Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ
@thereisnocat
Advocating Semantic Markup since 1987. Not posting here any more. Married to @JerseyGrrrl. On Mastodon: @thereisnocat@toot.cafe
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 27, 2010 at 8:16:03 PM
just realized who Japandroids remind me of: classic NZ noisemeisters Bailter Space
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 27, 2010 at 10:40:37 AM
Would be nice if soccer could enter the 20th Century
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 27, 2010 at 10:35:52 AM
Boy, it's a good thing #ENG replaced Robert Green with a real goalkeeper like David James
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 26, 2010 at 11:39:25 PM
Heading home โ at 33rd Street PATH Station http://gowal.la/r/eXJ8
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 26, 2010 at 10:00:56 PM
After-dinner drinks with @JerseyGrrrl, @sniffles and her hubbie โ at Deacon Brodie's http://gowal.la/r/eVSh
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 26, 2010 at 4:59:00 PM
I love seeing Tim Howard come forward like that
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 26, 2010 at 4:41:14 PM
#USA looks really tired all of a sudden
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 26, 2010 at 4:17:57 PM
Really hoping the US can end this one in regulation
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 26, 2010 at 3:16:38 PM
hasn't seen a single scissor kick yet this World Cup
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 23, 2010 at 8:22:26 PM
Dinner! โ at Inlet Cafe http://gowal.la/r/d55C
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 23, 2010 at 7:18:32 PM
Showing @JerseyGrrrl where she'll be going tomorrow morning โ at Hartshorne Woods Park http://gowal.la/r/d3uP
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 23, 2010 at 4:58:48 PM
@KuraFire my condolences. I think about my late grandparents often.
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 23, 2010 at 3:49:44 PM
Rooting for Germany; would much rather have #USA play someone else next round
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 23, 2010 at 2:37:33 PM
is having fun with Google Maps and closures
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 23, 2010 at 12:46:39 PM
Getting the Camry inspected โ at DMV http://gowal.la/r/cN52
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 23, 2010 at 11:54:29 AM
Really glad we bought those vuvuzelas
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 23, 2010 at 11:50:13 AM
What a sweet goal that was #USA
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 22, 2010 at 8:13:58 PM
with all my accessibility-minded friends here, I'm surprised I didn't see a link to this NY Times article sooner: http://j.mp/9S6Ovk
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 22, 2010 at 7:43:06 PM
Updating my iPhone; it's a 3G, and didn't want to upgrade yesterday, so I'm doing a restore today. Seems to be working fine now
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 21, 2010 at 11:47:14 PM
@dylanw be yourself and express enthusiasm for your field. That's what got me the best job I've ever had. Talk to them like peers. You are.
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 21, 2010 at 7:48:31 PM
Two-for-One burger night with @JerseyGrrrl โ at Broadway Grill http://gowal.la/r/9zPY
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 20, 2010 at 10:02:13 PM
@inkpixelspaper is that where you got "albedoes" from? ;-)
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 20, 2010 at 4:16:27 PM
After that dive, I hope Brazil scores a dozen more goals
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 20, 2010 at 11:16:15 AM
watching the diving competition and hoping a soccer game breaks out
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 20, 2010 at 12:51:20 AM
Just finished re-reading Steven Levy's book Hackers. Probably the 2nd best book written about computer culture, after Soul of a New Machine.
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 19, 2010 at 8:26:02 PM
South African Vuvuzela Philharmonic Angered By Soccer Games Breaking Out During Concerts http://onion.com/bOMKsW
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 18, 2010 at 9:07:41 PM
Laid down for a few minutes and awoke five hours later. Oops.
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 18, 2010 at 4:21:13 PM
Yay! Nil-nil! Does that make me a nilist?
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 18, 2010 at 3:43:48 PM
Rooting for a scoreless draw. So far, so good.
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 18, 2010 at 1:22:55 PM
@chrisdavidmills pictures, dude, we need pictures
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 18, 2010 at 11:39:48 AM
Gooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaal! Gol gol gol gol gooooooooooooooooal!
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 18, 2010 at 8:59:17 AM
Can we give the ref a red card?
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 18, 2010 at 8:47:37 AM
Podolski can't find the net for love nor money....
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 18, 2010 at 2:11:09 AM
Finally done working. I hope that's the last 17 hour day for a while.
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 17, 2010 at 11:50:38 PM
waiting for the Flash dev to finish up so I can ship this turkey. Why yes, I am going to work from home tomorrow....
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 17, 2010 at 8:14:37 PM
Missed my train, so I stopped for a real dinner instead of my usual McD's โ at Andrew's http://gowal.la/r/8KWn
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 17, 2010 at 7:54:32 PM
going home. Not done, but going home.
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 17, 2010 at 8:59:47 AM
Another day, another deadline.... โ at Razorfish - NYC http://gowal.la/r/8D7J
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 16, 2010 at 9:51:13 PM
Does anyone remember a video where a bunch of anthropomorphized fonts were in an auditorium and Zapf Dingbats tried to tell them something?
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 16, 2010 at 9:29:05 PM
realized just now that the artistic antecedent of the vuvuzela is Lou Reed's classic album "Metal Machine Music, The Amine Beta Ring"
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 16, 2010 at 9:26:36 PM
In case you, like me, just can't get enough of the sound of the vuvuzela, my lovely wife pointed me to this: http://www.vuvuzela.fm/
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 16, 2010 at 2:09:24 PM
@denisejacobs probably just a side effect of Twitter's recent problems. I think they messed up their database in their recent upgrade.
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 16, 2010 at 2:03:58 PM
@denisejacobs yup; I was over 2000, and now I'm down to 1604
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 16, 2010 at 12:42:27 PM
Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox cheap at Amazon today http://dealmac.com/-Stroke-Songs-for-Chris-Knox-MP3-Album-downloads-for-4/371321.html
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 16, 2010 at 10:01:58 AM
@mert thanks for sharing. :-)
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 15, 2010 at 11:14:37 AM
Resolved: my inability to order an iPhone today is karmic equivalent of @JerseyGrrrl not being able to enter "Shotbun in the Wienermobile"
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 15, 2010 at 11:03:33 AM
feels left out of the iPhone land rush this morning. AT&T employees & family have been told to let real customers have their turn.
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 14, 2010 at 6:38:15 PM
Waiting to see Babies after a quick dinner with @JerseyGrrrl at Little Veselka โ at Landmark Sunshine Theatre http://gowal.la/r/5EdV
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 14, 2010 at 8:33:38 AM
It's amazing how much slower my iPhone 3G has gotten since I bought an iPad....
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 12, 2010 at 11:25:46 PM
is home from the Roller Derby. That was fun!
Ralph Brandi ๐บ ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 12, 2010 at 11:22:50 PM
@inkpixelspaper I haven't, but it sounds like fun. Same id as everywhere else on Words with Friends.
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 12, 2010 at 9:26:49 PM
Halftime! Time to get some dinner.
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 12, 2010 at 8:41:25 PM
@inkpixelspaper always play the best you can. To do otherwise is disrespectful.
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 12, 2010 at 7:49:57 PM
Photo: Roller Derby warmups โ at Convention Hall http://gowal.la/r/5jMq
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 12, 2010 at 7:48:35 PM
Here to see the roller derby. Last time I was here was to see The Clash in 1982 โ at Convention Hall http://gowal.la/r/5jLx
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 12, 2010 at 3:12:36 PM
Wow, that looked like a goal you might see in MLS
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 10, 2010 at 1:50:43 PM
@andrea congratulations!
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 10, 2010 at 1:32:27 PM
Getting a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch in Bryant Park โ at 'wichcraft http://gowal.la/r/4Srp
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 8, 2010 at 8:43:15 PM
Showing Laura around โ at Poricy Park http://gowal.la/r/2SXH
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 7, 2010 at 10:09:47 PM
@shelleypowers search, tel, url, email, datetime, date, month, week, time, datetime-local, number, range, color
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 7, 2010 at 10:09:10 PM
@shelleypowers I went to http://diveintohtml5.org/detect.html#input-types in Safari 5; it gave me a list of support input types (continued)
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 7, 2010 at 8:25:31 PM
@KuraFire thanks for the useful and informative report from #wwdc. ;-)
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 7, 2010 at 7:01:47 PM
@inkpixelspaper looking forward to seeing the results of that. All I got out of my letterpress time was some (admittedly nifty) biz cards
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 7, 2010 at 5:51:17 PM
@inkpixelspaper Sweet! Yay letterpress!
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 7, 2010 at 4:31:30 PM
wonders what impact the new iPhone will have on existing iPhone optimized web sites that set CSS widths based on 320 or 480 pixels
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 7, 2010 at 3:07:39 PM
@inkpixelspaper CSS3 gradients are unstable; syntax is different for Webkit and Firefox. I'd probably only use the browser-prefix stuff now
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 7, 2010 at 12:05:07 PM
@shelleypowers I believe it'll be cleaned up by autumn. I'm just suspicious of which year. I'm currently betting on 2050.
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 7, 2010 at 8:53:29 AM
Will be standing from Newark to NYC this morning
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 7, 2010 at 8:40:33 AM
Photo: Lots of frustrated commuters. โ at Newark Penn Station http://gowal.la/r/JiM
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 7, 2010 at 8:39:09 AM
Waiting for the next train to NYC since ours broke down. โ at Newark Penn Station http://gowal.la/r/Jim
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 7, 2010 at 7:26:02 AM
Train is running late. NJ Transit fail. Bleah. โ at Middletown Train Station http://gowal.la/r/HRm
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 6, 2010 at 9:14:25 PM
thinks that the last.fm integration on rdio.com smells like the password anti-pattern. I'll pass for now.
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 5, 2010 at 9:34:43 PM
I'm at Polar Cub in Middletown, NJ http://gowal.la/r/xDV
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 5, 2010 at 12:43:09 PM
"You have 24156 songs in your local library. 2147 of those were found on Rdio". 8.8% of my library.
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 5, 2010 at 12:39:06 PM
finally getting Rdio Desktop to match my collection; didn't work on the Mac Pro, but it's working on the MacBook Pro.
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 5, 2010 at 10:31:44 AM
Breakfast! โ at New Monmouth Diner http://gowal.la/r/r3j
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 4, 2010 at 11:26:44 PM
@mgirouard yes. You clearly haven't worked for Home Depot. Their head of marketing said she would break us, and she did.
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 4, 2010 at 9:51:43 PM
Doesn't have a @rdio invitation yet. Hmmmmm....
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 4, 2010 at 8:27:07 PM
Photo: โ at Nagle's Apothecary Cafe http://gowal.la/r/mH3
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 4, 2010 at 8:25:48 PM
Having dinner in OG with @JerseyGrrrl โ at Nagle's Apothecary Cafe http://gowal.la/r/mGu
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 4, 2010 at 6:01:36 PM
Is on the 5:32, leaving at 6:00. What's wrong with this picture?
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 2, 2010 at 10:21:58 PM
Eating badly โ at Five Guys http://gowal.la/r/79w
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 2, 2010 at 5:25:01 PM
I love jQuery. It makes even the things you shouldn't do, like browser detection, easy
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 2, 2010 at 1:44:29 PM
@KuraFire Just looked more closely. You can keep your unlimited plan with a new phone. You just can't add tethering to it. There's the hook.
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 2, 2010 at 11:49:08 AM
@KuraFire T probably expects those users to upgrade to the new iPhone, at which point they can no longer keep their current plan.
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 2, 2010 at 10:16:55 AM
Steve Jobs is a master of Calvinball (via @mert)
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 2, 2010 at 7:31:54 AM
@mert well someone should get him out of hock. We need twangy guitars!
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 1, 2010 at 11:33:58 PM
wants to know whatever happened to Teisco Del Rey
Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 1, 2010 at 9:29:48 PM
@inkpixelspaper this is why I say I commit design like my sister commits poetry or a burglar commits larceny. It's a criminal act. :-)
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 1, 2010 at 8:42:55 PM
@inkpixelspaper looks like it's working now. Pleased to be of service. :-)
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 1, 2010 at 8:32:32 PM
@inkpixelspaper original thought was an extra div, but fieldset is so much more semantic, and actually appropriate here. :-)
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 1, 2010 at 8:31:41 PM
@inkpixelspaper you could fix by putting a fieldset around the fields and putting your margin-left there;
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 1, 2010 at 8:31:11 PM
@inkpixelspaper for some reason, the 1.5em margin on p is being doubled and/or being applied to the input as well
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 1, 2010 at 8:16:41 PM
@inkpixelspaper I assume what you're worried about is the extra spacing at the left of the input tags, yes?
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 1, 2010 at 7:41:20 PM
@inkpixelspaper got a URL to look at?
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Ralph Brandi ๐บ๐ฆ-๐บ๐ธ @thereisnocat June 1, 2010 at 9:04:58 AM
Up and at 'em โ at Razorfish - NYC http://gowal.la/v/c/QR7W/tw