Jan

30

Not your average Lorem Ipsum

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If you’ve ever done a page layout, for web or print, you’ve likely needed some dummy text to design or proof around. Lorem Ipsum is the most well known bogus copy in the industry and I’ve used it plenty of times. There’s a lovely online generator for the placeholder copy, and those with desktop publishing experience will remember the colourful prose Jabberwocky generated in Quark Xpress in Klingon. :)
Screenshot 02-1

But now there’s a new kid generator on the scene. The ever-helpful Neil Dixon pointed me to a really cute alternative this morning. The site is called malevole - Text Generator. Give it a whirl the next time you need filler copy. I laughed out loud when I read through the text it produced for my copy/paste pleasure…
Here it is:

There’s a voice that keeps on calling me. Down the road, that’s where I’ll always be. Every stop I make, I make a new friend. Can’t stay for long, just turn around and I’m gone again. Maybe tomorrow, I’ll want to settle down, Until tomorrow, I’ll just keep moving on.

Knight Rider, a shadowy fight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless in a world of criminals who operate above the law.

80 days around the world, we’ll find a pot of gold just sitting where the rainbow’s ending. Time - we’ll fight against the time, and we’ll fly on the white wings of the wind. 80 days around the world, no we won’t say a word before the ship is really back. Round, round, all around the world. Round, all around the world. Round, all around the world. Round, all around the world.

LOL! It quoted Knight Rider! How cool is that!
Well, perhaps you can find a use for this fun tool… Enjoy!

smooches~
jEN

Jan

29

Been tweakin’

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Welcome to yet another fresh look here at regularjen…

I’ve been monkeying around with CSS for my Wordpress blog this afternoon. I’ve still got some bugs to work out, but I wanted to trim down the available styles you can view my site as and have the choices all be my own layouts. You now have two choices: “my eyes” (which was the style you were seeing it as), and “cracked” (featuring a photo I took of some rusty stuff and some cute Photoshopped text).

I’m still fine-tuning the new style and debugging, so it’ll likely change a bit over the next few hours, but I like where it’s going and may use my final CSS to create some more styles… I’ve based the CSS off of another free WP stylesheet, but then, who doesn’t…

smooches~
jEN

Jan

27

Tip o’ the Day: Character Palatte & Bookmarks Bar

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Good morning y’all!
I was marvelling at the freakish numbers of bookmarks I keep, and thought to myself, “Self- there’s got to be a better way to cram more of the sites I love into the bookmarks bar…”

So, I got to thinking about the Character Palette in Mac OS X. To activate this handy thing as a Menu item, go here, (as illustrated below), and put a check into the Character Palette box. My Mac is set up as a US keyboard, but I enabled the CP to have quick access to keys I don’t have enabled, like the British “£” symbol. When you need something like that, just bring up Character Palette menu from the top of your screen, find the symbol you’re looking for and double click the pictograph of it to insert it wherever your cursor is in any open application.
Screenshot 02

Which brings me back to the Bookmarks Bar… I thought, if I can insert a symbol to represent a URL name, then I can save tons of space and get more sites crammed in for quick access! (My simple genius frightens most lower plant life and arthropods, but I’ve not known it to put off mortals yet… *grin*) So, it’s not perfect, and can be difficult to “read” at higher screen resolutions, but, my ultimate plan is to create a specific dingbat font just for my link abbreviations. I’ll just load it into the System fonts permanently and enjoy custom legibility and increased efficiency in my browser.
Here’s a snappy of what it looks like after some brief playing around:
Bookmarkstip

Enjoy!

smooches~
jEN

Jan

26

Spam: eat me.

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Spam
Spam. Everyone makes fun of it. No one admits to eating it, let alone, liking it… Oh, but I did.
Years ago, long before the day I gave up meat, I liked Spam. I ate Spam-burgers; I ate it straight from the tin; I fried it up in butter and loved what that gelatinous goo that surrounds the “product” turned into when it touched a hot pan. I didn’t eat it often, but perhaps as often as more than once per month is a fair guess.

But this isn’t a post about the famous, museum worthy, underdog of the potted meat products. Nope. I mean spam-spam. You know, the ads for online gambling, poker, prescription drugs for whatever ails you, loose women, housewives, transsexuals, cheap software, free computers, or all of the above. Spam. If Spam the luncheon meat is really the flotsam and jetsam of the abattoir, then truly the definition of that which slips its way into your inbox and blog comments is whatever the Hormel factory would have rejected. Spam is crap. Straight from the butcher’s floor- crap. The unloved pig-bits of uninvited data not even good enough to make a bag of digital pork rinds.

So, I got me a plug-in installed for Wordpress now. It’s supposed to work better and more behind-the-scenes than the other stuff out there. Nellus pointed me to it. Now I point you… WP Hashcash. I’m not 100% clear how it works yet, but after reading what nellus wrote and the info dev from the site, I decided to give it a whirl.

I’ll update you on the success or failure of it.
BTW, each link in this post will lead you to a different place, most relating to Spam both as a pop-culture food and as the black plague of the internet. Enjoy… and let me know if you visit the Spam Museum. Post photos if you do…

Until later, (which will likely be less confessional),
smooches~
jEN

Jan

25

This too shall pass… I hope…

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Aw, geez.

The perils of having piercings… I’ve sorta done this before, (years ago), but it was a nice smooth, stainless steel ball then. It only came unscrewed and was unceremoniously swallowed. This time it’s different… There’s danger afoot, dear kitties.

Here’s the skinny:
I was cooly sitting on the sofa, enjoying a simple dish of seasoned brown rice with salt n’ pepper prawns, when-
*crunch*
I split the top acrylic ball of my tongue piercing in half and managed to slip it down my gullet with a mouthful of tasty rice. I’ve smashed these plastic bits into submission before, that’s why I wear the plastic one’s mostly- I don’t trust my own mandibular coordination, but I’d yet to swallow any shrapnel until today. With any luck, it’s not perforating my intestines, carving it’s name into my spleen, or giving claw marks down the walls of my tum-tum. Hopefully the radical chunk of decorative acrylic is just queuing for a pooing. (Sorry, couldn’t resist a bit of silly toilet humour… *grin*)

I guess if I bleed to death in the night, you’ll know what happened.

Now, need to get another ball for this thingy…

smooches~
jEN
What I’m listening to right now:
Horror Business from the album “Misfits” by Misfits

Jan

25

I loves them good…

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Unrepentedly, I stood in front of the kitchen window, fingers chilled from handling their sweet, wet flesh. I shifted my weight from foot to foot, swaying like Stevie Wonder in a blissful trance, juice on my fingers and tiny seeds in my teeth. I stared out the kitchen window, blankly taking in the details of the sky, and shoved the next one into my mouth…
Plump and ripe, I reduced the strawberries to little clumps of stems. I don’t think I shared a single one from the package. I’m not sorry. He had his chance. Each day their numbers lessened as I obeyed the sirens’ call from the refrigerator. Today I finished them.

I loves the little strawberries. I loves them good…

smooches~
jEN

Jan

24

Wonders never cease

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Some books from my recklessly split October M-Bag just showed up… Five in all. I thought that this particular group only contained four books, but one had been obscured by the taller spines of it’s surroundings in my inventory photograph. (Bonus!) So, that makes the total: 15 of 38 books originally missing. With five so far finding their way to me, missing ten is something I can live with a bit more. I have replaced one via Amazon already, but it sure would be spiffy if further printed material migrated my way.

One can hope. Come to me treasured books… come home to jEN…

smooches~
jEN

What I’m listening to right now:
Joe Robot from the album “Money Money 2020″ by The Network

Jan

23

These Aren’t the Droids You’re Looking For

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Queens of the Stone Age are on tour… due in London on March 3rd. I am floating…
I’ve seen them before, hung out with a few of the guys, got some autographs, drank some tequila and saw some tattoos on the last tour. I’ve never been a groupie for anyone, I just walk backstage. I feel like Jedi or something when it happens… it’s weird. “You don’t need to see my backstage pass… I have the credentials… my keys open doors…” or something like that.
I didn’t get to meet my hero, Josh Homme, last time, but perhaps I can this time. No one knows…
*wink*

smooches~
jEN

What I’m listening to right now:
Little Sister from the album “Little Sister-(Promo CDS)” by Queens of the Stone Age

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