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dig yourself
nick cave is my hero. i can’t get this song out of my head and when it is stuck in my head i end up doing his crazy strut. this album is fantastic. you should all buy it NOW.
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it’s official…
…i’m getting contacts. went in to see the local keratoconus specialist (and he really is, he’s at the university of utah and one of his primary interests is keratoconus, so that’s pretty cool). we talked for a bit and he fitted me for some contacts and they ordered a set which should arrive in a…
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ghosts of the past
part i my pre-ordered from the nin website copy of ghosts i-iv arrived yesterday. trent said that they went into making this album with the intent that it could/should be the soundtrack to something. on march 13, he announced a ghosts film festival on youtube. holding the actual release in my hands, i noticed it…
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the 30 project.
i’ve decided to do a new project. i turn 30 this year. i have a lot of “oh god i’m getting old” feelings about this, probably because i have very clear memories of my dad freaking out when he turned 30 (i guess it’s a good thing gavin and lilah won’t have that experience). anyway,…
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giving green cars a bad name
i was stunned when i read this article about the hype machine that is ZAP. it made me change my mind about most evil company ever — no more does microsoft hold that title: ZAP is the new most evil company ever. in fact, the article was so bad (not the article actually, but the…
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TalentProof
we recently netflix’d two movies in a row with “-proof” in their title: Quentin Tarrantino‘s Death Proof (one half of his and Robert Rodriguez’s Grindhouse) and Adam Sandler‘s Bulletproof. A brief review of these stinkbombs… Death Proof the only thing this flick proves is that Quentin Tarrantino is working on his talentless hack title. seriously.…
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Rails…
with some hacking and clever googling i think i’ve installed everything i need for RubyOnRails. i’m not positive though, and i won’t really know for sure until i start really hacking my first program. i had to find several different installation howtos to be sure i did everything. i’m pretty sure the ubuntu community documentation…
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project: Image Slideshow — method: RubyOnRails
i’ve decided to learn RubyOnRails. Rails is a programming language/framework that comes with some prepackaged “programming shortcuts” which allow developers to write programs much faster. it’s more of a “do this” and the app actually does that sort of thing as opposed to writing lines and lines of code for weeks to make it “do…
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out of the woods
so just about all i blog about these days is how the web design gig is going. that probably has something to do with the fact that i’ve been dreaming CSS lately. well this post won’t be any different. and i’m still f’ing dreaming CSS… we recently hit a landmark accomplishment. when we were first…
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HOLY -string of explitives-!!! safari on the PC!
okay, so, yes, i’m one of the, like, 12 people who cares, BUT:i’m cleaning up a site for a friend of mine that i work with who runs a nonprofit. and he shows me the site on his macbook and there’s some huge glaring layout problems including a gigantic DONATE button smack in the middle of…