November 2005 Archives

In honor of nothing, I've added a couple new things that might be worth noting:

• The newest Cook's Illustrated recipes are available on Palook Central. Check them out over there.
• Comments are now accepted here at The Longbored Surfer. I'm not sure what on earth you could have to say about anything I've done/said, but it's an option to

My mother always tells the story of our birth on our birthday. The story isn't very long, but it's nice to know that we've left some sort of a mark on her mind. With that tradition in mind, Cecilia, please allow me to tell you a little about your birth.

I'm not exactly an expert on music. I listen to it, and really enjoy it. I happen to be listening to the Queen album "A Night At the Opera". To sum up the rest of this post, it's a great album.

Cecilia really likes her mother, and is less interested in me than her. Right before she goes to bed I get to read a story with her. It could be any one of a number of books that she has. After the story ends, I'll hand her off to her mother who will go and put her down for the evening, but not before I can blow a kiss to Cecilia. She's been watching this event happen for months now. But only very recently has she started to blow kisses back.

Just because you don't listen to your voice mail doesn't mean that I don't. Just because you only esteem the "urgent" messages from others as urgent, doesn't mean that I do. You, nor your message, is important enough for me to work with it any quicker than I would anybody else's message. It never helps that you send EVERY message as "urgent". When is something NOT urgent? Has it ever crossed your mind that there might be a hierarchy of urgency? Whoa… go figure. You're an idiot.

I think I've finally finished this site. It took long enough, but this time I'm really serious. The addition of the longbored photos is nice, but wasn't the finishing touch. No, the finishing touch you should hopefully never see. It would be the error page.

I've added a new photo section to LBS. It's nothing special, but it works. I have to say that I really like Simple PHP Gallery. The dude's website seems to always be down, like he hasn't paid his bill, or he gets too much traffic. Despite the site always being down, the system works like a charm. With hardly any setup, it's really easy to customize, and extremely easy to use.

Check out Longbored Photos here and download a copy of Simple PHP Gallery here. I'm willing to answer basic questions.

She's almost there. She'll stand there without holding onto anything. She'll take a couple tiny steps towards something without holding onto something. She'll barely be out of reach of something. She's soooooo close to walking.

Each year my department feels obligated to give out lame awards at the end of the year. They usually attempt to involve some sort of play on words, or inside reference to a certain experience. The award that I got was The Triple 6 Award. No matter which way I looked at it, all I could see out of it all was a satanic interpretation. Attempting to clarify, and make sure that I wasn't smoking one, I assumed that there had to be some sort of mistake. Did they mean to put triple 7's? Am I lucky or satanic?

If you're ever curious on how to make Yahoo stop referring people to your website… all you have to do is put some ads on your site from Google. I signed up for Google Ads, and within 2 days, my traffic from Yahoo went from about 40 hits a day down to 0. Whoa…. their search bot must be a little sensitive to that sort of thing. Note to self: if you put ads on your site from Google, at least program the page not to display the things if they're referred from Yahoo. Since I'm not that smart, I just took the ads off. Nobody was clicking them anyway.

Too bad Yahoo doesn't seem to want to advertise on my site. Go figure. "We don't want them to do it, but we don't want to either." Seems like a double standard, but whatever.

I've regained an interest in MacGourmet. I can't say that I ever really LOST interest in it, but it wasn't at the front on my mind. I was looking at some site stats for my other home and found that I had a lot of traffic due to recipes that weren't incorporated into my site, specifically my 2 dinky MacGourmet collections (I Have This Really Good Recipe For… and Recipes from Other Places).

She took her first steps today. It wasn't anything amazing, nor did she start sprinting down the street, like a crazed teenager after some dumb boy-band member. She just took a couple steps on her own, and then proceeded to balance herself with the couch.

I only watch a few shows faithfully on TV. One show that I REALLY enjoy is called Arrested Development. Just recently I read the announcement that they will be canceling the show in the middle of its third (current) season. An Emmy winning show that just didn't get the ratings. How sad.

I'm not saying that I spent 3 hours today fixing 3 different printers, I'm just typing it.

For the most part, a university wouldn't exist without its students. They're the ones that pay the bills for the school. I attend a university that has no professors that perform research that is funded by the school. No other place could there be a finer example of a school that is entirely dependent on their students.