Chuck-ese

So, over that mystical 5 day weekend, I was supposed to engage in a post-orgy that would finish off a good deal of my To-Do List. I didn’t. I wrote a shitty entry about removing the hat from my homepage. Fuck, I hate me.

So, I’m sitting here in front of my computer, looking at the four different iterations of the Chucksphere homepage, wondering “why do they all suck?” Their purpose is simple: provide links to all the sites I am responsible for* and showcase the exemplary ones**.

* As if I’d really want to take credit for this shit
** “exemplary ones”: A joke, really.
The first iteration had the title at the top, with a giant picture of a hat. Beneath that, I go into a short exposition as to myself and the site. Next comes the list of websites in all the myriad versions. Below that are the lists that appear on the Information page.

The revised version decreases the size of the hat picture, crams the exposition to one side so room may be made for an inline frame to showcase any page from my site that I choose.

Chucksphere v3.0 does way with the bio, and stuffs the list of sites in its place. The other lists were banished to the info page.

In the most current version, the side-by-side format has been trashed, along with the lists of the different versions. The iframe has been expanded, so that the pages displayed therein don’t look any more like shit than they naturally do. I even unified the title, so “The” wasn’t abandoned way out at the top of the page. It’s a good, clean layout. But it still doesn’t do the trick.

Then, flash of inspiration! It’s the hat. It doesn’t do anything, it doesn’t look cool (which is what I thought at the time), and it kind of looks faux-artistic and douchbaggy. So, it’s gone.

Cheers.

Yeats, William Butler. “Leda and the Swan.” Line 6.

“When I was a kid Halloween was Halloween and Santa wasn’t poking his fat ass into it.”
–Lewis Black

Okay, I’ve gotten behind. On November 1st, I saw my first genuine Christmas ad, for Home Depot (or Lowe’s?). It featured a couple (I think, I only saw it once) talking to a Home Depot/Lowe’s employee about Christmas Lawn decorations.

Then, I saw one for Visa not too long ago. It wasn’t overtly a Christmas ad, but it was set in an old-fasioned toy store, and it aired in November*.

*Has a touch of a circular argument about it, doesn’t it?

Oh, and I might classify the MasterCard ad as a Christmas ad, too. You know, the one that features the woman singing “My Favorite Things”? That’s a Christmas song, in this house (sung by Barry Manilow, no less.) By the way, the woman in the scuba suit has the sexiest voice I’ve ever heard. Not unlike the woman who narrates The Corporation, except this woman is physically attractive, also. Yeah, I don’t even know why I bothered writing this either.

[Also: Annotations on a text -> annotations on annotations -> Meta Annotations -> Metatations -> Meditations]

All obligations have been completed. P&P is due in 12 days, more than enough time. No major projects except for those that are self-inflicted.

To Work!

Also, Republican candidate Mike Huckabee spoke in Owosso today. Too bad it wasn’t a candidate I wanted to hear.

So, I was reading this article over at Ryan Holiday’s website, when I came across the list of things that matter. I realized that I don’t meet a single one of those criteria:

[*] Smart, intelligent people do not read by work. I read my work. I’m deathly afraid of anybody reading it, so nobody knows about this. Simple as that. Can’t even say for certain why I’m writing this now.

[*] I get email from spammers. (Where “spammers” include all institutions of higher education in North America and Dennis Kucinich.)

[*]  OH, OH, I do write about non-tech things! But still, 0 readers.

[*] Wow, I also have sucess and interests outside of the internet. That’s the only place I do have sucess.

[*] Flying under the radar? Check.

[*] Yes, people take my suggestions, but not from here.

[*] I hate looking back on what I’ve written. I can’t stand to be in the same room as somebody else who’s reading my work, even if they do so silently.

Oh, 2/3 of blogs have only one RSS subscriber. Me? Zero.

In short, I’m killing this. All of this. If Dress-Stephen doesn’t take off (or even get completed, which it probably won’t), I’m not paying my server bill and damn it all.