According to a recent poll, we are! Yes my disgusting friends, an article posted today on yahoo ranked Philly, DC, and Dallas as having the most unattractive, least friendly, and all around shittiest people. My question for you, are we all guilty by association? All of us are connected to PA, DC, and TX in one way or another. Here's to being revolting!!! Read more at... http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071022/od_nm/philadelphia_unattractive1_dc
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Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Monday, September 17, 2007
I did it!!
I just finished reading all 971 back issues of the comic "Questionable Content." [Please hold any comments related to lack of life or friends.] It's like an indy-soap opera-anime-comic-with-robots! I am fairly addicted, and now I only have to read one a day!
Seriously, though. Comment and post what you read. We need variety on ze blog.
What do you read while you're at work?
Don't lie... all of you go to random websites and blogs when you're bored. What are they?
I'm thinking about redoing the links on the left sidebar, or at least adding to the blogrolls. What do you read and check every day? Tell me!
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Could it be? Is it she?
That's right kids, I give in. I come to you in submission, bowing down to the blogging goddess who has so loving taken me into her dirty dirty grasp. Why have I resisted her temptations for so long you ask? Pure fear. Fear that I would become exactly what I am right now. A wart on the derriere of society, sitting at her desk, inhaling a box of wheat thins, avoiding the mundane work that she should be doing. So I surrender, since putting around on the computadora is clearly more fun than writing a cognitive evaluation.
So let's chat. How are you? Heard any good jokes lately? Ok, I suck at this. Who exactly am I blogging too? Is this some sort of online diary, and if so, why are people allowed to read it? This breaks the cardinal diary rule. I do not understand your twisted little world blog! I'm sorry, I don't mean to get testy, it's just that I have a so much to tell you yet I'm afraid of how you will react. Will you reject me blog, will you tell me I'm not good enough and that I write like a five year old, will you hate me if I don't know the headline of today's Washington Post (never mind, I do, Pavarotti died, that's actually pretty shitty).
Oh dearest blog, you and I, my sweet sweet friend, should take our relationship slow. I mean, really, do you expect to know all my deepest thoughts on our first encounter. Patience my sweet, patience, it will all come out eventually. A little taste you ask? Ok, here it goes... I have a weakness for peg legs, adult braces, crazy looking professors, and tofu. My big plans include ridding the world of carrots because they are disgusting, adopting a Mongolian yak because their milk is liquid gold, and moving my crew to Vancouver where nerds like us roam free. Are you satisfied blog? Oh blog, I think you and I have a whole future of love and admiration ahead of us. Get excited, cuz mama's home!
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
Amazon Associates book images into a blog post
This may already be on some other blog somewhere, but I couldn't find it, so I figured out how to do it myself.
Let's say you're a member of Amazon Assoc., and you want to embed book images into your post - like our Community Bookshelf. Here's what you do.
1. Just to piss Mathgimp off, we'll use the brilliant and witty Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair as our example. Go to "Build A Link" off of your Amazon Associates Page. You're given three options: Text, Image and Text, Image. I'm choosing "Image Only."
2. Right click on the book picture, and save the image somewhere on your computer. Don't rename it.
3. Copy the html in the box under step 3. Mine looks like this: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142001805?ie=UTF8&tag=stucinmary
-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0142001805">
<img border="0" src="21KTRVBW5AL._AA_SL160_.jpg">
lt;/a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=stucinmary-
20&l=as2&o=1&a=0142001805" width="1" height="1"
border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px!important;" />
4. Go to your blog, and create a new post. Paste the html from Amazon onto your screen. Then, click on the upload image icon and select the image you saved in step 2.
5. It'll give you a big, messy set of code that looks like this: <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"
href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_DbpWQkSu3Bw/RqUfg5b0UHI/
AAAAAAAAACI/6L6ViJSGHZI/s1600-h/21KTRVBW5AL._AA_SL160_.jpg">
<img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px;
text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;"
src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_DbpWQkSu3Bw/RqUfg5b0UHI/AAAAAAAAACI/
6L6ViJSGHZI/s320/21KTRVBW5AL._AA_SL160_.jpg" border="0"
alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5090509603845984370" /></a>
6. OK. Now comes the tricky part, so make sure you follow along exactly. Basically, the code above contains two links to the image: one that is the thumbnail image that appears in the post, and one to a larger version of the image, that will open in a new window. You want to substitute the Amazon link for the enlarged image link.
7. You do that by replacing the bolded part of the blogger image link here: <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e)
{}"
href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_DbpWQkSu3Bw/RqUfg5b0UHI/AAAAAAAAACI/
6L6ViJSGHZI/s1600-h/21KTRVBW5AL._AA_SL160_.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px;
text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;"
src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_DbpWQkSu3Bw/RqUfg5b0UHI/AAAAAAAAACI/
6L6ViJSGHZI/s320/21KTRVBW5AL._AA_SL160_.jpg" border="0"
alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5090509603845984370" /></a>
With the bolded part of the Amazon link here: <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142001805?ie=
UTF8&tag=stucinmary-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&
creativeASIN=0142001805"><img border="0" src="21KTRVBW5AL._AA_SL160_.jpg"></a><img
src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=stucinmary-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0142001805"
width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px
!important;" />
Important! For a reason I don't understand, it ONLY works with "href" NOT "a href" -- do NOT copy "a href", or it won't work. Just "href," then the url for the Amazon link. Make sense?
8. Now, you have this code: <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e)
{}"href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0142001805?ie=UTF8&tag=stucinmary
-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0142001805">
<img border="0" src="21KTRVBW5AL._AA_SL160_.jpg"></a<img
style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer;
cursor:hand;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_DbpWQkSu3Bw/RqUfg5b0UHI/
AAAAAAAAACI/6L6ViJSGHZI/s320/21KTRVBW5AL._AA_SL160_.jpg" border="0"
alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5090509603845984370" /></a>
At the very end of the code, delete the /a> so your code is closed with />
Which gives you this! 
I think this works. Let me know if you have problems or find improvements!
Monday, July 23, 2007
Payin the billz
Mathgimp and I decided it wouldn't besmirch the integrity of the blog too much if we used it to make some money too. It won't be much, but I figure it might support the massive amount of coffee I drink while I'm administring it.
I tried to make the adds as unobtrusive as possible: nifty little google search bar, firefox button, and then ad bars at the bottom of the sidebar and the blog.
If you hate it, tell me, and if there's enough dissent I'll reconsider, cause I'm a benovelant dictator like that.
I also signed up for Amazon Associates: whenever we reference a book, CD, or item, I'm going to make it link to the Amazon page for folks to buy. If you want to opt out, of course, I'll leave your posts link-free, but it's fairly unobtrusive (check out the Harry Potter link on my post about the weekend).
If we make enough money, I'll use it to buy everyone drinks - so keep badgering your friends into reading!
Friday, July 20, 2007
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Labels
This is an update/adaptation to the earlier post about post-by-author tabs. Smed and I had a very lengthy conversation today about the blog.
I won't lie, the alarm level was raised to Code Orange more than once. In the end, though, all is well, and this is what we have.
1. If you look on the left sidebar, we now have Contents by Category. Basically, we decided that most of the posts made one the blog fall into these categories: politics, social (i.e. stuff about us and our group of friends), cooking, culture, tech, history, blog (stuff about our blog), and it would be useful to see posts indexed that way. Smed and I went through and added labels to one or two post in each category, but, again, it's your job to go through your old posts and add labels to them if you want them to appear.
She also thinks, and I concur, that we need more book/movie/tv show reviews. If you see cool/shitty/interesting/horrible things, blog about it!
2. Just to recap, I am loving the post-by-author tabs at the top. It's REALLY cool. Click on a name, and it shows all of the posts by that author. Again, these are indexed by labels, so you need to go through and label all of your old posts with your name.
3. Both of these are from Hoctro, who really does neat stuff with JSON, that I will never understand.
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