June 28, 2015

 I woke up early but stayed in bed until I fell back to sleep. Multiple times. My only real accomplishment for the day was finishing my website. I messed around with the print options in CSS to make the print version of my site look better. Most of my time was probably spent figuring out how to put a QR code on the site when it was printed. I found a code that would automatically generate the code and put it on there but it was based on a Google thing that was no longer supported and I'm thinking that is why I couldn't get it to work. I wasted so much time trying to figure it out. In the end it turned out there was a much easier way. I made the QR codes, saved them as pictures, put them at the bottom of each page, used CSS to not display them on the website, and then more CSS to show them when a page was printed. Each QR code is for the web address of the printed page. That way if someone had the printed page and didn't want to type in the address to view it online, they could just scan the QR code. Pretty cool. I finished that up tonight and posted it to the discussion thread. I also remembered to submit it as an assignment. A whole day early. Tomorrow I'll start commenting on other people's pages.

Tonight I watched Charlie St. Cloud and Pleasantville. Two movies I have previously seen parts of but never the whole thing. I liked both of them for the most part. In Charlie St. Cloud I was a little annoyed that he picked the girl over his brother. To be fair, he was saving her life and his brother was already dead, but did he really have to pick one over the other. It wasn't as bad as About Time when the guy gave up the ability to travel back in time and visit his father because his wife wanted a third child. Two is enough. If I had the ability to go back in time and visit with someone who had passed away, I would not give that up so I could have a third child. I really liked that movie, despite the sadness, but I think they made a mistake with the third child. First child, maybe (although adoption is a thing), but a third child, screw that. Anyway, Charlie St. Cloud was good. And it was probably good that he saved the girl because because his younger brother died, his mom moved away, his two best friends from high school died in the military, his dad ran away when he was a kid, the paramedic who saved his life was died of cancer, and he gave up a college scholarship to become a groundskeeper. So he needed a win.

Pleasantville was also good. Strange but good. The love triangle was a little odd, as was painting a naked lady on the diner window. And the mean high school boys swarming the mom like a bunch of creeps. I'm also not a big fan of Tobey Maguire's little smile, which he did constantly. So overall it was good but also really strange, with an interesting concept.

I didn't mention it but a couple days ago the supreme court legalized gay marriage in all fifty states. It seems like an understatement to say it was a monumental decision. One of those things that will definitely end up in the history books and people will remember where they were when they heard the news. It will also be one of those things that people look back on years from now and wonder why it took so long. Because it is ridiculous that it did take so long. It's ridiculous that it was ever a thing to begin with. Kind of like racism, which is also a thing that we have “fixed” and is in our past but isn't really. It will be the same for gay people. Things are getting better but there will always be assholes. And those assholes will indoctrinate their children and the cycle will continue. Ignorance can be fixed but there will always be assholes.