pardon our lack of everything
yes, we are once again upgrading; this time to the content management system drupal. like serendipity, drupal has an incredible number of shiny buttons and switches to push and fiddle with. unlike serendipity, the buttons and switches actually do what they say they do. software that works is awesome. drupal is a seriously incredible piece of software to play with. I hoping that our ever faithful readers will begin to behold its awesomeness shortly.
on the list of things to do: migrating the old stories over and adjusting css and templates. as always, thank you for reading and thank you for your patience.
site update
we are in a rebuild. this sudden bout of productivity was partially inspired by an influx of "free time" (by which I mean "time that should've been spent on more important projects") and partially by the increasing number of web browsers (safari, opera, firefox) that don't let you cheat as much while writing code for web pages. in the process recoding, I managed to clear out some of the ass-suckage that's been bogging parts of the site down since its inception. I am aware that a few stylesheet modifications now make the site look like ass on internet explorer, I'll fix that after I fix my computer (long story.) you shouldn't be using internet explorer anyway; it's like telling your computer to stand on the street corner, drop trou and grab ankle while you surf the internet. ie can make your computer embarassingly vulnerable.
almost everything appears to be in order, but if you encounter something looks blantantly and unintentionally wacky, by all means, please let me know. in the meantime, thank you for stopping by.
the dilly, yo
Some of our readers may remember that awhile ago, our tagline was "Your Mac is incompatible with our site." It's true, blinkingtwelve looks atrociously ugly on a mac. Hideous. I mean like "hit by the ugly bus and dragged down ugly boulevard" ugly. We were proud of this. We were proud to offend the sensibilities of our nonexistent mac user constituency. It made us feel big in a very small way.
Unfortunately, I made "the switch" last month. For those who are unfamilar with the recent mac ads, this "switch" doesn't have anything to do with my sexuality. I bought myself an ibook for christmas. (I got my brother a deck of cards which incidentally was his deck to begin with. The rest of the family got to share a DVD rental.) Since then, I have been just boggled by the sheer ugliness of the site and in my typical plodding way, have been slowly tamping down the ugly to a more tolerable level. The coding tends to come in short bursts between long bouts of sleeping, watching TV and ass-picking, but finally, there has been enough progress for me to put my attention elsewhere. Like writing. So, there will be more of that soon. I think. Thanks for your continued patience.
the slow creep of progress
Monday night while I was driving around Phoenix, I called up P after not having talked to him for months and asked him if it'd be possible to bum some internet off him. He said two things: "who is this?" and "sure." We sat and caught up on random things while random huge files dribbled in from the ether. Among the topics were new site features and ways to improve and redesign everything to be damn sleek. Like geeky sleek. Hot damn. So since then, I've been drifting away from article writing again and more toward the backend development of the site. Coding for this site is always a long process for me. Not so much because the programming's hard for me, or because I'm amazingly lazy, but because I'm always bewildered by the grotesque childish-ness and hideous inelegance of the site's backend. Instead of coding the new features I've been promising for ages, I usually just spend a lot of time gaping at the sheer ugliness of everything, fighting an urge to delete it all and start over from scratch. It's like considering to buy a leather couch for an apartment with cinder-block shelves and fruit-crate end-tables. Sure, you'd like a new couch, but goddamnit, instead, you find yourself planning a long visit to the IKEA.
no excuses
I feel like I'm way overdue for a post even if it's going to be a pretty short update. First, I'll point out that new progress bar on the right. I'm hoping that a more public display of my reading status will induce me to read faster. Thanks to pablo for both the idea and the code for it. Check out his website if you're a gaming / computer dork or if you're just interested in general blogging type sites, you creepy bastard, you. Outside of that, I've had to halt all development on the site for a little while. I need to finish this one lingering project by Wednesday in order to finally finally graduate. ("Need" in this case is more like "need food", rather than the standard ray "need" like "need miniscule brushed metal gadgetry.") I'm well on my way with it, but I really can't do much else in the meantime.
In other news, I should note that no one has emailed me to contribute to the "send Ray's lazy ass to Europe" fund. I'm somewhat disappointed, but am still diligently sitting on my lazy ass.
my kingdom for some content
The present drought of content is due to the fact that I have been in DC (the friend I was staying with doesn't have a computer) and now in New York (where the friends I'm staying with here do have computers, but also plenty of distractions.) I'll hopefully be back before the end of the weekend.
56K suck my ass
I just got back from a week of fuzziness. Now it's just a matter of finishing up some formatting issues with the site and posting some of the pictures I took. Time to make this shit look a little better. We'll probably start having guests soon enough.
good lord
There's finally enough code here to get things going. All I can say is it's somewhere in the vicinity of 5am, I'm still buzzing from a night out. I probably have no business coding or saying anything interesting in this state, but I figure I'd type something rambling so that if you lean back in your chair a little bit, you might be able to try to picture what the site will eventually look like when it's brimming with interesting flashing shit. Yeah. That's enough out of me.
