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Bejeweled Madness

March 1, 2005

Bejeweled Madness

I think I should have titled this entry “Everything and The Kitchen Sink”; so much has been happening lately that I just haven’t been able to sit still long enough to write about it. Let’s see just what have I been up to? Hmmm…

Well, I’ve been happily going through some more of the computer equipment I was given (see earlier posts or not) and getting some of the systems put together, ready for sale. I have to go through all the odd boards to see what processors they can take since I mentioned them to a good friend and he/she (gender witheld for protection purposes) instructed me to tell he/she what I have in case he/she has chips “just lying around.” Eeep! One day I’m calling and mentioning pumpkin pie. I so love pumpkin pie! *grin*

My dad and I have gotten into this little thing I call Bejeweled Madness. See, I first introduced him to the Popcap’s first Bejeweled aka electronic crack and for the first time ever I was bested by the old geezer! Bested? Nay, humiliated. It seems that he’s like Rainman with that stupid game; the best I could do on it was like 50,000 he got up to like 1,400,000 on it! In the history of the computer he’s never gotten more than me in any game, NEVER EVER NEVER EVER! He not only beats me at the freaking thing, he crushed me. Spanked me like I’m a naughty, naughty schoolgirl… err… uhm… well, not like that; he annihilated me. It wouldn’t be so bad if he could stop pointing and laughing at my pathetic score or could spell annihilate. So for ages I plotted my revenge. For ages I planned, pleaded and begged the dark spirits for a way to get even with my progenitor. And finally along came Popcap with their latest incarnation of pure evil, Bejeweled 2. Finally REVENGE WILL BE MINE! Laugh at my pathetic score no more pappa, for now I will be laughing at your sad sad little boy score. HAHAHA! HAHAHAHA! BWAHAHAHAHA!

(pause)

He’s up to 2 million seven hundred forty-thousand five hundred twenty-one points. *sigh* Great. Just freaking great… we’re now full-tilt running and screaming into Bejeweled Madness. Actually I’m having a whole lot of fun with him this time around (future post coming) *tee hee*

I’ve also been doing a massive amount of work on this ole blog o’mine; happily taking a veritable coding wheed-whacker to the sucker. I’ve added some cool new functionality to the code, made a few behind the scenes additions/functions to the admin panels and delved into some cutting-edge, ultra-nifty CSS/PHP code and techniques. Notice anything different yet? Hehehe, that’s what I love about making modifications; the real pleasure is making tons of changes yet keeping the blog looking the same at first glance. Run your little mouse over things and you’ll see the fun I’ve had and the cool changes that are there waiting for you to enjoy! And hey for one of the niftiest things I’ve ever seen, why don’t you drag your mouse over the picture at the top of this post for starters. *Hehehe* Enjoy the new features, look and feel (I sure had a blast with all the changes)! It was hard work and it’s not obvious, which I LOVE! Happy discoveries!

Posted by Vincent Navarino (who has an iPod) at 04:12PM • 6 comments »

6 comments

Comment from: Kristopher · http://www.gedekran.com
Pretty nice stuff. Hey, what's going on? Oh wait, isn't this post about what's going on.. Hmm, all I caught was something about electronic crack and being beat like a naughty school girl. Hey, that's a party I would go to. Just bring along some ram and everything will be alright. :)
March 4, 2005 @ 05:31PM
Man I had a real blast modifying the blog and adding new features like the photo enlarging, mouseover changes and link popups; plus there's quite a few behind-the-scenes changes that rock. Oh, and heh, the calendar was modified to make dates with links more obvious as well as today's date, etc. Still going to do some more with it, some tweaking, some non-obvious code redecorating; etc. etc. MAN this is f-uu-uuuun!

Other than that, still humping the bridge of madness so much I wore the calluses smooth babey, oh yeah!

How you guys?
March 4, 2005 @ 06:40PM
Comment from: Shannon Freeman · http://www.vci.net/~shand1/
Vinnie,

Once a code monkey, always a code monkey. This coding is easy for you, as for me, i have to crack open a book to find out to do it. I'm still waiting for my DSL from BellSouth. Darn !@#$%^ won't run the phone lines that are needed to get DSL. And I've threatened to do something drastic, maybe I should load their shorts with gnats, yeah that might work.

:)
March 4, 2005 @ 09:11PM
I am having a ton o'fun with the code additions as well as the improvements behind the scenes. It does rely heavily on good resources found on the web and coherant authors like alll things codewise. Good luck with the DSL! BTW Try trained rabid wombats, works better than those gnats on DSL guys...
March 4, 2005 @ 10:07PM
Comment from: Dave
f@@king cool mods good job!!!!!
March 5, 2005 @ 12:22PM
Thanks; the key for me was to incorporate new features, both behind the scenes and accessible that made the blog more fun, useful and colorful yet LOOK the same until you did something (besides the calendar mods for todays date and to make it easier to see which days had posts). The pic zoom is the most killa and I modded the software so I could incorporate it easier creating a post. If you don't mouse over stuff almost no one would realize anything changed; that to me is the real FUN part! Hehehe...
March 5, 2005 @ 03:37PM

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