Never Get in a Land War with Asia
Posted by Chris | Filed under Design, Family, Friends, Just for Fun
I think this is why I haven’t come up with a new design for this site. Besides not having time.
While this site has purpose (a place for Jen and me to post our thoughts), it’s not really defined.
God has definately blessed us lately. It’s really do-or-die at work. We have a big meeting on Thursday. But Jen and I (okay, it was to me, but it’s ours) got a check in the mail for two grand!!! TWO GRAND!!! That’s a 2 with three 0 after it. For doing a website for an anniversary party! I can explain later. Just know that, if you think God doesn’t listen, here’s proof! We expected $200, maybe $300, $500 max. Nope, God provided 10x that!
Got a call from a friend that I haven’t heard from in a while. Go check out his new site and give him lots and lots of money (if you can).
Got another call from another friend while on the phone with the first friend. This one wanted to know my favorite movie because he quoted a line and bet another guy he couldn’t come up with it. Turns out neither could, but I helped them out. It’s Airborne, by the way.
Still getting random pings from our two images. Any help? It doesn’t really bother me in the sense that someone is stealing from me, since I have a ton of bandwidth (thank you Dreamhost). I just don’t like random people messing with pictures of my wife and kid.
Went to Elk City over the weekend. And Taco Factory. Taco Factory has the best fast-mexican-food ever! Seriously. Best. Ever. Dig it.
Let me know you were here before you leave. Seriously.
Google Images
Posted by Chris | Filed under Family, Technology
Okay, I’ll admit that I use Google’s image search. It’s great for finding pictures of just about anything. Most of the time, I’ll search for images to get an idea of what I’m looking to create. For example, I’m currenty working on an anniversary site for a couple I’ve only met through my cousin-in-law. I’m wanting to do an old newspaper-themed sight. So I hop on Google.com, search for their local newspapers, hit “images” and see what comes up. I’m looking for color, typeface, and some sort of layout. I simply want to replicate the newspaper to make it feel more personal.
However, since I posted the first set of pictures, I’ve noticed that 2 pictures always are hit on by Google Images. Now, I’m not sure if it’s some sort of bot running around the web. At first, I thought so, but it’s only hit on those two images, and we have over 10 on this site. My next thought was that I put them somewhere on another one of my sites, but it’s shouldn’t show up on my logs as Google. This leads me to believe that those keywords used for the pictures must be very popular on Google. I’m not sure how to check popularity (or if there even is a way). I’m now wondering if my pictures are getting ripped off.
If you happen to see either of these two pictures on anything other than this site, please let me know (although I expect no response whatsoever):
If anyone has any more ideas, please let me know. I’m not losing sleep over this or anything, but it’s very curious to me.
Halloween
Posted by Chris | Filed under Family, Just for Fun
Halloween has come and gone without much fanfare around my house or neighborhood. I’m not real big on Halloween. Not because “it’s evil” or anything. I just never liked walking around asking people for candy. It’s just kinda a weird premise. Everything we’re taught or we teach our kids is completely reversed on Halloween:
- That’s the first thing you have to do!
- Gimme some candy!
- We can’t go trick-or-treating yet, it’s still light outside.
- Nobody’s home. Let’s egg/toilet paper/light doggy doo on fire on the porch and ring the doorbell/etc. the house.
Actually, my favorite Halloween pasttime is handing out candy for about, say, 15 mins. Then we turn off all the lights in our house and hide in my parent’s bedroom and watch a movie. All four of us (Mom, Dad, brother, and myself) would hang out, eat popcorn and leftover candy and watch a good flick.
I can’t wait to start something like that with my wife and baby girl.
