April 5th, 2006:

things to do

Things I must do before Saturday Night:

* Finalize the details for “the party”:http://revjim.livejournal.com/1020509.html this Saturday. (There “Ain’t No Party Like A “Mexican Party”:http://revjim.livejournal.com/1020509.html”)
* Contact interested persons with details for the party this Saturday.
* Finish designing the last few pages of “the book”:http://revjim.net/books/20054q-finding-place/ and send it to the Publisher.
* Finish my Taxes.
* Do the year’s first lawn mowing.
* Pick up the house.

Things I hope to do before the weekend is over:

* Announce new photography projects (two of them!).
* Edit at least one more shoot from January (yes, I’m *THAT* far behind).
* Relax.
* Get Drunk.
* Enjoy Life.
* Look at nude women.

some advice about Katie for CBS

Apr 5th, 2006

by Jim Reverend.

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Katie Couric has moved from the Today show to the CBS Evening News. The big story, of course, is how CBS can use her to increase its ratings for the evening news market.

Well, CBS, here’s some free advice for you: put a bag over her head so we don’t have to see the gaping hole in her face. As “fantastic as her legs may be”:http://www.tunc.biz/couric_fan.htm, as far as I’m concerned, she may as well be an amputee with a face like that. Now I don’t know anything about the news anchoring business and she may very well be fantastic at it, but if you’re buying her to give people something to look at, “as it has been suggested”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5324687, then that face has got to go.

We bash everything equally around here, folks.

CSS Naked Day: keep your clothes on

Apr 5th, 2006

by Jim Reverend.

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If you know me, you know I’m a guy who enjoys nakedness, but I think “CSS Naked Day”:http://naked.dustindiaz.com/ is a step in the wrong direction. We all know that CSS makes life much easier than in days of yore when it comes to changing the outfits our websites wear whenever it tickles our fancy. However, unlike certain specimens of the human species, a website doesn’t look all that hot in its birthday suit with all of that white, black, blue, and Serif font hanging out every where. If it did, we wouldn’t bother dressing it up in the first place.

If you really wanted to show off the virtues of CSS and XHTML compliancy you’d provide some method to allow *others* to play dress-up with *your* website. Of course, because even the most compliant websites are not composed of the same parts and pieces (though they use the same building blocks), the best fitting piece of CSS clothing that would be guaranteed to fit any compliant website would look something like a Sarong: beautiful in its own right, but differing almost solely in pattern, color and positioning from outfit to outfit. Such similarity in these variants won’t really make for a very compelling argument.

So lets just keep our sites clothed for today. If you insist on showing off some of that milky white skin, I suggest you “flash your visitors”:http://revjim.net/?nostyle=1 when they ask for it and then quickly put your clothes back on.