February 2007 Archives

Okay nearly mightnight and I am pretty trashed hanging out at a dance party outside the gay clubs on bourbon street. This is a trip!

After being at all these parades and strolling the streets of New Orleans I have a bone to pick with some stupid people. This is not a camera. It's a phone jackass. Don't be holding it up in pitch black and expect it to take some award winning photo of a float coming down the street. This, while being a point and shoot, is in fact a camera that takes decent pictures that can be printed and come out not looking like ass. I am not sure how many of the pictures I took of the parades came out with some asshat's hand in the picture holding up their god damned phones but I am sure there are several. I saw this too on bourbon street alot. Now keep in mind I will not print even half of the shots that I take, but at least I have the option of printing them and they will come out like pictures taken on film. All this frustration over me not getting a few booby pictures on bourbon street because of over zealous dipshits with pricey phones. Bring back phones that are just that, phones. Now scroll down and see the pictures I took on my crappy camera phone and posted directly. HA! I'm an ass for doing something similar to what I am complaining about.

Onto the other thing... myspace... scourge of the internet. Okay. Umm... how to say this gently.... Your page is ugly. Dear God please just remove your great creation(abortion) of a style sheet and just let it be blue and white. Bright flashing backgrounds, music and video autoplaying, wasting my bandwidth with me having to load that garbage. If myspace wants to do the web community a service and allow people to add in style info at least let them use IDs to fully take control of the space. Let me force that comment box to X pixels wide so no more gaudy images can get added and make my scroll bars extend off into infinity. Had someone show me their page a few weeks ago, they were so proud that it showed off that persons originality and spirit. The background was a bright vivid image and the tables had all be set to transparent with black text. You couldn't read a damned thing on the page. Come on... 90% of good webdesign is to make it easy for your target audience to get your message / ad / etc. That is just retarded.

Enough bitching from me. Gonna head out and enjoy the rest of Mardi Gras. Expect pictures soon.

WOOOOO! Wow what a freakin' party this place is. There are people dancing and parading down many of the streets in the french quarter today. So many people smiling and having a good time. Just a few people out to cause strife... born again christians.... come on people tone it down.

For anna

They were about to have a drag contest but we didn't stick around for it.

.....is always good. Courtsey of Maison Bourbon.

Okay we ate at nola and it was good. We even finished up with some sweets.

Sara not happy, sara need boozes.

Today marks the start of a new chapter. On Saturday the pests finally moved out. Six months later than they originally told me they were going to and a very long week from when they started and were supposed to be gone. So my house is yet once again mostly empty and I already feel less stressed. I started my new setup by moving all my servers to the basement and put of my office. The stuff that is left in my office is no longer on the switched outlet and I have a functioning light in there to complete the illusion of a normal human.

I still haven't gotten to that movie list and have since added a few more to it. I will put that up soon I swear.

I have one other thing on my mind now while I drive and that is directed toward my anonymous comment poster. As you are aware, well you should be at least, you aren't as anonymous as you think. One person has said that phrase to me before and I do have a good memory on things of that nature. To add to it please be advised that by browsing all over my website you left a nice footprint in the logs on two of my servers. I am in need of many things bu least I say what I am thinking directly to people without the use of kindergarten tactics of anonymity. I could very well turn off anon comments if I really cared to censor what someone like you thinks. Use a big word next time you care to offer me advice show the world why you took remedial english while I took honors english. Just to ease your mind about my medicated state I do take pills daily, thanks.

While I am on the subject of things that annoy me.... myspace is probably the pinnacle of bad web design. For years I wouldn't look at geocities pages or the like because they were 99% flashing, sound riddled, scrolling text monstrosities. Myspace allows just enough style information to be added to their templates to make them hard to read and add loud images that pull from the already minor amount of content that is there. I looked at applying my style information from my blog and other sites to myspace just to find out that while many elements have id tags you can't use # to reference them because the myspace engine transforms them into the & counterpart. What that means is that you can only work on general terms, all or nothing if you will. There are a few class elements in play that can be adjusted but nowhere near enough to make it really look good. Rant over. Since I am still driving I am going to end this here for now.

Vacation coming soon!

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