Thinking Out Loud

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Baby makes three

Saturday, April 17th, 2004

First off congratulations to Zeldam on Project Amnion. I requested him to name the baby “Dante” if it was a boy.

New hosting service needed hint hint. I was messing around with programs like my 12 browsers and Microsoft Word. My version of Microsoft Word has some interesting features. See below:
Interesting screenshot
This was also interesting. One of the greatest Word mysteries can be solved:
Settings

My Confirmation is next Sunday. I’ll be honest: April 30th is more important (and what could happen on May 7th is incredibly important). On April 30th there is a Degrassi Countdown with Miriam McDonald (Emma) and Daniel Clark (Sean). The whole thing is that Daniel Clark has grown his hair very long—has he been to the Height–Ashbury? Of course, I can’t wait to see the one hosted by J.T. and Manny…

Hooked on Hendrix

Friday, April 16th, 2004 Yes I am. I now have such Hendrix classics such as Crosstown Traffic, Purple Haze, and All Along the Watchtower on my computer. I’m listening to Angel right now. But I’m also developing an addiction to the Bee Gees. How Deep is Your Love is my favourite.
I was so bored yesterday evening so I wrote a new script: The DCScript© NewsReader. I saw a pretty crappy RSS reader somewhere else so I set out to make a better one.

The Passion

Saturday, April 10th, 2004 I saw “The Passion of the Christ” yesterday. Below is my review:

Sh*t that was a hell of a violent movie. This makes “Platoon” look like the Spy Kids movie.

It was intense. It was a good movie, but with a lot of gore. Plus everything was in Aramaic so there were subtitles. Not as bad as I thought.

SFHE—Issue #48

This week in The San Francisco History Experience:
Read about the conclusion to the Black Bart Series in Black Bart—Part 3
Apparently someone showed this to a class, and that person got an A for their presentation. I actually know the person so this is Ok.
I have become obsessed with Stick Figure Fighting. Some man named Zhu from Japan started the whole craze. I wanted to save some movies but I don’ have enough file space.

You’re fired

Thursday, April 8th, 2004 Web development can be so dramatic. For example I was cleaning up my TOC script on this page and needed the nextSibling of every h2. Mozilla has empty text node problems (among other problems) so I did a simple check. It crashed IE. So it was catering to Mozilla that screwed things up, not IE. IE has great DOM support, and sanely sees that the span is the next sibling, not an empty text node. So I said to Mozilla “You’re fired” and the TOC script only works in the browser with the best W3C DOM support (and worst CSS support), Internet Explorer.

Report Card

Wendesday, April 7th, 2004 I got my report card today. I got two A’s. Of course, it is a well known fact that all Eigth–graders kind of “slack off” in the 3rd quarter. I missed honor roll by that much (and by “that much” I mean squeezing my thumb and index finger together).
I feel I am a little bit crazy. I want to know if my visitors are. I have created an insanity test.
For humour, someone called me a muppet today on the A List Apart forums. I have been called so many things, and I have a new addition. Also you should see this website. If you like fake ghost pictures, this is the place for you. It’s the whole trend at school — ghost pictures. I must admit, some do look a little real. Some are downright silly; a shadow of one of the Three Wise Men is mistaken for satan.
And finally I get out for vacation tomorrow. And the first thing I’m gonna do is...
Have lunch at the Olive Garden with my mom and my two former Sixth Grade teachers.

Spiders

Sunday, April 4th, 2004 I’m not sure what time it is, but it’s time say once again that I HATE SPIDERS!. I found one underneath my “Shift” key. Very unnerving. I have serious case of aracnophobia.
I have done a lot of work with CSS3, yet getting some positive encouragement from the www-style group is more unlikely than winning the lottery. I work my ass off creating this, yet some snooty remarks is all I get. Oh and by the way thanks to Dave Hyatt for providing Safari 1.2 info.