April 20, 2004 – K. Close III

I finished the initial build of the new nav content for the web page I’m fixing, but it’s taking a day and a half to upload. I want to have Heather and my boss check it out. They both have pretty discriminating taste when it comes to navigation. Its based in part on what I had on the old SOVA page, but updated with some stuff I learned on the D&D page. See? all those useless pages I create have a purpose. I learn from them and use the code I create or customize for them and apply it to web pages that count for something. But yeah, for some reason, its taking for farkin ever to upload. I’d like to think it would be done before the end of the day, but it doesn’t look like its going to make it.

If you want to check it out, the link is http://www.art.unt.edu/new2. The part I finished is the pull down menus at the top. The page I was given had all that in Flash, which was pretty, but not very functional, especially for screen readers, which we have to code for when doing University pages. tell me what you think.

Anyway, it’s about time to go. If the page isn’t up yet, it’s because its STILL LOADING!!!

So, yeah. I rented Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow on Saturday for the Xbox. I have to say, if I had the money I’d be tempted to buy this bitch. Unfortunately, one of the things its most touted for is the multiplayer, which I can’t really partake in. I could get together with three other people, pull together TVs and Xboxes and do LAN four player, but since I don’t have, and don’t intend to subscribe to Xbox Live, I really won’t ever get to play the multiplayer. I’d like to try out the multiplayer, but I don’t see it happening often enough to validate a purchase of the game. I’d have to rent it almost 8 times to make buying it worth while. So yeah, I think I’ll just finish up the single player, maybe hold on to it long enough to do that, as Hastings does pro-rated late fees now, and then return it. If the opportunity comes up to do some Multiplayer before I have to take it back, then I’ll do that. If at a later date we’re having a multi-xbox, multi-tv game-a-thon, then I’ll go out and rent it and encourage the other xboxers to do the same. Otherwise, I’ll enjoy the story and move on with life.

It’s been a really cool game though, almost exactly what I’ve been looking for. I very well may have to buy the original (since it’s only like $12 new) and play the hell out of it. I’ve heard there are a lot of differences, but it’s still high stealth, and that’s what I’ve been itching for. I have no idea how far through the game I am right now, I’m in Indonesia so if anyone’s played it all the way through and know how much more is after Indonesia, feel free to pipe up.

In other news, we’re negotiating the adoption of a new dog (did you think I was going to say child?). Someone here on LiveJournal needed someone to take a dog off her hands and her description of the dog sounded like a perfect match to our Ia. I’ve been emailing the owner back and forth now since yesterday and things are sounding pretty good. I know it’s going to be tight on our budget, as things are already pretty tight, but Heather is confident that we can make it work. We’ll be buying double food, and there will be two trips to the vet, but I guess if we have to make sacrifices for something, it might as well be another living being. So great, we’re going to be a 5 animal family. Pretty much the only thing at this point that could sour the deal, would be if Knight and Ia don’t get along, which again, from the descriptions, I don’t think is possible.

The dogs will have to move to the kitchen as there won’t be enough room in the living room for their cages, but I guess that’s not too bad. It just means they’ll have to go further on the carpet with wet tootsies when it’s muddy or rainy outside. It’s not too bad though since the two floors they’d be running on are both crappy carpet that we don’t care that much for anyway. I hope they get along famously and I hope five animals isn’t too many for us.

How many animals do you have?