8 Days of Happiness - Day 1

"The rules are that for 8 days you have to post something that made you happy that day."

—quote of someone quoted by my sis


Day 1 //
After months + months of persistent + shamelessly blatant hinting [can I call it 'hinting' even though I cut right to the chase?], the mister just called asking me what version of GuitarHero is compatible with a Mac/PC.

*le sigh*

Important geeky backstory... This is going to sound so superficial, but I am focusing on the mere gesture rather than the outcome. Now, J was very impervious to my numerous sales pitches as to why I want to buy the popular video game for us [he has his counter-reasons, haha]. Since we have been keeping diligent on saving for our first place, we always try to be very good about how + what we spend our money on. But, every now + then I like to splurge on the fun things + somehow I just could not convince him on this one. So, just hearing him tell me that he was at Best Buy tonight asking the sales reps where to find GH World Tour just melts my corazón. Yeh, the version I wanted is "Legends of Rock III" due to the WT computer version not being available yet. "So much for it being a surprise," he said. But, a surprise it was... Even if he didn't end up buying the game.

Letter cakes, mmm...

Man, I'm such a consumer... Or I at least want a ton of things, but never really act on my impulses. :P

I mean, I have to shell out 45 bones just for coasters ??



Type Coasters c/o Veer

Finally! Gmail has themes!

Who knows why it took Google this long to give Gmail users the option of customizing the default look of their online email interface, but I'm glad they finally came around. They've got all sorts of colour palette themes to please almost every individual as well as more elaborate landscape + illustration themes.

One theme to highlight would be the "Terminal" theme simply because it is an ode to the nerdery + successfully taps into certain users' nostalgia. But, I see it more as a quick 10-second chuckle, + then I'm over it. Because if you actually chose that as your theme you would have the hardest time reading your mail. Unless you enjoy hurting your eyes with #00ff00 type.



With some of the themes like "Mountain", you can also customize by country +/or region. These themes change during the day based on the location information you provide to Gmail to correctly time these changes with your local sunrise, sunset, and/or weather.


Of course, I just had to choose the "Ninja" theme for my interface. I mean, how could I not? While viewing in Ninja theme mode, the star icons are replaced with ninja stars! Ninja stars! Can't go wrong with that.

I can see your underwear !

usatoday.com's boxers
Originally uploaded by +kdis

Found an interesting flickr group called "Underwear showing (web design)" started by Jeffrey Zeldman.

Quite embarrassing considering folks like apple.com are guilty of this. At least it's an easy fix if we just pay attention to the little details. Plus, who really sets their browser's default bgcolor to anything but white anyway?

In any event, it really should be part of our so-called "best practices" regardless if you think this is a big deal or not. Read more back + forth here.


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Underwear showing (web design)
Websites that forgot to specify a background color.

It's surprising how many web designers forget to specify a background color. To check for this, set your browser's default background color to magenta, or something equally piquant. Then visit websites. You may be surprised.

omg, the geekiness...

... in yum form. :9



c/o likecool.com