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Author: jae
jae lethe (he/she/they) is a blogger, musician, artist, poet, web developer/designer, armchair philosophizer, teller of tales, and gadabout. Also, something he calls a "behavioral artist." (Not sure.) She has plans. BIG plans.
Among the things that he has done for a laugh are minor fractures, cuts, scrapes, and various scabs. Though she's quick to point out that they're no imbecile, we're fairly certain that he thinks the word means some kind of medieval pharmacist.
This is her latest home on teh internets - where jae stores their swear words, when they're not hurling them at the sun in vain.
I’m working on getting my legacy sites ready for an online portfolio to be presented here on this site.
The unfortunate thing about being a relatively-inexperienced web designer/developer is that most of your clients will be fairly small outfits and that much of your work will be necessarily pro-bono, or close to it. This means that many of them won’t be around for a very long time. In my case, none of them are. I think the Tecumseh Local Music Boosters may still maintain a site somewhere, though probably one with tildes in the URI that i’ll never be bothered to really track down, because it’s probably no longer my work being displayed there.
On to the point: this means that i have to re-build all of those old sites from the archives. Which, in turn, means trying to get code written a pretty long time ago (by www standards) to work. That’s not much of a problem, in most cases, because i at least had the foresight to include some useful future-compatible functions, the most underrated of which is the doctype declaration.
Regrettably, i don’t remember how some of the functions worked, and i don’t have much time to figure it all out.
The worst part, though, is that the one of the coolest sites, for a sadly defunct print magazine, won’t work locally, and i think it’s because i no longer have any idea what kind of a server environment it was written for.
So take this to heart, fellow amateurs: always, always, always include copious comments in your PHP, and archive a copy of the phpinfo() that you generated at the time (when you were literally losing sleep trying to iron out that one nagging bug). Mirror the damn thing live if you have to. This will save you in the long run, when the site goes belly up, and you have to prove to potential employers or clients that it existed outside of the sick, narcissistic fantasy world inside of your head. You won’t look like a blowhard when you can at least produce a working copy. Right now, i’d settle for just some screenshots of that magazine site.
Speaking of which, i can at least produce a static HTML version, using archive.org for the markup and my backup image files for the graphics. So all is not completely, irretrievably lost.
But i’d rather get those bugs ironed out. I just need a lot more time than i can actually come up with lately.
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link roundup
The Secrets of Rennes-le-Château; Notes on a Strange World (Skeptical Inquirer November 2004) This is a must-read for fans of Holy Blood Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code.
National Geographic: The Lost Gospel of Judas Found in the 1970s, and recently pieced together and translated. Paints Judas not as a traitor, but as the best pal, handpicked by Jesus to turn him in.
And MySpacers, please read this: Hacking a MySpace Layout by Mike Davidson of Newsvine. Complete with downloadable sample CSS and a tutorial, this post is easily the best thing referencing MySpace in a long time. Here’s what i did to mine. (Note the banner up top: Latin for “this place is terrible”.)
WikiTruth: censored Wikipedia articles, retrieved from the digital void and set out in the sun again. No editing, natch.
Even Generals want to see Rummy quit.
10 Wackiest e-commerce sites, from Wired.
Great works of art, as the artists might have done them as children. (Check out the Escher!)
Nahuelito, presumably a close cousin to Nessie, recently spotted and photographed. Clever hoax, or real?
Make those cool stickers like the feed linkifiers on the sidebar.
California Department of Corrections (not the Billboard Liberation Front, as was previously stated) salutes US Military in Iraq.
Big Brother has his eyes on you, NYC.
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video games
The new Tomb Raider and Driver games for PS2 are good. Real good. If you’ve lost faith in either series, i’d encourage you to go check them out for yourself.
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weird shit
today’s link roundup: weird, entertaining, and enlightening links found (as usual) via Slashdot, BoingBoing, and others.
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link roundup
WoW says no GLBT recruiting, then backs off. A nearly surreal look at how/what mainstream straights actually think regarding gender issues.
Rev. Magdalen, SubGenius, is losing a custody battle – just because she belongs to a weirdo UFO-centric fringe cult. Now if that ain’t American as Jesus pie, i’m not sure what is. Actually, i’m really not sure what is. Regardless, her involvement with this satire group – of which i am a card-carrying member – is absolutely protected by the Constitution, and does NOT make her unfit for her motherial duties. WTF.
Allan Kaprow, inventor of the “Happening,” R.I.P.
Ernest Angley, plus god, will cure you of AIDS. Or rather, he will make your poor, undereducated community believe that he has, thereby increasing the virus’s exposure potential. Another sad, pathetic bastard (and from Ohio, oh lord) wrecking our world through ignorance and lies.
Seymour Hersh tells it: Bush increasingly heading in the direction of Iran, via Hiroshima. Didn’t my generation come close enough to total obliteration via this guy’s dad’s boss already? Fear, pt II: the Nuclear Option.
Hilarious concept device: a USB drive that bloats like a tick filling up with blood.
TBS’s hilarious LOTR commercial.
Evolution gets a stunning piece of evidence: demonstrating the bit-by-bit progression of evolution.
Shame on AT&T for being Big Brother’s squealing little tattle-tale kid brother. Bright side: free Gitmo vacations for everyone!
Trading up, from a paperclip, to… a house? Hey, he’s got one free year’s rent in Phoenix already!
Goth subculture may help self-hurting kids. Take that, squares!
Cannabis’s long-term effects: the jury, not surprisingly, is still out.
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stories
it was also a fact that, in the night, under a pale but dim goose-neck lamp (a veteran of war, of sorts), he would write his life the way he had always wanted it to be…
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stories
It was also a fact that, in the night, under a pale but dim goose-neck lamp (a veteran of war, of sorts), he would write his life the way he had always wanted it to be…
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new oldness
for them what haf’t knowed me not too long, i was once a mediocre poet…
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new items
Spiffed up the navigation menu a little bit to have submenus, via Suckerfish. Added some poems, grouped mainly by the volume of work from which they spawned.
At least one is a song i’ve been working on for many years, which may soon see the light of day, finally…
Have a lot of catching up to do in many areas. Off to bed with me!
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latest songs played on my iTunes.
Holly’s still sick. i went to work yesterday. thanks to everyone who helped make my decision easier! i was worried, because i know next to nothing about pleurisy, and i didn’t want to make any stupid mistakes or lose my job being paranoid. i wanted to take care of Holly. she seemed to have done alright, sleeping most of the day away, which is probably great for her, poor thing.
i’ve been working hard at the resume thing. i’m trying to get my old websites to work so i can have a real portfolio. it’s a rough road. with different versions of PHP, MySQL, and Apache, what’s good for the goose isn’t necessarily good for the gander. to use a really olde tyme phrase, which makes me sound and feel really old and lame.
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cool page: last 100 songs played
Last 100 songs played on my iTunes, with album covers and extended info. Cover and album title link to product page on Amazon. Courtesy of iTunesSpy (plugin for WordPress), hacked by yours truly.
(Current track still on sidebar – i’ve reduced it from last 5 songs because i felt it was TMI.)
if i miss work today, i could lose a job that i hate.
however, Holly has a painful case of pleurisy. it’s excruciating, and i don’t want to leave her alone, although i’m sure she’ll be fine.
we do have bills to pay. but…!
i was out with a sore throat this week and Holly’s got pleurisy and severe chest/back pain and maybe a fever too. had to call out sick for her and for myself on behalf of her on Thor’s Day.
i know i’ll get in trouble for doing that. but i just don’t care. i spent all of my loyalty points for that company. i’ve applied at a few other places; i’m sure to get one or more offers. i just can’t keep living at that stupid place and talking to those fluff-headed customers any longer. i swear to fuck, every day i visualize my empty body hanging from the balcony. it’s taking too much from me to keep this crap up. i need change. i need a new job, more time to create, and more space to create in. i won’t even go into the old “standing by while my sweet old Grandpa dies” bit. i can’t even get myself over there to witness it most of the time.
my life is stifling me.
all i want is Holly, and Speck, and a fuckload of cash (that’ll take care of the rest of my problems). that’s all i want.
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link roundup
from the Missing Link files: 375 million year old Fishapod fossil discovered. A fish with a freaking neck. Oh, and finger-like bones attached to wrist-like bones. Fuck you, Creationistas! (See also: Ray Troll’s related artwork)
“Dark Miracle: Trinity, the Manhattan Project, and the Birth of the Atomic Age”, a fabulous piece by Josh Ellis (see also: video of Ed Grothus’ Black Hole tour)
SXSW video coverage. Sweet.
Big Brother is (or will soon be) watching you, via SkySeer. Already this drone camera-plane is in use in L.A. skies.
Remember this, GWB? “Leaks of classified information are bad things. We’ve got too much leaking in Washington… I want to know who the leakers are.” Does anyone have a mirror for Mister Bush?
It’s All in the Mind, man: psychedelics research.
Israeli soldier murders journalist. From a related BBC News story:
“The inquest has heard that Mr Miller approached an armoured personnel carrier, carrying a white flag which he shone a torch on, calling out that he was a British journalist and wearing a helmet marked TV. He was shot in the neck, unprotected by his body armour.He had been attempting to ask for permission to leave the area.”
So, yeah, just keep on supporting Israel, all you Left Behind-reading end-times obsessed know-nothing Revelationist fuckwits.
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NAKED DAY!
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Sun’s idea for an open-source DRM has the potential to fix many extremely problematic issues with potentially dangerous, proprietary DRM.
Goodbye, PSP movies. We hardly knew ye.
When you tell He-man gung-ho shootemup types that war is just plain bad, and that the American war against Iraq is one of the worst, maybe you should make him read this article entitled “Baghdad By Night” instead, from NPR producer JJ Sutherland. To paraphrase Serena Tali, the author of comment #1 from that article, Americans don’t know about this kind of thing because they just don’t want to know.
Still don’t think the US is becoming a police state? Bully cops suck the worst.
Evil terrorist mastermind Mario apparently on the loose in Ohio.
I got this in my MySpace inbox the other day. It made me feel terrific. The best compliment i think i’ve ever gotten.
my name is [DL] i am the younger brother of [SL]…now [SW], but i just wanted to say that you wrote a poem and i found a copy of it it started out “each life a letter under an indigo envelope”, anyways i just wanted to say that was one of the greatest poems i ever read in my life, and by the time [SL/SW] told me you wrote it you were already gone to florida i think. anyways, good talking to you i always wanted to tell you that. i actually used that poem for a class in college and we had to memorize a poem and resite it, i picked that one. i hope you are still writing and i hope life and your travels have treated you well.
[DL]
Shame, i don’t even remember the pome. (SL/SW is a girl i used to hang around a whole lot back in The Day, during the grunge explosion and my pizza-slangin’, pot-smokin’, free-wheelin’ heyday. DL is her younger brother. I always liked him, he was a real fun guy.)
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i got this in my MySpace inbox the other day. it made me feel terrific. the best compliment i think i’ve ever gotten.
my name is [DL] i am the younger brother of [SL]…now [SW], but i just wanted to say that you wrote a poem and i found a copy of it it started out “each life a letter under an indigo envelope”, anyways i just wanted to say that was one of the greatest poems i ever read in my life, and by the time [SL/SW] told me you wrote it you were already gone to florida i think. anyways, good talking to you i always wanted to tell you that. i actually used that poem for a class in college and we had to memorize a poem and resite it, i picked that one. i hope you are still writing and i hope life and your travels have treated you well.
[DL]
shame, i don’t even remember the pome.
(SL/SW is a girl i used to hang around a whole lot back in The Day, during the grunge explosion and my pizza-slangin’, pot-smokin’, free-wheelin’ heyday. DL is her younger brother. I always liked him, he was a real fun guy.)
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