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2018-04-09 / \/ \/ / \
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Back in the late '90s or early '00s there / _/ / /
was this program for Windows that helped you \_______/_\___/____/\___/____/_
make HTML image maps. In those days it / \/ \/ / \
seemed like software was ridiculously quirky / _/ /_ _/
and this was no different, it was pirate /- / _/ /
themed (because map, get it?) and in the \________/\________/\___/____/
middle of the screen was an animated parrot
that would squawk or "Polly wants a cracker" when you clicked on it. It served
no purpose that I recall other than to be animated and noisy.
Every now and then when you clicked it, instead of screeching or chattering
it'd go "Yo yo yo wassup" or something like that. That's really the only
reason I remember it.
What does this have to do anything? Nothing really, I just started this
file "Yo yo yo wassup" and it reminded me of that stupid parrot.
Did a little Gopher housekeeping and cut out the big list of phlogosphere
links from my main map, replacing it with a Moku Pona instance - I tried to be
creative with it and add all the phlogs I like, even ones that hadn't updated
in a long while then remove them from the list so they won't appear until an
actual update comes through, rather than sitting un-updated at the tail of the
list. Seems to be working so far! I feel bad culling the links and
descriptions to other Gopher spaces though so I might squirrel it all into a
links page. I dunno, just trying to make my main map as concise as possible
but also don't want to be a dead-end.
In case you missed it, you can also see a copy of my goofy-ass April Fool's
thing in files/ - I found it hilarious but your mileage may vary. The number
is real.
That's all I got for ya, really. Life is a drainer and work makes me want
to drink myself to death but I'm off to visit family in a week or so and that
might be fun to write about but who knows! I might be too busy! Unlikely, I'll
be bored within a week, so I'm sure I'll be around to talk shit and then when
I'm back I'll try kicking off a ph4t pr0j3ct or two.
