1. finish preparations for 4th of July party that Kelly and I are throwing.
2. consider starting a site for friends to drop links / observations into. yes, it sounds like killoggs, but i’ve expressed my love for them before.
3. on the same subject, kelly told me she has considered creating a site of her own. she even discussed website design with me on the way up to cincinatti yesterday. i was so happy. perhaps set up moveable type for her.
4. get kygeek[dot]org in order.
5. complete “kristin mix volume one (T thru Z)”.
6. actually do some of these things instead of posting your intentions and then not completing them.
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When developing a website — as I often find myself doing — one has to populate the various systems you create with “dummy data”. Some people like using random latin, some people use quotes from eccentric authors. Me? Well, sometimes I just make up odd little passages. This is one of my favorites (I came up with it yesterday while coding a “Careers” section of a clients website):
Well, i’ll have to tell you this, Bobby. It ain’t the most glorious profession on the face of God’s green, but there is a certain zen quality about it. Do you know what I mean? Well, maybe you do, I don’t know. I can never tell from that blank stare of yours. One day, you might be back there scraping some burnt gravy off the bottom of a stainless steel pot, and some song that you’ve heard for years comes on the radio. You’ve never really paid attention to it until now, because scraping the days remains off of a soon-again-to-be-spoiled pot is just not that interesting. Well, in the midst of all these dishes that will be dirty tomorrow, you realize what that song is saying. And you realize why you are washing dishes — not that you realize how you came to be there, but why you are being there. *Knock* knock*! Oh, yes, ahem — Bobby. Why don’t you come in and have a seat.
I tried finding example of test data that have gone embarassingly public. I received acclaim for naming my primary test persona for a site we did for Evenflo “Slapdash O’Halloran”, but that’s really my extent.
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Nabbed from Pitchfork’s news this morning:
The duo [The Blood Brothers] has, however, been tapped to appear at the Krazy Fest some time between August 1st and 3rd in Louisville, KY. Now, see if you can find it in yourself to forgive promoters for bestowing upon this festival the worst name in the history of all nomenclature, and then consider making the horribly long drive out, up or down to Kentucky– the land of fields, more fields, and a poorly named hardcore shindig. If you’re still the least bit interested, Louisville’s Waterfront Park will host the sixth annual rendition of this kraziness– a rough and tumble collection of raucous rawkers and hardcore pretty boys.
BTW, congratulations to those of you who managed to successfully navigate The Blood Brothers site. The navigation is absolutely atrocious. It is, however, a unique blend of non-intuitiveness blended with silly Flash toys and annoying sound. Thankfully, the music is better.
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Huh? Wha? There is a “War on Critics” now? I have *got* to start keeping up with these wars.
update: Oh, wait. This is a far more accurate headline…
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I don’t know who katie in sheffield is, but she IM’ed me out of the blue the other day, looking for conversation. Said she’d bumped into my website somehow. despite my attempts to get her to say how she came upon it, she didn’t answer. Well, anyway, she’s sent me an email with a link to her newly-created messageboard.
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i hopped over to Funtongue’s Listing of Louisville Blogs to check out what’s going down in the five-oh-two, and I found a number of new blogs:
Bobby Bailey – at the moment, a very productive blogger, and witty at that. check his bit about bumper stickers.
i.code – a guy who collects miniature doors, and works at Mission Data (word up to Pauly)
Man, I need to get kygeek[dot]org up and running.
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Hey, it’s Cockeyed.com appreciation day! First off,
The Hans Blix Ultimate Fanpage. Next — Cockerham’s Special Report on Those Annoying Work-From-Home signs. Finally, but certainly not leastly — How Much is Inside?
There is a ridiculous amount of content on Cockeyed.com if you can find it as the navigation is often confusing, but keep digging!
In case you were wondering, Hans Blix is not actually a rally driver.
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You may or may not remember me linking to a blog called Dear Raed written by a purported Iraqi citizen under the moniker of “Salam Pax” a while back, but for those of you who do…
Salam Pax’s real identity was quite a mystery — was he a CIA plant? A real citizen? Something else? Well, it turns out that he is very real, and a very real Iraqi citizen — at least according to this story by Peter Maass on Slate. It doesn’t give away Salam’s real name, but certainly lays out some backstory on him and his connection to Maass. Further, The Guardian UK will be publishing a column by Salam Pax fortnightly (every two weeks, for those of you who didn’t know that — and you know who you are). The first column appears here. The Guardian also has a good interview with Pax here.
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