Is anyone else having problems with the RSS feed for this blog? I’ve heard it from a couple of people, so if it’s affected you, please let me know what happens when you try to do RSS stuff with the site so I can fix it. Thanks!

After the Challenge, instead of kicking my posting butt into gear, I’ve sort of moved into a phase where I’m less interested in BSC stuff: no motivation to post here or work in the wiki, less time spent on the various BSC communities I belong to… This happens from time to time, I suppose.

I’m not a big “fandom” person, so it’s not like I lose interest in the BSC and start, say, blogging about Community. I think it’s only natural that after nineteen years, sometimes I want to do nothing more than to read and think about the BSC, and other times I’m more interested in living my life outside of Stoneybrook. I mean, I started reading the series when I was the same age as Karen Brewer and now I’m old enough to teach at Stoneybrook Middle School or have a BSC client of my own. I’m older than Wesley Ellenburg!

I tend to retreat into BSCland when I’m feeling uneasy or a bit sad about my own life and want something comforting. But now I’m busy trying to start a career and balancing that with a social life and dipping my toes into the world of adult responsibility. I do hope to post more, and to add to the wiki (which you can all do too). But for now, I’d like to ask a few questions:

1) How long have you been reading the BSC?
2) Do you find that your interest in the series waxes and wanes with the seasons/life events/whatever?

It’s been twelve years since the series ended, eleven since I started Stoneybrookite, and since then the fandom has only grown and become more awesome. Happy 2012 everyone!

Hi guys! As you may know, I run the BSC Wiki along with cpennylane and pigeonrat. It is, as you can imagine, a pretty big job, so we’re looking for another admin to help us run the wiki.

We’d like someone with PHP experience, who can help us when things go haywire or can figure out a way to make spam bots less of a problem. None of us know PHP, so when something goes wrong, we have to rely on outside sources to fix it.

Other duties include:
-going through recent changes and deleting spam pages and blocking IPs that spam.
-through the recent changes and also checking the new entires that aren’t spam for consistency and overall accuracy. Encyclopedic/obsessive knowledge of the BSC is a big plus.

The PHP thing, though, is the most important. We all have a pretty good grasp of the BSC canon, but computer programming, not so much. So if you’d like to fill the Janine role of Computer Genius for the BSC Wiki, please comment below or email greer @ stoneybrookite.org.

x-posted to bsc@lj

My computer was broken for a week or so. It wouldn’t hold a charge. But I got it back now, which means I can start my planned revamp of Stoneybrookite for 2011. New layout, more updates, lots of work on the wiki…

Also, in case you haven’t heard about it yet, the series now has an official facebook page. Scholastic is keeping it updated with news and links, so like it and interact with your fellows fans on facebook! Unlike other places Scholastic has created for the BSC, this page is intended for us–those of us who grew up with the series and are reading it for a second (third, fourth, fortieth..) time.

I hope everyone had happy holidays! Looking forward to the New Year–what do you want to see on Stoneybrookite? I definitely want to blog more, and I had the wiki fixed, uploaded the fonts, etc. I really want to change to layout, but what sorts of things do you want to read about more?

I made the fonts available again.

With huge thanks to Ashley’s cousin, THE WIKI IS NOW FIXED. So head on over there and edit pages! Or just look things up.

“Fun bag”? Not only is it also a slang term for boobs, but they totally stole the Kid-Kit idea from Kristy. She should sue.

(via Everything is Terrible)

Site stuff: I am currently working on two real posts and considering a redesign. Whew. More exhausting than making sure your clients paid you more than ten bucks.

There are so many awesome articles being posted about the series now that it’s overwhelming. Instead of posting them here, I’ve started a tumblr (stoneybrookite.tumblr.com) to be able to post them easily. Also, if you find an article, send it to greerATstoneybrookite.org.