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BlogThe fraternity of my two web gnomes was shattered today at 12:10pm. Myrone the Gnome is now missing in action. Butt the Gnome has been bolted to the handrail ever since he was kidnapped and then returned, having been violated. Myrone, however, had no such protection. His vulnerability was exploited, and his whereabouts are unknown. Having been a kidnapping victim himself, Butt is leading the investigation into his disappearance. If you have any information leading to the apprehension of this perpetrator, please forward it to
buttthegnome@nuclearfusion.org. Below is the evidence accumulated thus far.
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I've completed installing a
new photo album engine, and finally got my photos added and organized. I considered creating my own album program, but this one does everything I need (and more) and is written in ASP.net, which I've been wanting to play around with for awhile now. The application is called
nGallery and the author released it as open source, which means I can (and have) tweaked the code. If you spend any time looking at this you'll notice it's sssllloooowwww. My first goal is to optimize the thumbnail creation/caching procedure, then add MySQL support (currently only works with XML and MS SQL). The nice thing about open source is that there are most likely already a dozen or so people working on these changes.
Melissa decorated the
wine rack with some grape lights we got from Costco. At first, we weren't sure where to put them, but this combination is pure genius. The addition of the lights make my previously mundane wine rack, an
extreme wine rack.
Brad: "Why do they keep playing that 'Minds Eye' video?"
Duane: "They play that, then the funniest home video bloopers"
Brad: "Is that all they play?"
Duane: "Yeah, they loop it."
Brad: "Why do they do that?"
Duane: "I don't know, it's what the people want."
Another ridiculous IM conversation involving myrone spawned this photoshop jewel. My
Cougar is now stored in my garage, awaiting spring and until then I have no forced induction to look forward to in the morning. Oh well, I can still beat up my S-10.
Tonight we went to see the
Rogerbox show at I-Rock night club in Detroit. Melissa discoverd the wonders of the backroom, I got to dance in a cage with Duane, and Keith kicked my butt at pool. There was also some guy from New York visiting, I think his name was Ben. Despite the lack of a big crowd, it was definately an entertaining night. The'll be playing again the night before Thanksgiving, and I plan to be there with bells on.
After voicing my recent fascination with first generation Ford Probe GT's, and my potential plan to buy one, we somehow got on the topic of southerners.
enOrym: Oh man
enOrym: one of my last days of work here
enOrym: I wore a ny yankeys hat
enOrym: DONT EVER DO THAT HERE OR IN THE
SOUTH!
enOrym: one of my co workers called me a yankey and
ment it
enOrym: HE WAS FUMING cause I was wearing that hat
enOrym: during that day
enOrym: he said hey fucking yankey say soda for us, I
said pop, he said say pen "PIN said here" I sad PEN
then he said your saying it all wrong, I said no your
speaking it all wrong cause your people lost the war,Oh
he just got up and lleft the room he was pissed
Today at work, while I was being a happy coder, I looked outside the window and saw
this awesome sight. The depressing gray clouds had cleared enough to let the last light of the sunset in, creating a surreal world. The entire day was cloudy and gray, but this 5 minute display was worth the wait. I just wish every winter day would end like this.
Yesterday I fixed my countertop which was unsupported after the dishwasher install. Then I put new hardware in the toilet so it not only isn't leaking anymore, but also refills after every flush. Then I cleaned and organized the house, and sealed the utility room windows with vinyl. Today my
girlfriend and I built a
wine rack and
storage bin for the kitchen and storage room, respectively. These are in addition to the
storage shelving we built two weekends ago. A busy weekend, but the organization helps me cope with my obsessive compulsive disorder better.
Tonight is the last night for "
Late Night Gnome Cam." The Day/Night Camera I'm using is not very happy with cold temperatures. It has a "melting effect" when it gets below zero that looks cool, but probably isn't good for the camera. So, in the interest of maximum camera life, I'm retiring it for the winter and going back to the old XCam version. Once the weather goes back to a reasonable temperature you'll once again be able to see in the dark.
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