Here’s some pretty sweet Public Service Announcements from the cast of The Office.
Pretty much anything that Dwight says is comedy gold.
Archive for March, 2006
LikeDid you know that when you explicitly set a 100% table width with CSS and align it next to a float, stuff breaks? Oh it breaks, and it breaks bad.
Firefox will spread the table’s width to fill the page, completely underlapping the float and ignoring the dimensions of any parent container. IE will throw everything at the bottom of the float, leaving you with a huge whitespace above it.
I’ve spent basically a week pulling my hair out trying to resolve this simple-seeming problem, and the solution was to put a table (of display type ‘table’) with a 100% width inside of a container div with a specific margin width to account for the float. And oh yeah, you need to clear:both; right after the container div, or everything breaks in even more exciting ways.
It’s browser retardedness of the highest order, and it’s an inelegant solution, but holy hell it works and after banging my head on the wall for so long I’ll count it as a victory and move on.
Last night I bought a video game for myself. ‘Bought’ – as in ‘spent money on.’ For the first time in years! And I didn’t even have to leave my couch!
The whole “Microsoft Points” system is an ingenious way to inject a little confusion into the buying process so that you’re never really sure how much money you’re spending, and are therefore likely to spend much more. $1 = 80 points.
Those free downloadable Xbox360 Marketplace demos will be the end of me. I shelled out points for Bejeweled 2, Jewel Quest (for Tammy,) and of course Geometry Wars which is just brain-meltingly awesome and absolutely worth the five bucks.
Oh Microsoft, you’ll make an honest gamer of me yet. Of course once that firmware hack is out in the wild, all bets are off. But for now you win!
I’m wearing oversized headphones right now as I evaluate the ridiculous claims made by the authors of the BrainWave Generator.
I’m ‘entraining’ my brain with binaural beat frequencies to calm my mind and focus my attention!
Or!
I’m listening to static and warbly low frequency sounds for absolutely no reason!
I’m pretty sure it’s the latter.
What is there to say about Xeni Jardin that hasn’t already been said by xenisucks.com?
Oh god…”ArtieTSMITW“, I don’t know who you are or where you came from, but you do an awesome Willie Wonka. And sassy black woman. And Captain Picard. The list goes on. ACTOR EXTRAORDINAIRE!
I just signed up for Live, but my friends list is empty!
Add me!
All the good gamertags were already taken. Luckily I just came back from the grocery store and was surrounded by ample sources of inspiration!
A month ago I bought an Xbox360 for Tammy. I really did get it for her and not me. I wasn’t too excited about the 360 but she really wanted one! And who am I to argue about a new toy for both of us? I was afraid to mention anything about it here ’cause I was pretty sure she’d read it!
Since she loved Morrowind so much on the PC I wanted to get her Oblivion, the next game in the Elder Scrolls series. Unfortunately it didn’t hit stores until yesterday, so I kept the Xbox wrapped up and hidden in a closet for a month…because what good is a new game console if all you have are mediocre launch titles like Gun, PGR3, and King Kong?
Tracking down a 360 was the easiest thing ever thanks to the Untitled Tracker. It checks the Best Buy and Circuit City websites every five minutes to find inventory in your local stores. As soon as something gets delivered you get a popup on your desktop and a text message to your cell phone.
Those blueshirts at the Fullerton Best Buy didn’t know what hit ‘em. “Sorry, dude. We don’t have any in stock. I just checked.” “CHECK AGAIN BASTARD. You just got a shipment 15 minutes ago.” “Well I’ll check the computer, but I don’t see…SON OF A! How did you know?”
Of course finding a 360 now is a trivial affair. Microsoft says they’re tripling their shipments of 360s this week, and last night I saw two pallets full of ‘em at Costco.
I guess I probably didn’t have to bother tracking one down last month. But the thrill of the hunt kept me going!
Sometimes I don’t know why I bother getting smoothies for lunch. I know they’re mostly healthy so I try to do the right thing for my body every now and then and stop by Jamba Juice or Juice it Up or Juice Stop or Tropical Smoothie Cafe.
Even if I go for the gusto and bust out the 32-ouncer, I still get hungry three or four hours later. And not just a little hungry either – I get ravenous, jittery, and irritable.
Goddammit, juice places!
Team Xecuter is promising to do what those 360 hackers wouldn’t. For a “company” that built its reputation designing and selling modchips for the original XBox, it’s rather noble of them to not only spend time working on a software-based hack but also to promise to release it free o’ charge.
Team Xecuter, America salutes you.
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