I don’t think I could ever emphasize how different it is to take the train on the weekend versus during the week. On weekdays, you have commuters who go quietly. Everyone listens to music, reads the paper, or sleeps. It’s nice. Serene. Commuting sucks, but at least it’s rarely due to the people around you.
Weekends are a different story. Trains full of loud screaming kids. People talkinh on phones at the top of their lungs. Large groups acting like the train is their party zone. And when you’re caught on it with no music to drown out the noise, like I am now, you kind of want to die a little.
This is a whole other world, this weekend commute, and I don’t like it one bit.
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Don’t underestimate the importance of four minutes. Not ever. Take my commute home on the train. I used to be able to make it home in under an hour by making all my train connections. It was tight but possible. That was of course until the geniuses at NJ Transit decided to change the schedule and bump my one train’s departure by a whole four minutes. Doesn’t seem like a whole lot but it puts such a world of hurt on my ride home. As a result of said four minutes, I miss my connecting train and it adds over 30 minutes to the ride home. Ugh. Such things just make a person not want to deal with the hassle.
Anyway, I think the point here is to not let the fine grained stuff pass you by. It adds up quickly. Like how four makes thirty. Know what I mean?
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So, it turns out fixing up this 2010 theme from WordPress wasn’t all that bad. I managed to get the “official” D6 color in there, get my titles up in my font, and even a nifty picture where the header picture goes (and yes, it’s appropriately licensed to match the rest of the site. I took it after all). I’m pleased. The blog looks refreshed and more up to date with the more modern look and feel of the internet and blogs.
The next trick will be to have some rotating header images to be different every time you visit. I’ve already combed my flickr page for some images to use. Just have to figure out how to do it. I’m sure there’s a plugin for that.
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In the process of upgrading all things blog, I had upgraded the version of K2, which is the theme I’ve been using pretty much since I moved this blog to WordPress some four or five years ago. Well, one thing that happened is that K2 changed the way that it handles customizing the theme to your liking (the colors, my header image, etc). In the process of trying to get everything to work, I accidentally deleted the files I used to make my customizations. Eeep!
Now I’m at a crossroads. I’ve wanted to do something to touch up the look and feel of this thing for a long time now. This sort of leaves me the chance. I’ve temporarily switched the blog over to the default 2010 theme that comes with WordPress 3.0. I rather like it, but I lost my header image, and the theme puts the name of the blog in its own font above by default. That’s easy enough for me to turn off, I suppose, but I’m not sure where to proceed. Therefore, the look and feel of the blog will be off for a bit while I decide what to do.
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If you don’t read Frank Rich’s weekly column in the New York Times, you really should start. As usual, his latest column is spot on:
It’s this misplaced trust in elites both outside the White House and within it that seems to prevent Obama from realizing the moment that history has handed to him. Americans are still seething at the bonus-grabbing titans of the bubble and at the public and private institutions that failed to police them. But rather than embrace a unifying vision that could ignite his presidency, Obama shies away from connecting the dots as forcefully and relentlessly as the facts and Americans’ anger demand.
I can’t think of a more succinct way to sum up the first eighteen month’s of Obama’s presidency. It’s not enough to figure out that there is a problem, there is a need to forcefully act on it. Unfortunately, Obama seems happy to deign to his advisers and to the rubes that run our biggest corporations rather than just take matters into his own hands and do what needs to be done. Sadly, I think that by the time he realizes this, it will be far, far too late, and we as a country will be far, far worse off for it.
It’s still about change, Mr. President. I hope you can soon realize that.
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