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Some random photo weirdness over there. Thats it.

So you might have noticed that the comments have been on the increase lately. Since I’ve noticed this phenomenon, I’ve been trying to figure out why they just picked up all of a sudden. I can remember going a week or two with no comments on any of the posts. After a little investigation, I think I’ve come up with the answer. The amount of comments increase proportionately with the amount of pictures of me dressed up as a woman posted on the site. Like this:

Your actions have spoken. Be on the lookout for more pics soon.

The photo page got a makeover last night and is now a stream of my flickr account. Like I said before, there is probably many different ways to pull something like this off but thanks to this handy little plug-in, all it took was changing a few chunks of code and adding some of my own to reach the desired effect.

The front page of the site will display the four most recent images in my account and the image page will display the twenty most recent images. This is all done dynamically ala’ PHP and Javascript so I no long have to hard code the HTML and Javascript for each image I add. All I do now is drag my images into my flickr uploader and they automagically appear on the site. Neat.

The only problem that I see so far is that the images are ordered by the date that they were taken instead of the date that I uploaded them. Most of the time this would be no biggie, but if I ever want add an ‘oldie but goodie’ it will get stuck into the middle of the list instead of the top. I can get around it by modifying the ‘date taken’ date but that kind of defeats the purpose of even sharing that information.

Jarhead was sold out last night, buzzkill. Thats it. Go Badgers. Go Bucks too.

I’m struggling with what to do with the Images area of this site. It is just too much of a hastle to crop all new images to the same size and create the html/javascript that goes along with each one. I’m too busy/lazy to deal with all that crap so I’m thinking about just using a Flickr account to store all my images and then using some kind of WordPress plug-in or something to display the newest ones to the front page of this site or something. But like I said before, I’m lazy/tired so who knows when I will get to it. Back to Drawn Together.

Its time for some new ones. Not much new in my neck of the woods. Oh yeah, got a new camera. And the iBook is dead again. Logic broads boards haunt me in my sleep…

Found some inspiration for my next video part.

So apparently that picture of the Navy Boy is on page two of the google images search for ‘navy boy’. How rad is that?

I’ve been messing with the new video codec that is included in Quicktime 7 Pro and man is it nice. Video clips that were normally like 10Mb after compression are getting down to less than 5Mb and looking even better. I haven’t quite gotten the settings tweaked to where I want them yet, but as soon as I do, I will be updating the video content on the site. And it will look a lot better than whats currently up.

Other than that, not a whole lot new. Me and the cat spent about half an hour tonight hunting a fly, and I’m looking to buy a digital camera. Any suggestions are welcome. This one is leading the race right now, but that could definately change as I do some more searching. Oh yeah, I fixed the crappy javascript that was being all buggy on here. Should work good now.

Everytime I see one of this guy’s (left column, Brian Gaberman) photos, I wish I still took photos. But then I realize that none of my photos would have ever been as good as his are, and I continue not taking pics.

So I was at looking at this site today at school and realized how aweful the title graphic looked. I purposefully blurred it in photoshop and it really did look rad on my laptop. But as I’ve been slowly learning, those damn LCD laptop screens are lying tramps. That title looked like hell. It is fixed now. No more blurs.

Oh yeah, I’ve got a new video clip that I’ve been meaning to put up, maybe tonight.