Month: September 2011

  • Deleting widgets…

    Besides deleting 21 static pages, I’ve deleted all “Inactive Widgets — Drag widgets here to remove them from the sidebar but keep their settings.”

    Those deleted widgets were images for Plinky, Twitter, AddThis and Google Translate and are now set-up under the “Customized Menus”. These appear as text widgets: “Follow me” and “Extras”. Both are located way on the bottom of the weblog (or the right footer bar).

  • Two favorite quotes…

    “Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
    Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
    Just walk beside me and be my friend.”

    ~Unknown, but often attributed to Albert Camus.

    “Vision without action is a daydream.
    Action without vision is a nightmare.”

    ~Japanese proverb.

  • 20110924-Tweaking Again

    Here is a run-down of my tweaks under “Appearance”:

    • Themes — “Twenty Eleven” because it’s 2011.
    • Widgets — “static” on the right footer, “variable” on the left footer.
    • Menus — seven basic menus. May have to redo/delete “contents”.
    • Color scheme — light background with dark fonts, not the other way around.
    • Link color — bloody red to contrast the dark background and header.
    • Layout — One-column, no sidebar.
    • Custom background — all black, all the time.
    • Custom header — black, white and gray to compliment black background.

    The “front/home page” has been streamlined further to show an EXTRA LARGE image; to correct for “proper” grammar and spelling; and to improve “dedication”. ‘Showcase Template” has been used for this page only. Three widgets are used here, too.

    The Links have been updated. I’m still not sure about the rest and will keep those set to “private” until I change my mind.

    I may delete more pages and media, too. Heck! I feel like deleting my blog forever!

  • Rusty French…

    Hah! I guessed right! My basic French is still good after over two decades of two years of French classes in high school. I missed one word (*more) after “cheating/peeking” with the Google Translate site.

    This is what my small mind translated from “2009 | L’âge D’or Une Vidéo De John Jr (Il N’y A Plus Rien À Faire)“: The Age Of Gold One Video Of John Jr (There Was Nothing *More To Do).

    The piano tune playing in the background was soothing. It sounds easy enough to play with a sheet music but difficult for someone like me who doesn’t play by ear.

    He could be a videographer. I guessed wrong that he was a professional photographer.

    Bravo. Tres bien, Monsieur.

  • Weekly Photo Challenge: Fall

    Fall
    Photo courtesy of http://ma.tt

    If only I was light as snow
    I’d fly down to alight upon your head
    And you won’t even know
    I was there to say:
    “Here I am! I love you!”

    Author’s note: Instead of taking my photo(s) to fulfill the “requirements” of the “Weekly Photo Challenge”, I will attempt to write a poetry based on Matt’s photo: fall. This poem took about 15 seconds to create.

  • Pick a number from 1 to 10

    One: I am alone. I’d like another number one to keep me company. One plus one equals two. Show two two’s side by side and you get the shape of a heart standing on a two-dimensional line of infinity, which is the symbol when two three’s are side by side.

    Reference: http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2011/09/22/pick-a-number-from-1-to-10/

    Step 1: Pick a number from 1 to 10.

    Step 2: Now think of something interesting in your life, or that you’d like to have in your life, related to that number. For example, if you picked 6, tell me about your favorite kind of beer (which come in packs of 6).

  • 20110923-Random Thoughts

    Here are some notes taken by memory or entered by “Memo”:

     

    At 20:00pm: Maw told me not to worry/get involved/forget about “pyramid schemes”. In my mind that includes charity, above and beyond investments.

    At 19:18pm: Paw requested his after dinner snack by simply pointing his finger towards the general direction and by making his usual under the breath monotone. As I reached out and passed the container, I said: “Oh, magic cookie bowl, please give Paw his good fortune!” You see we bought 3-large side orders ($3 each) and two-large entrees ($9 each) at our local Panda Express. They charged us 1 Panda Feast in error for $29 instead of $27 and made up the difference with a medium-sized mixed vegetables. They give us about ten fortune cookies before the initial goof.

    At 19:13pm: Maw said after dinner: “You cannot be too honest, only to God.” In my mind, that meant cheating, deceiving and lying. The story a few minutes ago was about Minda’s daughter. They were in Rome and the daughter decided to wear a “veil” over her head and beg for money in the streets to see if people would give her money. They did. She will be marked for humor and negatively in my books, and all for survival. Then my other thought occurred: [my] family too have been marked down for not getting jobs!

    At 19:12pm: Maw said during dinner: “The truth will come out.” This was during a discussion with all the different ways that data is communicated over over the airwaves via radio and televised./cable broadcasting.

    At 18:45pm: Educating illegal ALIENS over the orphans and the poo in the state of Texas is not a good idea by Governor Rick Perry. However, a thought yesterday occurred: If Texas wants “payback” for this “free handout” they could require these students to sign up for the armed forces; submit to an RFID tracking program and work for the government FOREVER!

    At 09:13am: After this mornings mass, we handed poor Ben a heavy bag of pears from our backyard. Then a few more minutes of conversation was said during the HOT early morning sun. Ben mentioned how his grandson got in trouble for punching and pushing back a bully at school. He told his grandson not to hit. The grandson replied: “Okay, Papa.” In a similar shared story: Maw told her son not to come home crying after being bulled at school long ago. She told him to step on his foot and push him back. The boy came back excited and reported to his Maw the good news of stopping the bully.

  • 20110923-Noticing Numbers

    Double digit numbers 09-23-11
    Two Widgets

    Well, I just noticed more double digit numbers today. This one is from a few minutes ago per two sidebar widgets.

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  • Old dedication…

    Here is my old dedication based on an old poem titled “Warrior Love“:

    “And to all warriors who have lost and loved, may you find your peace of mind within your hearts.”

    In recent news, Obama said yesterday:

    “I’m a warrior for the middle class.”

    For those who have been following my blog since the beginning, Obama’s statement means he serves the “middle ground”, a neutral party, if you will, and he may be neither black and white (as his heritage of a “grey-colored” hybrid of all sorts) or both (like a checkerboard). And just like moi, you will see a distinct symbol in his signature. But my signature is not closed and dotted like the letter “I” but opened as in the all-seeing “one-eye”.

  • Deleting pages…

    Since the beginning of my blogging experience, I wanted static pages in a weblog. So I created many pages, which were redundant. Tonight, I will delete 14 static pages because they were combined “logically” in other pages; can be seen as widgets in the sidebar menu or as links.

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  • 20110922-More Spooks

    At around 7:00pm, I saw an SJPD patrol car parked facing southbound on MY long stretch of road. It was behind the yellow fire hydrant and across the first cul-de-sac to “its” left. It left the scene around 7:20pm, when I started vacuuming the parakeet area. Maw had closed the front door and blinds to the front window.

    A few minute ago, I read an article about a new cellphone tracker called “Stingray”. Of course, I was indoors and had my cellphone turned on to blog about tonight’s stupid debate by a bunch of sell-outs.

    The presence of a parked law enforcement vehicle was VERY rare at this time. I wonder what they are up to this time.

  • Stupid debate…

    The GOP debate is set-up to give that damn android more talk time! To the fat bastard, that guy and the rest of you morons are pissing me off! I want to hear the rest speak. To Google and pals, you are sell-outs, too! I know none of these politicians will keep their words because of the thugs.

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