Comments | boywhocantsayno: Animal hybrids? and other weird observances.

boywhocantsayno

Animal hybrids? and other weird observances.

Nov 05, 2006 16:38

There's either a duck trapped inside the tree in front of my apartment building, or there's a squirrel out there with a duck's larynx (since the quacking stopped once the squirrel noticed me ( Read more... )

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elizard100 November 5 2006, 22:00:21 UTC

Hee hee. A Squick! I thought we only saw those when someone talked about something unpleasant!!

boywhocantsayno November 6 2006, 09:29:56 UTC

LOL! I would have called it a "squuck", myself. Avoids confusion that way. ;)

elizard100 November 6 2006, 16:03:48 UTC

Squuck sounds naughty. i.e. I squucked that guy over there last week!

eastman23 November 6 2006, 00:35:15 UTC

What I don't really get about those voting machines is how the people aren't rioting in the streets about the use of those damn things. I have seen many stories and reports about those machines being insecure and incredibly easy to hack.

Yet people don't care. It's kinda baffling, but in another way, it's not.

hoskie November 6 2006, 06:01:41 UTC

I'm scared to death of those things.

Sometimes I think I might secretly be the real life version of Jason Fox.

boywhocantsayno November 6 2006, 07:34:51 UTC

Ah, I love Foxtrot. Jason is one of my heroes.

boywhocantsayno November 6 2006, 09:28:11 UTC

I don't get it either. The Americans are so gung ho about spreading democracy, and yet theirs is barely functioning.

Whenever someone points out that our paper-and-pencil method works perfectly well, nobody ever seems to have a comeback. I wonder what the justification is for using the machines. Are there that many more people per district in the US, that counting paper ballots would take that much longer?

And even if, for some reason, they don't want to go back to paper and pencil, there's always optical readers. I don't know how you guys do it, but in Toronto's municipal elections, we've been using optical readers for a few years, and they seem perfectly fine to me. I've never heard of a single problem with them.

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indydark November 6 2006, 01:13:20 UTC

I just LOVE Heather Small's "Proud"...I think I played the Season 1 soundtrack of QAF a million times, just to hear that song. I never get tired of it, and agree with the Gloria Gayner analogy.

boywhocantsayno November 6 2006, 09:25:16 UTC

I just LOVE Heather Small's "Proud"...I think I played the Season 1 soundtrack of QAF a million times, just to hear that song.

The S5 version was pretty good, too - they remixed it, and it has a richer sound, at least to my ear. (It was used in the finale, for the scene of everyone dancing at Babylon.)

indydark November 6 2006, 11:16:55 UTC

It's been so long that I've forgotten S5. I gotta find the DVD's and watch it again.

hoskie November 6 2006, 06:02:36 UTC

Don't try to make the American voters seem logical.

boywhocantsayno November 6 2006, 07:36:12 UTC

Sorry, my bad.

Cthulhu for President - when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils. :P

hoskie November 6 2006, 18:24:06 UTC

That's more like it! :D

cuteteenboy November 6 2006, 06:32:54 UTC

photo as background image == bad.

boywhocantsayno November 6 2006, 07:45:13 UTC

Yes, I understand that one would normally avoid that - different screen resolutions, etc. will screw it up. But we're partially being marked on showing as many different uses of tags and styles as we can (and as many as make sense, obviously).

I mean, normally I wouldn't be using frames, either, but they're part of the cirriculum, so I'm using them.

Though I'm having a weird problem where my image isn't showing up when I'm returning my search results and building the new page in Javascript. There's nothing wrong with the Javascript code itself - I pulled it out and put it into its own document, and the image shows up behind the table that I'm building. Maybe I ought to make my results page an entirely separate page rather than building it within my Search page. Though technically, we haven't learned how to code redirects yet, and I'm not sure how I would pass information from the search page to the results page if they were two separate documents.

cuteteenboy November 6 2006, 14:03:32 UTC

Pass info from one page to another? Send variables from the form. Easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy.

And have you checked that you're not blocking your background image by giving the table in front of it a background color? It's like painting over wallpaper.

That happened to me, sometimes. You know, when I was still using tables and frames for layout, like a million years ago. Are they not teaching you how to separate content from presentation with CSS style sheets?

-Darian

cuteteenboy November 6 2006, 14:06:05 UTC

It occurs to me that if you're mixing old-style html tags with CSS styling, you might also not realize that depending on browser you're using and in what order you're specifying the background elements of color and image, that you may be setting the color somewhere that's superceding your background image entirely. I would definitely pay some attention to what css is present in your results page that's missing in your search page, because you're right that something is actively hiding that background image.

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