Archive for August, 2008


New Stuff!

Filed Under: General, Maintenance by Thursday's Child — 2 Comments
Tuesday, 5th August, 2008

I’ve been doing some more additions / playing around with things in Wordpress over the last couple of days, and I’ve got a few things I thought I’d let you know about.

First of all, I love Wordpress 2.6. While it took some configuring when I upgraded, everything’s running smoothly, and the new administrative page is really nice. I’m really digging the new AJAX control panel.

Secondly, I’ve added gravatars to the comments. If you don’t already have an account, you can go sign up at en.gravatar.com. You can upload your own image, or choose from theirs, and get your own avatar at blogs all over the net. Anywhere that uses gravatar avatars will pull your personal avatar without you having to do anything at all, just use the same email address in filling out the comment form as your Gravatar account. It’s not a core feature, by any means, but it’s certainly a lot of fun.

I hope you enjoy the new domain, the new version of Wordpress, and the new Gravatar feature.

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The Food Network

Filed Under: General, Quickie, humor by Thursday's Child — 3 Comments
Monday, 4th August, 2008

So, as I was doing all that web-ly work this past weekend, I often found myself watching the Food Network. I’ve learned a few things in the process, and I’l share that with you in a short list.

  1. TV chefs have got to have the best jobs in the world. I mean, they get to spend all day in a kitchen, eating all the yummy food they make, and most of them get to showcase their alcoholism right there on the air! I mean, seriously, if your job is cooking and drinking, and you hook thousands of people into watching you cook food they could never make and drink drinks they will never mix, you’ve got it made.
  2. As simple as they make all those dishes look, I realized I could never actually cook any of that stuff in my home. Who has all those utensils? Choppers, peelers, smashers, not to mention the massive stores of herbs and spices. Personally, I’m doing pretty well to have salt and pepper.
  3. Why doesn’t anyone ever make, you know, Mamwich, Ramen, mac and cheese, etc? I mean, make some REAL food for once!

    4. There was more, but Iron Chef Bobby Flay captured my attention, and well, I’m inspired to get cooking. PB&J, here I come.

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Busy Bee, Beaver, Bear, Whatever.

Filed Under: Blogging, Geekiness, General, Literature, literacy on the web by Thursday's Child — Leave a comment
Sunday, 3rd August, 2008

This has been a busy weekend for me. That’s pretty unusual because I typically just end up reading all day Saturday and Sunday. I didn’t get much reading done, unfortunately, but I did get lots of web-ly things done.

First, I moved this blog from tylerfontaine.com over to here, at my shiny, new, name-matching domain. That’s pretty exciting for me, as I’ve been trying to get a Thursday’s Child domain for a while now.

Secondly, I built a blog for my wonderful lady friend, and should go visit Kreestone at Smalltown Dinosaur. There’s no content there yet, but she’s working on that. I ended up being pretty happy with the design, but any comments or suggestions are always welcome.

Thirdly, I created a new more professionally oriented blog over at my other domain. The idea will be to focus on literary criticism, rhetoric, and the like. I’ll be posting some papers I’ve written and my thoughts on the subjects. I’m also working on getting some people together to start a new project, in which the wide reading habits of scholars everywhere can input their analyses on whatever books they have read. Using tags and categories, I hope to be able to track thematic situations across genres, epochs, and cultures. It would be an interesting study if I can get the manpower behind it.

I’m going to actually make an attempt to get back into this blogging thing, including picking back up on Twittering and commenting on all of your blogs again, like I used to. Sorry for the impromptu hiatus, but I really needed it.

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Moving on Up…. Well, Moving Anyways.

Filed Under: General by Thursday's Child — 2 Comments
Saturday, 2nd August, 2008

In the interest of professionlism and whatnot, I’ve decided to separate the Tylerfontaine.com URL from my Thursday’s Child moniker. Being that I’m going to be looking into graduate schools and whatnot in the future, I figured I could use the tylerfontaine.com address for more academic, field-specific blogging, and I can use thursdays-child.net for my personal stuff.

So, if you please, update blogrolls and bookmarks! I’d love to have you stop by and visit me here now. If you’re interested in Critical theory, Rhetoric, Literature, and the like, please feel free to keep visiting my other site, too! Some entries will be cross-posted, namely poetry and select pieces of fiction or nonfiction. Largely, tylerfontaine.com will become something of a portfolio of research, writing, and general thoughts on the Higher Education system.

I’ll keep posting the same old boring stuff about me and my goings on here, though.

Thanks for working with me on this one!

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