My grandfather died today. It doesn't seem right. It is the first time a death has left me feeling empty. I was always too young or just plain disaffected. This is different.
My parents have already left for Florida. I'll be leaving tonight to go to Michigan and be with my brothers. I'll be driving or flying down for the funeral in a couple of days.
Please continue praying.
Thank you for your support. I'll be back next week.
I spent a good chunk of the afternoon figuring out how to make Pure CSS pop-up menus work in Mac:IE 5.1+ which means they now work in every major browser except opera. But I don’t feel like writing about it anymore, so you can read about how it works at Mark Newhouse’s iBlog (Thanks Mark!). Or read about it in gory play by play detail at the CSS-D archives
Then I went downtown to meet Ann, her sister and her mother for dinner. On my way I saw, for the first time in real life, the most incredible Aston Martin V12 Vanquish. Wow. I’ve never seen a prettier car. We then proceeded to eat at the Rainforest Cafe. Where we were not eaten by wild animals.
And now we are going to go to the Jaguar release party at the Apple store. At which we may win a Mac.
Completing the collection of Mint flavored RSSness is our new Wallpapers.Mintchaos RSS feed featuring thumbnails of the 10 latest wallpapers.
Although I can’t tell if it has no pretentions or is completly full of them. The trailer for Jerry Sienfield’s new movie Comedian is one of my all time favorite movie trailers. And I highly doubt there is anything from the actual movie in it. Brilliant.
As Shaun points out. The Spirited Away trailer is available for your viewing pleasure. Go view it!
I drove Ann to work today in rain that was somewhere between torrential and flood-like. Drain spouts were flowing over, our parking lot was a puddle and windshield wipers were theoretical. All Chicago area highways are backed up literally for hours. Days like this I am glad my daily commute is all of twenty feet from the bedroom to the office.
With all my own talk around here about the joys of RSS surfing. I figured I better get my own RSS feed fixed up. So to quote my own side bar. This weblog features optimized RSS feeds complete with categories and full entry text. Available in both .xml (RSS v0.91) and .rdf (RSS v1.0) versions. Enjoy.
There is also shiny new orange button up in the right hand corner and RSS detection friendly links in the <head>.
Also, NetNewsWire Lite, my news aggregator of choice. Has quoted me. More proof that flattery will get you everywhere.
Joe Sparks of Radiskull and Devil Doll fame is back to kick it again with Dicky & Jackie.
Man builds LEGO machine that can automatically solve Rubik's Cubes. Officially has too much time on his hands.
Today I resisted the urge to shave off my scraggly bastard child of a beard and I ate a peanut butter, jelly and cheese sandwhich.
Salon: Humorist Garrison Keillor is helping launch what's being billed as the world's largest book club.
It may not be it. Segway may not be all the Ginger it was cracked up to be.
Gizmodo.net is one of my new favorite weblogs. Featuring all the latest gadgets. Its like getting the What’s New
section of Popular Science everyday.
SFgate.com: Deceased rancher installs ATM in his tombstone to dish out his inheritance. I always wanted to put a free vending machine in mine.
The Washington Times: NASA plans to read terrorist's minds at airports
There is a cat living outside my apartment door at the top of our stairway. He is a gray tabby named Nugget who seems to own one dish of water, one newspaper spread and the lid off of a container of chunky feta. I have never seen him before.
After greeting nugget, while looking for my apartment key, I found our missing mail box key that I had torn our apartment apart looking for. It was on my key ring.
Nugget is a magical cat.
For a while I accepted is as just part of being young. “I’ll get older.” I thought. “It will get better.” It was even cool for a while because maintenance time was decreased. I got older. It improved only enough to be annoying. All the hassle, none of the benefits. *sigh* I became agitated. Why me? I asked. Why?!
People tried to console me. “I heard it was genetic.” and “It can skip generations.” Thanks guys. I can’t do it. But now I can blame it on my grandfather. As if I needed freudian family relational issues in my life.
Now I see kids years younger than me doing it and making it look good. And I have decided, right here right now, with you readers as my witnesses to lay down the ultimatum. Chin. I will not shave you again until you grow me a descent beard!* No more of this growing right at the tip and shaggy everywhere else crap. I want a full shavable sculptable beard. I just can’t keep growing my sideburns long to compensate. And you Mr. moustache. Don’t think you can get off easy. I realize i have let you get away with it for years, but you really need to grow on the left side also. Lop-sided facial hair went out with the sixties.
I needed to get that out.
*Or until I am need to meet with a client in person, or until Ann forces me to shave.
If the playstation is to be trusted I have burned 88.53 calories in the past 15 minutes, and if the sweat rolling down my face and the aching in my calves are any indication, it is telling the truth. You see, I also have succumbed to the dance dace revolution. We have got a copy of the game and a dance pad (which we have done up like the one Michael was talking about.) under the pretense of using it to inspire consistant exercise. So far it has inspired slacking. Ah well. Back to work.
Compare if you will: The website of Pixel:Industries and that of Gayatri Microsystems’s Design Portal. Guess which one stole the other’s graphics? In fact, if you check out Pirated-Sites.com you will find that originally Gayatri Microsystems was using not just a few pictures but the entire site design, content, and even client portfolio of Pixel:Industries!
And if that were’t enough. Gayatri Microsystems’s main site is a complete rip off designer Marc Klein’s site (the original designer of Pixel:Industries). Even claiming his personal portfolio as their own. They didn’t even change any on the writing. It just doesn't make sense. They keep referring to themselves in the first person singular. That’s not even getting into how all the changes they did make are ugly.
I don’t understand how people can sleep at night after putting their own copyright statments on other people’s work. Why don’t you email the “Experts” at Gayatri and let them know what you think. I did.
UPDATE: Gayametri is publishing invailid email addresses. My email was returned.
Tina Blue’s Grammar Tips. In spite of the annoying habit of her website to try to open every link in a new window, Grammer Tips is fully of sensible advice.