Hello to both readers out there! Welcome to the newest revision of ChewyKolchuk.com. There are some cool features with this theme that is currently in place, and while I’m still working out a few bugs, I’ll leave it up as is so you can give me feedback if you want to.
Notice that there is a Lead Article, as well as Featured Articles below it. Those will be the most recent Lead and Featured Articles in chronological order, but know that not all posts will be Lead or Featured, so if you just want to see most recent posts, then click the Recent Post tab above this window. This Lead Article window is supposed to have an image attached to it, but I haven’t used the specific code that makes it all work, so I’m working on getting it up and in place.
I hope to start posting more regularly, since I am now a year into my new career as a web developer and I suppose I should start becoming more cyborg-like if I’m to fully wrap my head around the culture and thus become a more rounded and experienced professional web dork.
Stay tuned!
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Well, here’s how that works. For a long time now, I’ve been pretty lax on posting to the site, and recent history hasn’t shown any different. However, let’s review the tape from last week, shall we?
Firstly, we’ve had some cold-ish weather recently, and one night, when there was a good temperature inversion and it was foggy, I took some pictures of the sky. That was fun.
Then, a few days later, Whitty had a birthday. The whole deal was this: He was turning 40 and since he grew up in AK where men are Men, and since you should be a Man by the age of 40, well he was going to have a Manly Birthday Party! So he and a friend of his and I all decided that we were going to be Manly at his birthday party. And we all went Redneck Style for whatever reason. Knowing that the wardrobe is limited, I decided that I would up the bar a little bit. So I shaved my head to look like male-pattern baldness. OH YEAH! Here are the photos of the party. Please to enjoy…
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Here is my brain dump from the last little while:
- Buckethead is an interesting fellow. He releases something silly like 5-10 albums a year. Granted, they all start to run together after a while, but it’s still infinitely better than listening to the radio. It’s as though he has only 5 albums to date, but they each have 276 songs apiece, and were each released slowly and simultaneously over a 20 year span. Tonight I’m cooking a chicken and as it cooks, I’m trying to decide how I’m going to deal with the cooked bird after it’s done. As always, a beverage and some music while I go into Zen-cooking-activity mode and I thought, “Why not Buckethead for repentance and inspiration?” And I made it so.
- Speaking of “making it so”. Here’s some of the funniest stuff I’ve ever seen in a LONG time. “Happy in Paraguay”. What some folks do in their spare time. I love teh internets!
- Today the Seahawks played at home. I had planned on riding down to the general area of the stadium and meeting up with a couple buddies down there. However, it was pretty cold and I didn’t want to have to deal with ice anywhere on my bike, so I decided against that. Normally, it’d be a done deal and who cares, right? Right, but in addition to that, I’d already made plans with my buddy and he was going to bring a GPS unit for me to borrow, and at that point Project GPS was Go Mission and I was obligated to get there somehow. As it happened, I ended up driving down in my girlfriend’s rig and retrieving the unit. She had to get to work still, so I was kinda wondering the best way to get to the freeway from over by the two stadiums, because hey, I ride a bike usually, I don’t know about traffic. Not only traffic, but during a ballgame and in a section of town I usually don’t party in? Oh great…this will be fun. And then it dawned on me. Uhhhhh….you just picked up a GPS unit from a friend. Uhhhhh….USE IT! OH YEAH, that would be AWESOME! Whew…disaster averted!
- I had strange dreams last night.
- At one point, I was in the Anchorage airport and I couldn’t find my bags. I remember in my dream thinking REALLY hard, “Do I have just one bag, or two and what the hell do they look like?” Needless to say I had a hard time trying to locate my luggage.
- Another time, I was in the woods. The woods were very like Juneau, wet and mossy and temperate rainforesty… I stop in the trail because a full on Fuck-you-I’m-from-Africa lion is running like hell to save its life through the woods across the trail right in front of me. WTF! Flash to me and Veronica kinda jogging through a clearing in the woods, trying to get away from something or to some specific place and we are in a hurry, but we’re tired so instead of sprinting we are more like loping along. Oh yeah, and it’s winter. I don’t know where our destination was, but we went into the base of a huge tree that had fallen over toward a cliff face and the inside of it was hollowed out, and we were going to use that as a way to climb up to the top of the cliff and keep going. In typical Hollywood style, as I boosted Veronica up into the inside of the log/tree, I looked back and about 100 or so yards back, here comes this damn lion and he’s on our trail. And it’s winter. He’s a damn lion. In AK.
- At another point, Veronica, and I were at a Burger King inside an airport or a mall or something like that. I was hungry and she wasn’t, so I ate while she used the waterslide that he had at our table. For our exclusive use. I think each table had its own waterslide. Hmmmm…
- My buddy Dave had to put his dog down last month. That was a bummer. Pimba was a red heeler, and as such, she was a really intelligent dog to the point of being a pain in the ass. She thought for herself and if you told her something she didn’t like, she would growl at you and let you know she thought you were full of shit. Anyway, she’s now taking a dirt nap and we all miss her.
- I’m getting tired of basting that chicken, but only because I don’t have the squirty baster thingy. I’m having to use a ladle and tilt the pan and all that, so I’m whining a bit.
- Dave also went to Australia and New Zealand last month. It was my job to make sure his bunny and his cat were fed and dealt with appropriately. That was weird, since Pimba wasn’t there, being a pain and nipping at the kitty at every chance. The point here is that while he was gone, I had his car. In the 2 weeks he was gone, the weather went from coldish and wettish to Frozen Nuggets in Spandex! I rode my bike in to work for the first time in two weeks last Friday and I thought they were going to fall off and shatter in the shoulder of the road.
Okay then, I’ll post more and oftener and I’ll post a post about that very thing here tomorrow.
Remember: Happy little trees!
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Hey there crimestoppers!
I was eating a schnitzel sandwich last Thursday when I heard a firecracker go off, or maybe it was the ice cracking under my feet. Funny thing is, I wasn’t hiking on a glacier, nor was I playing with explosives. No, I was eating my dinner. So when I heard the noise, my brain said to me something like, “Hey, there’s that noise you hear in your dreams sometimes, but I think this time it’s for real.”
It was for real.
Of course, my first course of action was to get the Denial Machinery up and running. “OH NO YOU DINT!” But after sending my tongue out to do some intel gathering, I found out that, “OH SNAP! YOU DID!”
I had cracked one of my molars such that about 1/3 of it had calved off into my mouth. Oh goody. I say that because I am one the many Americans who are going to be affected one way or another by the current health care debate going on around us. Mainly because I don’t have any insurance.
The next day I made some phone calls and found that the University of Washington School of Dentistry takes patients and, since you essentially end up being a walking training session for some post-grad wannabe dentist, the rates are cheaper than going to a private practitioner. Hey, I live right by the UW, let’s go! It’ll be fun! Especially when I found out that they were going to have to install a crown. Me? A CROWN!? I know my name is a kingly name (not Chewy, my real one), but this is AWESOME!!! When I’m king, I’m going to make everybody ride a bike for a year before getting a driver’s license and I’m going to make Rainier available to every – what? Different crown? What the hell?
No, this sucks. I don’t want them to cut into my mouth and chop my gumline down to install a cap on my toof and…it’s going to cost money too!? Oh jesus…
What’s the moral of the story? Chuck E Cheese pizza is terrible, don’t eat it. I realize that it doesn’t relate at all to this post, but it’s a good maxim to live by.
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Guess what? It’s Mastodon!
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Okay, so I got one element working. That’s the “featured content” feature, which features a given post by allowing you to upload a large, custom image that suits the aforementioned featured content.
Gonna try some others in here to see how/when they affect each other. See you in a bit.
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Yep…haven’t posted in 2 months. Finally got The Email from Dudeman saying, “You suck, post or die!” And since I was bored with the old layout, I decided to change it up again. The next few posts are going to be tests of the Standard Operating Procedure of this new layout.
There you have it.
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Here’s another test. Getting images into posts from iPhone.
This post is a hybrid. I posted the photo successfully from the phone, but now I’m editing it from the computer. I like to have the images be centered, so if you see a photo image that is aligned to the left, then assume it’s from the phone as well.
I went out to make coffee and this little kitty was staring at me from outside the window. Meowing real loud. Hi, kitty. I’m in here and you’re out there, but you know that. Bye bye…
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