•November 9, 2007 •
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Between my new (and totally awesome) Photoshop book that I got my local library to purchase and things I’ve noticed lately with LJ, I’ve been thinking an awful lot about color.
The body of LJ entries in my style are white on black, versus the black-on-white or black-on-tan colors of many styles. So when someone copies text from somewhere and the black-text style is kept, it’s invisible unless I highlight it (and conversely, if someone’s trying to be clever with white text, I don’t even notice it). LJ icons with transparent backgrounds almost always end up looking weird to me, bacause they’re usually designed assuming white will be behind them.
On the other side, whenever I’m making a border or background in my LJ (as in the previous post), I have to be very conscious that it will likely be viewed on a completely different background. I -can’t- use a simple white, because no one will see it, or a simple black, because *I* won’t see it.
Worse, I can’t make any assumptions on what is high- or low-contrast, because a sunshine-yellow is a beacon on my screen, but barely visible on white.
So, I end up using saturated reds and blues, visible on either, or middle-grays.
It’s just a different experience from designing a page where you can rely on those things to remain constant.
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•November 9, 2007 •
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Explainer: Among the litany of diverse things I do in my day-to-day job (as opposed to the event-driven video aspect) I find it the most amusing when I’m told that I need to fix something that works in Firefox but is broken in IE.
You see, due to the nature of our templating system (and that I wasn’t involved in originally coding it), code for one simple html container is all -over- the place.
For instance, a table consists of at least these items – a table begin, row begin, cell begin, cell end, row end, table end.
SO! Fixing a broken table may require me going into anywhere between one and six different files … or a dozen, as there are more complicated rules based on the position of the news item being called, etc.
Sometimes I’ll work on something and realize by the time I’ve put together what’s happening in a table, it’s a miracle it works in any browser at all. For instance, the inner cells in a given row add up to 555 pixels, but the table width is 250.
Huh?
No wonder IE shits its pants, that kind of math is exactly how evil AI empires were destroyed, back in the 70’s.
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•November 6, 2007 •
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At first I thought I’d just order something at home, but something struck me (maybe the meme) and instead I made noodles.
I’ve never tried to go for a from-scratch curry noodle dish that didn’t involve mac n cheese – this time, it was/is sooo good. boiled in chicken stock, reduced noodles, added flour, curry, red pepper, lots and lots of thinly shredded garlic, and a tiny dab of (natural) peanut butter. I was going to add soy, but it isn’t necessary.
Yum!
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•November 6, 2007 •
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I give in!
Taken from multiple people, and twisted as I so like to do.
I want to know 36 things about you. I don’t care if we never talk, never liked each other, or if we already know everything about each other. Short and sweet is fine.
You’re reading my journal so I want to know you better!
1. What can you cook?
2. What was your dream growing up? Has it changed?
3. What talent do you wish you had?
4. If I bought you a drink what would you like it to be?
5. How did we meet?
6. What was your first impression of me? Has it changed?
7. What zodiac sign are you ?
8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings?
9. Worst Habit?
27 more!
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•November 2, 2007 •
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What genocidal crime against humanity did I commit to deserve the CSL ordering liverwurst?
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•November 2, 2007 •
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“Colbert, who has admitted he does not want to be president but just wanted to run for it in his native state of South Carolina, had filed for the Democratic ticket earlier on Thursday and paid the $2,500 filing fee.
Hours later, the party’s executive council voted 13-3 against allowing him on the ballot for the January 26 primary contest, party spokeswoman Keiana Page told Reuters. The eight other major Democratic candidates were accepted, she said.
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Colbert also failed to qualify for the Republican January 19 primary ballot. He was required to file papers with the state party as well as the Federal Election Commission and pay a $35,000 fee, but that did not occur by Thursday’s deadline, according to a party official.” – Article
Wow, look at the difference between those fees!
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•November 1, 2007 •
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Lucy plans on buying train tickets for my 30th birthday adventure, SkennCon (hehe), on Friday at some point. She says she’d like a check to Lucy Benson or cash for $59 by December 13th, though she’ll be flexible if necessary.
It looks like we’ll be staying at the Wyndham in Chicago, 2 rooms at this point (may change).
People coming as of now (besides yours truly):
After Friday, anyone is more than welcome to join us, but you’ll have to pick up your own train ticket! :)
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•November 1, 2007 •
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So in my dream last night I was spending the summer with a bunch of kids in a camp-style situation, there was this big white house, and on the side of it, a fairly large hill that sloped down and under a section of it.
I was laying there chatting with the ‘jack of all trades’ guy, who looked like the janitor in Scrubs, and we noticed a couple of white spiders with black markings that looked like the cavities in a skull. I realized I got bitten on the inner elbow, and my hands were starting to go numb!
Clearly, time’s of the essence! I sit upright and shout, “the internet!” and run into the house to find my laptop.
I woke up shortly thereafter to realize I’d slept on my hands funny.
Lucy pointed out it was an excellent dream for Halloween Night.
In other scary news, AutoNews just posted this bulletin:
Chrysler cuts four models, five shifts
Up to 10,000 hourly jobs and 1,000 salaried jobs being cut; overtime eliminated
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•October 31, 2007 •
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I know I’ve posted it before, but covet covet covet. Go listen to the video.
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