BlinkWIGGLE, Shirts, Stories
That last post was so cathartic, I think I'm going to try that whole, "Whatever the Fuck I Feel Like," approach again, though I do have actual points this time.
1) A friend offered to re-design my website the other day, a beautiful, sweet, and appreciated gesture, but one I also had to decline. It instantly felt wrong and after some introspection, I figured out why. First of all, in this era of free, easy, user-friendly website generators with drag-and-drop technology, I say MOO! My site, unlike everything else you'll ever find, is done with code and code alone, all assembled by me in notepad. It's my own design, my own graphics, and completely handmade by me. It would be like if I spent hours and hours hand-embroidering my own wedding dress, sewing on beads one at a time, and someone came along with a catalogue of wedding dresses and offered to buy me one. It's not the same.
Yeah, I know my site is simple, with no frills, tricks, or nifty blinky things. I know that. I don't care. Any site created by other people would be done with a generator and I simply won't have that; I need to know how all the HTML works. If my friend said, "Hey, you can make your page blink and wiggle! Just use the <BlinkWIGGLE> tag and set your coordinates and background colour for the wiggling!" it would be fine, and I might consider making my page blink and wiggle. However, the reality is, "Hey, AJ, I can make your site blink and wiggle! I'll just pop it into this program, drag your photo here, drop some text into this box here, and select the BLINKWiggle option." Then, if I went to check the code, it would be pages and pages of superfluous code that wandered in idiotic loops of stupidity. Then I would be dependent on the same fucking program for the lifespan of that particular site instead of being able to fix things and update easily and quickly.
So, if you're ever looking at my site and wonder why nothing really blink or wiggles, now you know why. Go check out the source code in the "View Source" option under Page in the browser menu some time. On my actual pages (not this blog) you'll see that everything is nice, neat, and short, with nothing extra or unnecessary. And "Made with 100% pure code and Notepad."
2) SHIRT UPDATE! -- I bought one of the little tank tops from the site to see how they look. I'm very well not going to encourage other people to buy stuff when I don't even know if it's any good or not, so I put my money where my mouth is, so to speak. The shirts are ADORABLE! My main complaint is that the tanks seem to run a *bit* big, even though they're Juniors, and the lesser complaint is that the straps aren't adjustable. Those are the only things I can find wrong. The text came out really well, the shadowing looks great, and the strawberries are cute as hell and perfectly positioned over one's nipples. (hehehe) I'll be hitting DC Pride this weekend, so if you're in the DC area, say hi. I'll be the chick in a power wheelchair wearing one of my shirts who, incidentally, looks exactly like the photos on this site. The following Sunday, I'll be at Baltimore Pride, and the week after that, Toronto, Pride.
I fuckin love June.
3) I finally finished the intro for another collection of short stories and now only need to find it a home. This is the collection I mentioned before, so now it's officially done. Whee!
Ok, that's it.
1) A friend offered to re-design my website the other day, a beautiful, sweet, and appreciated gesture, but one I also had to decline. It instantly felt wrong and after some introspection, I figured out why. First of all, in this era of free, easy, user-friendly website generators with drag-and-drop technology, I say MOO! My site, unlike everything else you'll ever find, is done with code and code alone, all assembled by me in notepad. It's my own design, my own graphics, and completely handmade by me. It would be like if I spent hours and hours hand-embroidering my own wedding dress, sewing on beads one at a time, and someone came along with a catalogue of wedding dresses and offered to buy me one. It's not the same.
Yeah, I know my site is simple, with no frills, tricks, or nifty blinky things. I know that. I don't care. Any site created by other people would be done with a generator and I simply won't have that; I need to know how all the HTML works. If my friend said, "Hey, you can make your page blink and wiggle! Just use the <BlinkWIGGLE> tag and set your coordinates and background colour for the wiggling!" it would be fine, and I might consider making my page blink and wiggle. However, the reality is, "Hey, AJ, I can make your site blink and wiggle! I'll just pop it into this program, drag your photo here, drop some text into this box here, and select the BLINKWiggle option." Then, if I went to check the code, it would be pages and pages of superfluous code that wandered in idiotic loops of stupidity. Then I would be dependent on the same fucking program for the lifespan of that particular site instead of being able to fix things and update easily and quickly.
So, if you're ever looking at my site and wonder why nothing really blink or wiggles, now you know why. Go check out the source code in the "View Source" option under Page in the browser menu some time. On my actual pages (not this blog) you'll see that everything is nice, neat, and short, with nothing extra or unnecessary. And "Made with 100% pure code and Notepad."
2) SHIRT UPDATE! -- I bought one of the little tank tops from the site to see how they look. I'm very well not going to encourage other people to buy stuff when I don't even know if it's any good or not, so I put my money where my mouth is, so to speak. The shirts are ADORABLE! My main complaint is that the tanks seem to run a *bit* big, even though they're Juniors, and the lesser complaint is that the straps aren't adjustable. Those are the only things I can find wrong. The text came out really well, the shadowing looks great, and the strawberries are cute as hell and perfectly positioned over one's nipples. (hehehe) I'll be hitting DC Pride this weekend, so if you're in the DC area, say hi. I'll be the chick in a power wheelchair wearing one of my shirts who, incidentally, looks exactly like the photos on this site. The following Sunday, I'll be at Baltimore Pride, and the week after that, Toronto, Pride.
I fuckin love June.
3) I finally finished the intro for another collection of short stories and now only need to find it a home. This is the collection I mentioned before, so now it's officially done. Whee!
Ok, that's it.
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