Hello.
Do not be alarmed, this is a test.
It has been said that “if a myth is made, it is made to measure up to.” The idea of myth as a metric, while interesting, is not wholly relevant to the purpose of this stickied post. However, and what may be more interesting, is that it’s something to think about–and what more could one ask for?
Multiple choice test questions for chapters 9-12.
This plugin comes from Automattic, and replicates many of the features of WordPress.com sites. These include site stats, an alternative admin toolbar, image carousel, and many more. One addition it provides is the ability to add a ‘contact form’ to posts/pages, shown here:
(There is an important form on the last page of this post.)
Multiple choice test questions for chapters 4-8.
What might be a “tutorial,” but technically is not.
Animations can be made very quickly with Photoshop® and ImageMagick. On subsequent pages I do this by converting the layered psd file to a gif. If you have a gluttony for tedium, you could also export each frame individually, the process is only slightly different.
We’ll pretend newer versions of Photoshop which have animation features don’t exist, it’ll be more fun that way.
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As with any election, I think it’s important to do some research on the ballot before voting. This midterm was no exception, and while thinking about your vote there are a few things that are good to keep in mind.
Continue reading 2018 Midterm Election Research
Chose and modified the “Twenty Fifteen” theme.
Made the following changes:
Name: “NullPoint”
Title/tagline: both
Default colors: black/white
Header image: none (default)
BG image: none (default)
widgets: footer sidebar (3)
Name: “Twenty Fifteen”
Title/tagline: Twenty Fifteen, The WordPress default theme for 2015.
Default colors: white
Header image: yes
BG image: none (default)
Widgets: menu, “about” text area
Name: “Simplelin”
Title/tagline: Simplelin, timestamp
Default colors: white/blue
Header image: none (default)
BG image: none (default)
Widgets: recent posts, recent comments
Name: “Minamaze Boxed”
Title/tagline: title only (default)
Default colors: white/red
Header image: yes
BG image: none (default)
Widgets: about, parent page/sub-page dropdown
Name: “Blogside”
Title/tagline: both
Default colors: white foreground, gray textured BG
Header image: none (default)
BG image: light gray brick photo texture
Widgets: text “find us” area
At the current moment there is a ground squirrel in the park contemplating what it considers to be a dire issue. The squirrel moves from place to place at a rapid pace, but now it pauses, as time passes it is clear this not an ordinary sort of sudden logical consternation. No, this is a tidal cascade of analysis welling up from the squirrel’s deep existential reservoir (as squirrels are known to have).
To put it bluntly, the acorn it has perched in front of is peculiar. Upon its rounded surface there is, what appears to be, a kind of engraving of the 19th-century philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel–of dialectic fame. What’s more, this particular squirrel finds itself in a kind of stupor; it has been awake and about for far longer than the standard 12 hour period of squirrel activity. This is of course assuming that squirrels have a standard 12 hour period of activity.
The squirrel’s mind is in a state of particular Hegelian Readiness–not to be confused with Himalayan Redness (tea, salt, rice, etc.). Melatonin has begun to do its job as a regulatory hormone, and the squirrel is willing to put up with the acorn’s condescension. There is much publicized regarding squirrels in this state. As such, there is ample evidence to assume the squirrel will undergo a marked transformation upon consuming the knowledge this acorn offers.
It is unclear how, but the squirrel, despite being a squirrel, was able to surmise quite a bit about the nature of things from this unlikely situation. It learned much, grew as a being, understood more, and reconciled the opposing forces.
The squirrel has ascended.
Rewatching House for the first time since it initially aired, I’ve noticed details which had not occurred to me before, some more obvious than others. I get different things out of it than I did 10, and certainly 14 years ago. I like it when the creators of such things have an attention to detail, but the immediate topic is simply the placement of names in the opening credit sequence.
House uses a cold open (the title sequence begins after an opening scene, usually of how the patient-of-the-week collapses, experiences something clinically strange, or otherwise how/why they wind up at Princeton Plainsboro). The title sequence itself is relatively short, around 30 seconds; but is stylish. Actor credits are displayed against a sequence of (mostly) anatomical images (brain, chest x-ray, etc.), the outlier being an aerial shot of a river.
Immediately obvious is the connection between ‘top-billing’–Hugh Laurie, who plays Gregory House–and the image of a cranium/brain. This forms the basis of postulating a relation between the image shown and characteristics possessed by each actor’s character. A quick analysis is given below.
Lastly, it should be mentioned that according to the show’s creators, the opening images do not have a thought-out relevance in-line with what I out-lined above. Happy accidents can be as fun to analyze as anything else (this is not an endorsement of getting bogged down in irrelevant details).
