the wonderful world of code

so to start off: apparently i was wrong about being able to post pictures on your blog from a yahoo photos account. i've tried endlessly, and it doesn't work, and i don't know why. so i guess if you want pictures on your blog using that method, you're gonna have to just put a link to the page with the picture, or a link to the picture, but you can't post it up here with a simple image source tag. the only other way i figure you could post pictures up here using the yahoo photos method is somehow find them on a google image search. and i have no idea how google's bots find the images for the search, so there you go.

i finally finished kyle's blog template completely. this whole week i've been trying to put up his title, but since i had to save it as a jpg picture, and the whole yahoo photos thing didn't work, and tripod and geocities wouldn't let me link a picture on here, i finally got myself an angelfire account. apparently angelfire does let you link an uploaded picture from your site. good to know for any other templates/pictures i want to post.

oh and there's always that option. sign up for an angelfire account (website) and upload your pictures there, and then just link it with an image source tag as usual.

it's been insanely windy here the past few days. droughts do a few things: cause huge dust storms whenever it's windy, cause extreme fire risk everywhere (everybody in los alamos probably hates the drought because of this), make people only be able to water their plants/lawns like twice a week (which i still don't get... i mean this is a desert people, you're not gonna get grass and plants to grow in a desert. and some of the other stuff people try to plant in this elevation. but what do i know). and the one that i hate the most... allergies. i've been feeling like total crap for the past four days because all these allergens have been using my sinuses as a punching bag. stupid histamines.

so we leave to cruces at something like 7am tomorrow. if you drive 90-95mph without stopping, you can get to las cruces in about three hours. but we're stopping somewhere to eat breakfast, and i don't think my dad wants another speeding ticket, so it'll probably be the regular five hour trip. this'll be good. i'll get to hang out with my mom's family that i don't see all that often, and my cousins, and i'll be in cruces. i don't know, i've always liked cruces. going there every year for holidays, walking around nmsu's campus, walking across the street from my grandparents' house to that coffee shop. shorts and tank tops. pecans. warm nights. and the parties with the family. oh, the parties.

we won't get back until around 6:30pm on sunday, because on our way home we have to stop at my aunt's in burque for a mothers' day lunch/dinner thing. crap i totally forgot about mother's day (ok wait now is it mothers' day or mother's day? either way could be correct i think... weird).

virtually no homework this weekend except for reading and notes. i'll probably read the rest of my name is asher lev on the trip, and i won't do notes until the day before i have to turn them in. so i can sleep and hang out this weekend.

my brother's coming back tonight from LA. staying all of summer. that's all i have to say about that.

movies that i didn't comment on earlier: identity. totally go and see this movie. you think it's all horror-movie predictable, but that's the point of it. really go see it. it'll throw you for a loop.

uprising. i watched this movie for a presentation i had to do in history, and i really, really liked it. it has a lot of really great actors in it, and they do an exceptional job. i'd say this is the kind of movie that you show in school when studying wwii and the holocaust. it's just something that you have to see to get the full feeling of it. i think i might rent it again sometime in the next few weeks. it was that good.

in my very unused other blog i put in a plug for wil's book, so i figure i might as well do it here too. i've been reading WWdN since the end of december '01. i really like it, but then again i really like close encounters of the zanderkind and gut rumbles too. (yes, more linkage so blogshares will pick up that i have links to them on my blog).

seems i have inadvertantly turned a few people onto trogdor. which rocks. now i really really want the trogdor shirt. oh, if i only had a check card. or money for that matter.

ok, i think i've ranted and provided enough linkage to make up for a week of not posting. catch you guys on sunday maybe.