Flynn's Paws: My Thoughts, My Gripes

Tag: prose

A literal technique ‘opposite’ to verse (e.g. poetry).

  • 20091001-Old Theme

    Well, I’m trying a new theme for free here at WordPress.com:

    PressRow by Chris Pearson

    Feel like a journalist with this two-column theme with customizable header.

    Tags: custom-header, two-columns, fixed-width, rtl-language-support, right-sidebar, widgets, sticky-post, white, light

    Personal PROs:

    • Time/date stamp under single view.
    • A top navigation bar (without drop-down menu feature).
    • BIG custom header featuring a sylph.
    • Two-columns with width of 760px to fit screen resolution of 800 by 600 pixels.
    • Navigation for older (or previous) and newer (or next) post entries.
    • `Web-safe` colors of light gray and white.
    • Former feel taken from my edited CSS stylesheet done via the `Dusk` theme.

    Personal CONs:

    • Time/date stamp not viewable under archive mode.
    • Annoying date stamp ABOVE post entry title. Yuch.

  • 20090930-Old Theme

    I got sick of looking at the three-column theme of Sandbox 1.6.1: It was too busy! It had everything except the full view of post entries in archives mode. So (ONCE AGAIN) I reverted to a two-column theme for free here at WordPress.com: Dusk by Becca Wei.

    The appearance of this particular theme is cleaner and NARROW with a width of 760px, which I tested to fit well (by default) for screen resolutions of 800 by 600 pixels. The colors are `web-safe` in gray shades with font colors of cool blue.

    My previous blog entry mentioned the feel of this weblog as a holy Mosque, all white-washed and such.

    With the today’s new `Image Widget` by the HAPPY ENGINEERS, I’ve expanded the sidebar to include eight widgets:

    • Text widget – A greeting, a tagline, an image and words of encouragement.
    • RSS Link for posts and comments.
    • Text widget – A list of nine parent pages.
    • A search form.
    • Image widget – Recommended reading.
    • Flickr widget – Orgone and orgonite.
    • Image widget – PayPal button for donations.
    • Gravatar widget – Image and four useful links.

    I would have like to add more widgets but it will make scrolling up and down to much work for the lazy readers!

    Oh, look! I see a nice golden heart pendant made of orgone as a recent photo of the Flickr widget labeled `Orgone and orgonite`. I wished I had some money to buy this nice piece and a NANO SHIELD for my handbag, too!

  • 20090929-Collections Calling

    Got phone calls from collections:

    • 469-201-4312 at 05:53pm on Monday, 09-28-2009.
    • Unknown ID at 13:08pm on Monday, 09-28-2009.
    • Block ID at 12:37 pm on Monday, 09-28-2009 (per VM from Bankster of America).

  • 20090929-Old Theme

    Well, I’m trying another free theme here at WordPress.com:

    Sandbox 1.6.1 by Andy Skelton & Scott Allan Wallick

    Rich with powerful and dynamic semantic class selectors, Sandbox is a canvas for CSS artists

    Options: Widgets | Extras | Edit CSS

    Tags: white, microformats, fixed-width, flexible-width, one-column, two-columns, three-columns, four-columns, left-sidebar, right-sidebar

    Personal PROs:

    • Time/date stamps underneath post entry titles.
    • Three columns for content, archives and lost list of weblog links.
    • Custom header featuring an image of a sylph, blog title and tagline.
    • Navigation bar with drop-down menu feature (only FireFox not Internet Explorer).
    • Customizable search form widget.

    Personal CONs:

    • Posts in archive mode viewable as excerpts only!

  • 20090928-Much Cooler

    Today’s is much cooler with some white, altitude clouds of sylphs this morning and yesterday, when I took some pics and some HAARP clouds later on that afternoon.

    The past few days have been friggin warm and enough for us to sweat our toxin through our pores and from our fat body.

  • 20090926-Ridding Stuff

    Today, Fr. Perata (our favorite pastor) said the sermon for this evening’s mass. He said:

    Justice is getting rid of the stuff that gets in the way between God and you.

    For the longest time, I’ve been wondering why people try to impress me with their stuff. Anytime I hear them bragging or see their junk I could only close my ears and shut my eyes; for my philosophy has been that of emptiness – what you have is not necessary.

    Our pastor also mentioned that if stuff makes us happy then its fine. But does having more stuff fill the ego or get in the way of being closer to God?

    Yesterday during morning mass, I had many stray thoughts as to why I’m still stuck with the bankster’s credit card debt and why I’ve went all the way to get rid of every last-damned, hard-earned penny in hopes of getting something and after nine slong years for nothing.

    In one of my stray thoughts, I imagined myself drifting off to sea and dying inside a turtle shell. My white sail was not catching any wind. I kept calling out for help but noone answered for I was in the middle of the ocean. I closed my eyes and clasped my hands in front of me.

    I keep failing to understand this lesson that God has set before my path. I keep missing the target that it was a waste of my time praying for something that was not meant for me, just like what Julie S. told to Maw during a phone conversation after receiving her package of prayers. At age 70, the old fart never won the lottery after praying many times.

    So that’s my sign: Either I drift off into slumber or WAKE UP! I guess I’ll have to fight back at the unknown, their lies.

  • 20090926-Current Colors

    While editing my most recent blog entry entitled 20090925-Something Serene a few minutes ago, I didn’t realize before how significant the colors of soft blue and white is to Flynn’s Blogs. I wanted the colors to match my custom header of soft blue and white.

    In the past and to my MANY dis-satisfaction, I couldn’t find the right color combination for my weblog site from black and brown, dark blue and brown to purple, pink and other rainbow of colors.

    My thoughts raced and I prayed in thanks (again). Then I quickly searched for `Moslem Mosque` via Google.com and came up with a Flickr.com photo of a Baitul Islam Mosque, Ontario – Canada. The colors of this photo shows the building of soft blue and white. It has fluffy, puffy clouds of white in the background against clear blue skies, just like my customer header of cloud formations.

    This is yet another eerily synchronous event. And yes, I won’t change the appearance of my weblog site any time soon. It’s perfect for now! Perhaps this is truly a symbolic time in which unity could be achieved, I hope.

    Later, I added that Flickr.com photo as one of my favorites. And reading the entire first page linked by the photo to `An Overview of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community` by  Al Islam – The Official Website of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community: Love for All, Hatred for None. Neat.

  • 20090923-Tweaked Again

    Well, I’m back to the free theme here at WordPress.com: Dusk by Becca Wei. It’s new and improved. Check it out! I’m tired of changing themes and will [probably] stay with this one.

    For details, here is a list of the latest tweaks to my weblog:

    • Lightened background color to gray, a neutral shade.
    • Adjusted margins and paddings for both sidebar and content.
    • Used six widgets.
      • Text widget of table containing a tagline, an image with caption, a simple greeting and two links to the feeds for both the posts and comments.
      • Text widget of main menu containing nine parent pages, complete with brief descriptions in italic and in mouse over.
      • Search form widget for inquiries within my weblog.
      • Flickr widget of  current three images from maximum display of ten for `Orgone and Orgonite` administered by MessiahMews.
      • Text widget of table containing an image of four books authored by Don Bradley linking to a hosted site by MessiahMews.
      • Text widget of five links to donate, link, translate, disclaimer and copyright.

    Personal PROs:

    • Customer header of a cloud formation featuring an image of a sylph.
    • Wrapper width of 780px to accommodate screen resolutions of 800 by 600 pixels.
    • Two columns with the sidebar floating left and the content floating right.
    • Full visibility of posts in archives mode.
    • Ordered and listed elements perfect.
    • Automatic adjustments for browser zooms.
    • Time/date stamp and meta data underneath the post title.

    Personal CONs:

    • No tagline.
    • No top navigation bar of parent pages with drop-down menu features for sub-pages.

  • 20090922-Masonic Dancing

    Still listening to CoastToCoastAM.com with George Noory and the guest is speaking and answering a topic about freemasonry.

    After Kelly Osborne (daughter of Black Sabbath’s lead singer Ozzy Osborn) finished dancing the Cha-Cha relay on that night’s show on ABC’s `Dancing with the Stars`, I noticed a masonic symbol formed by both her and her dance instructor.

    She was cradled underneath her trainer, who formed the compass above . Her arms were splayed outward and upward in an angle forming the `square` below. Both were smiling widely and straight into the camera ahead of them or towards us the television viewers.

    People wake up!

  • 20090922-Friggin Warm

    Today’s was friggin warm. Like yesterday, there was sunny, clear blue skies. But the color appeared slightly white-washed for most of the summer and not the NORMAL deep shade of blue. Early morning birds came to bathe. The parakeets made lots of LOUD noises for the past few days.

  • 20090922-Old Theme

    Well, I back to a free theme here at WordPress.com:

    Sandbox 0.6.1 by Andy Skelton & Scott Allan Wallick

    A theme with powerful, semantic CSS selectors and the ability to add new skins.

    Tags: white, left-sidebar, theme-options, widgets, two-columns, one-column, three-columns, right-sidebar, flexible-width, microformats, rtl-language-support

    Personal PROs:

    • Time/date stamps for posts (not pages) and underneath the entry titles.
    • Three columns for content, archives and my LONG list of blogroll links.
    • Automatic adjustment of views for different screen resolutions and browser zooms.
    • Very simple CSS stylesheet for easier editing by very pick web designers, like moi!

    Personal CONS:

    • Excepts and not entire posts for archives mode.
    • No navigation bar without a drop-down feature near the header.

    I’d like the meta element near the date element and underneath the entry title. But with my FireFox web browser, I am able to `View Page Source` by right clicking near the area of the weblog site, find the < div > code and make the adjustments in my paid CSS stylesheet upgrade:

    • Hide the visibility of the entry date for the sticky page.
    • Hide the visibility of the entry meta for the archive mode and sticky page
    • Add a light gray background color # eee for the sticky page.
    • Add a mouse over effect (per the `Solipsus` theme) for the sidebar link items.
    • Add a custom header showing a cloud formation (or a sylph elemental).
    • Add a `Character code` from `Unicode (hex)` before the entry title, page title and entry meta.
    • Add more widgets to even out the bottom of both sidebars.

    If only I know how to get the secondary sidebar from the `Sandbox 1.6.1` theme, I would use that theme.

  • 20090922-Friggin Warm

    For the past two days or so, the weather has been in the upper eighties and into the nineties. The dark-colored blinds (2″ in width) have been closed to keep the rooms upstairs cool. Sweating allows for toxins to escape our pores but frequent showers refreshes as always.