I’m shaking the dust off of my coding brain cells and learning Ruby on Rails. I played with Ruby a few weeks ago, read my Rails book during Thanksgiving travels, and today created my first official Ruby on Rails application. I present to you my Hello World:
You shouldn’t be too impressed because I copied the [...]
Filed under: Geek Talk on November 30th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
My sister needed to mail us a check.
It came in a most unusual way.
Get the Flash Player to see this player.
var s0 = new SWFObject(”http://blueeyedzoo.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/flash-video-player/mediaplayer.swf”,”n0″,”320″,”260″,”7″);
s0.addParam(”allowfullscreen”,”true”);
s0.addParam(”allowscriptaccess”,”always”);
s0.addVariable(”javascriptid”,”n0″);
s0.addVariable(”shownavigation”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”width”,”320″);
s0.addVariable(”height”,”260″);
s0.addVariable(”image”,”http://blueeyedzoo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/confetti.jpg”);
s0.addVariable(”screencolor”,”0×000000″);
s0.addVariable(”autoscroll”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”displayheight”,”240″);
s0.addVariable(”largecontrols”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”overstretch”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”showdigits”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”showdownload”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”showeq”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”showicons”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”showvolume”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”thumbsinplaylist”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”autostart”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”bufferlength”,”3″);
s0.addVariable(”repeat”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”rotatetime”,”5″);
s0.addVariable(”smoothing”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”volume”,”80″);
s0.addVariable(”enablejs”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”linkfromdisplay”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”t”,”autodetect”);
s0.addVariable(”useaudio”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”usecaptions”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”usefullscreen”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”usekeys”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”file”,”http://blueeyedzoo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/confetti.flv”);
s0.write(”video0″);
The note says:
S&G,
You love me…
and don’t you forget that!
Filed under: Family on November 21st, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Q: If you could have any job in the world, what would you do?
E: Be a dance teacher, a swim lessons teacher, an art teacher …. and a worker at Ikea’s kid’s place.
N: Be a swim lessons teacher.
Q: If you could be a superhero, what would your superpower be?
E: To stick to buildings.
N: To shoot [...]
Filed under: Family on November 19th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
The twin girls that live next door came over to play this afternoon. At one point they were playing with the paper, scissors, glue stick, markers, etc. One of the twins asked me how to spell ‘Dear’. Then she asked how to spell ‘Mike’. Hmmm, okay. Then she showed me her creation. A note, for [...]
Filed under: Family on November 14th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Last Friday, we got the bikes out to go for a ride. I quickly discovered that E’s training wheels were broken. The tread had come completely off one side. She was quite upset about it. I told her that I would not buy her another set and that she would just have to learn to [...]
Filed under: Adventures, Family on November 12th, 2007 | 4 Comments »