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Why oh why does my cat insist on sleeping like this? It can’t be comfortable!
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My friend Adam and I were walking around the Tenderloin awhile back looking for a new belt for Adam. He’s from Seattle where they have less homeless crackheads than San Francisco, so I was glad we found this random rapier (I know that word from video games) built out of Duct Tape. It was next to a heap of homeless trash so I can only assume it was used as the last line of defense by some pigeon person living on the streets. I’m probably a jerk for poking fun at the homeless but they’ve had many an argument outside of the various window’s I’ve had while living in SF and I too was without home a couple times so I know what’s it like to hit that bottom and I know what’s like to get out.
Anyway, TMI… look at this ridiculous sword.
Would you win in a battle against a homeless person? I’m not saying you should but if you have a duct tape weapon battle with a crackhead, let me be the first to know! rokked@gmail.com
As one of my bands gears up to start playing out live and I prepare myself to start learning the ins and outs of playing locally in the New York area (backline wut?) I decided to post two of the last shows I played out in San Francisco with my old group. We were reaching the end of a month long tour and just amazingly tight and ridiculous on stage. For nostalgia, these are pictures from two of the last shows where we set out to destroy the stage we stood on.
It was our goal to leave behind a trail of carnage and mayhem. If there was another band after us it was my goal to completely bum out the next person that had to stand where I was standing. My current bands are in no way as reckless and chaotic but I suppose I’m getting to old to spit beer at a crowd. Am I? rokked@gmail.com
Just saw it for the first time all the way through.
I don’t care what anyone says, that movie is fun. Costner throws a little girl off his boat like it ain’t no thang. If that movie was made now it would do better because people don’t care about movie budgets anymore. Stupid controversies, people have forming their own opinions. rokked@gmail.com
I’m a big fan of Wings or Buffalo Wings or Hot Wings or whatever purists and nerds want to call them while feeling superior to whomever else is around. A couple of month ago my Special Lady friend got the Suicide Wings from Buffalo Cantina and I had a go at them. They’re hotter than I like but seriously delicious and I can’t stop myself from wanting them. So time and time again, I’ll get the wings, eat them, suffer for 15 minutes as my mouth burns and then regret it for the rest of the night as they work their way through my intestines. I think I need to find a meal replacement for these things.
TLDR; Rokked Web Comic Script
My first big PHP project has finally reached a what I have been calling its “Install Candidate”. When I set out to make this script, I wanted something that could be taken and installed on different web servers with little effort from the end user. Partially because I desired a good user experience and partially because I wanted to learn the tricks of creating a slick Install Experience. You can view the change log here.
I am developing this script on a different URL and decided to port it over to Rokked tonight to test its ‘portability’ and ease of skinning. I set out to make the script as customizable as possible for someone that had knowledge in HTML/CSS. There are plenty of semi-pro scripts for purchase scripts out there that are absolutely oblivious to what user’s want. A lot of these are commercial software but made by random jerks like me. I didn’t want to make the same mistakes they did. From the start I forced myself to make the skinning as intuitive as possible for someone that knows HTML/CSS. So I developed the code with as little markup as possible.
There’s some hardcoded stuff in there but nothing that should dictate design in anyway. That was a big thing for me. The next thing was features and although I’m just starting to get the framework really nailed down I believe I’m in a good spot for feature development when the time comes. The basic features are there with code in existence for more.
click here to view version 0.8 (Aug 19) of the script. I have some additional development to do on the other domain that I will then port over here to test the script’s ‘upgradability’, which should be fine since the design elements don’t reach into the program elements.
Since no one but me should be capable of viewing the Admin Section, I took some screen shots…
Hopefully my understanding of Sessions is sufficient in keeping this area secure, if I’m wrong, let me know.
I’ve spent most of my time developing the Admin and Install sections and thus far very little time working on the front facing portion. I love the install process and how it cleans up its temporary files and switches on the lights.
I gots confirmations messages, that even disappear after 5 seconds! web 2.0 in the house.
Error Messages too…
I made a rule that the First Author / Master Account could not be deleted. Even if the user changes values through FireBug or whatever the code won’t accept a request to delete the Master.
Settings page… I hope to add the ability to edit CSS to this as well. Blacked out part is the site’s path… didn’t like the idea of posting my hosting username on the internet.
All in all, I think it’s been a really cool experience developing this. I have an idea for another either sub-website or separate website that I’d like to create with my own PHP. After that I believe I’ll take some time to learn a Framework. If you would like to give this software a test drive on your webcomic, give me an email…. rokked@gmail.com
The questions are hard. Brian’s drunk. Brian’s bandmate keeps guessing the right answers to ‘shot questions’ by furiously blurting as many things similar to the answer until he gets the right answer. Bandmate wins the shot. Bandmate doesn’t do shots. Vicious cycle. We’re also terrible at the regular trivia. I eventually yell at a group of people for being too smart. The train ride home is mostly boring after that. rokked@gmail.com