GMail’s settings and not finding anything. Maybe Safari’s settings… where the cookies setting is “Allow for websites I visit” which seems reasonable enough.
I’ll second Tom’s counter-recommendation of trying Ethiopian food. We have an Ethiopian Restaurant here in Kansas City. I’d never tried Ethiopian before, and both me and my wife absolutely loved it. It was a very unique experience. I tried the platter thing, where you get to try five different dishes, and I loved all of them.
Now, unfortunately, just like Chipotle has a certain effect on people but not on others, the Ethiopian food had an effect on my wife, but not on me. And after that, she refuses to go back there again, and refuses to let me go back, claiming it is 3rd world fare, which is why it had that effect on her. I just roll my eyes, and every time I go by there, I look longingly and remember that weird, wonderful spongy bread thing, and their different take on all the different curries that I’m used to eating from India and Pakistan.
Timex
1745
What did you eat, and what kind of effect?
It’s possible that something as simple as “bean-o” could alleviate the effects, if it was due to things like gas from eating some of the high fiber stuff which could have been in it.
I think it was Diarrhea. My wife didn’t specify, but that was the implication and her refusal to go there again.
And like I said, we both had a platter, where instead of one dish, you get five different dishes, and get to try many things.
Clay
1747
The other thing to consider is that they put A LOT of butter in the food, especially things like kitfo and the various types of tibs. As somebody severely lactose intolerant, I can only eat Ethiopian food (which I adore) if I take Lactaid before, during, and after the meal.
Timex
1748
Ya, something like bean-o could potentially help, by helping the body deal with some of the bean based components. Especially if she usually has issues with other types of bean based foods.
I always want to help folks be able to eat more Ethiopian food.
The lactose issue could also be a thing, that’s a good point Clay.
Clay
1749
You are doing God’s work.
How spicy was it? The Ethiopian food I had was pretty spicy and that too could cause complications. Fortunately, it just gives me hiccups nowadays and I can deal with that for great food.
Timex
1751
Weird thing is that the first time I had Ethiopian food, I think I was in college, and I was like, “Do they even HAVE food in Ethiopia?”
Growing up int he 80’s, my mental image of Ethiopia was basically constructed around the idea of famine. Since I first encountered the nation in school when they were having a really bad famine back in 1983-85, when I was a real little kid. Then I never really encountered the nation again until college when I went to a restaurant, and my brain had apparently just assumed that Ethiopia was in a perpetual state of famine.
What’s your favorite Ethiopian joint around here? My partner and I keep talking about finally going to try it, but I’m only aware of Abyssinia.
Lamalo
1753
I used to eat plenty of friday night meals at an ethiopian friend’s house. I don’t recall they ever made something distinctly unusual to my regular fare. Now I don’t know if I missed out or dodged a bullet.
Clay
1754
Is that the one at Mission Valley? I’ve eaten there a number of times and the food is good, but the ambiance is terrible. My understanding is that Awazé is supposed to be the best close to Raleigh, though I have yet to try it. Queen of Sheba in Chapel Hill is good, too.
I agree, it looks like a bsement room someone is in the process of moving out of, but the food has always been great there for me. It’s so close I haven’t been tempted to try another place.
wumpus
1756
Let the wailing and gnashing of teeth begin, I’ve changed the static Patreon logo docked at the top to the new one. We’ll deal with the small logo that goes on avatars later, I don’t think transparency is going to work out for the new small logomark, especially since it’s supposed to be two colors…
I actually changed my mind and went ahead and tried it out on avatars as well, but it really needs that white bg to work, so that’s how it is for now. Transparency isn’t going to cut it.
It is possible to push it below the avatar on the left with some CSS and no real loss of space, if that’s more desirable:
simply change CSS for the element to
right: 0px;
bottom: -24px;
This does not work on mobile, though, since there’s no space for it to go there.
habibi
1757
The white background is stealing the focus from the avatar! Can’t it be some faded white or grey or something more muted?
wumpus
1758
It could be, I’ll make it match the qt3 background to start…
wumpus
1759
Also as a counter-argument to “fuck their branding”, remember that time Amazon (retroactively, even!) cancelled all payments to Tom for … reasons? Yeah that was … not … awesome.
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the new logo is IMO an improvement, overall, now that I’ve warmed up to it
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it is the current, correct logo versus an old out of date one that may not even be recognizable as “Patreon” over time
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it’s not a good idea to antagonize your source of income over stupid things like “gee we really preferred the old logo and we’re gonna be jerks about it”
On the black background on my phone, the new logo stands out a lot and basically looks like you’re avatar is part of a dynamically generated “I <3 ___” shirt where the blank is then filled in by your username which is a little funny.
Teiman
1761
On white background looks good. I will block the image anyway, since I like to see the original avatars unmodified.
wumpus
1762
It’s possible the dark themes could use black bg behind the transparent patreon logomark, but they would also need an inverted image to work with as well, or something… that dark blue of the line isn’t going to show up.
