To combat the swine flu, time-traveling has been created

So I came across this advertisement banner (shown is a small section of it), with an alarming photo of people wearing surgical masks (do those even make a noticeable difference), and big, alarming, attention grabbing red letters which read, in Spanish, “16085 contagions, 125 deaths” and then in small letters “estimated through May 31st”.

Now, today is the 25th. I’m glad they managed to invent a time machine to travel to the future to collect statistical data, but that time machine could be put to better use going back in time to prevent the kid from licking that piggy.

The perils of using display: table for layout

When using display:table (with the related table-row and table-cell) to set up columns for a layout, don’t forget to set the vertical-align property. After a while it finally dawned on me why would the padding-top of both columns seemed to be linked to each other and to the margin-top of each column’s first element: say hello to vertical-align: baseline. Change it to something more appropriate for what you're trying to do, maybe top.

Chomp!

Those Chain Chomps. What a miserable existance. Constantly lounging towards something, never getting there. Everynow and then resting a bit, pacing back and forth just to try again and again and again and again. That’s what they do.

Makes you wonder.

Open letter to terrible drivers

Dear terrible drivers: If you feel that you must crash your car in the middle of rush-hour, at least do so in such a way that all the pieces of your car and the car you crash into remain in one single lane. Thanks

Chirp

Happy birthday A.

Knocked Up

One way to review this movie would be quoting what someone exclaimed during the crowning:

This is the scariest horror movie ever!

Welcome to the family

My cousin's first child was born today. Mazel tov!