The Ramblings of a Fool

As some of you may know I’ve been riding the bus into work most days. Today there was a new twist added to my bussin’ experience.

So I needed to get to work earlier today (cuz of some extra webpages that need some o’ dat sweeeet designin’) and I caught an earlier bus. Thing is, this bus is fancy and has Wi-Fi onboard, letting me get online whilst other losers are stuck driving in traffic. In the spirit of the “Nerd Bird” (the frequent Austin to San Jose plane carrying tech nerds back and forth between Silicon Hills and Silicon Valley in the late 90s), I think this mode of transportation needs a catchy, rhymey name too.

However, I’m drawing a blank, so help me out by coming up with some suggestions. Some starter words for ya:
Wagon, Ride, Wheels, Transport, Download, Dork, Tech, Laptop

Hook me up, smarties!

— TF

 

Congrats to the most recent winners… JohnnyMac, Juan Puto and BudCrud. The trophy case now reflects the the up-to-the-second standings (and has been pared down to show the top ten smartasse now). Check it out.

Damn it. I just through away the content of this post while trying to update.

—TF

 

 

Let the arguing begin anew… as far as these ten fifteen Sugary Kids Breakfast Cereals go… which is your favorite?

  

Make sure to vote on all the polls.

 

 

  As always, there will be pissed off people wanting to know why other cereal weren’t included. There are countless obscure and not-so-obscure cereals out there. These are some of my favorites… classic enough to be known by many… If I missed a newer version of some of these cereals, consider it a part of the family an choose the original.

 

—TF       

 

Oops. I broke the Foolish Foto of the Week(ish) Trophy Case. I have a screen shot of the numbers, so it’s not a complete loss, but it’ll take a while to put it back together (no time right now).But the good news to take outta this is that the judges have been deliberating for what seems like months, and are ready to announce there winners. Now they are just waiting for the Trophy Case to be fixed.Soon.—TF 

To all of my loyal readers… I apologize to BOTH of you for the dirty links that appeared in the RSS versions of three of the last four posts. Apparently there is some kind of hack that tacks on a ton of links to less-than-saintly sites to the end of my posts… but only when you look at it in RSS form. No clue how they got there, no clue if the preventative measures taken will do anything to stop it. I guess we’ll see with this post. 

Also… sorry it took three days to fix this. …I had a lot of new sites brought to my attention recently that I felt compelled to go through.  

—TF

ps - special shoutout to djLicious for pointing this out to me.  
pps - make sure you keep your WordPress up to date. Seems to have fixed the glitch.

Unique Photoshop feature: some tools can “toggle” uncontrollably.

After much frustration and hundreds of “throw away your preferences and restart the program moments” I finally found out what was going on with my Photoshop Phucking Phreaking out all the time.

Lemme back up and ’splain what the problem was. Ever since I switched to Leopard on my Macs, I’ve been pretty pleased (someday I’ll write that review I promised). I got used to the overly-subtle indicator under active applications in the dock… I’ve grown accustomed to the translucent menu bar (now something you can set since the most recent leopard update). I’ve even worked it into my workflow to use QuickLook to peruse images in a folder to see which one I really want to open. And yes, even the weird stacks thing has been accepted by me.

Leaving one BIG change to get used to… SPACES.

Using spaces requires a complete change in mindset when on your machine. Very daunting and quite the barrier to overcome, but I figured I’d better be a good lil’ Apple boy and give it a shot. Well… I loved it. Really, really loved it. It was like I had 6 (set your own number as you see fit) computers. Again, I loved it.

Until… (more…)

Slept late and didn’t get to ride the bus this morning. Oh well…. my record is one day in a row. Should be easy to break at least.

Today will be remembered as a turning point in the annals of Tom Fulery (that’s annals with two Ns, sicky). I’ve gone all green and started riding the city bus to work. 

 Gave it a shot and loved it. Besides giving me 7+ hours extra per week of non-cursing at other drivers shenanigans, I have found the perfect vehicle (pun sort of intended) for being more committed to this blog.How awesome is that? All for only $17 per month (also known as 1/3 tank of gas).Woot!Speaking of woot (and completely off-topic) I just bought an awesome shirt on shirt.woot.com. My Canadian buddies will get a kick out of it. Here’s what’s on the shirt i got… so fookin’ awesome, it hurts, eh?— TF

It’s been a while. I’ve been on “sabbatical” for the last two months, visiting foreign lands and staying away from computers… you should I try it sometime, it’s very liberating.Anyways, I’m back and will be revving up the ol’ blog again and will hopefully keep it regularly updated.Cheers,—TF