Month: July 2002

Jul 18th 2002, 21:33 GMT

Something in LinaliHigami‘s blog entry [Link] reminded me of a game an old roomate of mine and I would play whenever we drove anywhere.

Basically it was a running joke/conversation about how the passenger was just a figment of the driver’s imagination. And how anyone in the back seat was a figment of the figment of the driver’s imagination imagination… (confused yet? good that was the whole point.) It would switch off depending on who was driving.

We’d get into some really bizarre conversations that way. It didn’t help that most of these were at 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning on the way home from some place. I guess we used it mainly as a way to keep each other awake, so the driver wouldn’t fall asleep at the wheel and drive into a ditch, or off a bridge, or something.

-Hool

Jul 18th 2002, 17:07 GMT

I tend to listen to CNET Radio in the mornings on my way to work. They also stream thier broadcast online, (www.cnetradio.com) which means I can listen to them in the office – since radio reception is not too good.

Anyway, thier about to do a segment on weblogs, I’m going to be calling in to talk about G-Blog.net

(I added this to the Art section to make sure it was near the top of the main page. In case the CNET folks take a peek while on the air.)

Update: I’m pulling this out of the Art section since Gossip has added something about it to the Announcements

-Hool

Edited on Jul 18th 2002, 20:56 by Hooloovoo

Jul 16th 2002, 23:11 GMT

mmm… Cool-Aid…

No Hool, don’t drink it! Don’t drink the purple Cool-Aid!

But I must. The Cool-Aid is good. The Cool-Aid is the way. We must all drink our Cool-Aid…

If you feel that you must, I don’t see how I can stop you. Just be careful – don’t be the first in line, and see how the others react before you drink yours.

mmmm… Cool-Aid…

Edited on Jul 16th 2002, 23:12 by Hooloovoo

Jul 13th 2002, 08:28 GMT

I just got done watching Mulholland Drive. I’m not sure exactly what just happened. This is likely because I’ve had a long day — definatley not a movie to be watching when your brain already feels like clay. I’m going to have to watch it again, and see what I can dig up about the film online. Good thing we have the DVD for a few days.

Jul 12th 2002, 20:14 GMT

I’m playing with a new feature for hooloovoo.net: Alternate Style Sheets. Right now the implementation only works on Mozilla, (or NS 6+… I think.) and the feature is only on the index page, and only the “Greys” style sheet is different from the default.

As soon as I’m done with the “Reds” and “Greens” versions, I’ll add the feature to the rest of the pages. Then I’ll set up a way for IE folks to choose alternate views. I know it’s possible — I’ve seen it work on other sites, I just havent’ researched that piece yet.

Update1- Blues, Reds, Greens, and Greys are all updated. Next up, multiple page implementation…

Update2- You can now choose an alternate style sheet on every page. Next up, getting the site to remember your choice…

Update3- I found a style sheet switcher on A List Apart. you can now use the “site-theme” box to change the style sheets… AND it sets a persistent cookie to remeber the preference, (which works when swithing styles using the veiw menu in Mozilla too.)

Edited on Jul 12th 2002, 22:49 by Hooloovoo

Jul 12th 2002, 17:59 GMT

Leave it to Penny Arcade to, well – just go read it, I found it funny.

For a long time I’ve considered myself a Mac User stuck in a PC User’s body. When I was younger, the first computer in my home was a Macintosh Perfoma. (Well, actually it was a Commodore 64, followed by a Solaris PC clone of some sort, but the first computer I used to actually DO things with, like write reports and go online and such was a Mac.) And my High School Graduation presont was a Mac Powerbook.

When I spent WAY too much money on a Graphic Artist program at some trade school, we were on Macs. When I got my first REAL job in the computer industry, I had to start using PCs. (Thank god my roommate at the time had a Windows box.) The fact that most of the programs I was using on a daily basis work pretty much the same on PC as Mac (PhotoShop, Illustrator, etc) made the switch relativly painless. Because of this, the first computer I bought after I moved out of my parent’s house was a PC.

I now use a PC predominatly, (both at work and at home,) but I do have an iMac at work for testing purposes.

I’d like to have a Mac at home – as a second computer, (and a linux box as a third,) but I do so many more things with my PC, (not the least of which is play games,) that I wouldn’t want to switch over to one permanently. I want to use both, (or rather all three PC/Mac/Linux) each for it’s particular strengths.

I don’t understand why so many people feel it HAS to be one or the other.

Jul 11th 2002, 01:07 GMT

Who was it that started linking to items on think geek? ekoostik, or Gossip?

Come on, which one of you did it first? I need to know who to blame for my new obsession.

I WANT one of these, this shirt and this shirt, one of these for days I should “dress up”, and a couple of these, (with that vid-cam attachment I can’t seem to find now.)

And that’s jsut a small sample of all the geeky goodness.

-Hool