Talking
“You know Steve” I said, as we sat waiting to leave, “It’s sorta like this: you study for the test, you take the book home and sit down with it and pour over it, taking notes and committing the information you need to memory. Then you get plenty of sleep, eat a good breakfast, and then show up for the test, ready to succeed; but they burn the test in front of you and then tell you that you got an F.”
The picture gallery admin file is most nearly working; I just have to write a couple more lines to delete an entire gallery from the server. Logically, the front-end php file will be written after that, we’ll add mod_rewrite, and the site will be completely up and running. Obviously, the CSS is going to be tweaked and the top image will change to something more meaningful - but I’d say we’re 95% to our goal.
You know, as Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy says, 42 is the meaning of life. Having tweaked this definition (being unwilling to feel completely brainwashed by the combination of two numbers) I have found by experience that something critical happens when the number 42 arises. Interjection: correlation never indicates causation, but the connection is not really possible to prove. Anyways, this hypothesis was correct once again today when I brought home the All-American Rejects cd (which is fantastic by the way, just as Cheston said when he sang Paperheart only months ago which is basically a different lifetime) and I came home to insert it in the trusty, memory-laden CDP-CX455 and play away. Next available slot: 42. Screw correlation and the strict dictates of exact science; I’m a believer.
“Swing swing” and “Paperheart” set the standard for the above album.
In other news I have done some cleaning up, moving, consolidation, and reviewing of the files on this computer. Shortly they will move to my new digital home: Bertha III. Yes, I already named it. Why III? Well, this computer was Bertha I and our old gray van (which I miss) was Bertha II called affectionately Bertha - and this computer will be Bertha III for some strange reason. It will probably be shortened to Bertha anyways. The computer itself is a Gateway 700X with a 120 gigabyte HD, 512 DDR RAM, 18.1 inch digital/analog LCD monitor [yay], 2.8 gigahertz P4 running on the new 875P (if I remember right) chipset, a 48x cd burner, a plus/minus (for both standards) DVD burner, the Radeon 9800 128 megabyte graphics card with TV out, Boston Acoustics 745’s with sub (think it’s 745’s anyways), and a media card reader for CompactFlash, MemoryStick, and all other formats you can think of that come on a small card. Mouse and keyboard aren’t anything to write home about - but as long as I can program some mouse button shortcuts, I don’t feel like I am missing anything. The computer is set to arrive on the 8th of August. It will take my mind off of things. We bought the printer yesterday at Sam’s Club - it was my first time in there. I really like the 9lb box of Oatmeal you could get - now that’s useful. We paid $30 less than the $150 that the printer retails for at BestBuy, plus just under $5 for a great one year warranty. The printer is a Canon i850 and will print borderless 4x6 prints beautifully but more importantly it doesn’t use too much ink and cartridges are cheap because they come separately in black, yellow, cyan, and red. You print alot of blue, you can replace the blue by itself. Print a lot of black, replace the black. So I came home and opened it up, and I was distracted from things for a while - but then I realized I was opening electronics alone.
I have, I know, mentioned the All-American Rejects. My plug for that illustrious group is in the past, but I must articulate my intense attraction to a different, less widely known, group named eastmountainsouth. Although they engage in the annoying habit of musical groups overloading on Flash animations, one of the Flash features is particularly useful because it streams their rare (as of now) song called “you dance”. I’m not enough of a music aficionado to describe the type of music; but it has a folk feel for soul and not-even-noticeable electronic hipness for effect. I highly highly recommend you travel to their website and listen to the song “you dance” (it should play by default) on your computer. Cross-platform compatibility could be better, but chances are you’ll have the software to stream the song. You’ll like it. Reading the lyrics to said song is highly recommended as well.
I’m glad I heard it on Drive 105. It’s interesting that we got a smooth jazz station back at 100.3 It’s ironic that smooth jazz used to be 105. And it’s sad that 102.1 K102 is too painful to listen to sometimes.
I used to like the song “Bouncing Around the Room.”