I made Lazy Susan

I'll temporarily drop the pie analogy I've been playing with for the sake of explaining what Lazy Susan is: it's just a wheel to spin. Lazy susans are for spinning food, so I figured it was a cute name for the page.

I think I've pretty much given up on giving every page a header, it's so tiring. I haven't even updated Main Site since...well, since the Dragonese Dictionary. Which, now that I think about it, isn't that old.

Lazy Susan was a surprisingly easy project! I thought it would be more complicated, but computers make it surprisingly easy to bake pies and spin 'em around. SVG was a savior for this. I can't imagine how I would even begin this using canvas, though surely the text would be even more of a hassle.

As it is, the hardest part of the project was finding enough colors (it's only got 30, though you could make your own using hex colors). I just got a row of Google's Material and Flat from htmlcolorcodes.com/color-chart. That site is awful full of ads according to my adblocker, by the way. Just wow.

Okay, I'm done now.

I meant to write a story but instead I made boustrophedon.html

I was super excited about it and everything. My heart did a cute little jump at the thought of it, and I skipped straight to bed where my laptop lay open, and there, in the tabs, I saw...

A video about boustrophedon :(

And I thought, well, I meant to work on this a few hours ago. I should do it now.

And then I did it now—I mean then. Forgetting to write the story absolutely.

Don't worry, though. I haven't forgotten it. It's a story I've been thinking about for forever yet have only rarely thought about. It happens a lot. So many tales to tell, so few tellings told.

I'm going to sleep, but as soon as I wake up, I hope to write.

I was working on an RSS feed for my blog

And I think I figured out the simplest way to do it without relying on something other than Javascript. I have very strict standards for myself when it comes to my website designs: accept no help.

Not because I think my js and css skillz are superior or anything. I work on these things as a hobby. It's like the difference between cutting out a bunch of paper to create a scrapbook or downloading a template online.

Everything on this site is entirely me, and as you may see, me right now is bland as hell.

I don't think this entirely captures my essence, but...at the same time...is my essence even colorful? What do I even mean by essence?

It's whatever. My point is, that if you open up the console and getRSS(), then badabing bada boom, you got yourself my RSS feed. Is this...is this okay? I feel like I'm definitely doing something wrong. Well, for now, here's an RSS. Very experimental. Would not recommend following. I myself follow it only to beta, if I could dislike every post, I would.

My computer popped. Just...POP

I was doing my typical lazying about, grabbed it, and the frame around the screen just popped out.

The innards. They are exposed!!! Bluhh, this is suck. My mom has a laptop that she's never used, so I'm backing up all my shit and throwing it in there.

Sigh, I never thought it would come to this... This computer sure has been through thick and thin with me. For a few years. It's NOT THAT OLD. I can't tell if I should be sad or angry. It's not even slow, the frame just popped out and I'm worried it'll start janking now that it has exposed wiring.

Hopefully I can continue to use it for a few more years, but at least I've got my mom's, admittedly newer, laptop just in case. Hers is small though. No keypad (unless we're counting the monstrosity on the touchpad). And worst of all, it don't have my apps :(

I'm typing this on my now janky top though, so it still works as intended. The physical screen does shake a bit now though, it seems whatever was keeping the hinges from going wild just fucked right off.

Zzzzzz

I didn't sleep all night making a script that I completely deleted after I finished because I realized it would be much less complicated to just...ug bluh

Do you see that new Sort button there in the Blog Links menu?

That thing used to not do shit. It just made all the lists flexboxes and reversed their order (which does NOT actually change the order, so when I tab through the links, it just starts me at the bottom instead of at the oldest link).

I thought, Yeah, that sucks, but it's so hard to reverse the actual order of the lists, so why don't I just add arrow key controls instead?

I must be stupid.

It may be obvious, but for those who don't know, there's a lot of layers in those links. Theres lists within list items within details within list items within lists. The easiest way to do the thing, I decided, was to specify in each link where up and where down is (which changes depending on whether the details is open!)

I think I was probably right. It just took a lotta while loops, specifying whether a link was inside a summary tag or not, and many many many many many references to parentElements of parentElements.

In the end it seemed simple, but it took the whole night (I guess 'cause I overcomplicate things to start with and then take the time later to simplify some task or another).

The penultimate 30 minutes of that brain workout were spent reminding myself how tf removeChild() and append() work before the 20 minutes it took to just make the stupid button do what it says.

I didn't include the arrow key controls, fuck that. It's a nav thing, just click on the first link and it'll take you to main's first section, jeez.

...

Unless you've sorted the links from Old to New, in which case it's take you to the lastest post, I have to sort the posts too MOTHER F-

This has been my longest post yet. Well, it was a rant.

Oh my god, I just watched my cat use his paw to open the door just a little more. Just enough to give him a better view. Wtf. You usually scooch it with your face. Gato, could it be you are secretly a human in a cat's body?

Well, I'd still love you even if you were.

I made muffin

It was muffin mix for a whole batch, but I used a pot and made one muffin.

It's not very good. And I can't be blamed for this one. I am but a follower of the very simple recipe I have been given:

Add 1/2 cup of milk.

You see this!? I cannot be blamed, the only divergence was baking the mix in a pot and I baked it well! Why does it taste like the broken dreams of a baker who forgot to set the timer and turn on the oven, only to remember his soufflé a week later?

I'm still eating it.

It's day two

Gato tried to eat the sour cream, so I had to lock us up in the bedroom while everyone else ate. It was funny.

Now we're back in the living room and he won't leave my side. Gato is the cutest little princeling I've ever laid eyes on.

This feels more like a REALLY personalized twitter feed

I don't have much to say, other than occasionally wanting to tell a pun or tell someone or no-one-in-particular about something really boring.

For example, I just ate a box of fried chicken and fries, and oh boy do I regret. There was so much. And I ate ALL of it. I wanna cry, I feel so full.

Well, I was bored

Never mind, why don't I tell you more about myself: I have a very cute cat.

That was all. I just wanted to add another post.

My first post

I didn't want to do anything too striking, so I'll just put down bits and bobs of words I find in my back pockets here.