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Frog march · #61 (**permalink**) 10-January-2008, 10:09 AM

"kryptic"?
have you been eating kryptonite again, sticks?

Sticks · #62 (**permalink**) 10-January-2008, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Frog march

"kryptic"?
have you been eating kryptonite again, sticks?

No, Kryptonide it packs a more powerful punch

Hydro · #63 (**permalink**) 10-January-2008, 10:57 AM

Across the big pond lives Sticks
He tries to comment just for kicks
But the BA's blog
Eats spam like a hog
Give it up dude, there is no easy fix!

Maksutov · #64 (**permalink**) 12-January-2008, 07:41 AM

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Originally Posted by JanieBelle

Thanks for the welcome everybody.

Maksutov, that's from an 1892 painting by John Collier entitled "Lilith", and is one of my favorite paintings ever. It currently hangs in The Atkinson Art Gallery in Southport, England. It's oil on canvas.

Though the character was plagiarized from elsewhere, in Judeo-Christian mythology she was Adam's first wife, made from the dust of the earth (as opposed to a rib from Adam) and was Adam's equal. When Adam told her to get on her back to um... perform her wifely duties... she refused because of his lousy attitude and said "I will not lie below", demanding to be treated equally. When Adam acted like a butt-head, she left him and he went sniveling to Yahweh for a new wife that would do as he told her.

She got quite the bad rap and was eventually accused of all sorts of evil stuff (bringing disease, famine, etc. etc.) and eventually she was mostly erased from the official mythos. The argument can be made that the Christian Lucifer is a derivative of the idea of Lilith masculinized so as to avoid the appearance of too much power vested in and wielded by a woman.

In any event, she wasn't the submissive and subordinate field lily that Eve was, though it's interesting that the two of them got the blame for basically every bad thing ever to happen after that. Eve gets the blame for the bad actions of humans because of that whole fruit/snake/fall thing, and Lilith got the blame for all the bad natural events which were scurrilously pronounced to be children of sordid affairs she was later accused of having with demons.

Personally, I think she's the most interesting character in that particular mythology so I carry that painting as my avatar everywhere I go. I like her attitude.

BTW, her demand for equal treatment is why the Lilith Fair is so named I understand.

Thank you for identifying the painting. It looked familiar but I couldn't recall the title or the artist. The one by Rossetti is pretty good too, resembles a former girlfiend (as well as Peg Bundy), and is of course definitely a redhead.

I know we're talking mythology here, but, nevertheless, kudos to Lilith. No wonder the patriarchy suppressed her.

BTW, she is the subject of a new opera by Deborah Drattell.

The Bad Astronomer · #65 (**permalink**) 13-January-2008, 06:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Sticks

My query got caught again on the blog entry about the Astronomy cast meet up. I hate to be kryptic here but if the answer is no maybe Phil can just PM me to confirm it is no.

Sticks, honestly, I have no idea how to make this any clearer: I don't know why the spam filter keeps catching you, but there is now nothing I can do about it. I have done everything I can to whitelist your comments, but they are always caught. The spam filter, Akismet, is a third-party application, which means I have very little control over it. If I stop using it, I will get hundreds -- hundreds -- of spam comments a day on the blog, rendering it useless.

It is possible that your comments on other blogs (if any) are what flagged you, since the spam database is used by thousands of blogs. My hands are tied.

Frog march · #66 (**permalink**) 13-January-2008, 08:48 PM

perhaps, a malicious blogger, somewhere, perhaps a HB blog, black listed you somewhere Sticks, and it stayed on the database.

JanieBelle · #67 (**permalink**) 29-January-2008, 03:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Maksutov

Thank you for identifying the painting. It looked familiar but I couldn't recall the title or the artist. The one by Rossetti is pretty good too, resembles a former girlfiend (as well as Peg Bundy), and is of course definitely a redhead.

I know we're talking mythology here, but, nevertheless, kudos to Lilith. No wonder the patriarchy suppressed her.

BTW, she is the subject of a new opera by Deborah Drattell.

You are very welcome, Maksutov, and thank you for pointing me to that very lovely painting as well. That's beautiful.

Wow, that opera looks powerful as well. I'd never heard of it and I'd have loved to have seen it.

valkyr · #68 (**permalink**) 31-January-2008, 08:09 PM

Spam Filter keeps sniping me too....

ARGGGHHH

Should I start a new thread?

Name: C. Taylor
Comments: Varied

I think my external IP address is a 12.23.250.xx Address but I'm not sure...We're behind a firewall so all traffic goes out through one ip address

Sticks · #69 (**permalink**) 19-March-2008, 10:03 AM

I noticed Phil had been doing some work on WordPress so tried a test post and still got caught.

Sticks · #70 (**permalink**) 19-March-2008, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Frog march

perhaps, a malicious blogger, somewhere, perhaps a HB blog, black listed you somewhere Sticks, and it stayed on the database.

But in the past I tried using a different user ID, different networks (Work and home) and different email addresses. Plus as far as I am aware I have not been on any HB sites in order to get banned from them.

#71 (**permalink**) 25-March-2008, 07:11 PM

It was in your post titled "Asteroid update: size doesn’t matter"

To the best of my memory, here's what I posted:

Surprised no one's mentioned Dan Durda's asteroid yet...

The username I used was SourBlaze (just like this post).

I am on dial-up, so my IP address isn't constant,but at the moment I tried to post it was 172.190.23.252...

Also, my ISP is AOL, my browser is Firefox, and I am running Windows XP.

Spacewriter · #72 (**permalink**) 01-April-2008, 08:47 PM

I've just gotten used to the idea that I have to let Phil mod my comments. I use Akismet on my blog too,and believe me, it's better to have to enable somebody's comments than risk letting on some of the crap that would show up if Akismet wasn't so vigilant.

Maksutov · #73 (**permalink**) 08-April-2008, 07:20 AM

Let's see, "Akismet"? Some kind of anti-fate software? Must be freewillware.

Sticks · #74 (**permalink**) 25-April-2008, 03:04 PM

It has done it again twice today

One on the blog about Meca and GMT and the one on ICR and the failed degree acreditation attempt

Laguna2 · #75 (**permalink**) 30-April-2008, 11:24 AM

Drop it Sticks.
We are beyond help.
Just live with it and let your comments be moderated, as frustrating as it might be.

Frog march · #76 (**permalink**) 30-April-2008, 11:54 AM

perhaps, if it is important enough for you, you could change servers.

I'm with Tiscali Broadband, and have no problem posting on the badastronomy blog reply thing.

It might work.

Laguna2 · #77 (**permalink**) 30-April-2008, 12:14 PM

Change Server? Who? Phil and Fraser? Would not help.

Sticks and me? Change Server? You mean change our ISP?

*confused*

Sticks · #78 (**permalink**) 30-April-2008, 01:51 PM

I have tried from different ISPs and computers and different email addresses and IDs

I have tried from home and from work

It still triggers

Laguna2 · #79 (**permalink**) 30-April-2008, 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Sticks

I have tried from different ISPs and computers and different email addresses and IDs

I have tried from home and from work

It still triggers

Same with me.
It triggers from home, from old work, new work (US company),
with five different mail-addresses...

So I simply gave up writing on the blog.
Only very seldom I post some comment.

Get over it, we Europeans are not welcome overseas.

Sticks · #80 (**permalink**) 07-May-2008, 03:19 PM

it has t