check my twitter page to follow my fun micro-blogging while Heather and I drive to Nevada!

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Today is my 32nd birthday.  32 times (or so) around the sun, 11,687 days (give or take).  And as I come to the realization that I’m older (even though it doesn’t feel like it), I’ve come to another realization as well.

I’m fat.  I’m not going to candy-coat it with the word “overweight” because the harsh reality of it is that I weigh too much, and it’s entirely my fault.  I haven’t even stepped on a scale in at least the last 6 months, because I’ve been trying to avoid this realization.

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Just bought gas. Paid this much. Score!

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I think I may have played a little too much solitaire. I installed this app about 2 weeks ago.

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I’m about a week late in posting this (at least, I would be, if I cared at all about fake deadlines).

On November 3, 2007, I married the love of my life.  We couldn’t have had better luck, in meeting each other, in falling in love, in planning the wedding details, or having the best possible weather in early November in North Texas.  Our honeymoon in San Francisco was the start of Paul and Heather, Year 1.

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https://sourceforge.net/projects/php-cbviewer/

Version 0.1 is in SVN now.  A README file is pending (I can’t work on this project while at work, so when I get home, I’ll be writing some documentation, including necessary modules, etc).

For the un-enlightened, this project is a PHP-based CBR and CBZ viewer, for reading “comic book archives” in a web browser, instead of in a standalone client.

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OK, I’m gonna have to start out with a bit of geek-translation and/or explanation.

When you steal acquire comic books off of the Internet, they generally come in one of two convenient formats (or in a very inconvenient format that I don’t care about): CBR and CBZ.  CBR files are RAR files that have been renamed, and CBZ files are ZIP files that have been similarly renamed.  Both archives contain multiple individual image files, which are the pages of the acquired comic.  Traditionally, there are two potential ways to deal with these files.  You can rename them back to .rar or .zip, extract them, and use an image viewer to look at the individual pages, or you can use a specialized program that’s designed to view “comic archives”, which extracts the images to a temporary location and displays them for you.  The latter method is simply several fewer steps than the former.  The “inconvenient” format that I mentioned is “a bunch of images”.  This seems to me like a much more difficult way to manage your collection, increases the possibility that you’ll end up with 22 complete pages out of a 23-page book, and generally makes your life more complicated.  If you’re the kind of person who likes this method of comic organization, more power to you.  But I like the archive method; it fits my needs much more completely.

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There’s a blog called Very Good Taste, and from said blog, a food-eater’s meme has exploded onto the blogosphere (and that’s hopefully the last time I use that particular term in a non-ironic sense).  The meme is called “The Omnivore’s Hundred”, and it’s simply a list of 100 different foods that “[Andrew thinks] every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life.”  Instructions and results are below the fold.…

A test video. Just my fat fingers counting, but it should be enough to make sure I hacked the plugin properly.

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