A developer known as “Briask” created a Joomla! module called ImageSlideShow, which works nicely, except that it insists on inserting an alpha fade effect between images, even if you’ve set the transition delay to 0. This means that if (for instance) you’re using one of those Cisco flat panel-Web enabled displays, the image transitions can really start […]
Archive for January, 2010
Bookend
He did this in the 90s. Just a bit of Bowie to counterbalance the Elfman. ==== Baby Grace is the victim; she was fourteen years of age. And the wheels are turning, turning, for the finger points at me. But I have not been to Oxford Town. No I have not been to Oxford Town. Toll the bell; pay […]
Please tell me I have no…
…I have no, I don’t have to… Calendar comes up clear for the day. Today. Starting 5 hours from now, and me with no sleep, and knowing I won’t get any sack time before then.* Good, so I can coast behind the monitors. Just shift, paste, compose. Wave hi, howyadoin. Fuck, fuck me, I am so tired. Not physically. ==== * Why […]
Reflections of silver
I’ve been a Bowie fan for a while. It began when a friend introduced me to Labyrinth in the late 80s, and it’s never really ended; though lately it’s come to something like fruition. I think Bowie was hard for heroin. Well, duh, it was the 70s, he did drugs; it is generally presumed that he did coke. But […]
Boulevard of broken ads
A local high school sold us space for an ad in their annual, and what I did for it at first might be inappropriate according to some, but it sure as hell would be a thing to see in a yearbook.* It’s supposed to be an ad for our fitness center, trying to convince the graduates to attend. […]
All the nightmares came today. And it looks as though they’re here to stay.
“Insanity”, by Oingo Boingo. == I’m so sorry. Please forgive me. Who do I pray to to straighten out this problem? Straighten out this problem, straighten out my mind, straighten out this crooked tongue? My mind has wandered from the strait and narrow; my mind has wandered from the flock, you see. My mind has wandered; […]
This is a problem.
I think I’m in pretty serious trouble. Used to be that I knew the depths of the sadness, the depression. But lately, it’s been countered by up phases. I don’t know how to describe that. Best analogy is when you’ve had too much caffeine, I guess. They swing back and forth. In a standard calendar month I feel about right […]
No one is asking you to forgive Hitler.
The question is, can you forgive yourself? Crossposted from.
I forgot about this
So many pressures from so many fronts lately, and I forgot about this, this thing I saw. I’m not sure why I… So I was toddling off to get shots of our imaging magnets, which aren’t interesting since they resemble, mostly, plastic-wrapped donuts large enough to drive a bike through. But our campus is sprawled, and I had to cross surface streets […]
An interesting coincidence
This toon, by Patrick Chappatte and via Cagle, sums up precisely what I think is wrong with “full-body” scanning at airports. What’s striking is that I was thinking it just this morning. There is no way that a “body scanner” can possibly tell you anything about the person being scanned. Reliance on technology to provide us “safety” […]
Yup. podcast. Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 1
Well, what the frack. Here’s Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 1 of 7. Rime of the Ancient Mariner I Read by Yours Truly.
I hate to have to admit it…
…but this little political toon by Cam Cardow is a hell of a lot closer to the mark than I would’ve believed, at this same time last year. Via Cagle’s pad.
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