What's Happening In The Now
- Writing: The Textbook Case Part 4
- Watching: Trainwreckords
- Playing: Portal & UT2K4
- Tinkering: Keep reading...
Same shit, different day(s). There seems to be some sunny skies ahead, but on the whole, the struggle is still very real.
It's also really, really, really fucking hot here in Chicago, so I really wish the sun would tone it down a little. Christ.
It's The New Style
...Well, not "new" necessarily, but definitely not the same.
If you've been here before, you'll notice things this time around seem... different. Maybe a bit sharper, a tad brighter, laid out a little better. And that's because the styling of this website had a major refactor.
To celebrate this site's one year anniversary (more on that later), I overhauled the presentational backend of everything. The design concept is the same, just more embellished. And instead of using multiple monolithic stylesheets, everything, even the webring, is handled by only one.
Yeah, I became unstoppable once I realized you could use variables in CSS stylesheets. For years, whenever I had to create a stylesheet, the implementation was always pretty... basic and hard-coded. "CSS is Turing complete!" was something that's been said for almost two decades, but I've personally never seen that demonstrated until recently.
One Year Done
And as mentioned before, that was in service of celebrating this site's first year of existence. And I honestly could not be happier with how this site has panned out.
While I don't have any current plans on huge changes content-wise, I am pretty baffled by some of the decisions I made early on that have stuck around. As far as I'm concerned, they're just part of the site now, and changing them would be wrong. At least, that's how I feel right now; I could feel completely different in six months.
And mind you, this site didn't begin with a road map and a clear vision; it began with two posts, a general stylesheet and some PHP I wrote in my early 20's. I planted the seeds and let it become what it wanted to be; you know, just let the vibe carry it through. I thought it would end up being just a simple portfolio anchor, and... this is the one time I'm glad that feature creep ran wild.
Of course, it's not finished; it's never finished. And in another year's time, who knows what it'll look like?
Yelling On Stage
This update's unlisted video comes to us from that time I was invited to talk about doing standup comedy on the radio.
This was from Comics On Air, hosted by the very funny Grey Dolan. She hosts that and Mood Swings every Sunday morning on 98.3FM in Lake County, IL. When she's not interviewing the likes of George Lopez, Colin Mochrie and Howie Mandel, she's interviewing her weird comedian friends, like the hairy degenerate in the Batman shirt.