Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

It's time for another "Good Idea, Bad Idea"

Good idea:
Being excited at 9pm because you won a ticket for a good & delicious free coffee.

Bad idea:
Being excited at 3am because you cashed it in right away & drank the free coffee.

New av made by a cute generator. I'm not a fan of circle avatars, so I post-edited mine. (redraft, now with 100% more picture) http://charat.me/profile/create/

Good to know I'm not imagining the unusually huge temperature swing, & maybe good to know I've got at least another 3 days of it I have to endure. I'm about halfway between those dots at the bottom that say "Datil" and "Socorro." ❄️

I spent the last few hours playing with some color tools that together let me choose page link colors both complementing the text & background /and/ conforming to the WCAGs by the W3C Web #Accessibility Initiative. #a11y

Color Calculator: https://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator/

Color Contrast Checker: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

ColorHexa (which has a colorblindness simulator): https://www.colorhexa.com/

Can it please not go from a decent Autumn to a Winter storm that rains a fine icy mist? I really don't like my windshield suddenly icing over mid-commute despite wipers going full.

I don't have much of an eye for design, but I spent the weekend toying with an "old & worn parchment scrolls" website theme. Here's my test page: http://files.thornton2.com/test/index.html

I needed to do something like this because, though I've got CSS 2 pretty nailed down, I'm very rusty with CSS 3.

I forgot it's spooky month, & we're supposed to choose scary names. It's not my thing, but it seems the scary name "MS FrontPage Server Extensions" is still available.

I think for my website of disparate data, I want an effect where the content is on old frayed-edge parchment paper. However, I want it to adapt to the window size naturally, & I remembered that 12 years ago I made just such a design.

The trouble? It's a very tacky '90s-ish design both in appearance (granular, aliased gifs everywhere) and in HTML structure (layout tables two levels deep, with tabular data mixed in).

Some episodes of LTT are actually informative. Then you have stupidly dangerous episodes like this, sort of like Electroboom vs. Home Improvement but not quite as funny, which are just begging for a follow-up video announcing that the studio caught fire because of an ignorantly half-assed lithium ion battery pack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUmlCH7bTO8