Started dicking around with some widgets and CSS tonight, eventually sending myself on a tangent, building a whole new theme for jaced.com 2.0. Now I’m wrestling with some code, breaking a sweat, and shoehorning my own ideas into PHP files. It’s a real gas. Try it alone, with lots of beer.

Testes, one, two…three?

PS: If things look a little weird right now, you’re probably still using Internet Explorer 6 on Windows. Newsflash: INTERNET EXPLORER 6 IS DEAD. We don’t give a rat’s ass what things look like in IE6 anymore, so go get Firefox.

PPS: Still seeing blue? Clear your browser’s cache and refresh, refresh, refresh.

Just sat through this one via dooce. A battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and two crocodiles at a watering hole in South Africa’s Kruger National Park while on safari. Business as usual. Awesome:

There are many rules in grammar, spelling, and punctuation. It’s important that you follow all of them in order to ensure that your documents are acceptable to all readers. We see many documents in which the authors’ confusion regarding possessive punctuation is evident. The following list, taken from The Chicago Manual of Style (15th edition), will help clear things up:

— Kansas’s legislature
— Chicago’s lakefront
— Burns’s poems
— Marx’s theories
— Berlioz’s works
— Strauss’s Vienna
— Dickens’s novels
— the Lincolns’ marriage
— William’s reputation
— the Williamses’ new house
— Malraux’s masterpiece
— Inez’s diary
— the Martinezes’ daughter
— Josquin des Prez’s motets
— dinner at the Browns’ (that is, at the Browns’ home)
— FDR’s legacy
— 1999’s heaviest snowstorm
— Yahoo!’s chief executive

Exceptions (for names of two or more syllables that end in an eez sound):

— Euripides’ tragedies
— the Ganges’ source
— Xerxes’ armies

and (for words and names ending in unpronounced s):

— Descartes’ three dreams
— the marquis’ mother
— Francois’ efforts to learn English
— Albert Camus’ novels (the s is unpronounced)

but:

— Raoul Camus’s anthology (the s is pronounced)

Other exceptions:

— for righteousness’ sake
— for goodness’ sake
— for Jesus’ sake

but:

— Jesus’s disciples

Source: ProofReadNOW

With Angus, my new buddy from England. Had the pleasure of spending part of the weekend with him. I’m 99% positive he’s the first person ever to call me a “top chap”.

Angus! Cheers, brother! Until next time!

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“Nontraditional Turkey Day, 2007″
24″ x 36”
Acrylic on canvas
2007

“The eye altering, alters all.”
–William Blake

While up at Mammoth, we killed a couple hours by driving up to Lake Horseshoe and making the thirty minute hike to the next lake up, called Lake McCloud. It’s labeled Lake McCleod on some maps.

Beautiful spot, totally off the grid, where time seems to stand still. The last time I was up there must’ve been over 25 years ago on a fishing trip, freezing my prepubescent fingers off while trying to lance salmon eggs with a treble hook.

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A frog walks into a bank and says to the teller, “Hey, lady, I need to borrow fifty grand.”

The teller, taken aback, says, “The name’s not Lady. It’s Patti Black. And before I’m going give you anything, I’m going to need your name and some collateral.”

“The name’s Kermit Jagger.”

“And what do you have for collateral?” asks the teller.

The frog reaches into his pocket and pulls out a snow globe. He plops it on the counter. “There you go.”

“What is this?” asks the teller.

“Collateral,” says the frog.

“Stay here,” the teller replies. “I need to go speak with my boss.”

The teller leaves her station and walks to the manager’s office.

“Jim,” she explains, “I’ve got a frog out here who calls himself Kermit Jagger. He says he needs to borrow fifty thousand dollars.”

Holding up the snow globe, she asks her manager, “What am I supposed to do with this?”

The manager answers, “It’s a knick-knack, Patti Black. Give the frog a loan. His old man’s a Rolling Stone.”