I had this great idea to make a cool new theme based on the use of sIFR, but nothing worked. Well, the kicker was, I got it to work but all the text was blue and I couldn’t get rid of the blue. It’s still in beta though.
So yeah. I felt like I needed a less cluttered blog.
I was supposed to accomplish so much tonight…fix the work site that’s broken, create a WordPress theme using a complicated beta software…make my portfolio site look perfect. I did succeed on the portfolio site, I think it looks much better (notice the icons and the new graphic on the philosophy page), but I need more content.
I need to actually design a theme from the ground up. I want to start with this blank theme to remind me that I need to actually design things or I’m never going to get into Parsons. Or, well, anywhere.
It’s 2 a.m. and I have absolutely no time to work on the work site. I think there’s a way I could quickly fix everything, but if it backfires, there’s no way I can stay up later and work on it. Fuck it, I’ll just try it.
Wow…it worked. I am a mySQL god! Of course, it only worked because I made a backup before I tried it. Without the backup, it would have asploded.
I don’t know how to feel about being here…the newness has worn off and now I’m starting to get a tiny bit annoyed about the quirks of this house (the soap is never out, it’s in the cabinet, the toaster is never out, it’s in the cabinet…)
My mom and I went out shopping and doing errands in Edgewater today. It’s so weird to have a shopping center that’s right across the river from Manhattan. There’s a cute little riverside walking path that you can enjoy the Hudson from.
Driving back from Wildwood, we saw this black-silhouetted outline of the Manhattan skyline as we got on the Turnpike that looked like a poorly painted Hollywood set stripped of its extras.
I’m liking A Confederacy of Dunces…I wish I could have read it tonight, but I left it on the kitchen table and it disappeared (my grandma Jean is a bit—shall we say—neurotic about home cleanliness).
We’ve settled into a routine…today we did a bunch of errands, including a stop at Barnes and Noble where I got my first Moleskine sketch book. I’m going to design my new WP theme on those cream-colored pages, but I’ve been so busy that I have only written my name in it.
All right, work site fixed, cleaner homepage, check.
I’m thinking of making www.retroviral.net load my blog immediately without the splash page. What do you think? It’d save a click, splash pages are kind of pointless these days.
And this is far from a finished design. I plan to make it awesome and build something customized from the ground up. Or not. But I think this is a good way to achieve some focus by giving myself a blank canvas, so to speak, to start from.
Oh, PS, I also got my awesome t-shirt today! I’m totally wearing it to Parsons.