Jeffrey Veen writes about a really good function for Flash intro pages: Skip Always. The idea is that when a site employs a Flash intro (also known as demon possession in some web development circles) that they offer a ‘skip always’ link that will set a cookie so that they get to the actual home page in subsequent visits.
Monthly Archives: November 2004
Christmas on November 3rd
Abby is getting spoiled rotten by Grandma and her generosity with her money. I am amazed by the amount of stuff Abby has accumulated. Grandma should buy her a new suitcase to ship it all back in 😉
What You Overhear
When you’re two years old you get to overhear all sorts of things. Abby just interjected, “It has innuendo and Spider-man, Grandpa.” What was she referring to? NBC pulling Father of the Pride from their line up. She’s never once seen that show, it does have innuendo, but I don’t recall Spider-man in it 🙂 Oh, and she was talking to Grandma!
Beatboxing
When you think of Randy Peterman, you think of beatboxing. Actually, if you think of beatboxing very often you probably are not a regular reader of this blog. However, this site got a link from one of the search engines because someone was looking for said term. Therefore I’m sharing this special sample clip of me beatboxing for your listening pleasure.
Shoot! That didn’t work, it’s just a midi file. Oh, well. I guess you’ll just never know what it sounds when I beatbox. Wait! I can type out some beatbox sounds:
Dhmp Dhmp Che Dhmp Dhh Dhmp Che
Wiki wiki wiki wiki wiki scratch.
<vanilla ice lyric>
Go White boy go!
</end white rap>
I suppose that I could move onto some other great search terms:
“I was a teenager”
“2004 US presidential candidates Randy”
“365th birthday”
“My computer turns itself up every 30 minutes”
Oh, well. I suppose that what comes in from the search engines is less certain than the winner of the presidential election.
Clair
Clair
This is a picture of my father-in-law, Clair. He’s sitting on the stairs in the new house he’s building.
Click on the picture for a larger version.
Kerry Ahead in Exit Polls
Or Maybe not. Maybe George Bush is.
No one will say since the media really screwed up in 2000 .
One Florida voter was reported as saying, “I don’t know how I messed up on my ballot. My vision is better than 20% of the drivers in this state and I can spot a car I’m about to hit from within 3 feet of hitting it. My reaction time isn’t so bad, I usually have applied the breaks by the time of impact…
“What was the question again?”
Swing states like Colorado have reported that usage of swings in parks in Denver have gone down since the cold weather and yesterday’s snow make the park uninviting for voters. Teeter-Totter states like California (where the building go up, and earthquakes bring them down so they can be built back up again) have reportedly just voted Democrat because they want Arnold in the Whitehouse.
John Kerry, if his bid for the presidency fails, has been invited by George Lucas to act in any upcoming Star Wars sequel he may choose. “Kerry, is an emotional powerhouse, between his expressive face, dynamic speaking skills and the CGI that Industrial Light and Magic can create he’s ready to play an important role in one of my next movies, Star Wars: The Botoxine Battles,” said Lucas.
Tele-Propa-Cram Calls
That’s what I call the proliferation of telephone calls from political entities trying to persuade me to vote for one or more candidates. Making A Call, by Eric Meyer, is another person who’s tired of it, what scares me is the number of trackbacks in the comments from other people writing the same thing.
I am going to write to my congress people to add their politicial drubbings to the list of parties not able to call me when I’m registered on the national ‘do not call’ list. Why is it that they are absolved of this sin simply because they’re ‘educating’ the masses?
Remotely2
I’m working remotely at my in-laws in Washington and have to chuckle because their desk in the front room is right next to the front, right surround sound speaker. What these means is that while I do have headphones on listening to the likes of Roper, Chevelle and Blindside I’m also getting a bit of 13 Going on 30 in my left ear. It ends up sounding like, “Don’t Fake This!/Don’t Fake This!” mixed with Michael Jackson’s Thriller. In other words, it’s not a nice soundtrack to code to.
Profanity
Sometimes words race through my mind that are less than flattering, and are all-together unwholesome. This doesn’t happen often, but it does happen sometimes. Most commonly when I get comment spam I think, “Those 57Up1d 84574rd5!” And then I cool off, pray for the Lord to purify my thoughts, and delete the spam. However, what really bothers me is that if the comment spammers are from Asia, there is nothing I can (or ICANN) do about it. That is the real source of the frustration. If I could shut people down (I’ve already shut down one source of spam thanks to the help of the ISP that was hosting the goober) I’d feel a little better. Even if I could just get ISPs to block computers that were contaminated with whatever program was being the relay I’d be happy.
However, some fool in Asia, who keeps using profanities for his comment spam posts, is hitting my server over and over again. I’ve gotten hundreds of posts from this ‘person’ (which sounds like too high a ranking for such slime) within the last three and a half days. Each one is almost completely identical and would really not help his search engine ranking anyway. I know Phil reported some comment spam, and in chatting with Trint I learned that he got hit with some, too, but has anyone else gotten these sorts of ‘treats?’
I’m using Moo-Kitty’s Comment Spam blocker to prevent it from being published, but I still have to remove it from the WordPress database.
I can say Spam tastes OK when wrapped in rice (not ricin!) and sea weed ! My aunt made some for me back in the day. Yummy!
While writing this three comment spams were blocked by my filters, but had to be removed.
Lacking Spinach
After this weekend I feel like I need a very large can of spinach to regain my strength (Popeye reference). I had been working out zero days in a row prior to this trip and the current labor has been refreshing and exhausting at the same time. Today I have to get back to mental work which requires me sit on my bum and type a lot. However, I’m working on some interesting stuff that will require some good mental effort.
I’m looking forward to driving up the Columbian Gorge later on this week. I hope to get some good pictures so that I can post them. I’ve been taking a few pictures off and on but I need to crop them and get them ready for ‘online use.’ I love to go to Multnomah falls, and I hope that I’ll get some really nice photographs there. That way I can be yet another multnomah photographer (YAMP).
Abby sure loves being spoiled by her grandparents, Linda dedicated yesterday to sugar. No, not because of the eve of all saints day, but because while Clair and I worked on their new house the females consumed calories and turned their brains off whilst watching moo-vies that they ponied-up for, or in another farm vein, chick flicks.
I’ve got to get used to the time change since I’m an hour off from CO time plus daylight shavings time shaved an hour off of the clock so I’m all disoriented. Anywho, I’ve got to ‘get back to work.’ Fortunately that will require taking no steps and driving no miles, but will require me hitting “CTRL+Tab” on my nifty Firefox browser.