We were part of history today. We went as a family to support our people here in Los Angeles. Today there was a march and a boycott in every hispanic state in the US. Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Miami unified in a MASSIVE show of unity. A reported 400,000 people in LA alone, although it seemed more than that from there.
Last week I got to do many hacks to WordPress. Wrote a plugin for a client that allows you to have custom content on the sidebar per post. Got rid of most of my comment spam, hacked my RSS feed to show me unsubscribed comments and reluctantly password protected a WordPress site. In other words, I’ve been busy. I had hoped to redesign for today’s CSS Reboot but I haven’t been able to even start on the new design yet.So for those of you waiting, you are just going to wait a little longer because I want to do something special here. I don’t want to just modify the most excellent Kubrick theme, I want to start from scratch and rethink everything.
I just got back from a short trip to the Sequoia National Forrest in central California. Sequoia trees are the largest trees in volume in the world. We stayed in a nice cottage at the Sequoia Village Inn, the last inn before the south park entrance. During our stay we went to the largest tree on earth, the General Sherman (pictured above). And we also did an eight mile hike with two three year olds, one six year old, a seven month pregnant woman and another one on a juice fast. All this while climbing up through very small death defying trails. But it was all fun and we got back home safely.
I’m not saying I got the skills to stand behind the Mac Genius Bar, although to some I do, but I have let my Mac magazines expire. In fact, I have let all magazines expire except Wired. So when I do get my one and only subscription in the mail, the extra wide Wired, it’s a very special moment because I know I will spend my next month carefully reading and dissecting every bit of info in that issue. But this morning when I put my new Wired on top of last month’s I realized the new issue is skinnier. The old size said to me, hey I am wider cause I got so much interesting stuff I don’t fit on a regular size page. What’s next, perfume ad inserts and a celebrity gossip section? Let Wired know what you think of it’s new size.
Link: Subscribe to Wired
Got this in my inbox today:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a warning about a new virulent strain of Sexually Transmitted Disease. The disease is contracted through dangerous and high-risk behavior. The disease is called Gonorrhea Lectim. Many victims contracted it in 2004, after having been screwed for the past four years. Cognitive characteristics of individuals infected include: anti-social personality disorders, delusions of grandeur with messianic overtones, extreme cognitive dissonance, inability to incorporate new information, pronounced xenophobia and paranoia, inability to accept responsibility for own actions, cowardice masked by misplaced bravado, uncontrolled facial smirking, ignorance of geography and history, tendencies towards evangelical theocracy, and categorical all-or-nothing behavior.
Epidemiologists are amazed at how this destructive disease originated only a few years ago from a bush found in Texas
Found “Four Things” via Drew and a few other blogs around the web, but since no one has tagged me yet I decided to start a new round :-)
Here are my four answers to these questions. Then I’m passing the batton.
Four jobs I’ve had in my life:
Four movies I can watch over and over:
Four places I have lived:
Four TV shows I love to watch:
Four places I have been on vacation:
Four websites I visit daily:
this was really hard to narrow down
Four of my favorite foods:
this was even harder to narrow down
Four places I would rather be right now:
Four bloggers I am tagging
I’m not kidding, it is made of cheese!
Check out the Google Moon Map Project, a tribute to the Apollo landings.
Link: moon.google.com
Join the Organic Rebellion!
Link: storewars.org
I’ve got the skills to pay the bills! That’s right. This summer I learned to solve the cube from my friend Chad. It took me about a week to solve it on my own the first time. I’m not a speed cuber but I can finish it in about three minutes. Not bat considering it’s only been about six months although I will definitely learn to speed cube this year. As it turns out, Souther California has the highest concentration of blind fold speed cubing. Yes, I said blindfold speed cubing.
On a relating story, tomorrow night at 8pm the NBC show E-Ring, feat. Benjamin Bratt, will be featuring my hands finishing the cube. My friend Scott Reynolds is a writer for the show and tomorrow his first episode airs. One of the characters in the show will be working a cube in the pentagon and will eventually finish it at the climax of the story. My job was to progress the cube through takes and my hands will be featured at the end finishing it and slamming it down on the table. That is of course if the whole scene doesn’t get cut off from the show. So unless this happens, my hands will debut tomorrow finishing the Rucik’s Cube. George Costanza would be proud.
this is benjamin bratt. a surprisingly nice guy.
left is the scene where the cubing happens. on the right and bellow is my friend scott.
UPDATE: Here are the pics of us watching it live at home. Our friends Scott & Amy, David & Carrie and Jason joined us for the debut of Scott’s writing and my hands. ha ha!
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