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Adventure Sports

Hall of Fame Induction

Denny's Draft

I had received one of the recent honors of my life the other day, with my induction into Denny’s Fantasy Football League’s hall of fame. The induction was held in Wes’s basement before the season eight draft for Denny’s. It was a truly humbling experience.

I was sure to dress appropriately for such a glorioius occasion. Wearing my championship t-shirt from season four and my newly purchased yellow sportscoat (which was several sizes too small) I was set to deliver my speech. I was sure to thank all those responsible for getting me to this stage of my life that I never even imagined as possible, the Denny’s Hall of Fame.

From the various response I’ve gotten from the ceremony, I think my speech and genuine appreciation of the honor really hit home with the members of Denny’s. It was a truly humbling experience and a great honor and no one can ever take away the fact that I’m a member of Denny’s Fantasy Football League’s Hall of Fame.

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Adventure

Adventure Village

Mansion House
On my lunch break two extremely brave co-workers joined me on a quest to find the legendary Adventure Village. Sean served as the pilot of this mission, man does that car have some powerful AC. He located the fabled village without a hitch and made sure we didn’t turn down the dirt path of doom. Michelle also accompanied us on this excursion. I’ve known her long enough that there’s no way she could possibly turn down the chance to experience the adventure of a lifetime.

Apparently Adventure Village was a South Jersey attraction in Hamilton Township off of the Black Horse Pike a long time ago. The juggernaut known as Story Book Land ran it out of business. Though the business has been shut down for quite some time, apparently people do reside there now. Taking up residence in the town hall, saloon, shoe repair shop, just to name a few of the buildings. There were many shopping carts present, so they must be avid shoppers. Perhaps they would be interested in a Magical Vegetable Sponge, heard they replenish brains.

Luckily nobody got hurt and we made it through Adventure Village in one piece. It was a fine adventrue indeed.

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Development

NuLook Laser & Aesthetics Website

Just launched the website for NuLook Laser & Aesthetics. They’ve just opened and are located in Lower Gwynedd, PA. The design of the site tries to convey that they are a fully licensed medical practice while also still coming across as a soothing and elegant place of beauty.

NuLook Laser & Aesthetics

The site is written to current web standards, featuring heavy doses XHTML, CSS, Javascript with a little dash of ActionScript thrown in there as well. YUI Grids served as the site framework. Also the YUI Event Utility was used heavily in the site (thanks so much for making that Yahoo!), including on the services FAQ’s.

Google Maps API is used to provide an interactive map of their location. The site also features a contact form that emails submissions to the client as well as records submission to a MySQL database. Popup calendar is based on the YUI Calendar.

Check out their website: http://www.nulookla.com

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Video Games

Paper Mario

Just got done playing Paper Mario. It was originally released on the Nintendo 64 in 2001, but I downloaded it on the Wii Virtual Console. It was a really good RPG. Game play was between 25-30 hours. Well worth the download.

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Development

Cowlicks Kids Salon

Cowlicks Kids Salon just launched a few days ago. They are a kids salon located in Boca Raton, Florida. I worked on the site with Geoff. He was responsible for the logo and the site’s overall design.

Cowlicks Kids Salon
The Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI) was featured extensively in this site. The site wireframe is based on CSS Grids and the TabView component is featured on the Salon and Jewelry pages.

A custom jewelry admin application was created for the client using PHP, MySQL, and Javascript. It allows the client to login and add, edit or delete pieces of jewelry. Our client needed the ability to upload images of the specific jewelry items, so using the jewelry app she can upload images which are then resized into two separate files to ensure the files work well on the website. The app uses the GD library to create a full size image and a thumbnail jpeg.

The interactive map and directions are being delivered via the Google Maps API. It’s a very cool and robust API. We also used the open source PHPList for the client to manage a mailing list. There’s a form for interested people to sign up for the mailing.

The jewelry page relies on Lightbox2 for the display of the detailed view of the images. It’s a pretty cool effect that really helps the jewelry items stand out.

There’s still some little things that we have to finish up for them.

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Adventure

No Lights

On Thursday night while driving home from playing volleyball in Ventnor my dash lights were out. So I couldn’t really read my speedomoter, which was a pain. I got pulled over a block from the Longport bridge with the assumption that I must’ve been speeding slightly since I couldn’t read the black speedometer.

The officer asked why I was driving with my lights off. I informed him that my dash lights were out, but I wasn’t aware that my taillights were out as well and began to suspect that a fuse must’ve blown or there’s a short somewhere in the electrical system. Luckily he didn’t write me a ticket (thank you) and I drove home with the flashers on.

Fuse Box
So Friday morning I awoke with a mission to attempt to fix my lights so I wouldn’t have to pay a mechanic to fix them. First I started with checking the fuses. Couldn’t find a fuse labeled for the dash, but the taillight fuse was blown. And upon replacing that fuse, the dash lights came back, so I guess they’re connected. I also replaced both headlights, as one of them was dead as well.

Result of my mission to repair my lights.

  • Cost of Fuses: $3.62
  • Cost of Headlight bulbs: $ 6.99 x2 = $15
  • Hours spent: 2