TwoTallSocks

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  YUI PhotoViewer – A LightBox application made with Yahoo User Interface YUI
  
  
  Slick lightbox thing
  
  
  (tags: WebDesign tools)
  
  

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  World of Warcraft Reputation Calculator
  
  
  Calculate how many quests you need to complete to get exalted with each faction. Kind of depressing to look at.
  
  
  (tags: WoW worldofwarcraft)
  
  

Wow, I haven’t posted to this site for almost 2 years. Crazy. Maybe I will switch it to Wordpress and post to it again. In the mean time, I have been playing World of Warcraft for the past two years, and just created a site cataloging all the funny stuff that people make in/about the game. So check it out if anyone happens to stumble upon this site. Like say, the Googlebot.
65 Million Boars

Also, the site I made before that one,

Mordots

Ryan and I continued our scientific exploration this evening when he noticed that the Y key on his 12” Powerbook looked more “used” than the other keys. The paint wasn’t fading or anything, because it’s a Powerbook and they are indestructible, but it lacked a certain shine that the other keys had. Or maybe it was shiny and the others weren’t. I don’t remember.

Ryan thought that the cause could be that his finger drags more on the Y key than the others. This is because he uses the Powerbook in his bed, laying on his back with the Powerbook on his stomach. So because of the strange angle and the fact that the Y key is farther away than say, the T key, a dragging action takes place as you pull your finger back from pressing the key.

I verified this by finally copying his position after a few minutes of describing how he was laying. But I couldn’t even see the screen because my hands were in the way, at which point I realized he probably just doesn’t know how to use his Powerbook right, and that all of our experiments and usage of the scientific method was for nothing. Thanks a lot asshole. We could have used those 45 minutes to solve some other important scientific issue like how they make springs springy, but other types of metal “not springy”.

I was just discussing with my friend Ryan what the reasons are in the way we order two people’s names. For instance, Duke and Gloria. Bob and Stella. Ron and Claudia. These sound natural. But Gloria and Duke sounds wrong. Why?

After much discussion, we have come up with this…

If the two names are of different sexes, the male name always comes first. Yeah that’s right, we have the penises, get over it.

If the two names are of the same sex, the “soft” name comes first, and the “hard” name comes second. For instance Susan has no hard sounds. But Patricia has a hard P and T sound, so it comes second.

If both names have hard sounds, the name with fewer syllables comes first. For instance, Pam and Patricia.

And that’s about as far as we got. We agreed on all of the scenarios we came up with… Was it a fluke, or is there really a set of sub-conscious rules for this type of thing?

I work at a photo printing store now, which doesn’t mix very well with my hands, because they are oily pretty much all the time. It’s not that I don’t wash them or anything, I’m just a naturally oily-handed person, you see, and it’s a condition that we have to live with.But back to the point, the problem is that when I handle the photos to put them in a little bag or something, I can easily get finger prints and smudges on them. We have special cotton gloves, but they are all too small because all of the other people that work here are small-handed women.That is my story about the word Smudge.

After starting a new job where I was hired to program an online photo uploading and e-commerce site, I figured it was time to learn to program in PHP. So I got a book and read it for a couple of weeks and then pieced the site together. I’m sure I made hundreds of mistakes, but I’m still not good enough to realize it yet.

But anyway, today I will tell you about a different site, that is much more simple, but was still a fun programming project for a beginner like me.

It’s called PayPal Fee Calculator and it can be used to tell you how much to charge someone thru PayPal to make sure that you get a certain amount.

For instance say you want to get $100 from someone. If you just charge them $100, you will actually only end up with $96.50 because PayPal takes out their fees first.

But, if you enter $100 into my site, it will tell you how much to charge in order to be left with $100 after PayPal’s fees are taken, which happens to be $103.29 in this case.

You can also ask how much will be taken out of a $100 transaction, which is where I got the $96.50 amount earlier.

Like I said it’s really simple and took less than a day to put together, but it was fun for a beginner programmer like me.

So bookmark it and use it the next time you need to send a PayPal money request to someone.

My desk has a pretty huge pile of wires behind it, as do most computer geeks. You’ve got powercords to almost every device, monitor cables, mouse/keyboard cables, USB wires, USB hubs, external hard drives, the list goes on and on.

Pretty soon most of that stuff will be wireless though. I already have a wireless mouse, though it still requires a cradle to be plugged into the computer with a wire. Then you have the wireless keyboards, and now even wireless battery recharging.

I don’t know what I’m going to do with all the room behind my desk once everything is wireless though. Maybe I can rent it out as storage space or something.

Lost is one of my favorite TV shows in a long time. It’s like a movie, only it comes on every week!

At least it did… The show has been in re-runs for several weeks, which has all but killed the momentum of the show for me. Wednesday night used to be “Lost Night” that my wife and I looked forward to, but because the show has been in re-runs so long, we have already gotten out of the habit of watching the show. Why do networks do this? I’m going to forget the first half of the show by the time they start playing new episodes again, and stop caring about the characters and monsters in the jungle. The only thing left for them to do to completely kill the show is to move it to another night and time slot, which seems like something stupid enough for them to do unfortunately.

Bring new episodes back on before we all lose interest and stop watching the show entirely! At least at the end of a season it’ll wrap up the show to tide you over until the next season starts, but this taking a month-long break in the middle of the season is just silly.

Here is a great cartoon about procrastination, which I suffer from. In fact I’m posting this link on this blog instead of working. Dammit.