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Maple trees in Toronto are enduring a fungal outbreak (PDF) that stains their leaves black, irrespective of original colour.

Green-, yellow-, and burgundy-coloured fallen leaves on grass show large black spots

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.10.25 20:18. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2004/10/25/maple-fungus/

“When riding the escalator, please wear a skirt, carry your stuffed bust of boar in the crook of one arm, and ensure that your mirror-image clone holds his prosthesis well away from the edge.”

Three warning images at base of escalator treads: Female figure holding hand of child; male figure holding front half of some animal; and identical male figures, one of whose extended legs is overwritten with a red X

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.10.23 22:06. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2004/10/23/escalier-motrice/

Concrete wall on brick building features large round glass porthole, stainless-steel barre, and inscriptions in the concrete in letterspaced lower-case Times

Pity about the letterspaced Times. Ours doesn’t have that problem.

Concrete wall behind grey wheelchair ramp shows three porthole windows

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.10.20 18:49. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2004/10/20/porthole/

Within hours of arrival, John and the Web Essentials posse started in with the running jokes. A later example: Cranberry juice. An early example: Taking photos of everything but people, particularly of sewer grates and access covers underfoot.

Despite the stick, it stuck, and by watching where I was going I managed to find a maintenance-hole cover with embossed Garamond type. Now, which cut, exactly?

Square metal access lid is partly covered by dirt and leaves and has rounded corners, an embossed crisscross pattern, and the word ‘furse’ in Garamond type

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.10.18 18:47. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2004/10/18/downcasting-i/

Though you’re probably shopping for the bottle contents. A delightful handmade British look.

Hand-drawn sign wraps around corner of bottle shop, with white writing on jet-black background and a neon sign reading ‘OPEN’

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.10.18 18:45. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2004/10/18/bottle-shop/

Parking-lot signage shows large Futura numeral 2s, upright on tile column in foreground and at an angle projecting from ceiling in background

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.10.17 15:21. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2004/10/17/two-2s/

Molded brass plate shows a K and B superimposed on each other inside a circle, all attached to a dark-blue fence

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.10.17 15:15. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2004/10/17/heraldry/

Muddy York, the well-named homosexualist ruggerses team, is packed to bursting with lads who work in computers or information technology, yet they’re curiously incapable of creating a standards-compliant and accessible site.

Their new and “improved” page:

  • uses tables for layout – the single easiest way to demonstrate incompetence in Web design
  • employs oddball JavaScript for navigation (have these kids ever heard of styled lists, a technique now two years old?)
  • doesn’t have a DOCTYPE, hence isn’t even HTML
  • can’t be bothered even with simple things like alt texts
  • and of course uses invalid code, with 46 HTML errors. Amazingly, and no doubt unintentionally, the CSS validates!

And the best part?

These pissy and hysterical inverts leapt onto the closest chair on sight of the mouse of Web standards. Martin Kuplens-Ewart, Mike Patterson, Dave Galbraith, and assorted pseudonymous rugger potheads all turned down free help from me and the Webstandards kids. In fact, if Kuplens-Ewart deigned to come to our monthly gatherings, he could enjoy the rare pleasure of speaking fluent Latvian with one of our standardistas.

Apparently, acting as a Tide® infomercial is more important than making a proper Web site. Let me put it to you in terms you can understand: The Web has rules, and the validator is the ref.

Fags play at rugby; rugby fags play at Web development. And doesn’t that frost your Mini-Wheat®?

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.10.17 14:44. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2004/10/17/muddyyorkwatch/

Hand-calligraphed signs on brick storefront read ‘R.G. Elsegood & Sons Textile Merchants’

The foregoing posting appeared on Joe Clark’s personal Weblog on 2004.10.16 22:21. This presentation was designed for printing and omits components that make sense only onscreen. (If you are seeing this on a screen, then the page stylesheet was not loaded or not loaded properly.) The permanent link is:
https://blog.fawny.org/2004/10/16/scripts/

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