'Bred Crumbs
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07.27.01
02:55 PM
'Bred Crumbs is having technical difficulties today, because DreamHost has suddenly decided to suck. (It's shutting me out of my e-mailbox, too.) 4:30 p.m. update -- Looks like things are fine again using my original code. But I know DreamHost is dicking with its PHP compiling restrictions. I still have to take steps with them to make sure that what works now keeps working. But if things break again soon, that'll be why.
07.26.01
03:48 PM
As foretold by prophecy, The Daily Dewayne has launched. Once you've perused it, proceed directly to Brian's site. Particularly the July 25 entry regarding the relative stupidity of two states.
Music: Paul McCartney Engaged; Mariah Carey Hospitalized
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The main news page of the Netscape site today listed the following events as if they were related:Music: Paul McCartney Engaged; Mariah Carey Hospitalized
07.25.01
02:12 PM
Soon my friend Dewayne will unveil his own 'blog, and then it will become even more blatant when I swipe great links he sends me. But till then ... here's the genius site that critiques the interior decor of amateur porn photos. Fear not: the naughty posers themselves have been removed from the pictures in a highly amusing fashion. The whole JustinSpace site is funny (check out the original Obscene Interiors and the Star Wars makeover), but the Captain Janeway porn pic in particular was still causing spontaneous laughter 15 minutes after viewing.
And this one's made the 'Net rounds, but it's too appalling not to share: Christianized lyrics for popular rock songs.
And this one's made the 'Net rounds, but it's too appalling not to share: Christianized lyrics for popular rock songs.
07.24.01
02:43 PM
There's a Reuters story out there about a cat that viciously attacked its owner, 80-year-old Gerard Daigle of Quebec, and drained him of a pint of blood after he accidentally sprayed it with water while giving his parrot a shower. From its assertion that the cat "had a troubled past" to its concluding sentence -- "It is not known why Daigle was giving his parrot a shower" -- the story is the most strangely brilliant thing I've read lately. (Thanks for the tip, Dewayne.)
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Cuddling while watching the DVD of V -- with commentary -- sweet or pathetic? You make the call.
08:23 AM
In a dream this morning, I was visiting the Southwestern U.S. home (which looked as if Frank Lloyd Wright built it) where Rembrandt wrote Anna Karenina at such a fevered pace that he refused to take telephone calls, the unanswered phone messages written on little slips of paper that were forever preserved in the translucent walls of the courtyard where he worked.
Somewhere, a state-university humanities professor is screaming.
Somewhere, a state-university humanities professor is screaming.
12:30 AM
Summer in The City (as shown at 6 o'clock yesterday evening by KTVU's Emeryville cam across the Bay). Yerrgghh. A little gray goes a long way with me.
Summer in The City (as shown at 6 o'clock yesterday evening by KTVU's Emeryville cam across the Bay). Yerrgghh. A little gray goes a long way with me.· · ·
As promised, I've added a links list on every Crumbs page, on the bottom left. Watch what happens to the list as the days roll by! Ooh! Scary!07.23.01
02:35 PM
I finally remembered who led me to the valiant defense of Verdana mentioned earlier today: it was Jonno.
01:09 AM
(This one's for the coding geeks. The rest of you may wanna go get a sammich or something.)
Into each website, redesign must fall. I just did one. You may not notice; the visual changes are small. This was more re-engineering than redesign. When I first built this, I let form force function a little more than I should have; there was a little more klunkiness than there is now, and I inadvertently did some things in a way that limited what I could put here by building the pages vertically, thus creating a depth limit. (Plus, I just knew less about web design and coding than I do now.) So I've rearranged the invisible girders of the site to make the pages a little more elegant and open-ended, without abandoning my original form -- the notion of a horizontal "trail" that leads through the site. Keeping that means some lingering fudging, but that's how it goes.
The most visible sign of the change in the infrastructure is that those long "the previous week's Crumbs begin here" images are no more. I had hoped they would reconcile my trail with the way Blogger works and archives, but I think they were just confusing. So I've found a better way. If I follow up correctly from now on, when you click "Previous Crumbs" when you're done with the main page, you should not see any Crumbs repeated from the main page. (To make this happen, the main page will contain Crumbs from the current and previous calendar weeks. There's still margin for error based on how soon I make an entry after 12:00:01 Sunday morning, but no getting around that. I'll just have to count on your forgiveness.)
There are a few more little but (I hope) helpful visual changes: the top-of-the-page links' colors should make them easier to read, and I've repeated the links at the bottom of the page. I decided my original index-page title image was a little amateurish, so I've changed the title presentation. Side benefit: This made me boot my little slogan thingy that was at the top to the right margin, where I can easily change it from time to time for shits and giggles. And I'm giving each Crumb an e-mail link so that people can more easily figure out how the hell to write to me, and maybe do so.
Finally, after much initial resistance. I'm caving to the 'blogging community in two ways. First, I'm listing (beginning sometime in the next day or two) some links on the page; why the hell not? And, I've changed my sans-serif font to the relentless Verdana, in spite of the fact that I generally find this face horrific -- it seems to me to combine the worst aspects of serif and sans- into a nearly unreadable mess, at least at 12-point and up -- and I hate the way it's taking over the Web, which I've just learned is, of course, Microsoft's fault. But, a couple of people out there -- sorry, lame, didn't save the links, don't remember who, but they're among the renowned -- made strong cases on their sites in support of Verdana, and I finally had to concede that even I found Verdana easier to read that Arial/Helvetica for the small stuff. So, here we go. But fear not: Times Roman, which has served mankind so well lo these many years, will continue to rule the text roost here. And flying in the face of Web trends, links here will continue to be clearly marked so that you don't have to go on cursor reconnaissance to find them.
The work will continue; I have yet to make what little current non-'blog content is here conform completely to the slightly-new world. But sleep must happen. And hey, I have yet to check all pages and a few platforms, so if you see something amiss, please, click a tiny envelope and let me know.
Into each website, redesign must fall. I just did one. You may not notice; the visual changes are small. This was more re-engineering than redesign. When I first built this, I let form force function a little more than I should have; there was a little more klunkiness than there is now, and I inadvertently did some things in a way that limited what I could put here by building the pages vertically, thus creating a depth limit. (Plus, I just knew less about web design and coding than I do now.) So I've rearranged the invisible girders of the site to make the pages a little more elegant and open-ended, without abandoning my original form -- the notion of a horizontal "trail" that leads through the site. Keeping that means some lingering fudging, but that's how it goes.
The most visible sign of the change in the infrastructure is that those long "the previous week's Crumbs begin here" images are no more. I had hoped they would reconcile my trail with the way Blogger works and archives, but I think they were just confusing. So I've found a better way. If I follow up correctly from now on, when you click "Previous Crumbs" when you're done with the main page, you should not see any Crumbs repeated from the main page. (To make this happen, the main page will contain Crumbs from the current and previous calendar weeks. There's still margin for error based on how soon I make an entry after 12:00:01 Sunday morning, but no getting around that. I'll just have to count on your forgiveness.)
There are a few more little but (I hope) helpful visual changes: the top-of-the-page links' colors should make them easier to read, and I've repeated the links at the bottom of the page. I decided my original index-page title image was a little amateurish, so I've changed the title presentation. Side benefit: This made me boot my little slogan thingy that was at the top to the right margin, where I can easily change it from time to time for shits and giggles. And I'm giving each Crumb an e-mail link so that people can more easily figure out how the hell to write to me, and maybe do so.
Finally, after much initial resistance. I'm caving to the 'blogging community in two ways. First, I'm listing (beginning sometime in the next day or two) some links on the page; why the hell not? And, I've changed my sans-serif font to the relentless Verdana, in spite of the fact that I generally find this face horrific -- it seems to me to combine the worst aspects of serif and sans- into a nearly unreadable mess, at least at 12-point and up -- and I hate the way it's taking over the Web, which I've just learned is, of course, Microsoft's fault. But, a couple of people out there -- sorry, lame, didn't save the links, don't remember who, but they're among the renowned -- made strong cases on their sites in support of Verdana, and I finally had to concede that even I found Verdana easier to read that Arial/Helvetica for the small stuff. So, here we go. But fear not: Times Roman, which has served mankind so well lo these many years, will continue to rule the text roost here. And flying in the face of Web trends, links here will continue to be clearly marked so that you don't have to go on cursor reconnaissance to find them.
The work will continue; I have yet to make what little current non-'blog content is here conform completely to the slightly-new world. But sleep must happen. And hey, I have yet to check all pages and a few platforms, so if you see something amiss, please, click a tiny envelope and let me know.
[Previously]
Week of 07.15.01
Features
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Hidden Deadly Productions makes short films, including CrossWalk (2003) and The Point of Boxes (coming in 2006?).
Pictured: Rubble from the destruction of the Central Freeway, San Francisco, April 2003. Photos by the author.
Pictured: Views from San Francisco Bay, July 2003. Photos by the author.
Pictured: Videogames projected onto a wall from an Atari 2600, July 2003. Photos by the author.
Pictured: Ranch near Hollister, New Year's Day 2003. Photos by the author.
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