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When the ‘right way’ is the biggest PITA

This is one of those times when doing things “the right way” also happens to be the biggest pain in the ass…

I spent the last 2 hours messing around with a layout that I created a few weeks ago. I thought, “No problem, I’ll slice it up and throw the pieces in some DIVs and start on a new SharePoint layout.”

In the words of the immortal Vizzini … “You’d like to think that, wouldn’t you?!”

The problem I was having was that the left and right borders (background images) of the “main” div wouldn’t tile because I didn’t (couldn’t) set a height. So I looked ALL over the web, read up on every ‘clearfix‘ known to man, hundreds of X/HTML and CSS help boards, (and accidentally ran across this air tools site, not sure why it was in the search results!) and then FINALLY stumbled across this article on A List Apart. (and considering how long I spent looking for it, it’s titled appropriately! LOL!)

See? I *knew* it could be done, and remembered reading the article, but could not for the life of me remember where I saw it!!

And so now that my pretty layout is behaving, all I need to do is spending the next 3 weeks beating SharePoint into submission.

Smart lids prevent idiot burns?

You know those mental midgets who buy a cup of coffee, spill all over themselves, then sue the place where they bought it because it was too hot? (Like that numbnuts out on 280 not too long ago…) Well now there’s a coffee lid out there that will tell you if your coffee is too hot to drink:

(Courtesy of Geekologie)

Smart Lid

The Smart Lid is a color changing coffee lid designed to prevent idiots from burning themselves by getting more and more red depending on how hot the coffee is. If they cost about the same as regular coffee lids then sure, get them. Otherwise let’s stick with regular coffee lids and let natural selection work things out.

Kind of neat … but as one commenter pointed out:

I would think if you ordered HOT coffee, that would be warning enough.

“You’d like to think that, wouldn’t you?”

Oh well, maybe there’s hope … after all, we already have hair transplants, heart transplants, … how far away could brain transplants be? :lol:

Four things about me

Jim’s mom sent me this, and I’m gonna be a lazy smurf and post it here

FOUR THINGS you may not have known about me:

A) Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Babysitter
2. Drive-through cashier
3. Billing clerk
4. -

B) Four movies I would watch over and over:
1. Undercover Brother
2. Hellboy
3. The Princess Bride
4. Fifth Element

Honorary 5th: Star Wars
Honorary 6th: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

C) Four places I have lived:
1. Birmingham
2. Mobile
3. Corner
4. -

D) Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. CSI (original series)
2. Mythbusters
3. The Closer
4. Psyche

Honorary 5th: Monk

E) Four places I have been on vacation
1. Miami, FL
2. Sacramento, CA
3. Ybor City, FL
4. New Orleans, LA

G) Four of my favorite foods:
1. Tom Kha (Thai coconut soup)
2. Mom’s roast beef and gravy
3. Taco soup (YUM!)
4 Homemade turkey dressing

H) Four places I would rather be right now:
1. New Orleans, LA
2. Ybor City, FL
3. someplace warmer than here!!
4. someplace warmer than here!!

(LOL!)

I) Four people most likely to respond to this survey
1. Mara
2. Teresa
3. Ben
4. Jeff

Slush and burn

No update for Wordpress and the weird date errors caused by the latest security patch, so I’m still a-holdin’.

The weekend was both fun and painful. :shock: I know, you’re shocked.

Let me ’splain … no, there is too much, let me sum up:

Friday Jim and I took off work early and Jessie and I spent the afternoon watching the storms roll in and northward. I had convinced Jim’s ex to let us keep her Saturday, as I had a full day planned. Jessie and I did the Shoney’s breakfast thing — we hadn’t done that in ages, and it was good to get out and spend time together, just the two of us. We ran back to the house for just a few minutes and went over to Jim’s mother’s house to swim in her pool for a bit. We had originally planned on lunch at Bento’s for some Japanese, but I forgot they closed just after lunch, so we kicked it on up to Fire Mountain instead.

After lunch/dinner, we kicked it back to the pool and then at 5 we went over to Gardendale’s civic center complex for the Bluegrass Festival. It was a BLAST! I took some pictures and hope to have those up soon. Pity we left around 9. I never was able to get a playlist of who all was there and who was left to play. I heard a LOT of Carter and Cash songs that I knew and loved, as well as CDB and Hank Williams Sr/Jr.

Unfortunately I had gotten sunburned despite using 45 SPF sunblock. I know, I know, you would think pale glow-in-the-dark types such as myself would learn to stay out of the sun by now!

Bite me. ;P

So yeah, I spent yesterday sick because of the sunburn. I’m a crisp bright red in the face, shoulders, and back … I think I would’ve screamed if I heard one more “Hey, looks like you got a little sun!”

*slams face on desk*

Ow.

Oh well, it was worth it to see Jessie having such a good time.

And besides, I finally got the recipe for that awesome drink I had at Jim’s mom’s place a few weeks ago … she was even kind enough to send me a small bit to “nibble on” until I got a batch of my own made!

YUMMMMMMMM!!!