Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

MorningStar Farms, the company that makes frozen vegetarian meat-substitute foods? They make microwaveable meat-candy substitutes, too (Veggie Bacon Strips), & I'm hooked. The only problems are the window between underdone & burned is consistent but tiny, & if they're not transferred from one plate to another within 15 seconds of the microwave beeping done, they stick & won't come off except in tiny flakes.

Oh, hey, the store has a better selection of new breakfasts!

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.