Oh ho! "Professionals"
5 November 2007, 11:56 am. 13 Comments. Filed under Design, Rants, Web-related.
Navigation-wise, what is a menu? More specifically, is this a menu? As far as I can see, it provides a selection of available options. If you disable CSS, it's organised into a list of options. But oh no, for design elitists who favour solid, stubborn, Web 2.0-style designs and can't see anything else through their little eyes, menus must be organised in the same way as all the other "clean and simple" designs out there. By some commentators on this article I dugg, it's not a menu. Please enlighten me then, what's the new definition of a "menu"?
Is HTML/CSS coding then?
You have designers, front-enders and programmers. A designer shouldn't HTML, a front-ender shouldn't write code and a programmer shouldn't design. The reverse is also true, a programmer shouldn't need to worry about front-ending, a front-ender shouldn't be designing and a designer shouldn't write code.
Some people can combine 2 or 3, but that's rarely a good combination, or only a good combination in their mind and the minds of equally retarded peers. In conclusion, professionals specialize themselves and don't do things below (or above) their paycheck.
Ah, I see. No, that was sarcasm. I don't see. I don't see at all why programmers do not need to worry about how users at the front-end are going to use their software. Are you coding shit for your own back-end use? Would you be more happy hiring a programmer, a front-ender and a designer for a project, or would you like to hire someone who can do all of that just as well if not better than three specialists?
I'm sad. Because while an economist is a professional and a lawyer is a professional, I'm wanting to be an commercial (economics) lawyer. That's just wow, "only a good combination in [my] mind and the minds of equally retarded peers." I'm not really sad, cause I think I just quoted a retard.
Continuing on from the same person...
That said, the article in this Digg-post is neither advanced nor "coding" - it's HTML and CSS.. the basics, really, of anyone professional enough to bother working with professional people. The MVC-idea if you will, Model, View, Control. But most people here aren't professionals I suppose, so.. sorry for sounding "elitist" (not intended that way), but if you consider this example "advanced coding".. well.. you're not that experienced.
I agree with part of that. To me, it's not "advanced coding" either even though it may well be for some. But totally denying that HTML and CSS are "coding"... Well, what are they then? They're just... HTML and... CSS. Right.
And for all that time, I've been referring to HTML and CSS as coding! Well, since I'm neither a professional in design nor coding, I don't need to change my terms for an egghead of a "professional".
HM forum suckers
20 September 2007, 8:53 pm. 42 Comments. Filed under Internet, Rants.
One of my regular forum-hangouts: Happymapling.net. It's really a place controlled by power-hungry, up-themselves and arrogant bumming moderators with no life. I used to be obsessed with MapleStory and now that I've made friends there, I'm not quitting for the suckers, I'll just top my blog's Rants category even more. (I was going to refrain from making another rant post but Belinda said I should rant more.)
'Pho': How to be attractive to the opposite sex
Perfectly self-explanatory:
"Be yourself" doesn't work. Yourself isn't what girls want. If it is then you wouldn't have any problems. What they want is money and looks. They can lie to us and themselves all they want. In the end, the guy that looks like Brad Pitt that drives the Ferrari is going to get the chicks.
Ever wonder how girls can somehow manage to get with the one guy that abuses her? Because they are biologically attracted to guys with money and good looks. Those same guys are general the type to abuse people as well. You don't get the good job by bending over. You have to be the pusher.
Since the majority of my blog visitors are female (at least I think they're female), I can sort of expect comments against 'Pho''s theory. Making generalisations like that is bad, boy, bad.
Holandica: ZOMG off-topic! SPAM!!!
It was just a normal sunny day in a normal thread...
dr zeik: Summa's going guy hunting tomorrow. I r teh convinsar!
zedex: ...
That sounded perfectly normal to me in a chat-type sort of "General Discussions" topic but in comes a twenty-year-old someone with too much authority on his hands lacking people to enforce his powers upon...
Holandica: SPAM
(and since HM bans spammers, someone had to defend himself)
zedex: i was replying to the previous post... it meant for speechless. but typing out speechless would have a different meaning
Holandica: then you could have said: "Im speechless I don't know what to say now ... elephants are pink WOOT F666 o.O"
This twenty-year-old must've wasted twenty years to not learn that conciseness was a virtue.
DaMirrorLink: Programmer-Wannabe
The forum was recently restored to a previous state a while ago. Of course, some of the new posts were not backed-up in the back-up used for restoration so these posts went missing.
MySQL got rolled back, thats all
Firstly, other people on this forum aren't going to understand what MySQL means. He just likes acting cool and smart since he wants to be a programmer in the future. Well unfortunately, I know that MySQL is a database management system using Structured Query Language so you can now tell me what "rolling back" such a system means. This is exactly like one of those little "web designers" that makes comments such as "Your CSS looks so cool!" (That might really be just my own problem.)
I'm not this mean and picky all the time. I finished my last test of this round of tests last night, which went extremely well, but now I have essays and assignments and more essays and more assignments. Ranting is good for health, guys.
Superficial beauty tips
16 September 2007, 12:33 am. 27 Comments. Filed under Miscellaneous, Rants.
It must be an Asian thing. Because I don't see a lot of non-Asians doing it, and it must be all due to (Asian) guys liking it this way.
- Enlarge the eyes:
Hold the camera with your hand held up high, keep face relatively straight, no smile but lips slightly open and stare upwards with bulging eyes. You end up looking like anidiotinnocent little angel. - Kill the blemishes and whiten up:
Open your photo in Photoshop. Since you never discovered the Healing Brush Tool, airbrush over your countless bursting pimples and hairy moles. And oops your face is now a terrible blur, but don't panic. Duplicate the layer, do a lovely Gaussian Blur and set the Blend Mode to "Overlay". You end up withghastlybeautiful and dreamy. - "Decorate" your plain face:
This is when you get out your Photoshop maple-leaf brush and "spice up" your dead face. Alternatively, draw some sweet hearts and a little crown above your head. Make sure the colour of these decorations clash with your photo so they stand out! Oh look at themonsterumm... princess! - So what happens if you're still not cute enough?
Retake another photo with your tongue stuck out or lips puckered up. But remember girls, must hold your camera up high!
Sarcasm aside, all these different girls end up looking exactly the same in their photos. When you meet one of them in real life, the contrast between her photo and person now becomes superficial ugliness. Because the truth is, her eyes aren't that big, her skin isn't that blemish-free, her face is only as plain as they really are and you can't expect her to stick her tongue out and pucker up her lips the whole time.
They just killed the whole natural beauty thing. But even unprocessed ancient black-and-white photography managed to preserve my beauty:
That's what you call big eyes, blemish-free, cute face and most important of all—natural beauty.
Call me jealous for being too lazy to do make-up and Photoshop my face, but I'd much rather spend my money on food and contribute my time to drawing more appealing works of art.
