Archive for February, 2006

#define manscaping

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manscaping:
to groom a man. Shaving, waxing, cleaning up the superfluous fur.

Courtest of the Urban Dictionary.  A collaborative (think wikipedia) dictionary for modern slang.  Found out about this earlier this week on the Rep yahoo group.  Since a lot of slang is a bit crude in nature, I don’t have to warn you that this site may offend some of the prudish folk out there.  You’ve been warned…  I could probably spend all day looking through that site.

Kitty part trois

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We adopted our third kitty this past Saturday thanks to Amanda’s sister Katie. She’d found him as a stray hanging around the house of some of her boyfriend’s friends down in Carbondale. Seems there’s a BIG stray cat problem down in that neck of the woods (presumably because of all the college students in the area, and their decision to ditch their cats when they move). I think the call she made to Amanda about the kitty went something like this:

Katie: Happy Valentine’s Day! Oh, and would you adopt this cute kitty I found?

Anyway, he’s a sweet Siamese mix and is probably somewhere around 3 years old. We’ve decided to call him Sam, which is Amanda’s interpretation of the Thai word săam which means 3 (our third cat). Got him into the vet on Monday and it looks like he was well taken care of until he was dumped… he’s even neutered! So far he’s been much better behaved at night than our other kitties (at least in part because he’s older), curling up down at the foot of the bed and sleeping most of the night. He doesn’t walk around on us or yowl at us or bite our toes or anything. Well, he did kind of bat at my feet a couple of nights ago when my feet were only under a sheet (as opposed to a heavier blanket), but he left them alone as soon as I got them under a blanket.

Unsurprisingly, I’ve got some pics up over at my flickr.

K2 here I come

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Part way through switching over to K2. Looks like I need to fine tune the custom page themes I’ve previously created (for movies and header_graphics). They work at present, but the two column setup isn’t really formatted right under the new theme.

I also want to set up a new header graphic, probably tweak the color scheme, and maybe look into some other cool options/extensions (such as embedding a flickr feed in the sidebar).

Getting there…

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I’ve gotten a bit farther in my updates for Malkier. I’ve fixed how I’d set up the databases. Basically I realized webmin had greater flexibility for creating databases than phpMyAdmin is currently set up to support. Things are nicely organized now in that respect. I’ve also upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, so I’ve gotten all those goodies and bugfixes now.

The main task left is to do some customization and update the style for my site. My old theme customizations and plugins appear to have transferred over alright to the upgraded install, but there are some issues I’ve always had with how I’d set some stuff up. Michael Heilemann and Chris J Davis have been hard at work on the successor to Kubrick (theme my site’s currently based on)… K2. Looks to be good stuff, so hopefully I’ll shift over to that just as soon as I can integrate my changes into it.

Part way there…

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Well, I’ve gotten the critical stuff transferred over. Stuff that’s up and running:

  1. DNS now points to my new server.
  2. Email has all been transferred over (hooray for IMAP!).
  3. My databases are up and running (although not set up quite how I’d like).
  4. The blog is functional (along with most of the site, since I’m using WordPress as a basic content management system for a large portion of the site).
  5. My movies page is functional.

TODO:

  1. The photo gallery is down (didn’t move very well)
    • That’s ok since I’d planned on dumping it at eventually anyway in favor of putting all my photos up on flickr. Gives me all the slickness of flickr as well as the practical bonus of freeing up my precious web storage for other things.
    • Need to remove any links to the currently nonexisting gallery… or perhaps point them to my flickr account.
  2. Do the upgrades I’d wanted to do.
    • Upgrade to the latest WordPress and perform all the customization that goes along with that…
    • Other stuff???