Category: The Digital Feed

Things seemed to be going very well for the writing for a bit there, and then NaNoWriMo hit. You know what peeves me about that the most? I have a catalogue of works that I’m burning to get published, but every time the global call for authors rolls around I hit this solid cliff of writer’s block.

If I were a betting man still I’d put money on next year’s failure to produce, but then I’d probably do it just because the Devil said so. Quickly, to debunk those that might think I think for a moment that Satan may actually guide my actions, you should be referred to my views on Luck for the more apt reference, followed immediately by my views on religion for a complete lack of faith [ha, puns!] in the concept that the Devil could actually control me.

That all aside, insomnia sucks. The last time I remember sleeping soundly it was 2008. Ah well. There’ll be plenty of time for sleep when my heathen ass is burning in hell for not believing in the Devil I suppose. That or all the soul collecting I do. Ironic, neh?

— Vid

I cannot figure out what the devil is going on with the style sheet. It seems like I can’t get pages to keep the same formatting for font sizes and displays. It’s bloody aggravating. Seriously, I tried to create a post system for the Roster, and when I got that feed working properly, albeit the post order was backwards, all of a sudden my numbered lists decided to display differently, with a changed indent that puts the bullet OUTSIDE of the page frame, and in a different font size.

The kicker? Only the listed items are doing this.

To quote a source of immeasurable humor, in reference to CSS, I wish I could hate it to death.

Nonetheless I plod on with my coding, trying to pummel it into the shape that I want, but it’s slow going. Though progress does seem to be exponential once made. In that when I figure out why the weird thing is being weird, I can then keep weird things from being weird elsewhere in the site. I know the repetition is obnoxious, but this [expletive] is really just weird.

— Vid

So I’m still hammering away at the coding necessary to get posting to work the way I want. People who have been paying attention to the site updates may notice the new page “The Forge” in the top right-to-center. You can ignore that like a Grand Galactic Inquisitor. It’s my testing ground for page reworks. Currently I’m trying to get the Content page to update dynamically, and display the proper message when we don’t have anything on the Chopping Block, but that’s being a pain in the ass. In other random yet news, the Season 4 Venture Brothers premier could’ve been stronger. I get that they went for the long payoff with the chopped up order playback a la Pulp Fiction, but it kind of threw the pacing.

Seriously, you’d think that a page would know what to do when there aren’t any posts to display, but no. Instead it has to insert all the line breaks that would be there if the posts were there, but the content itself wasn’t. Doesn’t make [expletive] sense to me, and it’s really starting to piss me off. As it stands, I’ve figured out how to keep certain updates from displaying in The Digital Feed, which sounds pointless, but I assure you it is not. Just… just trust me.

Also, yesterday there was a peacock in my front yard. Yeah, a [expletive] peacock. What the hell!? I sent out a few notices via MMS. Ten points to the person who told me that it was their escaped pet. They settled for a peacock after being unable to secure a Chocobo. Another ten to the person who said there was good eating in one of those.

— Vid