The first version of the new menubar is up. It is entirely CSS designed, and it breaks in Mac:Mozilla 0.9.9 and in Mac:Opera 5.0.498. (the whole site breaks in Mac:Opera !). (both of those are older versions, the new ones might fix it.) I’ll try to figure out what is going on with that later tonight. How does it check out cross-platform?
We went bowling tonight in this great little retro bowling ally. They don’t even have automatic scoring computers. I’ve never had to manually score before. I have decided that bowling is great fun and I should do it more often that I do. So if you are trying to find me on a tuesday, I’m probably at Circle Lanes taking advantage of the $1 per game special.
The wallpaper archives of mintchaos.com are switched over to the new design. Features include a long over due next/previous wallpaper navigation with thumbnails, better use of the side bar, and nifty buttons. Check it out.
I missed the May 1st reboot. I missed it by 23 days. But the MintChaos.com redesign is underway. This version is a lot more open ended, which will allow me to do more things with it. Currently the new design is only active on the front page. I will be getting the rest of the site up to speed over the weekend. while you are waiting for me get my act together go here. (It is important.)
i know you
i know you doubt what i am saying
you think that i’ve been deceived
to follow after what some call a weak man’s haven
it seems so simple that it’s hard to believe
i can’t understand why you would walk away from love
no i don’t understand why you would walk away from love
just can’t understand why you would walk away from love
i’ll never understand why you would walk away from love
maybe i’m right and He’s waiting at the table
maybe it happened when i saw it was my sin
maybe He’s waiting for a chance to show you true love
maybe you’ll never get this chance again
i can’t understand why you would walk away from love
no i don’t understand why you would walk away from love
just can’t understand why you would walk away from love
i’ll never understand why you would walk away from love
i’m a fool, so are you
i’m a fool, so are you
maybe you think i’m a fool for what i’m saying
maybe that’s what i’d like to be
or maybe you’re a fool to say you’re a wise man
either way you lose unless you meet with my King
In the past week MintChaos has played host to visitors from the following countries: Germany, Poland, Japan, France, Argentina, Chile, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Italy, Austria, and the Netherlands. Hello everybody. I hope you are enjoying yourselves.
There are people about. People from a group of islands on the other side of the Atlantic. These people make the moving pictures. Brian Taylor is working on a very nice to look at film about a rust boy. And, StudioAKA is a london based animation/advertising company with a great style. Be sure to check out their side project, Picas.
If I was Tycho I would regale you with the horrors of continuity. But as it stands I will merely point out the fact that there are more palm trees available for your downloading pleasure. Which brings the total number of wallpapers in the archives to 45. Not bad for a couple months work.
…saying. “You will be visited by a messenger from the great eagle of Tennessee. This messenger will bring the gift of sofas. These sofa you will count and sort. First by shape, then color, and finally by size. And the number of sofas will be twenty-three.” Well maybe it didn't happen exactly like that. But I did move a lot of couches at work yesterday.
Exciting. In the taking on more projects than I should department, I will be doing design work for Kelson Herr's new musical group, Asterisk*. They should be finishing their Electrophobia EP sometime this summer. It Features this song: A New History (crazy flamingo demo mix). This will be cool as it is the first album I will be involved with the design from the beginning. All of the other albums I have worked on were one day projects. I will also be helping with putting together a new website for them and other imaging projects. Don't forget to listen to the song. It is good.
I returned from a 12.5 hour work day to find that John had left a link to Zombocom in my email. Zombocom is incredible. It is the coolest thing since Purple.com stopped being a blank purple page. Strike that. I just checked, and purple.com is now amusingly not quite, but almost completely purple again. Word. So anyway, the moral of this story. That is, what I’m really trying to say is, that if you leave purple.com up long enough, your wife, (provided you have one [if you do not, I’m sure you can find someone else to serve this purpose]) will be come quite irate.
We’re Here: A Flash help site. Featuring tutorials, source files, active and helpful forums, and a zero Flash interface. Also, this man has some very slick Flash experiments. A good chunk of these include source downloads.
I started learning flash today. Well actally, I started learning flash yesterday. But all i did was make a circle and break it into little peices. So I am not counting that. But today I made an actual thing (you may look at it if you want). Next I shall set about learning ActionScript. Maybe I will even make something useful!
Shaun has joined the MintChaos hosting bandwagon. You can find him at /chashitsu/. He might have a webcomic focus, but he’s not sure yet.
The next person to join up will probably be my father. He will fill it with writings and such. This will happen as soon as he tells me what he wants. Hint hint.
To those who wonder: I am not taking sides. I am doing what I was asked.
I am currently in Google’s number one spot for “church desktop wallpaper”. I rock. On a side note. Google is Google’s top search for Google. In case you wondered.
There are currently 666 songs in my mp3 playlist.
In chronological order.
Read Mona Lisa Overdrive last week. My first time through it. I was really impressed with the way Gibson weaves stories. MLO is actually three stories told in chapter by chapter parallel. I should read it again reading each story separately. And see how the effect changes.
We watched Zoolander (IMDb:Trailer). And it was beautiful. Quite possibly the funniest movie I’ve seen in the past year. And good for a weekend of quotes. “That Hansel, he’s so hot right now!”
Friday, we took a field trip to Schaumburg. We found a park. A park the size of a small city. A park with wandering roads, wandering rivers, and wondering paths. In which, we wandered. And I found a large dead tree that was over the water. I pranced around on said tree. I did not fall in. We then took off to finally meet a MINI. We set off down auto dealer lane. Michael spotted one. It was not the MINI Dealer, but a used car place that had one. We got out to look at it anyway. While we were gawking, we we approached by an under-informed, condescending used car salesman. He was determined to convince us that the MINI was out of our league, and that he had other “affordable” cars to show us. We decided that it would be eaiser to just leave than try to make sense of why his used MINI sells for $14,000 more than a brand new one. We did find the real MINI dealership. And it was filled with nice people, free literature, stickers. And the coolest cars I have ever seen. Michael and I have both decided to each get a MINI COOPER S, in electric blue. He will name his “Blue Steel” and mine will be “Magnum”. MINI MINI MINI.
We dined at Fuddruckers. Fuddruckers pretentiously claims to serve the worlds best hamburgers. They are probably right. We spent our post enormous hamburger digestion period pawing through MINI Literature and quoting features to each other. “Flat tire monitor. Alerts the driver the moment a tire’s revolution rate changes, indicating tire integrity has been compromised.” “…Dynamic Stability Control vigilantly monitors steering angle, yaw and lateral acceleration. If it senses your MINI is moving in a direction other than what you intended, it applies the brakes at individual wheels and manipulates engine torque to put you back on the right path.” Sweet.
Another stop at the mall where Ann spent her birthday bonus on a cool new purse creature at the Fossil Store, and where Michael and I made up lame excuses to distract her so I could buy her the Moulin Rouge DVD as a birthday present.
Happy birthday Ann! (she is now even more older than me :-) We, of course watched Moulin Rouge (IMDb:Trailers) It is still very very good.
Michael took us out to see Ice Age (IMDb:Trailers) We laughed, we cried. It moved us Bob.
And today I read The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy a wholly remarkable book. Written by Douglas Adams, based (in a round about way) on his radio series of the same name. In which the earth is destroyed, suspense is avoided, improbability happens, petunias think, and panicking is not advised. At the center of the story is The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, the most remarkable book to ever come out of the publishing empire of Ursa Minor. A book almost, but not quite, entirely unlike the book in which it is contained. If you haven’t yet. I suggest you read it.
A guest post by my brother Michael.
Yay! Oak Park is fun. We went to the house that Ann works at tonight to watch a movie. Xian brought donuts. Sticky ones. When we arrived Xian thought that Kathryn (Who owns the house) would have been out so he was expecting Ann to answer the door. He knocked a few times and then he said we should both duck so Ann wouldn’t see us. We did. When the door opened Xian jumped up and held the box of donuts towards Kathryn and said, “Brought sticky!” followed by, “ummm.........these are for Ann.” so anyways, my brother is psycho.
Michael came to visit today. He rode into town on the 8:55. At 8:55 Ann and I were walking down the side of the Eisenhower expressway trying to find a EL station that would let us in. Watching the trains go by. Missing them. Good-bye trains. We were taking the Blue-Line. Normally we take the Green-Line, but the Blue gets us closer to Union Station. But it didn’t quite work like we thought it would. We did make it to Union Station. At 9:20. We were seeking one little brother who had been there for half an hour waiting.
Union station is big. It’s a large building to begin with. Then it tunnels off in every which way. One of these tunnels contained my brother. So we wandered through waiting rooms looking. And I felt bad, because I was supposed to be there. I’m always late.
We found him. And he was surprisingly un-annoyed. Turns out his train was late. And he had only been waiting for a few minutes. A good thing. Then on the way home the man at the EL station let me ride for free because they couldn’t give change for a ten. A nice man, and another good thing.
So Michael will be staying with us till Monday. It will be nice as I haven’t seen much of him at all since before I got married. For those not counting, that means about 4 months. More good things!