If The Upstage is either too slow or too lame, I'll still hit Dee's.

Solves the liver destruction thing nicely, I think.

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0204, 20050901 : The upstage was closed for some reason. Got blitzed at Dee's with 342 instead. No regrets. Clarity of thought mucked up with enough sinus pressure to stall a moose.

Comic navigation is looking pretty ugly at the moment, and will probably continue to do so through Labor Day weekend - don't know when I'm going to throw the "go" switch just yet, but the "noise" blog replaced mercury the second the RSS feed tested clean, so.

Viz, etc. will likely be kludged into some sort of fixed-up goodness as needed - meaning Generic Bullshit goes first and the pittsburgh-centric stuff goes second, as I'm still kind of vague on how exactly I want to execute that end of things.

Ramble, ramble, started thinking along these lines last year, ramble ramble repeat, drone, fail to say anything else meaningful, attempt to close and wind up with a Stephenson ending.

Right, then. Noise certainly has enough seed material. Still have to do extended entry markup and possibly comment logic - though going that route isn't currently part of the plan, it may prove useful. Better to need and not have, etc.

Giddamn, I can't wait to get this thing on the air.

Mostly for the fact that music keeps triggering visuals, and ATC hasn't done that for awhile.

And I'm getting templates for the "program" more or less finalized. The root for the comic isn't what I want - nowhere near what I want, actually - I'm going to have to do custom art for that, and it's going to be pretty spiffy. Looking forward to that, actually - mostly because it'll one of the many little things that separates DCR-the-comic from ATC-the-comic.

Aim to make the navigation as presently defined ( transmission, program, noise ) actually functional before I split - FAQ gets to be a # until I get a few more questions to plug into it.

2107 : I'm about as far as I can go with the comic at the moment without sitting down and doing some more of it - which I need to do soon, if for no other reason than debugging the strip navigation.

That aside, I think all of the necessary skeletal bits are in place : strip templating is sorted for the moment, and the "noise" templating can be tweaked to do the Pittsburgh thing.

Slammed a Starbucks double espresso canned energy drink thing (hence "Ass Grenade"), still waiting for it to kick and the front page is wired up. I'm fairly certain it's How I Want It, but I'll need to actually make more strips and upload them in order to be sure.

As it stands, the front page is linked to an external template from all blogs that are currently in use, using mtglobal tags to keep everything swank. So far the presentation is adhering to spec, though I've had to tweak the CSS and am definitley going to be having issues with viz.

The web backend always seems to be the shittiest part of any project I work on. :P

Remembered a bit ago that I have loose plans to talk to James about the Next Decade tonight, at The Upstage. At this point, I'm not sure if I'll give it a miss or not - I'm still thinking up what exactly I want to ask him about and I have no idea how sensitive or omniscient he is about the subject matter. Not even really sure if ND applies to DCR (it certainly applies to "Dead City" - but does it fit the altdotgothindustrial vibe I'm trying to nail down?).

Decisions, decisions.

There's enough noise going on to get the major kinks worked out, though I still have to populate noise-viz and get the welding sorted out.

That or rework my information design, one or the other. All of which will likely happen whenever I post a non-strip image. In the meantime, major debugging is complete, and this thing (for a change) looks decent in IE 6.

(insert flaccid fappage w/r/t overall information design, lack thereof, etc.)

... and I need another post to another category for debug purposes. So far the idea of using icons for section categories seems to be working nicely, though I'm sure it's going to get frustrating when I run out of images I've stocked up and need to create new graphics, etc.

11:57 < mdxi> pardon the repeat, #perl people, i just need to share this more
11:57 < mdxi> yesterday the mayor of biloxi said "this is our tsunami"
11:58 < mdxi> today, in an apparent bid to steal back the Historical Miscomprehension Award, the governor of Louisiana said "I can only imagine this is what Hiroshima was like"
11:59 < ejp> ...
11:59 <@bda> 14:59 <@eniac> where is your noah now
11:59 < ejp> drunk off his ass.
11:59 < mdxi> noah been dead a while now
12:00 <@rjbs> mdxi: wow
12:00 < mdxi> rjbs: i'm thinking maybe tomorrow GWB will say now he knows how all those Jews felt

11:30 < solios> dcr is wired for rss.
11:31 < ejp> RSS is only useful if the site actually updates. :P

At this point, the rss template I'm using is the canned MtGlobal writeout I cobbled together for ATC. Easier to flip open five blogs and do a little bit of copy/paste for something I know works than it is to, say, start peeling apart the templates and getting things going when I don't even have a fully fleshed out base of material to pull from.

That said, the front page is probably going to make use of the same plugin, so updates to any section are written out in the correct order. It should be noted that MTGlobalListings will do a by-date writeout from all of the blogs, which is what I'm looking for - MTOtherBlog grabs and lists from each blog in order - useful for some things, but not what I'm aiming for here.

Or rather, MTGL works with RSS. How well it'll work under other conditions is something I'm about to find out.

Live and direct.

Technically, it's canned and obfuscated... but this town isn't one for technicalities these days.

I haven't built a site from scratch since some point in 2003 or so. Forgot you actually need content to break in the templates. Oops.