THOMnottom

I have been forced to resign my current position at Unemployed Slackers, Inc. That’s right, I’ll actually have a real job again whenever we decide upon a start date. The company is called Unigene, and I’ll be their new IS Administrator. It should be interesting considering they didn’t have an old IS Administrator. This job comes thanks to my good friend Sandy who thankfully convinced them that the lack of any IS or IT personnel really hampered anything IS or IT related. Hopefully I won’t be doing any hampering.

You know, I just realized that Department of Labor is abbreviated DOL. Is that why the brits call it being on the dole? Aparently not, as I realize that they spell it with an ‘e’, meaning:

1. Charitable dispensation of goods, especially money, food, or clothing.
2. A share of money, food, or clothing that has been charitably given.
3. Chiefly British The distribution by the government of relief payments to the unemployed; welfare.

Interestingly enough, dol means “a unit of pain intensity.” What poor sap got the job of figuring out that measurement at the lab.

I think I may be an idiot…

ARGH! Just when I think I’m about to finish my new site, I catch a glimsp of someone who has a true eye for how to work around a given look. photo matt’s design is brilliant in how he cleaned up the default WordPress template and made it his own. The color scheme is more or less the reverse of what was out of the box, and the font selection is more appropriate for him. I want it!!

Now I’m going to start working on a second look to compete with what I currently have. Damnit!

Mmmm… Johnny Rockets. Maybe I should say, ugh… Johnny Rockets. Sometimes I question my own intelligence. Why did I think the first thing to hit my stomach today should be a Smoke House Burger. Just because it has bacon, doesn’t mean it’s breakfast food. I used to hate Johnny Rockets because their food was way too greasy – I’d rather have Mickey D’s burger than “The Original.” Then I started getting into their overpriced Grilled Cheese and the Chicken Fingers, and eventually I found my burger with the Smoke House. For some reason it’s ok to have too much grease when you’ve got ingredients you expect it from (bacon, cheddar cheese, onion rings). But I’m still almost surprised when 10 minutes later my stomach says, “You @$$hole!” I mean, aside from my stomach’s offensive vocabulary, this shouldn’t be a surprise. At least I talked myself out of the Chocolate Toffee Shake… for now!

I’m actually learning CSS! It’s very exciting for me that my webpage will soon look like MY webpage, and not the default out-of-the-box designs I’ve been using. True, I’m getting a lot of ideas from different sites (BlueRobot’s Layout Reservoir and Mike Little’s Journalized have been big helps/inspirations), but in the end it will largely be my code built to fill my wants/needs. If you want to check out where it currently stands, meander on over here. It’s fully functional, but I’m still tweaking things (haven’t picked out the color for link text, etc.) If you have any suggestions, feel free to drop me a note.

Ok, I just ripped through a bunch of games to top 30,000. My big win was with K-19: The Widowmaker – which I again got with just the blanks. Unfortunately I should have lost a bunch of points when I went to look up some possible solutions for STAR _ARS!

Alright, a new time waster. Box Office Mojo – one of my usual haunts for movie info – has just added a game that took about 5 minutes to addict me: Movie Hangman! In case you haven’t mastered the bleeding obvious (as I have), it’s an online version of hangman in which the answers are all movie titles. If you don’t know what hangman is, go back to elementary school :). Some of these can be really difficult and obscure (who here saw Pukar or Dha Dkan?). It ranges from the latest releases still in theaters to classic flicks to French titles for American b-movies. After every few rounds you get the chance for big bonus points by matching ratings, opening grosses, or net grosses to different films. If that sounds hard, you don’t clearly understand how hard it is. Which do you think made more it’s opening weekend: Hellraiser, In the Heat of the Night, Pacific Heights, or Annie? Do you remember what each is rated? If you don’t get them all right, you get nada!

It’s taken me less than a day to crack the top 500 out of over 2200 users. Not bad considering the top guys all have over 2000 plays so far (I’ve played over 100 times my self). I’ve also done it with a relatively high average of over 200 points a round. That’s been greatly helped by some spectacular guesses (I got E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial without any letters, just the spacing 🙂 ), and my good friend IMDb. I don’t consider it cheating, because that would mean that I’m cheating. Hehe, anywho, can’t wait ’til I’m #1!!

Alright, I temporarily abandoned the redesign of my website in order to “upgrade” the site to WordPress 0.7. WordPress is kinda taking over for b2 – at least it’s been named the official successor to the b2 code. There are other people who will probably be continuing the b2 code, but I think I want to stick with something that is centralized. I don’t really like the default look that much (at least not for my site) so that will have to change soon.

I stumbled across this neat little tool while working on my soon-to-be-redesigned webpage. It helps you find “web-friendly” colors for your webpage and see how they go together.

DoctorEvil68: what do you have going on for today?
indieb0i: sitting on my ass
DoctorEvil68: wooha
indieb0i: it will prolly take all day
…
DoctorEvil68: if it does not take all day, then you are doing it wrong
indieb0i: hehe

Humorously, my friend Joseph showed up for The Matrix Reloaded wearing a black PVC raincoat. He actually didn’t even like the first Matrix that much, but he looked like a card-carrying member of some geek fan club because he wore it when we went into the theater.