February 2010

I think everyone looks up to someone and is inspired by someone else. Even if you never met them, their work can inspire you in your own. Even fellow bloggers out there have other bloggers that they look up to and wish they could be as good, or be as creative, or have as good of content as the one they admire. Yesterday I found out that one of my first inspirations on the internet died nearly two years ago. Megan Miller of megsplace and digitalreflex passed away on June 20th 2008.

I can’t say that I didn’t kind of know, but having an inkling and then finding out for sure are two totally different things. I hadn’t seen her on AIM in a while, but I can’t believe it’s been two years. Where does the time go? It doesn’t seem like that long ago that we were talking about me writing a better blog program than just her using text files. I think she will always be an inspiration to me. It’s weird when I think back to our conversations, over ten years ago she first told me what cable internet was (though it would be years until it was available in my area), and what AOL’s BYOIA was.

Goodbye Megan, I hope you continue to inspire people wherever you are.

When did people get so dumb? I don’t just mean in a general way, I mean in the last few weeks I’ve read things that seems that the dumber you are the further you go. A few weeks ago I read about a guy being not only arrested, but sued because while he was in the bathroom waiting for his son to come out of a stall, someone was reaching under the stall to touch his child. The father of the child beat up the man trying to touch his kid. He was then charged with assault and the man trying to touch his kid didn’t get anything. What really pisses me off the most? The defense of the district attorney when asked about this case was that we shouldn’t take the law into our own hands. I guess the district attorney would have rather the child be molested while the father watched and did nothing.

The next case of stupidity I read yesterday, a 12 year old girl was arrested for drawing on her desk. The teacher sent the child to the principal and the principal called the police saying that it was part of zero tolerance. Zero brains is more like it. Not only was the teacher wrong, not only was the principal wrong, but the police were wrong in arresting the 12 year old. Why would they arrest someone when there was not even a crime committed?

The third comes from the Alaskan moron herself, Sarah Palin. She’s pissed off because Family Guy made fun of the fact that she has a child with down syndrome. Family Guy has made fun of black people, Chinese people, retarded people, gay people, Irish people, in fact the list is shorter for the people that they haven’t made fun of yet, but Palin thinks that she and her family should be above the jokes. Why would she think that she would be so special to not be made fun of?

I thought after we got Bush out of office we’d be seeing more intellect from people in charge, but it seems that the people in charge are just as dumb as ever.

It’s been snowing all day. I woke up at around 11 and shoveled the porch, and I swept it again around 3. It’s 10:30PM and it is still snowing. I have to be somewhere tomorrow and shoot some video, so hopefully I will be able to get out to the LIE, if the roads around here are too bad though, I am not going to risk taking that long of a drive. Luckily though I don’t have to be there until around 4:00PM, so I have time for the roads to clear.

In work news, I have been swamped trying to finish up a lot of stuff. I have stuff from months ago that I need to finish and other new sites I need to get up. I am trying to do all the old stuff and get them up, but as of right now I am swamped and haven’t had much time for anything else.

Well I better get back to work on these sites. Hopefully I can make a huge dent in one or two before I finally crash for the night.

The recipes section is doing okay for a part of the site that hasn’t been indexed by search engines yet, and I am surprised since I haven’t really begun advertising it yet. Hopefully it keeps gaining more exposure.

On Saturday Kris and I bought some new toys. With Kris trying to go back to school she needed a laptop she could take with her wherever she went in order to do school work. She ended up picking up an HP netbook. She isn’t the only one who picked up a new toy though, I picked up a Wacom Bamboo tablet. Last year I did a few daily sketches and I am hoping to get a section up for sketches soon, but before I do I want to get more used to the tablet. I am thinking about finishing up that Superman artwork with it, or sketch something then color it and shade it with the tablet. So far I can say that using it in Photoshop is a lot easier than using a mouse.

On Sunday Kris and I are heading down to NJ for a Super Bowl party at my father’s. He has a high definition 62″ television, so add that to the fact that we will probably head down early and get Denny’s for lunch, it is well worth the trip. It only takes about two hours to get down there, so it shouldn’t be too bad, hopefully traffic won’t be too bad on the way down or on the way back. It would mean more if the Jets could have actually made it into the game though, I guess there’s always next year.

I am getting really tired of saying there’s always next year. Come on Jets, make it all the way already.

I added the newest section of Lep’s Lair last night. I put up recipes because I had them and I think a lot of people would like them. I believe there are a few thousand or so of them in there. If you have some recipes I will add them and I would love to hear feedback on some of the recipes already up, so if you decide to cook them, let me know how they turn out. If I find some more databases filled with recipes I will put them up as well.

As for what I am going to do with this current section as it stands, I am thinking a mailing list for Recipe of the Day and possibly a Recipe of the Day widget like the Zen Quote of the Day widget. It all depends on how successful this section is though, as those two will be a few if I do them.