So I applied on these Linux admin jobs because honestly I know I can do them. Linux, to me, is no more difficult than DOS was. Some may disagree. I say that anything that is basically a skill can be learned. Either way I never felt there was that big of a curve.

So I go to sleep intent to wake up, install Linux, and reaquaint myself. Except that’s not what happened. During my ever so badly timed slumber, some unknown oddness of death happened to my computer. It froze the router, and now I’m having IDE and SATA issues. So RMA for cross ship from EVGA this next thursday.

Tax season is here again to rape some of us and grant some of us a new thing or two. I’m getting the latter, after last years camera death fiasco, I am now buying a Nikon D80! Comes with the kit lens thats 18-55 and the usual 4.some to 5.some aperture. But I’m buying with it, a Nikon 70-300 f/4.5-5.6 AF-S VR. For those who do not know this lens is pretty awesome for the $470 they ask. Vibration reduction alone is worth it, but the glass is well known for it’s clarity, and it’s got fast focusing, and good aperture considering it’s range. Equivalent to right around 400mm in film.

You know my family used Nikon’s in my youth, and I guess I grew into that brand. I did go and spend time looking at Canon’s and Pentax’s. Holding them, taking store shots, but the Nikon wins me over, every time. I won’t make excuses though, this last round of cameras disappointed me on features but, then I want my cake too so…

Beyond that, new host is way better and served on Linux… ahem It’s Linux day… I get a free pack of gum and 1/2 pint of orange juice everytime I find a good reason to say Linux.

New graf going on. Hopefully alot more of that in the time to come. Some writing coming up too. Also I’m once again starting up the Hot Summer Beer and T-shirt Designs Shop. I love screenprinting to good music on summer nights, after some grilling. I wish I had more of those days. There seems to never be enough. Cause it’s those nights that stay with me, those nights that make it what I call living. No real fights or drama just laughter and buzzes. I never remember those nights at parties where whats-his-face got in that fight and made an ass of himself and those one girls were fighting. I fondly remember those good nights though.

TTFN

Here is the alpha version of Shameless.

Comments are appreciated. it is far from finished but does appear to wrok well in at least Firefox 2 and IE7, sorry to IE useres for the blunt Firefox upgrade scheme but… if your a firefox user youm wont see it and so your in the dark.

Still trying to find the right header picture, here you see the color scheme comes from some paid theme, some page menuing code courtesy of Nightlines, and I stole the class coloring like so…

I took the code that makes this and about 5 or so other class codes that supply this box themeing fromRedoable, but I think it’s native to K2. A good deal I hand coded, and this is the current result after one week.

Sooooo… taught myself php. Not the whole thing, you know, but most everything needed to make a theme from scratch. The idea was to steal great working ideas that I think are important, maintain integrity as much as possible, and make something I could live with for at least a while.

If I can finish, then I can start working on something even better, the next progression in both style and functionality but for now in it’s infancy have deemed it Shameless, on account of all the stealing and what not. It’s coming along OK, as best as could hope for being into theme making for all of 2 days. It will be appearing here soon, and although it is technically viewer ready now, it’s lacking small things that are driving me crazy meanwhile things like my AdSense bar and plug-in stuff goes uncoded.

!Viva Customization! One thing I want is site-wide light-box photo viewing, IF it can be done in a respectable size and resources manner. I also want a plug-in, or maybe better yet server side script that rotates a head image stock with each page load??? Nah, that would probably bring the server to it’s knees, how about every hour, or 30 minutes…

Beyond that… and photo wise, I have learned from my fatal camera death encounter and I am looking forward to taxes supplying me with any Nikon DSLR camera. I hate the D40 after my D70, but you make do and at least it is Nikon.

Winter months take a huge chunk out of train photos or murals, or anything. Bad lighting, too cold, malfunctioning equipment, it goes on and on. Trying to find some scrap carpet for cheap. Not sixty cents a sq foot that ends up costing $60 cheap, I mean like the real definition of cheap, like “Free if you just make it go away, Cheap.” Then if I can get the backroom done… if that happens, I can start screen-printing my own shirts again. I fashionably never steal existing logos or sayings either, at least not knowingly, or that company is also too… indie.

Not only that, but I can start making the messenger bag I custom designed for graffiti projects. I tell you, I got so sick of cans rattling around, no where to put even 2 beers, all this riding perilously on top of my blackbook which started to fall apart after just 3 weeks in that bag. This thing has under flap front space mounted pockets for phones, drawing supplies, markers, and marked pockets for caps. Inside is a system along the walls of elastic tight enough to fit cans comfortably while still removable and yet able to also hold a can or bottle. With a midsection for paper supplies. All the while waxed and sprayed for waterproofing and custom stenciled by yours truly.

Stickers too… oh so many sticker designs to be sadly wasted on this art and culture wasteland.

We’re nearing completion of the site… oooooo… smell the progress.