10 posts tagged “goulet threat level”
Add the IM Bot 86400@bot.im to your buddy list, and you too can view random quotes by my friends, and those who inspire us! You will also get your very own personal Robert Goulet Threat Level Indicator suitable for blog sidebars or personal web pages! (Next stop: Facebook App!)
The Goulet Bot accepts these commands:
goulet - get a link to copy and paste code for your Goulet Threat Level Indicator
goulet 1 - Set your Goulet Threat Level to LOW
goulet 2 - Set your Goulet Threat Level to GUARDED
goulet 3 - Set your Goulet Threat Level to ELEVATED
goulet 4 - Set your Goulet Threat Level to HIGH
goulet 5 - Set your Goulet Threat Level to SEVERE!
cookie - get a random quote
The boss went on vacation, starting this week, and how do I repay him for his kindness for giving me such a swell job? I built an IM interface for the Robert Goulet Threat Level Indicator. Now anyone who has any clue what Jabber is can have a Goulet Threat Level indicator that they can update via IM!
Swell!
Oh yeah, it's also an interface for the cookie file. (Type "cookie" to get a random quote!)
Ask me how!
Astute readers will have noticed that Robert Goulet has gone from singing and groping Cher to a much more staid and outdoorsy look. But that is not the only reason for my general absence this week. But before I get in to that, let me get into my favorite subject of all: rolling my eyes and complaining about Vox features.
First, it looks like maybe the sidebar area has increased to a reasonable size and I hadn't noticed it. This means I may be able to go back to my full-sized Goulet icons, and this pleases me. I remain slightly miffed that I can only have one sidebar item, but until I check whether or not the Last.fm widget will fit in there now, I don't have any tough choices to make.
Second, I was moderately pleased to get an email this morning from Vox notifying me that Six Bucks had replied to one of my comments. As usual, I end up experiencing new features before I actually end up reading the release notes. As nice as this it, I had finally gotten used to my multiple comment format. Without real comment threading, replying to multiple people will still end up looking like a morass of comments by one person all in a big clump. I can clean it up if I'm willing to sacrifice the email notification, but... sigh. So close, and yet...
All this, and yet I still can't delete my own comments from other people's Voxes if I typo or just say something I realize is totally obsolete or revision-worthy.
Whew. Done with that now. Finally into a couple of observations which may help you in your day to day lives.
Over the last few days, our internet connection has been sort of on the fritz. Packets were being dropped and the whole thing was acting more like a dial-up than a cable modem. After a ridiculous amount of time on the phone with a support robot, and a relatively short time talking to a live person, it seems that the problem is coming from the splitter they gave us so we could fork the coaxial input between our cable box and the cable modem. Happily, it turned out to not just be my imagination and he fix turned out to be cheap. Of course, I say this, but I haven't got the new splitter yet to make sure that it works.
Last of all, I just want to make it perfectly clear that Samsung phones suck and you shouldn't buy one. For a few weeks the camera hasn't been working, and while on the phone to the Cox support people, this weird pixellated streak appeared on the screen, and a few minutes later, it went totally black. It came back, of course, but it seems like maybe the video chip in the thing is going, and it's just over a year old. Hell, I was perfectly happy with my nice brick-sized Nokia 3650 for years. It even still worked after I accidentally ran it through the wash-- with the exception that it had to be plugged in to the wall, thus negating its mobile-ness. God bless those crazy Scandinavians, their phones, their furniture, and their crazy troll death metal bands.
Alright, let's face it. Pretty much every sidebar widget you'd actually want to put into your Vox sidebar is too damned big to fit in the Vox sidebar. Tired of my broken-ass Last.fm widget, I went and rescaled the Goulet threat level indicators so that you can check on my personal Robert Goulet Threat level index at any time! What's more, you can copy and paste the snippets below to have your very own Robert Goulet threat level!
Low:
<img src="http://a4.vox.com/6a00c2251d92a98fdb00cd973867144cd5-pi" alt="Current Level: Low" />
Guarded:
<img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c2251d92a98fdb00cd973867114cd5-pi" alt="Current Level: Guarded" />
Elevated:
<img src="http://a3.vox.com/6a00c2251d92a98fdb00d4143ff32b685e-pi" alt="Current Level: Elevated" />
High:
<img src="http://a5.vox.com/6a00c2251d92a98fdb00d4143ff32d685e-pi" alt="Current Level: High" />
Severe:
<img src="http://a0.vox.com/6a00c2251d92a98fdb00d4144415806a47-pi" alt="Current Level: Severe />
All that being said, somebody casually mentioned today that they wanted me to store data in an entirely different way than I'd already built, on a project that was incredibly close to a drop dead deadline and 95% complete.
Because of this, I am raising the Goulet Warning to Elevated. I so don't want to have to rewrite this shit.
Alright, fine. I admit it. I have secret soft spot for "Southern Rock," especially when it has Chris Robinson at the lead. Here's a little number off Amorica (also known as "The Pube Album") that occasionally borders on a religious experience for me:
THE ROBET GOULET THEAT LEVEL HAS BEEN RAISED TO "SEVERE"
What kind of day are you having?
