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Back to our semi-regular feature, Things to Come. We have managed to pry more really good material out of all of our contributors the past two weeks, and SP has cracked the whip and restored….discipline here at Glibs HQ. I thank all of you who have, and who are contributing to our site. Please don’t tell yourself that nobody would be interested, or we won’t be bothered with running it, or any such thoughts about your contributions here. I have learned a fair bit, and enjoyed seeing what all of you have done or seen.

So, The Shape of Things to Come!

Monday – Animal returns with Part 1 of a new series. Bolt guns, baby! And Tulip pops in later, and delivers us a travel article.

Tuesday – Pie shows us around town. His town. The best town.

Wednesday – I…I am not sure I can take another Hat and Hair like last week’s… *shivers uncontrollably* But, I am sure SugarFree will craft…something that will tear our souls apart. And entertain. Always that.

Thursday – Two part 2’s! Subwoofer at Burning Man, and Evan in Sri Lanka.

Friday – Fourscore tells how a union made his life better (no, really! Just read it and you will see what he means)…followed by an evening visit from the Cryptid of the Week.

Weekend – Expect a visit from our usual strong line up of OMWC, Not Adhan, Mexican Sharpshooter and a special appearance.

Your weekday Links will continue to be provided by Banjos, OMWC, Brett and yours truly.

Over to you, the commentariat – remember, no OT in this post!

I have preview duty tonight….and it is quite easy. Why? We don’t have a lot of material in the pipeline. *hint, hint* I’d sure like to have more stuff to edit…

However, we do have a couple of things lined up:

Monday, Animal writes of…animals. He really has been a stalwart these past few months. *sets out large tub of berry jam for our author-bear to scarf down*

Tuesday, MLW continues to slog through the new, woke Charmed for us. Trust me, this next one is a doozy. She really is doing rough duty watching that dreck, and distilling it down for us.

Wednesday, We expect SugarFree will torment haunt twist regale us with more adventures of The Hat and The Hair (and tha’ Hat). I have managed to get over my disappointment at the intrepid pair not finding Gerry Ford’s Gold.

Thursday, EMPTY. If nobody steps up, you will probably get stuck with me updating Catalonia and Afghanistan events. An nobody wants to settle for that.

Friday, EMPTY. I shan’t be stepping up to do anything on Good Friday….so consider this an additional plea for your submissions.

Weekend – We have been VERY lucky to have Not Adahn, OMWC and Mexican Sharpshooter carrying the load. Occasional contributions from our cryptid … friends too.

I leave the comments for you to bounce ideas around and OT the living daylights out of this.

Things to Come – the week of April 8, 2019

Monday will see Animal’s Lever Gun series reach Part 6. And later on, MLW takes us into an examination of Charmed.

Tuesday has Spudalicious going all Irish on us. And MLW dives into the Charmed mess, again.

Wednesday sees the Hat and the Hair continue their adventure below Washington, D.C. And maybe what that wacky USA Hat and the Donald are getting up to.

Thursday we get Pie returning to his pondering.

Friday is a bit unsettled yet – we shall see what comes about. However, you do know it will be a good time.

The Links will continue to anchor our morning and afternoon spots.

Your contributions are always welcome, and they are always needed.

Thanks, and have at it in the comments – it is open, so there is no “OT”!

We will provide a music link, to get things rolling.

Time we had one of these again. You know, the preview of some of our articles upcoming…and the plea for more material. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE send in some material. This place is so much richer when we get the Glibertariat sharing their experiences, expertise, weirdness…whatever.

OK, pleading over – now, what is coming up in our 1100 Central time slot?

Tuesday we get a Minimalist article from Trials and Trippelations. See how I made the description minimal. *waggles eyebrows*

Wednesday … if SugarFree finishes the maintenance on his Dungeon, we should brace ourselves for The Hat and The Hair. I am still on the edge of my seat, wondering if they will find Gerry Ford’s gold!

Thursday sees us getting a lesson in slang from the old Graybar Hotel. You know, the Joint. The Pen. Whatever you call it, some Prison Slang brought to you by Elspeth Flashman.

Friday… steel yourself for the wonders of Tonio’s Part 4 of A Chronicle of the Insurgency.

The Weekend should see our usual fun and games. Not Adhan, mexican sharpshooter, and OMWC carrying the load as usual.

Monday we are hoping for Part 5 of Animal’s series on Lever Guns. Talk about authorship by public demand.

As for our 1900 Central time slot… well, not really in a position to tell too much right now. However, Friday will see a beloved figure return. And the cryptids (who I am still not on speaking terms with, yet) will probably weigh in on the early evening time slots this weekend. Imma going to be at an Expo elsewhere in the Midwest, come Sunday – so you will be in the hands of the more competent Glibs TPTB next week.

*hobbles in on cane, narrows gaze*

That…was not a good week. I don’t have to tell all of you how hard it is to get a painkiller prescribed in this country. I do not think the doctor was impressed by my claim of being flung by an angry rapesquatch either.

So, forgive me if I just leave the post open to all of you, instead of links. The cryptids are off spending their sudden riches. I hate to think we owe some shadowy government agency for getting our Links Control Room back…but whatever they did, it worked.

Go knock out all the comments, links and such as you want.

*hobbles out of room, demanding a snifter of kirschwasser*

As a staff, we at Glibertarians.com have decided to take back what is ours….the Morning Links control room. Since we are libertarian in nature, we shall employ mercenaries.

READY…go, go, go!

*BOOM, BLAM, BLAM, BLAM, BLAM, BLAM, BLAM, BLAM…*CLICK* *CLICK* *click* …”uh oh”*

*Aiee! Ouch! Dammit, not that! AHHHHHHHHHH!*

One moment, we need to have an After Action Report.

[…shots bounced off… They raped all our commanders! The horror, the horror. This wasn’t worth the $500. That giant stone head ate our guns! Yes, yes, thank you gentlemen. Those of you still ambulatory, please exit this way. Could someone get an orphan cleaning crew in here?]

Sooo…. that did not seem to work out. Not at all. Looks like we need some assistance with this. Hmmmm.

There have been some recent developments that you may have noticed. We value our Cryptid contributors, but would like the keys to the Morning Links Control Room back. Please. Oh, and maybe a “Sorry for throwing you 40 feet across the room” card for Swiss? He seems to be recovering.

So…. while we try to resolve the Morning Links Situation – the site must go on.

Coming up this Week

Tuesday 1100 – a substantial economics article on The Great Decoupling by Rasilio. (Economics, not prying a SMITH off someone!)

Wednesday 1100 – The Hat and The Hair. ’nuff said!

Wednesday 1900 – flying poodle teaches us about growing fruit. (Growing, not ‘ow to defend yourself against fresh fruit.)

Thursday 1100 – UCS has an article that discusses Value. We appear to be stirring it up, huh?

Friday 1100 and 1900 – We will leave you in suspense. Because we are that guy/staff.

Saturday – should be an unpredictable grab bag of fun. Same for Sunday.

Monday 1100 – Animal’s series on lever guns continues.

More articles are welcome – please use the submissions box.

Comments are open.

Well, it’s that time of year again. My wife took my daughter to sojourn in Dallas with her family, so that’s when I usually do a bunch of updates to Monocle!

However there are some things that you should know about Monocle to make your experience suck less. First, there are two variants of Monocle. Monocle Classic still exists, but I haven’t touched it in a year. If you like your Monocle, you can keep your Monocle, but you’re gonna be left in the dust as new features come along.

All of the cool updates are happening in Monocle Eyepiece, which is computer AND mobile friendly! Eyepiece is what I use every day when I visit Glibs, and it has recently become even better.

Like always, both Monocle Classic and Monocle Eyepiece are available with install instructions here.

Here are some of the features available in Eyepiece:

• Dynamic comment loading – Every 45 seconds, Eyepiece checks whether there are any new comments and loads them into the page.
• Next Unread Comment – The number button tells you how many unread comments are on the page and lets you cycle through them with just a click.
• Mark Comments Read – Clear the unread comments to get ready to read the next batch of Glib insight.
• Hide/Show Old Comments – During one of the Glib pushes to 1000 comments, it can be annoying to have to scroll through reams of old threads. With one click, it all goes away! Hide Old Comments removes any threads that don’t have new comments in them, but preserves the context of the new conversations so that you can still tell what’s going on.
• Comment Formatting Buttons – Never SF a link again! Your tags will be closed and your links will be clickable when you use the comment formatting buttons.
• TopHat+ Comment Preview With Link Checking – It used to be that you had to guess whether your formatting of your comments was correct. Then lafe.long published TopHat, the comment previewer. Now, Eyepiece has gone even further with TopHat+ dynamic comment previewer. But wait, there’s more! Now Eyepiece will detect whether you’re posting a duplicate link to a thread and will notify you whenever you’re in danger of the ultimate Glib faux pas!
• FOS-inspired User Mute – Whether you’re sick of that asshole, or you just can’t today, one click hides all the comments from a certain user so that your blood pressure returns to normal.

As always, let me know if there are any bugs or feature requests.