Archives for category: site mechanics

seriously people, help me out. maybe post a link to sites you like the looks of or just tell me your favorite colors. anything about the site you think is clunky? anything you particularly like? any input (as long as it’s constructive) is desired – no, BEGGED for. aaaaand: go.

i’m getting tired of the current site layout and i need to tear it down and redo all of the css anyway.

if you have any ideas or comments about how you’d like hyperbolation to look, leave a comment to let me know. i’m hoping to integrate the photo gallery a bit more…i don’t know how or where but….yeah. so – suggestions! i am not an idea person; i need creative advice!

i’m getting tired of the current site layout and i need to tear it down and redo all of the css anyway.

if you have any ideas or comments about how you’d like hyperbolation to look, leave a comment to let me know. i’m hoping to integrate the photo gallery a bit more…i don’t know how or where but….yeah. so – suggestions! i am not an idea person; i need creative advice!

currently trying to straighten out the cluster fuck that has become of my efforts to switch mobile companies and get a new phone. in summary: i’m going for the razr even though i don’t need it. all of the rebates were too good to pass up and i don’t want to waste my new-customer discounts on a phone i feel ‘meh’ about. i don’t feel incredibly excited about the relatively feature-less razr either, but at least it will be really thin so there is a distant hope that it’ll comfortably fit in my pocket and it’ll look cool. it will come tomorrow and after i play with it a bit i’ll write about it and THEN i’ll get to processing the (not many, sorry) pics from the vegas trip and writing a little something about my impressions of america’s playground.

also, a reminder to check out the a/v club (first item in top menu) to see what movies/books/music i’ve been enjoying lately. changes as often as i see/read/hear something new.

update: i guess i have a couple of christmas pics and some random stuff too so i’ll include those in the photo dump.

wednesday was the 2 year anniversary of hyperbolation. i look back at my first entry and i am amused and a bit embarrassed. and – whoa! pubweb! here’s to having my own domain. thanks to everyone who reads my site. this is the most successful journal-writing attempt i’ve ever made. i think a lot of it has to do with the technology aspect but i think the best part about having a website is there is a place where friends and family can automatically go to see what’s up with me and see pictures from trips and stuff. hooray for the internet!

i have been a bit lax in writing lately because a) being unemployed means less time in front of a computer and b) being home for a week and a half means enduring the dial-up connection that my mom (admit it mom! this is not dad’s fault!) REFUSES to upgrade. hopefully i will still be able to post stuff from…my NEW JOB! woo hoo! i feel like the new kid at an ultra-elite private school. kinda nervous, but mostly relieved that i have a job at a cool place. more on this later! happy new year!

for your consideration: movies eric has not seen.

how are you a 25 year old dude that hasn’t seen any of the terminator movies?! godfather movies?? ‘honey, i shrunk the kids’ for pete’s sake??! i don’t know either. ask eric.

also, i have upgraded to movable type 3.11, so if there are any problems/hiccups you guys notice, please let me know!

i have reposted ‘the men and women of collegiate film’ for all to see. oogle your favorite film student and be sure to tip your waitress on the way out.

also please note that the mwcf site is licensed, so please don’t go passing the photos around separated from the site or making your own mwcf site or using them for your own devious plans without asking my permission first. linking is, of course, welcome and encouraged.

japan pics are up, better captions (in lieu of a big vacation retrospective post…let’s face it, it’s not going to happen. sorry.) and extra pics from kyle to come soon have been posted. enjoy this spurt of motivation while it lasts!

update: other pics also added – New Mexico, scott’s going away party, ben’s birthday, the last bbq at jon & mike’s old place. click the ‘photographs’ link above! i am warning you, i can’t decide what New mexico sunset pics to keep and which to get rid of so right now there are like 20 photos of the most gorgeous sunset ever.

trying to get my photo gallery up, but running into some snags – namely, what to do about conflicting aspect ratios. i had it all automated with a moveable type plugin, but i’m not happy with some of the functionality – it doesn’t make all the thumbnails the same size, just the same width which makes for some messy looking pages. so, i’m looking into other options.

if no one reads this besides a handful of my friends and coworkers, that’s cool. but hey, i like comments! leave me comments! you don’t have ANYTHING to say about abraham lincoln or maybe vin diesel? i know you do. do you think the new design sucks? do you like it? kyle commented, what about everything else? i welcome input. oh, and i know it’s a bit off in opera, but opera users, you’re just going to have to cool it for awhile until i can dig up an opera hack that works and doesn’t also throw mozilla out of whack.

also, working on my portfolio website. again. finally. look, i just redesigned all of this site – what do you want from me? photoblog, you say? ok, dammit, i mean…i’m working on that too, but it’s hard when i can only do this at work cause i have no internet at home (and no pc there either to check css). it’s an ongoing process.

recycled style switcher swatch for the new favicon. if you still see the old ‘h’ quit your browser and refresh. if you’re using safari and that doesn’t work, it’s because although safari is in many ways awesome (let’s hear it for standards support!), in some ways it sucks.

also, totally unrelated here, i have discovered the joys of os x themes and am thoroughly enjoying one right now entitled ‘bbx mercury x’ which is a lot of ‘x’s, but they’re so in right now!

also, apparently some people DO read this, it isn’t just for like, my own amusement. so…here’s to hoping my mom doesn’t read it and get freaked out by all of the profanity, although – i mean, let’s be honest here – i’ve been known to drop an f-bomb around her from time to time.

i can’t figure out what to do, so in the interest on the new design and fresh starts and what have you, i’m going to discard the style switching for now and just go with the new design. you can still see the cool magic menus at index2. she was a good design, may she live on in infamy. [sniffle]

all pages under construction, so check back often.