Another CSS Project

While I should have been working on the film I told people would be ready to film in a month's time, I updated my myspace profile. I didn't make any of the images, and I stole the code from Jason, but I still put a good deal of effort into it. It's not quite done; I'd like to make the borders a little nicer and add a nice music piece. I've been searching myspace music for almost 3 hours and I still haven't found anything that's just right. I'm almost ready to give up and just stick an MP3 from ocremix" on there. I won't embed it because then people can't stop it, but I really don't like the default player that appears when you stick an MP3 directly on the page.

Things I should be doing:

Finishing the movie I started months ago
Finishing the script I started weeks ago
Finding out why I can't SSH into my server
Cleaning my room
Writing an article about installing Ubuntu
Making the world better for all mankind

Three Full Hours and All I Got Was This Lousy Template

I think it's fairly obvious what I've been up to, other than playing more Diablo (giving up hope on my druid and returning to my warrior, only to return to my trusty druid once again, and completely ignoring my horrible sourceress), Rollercoaster Tycoon (once again, trying to get through all the scenarios and create the best parks ever), and San Andreas (trying to get 100% with good stats, i.e. not dying/failing missions/getting arrested/saving too much). It took nearly three hours to get this done because I had to learn (with Jason's help) CSS and find some nice colors to make everything. In case you were wondering, the background is supposed to look like a notepad like the one in the userbar. That's why the table borders are pink.

Even thought I did learn a nice amount of CSS today, I could have been working on one of my other blogs, writing the script I promised I'd have done a week ago, installing Linux on my two potential servers, or working on an anti Vista poster that I started ages ago. But I did find a really good color choosing tool for Linux and I can use my new CSS skills elsewhere.

Productive Procrastination

I suppose the best part about having something to put off (such as this blog) is that it forces you to work on something else. While it may not seem like much, since the last time I posted here, I made the first real post on Ubuntu Beginnings. That and I played a lot of Diablo II.

You may notice that I started to work on the theme and then gave up. I'll save it for a day when I really need to put out a Rich Magazine article and then I'll make something fantastic. I did end up making a userbar though, because that's what I've been doing a lot recently.



I think a big problem I have is I consider playing Diablo (and pretty much any game) somewhat of an accomplishment. Killing enemies gives you experience, experience allows you to level up, leveling up allows you to use better equipment and skills, better skills allow you to get farther in the game, getting farther increases the difficulty and starts the cycle over. I just want to see the end of the game. And then beat it on Nightmare. And again on Hell. A friend once told me that playing games is not a waste of time because the creator put a lot of effort into making the game and it's a waste of all that work not to play the game. I like thinking of it that way because it makes me feel less like a waste of space and more of a productive member of our information driven society.

Things I Should be Doing Right Now

Looking for a job
Shoveling Snow
Fixing my suspend bug in Ubuntu
Cleaning my room
Cooking dinner
Learning C++
Finishing my Daria Script
Moving my router to increase wifi connectivity

But instead I just gone done playing Diablo II and listening to Not Another Tech Podcast and now I'm going to look into getting a better theme going on here.

A Short Explanation

I created this blog just now to put off any of the other million or so things I could be doing right now. Most of them are constructive. Some, not so much. It's really weird how the only way I can accomplish something is by deliberately putting something else off. And even then the result is something like this.

Things to expect over the next few hours (days/months/years/decades):

A "What I could be working on" section in the sidebar
A better (maybe home written?) template
All sorts of graphics to go along with this
Etc. Etc...



Actually, I kind of like this idea. Whenever I don't feel like doing anything constructive I can come here and convince myself I'm slacking off. That way I can learn HTML (item 2) and brush up on my graphic design skills.

That's all for now. Stick around and this might actually become something. Maybe.