A pictorial guide to the first half of my week

Codex

lib.jQuery.uniform/nebula

monoceroi/uniform/nebula is my fork of the famous jQuery.uniform plugin, which does a bit more than the original. For instance, selectors are no longer fixed-width; there is now no overlaid parts so transparent sprites do not interfere with each other.

monoSnippets

monoceroi/monoSnippets/master is my convenience library that leverages LESS (so to make cross-browser box-shadows, you say .shadowed(black, 0px, 0px, 2px) and LESS converts it into a huge multi-liner for you, etc.) Because of LESS’s immersive expression power, it is now painles to implement NSNinePartImage with code in decent browsers with help from the newly added .borderImage class.

Alia

Things are not going very steadily. Ripples here and there, and time is running out…

Redesigned CV

Visit http://monoceroi.com.

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Redesigned Custom Plurk CSS

“Spot-on”, I said shamelessly. Google for “Plurk Interface” to see how it might look like before this customization…

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Quotes From the Great Storybook on Silence

It costs to be extraordinary; the major lesson is in learning to cope with it.

Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes; — Isaiah 54:2 For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited. — Isaiah 54:3 Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth, and shalt not remember the reproach of thy widowhood any more. — Isaiah 54:4

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Nota

You’re in deep trouble not being — or, aspiring to be — great. The richest and the poorest people (or, the ones on the very top and the poor ones down under) get to re-create history; others get to reproduce.

Hammertime

An imminent project. ; )

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Update

Things are proceeding faster than usual, and if fate favors — yes, if fate favors. A series of gleeful companions planned, illustrated, post-processed and are now ready for test-production.

Well, I just couldn’t believe a school like this actually holds two events in Taipei, and the second event takes place in a café. Please wait for me. I don’t need no more university fairs.

Finished lots of graphics in front of the laptop and finished the initial architecture (mostly retro-fitting the existing architecture back to a WordPress installation) of the imminent proj.ne. Fun to say, hack when you have to but do that as a plug-in.

On 960.css, it is good and people use it. But people use it like stock photography, and its unavoidable residue in your X/HTML markup kind of made me sick. And if you use stock photography or stock graphics, you end up having a project that screams “me too”. If you were going to use a grid system, please build it using your own parameters and take all those existing grids as a reference. If you were going to introduce it to your site, please at least build an interpreter (in case you were using ruby + webby or languages that does the trick) and keep all that grid_4, container_12 and so out of the picture. Of course sites may change rapidly and we still need some 960-prowess. Here is my proposal — wrap up a JSON object like this and throw most of your “static” elements in:

var monoBindings: {

'div#monoWrapper': 'c12',
'div#monoHeader': '12',
'div#monoStylistic': '4 pf2 alpha'

}

Then write a one-liner, utilizing jQuery, put before everything: preferably inside $(document).ready, or if you heart $LAB, its .block() :

$.each(monoBindings, function(parent, context) {

$(parent).addClass(context);

});

Now, no more sore eyes.

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It’s complicated.

One phrase to describe it all: premarital affair.

I am moving to another spot in the city really soon, leaving this place behind. There are 200s of books to be carried over to the new place and I am looking for responsible couriers.

Let’s see what turns out next.

ps. Designing is like raising children, but you are free to kill your brainchild any time it misbehaves.

Lines

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Ramble

其實擔心小孩亂摸電腦等高價物品的原因，還是總歸一句︰口袋裡的錢不夠，無法負擔摸壞的成本。為什麼窮人的小孩難以出頭？因為錢不夠多，無法負擔那些機會。所以，唯一能夠負擔得起的機會就是國民教育，走著走著希望自己的路能夠在前人已經設下的路上更加寬，那麼地一點點。只能期望一點點，是實際也是悲哀。大概就是這樣，心情很複雜。

小時候兩三歲認字超過一兩千個，開始啃「大人的」書，繼續認字。然後開始亂搞人家的電腦。有時候在想，如果當時也被苦主給催走的話是不是後面的發展悉數會慢個五年到十年。只有穩定的經濟（大的角度來講），能帶來自由的心靈，這也是很務實但真確的一件事。只有在不會擔心任何東西壞掉的時候，才有可能認真地去專心地創作新的東西。如果你擔心小孩亂碰電腦，就為電腦保意外險，然後呢？然後沒有了。這麼簡單的事情怎麼也搞得七葷八素？Joey Lawrence 說的一句話很好……你買相機不是用來供的，而是用來拍出你要的東西。所以請為它保全險，然後去拍你要的東西。然後？然後沒有了。我接著在想的是關於幫助布農族小孩的那個協會做的事情。與其給予另一種選擇，且只能給予此種選擇（如同外頭只有一種風景的窗戶）倒不如給他們能開發選擇的能力。後者的確比較難，需要比較多的資源，但這才是可以持久的正道。只是給他們虛妄的榮譽感，那當他們長大以後仍然會發現，過去的日子多麼美好，然後呢？可能什麼也都做不出來……

任何的人造物都會崩毀，但可以選擇的是造得堅固一點（例如，在磐石上面蓋房子）。總而言之，思考的方式必須改變，但改變思考方式的唯一途徑是改變這個思考者的現實狀態，讓他不用為現實狀態而思考。只有這樣做以後，才能讓他的思考自然而然地轉向他的理想狀態去。所以，危邦不入、亂邦不居是有道理的。人各有志、鴻鵠奔天也是有道理的。教育就是不要複製：廢話，但說廢話的原因是大家連廢話都不懂！

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done portfolio code re-factoring.

Pedit Q.

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Delirium

而我們都這樣記得的，不要再互相靠近。互相靠近的話，毀滅也是不會停止的。我們必須以鮮血淋漓的那種意象的狀態面對彼此，因為這裡太髒，而單獨的我們的好端端的存在無法洗淨髒污的本質。唯一能夠做的是藉由沒有結果的活動，行交感的巫術，最後……

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