Daily Tweets from Twitter…

  • 09:44 Wow – this is kind of interesting… RT @guigar: Disney to acquire Marvel comics for $4 billion: bit.ly/cNYrA #
  • 10:16 I wonder what Disney buying Marvel will do to Islands of Adventure-I’ll bet Marvel Super Hero Island will be re-themed once contracts expire #
  • 19:01 Don’t you remember? We built this city on rock ‘n roll! #80sworkout #
  • 19:03 I wanna know what you’re feeling – tell me what’s on your mind. #80sworkout #
  • 19:06 The further on the edge, the HOTTER the intensity… #80sworkout #
  • 19:12 They stack
    the odds, but we take to the street for the kill with the skill to survive. #80sworkout #classic #
  • 19:14 I need you tonight ’cause I’m not sleepy. #80sworkout #
  • 19:20 The more things you get, the more you want. #80sworkout #
  • 19:23 …and as I try to make my way to the ordinary world, I will learn to survive. #80sworkout #
  • 22:33 Hot damn – the season finale of Weeds sure was unexpected…and GREAT!!! #

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  • 02:25 FinallyFast.com is for PC computers only, even though half the computers shown in our ad were Macs… #
  • 02:32 Getting The Times delivered for me is really the best part of the weekend … because my life is incomplete without The New York Times. #
  • 15:13 Wow – there’s so much @spam on Twitter these days around the trending topics. They REALLY need to figure out how to crack down soon… 🙁 #
  • 15:14 You can’t even browse the trending topics anymore because they’re littered with make money and get free shit schemes. Come on! #
  • 15:55 Awesome, Microsoft – I can’t do keyboard codes (Trademark = ALT + 0153) in Word 2007, eith
    er! But THE RIBBON is much simpler… #
  • 20:55 Great – it sounds like we’ve got another moaner in the gym tonight… #
  • 21:42 Note to Self: As The Guide tells us, don’t forget your towel … especially when working out at the gym. Sweatius Maximus! #

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  • 14:00 Pharmacists of the world, level with us … is moving pills from a big bottle to a bunch of little bottles can’t really be all that tough… #
  • 14:02 I’m just saying … it’s not like you’re cooking up my wife’s birth control back there yourselves. Why do I have to wait an hour? #
  • 15:03 Ahhhh – I love coming home to the smell of sweet and sour meatballs slowly simmering in the crockpot! Excellent… #
  • 15:17 twitpic.com/fqhwc – Oh yes they DO exist!!! #
  • 15:19 If there is a God, these are the kind of meatballs he would serve at his cocktail parties. #
  • 15:27 Awesome – just found out that we DO get CurrentTV with Bright House! Scheduling InfoMania on DVR … NOW. #
  • 15:32 A prescription drug to make EYELASHES grow bigger??? Now if only they made a drug for OTHER PLACES… Oh yeah, nevermind. #latisse #
  • 16:26 Wondering just how much my wife would freak out if she saw the lizard I just found running around our living room… #
  • 16:39 Finally got the little guy out, but accidentally chopped off half his tail in the process. Looked like a skink – tinyurl.com/kt5ln9 #
  • 16:39 Funny how I used to love those things growing up, but
    it kinda startled me running around my house! #
  • 17:20 @krisstraub "…and your diet coke." #
  • 19:58 LOL @ Weeds – "Name one jazz musician." "Dr. Teeth." "He’s a muppet." "He’s a jazz muppet." #
  • 22:43 With meatballs as my fuel, I now leave to go walk my five miles. Go Weight Loss! #
  • 22:53 First Rule of Walking in Florida at Night: don’t step on the frogs #
  • 23:00 Second Rule of Walking in Florida at Night: no, that PROBABLY wasn’t a gator…but it might be best to move it along all the same
    #
  • 23:06 Third Rule of Walking in Florida at Night: even at 11pm, it’s still 90 FUCKING DEGREES OUT!!! #
  • 23:12 Fourth Rule of Walking in Florida at Night: that stench is likely just the swamp you just passed … yeah, just the swamp – that’s it. #
  • 23:19 Fifth Rule of Walking in Florida at Night: exercise. is. hard. #
  • 23:24 Sixth Rule of Walking in Florida at Night: what’d you expect, a Mickey Mouse parade?! Nobody ever said losing weight was easy! #
  • 23:33 Seventh Rule of Walking in Florida at Night: armadillos are awesome! #
  • 23:43 Eighth Rule of Walking in Florida at Night: even enduring sweaty, grueling exercise is still better than sitting through District 9 #
  • 23:50 Ninth Rule of Walking in Florida at Night: learn to tune out the chirping because it NEVER stops #
  • 23:51 Tenth Rule of Walking in Florida at Night: just be happy that all of those bugs MAKING the chirping sounds stay out of sight #
  • 23:57 Eleventh and Final Rule of Walking in Florida at Night: sometimes the best part of a workout is the end … actually, almost ALWAYS… #
  • 23:58 Time to hit the showers, Twitter – thanks for walking the suburban trails with me this cool, summer’s evening! #

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  • 13:54 Scraping dishes clean, licking up crumbs, sobbing incessantly with regards to portion sizes … these are the acts of a man on a diet. #
  • 14:38 This makes me sad – such a great show for kids. RT @conorknighton RIP, Reading Rainbow. Show ends its 26 year run today. bit.ly/CTJW #
  • 14:39 Just made a date to go see District 9 this evening – it had better be as awesome as everyone is saying… #
  • 20:34 WTF?! District 9 was fucking HORRIBLE!!! Like Cloverfield, but even suckier. #
  • 20:35 Thanks, Internet. I just lost my movie choosing priviledges for A LONG TIME thanks to your shitty advice! #dist
    rict9sucked #reallybad #
  • 20:36 Best Movie of the Summer?! Not even if it’s the only one you saw… #pissedaboutgettingdupedintoseeingdistrict9 #
  • 20:57 District 9 … aka $17 and two hours of my life that I’ll never get back. #wasteoftime #andmoney #dontforgetdignity #
  • 21:01 The Final Word on District 9: I’m gonna have to watch SO MANY chick flicks with the wife to make up for taking her to that piece of crap. #
  • 21:07 P.S. …the movie sucked… #andbymovieimreferringtodistrict9eventhoughothermoviesshouldntbepenalizedbyassociation #

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  • 12:12 I’m usually not a hater towards dogs, but if a gator JUST SO HAPPENED to eat the little runt that just shit in my yard, I’d be ok with it. #
  • 12:13 Also the owner, not only for NOT doing any clean-up post pooping, but for also ENCOURAGING said pooping in disturbing, baby voices. #
  • 14:15 Just saw a license plate that said "AMSTER" … girl named Amber or hamster afficionado that missed out on "HAMSTR"??? #
  • 14:55 Prediction: my seemingly intricate plan to miss rush hour is going to fail horribly #
  • 15:26 Red Lobster calls its waitresses "Seafood Experts" … seems a bit presumptuous, albeit not
    knowing what kind of rigorous training is needed #
  • 15:29 What is this crap – I ordered the scampi, not the skimpy! #
  • 15:58 Waitress helicoptered the whole meal and was overly friendly – not the best Lobster meal we’ve had. #
  • 16:01 Wife tipped the annoying waitress 10% – don’t piss off the lady signing the bill! #
  • 17:11 twitpic.com/f9agj – ‘Tis a stormy day at Disney’s Boardwalk #
  • 17:31 "There’s more of a chance that a hippo would sit on you than getting hit by lightning, Dad!" – some kid walking by #
  • 18:10 Alright – I made it to the car … cue the downpour. #
  • 19:31 Home is where the ME is. #
  • 20:29 @kevinrose No black people in Poland, apparently… #
  • 23:09 Just finished watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall again on Cinemax – why can’t we have more comedies like THAT?! Such a good flick… #

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  • 00:38 Remind me again why the guy who HATES spiders is sitting here watching Arachnophobia??? #
  • 00:47 Why does the guy who’s most afraid of spiders give them every possible opportunity to jump down on his FACE?! #
  • 00:49 What’s worse than a pissed off spider queen? A pissed off spider queen who’s ON FIRE! #
  • 02:18 Ladies, tell me – vibrating mascara brush … "innovative" or "scary as hell"? #
  • 16:28 Soup for lunch seemed like a lot better idea BEFORE I realized that it’s still summertime here in Florida… #
  • 16:53 This is hilari
    ous – "Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About" (www.mil-millington.com) #
  • 19:46 You can tell that I don’t eat at McDonalds much – girl asked if I wanted my combo "large." My response: "Um, whatever the normal size is…" #
  • 19:51 Second Window Girl practically threw my order out the window, including a soda that was all wet on the lid. Zephyrhills’ McDonalds sucks. #
  • 21:07 Does Wal-Mart just not realize that their plain "Great Value" branding all over the store looks really boring and unattractive? #
  • 22:34 Acceptable Places to Get Stranded In: a DiGiorno Pizza factory #str
    anded #bringiton #yummy #
  • 22:41 Alright … Angela from The Office is way too NOT PERKY to be doing hair care commercials! #

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It’s finally DONE!!!

It’s good to accomplish things from time to time, and by god, does it ever feel like I finally accomplished something with this one!

Over the last couple of months, I’ve been working in between other writing projects to replace our wedding website with a new site to host photos and updates and whatnot for Sara and I as a couple. Whereas the wedding site was something simple that I’d thrown together in php, the new one was to be a little more complex – based on WordPress, integrating in Gallery for the photo side of things. Eventually I settled on a theme that I liked, and earlier this summer I’d thought the worst was finally behind us after I finally got Gallery to play nicely.

And then it came time to add video…

So this final rung – adding clips of our wedding video – has been on my to-do list for about a month solid, and not due to procrastination, believe it or not, but I swear, it’s just been one headache after another. Let’s see:

  • find a program that LEGALLY supports ripping DVDs
  • find a separate program to chop up said DVD rip into clips
  • upgrade to latest Gallery2 point release because existing version was apparently missing files for the module that I needed to add
  • get hosting company to fix permissions issue that prevented completing said upgrade
  • figure out why web server randomly serves up 403 errors when attempting to execute Add Items From Local Server function (because videos were too big to upload via web interface or Gallery Remote)
  • figure out why Add Items From Local Server doesn’t do anything when executed (another permissions issue)
  • get hosting company to correct path issue for ffmpeg so that Gallery can generate thumbnails for new videos
  • re-add videos one last time so that Gallery can not only generate thumbnails, but also create proper embedding instead of just offering users a link to download each video

All of this took place in bits and pieces over the last couple of weeks, with the last conundrum finally working itself out just a few hours ago. And it’s almost painfully amusing at this point because with all of my squables with WordPress and CSS and whatnot, I’m not sure if I’ve ever had a web development project that experienced that many issues subsequently! Just one or two would’ve been fine, but this time it seemed like literally as soon as we fixed one thing, the very next step in the process would proceed to fail as well. Whew…

But in all that, it’s finally done now, so if you care to check out anything from our wedding, or maybe you just want to see the source of my undying anxiety over the last three months, then hop on over to www.scottandsara.info and enjoy the website that truly was built on blood, sweat, and tears!