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The new design seems to be a success. I'm mulling over making a couple of minor design tweaks but I've gotten really good feedback so far. I'm also still working on some of the backend scripts, so every once in a while something may look really broken. Just reload a few minutes later and it'll probably be fixed.
Also I think the green blob in the corner is a type of Rorschach inkblot test. It actually started out as a photo I took, which I then edited around until you see what's there now. It may fall into the things I change over the next few days as I'm still not entirely happy with it. On the other hand, I can't draw so my options are pretty limited.
In non-website related news, I won second place in a costume contest on Halloween with my Double Dare costume! I went to go see Halloween as part of the Master Pancake Theater show at the Alamo Drafthouse. MPT is basically Mystery Science Theater 3000, but live, and for the Halloween showing, they had Mary Jo Pehl, who played Pearl Forrester on the TV show. Anyways, before the movie started they had a costume contest. I lost out to Ron Jeremy in a Bunny Suit, mainly because in the last round they asked us the random question, "If you had a racehorse, what would it's name be?" and it's way easier to be funny in a Ron Jeremy costume than it is in a Double Dare costume. But I still won a glow in the dark Master Pancake Theater t-shirt, and a bag of Apple Whole Wheat pancake mix from Kirby Lane. I love me some Kirby Lane pancakes!
Speaking of the Alamo Drafthouse, their new downtown theater opened yesterday. I'm going to be checking it out for the first time tonight by seeing Roadhouse. And then, well, I'm basically going to be spending the next 2 months there as well, since they have awesome event after awesome event after awesome event. I joke that that movie theater is half the reason I moved to Austin, but I seriously think it is. It basically takes every cool movie-related event idea I had, and many I didn't, and they actually do it.
I bought a Harmony 880 remote a few days ago, because having four remotes (TV, Tivo, DVD player, and cable box) was getting annoying. The remote is pretty much all kinds of amazing. I also picked it up on Amazon for WAY cheaper than the list price, and even though I did the free shipping option, meaning it's supposed to take over a week to get it, it only took two days since Amazon has a distribution center in Dallas. For once UPS came through!
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