I've noticed a little problem when viewing my site:  Different pages or posts appear to have different widths.  This is kind of impossible because I wrote my template by hand, and I made all the pages and posts look pretty much the same.  So I searched to see if anybody else had the problem.  The answer is yes.  The problem is that Firefox doesn't have a vertical scroll bar unless there's content that extends past the bottom of the browser window.  This sounds good, except that it causes the problem that I just mentioned.  This site says to use html {overflow-y: scroll;} in the style sheet.  It also recommends a couple other similar solutions, none of which I tried because the first one worked.  This problem doesn't occur in Internet Explorer or Opera because the vertical scroll bar is always displayed, though it's grayed-out when not needed.  This solution displays a grayed-out scroll bar, whether there's content past the bottom of the window or not. #technology

This link shows a vintage ad from the American Meat Institute from 1946, advocating the eating of meat.  I'm sure it offends somebody, and that's funny.  (via Boing Boing) #entertainment

A fogbow, or white rainbow, is a U-shaped layer of fog made up of water droplets that are too small to reflect or refract light.  The site says, "wave interference causes an overlap between light rays having different wavelengths ... and thus diffraction is [the] dominant scattering mechanism."  (via Neatorama) #technology

I just spent most of the day snowboarding.  ("It's a Tuesday.  Shouldn't you be at work?"  Eh...)  Here's what I noticed: 

There are 4 types of falls:  Bump/bruise, twist, slide, and hyper-extend.  I covered 3 of the 4 today.  I fell on my butt while facing uphill, which meant I also smacked my head on the ground (bump/bruise).  I went over a couple jumps and didn't quite nail the landing (slide).  And I sort of hyper-extended my elbow by trying to keep myself up while almost falling down (hyper-extend).  I'm glad I didn't have any twists.  They're usually day-enders. 

Most skiers hate snowboarders because they always fall down and get in the way.  As a snowboarder, I hate skiers because they think they're better than me and they use the whole mountain to do their big, dumb swooping moves.  And right when I try to pass them, they swoop over to me and don't even look.  Buncha jerks. 

It's been suggested that there be different hills for skiers and snowboarders.  This is an unbelievably great idea and here's why:  Snowboarding and skiing are two completely different sports.  Snowboarding involves leaning to turn and zig-zagging down the mountain to maintain a reasonable speed.  Skiing involves [something; I'm not sure what] and making big S-patterns down the mountain to maintain a reasonable speed.  Snowboarding involves falling.  Skiers are too good to fall.  On a serious note, snowboarders fall in a specific way, and this is different than how skiers fall.  By putting these things on different hills, everyone's problems would be solved.  Blammo. 

It occurred to me as I was sitting on a freezing cold gondola:  I don't really get cold because there's quite a bit of adrenaline involved.  As I've mentioned in the past, snowboarding is the most illogical thing on earth.  Speeding down the face of a mountain with a board strapped to your feet sounds ridiculous.  But somebody tried it once, and it stuck.  And so each dumb thing I do produces a lot of adrenaline in me.  I speed down the hill, I pass a few people, I dodge a few fallen people, I try to "hit" a couple jumps, I merge with another hill, I attempt to stop before hitting a crowd of people at the bottom.  These all have a certain amount of danger in them, and that danger makes my blood flow, which keeps me comfortably warm.  And it makes me forget about the bump on my head. #sports

Whenever I see a BMW or a Mercedes (or even a Saab or Volvo for that matter) on the road, I feel so lowly.  How can I, the driver of a worthless little Japanese import, be on the same road with a German (or otherwise European) powerhouse? 

I think that even if I get rich, I'll still be driving a cheap car.  Maybe I'll get a moon roof and leather interior, but it'll still be cheap.  As soon as an expensive car can get me to my destination faster or get me there without having me drive, I'll buy it.  Or as soon as it can fly or teleport me to where I want to go, I'll buy it.  But if it's just a more expensive piece of plastic/metal/fiberglass with wheels, count me out. 

When I get a new car (which will probably be in 2015 or so, depending on how long my current car lasts), I want to get some sort of hybrid.  I'm hoping I can get a hybrid pickup or minivan.  Pickups are good for carting things around, but they traditionally get terrible gas mileage.  Minivans are also good for carting things around, but they're "uncool".  I drove a minivan when I was in high school, and let me set the record straight:  I made it cool.  It wasn't cool up to that point.  But after I did it, it was cool.  And I keep seeing car commercials for minivans with seats that fold into the base of the vehicle.  That's so cool.  Man, I want to be a stay-at-home/minivan-driving dad.  Ya know ... as soon as we have kids.  Which won't be soon.  Stop asking me. #travel

I hate Taco Bell.  What a disgusting place.  To call it "Mexican food" is a disgrace to the entire subcontinent of Mexico.  What really gets me is their commercials.  They have pretty girls and nice outdoor landmarks where people say "I'm full".  What they should really say is, "I'm full, I have a stomach ache, I have terrible gas, and I'll be spending the next several hours in the bathroom." 

Maybe it's just me.  I'm slightly lactose intolerant, and since all or most of their food has cheese, my body doesn't really accept it.  Or maybe it's the fact that they mix greasy beef and cheese with refried beans.  That just can't be good for the stomach. 

I made the grave mistake of judging all Mexican food by my experience at Taco Bell.  But then I had real Mexican food (and Wendy's [wife, not restaurant] patented taco salad) and it really changed my life.  What a good group of people those Mexicans are.  They mix meat with beans and vegetables and put it all in an easy-to-pick-up package like a taco or a burrito.  Good food + easy to eat = awesome. #food

Enabled two plugins:  Owen Winkler's Comment Quicktags (slightly edited) and Bennett McElwee's Code Markup. #technology

I like when people are nice/friendly when there's no need to be.  It's kinda like getting good service. 

When I pulled up to the security checkpoint at work on Friday morning, one of the two nice guys checked my badge.  Both nice guys do several things to improve the quality of my life:  They say "Welcome to Happyland" or something like it; they greet me by name after they read it from my badge; and they say something like "Enjoy your day" or "Have a nice weekend". 

I'm not dissatisfied with the other badge checkers.  They say a greeting when I pull up, and they say a farewell when I pull away.  I'm ok with that.  It doesn't make my day any worse.  But whenever I go to one of the two nice guys, I always drive away with a smile. #psychology

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Going to a category (/category/rant/) produced a 404 error.  I renamed the page slug of my "category" page to "categories" and that fixed it.  I'll try it on a localhost installation of WordPress 1.5, and I might report this as a bug if I can figure out how to do that. #technology