Joey’s Crappy Day

I’ve got most of the styling done for my new theme. The new theme has a tabbed nav bar and a sidebar that is widget capable. I’m also taking the time to style the default Wordpress widgets that come with WP 2.5 of which I have a beta copy installed on my Macbook. I still have to create templates for pages, singles, comments, etc., so there is still quite a bit of work to be done. I’m also looking at creating some WP plugins as well, but more on that later.

Here’s another screenshot for you to check out.

I have a t-shirt (pictured below) that I bought at the VLA gift shop. It states the following: “The universe exploded out of nothingness 14 billion years ago and all I got was 100 trillion interconnected cells, a self-aware consciousness, and this lousy t-shirt!”

Today I went to Chicago Style Gyros to get lunch and I wore this t-shirt.

The cashier said, “That’s not true is it?”

I said, “What’s not true?”

He said, “14 billion years. That’s not true?”

I said, “Oh… well, current theory has it at about 13.7 billion years.”

He said, “But that’s not true is it?”

I said, “Who knows what’s really true?”

The cashier gave me a satisfied nod. My transaction was complete and I walked out of the store with a gyros sandwich, side of rice, and Diet Coke.

What I really wonder about is his questioning. He kept asking if it was true. What if I had told him it was true. Would he have accepted it as true? Would he have tried to witness to me? Would he have asked for my sources? I don’t know. Now I wish I had probed a little more to find out his motivations.

And now for that picture I promised.

Just a small update. I managed to get a lot done on my theme today. Here is what it looks like. It’s not really where I thought I’d be going with the theme, but I like this current theme so much that I thought I’d do something similar, but not broken in IE 6. So it’s been quite a challenge to say the least.

Here are a couple of music videos that have been making the rounds in case you have missed them.

This first one warns against the evils of robots. I’ve been trying to tell you people, maybe this song will make you listen.

Have you been Rick Rolled? If not watch this second video. Supposedly this is the real video to this song. Oh, the humanity!

I decided to switch to the default Wordpress theme as Wordpress 2.5 has been delayed. So I’ll move development to my home computer or something and you can enjoy this slick and professional theme in the meantime.

Please note that I am once again changing the theme of my site. However, instead of doing it offline and then upping all the changes at once, I decided to do it piece-meal. So if you see some weird stuff, consider yourself lucky!

UPDATE: It turns out that Wordpress 2.5 is due out tomorrow (March 10), so this redesign couldn’t come at a better time.