Since we're trying not to be too busy this weekend I'll try doing small
updates throughout the day.
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I've got a new target for my `public_html`: to get it looking decent in
Internet Explorer in my Windows 2000 VM. I'm going to need a good fallback
for the CSS linear gradient I'm using as a background image. Also want to
see if I can get an HTML5 audio tag to fallback to a legacy embedded MIDI.
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We're getting heavier rain than we usually get here and it's bringing up
perversely happy memories of the spring when it rained so much my high
school flooded and they canceled final exams.
I thought I'd just leave a little reminder here here that "nobody passes", which
is to say to that the guesswork people do to read your "gender expression" is
bullshit and if people aren't correctly deducing who you are from your
appearance -- even (or perhaps especially) in LGBTQ spaces -- you're not really
responsible for that. Also, it's not a race and it can take time to assemble the
kind of wardrobe you're most comfortable with. This has been a Public Service
Announcement.
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Spouse E & my sister are going on a Very Important trip soon and for a few
days they'll be about three thousand miles away. It's kinda scary for me to
think about but also kind of a necessary step for us, to test our ability
to take trips and such without each other when the need arises, and also
this trip itself is necessary. Hopefully they'll enjoy themselves there
too, though.
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My sister started playing the first *Broken Sword* game last night, because
she remembered me playing it ca. 2010, and I also started playing the
Pajama Sam games with my child this weekend. With the Pajama Sam stuff in
particular, there's a lot of odd detail in the settings of these 1990s
point-and-click adventures that's really quirky and particular to yhe title
or to the group that made it.
Like, in *Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't So Frightening*, when
Sam breaks the weather machine hovering over his house, while most of the
control room monitors begin to show catastrophic weather events, the
monitor focused on Seattle's Space Needle shows merely a clear sunny day, &
if you click on this specific monitor, Lightning expresses grave concern
over it.
The first Pajama Sam game features a communist carrot who says "Property is
theft, man" and is the leader of a "Salad Liberation Front".
One of the best features of the Humongous Entertainment games is the wild &
often gleefully irrelevant animations that occur when you click on random
decorative elements of a scene -- pop culture references, in-jokes,
surrealist visual puns or just stimulating displays of sound & color. I
just hope my child is enjoying it nearly as much as I am.
