Month: September 2006

The default theme for this blog is called Painted Desert and I like it, but I just can’t leave well enough alone. First I changed the original header image to one with a Miata to better suit me and now I’m working on a little thing to keep it fresh that I hope to get going this weekend for all you Internet Explorer users.

Last Friday I fell in love with a theme called Vistered Little, that is real slick, but choked on IE big time. Well the good news is that Internet Explorer 7 RC1 displays it pretty well, so it has become Donna’s favorite way to read this here gibberish.

My favorite way to view this blog is using a theme called New York, New York. First I kept the white style and replaced the New York skyline background with a Miata collage, but then I saw some one’s dark version of the theme and knew that ws the way to go and I had just the image for the background, the one from the Windows Vista homepage. A quick search of the web led me to the stand alone jpeg. The girl would look kind of stupid in the background of a page called “Life of Brian” and I didn’t have a suitable photo of me I could photoshop in, so lucky for me the same place had a de-girled jpeg too. I’ve spent the last couple hours tweaking the CSS to get it to look great in Firefox 1.5, but I still need to do a little work on single post pages and archives and such. In IE 7 it looks passable, but the post header opacity doesn’t work rendering them too bright white. In IE 6, who knows.

Humfrz Theory of Mental Relativity:
The sensation of “speed” is relative and is directly proportional to the ?speed? at which the biochemical process works in the flow of neurons across the synapses of ones brain. As we age, this process slows while the world around us, continues to move at a constant ?speed?, thus giving us ?old guys? the sensation of ?great speed?.

He has an equation he is working on to help explain the theory:
H + S + A x AGS ÷ X ≈ PS
hat + suspenders + age x actual ground speed ÷ (X) ≈ perceived speed

This explains why 80-year old men in hats are doing 20 MPH in the 45 zone…they think they are flying.

I like it. Might even try and find a prominent spot for it here to go along with Sturgeon’s Law.

No, I haven’t been playing Monopoly, just unearthed my parking stub from the Charlotte airport under some papers at my desk here.

Parking is at a premium at Charlotte- Douglas International Airport and as they fill up one fence enclosed long-term lot they open another down the street. When Donna and I went to CT for Labor Day we parked our car way out in a satellite lot as directed by airport personnel. A fellow handed us a ticket with a handwritten date on it and directed us to the shuttle. We we in Lot #2, Section Z.

When we got back 3 days later it took a little while to sort out which shuttle bus to take. The bus took us back to the lot and pulled in through a gate next to a booth. We loaded up our car and followed the exit signs back to that same booth, but on the other side. I rolled down my window to hand the ticket to the person in the booth and the gate opened in front of me. The booth was empty. I drove out and away.