Ree's musings

(Call it a road map)

(Yay, Tabulas is back!)

Dilemma of the moment: renew a domain name with GoDaddy or transfer it to NameCheap (which is, per the name, cheaper)? I'm considering sticking with GoDaddy for now because my other domain name is registered through them. I've liked keeping my domains through the same registrar because it has occasionally simplified making changes across multiple domain names. On the other hand, I'm cheap as hell and the difference in cost could pay for a vintage NES game I've have my eye on. What to do?

Internet, could I have your thoughts on this? I'm genuinely unsure what I should do.

Does anyone know where Tabulas' ENTRY['USER'] template tag went? I was hoping to use it as part of adding hAtom support to my Tabulas template (except dates, which I already knew I couldn't do; Tabulas doesn't let me alter my date format to the one hAtom requires). I know there's ENTRY['USERNAME'], but that doesn't let me add the required attributes to the link.

If I can't have dates or authors in my pseudo-hAtom feed, there's really no point in bothering with it any further. I was hoping to use hAtom and a server-side script to get a feed of my Tabulas friends page, but if I would still need to click through just to see whose post that is, for every single post, then no.

I'd normally link to the Tabulas template documentation, but I'm typing this in Notepad (because typing into a browser is just asking for the browser to crash, based on my experiences) and the new Tabulas editor requires some dumbfuckery just to post actual HTML. Therefore you get an unlinked URL instead, unless Tabulas autolinks URLs: http://tabulas.wik.is/Templating_Tags Note that, as of this writing, the last person to edit that list was me. That suggests that nobody else knows where the errant template tag went, but I'm hoping somebody's just holding on me. Please? Anybody else notice this oddity?

I recently bought a pristine Kirby's Adventure off eBay and decided to clean the rest of my video game collection to match. After a few rounds of scrubbing the contacts, removing stickers and residue, and dissolving "permanent" marker writing, my games are working noticably better and looking Very Good or even Like New instead of just Acceptable.

I keep retyping paragraphs and deleting them because I babble too much, and y'all probably don't care except that Ree is a happy bean. I am happy, though. My games collection feels newer and more mine now.

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, italicize the ones you own but have not read, and strike through the books that I probably wouldn't read if you bought me a copy and then hit me with a stick.

(Book List)

Ree's note: I fully intend to read every book I've bought. I don't buy books as coffee table decor. My problem that is I've been video gaming a lot more lately, so my reading time has decreased but my book buying habits haven't. I'll get around them. Eventually. I hope.