Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. – George Orwell’s 1984
I got a temporary gig working for a tech company in Irvine. It’s easy work and it pays better then the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. I have other things on the horizon as well.
This Saturday, Christine and I are headed out to Las Vegas. Her grandmother and aunt are making a big trip out. We decided to book a cheap hotel and spend a night out there. We want to hit some of the coasters out there – but I’m not sure we’ll have a lot of time. More of a trip to see Gram and company then a trip to see sin city.
You’ve seen them. Those safety warning icons found around the park. My interpretation is more imaginative, but look at number three. Does that look like “back and neck pain” to you?
No – that looks like a penguin. A farty penguin. We wouldn’t want that on the ride would we? Be safe and obey the warning signs around the park.
I just can’t stand it anymore! IE has no freaking clue as to what cascading stylesheets are trying to accomplish. Two huge things in this picture that killed me tonight.
1. The 1px line off to the right of the side title. Why? The width of .side is 200px. Why is the width of .sidetitle (which is nested INSIDE .side) not the same size? Or better yet, ONE pixel smaller? So now I have to set the width of .sidetitle to 200px and the width of .side to 199px. This makes the .sidetitle push out and fill that farging little annoying gap. Oh, and I know it has to do with absolute positioning, I spent a week on that.
2. My .images sets the border link color to black. Even though the link image is nested inside a div=.images. it still shows up in the “default” colors in IE! I had to add a link=#000000 tag to my body. I should NEVER have to do this with CSS.
IE What is the FRIGGEN deal?!
Kills me!
*pant *pant
Spent today at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Got to ride on Colossus backwards! They only do this for 4 weeks a year during “Fright Fest.” The picture is the Cyclone train on Colossus with Goliath dropping in the background.
I really can’t describe to you the feeling of riding a wooden coaster backwards. It’s quite a rush! We were stoked when we saw the other train (facing forwards) make it to the lift hill moments after we did. They don’t usually run both tracks at the same time, and they race at the same time even less often. So, it was cool to get this opportunity on video!
This is what Colossus backwards looks like going up the lift hill and over the first drop. It’s a small mpeg that I took with my digital camera. The quality is great though. Click here to leave the other train behind and fall off Colossus backwards! (5MB video mpg)
I’ll have more details about our trip this weekend to be posted later. For now I need some sleep.
Some of you may remember the “planetkris comics.” These were retired to a far off place. Unfortunately never to return. In the past few months I’ve been playing with Flash again and started to come up with some new ideas. Not new characters per se’, but funny ideas, designs and situations.
One thing I enjoy is riding coasters. There is a lot of humor that can be found dealing with amusement parks and coasters, etc. Waiting in line, bad park food, cranky attendants and other satire. I have brought out this passion with a new site called popCoaster.com
