Barnes and Nobel Guy

I had to go and buy a couple books for my class today and I ended up with a few additional items: -- Bush's War (a summary of what Bush was thinking) -- It's You Not Me (a compilation of short stories written by women scorned) -- A birthday card with all the recently dead presidents on the front I get to the check out and the clerk has is head down and is intently practicing writing Hanja (not paying attention). So I say "Oh is that Hanji" just to notify him that I've been standing right in front of him for 10 seconds. I know that doesn't seem like a long time but I wanted to get home at some point in time. He says "no, it's Korean". I let it go (Hanja is the written Korean Language) - again, for the want to eventually arrive at home. Then he picks up the first book and holds it up next to his head and makes the goofy George Bush face, and proceeds to tell me why he thought he was a bad president. This lasted for another 10 very long seconds -- until he picked up the Birthday card. He gives me the disertation about the birthday card. At this point I'm just waiting for him to give me the commentary about the woman scorned book and I'm thanking God I wasn't picking up a book on sexual disfuntion. He deducted, from my purchases I was a man hating conservative fuck. Even at Barnes and Noble I get abused. And since when was being conservative an insult. Hmmm... I only see the jobless rate increasing under the free wheeling spending plan of "THE OTHERS".

WYSIWYG VS Creationism

I may be showing my hand by posting this entry.  Geek or not?

Recently my web host introduced the WISIWYG (pronounced: wizz - E - wig) -- it's an acronym that stands for "What you see is what you get".  What this means:  You don't have to go through the sometimes frustrating process of trying to master HTML (hyper-text mark-up language).  I don't know how many times I've tried to make a single space list or the line spacing has been all screwed up.    

Squarespace has fully automated all aspects of CSS, links, blocks, colors, fonts, line spacing ... all of it.  In some ways it's a little upsetting.  Now ANYONE can have a web page that looks like mine or ... EVEN BETTER ... without knowing how to write a single line of code!  THE HORROR!

It feels like what I imagined it would have felt like to be really good at math and then the calculator came out.

Here's the question:

Do I walk into the light ... stop honing my geek skills ... and start improving my site design with other people's creations that have been put out there as "WYSIWYG plug and play".  Or .... should I continue the laborious process of original creation?   

I like the idea of writing code ... however, this WYSIWYG is a lot faster.

*This blog entry was created using WYSIWYG

Favorite Things

Funsucker has brought to my attention her new favorite thing (I'm not sure if she was talking about the HD PVR or just the PVR ... but the HD PVR is pretty darn cool).

The HD PVR (Personal Video Recorder).  It's like the DVR but it's HD and you can make Blu-ray quality disks for playback on your Blu-ray player.  

Something to get excited about .... It's the world’s first HD video recorder for making real-time H.264 compressed recordings at resolutions up to 1080i.  Translation ... you'll be able to exactly how symmetrical Jason Segel's parts are in the opening scene of Forgetting Sarah Marshall.  And then you can make Blu Ray disks for all your friends.

If the close up of Jason's parts just don't do enough for you ... you CAN DO MORE.  The HD PVR allows you to record your own home video into an AVCHD format for creating Blu-ray disks of what ever parts you want. Which you can then make as many disks as you want and share with your friends ... or not.

OH and not to mention -- it's all automated and commercial free.