Author: Joe

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Adventure

Friday the 13th

Just thought I should share my bizarre Friday the 13th act of today. Some old man rear ended my car while I was at a red light. So I got out with a big smile on my face (I have a severe anger defiency) and he aplogized to me. I told him it was ok, accidents happen.

Then I inspected my car, no visible damage. Kicked my car in the area it was struck, not sure why but it looks like I know what I’m doing I suppose. Then said I’m ok, do you want to report this? Of course he said no. So I got back into my car, then got out again to tell him that it’s Friday the 13th and that’s why he ran into my car.

He didn’t really seem to get it, think he just felt stupid from hitting my car for no reason. Oh well, no one got hurt so that’s a good thing. I’m now an official believer in the whole Friday the 13th thing.

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Development

News and Events Widget

Created a cool news and event widget on the homepage of atlantic.edu that displays both the current news stories as well as a listing of the events listed on their calendar for a given day. It’s housed in a tabbed interface that let’s both exist without taking up very little browser real estate.

The news and event are being pulled from their respective web apps MySQL databases via a simple PHP script. The front end widget is based on the YUI TabView component. I’ve used this component much in the past, it’s really slick. The whole desgn if based on progressive enhancement so it’ll still deliver the info to older browsers too.

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Development

NuLook Site

Developing a web site for NuLook Laser & Aesthetics. Working on finalizing the site skeleton and doing most of the programming at this stage. Looking forward to coming up with a nice design for them once their logo has been finalized. This should turn out to be a really nice site.

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Video Games

Ocarina of Time

Just beat The Legend of Zelda, The Ocarina of Time. I downloaded it a few weeks ago on the Virtual Console and it’s kept me busy for a while. This game is considered by many to the the greatest video game ever made.

Despite being originally released in 1998 for the Nintendo 64, this game still holds up really well by even today’s standards. The simple blocky textured 3-D graphics are dated, but the gameplay and story still hold up, if not exceeds that of today’s great games. A great game.

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Development Sports

Spiked Punch Volleyball

Our volleyball team has decided on a name, Spiked Punch. Geoff came up with a really cool logo, and I’ve begun to set us up a website, check it out http://www.spikedpunchvolleyball.com.

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Uncategorized

Goodbye Rocky

RockyRocky, my fearless fourteen and a half year old Jack Russell Terrier passed away yesterday. He displayed more courage than anyone I’ve ever met. Never one to back down from any challenge, whether it be a swarm of bees, dogs four times his size, or cars going 40 mph.

He was a good dog, a very good dog and will be missed a great deal.