The Mardi Gras, 1 week later.
February 27, 2007
Oh, did the St. Anthony Ramblers ever ramble this year. Best yet, I’d say.
Don’t get me wrong, last year was a lot of fun too, but when you aren’t bleeding from both of your hideously scraped palms, the day seems to go by better.
I think my costume finally came around on Sundi or Lundi Gras, I’m not sure. But it was a hell of a find from that little place on Decatur, The Garage.
(not really) Long story short, I was the Security Duck™. And during a brief discussion with the other fellas of the Ramblers, it would appear that Security Duck™ will be a recurring costume/role, basically as the drum major/pace setter. I reckon we should all get together and eat some king cake for initial planning, and whoever gets the baby is that year’s duck.
Anyway, here is the best photo that I know of the duck that day, and links to photos by Anti Em, Beatrix sKiddo, Shancey Pants, and Miss Valentine.
No that’s not some random person yelling at me, that’s Hannah. And no she’s not Photoshop pixelated. That’s her paint sample dress.
Fat Tuesday
February 20, 2007
While the rest of the world is at work, we drink!
Happy Mardi Gras, bitches!
Muses, 2007.
February 15, 2007
I, your very own Col. Panic™, with be marching with the Big Easy Rollergirls in Muses tonight.
It’ll be cold as hell, but look for us. We’ll be behind float #19.
I want my mod_rewrite!
February 7, 2007
I lurve me some mod_rewrite. For those who are not familiar, it is a module that lets me take URLs and rewrite them using regular expressions, turning parts of the URL into variables.
For example, instead of sending you to store.com/?category=shirts&style=longsleeve&fabric=cottton&color=red, I can send you to store.com/shirts/longsleeve/cotton/red
Nice, eh? Yeah.
Well, I’ve taken on a new project, and the server is using the infernal IIS, not apache. And I don’t have install/admin permissions. Suck. And, the existing “codebase” is nothing short of horrendous.
It has the basic setup of site.com/bios/personA.html, site.com/bios/personB.html, site.com/bios/personC.html, etc. Well, I don’t like having that much of the _same_ html. Plus, it’s all gross. So to take care of the 20 html pages, I set up a php page that calls up the individual bio info from a MySQL database. Simple, right?
Well, I didn’t want the link to be site.com/bios/?user=personA. My hack? Create a custom 404 page:
<?php
$uri = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']; // get the url
if( preg_match( “@/bios/(.+)@i”, $uri, $matches ) ) { // parse the url
$rewrite = $matches[1];
include (“bios/index.php”); // transfer control
} else {
echo “Error: could not find $uri”; // your real 404 error message
}
?>
Basically, when you go to site.com/bios/personA, the webserver naturally thinks that’s a directory, but it doesn’t exist. Luckily, the webhost allows me to specify custom error pages, so I wrote the above, which just pulls out the username (if applicable), and includes the bios index page, which then displays how I want it to be.
Dirty, but functional.
Heroes: On the Cheerleader
February 5, 2007
Heh. That’s kinda dirty.
Anyways, I had a thought on the identity of the Cheerleader’s real father while in the shower the other day.
I think that her father is Mr. Linderman.
Well, we’ll see soon enough.
What do you do? I’m in Murders and Executions.
February 1, 2007
Latest acquisitions:
What can I say? I love monkeys. I said ~5 years ago, when I first saw it, that one day it would be mine. Yesterday was that day.
This is my Christmas gift from my Dad this year – he had a guy in NC box and mount it and gave it to me yesterday. My Dad was at the show and managed to get his hands on Mitch Mitchell’s drumstick from The Jimi Hendrix Experience performance on Aug. 1st, 1967 at City Park Stadium.