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Sandwiches, according to Cracked.com

by on Jan.10, 2012, under Adventures

The sand­wich is, with­out ques­tion, the best thing ever dis­cov­ered by man (suck it, peni­cillin!), and bread is the most ded­i­cated sol­dier in the sandwich’s army. Bread makes it pos­si­ble for loose meats and stray condi­ments to tran­scend their dif­fer­ences, to come together and cel­e­brate their tasti­ness in an orga­nized and mutu­ally ben­e­fi­cial fash­ion. It brings order to your fridge; with­out the bread’s stern but fair con­fines, what would keep your deli meats in line? Or your peanut but­ter and jelly? You’d have to just eat a spoon­ful of peanut but­ter and then des­per­ately chase it with a shot of jelly. You’d be pound­ing fist­fuls of var­i­ous meats into your maw and chug­ging Grey Poupon just to feel some­thing. Bread fixes all that and keeps your food safe and eas­ily trans­portable. It’s like an edi­ble enve­lope that mails food let­ters straight to your mouth.

Read more: 9 Ridicu­lous Cook­ing Myths You Prob­a­bly Believe | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/article_19628_9-ridiculous-cooking-myths-you-probably-believe.html
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Entering 2012, What I want to do

by on Jan.01, 2012, under Adventures, Creativity, Hogwarts, Web Design-Development

This is an evolv­ing list I’m sure, but I just wanted to get the ini­tial one out the door. Feel free to add sug­ges­tions in the comments.

  • Move myself up to a more com­pet­i­tive posi­tion in rates
  • Bet­ter under­stand javascript and jquery
  • get my finances to a point of sta­bil­ity and being able to afford the same perks that an tra­di­tional employer offers
  • Vote in the South Dakota Pri­mary Elec­tions this sum­mer, for the only can­di­date worth their weight in gold.
  • Get at least three patches into the core code for WordPress
  • Help make top-notch doc­u­men­ta­tion for Word­Press in their theme/plugin devel­op­ment areas of the Codex
  • Help make top-notch doc­u­men­ta­tion for the Mozilla Devel­oper Network
  • Locally net­work more and meet new peo­ple, both per­son­ally and professionally.
  • Launch Hand.Writtentweets, my too long touted idea.
  • Get this site here on an orig­i­nal design
  • Drop sup­port for IE7 in my free­lance work
  • Meet at least one of the Word­Press Core commiters
  • Attend a big-time WordCamp
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Web Development with Politics

by on Dec.08, 2011, under Adventures

I was curi­ous to see what each cur­rent Pres­i­den­tial can­di­date used for their web­site man­age­ment and which doc­type they used. So I went on a lit­tle bit of view-source hunt­ing. Can­di­dates checked on:

  • Ron Paul
  • Mitt Rom­ney
  • Michele Bach­mann
  • Rick San­to­rum
  • Jon Hunts­man
  • Newt Gin­grich
  • Rick Perry
  • Gary John­son

Here are the results for each:

  • Ron Paul: Word­Press with xhtml Strict
  • Mitt Rom­ney: Dru­pal with xhtml Strict
  • Michele Bach­mann: Word­Press with xhtml Transitional
  • Rick San­to­rum: Dru­pal with xhtml Strict
  • Jon Hunts­man: Expres­sion Engine with xhtml Strict
  • Newt Gin­grich: Dru­pal with xhtml Transitional
  • Rick Perry: Word­Press with html5
  • Gary John­son: Word­Press with html5

Note­wor­thy spots: none of them use Joomla. Hunts­man dared to ven­ture away from the WordPress/Drupal crowd. Perry and John­son are both using both of my pre­ferred choices.

If I was vot­ing strictly based on CMS+Doctype, John­son would win hands down, with Word­Press and the html5 doc­type. How­ever, John­son is in the same posi­tion that Ron Paul was in, circa 2008. Even though, from what I’ve seen of John­son, I think he’d do a lot of good and bring a lot of san­ity back to Wash­ing­ton, when it comes down to it, my vote is going to be for Ron Paul. Too much of me agrees with what Ron Paul has been say­ing, to pass up on the chance right now.

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Web Design/Development: boom, stagnent, or bust?

by on Nov.01, 2011, under Web Design-Development

I’d like to get some dis­cus­sion going here.

Is the web design/development indus­try boom­ing, a bit stag­nent, or hurting?

Are you fel­low web pro­fes­sion­als doing well for your­self, man­ag­ing to get by, or per­haps hurt­ing a bit, espe­cially with these tough eco­nomic times?

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