Misc

Anything about everything and somethings about nothing. If it doesn’t have it’s own category it’s going to be here.

Dear Clients…

Please please please stop pasting into your WordPress and Drupal sites straight from MS Word without converting to plain text first! There is nothing I love more than going to see a clients sites in use only to be blown away by hideous font action that has nothing to do with my theme styling. I check out the code view and what do you know? Tons superfluous in-line MS Word styling.

Sometimes if I am not busy I actually go in and clean it all up. Leading to strange questions like “why do my fonts keep changing?” I take that opportunity to re-introduce them (sometimes for the third or fourth time) to the paste as plain text function in their WYSIWYG editor. I also encourage them to write directly into their CMS’ and save as drafts or keep them un-published until ready to go live rather than writing entries in word and just pasting them in.

So please help your site stay pretty and always press that paste as plain text button BEFORE you paste from MS Word. It is one extra click but don’t be lazy.

More changes and updates

Lots of minor changes to the site over the weekend. I cleaned out even more extraneous css from my theme’s style sheet and I also pimped out my contact forms and my comment forms and their submit buttons. Sorry IE users your comment areas have ugly scroll bars waiting to scroll (it’s your fault for using a browser that’s dumb enough to do that)

In observance of Black History month I have made my El Creature lucha man an afro-american.

Crapping Turtle

I started making this in 2007 with all intentions of being on adult swim, but I only got as far as the silent cruddy looking little animation you see here.

Toy Taggers

Today I arrived home a bit early around 3:00 pm and realized as I approached my garage that it had been tagged on in red paint. The bastards must have done it some time between 9:00 am and 3:00 pm. As is usual for my alley the writing itself is terrible and it’s content is even worse. BLAZE, GSH (?), SD (or SP?) and of course 420! WTF!? Why on earth would some degenerate douche bag who goes by the alias BLAZE tag his scraggly, little toy letters on my garage and then bless it with a 420? He might as well had left a alien with the words believe written beneath it. There is no logic behind these actions. First this is in an alley nobody sees this. Second they painted it on my garage door when there’s a perfectly good fence next to my garage that actually faces people driving thru the alley, were someone to drive down the alley they will not see the tags without turning their heads. The only person that does get a nice direct look at it is me becuase I am the only one driving into my garage. Way to make my Friday and contribute to the urban landscape that is east dago (grmmble grmmble… fuxxors)

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The magnificent, childlike, toy tags of BLAZE!

Food Update

My broken down ghetto eats are soon coming to an end. Sort of, the old lady doesn’t have a job and we need loot! So we may actually continue to have a freezer with just ice trays in it.

To celebrate my creativity with boneless, skinless chicken breasts I’ve decided to showcase two of my highlights in my fly by night survival cooking exploits. Please forgive my poopy cell phone pictures.

First up is the old chicken fajita torta. The idea of a torta is pretty lame but I was super hungry and needed something to eat my fajitas with. There stood some fresh bolillo rolls and the rest was history.

chicken fajita torta

Next is the chicken stew I made tonight. It was a bit on the salty side and I put too many potatos in it. But it was still delicious over rice. Good for the chilly weather.

chicken stew with rice

And of course my dessert, some Old Fitzgerald on rocks in my pimp glass.

yum

I Miss My Maple

Where in the F did my single flange maple wood plugs go. I stopped wearing them for some odd reason and now I can’t find them. My feeble brain can’t remember if I had them on in LA and left them at ConoLu’s (Find them dammit!) it’s driving me bat shit crazy. I realized they were missing the day we took off to Orlando.

I still have some olive wood double flange plugs but they’re nothing like my maples 🙁 I can’t even find maple plugs anywhere. I found maple wood plugs for barrels? It’s like maple isn’t cool anymore or something. I will find some to replace them but really hope that by the time I get new ones the old ones show up. They don’t even look like maple anymore, they are dark and oily from years of grimey lobe wear.

Please come home, I miss you.

Woody Guthrie

This video I found on youtube is stellar. What I find most amazing about it is A.) It’s Woody Guthrie, B.) it’s video of Woody and C.) they are cutting a record outdoors!!! If you watch there is a vintage dub plate machine being operated by some guy in the left corner and going into it is a microphone sitting on a mic stand in front of the van that Woody is playing out of. The fact is they were doing this in 1945, where as now I could never figure out a way to record a song in the wilderness. Surely they were in some country bumpkins front yard or back yard and the power came from the home. Either way it helps me understand that gritty sound that is Woody Guthrie, everything sounds like it’s covered in a lil’ bit of dirt (in a really good way) and this is prolly why.

Ghetto Living

I arrived from Orlando with about $480.00 or so in my cheching account. My half of the rent is $525.00. So I borrowed $50.00 from my old lady to be sure I had a little extra once the rent hit. I also had $13.00 in my wallet, of which $10.00 I put into my checking account (KAH-CHING!) Leaving me with $3.00 in cash to my name as well as $3.18 in my checking account. Continue reading “Ghetto Living”

2.7 in the Heezy

Since my nerves are getting the best of me before my long flight east I decided to upgrade to WP2.7 aka Coltrane (in this muhfugga) I also upgraded the flickr plugin and everything is working fine! Not that I expected anything less but last time I updated the flickr plugin I hated the plugin for a few hours before it began doing what it is supposed to. So yeah… YAY! 2.7 is pretty bad ass.

Edit: I’ve officially give IE6 the finger forever (F-You IE6!). I am the poor bastard in charge of fixing everything for IE6 at my place of work so I sort of refuse to acknowledge it’s existence in my personal/freelance work. I will charge extra for it in a  attempt to deter clients living in the stone ages. I recently worked with a client who still had dial up and IE6! It was mind boggling once I realized I could not talk to him while he was online (no mobile phone either) It was also fun to see wordpress do it’s thing in an lowest denominator scenario, not fun really though.

New Head Pieces

Brixton makes some pretty rugged hats. I picked up a few at Emerald City in Coronado. I got two of the same hat but they are made of different fabrics. The first I swooped is the Stroll in grey wool with a Lady Guadalupe lining (Awesome… even more awesome if you like to mainline.)

Melton Wool Stroll
Melton Wool Stroll

The second hat I got is also a Stroll but it has a nice grey herringbone pattern twill (silly flyness!) The hats are very solid, even their straw fedoras are pretty hefty. I am impressed and look forward to owning many a hat by these guys.

Herringbone Stroll
Herringbone Stroll

Oh man… SNL goodness

This had me dying earlier tonight. Sometimes Andy Sandberg is just too funny. A while ago I remember seeing some death metal song about giraffes that my friend and I swore was all his doing. Today was one of those days that I woke up late and had a cup of tea with whiskey in it and ended up staying in my pajamas the entire day alternating between naps, food and drinks on the couch.

So I broke

I totally spent money at the Levi’s website swooped me up two pairs of 514’s for the price of one. Can’t complain. I really do want to make the move into uber expensive denim but I am broke as balls so Levi’s will have to do. I’ve worn levi’s my whole life. I once owned a pair of wranglers that were pretty cool. It’s strange how I change cuts every few years. I used to be strictly 501/505 but then I wanted more straight legs so for a few years I rocked 559/569. Eventually I got rid of the 569 because they are baggy in the thigh area. Now I just scraped the 559 altogether and rock a 514 with a bit more thigh huggage, a lower waist and an overall more fitting look. After all the phases of clothing I went through as a child/teen/young adult I have finally settled down at age 26 into clothes that fit me properly. My mom loves it and so do I.