Thursday, 29 December 2005

I wanna live...

meta-photo-album=/bella-old meta-photo-album-thumbnail=gates07Thumb.jpg

About 30 minutes late.

Some late changes and updates threw a wrench in the plans for an ontime 11 p.m. "opening." I'm still not 100% happy with it, but this is a good start.

Let me know what you think. All thoughts are welcome.

Tonight is just a load of all the Bella pictures that were on the old website...I think. I have at ton of pictures, but this is what was in the local copy of the old site I had on hand, so this is a good bet and start.

Tomorrow...Christmas.

Posted by tstone at 11:40 PM in bella alane

Photos countdown...

If you have been pensive, chewing your fingernails, with anticipation of all the Bella photos from past and present, grab your keyboard...

I have finished development of my Simple Photo Gallery Plugin for blojsom.

Expect to be giving it a spin as early as tonight (11 p.m. EST) when I should have it installed with a bulk load of all past Bella photos from the old petmystone.com, some test loads from iPhoto and photon, and maybe even the Christmas 2005 pictures!

Posted by tstone at 2:59 PM in 'srkE

Tuesday, 27 December 2005

First brew

The petmystones got a new coffee maker for Christmas. While I might not be all that great at cutting crown molding, I can make coffee.

We like a full bodied brew, not strong by most measurements of strong, but it should look like coffee not tea, i.e., you should not be able to see the bottom of the mug.

I can report this morning that the coffee maker works as advertised, and very well at that.

Posted by tstone at 10:21 AM in ephemera

Monday, 26 December 2005

Crown Molding anyone?

Well, I'm a geek, not a carpenter.

But applying a little geek to carpentry can be helpful. Like, RTFM if you're not a carpenter and playing one on the weekend.

For example, know the type of crown molding you are cutting…is it 52/38 or 45/45? Seems 52/38 is pretty ubiqutious, but! 45/45 might be standard for say…cabinet crown. Now, this is important, as most mid-range miter saws come with positive stops for 52/38 for rapid cutting, and it is up to the cutter to match the cutting angles for 45/45, manually!

I learned all this after having spiked my cortisol levels to dangerous levels.

Posted by tstone at 9:13 PM in 'srkE

Friday, 9 December 2005

petmystone.com SITREP

Your petmystone.com SITREP[1] has two items at the top of the list: 1) sticky posts and 2) photo album entries.

The former is taking the back-burner to the latter. The photo album code is started and I've settled on a dynamic presentation and style, one that matches the new petmystone.com. I know you are excited about having the photos back online.

I'm also working on reordering the Catagories (akin to topics) to sort Bella, Cats and other petmystone.com focused topics to the top. Some programming limitations have gotten in the way, mainly the dynamic nature of the new petmystone.com has the list of categories shown in the order created.

In case I've lost anyone in this makeover, some explaining might be in order: kaffehaus, German for coffee house, will be this editor's brain dump on all things tech, like Java programming; ephemera, formally bohemian breakfast[2] is the catch-all topic, expect random musings on day-to-day observances; I even hope to get Shannon, the managing editor-at-large to add to this topic.

Comments are welcome, and posted! Just click the "Comments" link. All comments are moderated, meaning I get an email with your comment prior to it appearing, this prevents "comment spam."

meta-footnote-1=SITREP, noun, abbr.
Short for SITuation REPort. Military/Public Safety acronym in wide use. meta-footnote-2=Back in the day, the L5P café The Flying Biscuit, had the Bohemian Breakfast: a cup of coffee and two cigarettes, TO GO ONLY. It's the sort of ephemera that embodied the purpose of the topic.
Posted by tstone at 9:11 AM in 'srkE

Thursday, 8 December 2005

A definitive list of cheap beer

My friends at Punch Apparel have compiled a list of the cheap beers. I guess this is good if you have a palette for them. While they left off Beast Azul and Beast Rojo, they note how PBR got it's name.

I'm confused by the PBR story. The author clearly got his information from PBR HQ. Yet Erik Larson in The Devil in the White City tells a different story on how PBR became the "blue ribbon beer"; Erik posits Pabst earned its "blue ribbon" at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. So who is right?

Posted by tstone at 10:50 AM in ephemera
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