Asymptomatic

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Return from the In-laws
October 14, 2002

It should read like a B-Movie thriller, "Return form the In-Laws!!!"  Will our heroes return with their sanity in tact?  What strange dialect of English will they speak when they return??

Fortunately, a convergence of events led to a late departure to Johnstown this weekend.  I wasn't feeling very well, and the doctor had prescribed something that made me sleep for most of the weekend.  Besides that, it was raining fairly heavily.  Although, I did take the time to coat Berta's car windshield with Rain-X before the trip.

Dream Theory
October 07, 2002

I was wondering today how much our dreams affect our waking lives.  I had a very... I can't say strange... unusual dream last night, involving a gray vintage VW Beetle and a girl I don't know.  There was another part where I was walking with a guy I don't know who was playing with some cards and telling me strange things.  I was hiding from some people, I think I may have killed someone in my dream.  As many of my more "important" dreams go, this one was pretty surreal.

So I suppose I've been thinking a lot about it today.  Who was that girl?  And as I describe the dream and who these people are, they're not really people that I don't know - they don't actually exist.  It's not like I'm sharing my dreams with someone else.  I don't buy into a collective dream state.  There's no evidence for that.  But I didn't want to say "dream-girl", since that implies something completely different from the role this person played in my dream.

Triglav
October 07, 2002

It’s a Javascript-based RPG that runs in your browser.  To anyone who doesn’t code, this game will probably seem mundane, but as I said to someone when describing it earlier, “There are very few things on the web to which I respond, ‘How did they do that?’ And this is one."  Note that you right-click to cast a spell, and that your mouse cursor isn’t an arrow or index/hand, like it is everywhere else on the web.http://www.smokymonkeys.com/triglav/

PageCat HTML Editor
October 03, 2002

I have added an HTML editor to the article editor of PageCat.  It's working out quite nicely.  I have a couple of features that I would like to add to it (for which I even have source code, just haven't integrated them yet), including a MS Word HTML cleanup script and a graphical table creator.

The MS Word thing is very handy.  If you've ever had to edit a web page someone else created in Word you know what I mean.  It puts all kinds of extra tags into the HTML that make it very hard to read.  It also uses all sorts of <font> tags, which are just yucky.  This script I stole from some other site has a bunch of regular expression replaces that do away with all of the Word yuckiness.