{"id":2,"date":"2013-03-15T18:36:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2017-09-11T16:07:18","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T21:07:18","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"Casual Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Who the hell are you?<\/strong>\u00a0 Brett Hainley is a freelance writer who has been featured in various print media including the now-defunct OTCNN website and two produced plays.\u00a0 He has also appeared in or directed a number of community theatre plays in the Houston area.\u00a0 This is to say that he&#8217;s a nobody, but he&#8217;s okay with that.\u00a0 For a brief period, he was enough of a somebody, that, on an internet forum, he was once told there was no way he was <em>that Brett Hainley<\/em>, which was one of the most surreal moments in his life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cnbanner200x40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cnbanner200x40.jpg\" alt=\"cnbanner200x40\" width=\"200\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Okay, then what is Casual Notice?<\/strong>\u00a0 Casual Notice began as a drop-style humor comic that began in 2004 and ended in 2009.\u00a0 Originally the site held only the comic and the ragged remnants of Hainley&#8217;s old &#8220;Havoc&#8217;s Completely Unecessary Website&#8221;, which was a repository of short works and poems.\u00a0 Shortly after launch, however, Hainley started adding his personal musings in an inconsistently-updated weblog (or Blog).\u00a0 Coded entirely by hand in html, the original site was unwieldy, and, after the comic ended, Hainley moved most of his blogging to LiveJournal.<\/p>\n<p>With the acquisition of a new server in 2012, Hainley began executing plans to (1) make the Blog the central feature of the site, (2) make the whole thing easier to manage through WordPress or other php software, and (3) start a new comic using most of the supporting cast from the old Casual Notice.\u00a0 Nebraska City, which never actually happened.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cnbanner200x40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cnbanner200x40.jpg\" alt=\"cnbanner200x40\" width=\"200\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>What gives you the right to make political and social pronouncements?<\/strong>\u00a0 The right?\u00a0 That&#8217;s afforded to me by the First Amendment guarantees of Freedom of Speech and of the Press.\u00a0 I think you mean what gives me the temerity, or possibly, the balls.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 I have no legs to stand on except a life of watching people and the world.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cnbanner200x40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26\" src=\"http:\/\/www.casualnotice.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/cnbanner200x40.jpg\" alt=\"cnbanner200x40\" width=\"200\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Are you my dad?<\/strong>\u00a0 Maybe.\u00a0 I did a lot of stupid things when i was young, and sticking it in the crazy was on of my faves.\u00a0 Send me a pic of your mom and I can tell you for sure if it&#8217;s a real possibility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s up with the Captcha and my comments not being immediately posted?\u00a0<\/strong>Spam is a problem in small site comments sections. To combat this, I use a Captcha to eliminate machine spammers, and I use a pre-approval system to deal with human spammers. The pre-approval system only holds your comments until your first comment is approved, then your comments are automatically posted. 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