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My mind is on the blink

The past is in the past except on the web

Let’s use blinking text as the example again. A browser vendor is like “OK, wow, we can get the text to blink! To appear, disappear, appear, disappear, appear, disappear in a very amusing way! Let’s do that for all sites now, and provide the <non-blinking> tag for those sites that want to just look normal.”

Whenever that happens, every site on the entire web needs to ftp in one last time to that old University account or grandma’s old high-school poetry site that she posted to the WRAITH-L mailing list when she was a goth synth emo kid on dialup in 1994 and wrap their thing in <non-blinking>.

I think this is a bad thing for the web and should never happen.

But the text blinks!

(NOTE: That statement was an attempt to illustrate the maximum depth of thought - in the company of illimitable bright shiny objects amazement - of enough human beings to guarantee the likes happens again.. and again.. and seemingly endlessly again.)

Somewhat rough night. Just way too tired and sore on the heels of:

Too many consecutive THC nights (leads to a sort of crippling lethargy)
Two consecutive grandchild childcare days, yesterday including moving a lot of stuff from the parents' basement as a donation to a pregnancy/mothering support organization. Lots of stairs. Hips and knees graduated from growling to barking.

Last night I wrote some C for the first time in ages. The impetus was some post I read, which had me wondering how much I remembered. I was able to bang out a simple "hello world", getting spacing and naming of things the way I settled on back in the days of prowess.

<Deity>, I miss argc and argv....

My wife's up and down last night had me thinking she was suffering in similar ways. She put a lot of effort into showing the 2+ year old how to make/bake bread and a spiral cinnamon sugar doughnut-y kind of thing. The little guy was covered in flour, butter, etc. Fun, but oh wow the cleanup.