New weblinks have been added, including an entire category of sushi links! Check them out if you have a few minutes.
I don't know if anyone else watch's NBC's show Heroes, but if you do, check out Hiro's Blog, it's histerical!
My dad and I finished my light table and I rearranged some stuff and I was able to use it today. It's so awesome, and works just like how I wanted it to! If I had a digital camera, I'd post a picture, but I can't, so just imagine a piece of plexiglass at an agle on tall legs with a light shining through it.
I was watching the news coverage of the Westmoreland County emergency drill, and as they were talking about using the most advanced equipment, they showed a clip of a guy walking past in his hazmat suit…with duct tape holding the mask on. sigh…
Also, on a side note, the guy from the 1-800-PETMEDS commercials creeps me out, its something about his voice, it just sounds creepy.
This happens a lot (and just happened): When you're at home at night (others asleep) and not expecting any phone calls, and the phone rings, what is the first thing that enters your mind? I think "who is in the hospital, and what do I need to do?" Well, not at our house! No, we have a fax machine that thinks our number is another fax machine, so we pick up and hear *beeeeeeeep, screeeech beep*. Again, sigh…
I saw The Prestige with some friends tonight, I really liked it. The theater was packed, which was awesome (aside from midnight premiers, I don't see it very often). Although, by the end of the movie, we were all discussing which one of the characters (Batman or Wolverine…yes, that's how we discussed it…ok, Christian Bale or Hugh Jackman) we were rooting for, it's a tough call! Go out and see it with friends, so you can discuss afterwards!
Just a test to see if youtube videos will play here:
A few changes around the site:
- I took out the Community Builder modules, it was more than the site needed. I can easily impliment it again if needed in the future.
- The gallery has been updated. Now the smaller thumbnail pictures also serve as links to their larger counterparts. For whatever reason, the larger verions will not open properly in Internet Explorer. I've asked around and will hopefully find a fix for it. In the meantime though, they work fine in Firefox (and if you aren't using, suggest you check it out!). Update: I'm working with the developer to find a solution, things aren't working well in Firefox either. As I find out more, I'll keep you posted. Update 2: After some fiddling and lots of work with the developer, the phot galleries should now be working in both IE and Firefox!
- The comments decided to stop working (except the 'clear' button, that works fine), I'm looking into it! Edit: The comments are working again! If you have any questions, let me know, I'll be adding some documentation about the comments soon!
- I'm also asking around to find some sort of way to create a book database, that way we can all review various books and rate other's books which we've read.
Well…today it was announced that tag is not allowed, at least at one school south of Boston. Yes, the school board is afraid that kids might get hurt and their parents will sue the school. Sigh. Read the article here if you're interested, or just want to die a little bit inside.
In other crazy news, Major League Baseball started a program to create coffins and urns with team logos on them, as well as designating the deceased "fans for life." The company also does things like Harley Davidson and Betty Boop. They are looking into doing things like NASCAR and the NHL, but started small this year with just three MLB teams (expanding to all the teams next year). As odd as it sounds, I can think of at least three people who would pay for this.
I went out with my dad today to buy the wood for my light table, which will help tremendously, and will be fun to put together of course! I said earlier (I think) that I finished "The Eye of the World," I'm now into it's sequel "The Great Hunt," which is great, pretty soon I'll be done with it too (that's ok, there are 12 books in the series, so ten more to go)!
Did more work on the website the last few days. I think I have everything I want uploaded to my portfolio. I found some extensions to impliment comments and "community builder" functions. I'm still thinking that Community Builder gives me more than I need for the site, but we'll see what people think. I'm still looking for some sort of content rating system, I'd like to add a book review section where visitors can add their own reviews and comments. (for a good laugh, check out this link, it is the worst reviews of the greatest literary classics at amazon).
My dad and I are building a light-table, which will be awesome. I'm doing wedding invitations by hand for a friend and the table will help tremendously!
Other than that, not too much, drove home from Pittsburgh last night and got a huge headache by the time I was home, I think it was becasue of the headlights, still kind of hurts today, eh, oh well. Back to cleaning, typing and uploading I go!
It's me again! I was able to find an extension to enable comments on the site. Comments aren't available in every section. For right now, you can comment in the Blog and Announcement (such as this) sections. You do not need to be registered to comment, but if you are logged-in, your name will be transfered over to the comment. As always, please let me know your experience with the site so I know how to improve it.
Right now, the user registration is being handled by a collection of small programs called Community Builder. I'm still trying to tweak it and see what all it can do, so you might see some changes in the near future. I'm not fully convinced it's a good fit for the site, although it does allow users to upload pictures, and I think that is a nice feature, so I'll be looking at my options again in the future. I'd appreciate any feedback you have about the registration process and user features.
Wow, long time since a blog entry. Sorry all! Let's see, I made sushi today. Each time I make it, I'm getting better and better at perfecting my rice recipie.
I finally finished "The Eye of the World," which is book one of The Wheel of Time. This is probably the fifth time I've tried to read it. It was really good, I was just never able to get to the point that I was really sucked in before without being distracted and forgetting what had already happened. The book really shows its age (it's been in the lake a few times too….).
I took a friend Geocaching, and she's really into it, so now I have a buddy to go with, which makes me very happy! We've dubbed ourselves, Team Shadowpuppet:
Us at "It's almost like being there" which is in Boyce Park. This cache was cool, I found my first geocoin in the wild, so we moved it on to "Alpine High" the next day.
Us lost in Alpine Park…really we just wanted to see the playground equipment…yeah, that's it!
After we found "Alpine High" we celebrated.
Work on the website goes very well. I still need to upload a few more of my pieces to my portfolio and get some things worked out (like adding comments), but if you want to check it out: www.michaelcrane.net.
I'll be posting the blog entries here for a while too, since it's nice to get them all in the 'friends' feed. I'll post some updates as things progress.
I went over to my brother's and he had saved all three episodes of Heroes, which I watched. I really like the show, it has somewhat of a LOST feel to it, but stands on its own. I do have to say, there are way too many commercial breaks. Now, they are usually very short, but too many.
Ok, I'm off for now, talk with everyone soon!
