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Random Test Results

"You are a geek. Good for you! Considering the endless complexity of the universe, as well as whatever discipline you happen to be most interested in, you'll never be bored as long as you have a good book store, a net connection, and thousands of dollars worth of expensive equipment. Assuming you're a technical geek, you'll be able to afford it, too. If you're not a technical geek, you're geek enough to mate with a technical geek and thereby get the needed dough. Dating tip: Don't date a geek of the same persuasion as you. You'll constantly try to out-geek the other."

"Not too bad, but you can do better. Keep working on it -- maybe try kicking a few guys wherever you want to, then start lighting them on fire. Slow and steady wins the race, okay? You've got a long way to go, but I think you'll survive."

Caveat Lector.

This is not a site with substance, nor a site with meaning, nor even (alas and alack) a site with wet, hot, naked chicks. There is nothing intentionally useful or educational about this site -- it is merely more pointless twaddle. I love the word twaddle. Nearly as much as quahog. More so than moratorium. Maybe, I should make a list of my favorite words?

*agh* such a tester

I suppose this is where I should insert all those pointless statistics about me -- age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, height, weight, geek code, and all that rubbish. Ahhh, but I did that on my very first vanity page, way back in '96 so if you didn't see it then, you're out of luck. Oh, that was an awful page. Even more awful than this one. Really. It had blink tags. And cute, but pointless animated gifs. If, for some reason, you really want to see early pages I wrote, you are welcome to go dig through the Internet Archive. The earliest one archived is not quite as horrible even though it uses frames and a stupid javascript clock. Hard to believe that when I wrote it javascript clocks and frames were considered cutting edge. Gah.

Currently, this site uses a heavily tweaked version of the free Leaves v1.0 blog template found at Open Source Web Design. I selected this template largely because it's very pretty and clean with minimal use of graphics. My web server is a creaky old thing in the basement and I dare not abuse it by larding this here site with too many extraneous graphics.

I edited/wrote this site using Bluefish and gedit. Some of the CSS code you see is influenced by examples found in Designing CSS Web Pages and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) by Example (both fine books are available through your local library). I have validated the CSS for some of the pages:

index.html

about.html

blog.html

cats.html

read.html

quilts.html

shit.html

sstories.html

To increase usability, I have added a site-specific Google search box to each page. The code for this search box came from an 08.29.2003 Typepad tutorial on "Six Apart." (Yes, I am aware the google button is bigger than the search box when viewed in IE. It's a small problem, I might get around to fixing one of these days).