{"id":1720,"date":"2008-03-07T07:41:08","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T12:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2008-03-07T07:41:08","modified_gmt":"2008-03-07T12:41:08","slug":"on-friday-morning-geekery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"On Friday Morning Geekery"},"content":{"rendered":"

I thought LOL thulhu<\/a> was pretty mind-blowing. Then I was pointed in the direction of the Hello Cthulhu<\/a> webcomic.<\/p>\n

These both make my idle thought a few years ago that Hermione Granger needed to find a copy of the Necronomicon<\/i> in the Hogwarts library and start a Cthulhu cult<\/a> seem positively normal<\/i>. \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n

Sometimes concepts are tossed in a blender and the puree button is hit. It’s like taking the Chinese novel, Romance of the Three Kingdoms<\/i>, and tossing Gundam<\/i> into the mix. It’s a strange idea, and I’m told — from people who know Gundam<\/i> — that it works. I don’t know Gundam<\/i>; it was always a bit confusing to me at EB Games who and what all these Gundam<\/i> video games were, because even though they were labelled Gundam<\/i>, that didn’t make them anything remotely the same.<\/p>\n

I’m rambling.<\/p>\n

At the very least, there’s a whole line of toys based on the idea of Gundam<\/i>-Meets-the-Three-Kingdoms<\/i>. And a video game, too, if I’m not mistaken. The toys look cute, come to think of it. Though we don’t really think of mechs as being, y’know, cute<\/i>.<\/p>\n

I love strange concepts. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

How did eggplant get its name? Eggs aren’t a deep purple. I’ve occasionally wondered.<\/p>\n

I put a CSS3 rule in the stylesheet for my blog yesterday.<\/p>\n

It’s just one little<\/i> thing. The only browsers that will pick it up are the betas for Opera and Safari. The Firefox 3 beta doesn’t. It puts a text-shadow on my name in the blog’s header.<\/p>\n

And if you have a browser that doesn’t know CSS3, the rule won’t cause your browser to go on the blink. The browser just ignores it, and everything looks exactly as it did before.<\/p>\n

I’m not really sure about the text shadow effect. It looks nifty and cool to me, but I can see this being rampantly abused. Small doses, like a header are fine. But I could see someone using the effect to highlight links, or even whole blocks of text, and it would make the text impossible<\/i> to read.<\/p>\n

I’ve been using Flock<\/a> this week to write my morning blog posts. The functionality to write directly to a blog or LiveJournal is built right into the browser, so I thought I would experiment with it.<\/p>\n

And it basically<\/i> functions. It has some quirks, I’ll admit. Line breaks aren’t handled well, and going back into the WordPress back-end to add tags defeats the whole purpose of blogging with Flock — which is to eliminate the need to use the WordPress back-end.<\/p>\n

In short, as of right now, it’s not going to cause a sea-change in how I write this blog. It’s an interesting gimmick, but the limitations are a bit of deal-breaker.<\/p>\n

Today is foggy, and I find myself, as it sit here looking out the office window at a world dulled by fog, thinking of Larry Niven’s “For a Foggy Night.” Fog isn’t water droplets suspended in the air. Rather, fog is what happens when alternate timelines merge, a gateway between them. We instinctively know there’s something weird and strange and potentially creepy out there, in the fog — a world we’ve never seen before, and can never imagine. I loved that concept. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I need more coffee.<\/p>\n

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I thought LOL thulhu was pretty mind-blowing. Then I was pointed in the direction of the Hello Cthulhu webcomic. These both make my idle thought a few years ago that Hermione Granger needed to find a copy of the Necronomicon in the Hogwarts library and start a Cthulhu cult seem positively normal. \ud83d\ude06 Sometimes conceptsContinue reading “On Friday Morning Geekery”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[544,545,546],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-cthulhu","tag-hermione-granger","tag-larry-niven","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}