Today we tested the Wordpress MU blogs that we’re implementing for the summer villages at work. Karen had way too much fun. She originally called her blog “Don’t Fear the Reaper,” but we had to include the word TEST in the title, which spawned the title that’s there now. We didn’t want anyone mistaking testing.villagepages.org for a real blog.
I recently discovered Thematic, which introduced me to the idea of a Theme Framework. Essentially, a framework is a premade theme that is designed to be upgraded. Now I’ve actually gotta come up with a real design.
I’m not sure if I’ll need a CSS Frameworks. I just discovered the concept, so I’m not really sure what it all entails. But I should probably just stick to one thing at a time.
I still haven’t uploaded my Fargo Zombie Pub Crawl pics. I really should’ve just swung by the store on my way home and picked up a card reader or something. But my horoscope told me to go home directly after work today, and the general consensus of the lunchroom today was that the horoscopes were unsettlingly accurate.
Today is Day One of ProBlogger’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. Our first task was to create an Elevator Pitch, which I have now done:
I’m a web designer and social media geek by day, gamer and karaoke all star by night. Lately, I’ve been trying to focus this blogs on more serious subjects, such as Web Design and Social Media, but for the most part, this blog is mostly just a place for me to talk about stuff that I like. This includes funny YouTube videos & web comics that I find, Dreamblogging, and commentary on the news & pop culture in the midwest, particularly as it relates to Fargo/Moorhead, Minneapolis/St. Paul, or Bemidji, MN.
It’s a little more all-encompassing than most bloggers would suggest, but whatever. I’m not a professional blogger or anything, despite the fact that I added that Google AdSense panel (I’ve made $3.00, woohoo!).
You can follow other bloggers doing the challenge on Twitter by searching #31DBBB.
I cleaned out my drafts folder during lunch today, and decided that they’d make a good post. Here are some of the things that I started writing about, but never finished:
Subject: Tinkering with Flash
Content: Empty
Subject: New Website
Content: Me & Andy Walker agree that we should make a new website. For one, it’d be much cooler if “we” had a website, instead of all yall just posting on my website.
Apparently, I couldn’t think of a second good reason to make a new website.
Subject: South Park Season Finale
Content: Will tonight be the season finale, or the series finale?
Subject: I want a new duck
Content: AndrewVieau.com is getting old & busted, and the more I think about it, the more I think I should focus on making this site a serious portfolio / resume type piece of crap.
But I still like dinking around with stupid crap on the web, and I like where this whole blog thing is going.
This was my attempt at rethinking that previous post.
Subject: Random Video Game Thought
Content: I have never played a Prince of Persia game from start to finish.
This would make a good twitter post.
Subject: This sucks
Content: So I’m bored out of my mind, and I google “bored in fargo.” I get this site, which says
The first line at the site is kinda funny, and extremely false.
Subject: Oh hell yeah
You can bet your sweet ass I’ll be singin this karaoke style:
Subject: Twitter
Content: Empty.
Subject: Macbook Wheel
Content: http://i42.tinypic.com/2na4syh.jpg
This post doesn’t make any sense to me. The Macbook Wheel was a hilarious Onion video, I don’t know why I’d take a screenshot like this, let alone link to it.
Subject: I’m now at the top of the Andrew Vieau list
Content: Early in 2009, I noticed that my website is the first hit on Google when you search Andrew Vieau. Last I remember, the top of the list was Andrew Vieau, Sr. Narrative.
I did an RSS workshop today, and it reminded me that I hadn’t checked Google Reader in forever. When I did, I found that Mark has been updating his blog quite a bit lately, which is awesome. The three of you that read this site should check it out.
For science!
Adam: typoed?
typo’ed
typo’d?
I don’t know which of those is correct
Me: they all are
equally correct
Adam: in that they’re all wrong?
Me: i aint no prescriptive linguist
but that is one way to look at it
I want to say that this article, which you should read, is a good response to this article, but to do so, I’d have to read that second article. I couldn’t make it all the way through, because any blogger who writes a paragraph too large for my screen is doing something wrong.
I’m not going to go through the second article, but I’m going to give Fry the benefit of the doubt and assume that he is not actively trying to bastardize the English language. It’s one thing to use a noun as a verb, knowing that it is incorrect. It’s another thing entirely to say that it is literally raining cats & dogs.
The Chocolate News, that is.
Live blog style.
Plus I am two tall boys deep. Here we go.
So far it sucks. They are referencing Public Enemy though. Still sucks.
There is a picture of Flava Flav next to Barack Obama. As Bristow put it, that is how you know a show won’t be on tv for long.
Still sucks.
This is f**king awful. Just awful.
5 minutes in. A Obama poetry bit. Its awful. Bristow says it is painful.
We are giving up. You are correct, Vune.
I am now going to gouge out my eyes. Good night.
Spiderman 3 really sucks.
I know that by now anyone who was ever planning on seeing this movie already has, and that nobody reads this blog, but considering how much I liked the first two movies, I just feel the need to get this in writing.
Spiderman 3 is awful. Just awful.
Edit: I made this post when the movie was about 90% over. But I didn’t realize that it just keeps getting worse. I just saw the scene where Peter asks for Harry’s help. It’s just… so bad. So bad!
Edit 2: Good lord. The bad guys are dead. For all intents & purposes, this movie is over. But it’s still getting worse.
