Hard Rock Virgin

08.19.2002

This weekend I travelled up north to Nashville, where I made my first trip to the Hard Rock Cafe. Basically I had heard it was a good place to get a $10 burger. After having the $10, I'm not too sure. The food was alright, but nothing speial. I did indeed have a $10 burger (although I guess technically is was a $8.95 burger), topped off with 7 onion rings for an extra buck. Now these weren't the little, rinky dink onion rings you get at Burger King. These were the special, Shoney's sized onion rings. Well worth the 13 cents a piece. All of this was topped off by a glass of tea for $2.29. $2.29? Whatever happened to a drink for a buck?

The best part is yet to come. Evidently, one of the requirements for working at a HRC (as their literature proclaims their "cool" name to be), is a combination of tattoos, piercings, and inability to count change. The cost for the 2 meals (Gina was there too, I wasn't starving) after tax was $26.05. I paid with 2 twenties. My change? 4 dollars. Wow, a built in $10 tip (enough to get another one of those burgers!). Oh well, let the waiter keep it. Maybe he'll go buy himself a calculator.

Still coming later: The story of Kelly's muffin.

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"I Hate You And Jerry"

08.16.2002

Those were the words I heard from Bob at work last night.

I had need of a Bob tool. Bob had, at one point, either a method or a script which would allow someone viewing a web page to click on a column heading (like "name" or "city") and it would sort everything by that column. Pretty spiffy. I had gotten a request for such and asked Bob if I could steal some code, to which he obliged.

Evidently I was supposed to stop there. I asked if a user clicked on the column haeding again, would it list results in the reverse order. In other words, the first click on "name" would list "Andy" through "Zoe", and clicking on it again would list "Zoe" through "Andy". He said he hadn't configured the code that way yet, but he could work on it. Well, I got a little carried away and did it for him. On top of that, my list was kind of busy, and in my case I thought it would be cool to filter what was shown, or in my example have a button that would say "Show Huntsville Only&" or "Show Madison Only", so I added that feature too. It was [mostly] working, and I thought Bob would get a kick out it. And you know what he said?

Well read the title.

It seems Jerry and I have a habit of taking a Bob tool, and then jazzing it up with nifty features and making it look pretty. That's why we're the bomb. Are people still the bomb in 2002? If so we are definitely the bomb. If not, we're the bomb replacement. We're the hated bomb replacement!

Teaser: Next week I'll be talking about looking into Kelly's drawers and seeing her muffin.

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Play Time

08.15.2002

After weeks of trying to find the time to play around on the computer a little, as opposed to working, I finally sat down the other night and played with Paint Shop Pro a little.

I've been using it for years, but I still find little tricks that I've never used before. My big discovery this time was how to use the warp tool to make a pasted image look like it's overlaying another image (like pasting a picture on a t-shirt, but keeping to the contours of the body). Dorky, but fun.

I've also been putting the finishing touches on the Southerland Station site. I've got to finish up the art class schedule and go over their admin tools with them, and then I think it'll be completely finished!

On a side note, mainly due to the toys section for Southerland Station, I came across this site whichwas having some fun in noticing how a Bob the Builder book was actually a primer for porn.

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Name of the Year Nominee

08.12.2002

Last night I was watching the True Hollywood Story on E! (That's the channel "E!", not that I was that excited to be watching it). They were featuring the story of Ginger Lynn Allen and her life from small town girl to porn star to Hollywood actress to porn star, except they were taking 2 hours to tell the story instead of the 12 words I used. Plus, they had lots of pixelated private parts, whereas I just had those 12 words. During the course of the show, they interviewed a screenwriter who was talking about how rough it is to make it in Hollywood. I started to chuckle after they showed her name on the screen: Penny Antine. Kind of like "penny ante". Reminds me of growing up as "Rusty Spears".

Thinking that no one would pick a name like that, I tried a little investigating to see if that was indeed her real name. It appears that besides being a scrennwriter, she also writes.... porn! On top of that, she's got an alias: Raven Touchstone. And I thought Penny Antine sounded fake.

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Domesticity

08.08.2002

For me, Wednesday was the 2nd half of Sunday. Well, at least it was the last 2 ro 3 hours. After I got home yesterday I finished up things that I started on Sunday.

Sunday: Grilled some steaks
Wednesday: Ate the last steak.
Sunday: Washed Clothes
Wednesday: Folded and put up clothes.
Sunday: Started watching Resident Evil.
Wednesday: Finished watching last half hour of Resident Evil.

Do I lead an exciting life or what?

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