Monthly Archives: January 2004

10 New Words

Posted on by
  • Aquadextrous – The ability to turn the bathtub faucet off with your toes.
  • Carpetuation – Pushing a vacuum cleaner over piece of lint several times unsuccessfully, reaching down and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to see if the vacuum can get it this time.
  • Disconfect – To sterilize a piece of candy you drop on the floor by blowing on it and rubbing it a little.
  • Elbonics – The art of gaining sole possession of a shared arm rest in an airplane or movie theater.
  • Frust – The little line of debris that cannot be swept into the dustpan.
  • Lactomangulation – Tearing open the wrong side of a cardboard milk container after you made a mess of the “open here” side.
  • Peppier – The guy who walks around the resturant with 3-foot pepper grinder.
  • Phonesia – dialing a phone number and forgetting whom you were calling just as they answer.
  • Pupkus – The stuff left on the window after a dog presses his nose against it.
  • Telecrastination – letting the phone ring 3 times before you answer it when it is right next to you.

(via Jill)

New Site

Posted on by

Well I went ahead and switched my site over to some new templates I designed. So far I like the look. I’m still probably going to do some tweaking, but this will be the basic flow. If you don’t remember what the old style looked like you can find it over here. Please feel free to leave comments and tell me what you like and don’t like. I’m particularly happy with the drop-down menus at the top. They took a little work (You can read all about it here), but I think they are cool.

No Work Again

Posted on by

Well there is about an inch thick of ice on the roads this morning and it looks to be going no where. So I am going no where, again. I’ll be working from home, hopefully accomplishing something. Look for me to be either posting more today or doing site maintainence.

Side Note: I really need to get a digital camera to show you guys (and gals) what things are like around here. Anyone have any suggestions on the best place to get one?

Menu Bar

Posted on by

I’m messing around with a menu bar across the top of my main page. Tell me what you think as I go. It is in the rough stages right now, but it is functional. I’m thinking of cleaning up some of my side bars to get rid of some clutter and this would be a way to handle that. I got the ideas for the dropdown menus from Michael Hanscom who pointed to an article written by Peter. I then finally ended up at Suckerfish Dropdowns: A List Apart.

Thanks to all the guys out there helping us, new to CSS folk, figure out the hard stuff. Hopefully someday I can contribute as much as you.

Stuck Home

Posted on by

Well, I’ve succumbed to the weather Gods and am staying home this morning. It really isn’t that bad outside, but it is expected to get worse before it gets better. Even the schools around here are closed and they never close.

Luckily, yesterday, I thought this may happen and brought some work home with me. Nothing to heavy duty, just a book I’ve been working through. I’m learning all about the Zope framework, because I’m going to be rebuilding my companies website with it. Actually I am going to be using Plone, which is a Content Management Framework (CMF) that is built on top of Zope. So don’t be surprised if I slip some comments in here about that every once in a while. I tend to think out loud and what better way to do that, then to spew on my own website.

Anyway… back to the books.

Local Weather

Posted on by

Due to the severe weather conditions we’ve been facing the past week or so, I decided to go and grab a Weather control for my site. So, as you may have noticed, in the bottom left corner of my site, is the weather in my neigborhood, thanks to Weather.com. I think it is a pretty cool gadget, maybe it will be helpful for some of you out there…..

Have a nice evening….

SkoobieLite

Posted on by

In an effort to make my site more appealing and less intrusive, I’ve taken the additional Skoobie links off my main page. The search box remains and if you go into individual entries you will still see the full blown Skoobie. Hopefully this is a welcome change. If anyone has comments please feel free to let me know. I’m always looking for more ways to improve my blog…….

Yeah, yeah…. I know…. more content…… :)

A Pizza a Day…

Posted on by

Italian scientists claim that pizza eaters may be at lower risk than non-pizza-eaters for several types of cancer including colon, esophagus and mouth cancer. The theorize that lycopene, an antioxidant chemical found in tomatoes, offers the benefit.

Scientists at Mario Negri Institute for Pharmaceutical Research in Milan analyzed the eating habits of some 3,300 people with cancer, and some 5,000 people without cancer. People who ate pizza once a week, on average, were less likely to develop cancer and the risk dropped as pizza intake increased.

But don’t call the delivery guy just yet. The Italians in the study were more likely to be eating homemade pies, which contain less fat than American versions.

(via Jill)