1) Sinbad is supposed to be a hack comedian, yes? One of the horrible ones, who does predictable and stupid material? Listen to Demitri Martin, you say! Well, despite all the tongue-clucking hipsters’ proclamations, Sinbad’s cable specials used to make me LAUGH — HARD! I would change my schedule to see them. And I wasn’t all that young, either. I was probably like 19 or 20. I’d probably still like them. I don’t care if it’s not hip. He makes me laugh! Sue me.
2) When making a web page, putting your formatting directly in the HTML is lame, right? Use a CSS file instead, you say! But you know what? For all the snobby righteous anger of CSS missionaires, there’s still one thing that CSS is TERRIBLE at: CENTERING! How did they revise HTML and forget to goddamn CENTER anything! I love the CENTER tag, and I still use TABLES to VERTICALLY CENTER! I don’t care if it doesn’t validate. It’s cross-browser, uses minimal markup and WORKS! Hit me in the face if you like.
I also like Demitri Martin and CSS files. I just hate “supposed to” directives from society.
On my iTunes now:
Child Star by The Unicorns from "Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?"
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Jul 25th, 2006 at 2:44 pm
You have to read this.
http://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/center.html
Also, I ran into Sinbad once at Macworld. I was disappointed, only because I know Douglas Adams was also there that year, and I much rather would’ve run into him.
Jul 25th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
the first one doesn’t seem to be a complaint… more like a position statement
Jul 26th, 2006 at 10:37 am
Dan! That explanation is even more infuriating! If that’s the best that CSS (CSS2, anyway) can do, then I’d still rather center tag it up! That vertical centering is totally useless — you have to know the height of what you’re centering — but what if it’s text?
And the centering a block inside of something — you need to have an enclosing block which has text-align center!
Don’t get me started!
Douglas Adams is cooler than Sinbad by a good shot.
Jul 26th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Will, when posting a list in a blog you are supposed to list 3 things.
Jul 28th, 2006 at 3:33 am
Agreed. Where is item 3?
Aug 1st, 2006 at 8:55 am
One man’s Sinbad is another woman’s Margaret Cho.