Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Web stuff
Well, this is certainly interesting. My friend Rick sent me a couple of links to some guy who’s remodeled his apartment to look like Star Trek: TNG quarters. Complete with panels, transporter pad and brig. It actually looks surprisingly good, although the kitchen looks a little too dimly lit and too blue to be very functional. It does look cool though.
It is also up for sale at EBay. Now if only I could come up with $2M and get my wife to move to England…
While writing my last blog entry, I stumbled onto an interesting website. Urban Dictionary seems to be a rather unconventional dictionary website. According to the website,
The Urban Dictionary is a slang dictionary with words contributed by users.
Most of the content I’ve seen in it so far is slang that you probably might not find in other online dictionaries like Merriam-Webster, or those stupid words that people make up by adding suffixes to the end. You can add words to the dictionary (along with your definition), or you can add definitions to other words. Some of them make for pretty funny reading.
Definitely not a site for young kids to surf to though.
My friend Rick emailed me and told me it was Talk like a Pirate Day. Aaarrr, matey!
And NASA has a very cool satellite picture of Hurricane Isabel. It shows very nicely just how large a storm it was, even if it didn’t pack as big a punch as it did swirling over the ocean.
I’ve taken the 7 default style sheets that come with MovableType and added them in as alternate stylesheets to the template for my main page.
So, those of you with browsers that can deal with alternate style sheets like Mozilla or Firebird (don’t know if IE or NS do alt style sheets) can use the little Style button at the bottom right of your status bar (Firebird) or the View/Use Style menu (Mozilla) to switch between the different styles and see what the different CSS styles look like.
One of these days I’ll get around to learning enough CSS to create my own styles.
Go check out the Stick Figure Death Theatre site. There are some hilariously funny animations of stick figures getting disposed of in all sorts of ways. Some are Flash movies, others are animated GIFs. Some are a riot to watch, others are rather cheesy. But all in all, it’s an amusing place to check out if you have time to kill.