Month: August 2010
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Time Machines
I’m eating a frozen pizza, drinking a Sprite Zero, and thinking of time machines. I’m not talking about H.G. Wells, or teleporting man-machine hybrids that look like a leaner version of the current California governor back to save the leader of the future resistance army. I’ve probably mentioned this to others, but it always seems…
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Home Page Redux
I did some minor facelift work to the home page – check out https://rumored.com if you get a chance. Nothing too exciting, but I wanted to mess with JQuery a little bit, and I’m now using it for rounded corners and hover effects. The old circa-2007 DHTML stuff I was using for panel swapping was…
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Phoenix Dumpling
I had the most vivid dream a bit ago. I was back in Bloomington, in present-day, working some job that involved me commuting either to or from Indianapolis every day. I went for breakfast at the Phoenix Dumpling, which had been (re-?)opened as this sort of foody sit-down service restaurant, but still had the same…
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random.yahoo.com is better than any Ouija board
I don’t know why, but I suddenly remembered that random.yahoo.com used to be an obsession of mine. I mean, this was back when there were only like 800 web sites and 680 of them were under construction and had one of those stupid animated GIFs of a construction worker or bulldozer, but it meant that…
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Back to School
I am going back to school. Sort of. I’m taking one class, online, about TV comedy writing. This will probably elicit a number of questions, like “why school?” and “why TV?” and “what about these government agents in black helicopters that sit with sniper rifles and thermal scopes a mile away from my armed compound?”…