Sunday, November 30, 2003

Be an Artist?
Yes, be an artist. This is your chance to prove you've got what it takes. Be patient. This takes a little download time, but it's worth it. CLICK HERE! This link opens in a separate window.

If you liked that, then do a search on "The Real Shit;" this entry will lead you to a lot more of the same.
posted @ 03:27 PM CST [link]

Saturday, November 29, 2003

Move On
We're going to set the turkey aside this evening and go out for Japanese. I think by tomorrow, or by Monday at the latest, we can say goodbye to turkey until Christmas. We still have, at the minimum, turkey soup and turkey sludge on toast to consume. I am looking forward to this evening because, as you know, turkey makes you sleepy, and, as active as the Japanese are, I have to believe that raw fish is an "upper." I could use a change of pace. Anyway, I'm off. Oh, Saturday is skin rotation day, so don't miss the new "This Week's Skin."
posted @ 05:23 PM CST [link]

Wednesday, November 26, 2003

Pilgrim's Progress
Don't miss the special T'day "This Week's Fantasy." Link opens in a new window. And, don't "boin" the "boid."
posted @ 09:09 PM CST [link]

Tuesday, November 25, 2003

Spooky Bug
A "bug" is something that keeps your magnum opus (program, script, web page) from working the way you expected it to work. Some bugs are spookier and more difficult to find than others. The spookiest ones invariably crop up just before the arrival of a deadline. In fact, I think this is some kind of law. Maybe one of the "Murphy's" laws. Click more.. below.
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Sunday, November 23, 2003

Problem Turkeys
If you're an adventurer, and you sometimes stuff your bird, and sometimes not, or like me, you let it all hang out and scrape the snow off your Weber just to get that smokey charcoal flavor, then sooner or later your "instant read" meat thermometer is going to let you down. Let's face it, the more variables you put into your technique, the less you can count on cooking time, and the more dependent you become on a gadget you probably spent $5 to $10 for years ago and store in your kitchen junk drawer getting knocked around day after day. Click more.. below.
posted by @ 10:41 PM CST [more..]

Saturday, November 22, 2003

Greek Hangover
I posted the new "This Week's Skin." It's got to be 5:00 pm somewhere. I'll have a "hair of the dog."
posted @ 04:09 PM CST [link]

Friday, November 21, 2003

Greeks Bearing Food
My Big Fat Greek Wedding is, as you know, a movie about a wedding. Almost all of the characters are Greek, and almost all these Greeks do is eat. If they're not eating, they're cooking. The movie takes place in Chicago's Greektown, where the bride's family owns a restaurant. Click more.. below.
posted by @ 07:15 PM CST [more..]

Thursday, November 20, 2003

Birthday Fantasy
I just uploaded a new "This Week's Fantasy." Don't miss it! Tell your friends.

Now, who can't find the Blogarama review? CLICK HERE! This link opens in a new window.
posted @ 02:24 AM CST [link]

Tuesday, November 18, 2003

Privilege?
Gay couples continue to pursue matrimony. Why? The Associated Press reports, "Massachusetts' highest court ruled 4-3 Tuesday that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gave lawmakers 180 days to come up with a solution that would allow gay couples to wed." Look, isn't there enough pain in the world without inviting the "State," which does nothing right, into your relationship as a third partner? If you don't know what that means, just ask some straight friend who's been divorced. Hey gay people, you don't have to get married; you can't -oops - get pregnant! Right? Such a deal. Remember, gay people, that you are called "gay" because you get to go out with the girls/guys and still get laid. Whose grass is greener than that? Wake up and smell the coffee. Click more.. below.
posted by @ 08:08 PM CST [more..]

Sunday, November 16, 2003

Tree Huggers!
Planet saving tree huggers, may I have your attention please! Yes, Boston Harbor should be clean, and it's a bad idea to clearcut South America, but guys, believe me, you haven't even started to worry yet. How about something really important, like totally irreversible damage on a planet-wide scale? Look, I want to have a nice place to live too, but let's allocate our "Hell Raising" resources realistically. You can always regrow trees, stop dumping in a body of water, and even reseed India with tigers from the zoo if you really want to; hell, you can even make more oil, given geologic time frames, but what happens if you lose track of what's really "REAL." Now, we're talking irreversible damage. Click more.. below.
posted by @ 05:06 PM CST [more..]

Wednesday, November 12, 2003

Blogger Info
Cliff's Notes is powered by Greymatter, which means that I key or paste some stuff into an input form, and "Presto," Noah Gray's Perl code does the rest. Very cool. And, Greymatter is extremely flexible and extremely free. There are absolutely no strings attached. The downside to Greymatter's flexibility is that right out of the box (download) it looks terrible, and it takes quite a bit of work to get your blog looking the way you'd like it to look. There is however, a "White Knight" called a template that can save you a lot of time. Click more.. below.
posted by @ 04:53 PM CST [more..]

Tuesday, November 11, 2003

Pyramids and Nazis
I pay an extra chunk of change every month to the cable TV company for premium channels. One of those "premium" channels is the History Channel. I don't know how premium cable TV channels get away with running commercials at all, but the History Channel seems to run more commercials than anyone else. And, History Channel advertisers seem to only have a single commercial which they repeat shamelessly. I guess they learned that technique from watching North Korean brainwashing experts on, you guessed it, the History Channel. And, for the advertiser, it has to be hugely cost effective. If History Channel executives don't mind, what the hell? Click more.. below.
posted by @ 11:59 PM CST [more..]

Saturday, November 8, 2003

Phenomenon
Dust off your cameras kiddies and check out the lunar eclipse this evening. Temperatures in the mid-30s, and cocktail hour timing promise to make this once a year phenomenon worth seeing. Several volcanic eruptions around the world in the last few months will make this eclipse more colorful than usual (dust in the atmosphere). Click more.. below for details taken from the Chicago Tribune.
posted by @ 05:03 PM CST [more..]

Wednesday, November 5, 2003

Nose Tweaking
If you enjoy irritating your non-smoking friends as much as they enjoy irritating you, then you must have this product. What is it? If you're ready for this, it's a car cigarette lighter set up to work off your PC's 12 V power supply. Excellent! The kit includes a 5 1/4 inch bay faceplate with a hole smack in the middle for the lighter. Fight back for only $15 U.S., CLICK HERE!

Don't miss the smoking section in "This Week's Fantasy." Link opens in a new window.
posted @ 03:52 PM CST [link]

Tuesday, November 4, 2003

Dead Man Working
For some reason, Forbes tracks the income of dead celebrities and posts an annual feature listing the top earners along with pictures and entertainingly written "obituaries" which include the annual take and who, if anyone, survives the dead celeb. They have this feature arranged in the form of a gruesome little slide show. Don't get me wrong; it's nice to see that someone like Jerry Garcia, who was probably only home about three days a year, still has a few million dollars a year coming in for his wife and kiddies. Especially since Jerry wasn't the type of guy to get himself mixed up in a lot of unnecessary paperwork and contractual complications. Click more.. below.
posted by @ 09:41 PM CST [more..]

Monday, November 3, 2003

Warrior Techs
Representatives of the U.S. Army Electronic Proving Ground, headquartered at Fort Huachuca in southeastern Arizona, visited Cliff's Notes today while researching in an official capacity and were understandably put off by the "pair of butt cheeks staring [one] in the face" (September's calendar picture) and queried via comments, "Where are the men in this website???" And further, " Do you have anything to draw [our] female interests???" Click more.. below.
posted by @ 11:54 PM CST [more..]

Saturday, November 1, 2003

Showreel?
What are you scamps trying to do with the showreel folder? If you look at the bottom of the "Last Actionscript Hero" entry, you will find a link to download a zipped copy of the entire exercise.

Remember, Saturday is "This Week's Skin" rotation day. Don't miss it.
posted @ 04:09 PM CST [link]

October's Ten
The SUPER optimized time management for dummies reading list entitled, "What Did Everyone Else Read?"

With your time management problems in mind, I have optimized to the max by listing October's most "viewed" first and then reprinting September's and August's top ten along with (for the first time) my comments. Shit Fire! Yeah, what a guy. Click more.. below for all this, and links too!
posted by @ 03:13 PM CST [more..]