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Domo-kun keeki
I asked the husband what cake he wanted for his birthday, and we went through the usual “Ummm, I dunno… uhhh”. (It’s kind of like trying to get him to choose baby names, or make any decisions that require creative thought actually. He says that’s my forté.) He’s a geek, so we thought about doing a robot, ipad, motherboard, and other various typical geek things. He had bought me some Ninjabread men cutters because he wanted them at the party, and I said if he wasn’t going to choose something then I’d make a harpooned whale with ninjas doing scientific research on it.
He must’ve had an epiphany or something, and said “Ooh! I know what we could have – you know that furry monster thing on the motivational poster about God killing kittens whenever someone masturbates?” – ok, maybe not an epiphany but he decided that’s what he wanted (because of the Internet meme association, not because of the fate of kittens). We’re talking about Domo-kun (we weren’t geeky enough and had to Google for that).
The Domo cake
He also wanted a red velvet cake and ended up baking the cake himself (yay) and I decorated. Things worked out really well because the cross section of the cake looked as if we had given Domo an autopsy.
Mmmm meaty
And the cake was delicious. I hadn’t tried red velvet before, only heard about it, usually in the form of cupcakes. We tried the Waldorf Astoria Red Velvet recipe – it’s a perfect density for decorating and the bonus is that it tastes good and isn’t dry (and pretty easy to make).
Will definitely make red velvet cake again – just got to remember to get lots of red food colouring each time!
Take that biatch
Last night I dreamt about having a meeting with the stupid Ditzy Dumb Ass of a manager we have at work.
It was all about our web presence and how crap things were. I was shaming her out by telling everyone all the stupid things she’s done that go against W3C guidelines. She went all red and flustered like she does, trying to make excuses.
I know in real life doing something like that wouldn’t make any difference, but it was a great dream.
What a geek I am.
Because I’m a Geek
While doing a bit of reading about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), I came across a page from 1998 about Text Decoration with CSS.
It talks about blinking text which I remember using alongside the good old “Site under construction” animated gif when I was an Internet noob.
The page states:
Therefore, only CSS1-aware versions of Netscape Navigator are going to see the following effect:
H4 {text-decoration: blink;}This might be a blinkin’ H4
Lovely, isn’t it?
NO! It is not lovely, and I justify using capitalisation, strong and emphasis styling on that statement!
Luckily for us there are now web guidelines that discourage this sort of rubbish and we don’t really see these things too often today.
Even Lou Montulli the creator of the original <blink> tag (which has since been deprecated and replaced by the above text-decoration) admits that it is The worst thing I’ve ever done for the Internet.
It was just funny seeing how someone thought that using blinking text was lovely
.
And who uses Netscape anyway…?
See also my Foolery Four #11 comic. I created this even before seeing the note on the W3c User Agent Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 that states in Guideline 4 flashing content may trigger seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy
. I thought I was being exteme, but I guess not!
The Foolery Four #12
Albino African Nerd may have had some competition if Hippy Ninja's laser cutter actually worked as expected.
kB Comparison Chart
I’ve had numerous debates on the 1000 versus 1024 bytes to a kilobyte, and noone seems to win in the end. Even the interwebs can’t give us a proper answer.
So, I am willing to settle for the following. (This kilobyte comparison chart is hung on the hubby’s wall at work, printed from a website that I can’t seem to find xkcd.com – A Webcomic – Kilobyte.)
Shake some Kelly-Bootle
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