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Warren Shea

Chinese Pet Dyeing

Sunday, June 13th, 2010 at 2:30 am

For full story, click here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1284646/Meet-Tiger-Dog-Chinese-owners-dye-pets-look-like-wild-animals.html

I gotta say, I absolutely LOVE this idea. Dying your pet’s hair to look like something else. These panda dogs look SOOOOOOOOO adorable, I want one. Really bad.

On the link above, the first comment (I read) said:
Growlithe, I choose you!
– Pokemon trainer, Kanto

I thought that was hilarious :D

My two questions are:
1. How long until this comes here…honestly, I love it, and would love to see it done.
2. How could such a simple idea be overlooked for so long. This is the kind of inspiration or unique idea I want to just come to me…for my website. Something simple, something that makes sense (wait, I dunno if dyeing your pet makes sense)…something fun, something people will wanna do.

I need to take something simple…and make it awesome.

Imagine when YouTube came out…”let’s put videos online”. So simple…

Weddings: Now and Then (not Then and Now).

Saturday, June 12th, 2010 at 10:50 pm

I’ve started to go to a whole bunch of weddings lately…and I’m noticing that they’re generally all “fun” weddings. What do I mean by “fun”? They play fast/upbeat music or they do a skit that’s supposed to make people laugh…basically, they try to make it fun and not a classical walk down the aisle. This started ever since:


I mean, these guys did it right, it went viral and almost everyone has seen it at this point. And everyone’s trying to do something similar. IMO, I DO prefer the “fun” wedding over the old, slow, traditional wedding…but only if it’s done right. And so far, rarely has it been done right. I mean, people try…it can turn out good, sometimes great…but with every wedding, my standard for that walk gets higher and higher. It’s really difficult to do/plan.

Nowadays, everyone wants a theme or a twist to the wedding. I’d be somewhat disappointed if my friends had a traditional, normal wedding. It’s just…boring. They gotta make it fun…at least until the open bar (and I expect the weddings I go to to have open bar…unless money’s an issue).

My brain’s been thinking about what interesting thing I would do for my wedding. Not that it’s happening anytime soon but I like early brainstorming. I can’t come up with anything too interesting though. I’ll have to see when the time comes. Kind of like my brainstorming for my EPIC SITE…trying to think of ideas but I’m drawing a blank. Nothing worthy of my standard.

On another note, it’s taken me 28 years but I finally know, and memorized, and won’t forget, how to tie a tie. I had learned before and forgot. I didn’t practice. But I have a tie near me and every once a while, I pick it up and do it. Long-term memory through repetition.

I went driving today…driving and aimlessly shopping…for 4 hours. Whenever I’m blog post idea-less…I just need to go driving and I think of something.

Why did nearly all life on Earth die 250 million years ago?

Friday, June 11th, 2010 at 11:15 am

Taken from:
Why did nearly all life on Earth die 250 million years ago?

I thought this was an interesting watch….made me kinda sad and depressed tho >_<

Chrome and other web browsers

Thursday, June 10th, 2010 at 10:28 pm

Z has been trying to make me switch to Chrome…I have to admit that it’s simple and fast…but not rendering my site as well as I’d like.

I started doing Acid3 Tests (http://acid3.acidtests.org/) at work, on my work browsers including:

Firefox 3.6.3: 94/100
Safari 3.2.3: 75/100
Opera 10.01: 100/100
Internet Explorer 8.0.6001.18702: 13/100….before crashing my IE >_< Stupid IE Chrome 5.0.375.70: 100/100 I DO notice Firefox is pretty slow in general...but I love/need it for: FireFTP FireBug (because developing on IE8 and using the IE Developer Tool sucks) I'm pretty surprised/impressed that Chrome and Opera are both 100/100. Firefox comes close and IE...IE is terribad as always. I DO use a tab on IE for listening to the radio as well as watch youtube videos. Firefox always just seems to lag the videos if I have too many tabs open or if the program has been open too long. I guess it needs to do a memory dump.

Maybe…I’ll use Firefox for FireFTP and FireBug and use Chrome to browse…I don’t know.

On my site TO DO list: Cross browser testing. So boring, bah!

Site Updates

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010 at 11:43 pm

1. I modified the Gallery page a bit. I didn’t really like how the icons were just…placed, without any description of what album you were clicking on. I’ve modified it a bit to include some album information. I also categorized the albums/galleries….there’s not much point to the right hand column anymore…but I’m not sure what else to put there.

2. If you look at the navigation, you’ll see the Portfolio section is no longer Portfolio. That’s right, the final section to my site is complete: Portfolio.

3. I want to start finishing off that Language Reference section…as well as finalizing and reviewing everything and adding a few more pieces of information here and there. Also, I want to start working on some more themes…Naruto, Professional 1, Professional 2.

4. I’m going to try to do my new layouts as well as start learning jQuery more and…of course, ASP.NET. Really, I need something to build with my .NET knowledge, I’m having trouble thinking of something worthy of the language. This site for example is perfect for PHP…and while I could have used ASP.NET, I doubt I’d be able to use the controls, AJAX, database, etc. components very well. Everything on this site is fairly simple, there’s nothing I really need high level coding for.

Update: 12:49 AM
5. Converted my resume to HTML