Eight things a meme compelled me to reveal
10 August 2007 | memes, personal trivia | 1 Comment
Normally I don’t do these things. (Ms. Jen probably owes me a sock in the arm for not following the one she tagged me for last time.) I got tagged by George and, I dunno, maybe it’s the fact that I miss some of the questions-of-the-day from Vox. So I’m supposed to quote some things first.
The Rules:
1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
3. People who are tagged write their own blog post about their eight things and include these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged and that they should read your blog.
5. 8 is a magic number. Not three.
Yeah, I’m not going to follow all of those.
- I used to consider myself to be, on average, lucky. The last few years, I’ve been wondering where the luck has gone. Still, the last two years I’ve been able to waltz into the Sisters‘ Ba-da-bingo event at the International Bear Rendezvous convention, despite not really associating myself with the local bear community, win a grab-bag of stuff, and then waltz back out afterwards.
- Even though I consider myself a pretty skilled webdev, I don’t want to start writing about it, as might be expected. I like making websites, I like making things go with javascript, I like talking about it with people and showing them how to do things, but the thought of writing how-tos makes me want to pull my teeth out. I’d rather get to it.
- I have never slept with a porn star. There have been a couple guys, though, who later appeared in porn. This reflects nothing on me, really, nor is it as interesting or glamorous as some people must have thought, judging by their reactions when it came up in conversation.
- You know that part from the movie Phat Girlz where Monique doesn’t say what she’s really thinking when another woman asks if the dress she’s trying on makes her look fat? When you ask me that, I have the same type of thoughts. Only I’m meaner.
- I have a somewhat-heart-shaped birthmark on my right knee. When I was younger, a friend once told me that meant I’d be proposed to on bended knee. I used to hold onto the idea, as it seemed romantic. These days I don’t, and it doesn’t.
- Actually, I’ve become pretty disillusioned about a lot of things. Lately, I’ve started to think that socially, nothing’s changed since, say, the Renaissance. Advances in science and technology, sure, but there’s still the ones in power and the ones toiling away. We just sometimes think the manners in which we toil are more interesting.
- I wish I were more of an academic, but at some point I chose (or felt I was more suited for) practice over theory. I wish I was more of an artist, but the only reason I feel that way is because of what I want to do with my life, or rather the only thing I’ve ever been able to articulate in regards to what I want to do with my life, is make beautiful things.
- Recent events have made me bite my tongue more than ever when it comes to writing online. I still feel burned, but I’m getting over it, and I feel stupid for letting other people behaving in ways I found unagreeable stop me from doing something I enjoyed. And yet in a way I’m grateful, because I’ve been reminded of and shown, from multiple angles, the need for sympathy and behaving responsibly online.
I fear I can’t tag anyone, as I’m still in debate with rule #5. 3 is so the magic number. Yes it is. It’s a magic nu-hum-ber-er-er.
links for 2007-08-10
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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium. It’s not that bad at all, but adoption by webdevs will depend on browsers’ ability to support them and let them be styled with CSS.
I’m sure some people would be flattered
6 August 2007 | personals, purposefully missed connections, queer | 3 Comments
It’s not a situation I would have anticipated: On a personals site, someone stating in his profile that his band is going on tour soon (my town: later this month) and that he’d need places to stay, shot me a message saying I “seem like a rad guy.” Also, according to his profile, he’s not adverse to having a fuckbuddy from time to time. Also, he’s 22.
I’m connecting the dots in the most probable manner, and I’m just not lecherous enough for this gig. Forgive me if I don’t respond.
My mom is learning the new geography
25 July 2007 | family, Mom, technoculture, weblogs | No Comments
Yesterday, my mom called and opened up the conversation by telling me that she got issue 11 of JPG in the mail, and how much she and everyone in the house loves it. That’s always nice to hear. I love the fact that I’m working on something that I can show to my family, who for the most part are non-techie, and they get it right away. (Though that’s changing; my cousin, recently graduated with a graphic design degree, has put her portfolio together in Dreamweaver, using CSS. That’s blowing my mind. I thought I’d be the only one who built stuff for the web in my family, ever.)
Today I shot Mom an email saying that I mentioned that phone call in the announcement I made on the JPG blog for issue 11 being out. She called shortly after, telling me “you’re so funny,” and that she thought that was cool that she was mentioned on the blog anecdotally.
It wasn’t until much later that I realized that this was the first time weblogs had come up in a conversation with my mother where I didn’t have to explain to her what they were.
links for 2007-07-24
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All you iPhone app (should I put that in quotes?) developers should love this. Firebug is the best thing to happen to webdevs since we started getting paid.
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The recent state of this javascript framework/library.
links for 2007-07-18
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“Pixel Groovy is a user controlled tutorial directory. We provide the members with the control, not editors, to decide which tutorials are worthy of being published and which tutorials aren’t. This helps filter out and set a level of quality in the tutori
links for 2007-06-19
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effects library for jQuery. Woot.
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Another javascript library, but very nice methods for using CSS-style selectors.
links for 2007-06-08
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Makes your WordPress weblog look all Apple-y. I’d never use it, but you might. Thanks… Halsted, I think, this has been sitting open in my feedreader for too long.
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Task-timer widget for Dashboard. Nice. Thanks, Pk.
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Once a month, they have a contest: here’s a PSD, do it up with CSS in 24 hours. Best implementation wins. I should do this at some point. Thanks, Tiffany B.
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Desktop wallpapers + WoW. Yay. Sharing for those that might be interested.
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I don’t know if it’s *definitive* but there’s some good stuff in here. Thanks again to Tiffany B.
links for 2007-06-07
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Thanks Sean for these. The shoes/boots are really what I’m interested in.
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Always a useful skill to have.
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Thanks, Halsted.
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JPD hooked me up with this one, and I might actually start. One of these days…
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It wiggles your mouse so your Mac won’t fall asleep while you’re away, which is nice if you have a big, long task to set about to that doesn’t require your presence. Also, “wiggles your mouse.”
links for 2007-05-26
26 May 2007 | del.icio.us | No Comments
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A good colophon example.
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Estimate how long your long-running process should take. Add a fudge-factor, just in case. Have a “progress-bar that runs more-or-less on that time-table until it reaches around 90%.”
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Cripes. But may come in handy.
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Ditto.