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Thursday 15 May 2008
Thirty Percent Likely to be Humorous
After a few of the responses to that last silly post, I realized that people sometimes take me far too seriously. So here’s a short list to know when I’m being humorous:
- - The post is tagged with “humor” or “just fun” or both
- - There’s one word in a post that has a long subject line (dead giveaway)
- - There’s a pun somewhere in the content that is either glaringly obvious or super subtle and negates whatever I’m saying
- - If it really seems like I’m being funny rather than serious, apply the 30/50 rule (30 percent likely to be humorous)
- - Ask me
Of course, I’m probably delusional to think I’m ever funny in the first place, but I’ll leave that to your judgment.
How funny are you?
:P
Filed under: humor, molly asks you, community, just fun
Posted by: Molly | 1:12 am | Comments (10)
Wednesday 14 May 2008
Why Macs are Scientifically Better than Windows
Reliability.
Filed under: humor, blogging, software, society, hardware, community, religion
Posted by: Molly | 6:10 pm | Comments (26)
Tuesday 8 April 2008
My Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
You know you have one. Or twenty.
Admit it.
Unless you live in a rural area, never travel, see few people, and even then . . . many humans have signs of OCD.
Some years ago at SXSW a fantastic group of friends had lunch at P.F. Chang’s and talked about our unique Obsessive Compulsive Disorders.
It was such a funny and enlightening conversation, I’d like to jump-start it here.
Mine? Pillowcase openings must point to the left; I can’t leave an empty cardboard toilet paper roll on whatever that thing is (the roll?) that we put it on. I have to either replace it or leave it empty.
Other than that I’ve only a few inconsistent quirks.
How about you?
Filed under: humor, pop culture, society, creativity, molly asks you
Posted by: Molly | 6:50 pm | Comments (56)
Monday 7 April 2008
Design Coding: Rap for The Rest of Us
The very awesome iJustine posted this like ten days ago, but I can’t stop watching it, it’s just that yummy.
Just(in)e case you haven’t seen it, I’m re-sharing it here and hope you enjoy it as much as I have!
BTW, who did this bit of brilliance? Where was it filmed?
Comments are open, I want to know.
Enjoy:
Design Coding
Your site design is the first thing people see
it should be reflective of you and the industry
easy to look at with a nice navigation
when you can’t find what you want it causes frustration
a clear Call to action to increase the temptation
use appealing graphics they create motivation
if you have animation
use with moderation
cause search engines can’t index the information
display the logos of all your associations
highlight your contact info that’s an obligation
create a clean design you can use some decoration
but to try to prevent any client hesitation
every page that they click should provide and explanation
should be easy to understand like having a conversation
when you design the style go ahead and use your imagination
but make sure you use correct color combinations
do some investigation, look at other organizations
but don’t duplicate or you might face a litigation
design done, congratulations but it’s time to start construction
follow these instructions when you move into production
your photoshop functions then slice that design
do your layout with divs make sure that it’s aligned
please don’t use tables even though they work fine
when it come to indexing they give searches a hard time
make it easy for the spiders to crawl what you provide
remove font type, font color and font size
no background colors, keep your coding real neat
tag your look and feel on a separate style sheet
better results with xml and css
now you making progress, a lil closer to success
describe your doctype so the browser can relate
make sure you do it great or it won’t validate
check in all browsers, I do it directly
gotta make sure that it renders correctly
some use IE, some others use Flock
some use AOL, I use Firefox
title everything including links and images
don’t use italics, use emphasis
don’t use bold, please use strong
if you use bold that’s old and wrong
when you use CSS, you page will load quicker
client satisfied like they eating on a snicker
they stuck on your page like you made it with a sticker
and then they convert now that’s the real kicker
make you a lil richer, your site a lil slicker
design and code right man I hope you get the picture
what I’m telling you is true man it should be a scripture
if it’s built right you’ll be the pick of the litter
everyone will want to follow you like twitter
competition will get bitter and you’ll shine like glitter
if you trying to grow your company will get bigger
design and code right man can you get with it
Filed under: humor, standards, music, pop culture, software, web design and development, society, creativity, browsers, innovation
Posted by: Molly | 7:27 pm | Comments (17)
Sunday 30 March 2008
LOLspec
Courtesy of Eric Meyer comes this honoring of the new CSS WG Charter and meeting this past week in San Diego, California.
It’s up on Flickr but I figured I’d drop it here for everyone to enjoy until I get a chance to write up some thoughts about the meeting. Today Shamu has a higher specificity and therefore all conflicts are resolved until after Seaworld.
Caption: “O HAI WEB DEEZYNORZ WE MAD U A GUD SPEC . . . BUT WE EATED IT”
Please also note that this photo is actually two years old from the W3C Plenary in France. It doesn’t accurately reflect the current group members and invited experts.
Filed under: humor, standards, web design and development, w3c, community
Posted by: Molly | 5:31 am | Comments (9)
Saturday 15 March 2008
Your Best Pop, Your Worst
NEEDING TO GET AWAY FROM STANDARDS and browsers and conferences, I’m interested in a conversation about the best and worst pop culture right now.
Whether journalism, fiction, television, film, photography, illustration, diaries or mixes thereof, I really need your help expanding my horizons.
It can only help!
I’ve been watching “Ashes to Ashes” and waiting for a new episode of the “Big Bang Theory.”
What are you following? Reading? Watching? Doing?
Share your worst, your best!
Filed under: faith(less), humor, blogging, pop culture, poetry & fiction, society, creativity, molly asks you, community, nmby
Posted by: Molly | 7:23 pm | Comments (71)
Sunday 9 March 2008
A Jewish Girl’s Thoughts on The Seven Deadly Sins
- Lust: Not a sin.
- Gluttony: Not a sin. Unless you don’t share what you have!
- Greed: A sin.
- Sloth: Rest only when weary.
- Wrath: It happens sometimes.
- Envy: Only that the health of our youth is not equivalent to the wisdom of a greater age.
- Pride: a sin only if truly misplaced.
Filed under: faith(less), humor, poetry & fiction, society, religion
Posted by: Molly | 10:49 pm | Comments (48)
Wednesday 27 February 2008
Interview: Roger & Molly: Webstock New Zealand
I like this interview! It runs a bit long but Roger made me feel so welcome it just came out as a spontaneous chat.
Anyone willing to do text transcript, holler. I’d like to make one available!
Thank you, Roger, for a great interview.
Enjoy, comment, bitch etc. below:
Filed under: professional, humor, standards, software, web design and development, travel, food and drink, society, w3c, conferences, announcement, creativity, browsers, microsoft, ie7, innovation, whatwg, community
Posted by: Molly | 8:12 am | Comments (39)
Monday 18 February 2008
Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History
Guess I’m going down in those history books, because I am scandalous!
What fun! I love the fact that Matt (the fellow whose shirt I unbuttoned the top two buttons of) used to “smuggle” my books into class. In the sixth form, no less! Oh, the irony.
Filed under: humor, blogging, pop culture, web design and development, travel, blog slut, food and drink, society, conferences
Posted by: Molly | 7:25 pm | Comments (19)
Sunday 30 December 2007
Strangest Dream: End to Browser Wars?
(original lyrics by Ed McCurdy and known to most because of Paul Simon, thx guys)
Strangest Dream (Web version)
Last night I had the strangest dream
I’ve ever dreamt before
I dreamed we had all agreed
To put an end to browser war
I dreamed I saw a mighty room
Filled with women (but mostly men)
And the papers they were signing said
They’d not do specs wrong again
And when the specs all were signed
And a million copies made
Some joined hands and thought they’d have a prayer
About the specifications, made
And the people on the Web below
Were running up and down
While markup and scripting and browser wars
Were scattered all around
Last night I had the strangest dream
I’ve ever dreamt before
I dreamed that we had all agreed
To put an end to browser wars.
Filed under: professional, humor, music, pop culture, software, web design and development, creativity, browsers, community
Posted by: Molly | 7:55 am | Comments (31)
Murder Tales
Have you taken the Death Test? I have. I am apparently meant to be murdered. Here’s how I see it:
I’m falling to sleep, so deep and sweet. I stretch and turn, pull the pillow over my head. I’m ready for serious rest.
Not more than ten minutes after I fall to sleep, I begin to dream. My dream colors are very noir, black, grey, lots of shadows.
Think of dramatic violins and long dark hallways.
Next step is the squeaky one. The one you step on and it squeaks and you hold your breath.
Your Mom or Dad or wife or whoever hears that squeak. They can count it. As you can. One, two, eleven.
What do you do now? Do you fall to sleep, so deep and sweet? Will you stretch and turn and pull the pillow over your head?
I am convinced I will die by murder.
Please don’t blame the poor guy.
I’d have killed me too.
Filed under: humor, blog slut, society, creativity
Posted by: Molly | 2:29 am | Comments (38)
Thursday 8 November 2007
mathematical integral equation for web versioning
A bit of levity during the W3C TPAC from the wonderful T.V. Raman, presenting the closing panel of the day, Cracks & Mortars.
Filed under: humor, standards, web design and development, photos, w3c, conferences, nmby
Posted by: Molly | 12:53 pm | Comments (26)
Friday 19 October 2007
Double Dare: Your Last Meal on Earth
So I posted this to Twitter:
Twitter Poll: If you had to decide your final meal on earth, what would it be?
Which emerged from this post:
you know, if I ever get the death penalty for offing some bad ex boyfriend, my last meal will be exactly that. (Rib Eye bloody, plus taters and veg)
Then a lovely fellow emailed me from Ask500people:
Hey Molly, Just saw your tweet, would you like us to run your question on Ask500People.com? We could gather 100 votes for it.
And snarkily, after eating a really good steak and “hopped” up on Pike Pale and red meat, I responded:
So you’re saying if we ask 500 people we’ll only get 100 responses?
Double dare you to make more than 100 posts about what is your perfect last meal on earth.
GO!
Filed under: humor, blogging, food and drink, creativity, community
Posted by: Molly | 7:20 pm | Comments (76)
Saturday 28 July 2007
Kai the CSS Guy’s Transport
Is this what CSS has brought us to?
Filed under: humor, pop culture, web design and development, photos, creativity, community, nmby
Posted by: Molly | 2:27 pm | Comments (32)
Thursday 26 July 2007
Community Requires a Great Platform
Lately the topic of BBSs and BBS Get Togethers has been coming up in conversation. Maybe that’s because it’s summer here in Tucson. There’s BBQ on the patio and beer in the fridge, and community chatter reminding us that face to face, personal conversation is important.
I’ve been talking to my neighbors over the fence. That’s a great platform, unless of course your fence falls over into their property. And my other neighbors play music really loudly when I want to sleep but that’s okay. I play music really loudly when they want to sleep. Somehow, it all works out.
Whether it’s a summertime BBQ or an online community, platform is essential. The web has taken a long time to remotely catch up with BBSs in terms of the type of community we can deliver. It’s all in the messaging, is my best guess.
Filed under: professional, humor, pop culture, society, community
Posted by: Molly | 6:31 pm | Comments (31)