The last few days at work I have been using the jquery ajaxform plugin extensively. The Malsup docs have been valuable. However, there have been certain things that I have had some issue with. It might be one of those “how do you google for things that do not exist”…
The week I was sick saw a few black marks on history – Michael Chriton Died of cancer and Chi Cheng, bassist for one of my favorite bands, was involved in a serious car accident.
Last year March, I participated in the F1 Overnight web challenge, a 24 hour+ programming comepetition to benefit Minnesota non-profits hosted by Sierra Bravo. My team had the pleasure of working with REDA (Riverview Economic Development Association). It was a lot of fun and I am looking forward to doing it again this year. Registration opened over the weekend for the event to be held February 28th. My team is the Polymorphin Power Rangers, lead by Jon once again. My profile is up here. I am the green ranger. hehe
Thanks to Nathan on the Podcaust forums, I discovered another interesting person today – Franz Reichelt. Reichelt was an Austrian tailor that was only famous for the manner in which he died – he leaped from the Eiffel Tower demonstrating his jacket, which is somewhat like the modern day parachute suits. However, they really only perfected the concept in recent years.
Last night before bed, I conducted in my not-unusual practice of ODing on Wikipedia. I don’t know where I started nor where I ended, but somewhere in between, I got on to reading about the Old Testament of the Bible. I am in no way shape or form a biblical scholar, nor do I aim to be, but I do sometimes think about the historical context to things… sometimes of which is the bible. I didn’t read the Davinci Code, but around the time of all the hubub regarding it, as well as the references in HBO’s Carnivale series, I got somewhat interested in Gnostic texts – specifically why these texts were not part of the bible, yet others were. Additionally, why do Islam, Judaeism, and Christianity essentially share the same old Testements, but only “essentially” (i.e. some differences and texts left out or included). To be fair, I have not given this much thought outside of “huh, that is kinda weird” and then go back to doing whatever I was doing.
I picked up a copy of Vita.MN today to see an ad for Crypticon Minneapolis running Novemeber 14th – 16th. I am not a convention kiddo, but afte Toni and I were set on going to CONvergence and then couldn’t at the last minute due to the 4th O’ July holiday, I sorta have an inikling to go. I think I subconciously added it to my list of things to do before I die. So… anyone want to go see the guy that played the bunny in Donny Darko, a couple incarnations of Jason, the master of disguise Doug Jones (fish guy in Hellboy, Pan, Silver Surfer, etc), or just some horror groupies?
My buddy Miki sent me an amazing Alan Moore video today on the Facebook. I watched it on an off over the workday today and have to say that I think it jolted me back on to my path I seemed to have strayed from. I have never known a whole lot about Alan Moore aside from that he wrote the original comics for that piece of crap movie “League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” and that he resented the film adaptation of “V for Vendetta”. I guess I blew him off as a comic cook like Frank Miller has seemed to become. However, this video changed my mind about that… and reminded me a wee bit of who I used to be.
The below is a article I wrote for TCPHP mailing list in 2005. I thought of it today and decided to re-post it.
I had the pleasure of listening to a recording of Aldous Huxley from 1962. Huxley, a visionary speaker and thinker predating the 60s hippy movement was a leader in predicting the social control that is all the rage in counter culture thought even today. It reminds me of some dialog in THE MIST, where the people trapped in the grocery store discuss the potential impending violence among the captives. They argue the good nature of people vs. the psychotic fickle nature of man when all the social safety precautions are removed. The MIST wasn’t a movie about Terrorism, but still commented on the fear imposed when you are exposed to the
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