wiseheart | Party time ahead!

Well, yes, dear folks, it's this time of the year again. The big, one-week virtual party from today to the 9th of October starts here. Come on in, be welcome, make yourself comfortable, and post a comment. May we have many collapsed threads again!

Last year we had 559 comments on 4 pages, which is an impressive record to break. But I have an excellent apple pie in the oven, and offer a virtual slice to every party guest.

Let's party!

Addition: someone asked for the apple pie recipe. Here it is, behind the cut.

400 gr wheat flour
200 gr butter or margarine
200 gr sugar
1/10 litre sour cream
1 pinch of salt
ground peel of 1/lemon
2 gr baking soda

For the filling:
2 kg apples
sugar,cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla and ground lemon peel as you like

One eggyolk for painting the top.

How to make it?
1) Make a dough from abovementioned ingredients.
2) Cut it in two equal pieces. Roll out one piece, lay it into a baking tin (baking paper under it is helpful).
3) Spread some dried bread crubms all over it.
4) Peel and plane (slice???) the apples, press out the juice with your hands (it shouldn't be too dry, though) and mix them with the spices.
5) Spread the apples over the dough.
6) Roll out the other half of the dough. Cover the apples with it.
7) Paint the top with eggyolk and bake it in a pre-heated oven, on 200°C for twenty minutes.
8) Cut it when it's cooled down.

Sorry, but I had to use the metric system. My brain doesn't work in cups and pounds and that stuff. I hope you can still figure out how much you need from the ingredients.

Addition: I also wish to gift upon my dear party guests a birthday-present, Hobbit-style: Chapter 03 - Puer Natus Est Nobis of my Cadfael fic "Sparrows" has just been posted to

hiddenrealms and to FF.Net. Enjoy!

And the end results are: 735 comments on 6 pages! It's more than I could have dreamed of, and I thank you - all of you - who contributed to this record. It will be a hard one to break next year indeed, but I hope you'll be back. :)

Thanks again, I had a fantastic time and met great new people - it was fun!

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Do we know if LJ have changed the algorithm for when threads collapse and/or when a new page is started since last year?

Haven't got a clue. I only ever produce collapsed threads on my virtual birthday parties, you know. But this is an excellent opportunity to figure out it all.

I haven't had collapsed threads at all in my LJ so I haven't a clue either. I seem to remember we determined each page would hold 25 first level comments, but I am not sure if we ever worked out what the requirements for the threads collapsing was. I think it may require some proper scientific study! :-)

Nothing can beat proper scientific study. ;)

The scientific method is one of the finest human inventions -- and so much fun! Especially when it means I get to hang out in your journal for a virtual party.

I think that when there is a fiftieth comment on one page, then long threads start to collapse. But I need more data! :-D

All in the name of science, of course!

Perhaps we should try and get Data on the subject as well? ;-)

Nooo, he'd do everything in a very short time, and then we won't have any fun left. We can invite him to the party, though, so that he gets the chance to "study human behaviour in an informal environment".

I am sure that he will enjoy that! Data is one of my Mum's favourite TNG characters, so I am pleased you are happy to invite him to your party. :-)

It's a funny thing with mothers and Data - mine loves him, too, although she generally isn't interested in science fiction.

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I'm scattering comments about this page to find out. Purely in the advancement of science, you understand.

I am all for the advancement of science! And it seems we have achieved collapsing comment threads! Yay! \o/

Today collapsing threads, tomorrow space-time!

Be careful. We have a resident Time Agent on board. Even if a rogue one.

And the occasional passing Time Lord.

Speaking of which, I really need a Tosh/Nine icon for Travellers' Tales. I don't think there are any, though, and I'm tragically lacking any web skills.

Yay! Let's go for it.

But in order to conquer the next page, we'll need more first-generation comments, I think. Or else we can have hundreds and comments and still stay on this page - which would be a waste, I'd say.

I think we're getting closer to that second page - just a handful more commenters needed.

There do indeed seem to be over a hundred comments on this page (the bottom of my pages says '148 comments' as I am writing this) so more first level comments are indeed needed. Especially if we are going to be able to work out what the requirements are for threads collapsing...

With the right books I am sure we can conquer anything (given enough time)!

Yeah, that's the pain with books, isn't it? Even if you can get the right ones, where do you get the time to read them?

I keep suggesting Amazon should start selling 'time to read books' on their website. I am sure it would be a best-seller!

I'd surely be a regular customer!