Well, after weeks of interviews and campus visits and anxiously awaiting job offers (all of which came in an overwhelming rush), Leslie has accepted a position at UNLV. Basically, we move in just over a month.
Of course, this means I have to bust my hump and line up a job for myself too. So, all those updates you were expecting to the site (HA!) are likely not gonna happen. Stay tuned for sanity checks as we pack ourselves up for a haul across the plains and desert.
Alright, I messed around with the color scheme of the page (at least the main page for now). I also worked on a new style sheet so hopefully the text doesn’t go wacky on pages. If you hate the new look, let me know. If you hate the logo, let me know. If you hate that I haven’t got all the pages up and/or converted; well, I already know that so you don’t have to let me know. Also, went back to a DHTML type menu. The other one was causing all kinds of oddball errors depending on your browser and version.
A couple of treats for you.
This is a test called What Country of the World are You? Take it if you are really bored.
And THIS particular nugget is a highly irritating and addictive game that was linked to me a few days ago. I loathe ever seeing the page and figured I’d share it with all of you. Enjoy it and don’t blame me if it drives you crazy too.
If you haven’t noticed, our pal Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf has become quite the Internet celebrity. Here is one site pertaining to him (beware that it is INCREDIBLY slow loading).
I have squandered a lot of time trying to figure out how to make simple explanatory pages for people on how to use their computers and the net. So, I went looking and I found some people who can do it a whole lot better than I can.
If you know people who need help learning the basics of the internet, point them to BBC’s Webwise page. There’s also a really basic tutorial on computers too. They’ll thank you for it.
With Leslie being gone over the past couple of weekends on interviews I have been tinkering about with some ideas for pages and content. Hopefully you’ll see a bit of that in the upcoming weeks.
I don’t know how much of the war you all are watching…hopefully not enough that it affects your normal lives. I am a bit of a news junkie myself so I know the symptoms. In any case, if you have been catching any of the lovely speeches given by the ultimate spin doctor, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, the Iraqi Information Minister, you will have noticed something verging on the comical. I mean, this guy should get his own late night talk show when this is over. Al-Jazeera could host it, except that he’s made them mad too. Of all the dire and serious events going on, for this guy to go ranting about anything and expect to be believed in ridiculous.
Which is why the following makes me chuckle:
Also, I managed to get someone at Central Command to send me the world map wallpaper you may see plastered all over the plasma screens at the Doha, Qatar media center. You can download it from here.
So, we just got back from the conference/job hunting in St. Louis and Indianapolis and I am going through my email and I get this image (well, an excerpt of it), which is hilarious when you are aware of one of Jason’s stories of things that inmates do to humor themselves. He probably won’t tell you – and I certainly won’t – so consider it an inside joke of sorts.
Via a link from those wacky kids at Kuro5hin, a dialect survey being conducted by a professor at Harvard.
Thought this was a slightly ironic take on the whole thing. I am going to try to talk about some lighter subjects from now on.
Visited a little page called Idleworm again today. I remember surfing that way awhile back. Amongst other new things is a little thing he has called Gulf War 2. Whether or not you agree with what he has to say, you’ve got to admit he’s spent some time working on this.
Sometimes I really can’t help myself but some things crack me up. This is one of them.
