For the first time ever, I have ordered a pizza using the Interweb(tm).
Now, if only I didn’t have to actually get out of my chair to answer the door when the guy gets here…
Livejournal++
A little behind on the times, but I finally upgraded my LJ style to S2. I also took this moment to upgrade some of the horribly nested tables into not-so-horribly nested <div>s. The look is 99% the same, there’s a few pixels that are off, and if someone makes a very short one line post, it looks a bit different, but other than that.
The plus side is that S2 is a scripting language, so I can finally use darker background colors to correspond to people, and have the template figure out that it’s a dark background and display white text instead of black on it.
Another side effect is that my comments pages now have a style associated with them, instead of being the default. I’ll either have to get used to that, or change it back somehow.
So I’ve been busy at work for the most part, except when I’m stuck waiting for people to get back to me on all three of my simultaneous projects, like right now. So I guess I’ll use this time to post about AOD or something.
The benefit of being one of the last to make an LJ post on a convention is that most people already made all the cool references, so I don’t have to be witty or remember what happened. I spent most (almost all) of my time in the ConOps room. It was a much mellower con this year, especially compared to last year, where most of my energy was spent tracking down people, this time we didn’t do much other than communicate with “special ops” and handle staff check-in, parking validation, keeping track of what was stored in our room, and being a place where various people could get online and/or print stuff on the printer.
Of course, being stuck in a windowless room for so many hours, I began to lose track of time by the end of the weekend, which was a bit annoying.
For those of you who are watching Feasting on Asphalt, I watched episode two and was surprised to find Alton Brown stopped at not one, but two places in Evansville, Indiana, my mother’s hometown and where my grandmother still lives. I’ve been there once, but of course I didn’t recognize anything. My mother didn’t even recognize anything… oh well, I suppose it’s a big town.
I suppose I should get back to work.
Attn: World
Enough already with the Chuck Norris jokes.
-Andy
cc: WoW, FFXI
Bumps!
So a few people who I’ve seen since getting back from Dragon*Con have already heard me raving about the Dragon*Con TV Bumps. Well, they’re online now! They say it’s all of them, but I seem to recall at least one that wasn’t in the list, perhaps there’s a second batch, or I’m just imagining things.
By far, the best one is this one, but there’s a few really funny ones in there, too.
Two words…
Finally, a company that understands.
For those of you who haven’t already noticed, the Simpson’s Complete Sixth Season DVD Box Set comes in a Homer head, instead of the normal DVD box that the last five did. Included in the box was the following piece of paper:
“For all those that fear change…
For all those anal-retentive nerds who like their DVD boxes to line up perfectly on the shelf…
For all those who dislike storing their digital media inside a hollowed-out human head, have we got a deal for you:
Just call 1-800-223-2369 for a very derivative, old-style, just-like-before box with almost nothing new or creative to annoy or terrify you. Enjoy!”
Go ahead and call the number outside of business hours, it’s entertaining. It tells you to either call back during business hours, or go to www.simpsonsbox.com, where you can print out a form and get a replacement box for $2.95 shipping and handling. One of the reasons for requesting the new box is “Anal Retentive (box must be identical).”
They know me.
Dragon Con
I just bought plane tickets, I’m going to Dragon Con for sure now. No more waffling.
I had to fly out of SFO to avoid transferring, but it should be worth it for the peace of mind, especially on the redeye there.
Off I go
It’s that time of year again. Off to Anime Expo.
Blah blah blah, if you want to find me, I’ll most likely be in the karaoke room… etc. etc.
You know the drill.
Before I forget…
I keep hearing a promo on Alice 97.3 for their morning show. It starts of with someone saying “Karaoke!” and then the two deejays singing a horrible rendition of a song.
Now, here’s the part that only a few people will find hilarious: The song is “Girls on Film.”