November 4th 2009
A few days ago, I bought a shirt from Shirt.Woot! I was so excited to find a shirt that had DINOSAURS, I impulsively spent $10 (Free shipping) on what I thought was an OK deal. Well…
I didn’t fit.
To my chagrin, I found that there is no way to return a Woot! shirt unless it is defective, see Woot! Return Policy. I stupidly assumed that a women’s XL shirt would fit over my tits. I was so, horribly wrong. Fail.
Looking at their sizing chart, I would like to mention something of note:
The women’s XL shirt is 3/4 of an inch bigger than the men’s small. How is this okay?
I’m slowly learning not to buy anything under $10 from the interwebs, expecting to be able to return it. The shipping cost both ways will cost more than the product itself.
FAIL @ BUYING. FAIL @ ESTIMATION. FAIL @ LIFE.
At least Threadless has women’s XL shirts that fit me.
This is the same experience I had with underwear. NEVER BUY UNDERWEAR ON THE INTERNET OMG.
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October 22nd 2009
Spam, spam, spam, spam.
“I am mr Patrick Chan from hang seng Bank hong kong, there is the sum of $12,500,000.00 in my bank and i need you to work together with me to claim it,we shall then share in the ratio of 50% for me, 50% for you. Contact me for more details email: p.chan002@live.com”
Lollerskates! This one actually got through Gmail’s spam filter! I loves it.
On a more professional note, school is hard/awesome. Microbiology is quickly becoming one of my favorite classes despite having a test in either lecture or lab every week. I love learning about infectious disease. I’m surprised that I can still eat meat, let alone Taco Bell every week. Did you know that you are more likely to get food poisoning from a ground meat than from cuts of it? It makes sense, as many bacteria have trouble penetrating tissue. But if you think of poopy hands that mash burger patties together…
Diseases like dysentery, typhoid and diphtheria are strict human pathogens, that is, they aren’t really found in any other place. In particular, these bacteria can only be acquired through the fecal/oral route. That’s right. If you’ve got that disease, you’ve chomped on someone else’s poop and thought it was delicious. Hooray!
PS: I’ve been listening to Dredg again lately… Oh, senior year. Of note: “Ode to the Sun” and “Sang Real”.
Posted in Personal, Random, Science! by Sarah
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August 29th 2009
Little girls revisited.
Many people have been having issues with the way Internet Explorer 7 and 8 display YouTube videos.
I did some research and seem to have solved the problem myself.
I postulated that people who primarily use Mozilla as their web browser installed Adobe Flash through Firefox and not through IE. It is probable that Adobe Flash detects the default web browser and only installs for that specified web browser, almost legitimately assuming that people would not use multiple browsers simultaneously. For my problem, embedded YouTube videos worked in Firefox but not IE.
My solution:
- IE 8: In the toolbar, click on Tools -> Internet Options -> Programs -> Manage Add-Ons
- When ‘Toolbars and Extensions’ is highlighted, click the link that says, “Find more toolbars and extensions…”
- Search the resulting gallery for “Flash” and click on the add-on called “Flash Player.”
- This takes you to the adobe.com website for Flash and allows an install through Internet Explorer and not Mozilla.
Voila!
This website reports a different solution, changing the YouTube URL to the video to get it to display properly. This worked in Firefox but did not solve my specific problem in Internet Explorer due to my lack of updates.
Please see the posts below for this post’s title reference and additional information.
All this work just to get my website working in IE. Ridiculous!
Posted in Development, Site Updates by Sarah
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August 20th 2009
21st birfday!
I am 21 now, and my birthday experience was amazing. Of course this was two weeks ago – who actually has time to write a blog post on their birthday?
One thing I’ve noticed that comes with being an adult is that people forget your birthday frequently and presents are almost always ‘delayed’ due to ’shipping issues’ and whatnot. Ever since my 18th birthday this has been the case. For real though, I didn’t receive a present from my boyfriend until today – 15 days after my birthday. XD
What’s worse is that I told him what I wanted two months beforehand.
But it’s cool. I’m over that. I got the chess set that I’ve always wanted. The game itself is not super high-quality, but a nice wooden set. I will definitely be asking for a nice marble one when I get married. Whenever that is.
My birthday was at Lucky Strike in Novi. It’s a place filled with fun and excitement and little children until 9pm.
- There’s Bowling!
- Arcade games!
- A pretend Dance Dance Revolution game that is a sad farce and not worth the time!
- Boozins!
- Pizza!
I spent most of my time playing Sega World Championship Horse Racing, raising and training my horse, Eat Dragon Buffet. We lost miserably to my friend Danni’s horse, Comeback, however, we managed to beat my boyfriend’s Alpha Horse. The remainder of the night included ice cream cake and more boozins and sex jokes and Rock Band.
My birthday was awesome.
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July 21st 2009
How to school and work?
Next semester, I’ll be taking:
- Organic Chemistry II + Lab MWF ~11:00 – 13:00 w/ Lab taking 2.5 extra hours.
- Clinical Microbiology + Lab MW ~17:00 – 20:00
- Immunohematology (Blood Bank) + Lab ~17:00 – 20:00
In addition my old Genetics professor wants me to continue my research in SINEs and LINEs in Peromyscus.
I will also be working part-time….?!?!?
That is, I need to stay at my current job to pay my rent and keep my low insurance rate. With such a huge gap in class times, the only shifts I could be eligible for are LATE-NIGHT shifts that run from 23:00 – 03:00/04:00. I don’t know how I’ll be ready for Organic Chemistry in the morning.
I think I am totally fux0rz when it comes to life next semester.
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July 8th 2009
Baby!
I found out last week that my long-lost half-brother is having a boy! Quite exciting! 
I’ve been learning XML in my downtime and will soon be adding an RSS feed to the site. I wish I could find the time to update the layout as it’s a year old. I’m not sure if I’ll be around in the fall due to Bloodbank, Microbiology and Organic Chemistry classes. OMJEDI!
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June 3rd 2009
Name Project
I work as a cashier. I take in about $600 cash on average every night. That means I see a lot of money.
Every once in a while a bill will have a name written on it.
I write that name down.
I post it here.
- Gary
- John Arnold
- Timmy/John
- Jazz
- Eric D
- Catherine Smith
- April
- Gary Glass
- Larry T
- Vickie
I’ll post more each week. If only I could find a convenient way of taking pictures at work >.>
Posted in Random by Sarah
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May 11th 2009
Fixwurk!
My Wordpress theme must be perfect until I create a new one.
Things fixed:
- Upgraded Wordpress to latest version.
- Added security keys… for security.
- Installed Askimet, a spam-catching plugin.
- Added styling for code examples in body text.
- Finally created a Custom 404 page. Well, it already existed, but Wordpress/my server won’t recognize a custom one unless the .htaccess file is modified. I must learn to surf the WP documentation better.
Here’s what you can add to your .htaccess file in your root directory:
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
This processes the error file along with style and such. Keep in mind that .htaccess is in your root folder – If your blog is elsewhere you’ll need to add the relative path from the root directory. As such:
ErrorDocument 404 /blog/index.php?error=404
Posted in Development by Sarah
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May 3rd 2009
Youtube hates XHTML 1.0 Strict
It really does. It took a mindmeld to figure this out, mostly thanks to this guy: Gary @ Pento.net.
The Problem:
<object width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jItz-uNjoZA&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jItz-uNjoZA&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="320" height="265"></embed></object>
- Embed is not supported.
- Multiple parameters are poopy.
The Solution:
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/jItz-uNjoZA&hl=en&fs=1" width="320" height="265"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jItz-uNjoZA&hl=en&fs=1"></param></object>
- It’s better to combine multiple call tags.
- This code is much tidier than the original.
- Fullscreen and “script access” are unecessary.
- Values shouldn’t need to be mentioned more than once.
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April 10th 2009
I love …..Little girls?
This song from Oingo Boingo has invaded my brain. And I like it.
I figured I would infect you, too.
Posted in Random by Sarah