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Pictures from our Florida Vacation

Andy and Becka go to Florida
The web gallery was made with Adobe Lightroom!

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Biology

What he said

A fun read called Pharyngula which is, as he puts it :”Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal”

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Cipher

For D&D yesterday, I created a puzzle using the Substitution Cipher.
Also, Cipher Index has lots of other fun pen and paper ciphers.

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The full version

This is the link to the full fledged one:
Javascript D&D 3.5 Character Generator
This little program is my gift to my fellow-gamers, and my way of saying “thank you” to the hobby’s developers. Over a quarter-century, I have enjoyed a cordial relationship with people at TSR/WOTC. In return, I’m glad to help make the process of character creation easier for everyone. Happy adventuring!

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Online character generator

Need to roll up a DND character real quick like? Check this out:

Javascript 3.5 Character Generator Lite

Javascript 3.5 Character Generator Lite

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Math

Nifty box cutter

I was playing around building a hexagonal box with sloping sides. I didn’t remember the rules for how to figure out the angles for the miter guage and for the saw.
Fortunately, this is just what the internet was invented for. this page has a calculator for figuring out what angles to use to make a polygonal pyramid shape of any particular size.
Fun.

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Computers

CSS tricks

I’m trying to learn more about CSS, so here are a few tricks that I’ve picked up….

From http://phark.typepad.com/phark/2003/08/accessible_imag.html

A picture of Orion, my D&D figurine

The above image is actually an H2 text element that has been restyled to hide the text and show an image. This technique is useful for skinning a web page — you can simply put in placeholder text in <div> element with an appropriate ID. Then the CSS converts that to an image.

A block (from a div element) with position attribute bottom set to negative 10.

Note that in the previous example, there seems to be no way to push a contained box to the bottom of its container.

A block (from a div element) with float left
A block (from a div element) with float left
A block (from a div element) with float left
A block (from a div element) with float left

Next : how do you center horizontally in a box: use margin:auto;

A block (from a div element) with margin: auto

Next : How do you center vertically? The containing block must have display: table-cell and vertical-align: middle.

A block (from a div element) with margin: auto
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My D&D Figurine

Isn’t he cute?
OrionFigurine.jpg

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who comes up with this stuff

The second one uses star trek the next generation, picard riker and data and fuses it together with saturday night live and “what is love” pop song.
just had to share

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art?

this is interesting…
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