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I went to the supermarket before work to get some food and when I got to the checkstand, I discovered that I'd left my wallet in the car. So I ran to get it and I slipped because it's raining and the ground's wet and I fell and hit my head. And my trousers got wet. And I didn't have time to go home and change. And now I have a lump on my head. At least I have my food.
Feb. 15th, 2005
screw you, Spongebob!
Feb. 15th, 2005 10:28 amDude! Someone posted in my guestbook that my site sucks and I need to put more stuff on it. There's lots of stuff on it! That's almost as silly as when someone complained about the lack of monkeys. But a lot of people left nice comments. And if people were only leaving bad comments, I'd just get rid of the guestbook. ETA: and the person called themself "spongebob." That's why I said "screw you, Spongebob." In case you were wondering.
I think I'll make an FAQ page so I can answer questions people leave in the guestbook. Real questions like "how do you make Sims skins?" not questions containing the words "your," "site" and "sucks." Arrgh, I'll have to change the navigation buttons if I want there to be a button for FAQ. And I think it's a good idea to make it easy to find. Oh well. I did that about four times when I was getting everything ready for the update. I started out fine: I made a template so I could just paste in the content for each page but then after I'd made all the new pages, I kept thinking of things I wanted to change and I had to go through and make the changes on every page. It's not too many pages, really. A lot of the pages on my site are plain white with a drawing or comic page. So that's good. I'm glad I didn't put all the comics on pages with all the graphics and navigation buttons.
Hey, here's a job for you all: what sort of questions might you have for me if you hadn't seen the site before and you were looking around? I've thought of technical questions like "how do you make skins?" "how do you color your comics?" "how did you make the quiz?" etc. What other questions might people have?
( work stuff )
I think I'll make an FAQ page so I can answer questions people leave in the guestbook. Real questions like "how do you make Sims skins?" not questions containing the words "your," "site" and "sucks." Arrgh, I'll have to change the navigation buttons if I want there to be a button for FAQ. And I think it's a good idea to make it easy to find. Oh well. I did that about four times when I was getting everything ready for the update. I started out fine: I made a template so I could just paste in the content for each page but then after I'd made all the new pages, I kept thinking of things I wanted to change and I had to go through and make the changes on every page. It's not too many pages, really. A lot of the pages on my site are plain white with a drawing or comic page. So that's good. I'm glad I didn't put all the comics on pages with all the graphics and navigation buttons.
Hey, here's a job for you all: what sort of questions might you have for me if you hadn't seen the site before and you were looking around? I've thought of technical questions like "how do you make skins?" "how do you color your comics?" "how did you make the quiz?" etc. What other questions might people have?
( work stuff )
lunchtime update
Feb. 15th, 2005 03:33 pmYep, I'm only just having my lunch. I was microwaving my food and A. walked by and she said "you're having lunch now?" or something like that and I said "yeah" and then I looked at my watch and I thought "woah! 3:30!" That happens when I'm working on the computer, I completely lose track of time. It doesn't happen when I'm working on other stuff, like in the lab. Just on the computer.
I put in my food for four minutes and came back to my desk, then after a bit I thought "it's probably almost done now" and I walked down the hall to the microwave and it beeped just as I was walking up to it. That happens a lot. Ph3@r my psychic knowing-when-food-is-heated-up abilities. I'm having pasta. I'd like some sourdough bread with it. But I didn't bring any bread. Woe is me.
My head feels OK. It hurts if I touch the lump but it's getting better.
Umm. I thought I had something else to say but I can't remember. Blame the head injury.
I put in my food for four minutes and came back to my desk, then after a bit I thought "it's probably almost done now" and I walked down the hall to the microwave and it beeped just as I was walking up to it. That happens a lot. Ph3@r my psychic knowing-when-food-is-heated-up abilities. I'm having pasta. I'd like some sourdough bread with it. But I didn't bring any bread. Woe is me.
My head feels OK. It hurts if I touch the lump but it's getting better.
Umm. I thought I had something else to say but I can't remember. Blame the head injury.
this is silly
Feb. 15th, 2005 09:08 pmI spent a good chunk of the work day today working on my own web site then I brought home a binder of info I have to read for work. I guess it doesn't matter as long as it gets done. My bosses certainly don't care. I'm lucky. I know.
I went to a cardio kickboxing class and I survived so that's good. I'm surprised at how little damage the almost total lack of exercise for the past few months has done. I have to take it easy in the classes but I'm still getting through them. And I did some pushups afterwards. 20 of 'em. Not too bad. I haven't checked out the weight area yet. I go to 24 Hour Fitness, by the way. I got an amazing deal on it. It was about $500 total for the first three years, paid up front - that's the catch - and then $99 per year after that. I'm almost into year three now and I'm still using it so it was definitely worth it. Anyway. The one in Davis had this machine where you can do pullups but you're kneeling on a platform that moves up and down with you and you set how much of your weight it supports. I hope they have one of those here, I like that one.
Snape (my cat) keeps worrying me: she goes up on top of the kitchen cabinets and then she leaps down, bouncing off the counter and hitting the ground. I'm afraid she's going to hurt herself. My parents' neighbors' cat did that. He jumped down off an 8-foot high book shelf and dislocated his shoulder, I think. His shoulder looked messed up. But before they could even do anything, he popped it back into place. And later, he tried to jump off the same shelf again. They had to get rid of the shelf. I think I'll have to put boxes on top of the cabinets so Snape can't get up there. She gets up via the frige but I'm afraid that if I just block that part, she'll start trying to jump straight up from the counter. Loony cat.
ETA: Also, I got my discount Valentine's chocolate. Twenty eight chocolates for $5.00. That's about eighteen cents per chocolate. It's 31.25 cents per ounce. And I worked that out on paper. Sometimes I prefer to do long division by hand. If that doesn't make me a nerd, I don't know what does. Except I gave up on the idea of working out how much it cost per mol because I'd have to get an average molecular weight for the chocolates and there are too damn many different kinds of molecules. I think I'd have to make so many assumptions that it'd be wildly inaccurate anyway. So I'm a nerd but not the queen of all nerds.
You know what? I'm going to make the assumption anyway. And I'll do everything on paper. This awesome page has the molecular weight of theobromine, which, according to the site, accounts for about 1% of the total weight. But I have more to read for the lab meeting tomorrow so I'm going to pretend I bought a pound of theobromine. Its molecular weight is 180.17g/mol (C7H8N4O2 so the molecular weight is correct). Except why is it called theobromine if it does not, in fact, contain any actual bromine? Just wondering. Anyway. 1 pound is 454g (according to the package - I'm too lazy to do that conversion). ...I'm just going to round off the .17, OK? Since I have no idea what the average molecular weight really is and this is all going to be bullcrap anyway. OK then. 454/180 = 2.5222 so I have 2.5222 mols of "chocolate" for $5. That's $1.98 per mol. Assuming it's pure theobromine, which it isn't by any stretch of the imagination. That was fun. OK, back to work.
I went to a cardio kickboxing class and I survived so that's good. I'm surprised at how little damage the almost total lack of exercise for the past few months has done. I have to take it easy in the classes but I'm still getting through them. And I did some pushups afterwards. 20 of 'em. Not too bad. I haven't checked out the weight area yet. I go to 24 Hour Fitness, by the way. I got an amazing deal on it. It was about $500 total for the first three years, paid up front - that's the catch - and then $99 per year after that. I'm almost into year three now and I'm still using it so it was definitely worth it. Anyway. The one in Davis had this machine where you can do pullups but you're kneeling on a platform that moves up and down with you and you set how much of your weight it supports. I hope they have one of those here, I like that one.
Snape (my cat) keeps worrying me: she goes up on top of the kitchen cabinets and then she leaps down, bouncing off the counter and hitting the ground. I'm afraid she's going to hurt herself. My parents' neighbors' cat did that. He jumped down off an 8-foot high book shelf and dislocated his shoulder, I think. His shoulder looked messed up. But before they could even do anything, he popped it back into place. And later, he tried to jump off the same shelf again. They had to get rid of the shelf. I think I'll have to put boxes on top of the cabinets so Snape can't get up there. She gets up via the frige but I'm afraid that if I just block that part, she'll start trying to jump straight up from the counter. Loony cat.
ETA: Also, I got my discount Valentine's chocolate. Twenty eight chocolates for $5.00. That's about eighteen cents per chocolate. It's 31.25 cents per ounce. And I worked that out on paper. Sometimes I prefer to do long division by hand. If that doesn't make me a nerd, I don't know what does. Except I gave up on the idea of working out how much it cost per mol because I'd have to get an average molecular weight for the chocolates and there are too damn many different kinds of molecules. I think I'd have to make so many assumptions that it'd be wildly inaccurate anyway. So I'm a nerd but not the queen of all nerds.
You know what? I'm going to make the assumption anyway. And I'll do everything on paper. This awesome page has the molecular weight of theobromine, which, according to the site, accounts for about 1% of the total weight. But I have more to read for the lab meeting tomorrow so I'm going to pretend I bought a pound of theobromine. Its molecular weight is 180.17g/mol (C7H8N4O2 so the molecular weight is correct). Except why is it called theobromine if it does not, in fact, contain any actual bromine? Just wondering. Anyway. 1 pound is 454g (according to the package - I'm too lazy to do that conversion). ...I'm just going to round off the .17, OK? Since I have no idea what the average molecular weight really is and this is all going to be bullcrap anyway. OK then. 454/180 = 2.5222 so I have 2.5222 mols of "chocolate" for $5. That's $1.98 per mol. Assuming it's pure theobromine, which it isn't by any stretch of the imagination. That was fun. OK, back to work.