So today is devoted to Dreamweaver and all its delightfully simple offerings. We’re building a site for Marvin’s Gardens, a fictional plant store with a heavy preference for irises. The interface is simple and straightforward, and despite the instructor’s inability to answer any questions that aren’t answered on the sheet in front of him, things are going relatively smoothly. Except for the constant loop of super ’70s hit “Dreamweaver” in my head. That’s getting kinda…
I’m on my lunch break again. Today we learned how to insert animated gifs onto pages. I put a trio of monkeys beside a waving American flag. It wasn’t my cool post-modern statement on American intellect. It was the assignment. We also learned about the blink tag, which didn’t work for us. I Googled it and found out that it doesn’t work because it’s been deprecated by all but Navigator. So, yeah. I don’t know…
I have to sneak a quick post in. I’m at html training for work and we’re on a lunch break. This not having internet or cable at home is effing brutal. Sarah tried to save me by lending her laptop to me, but I’m too stupid to get its wireless internet to work in any of the downtown hotspots. Blimey. This html class is hopefully going to get more interesting as it progresses this week.…
Either chunks of sky or pig shit could be falling soon. Editor’s Note: I’m not in a charitable mood at the moment (I’ve got a raging headache and the Tylenol I took is stuck in my throat, taunting me), so please forgive the following very rude and incendiary things I’m about to say about religion. This disclaimer is sitting here to remind you that I cast a skeptical eye on all religions and don’t claim…
So Blogger has been having major server issues all day, and it wasn’t until an hour or two ago that I was able to access most of the blogspot blogs I frequent, except for this one, which was, apparently, a part of the group of blogs that remained completely inaccessible for an even longer amount of time. I was sure my brain droplets were lost forever in the ether. But here they are, back again,…
Because snacking is just so much fun. AppetizerOn a scale of 1 to 10 (10=highest), how sociable are you?5. Boring old 5. And that’s probably generous. SoupName 3 DVDs you currently own.Dazed and Confused, Napoleon Dynamite, The Nightmare Before Christmas SaladIf you were to win a superlative award now (such as most talented, class clown, most likely to succeed), what would it be?Most Likely to Be a Social 5 But to Have a Blog in…
The little-known 17th commandment. So my attempt to get Strokes internet pre-sale tickets was foiled by a major network crash at 1:05. I was refreshing the page every few seconds to coax the “buy tickets” button to replace the “available soon” text. And lo and behold, the lights flickered and I got a ton of error messages and suddenly my internet went kaput and so did all my network applications. And by the time we…
Working in the news biz has totally fucked up my understanding of the space-time continuum. For example, I just asked a co-worker why we didn’t slap the Tennessee Bush speech story online last night instead of running it on the front page for tomorrow, seeing as how it’s old news. He was confused. With good reason. Because it didn’t happen until this afternoon. However, to me, it feels like the Tennessee speech was yesterday and…
Time Warner won’t be out to rewire/connect my cable/internet ’til the 16th. Yes, that’s not today, which is when they originally told me they’d be coming. That’s two weeks or so from today. Quite a difference. I’m not sure I can make it a whole two weeks without internet at home. I went without it for two whole days during the move this weekend, and when I got back to the connected world, I felt…
Today makes a full year I’ve been on the job. It also marks a whole year that I’ve not called in sick a single time. I’m particularly proud of this; I had a horrible attendence record in college, and had any of my professors stuck with their own “miss three classes and automatically fail” policies, I would not have a degree. I’ve also been asked to stay on overtime tonight. Someone called in sick. Heh.
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