A lot of people I know are fond of playing drinking games, in particular the State of the Union drinking game. I’m not sure of all the rules, but it’s something like, take a drink whenever Republicans stand up and Democrats don’t, every time the President says or does whatever … that sort of thing.
Anyway, a few of the rules involve drinking when the President says a particular word or phrase. If you’re interested in seeing how many drinks you should have taken based on words, this handy little tool from the NY Times site will help you out. It counts how many times the president says certain words, and compares them across all other State of the Union addresses he has made. Nifty!
Animal Crossing, Wild World, has a lot of the same characters as the original Animal Crossing, but with a new twist. One of those is Gulliver, who used to be the clumsy sailor that washed up on the beach. Each time you ‘rescued’ him from the beach he would give you a rare Gulliver item, usually a piece of furniture that resembled monuments and statues from various parts of the world.
Gulliver in AC: Wild World is a lot harder to talk to. You have to shoot his spaceship down from the sky with your slingshot when you see it going by the top screen. I decided to post my sister’s theory on Gulliver, which has worked for me this week.
- During any weekday, talk to Booker. If he says something along the lines of “I’m so sorry! I’ll be more careful!” that means either Gulliver or Pete will be flying across the sky during the day.
- Stand outside the town gate. When the time has a “7″ in the minute spot, Gulliver should fly by. If he does not, then Pete will fly by at 9 AM and 5 PM and you can shoot him down. According to my sister, all he does is talk about Phyllis which is lame because she a lot more rude than Pelly.
- According to my sister, Gulliver tends to fly by every other week.
Isn’t that interesting? Of course, it would really only be interesting to people obsessed with Animal Crossing. Heh. No, seriously, I’m not crazy.
It’s snowing right now… for this first time this winter. I have to say, snow is pretty exciting even though I’m normally against any sort of cold weather. I’m sure I won’t feel the same way tomorrow, when I try to drive to work.
I just upgraded to WordPress 2.0.6. If something is horribly broken, please email me.
Posting to myself so I won’t forget …
body {
text-align: center;
min-width: 600px;
}
#wrapper {
margin:0 auto;
width:600px;
text-align: left;
}
The following comes from Andy Budd’s Website
To centre the div, simply set its width and then use margin auto on the right and left hand sides. Unfortunately this doesn’t work in IE. However luckily for us, IE also misinterprets text-align: center. Applying this to the body centres the div in IE. However it also centres the body text in all the other browsers as well. To get round this you need to use text-align: left; on the div that you’re centering.
This gets IE up to scratch. However this is the step I always forget. In Mozilla, if you reduce the size of the browser window, half of your centred div hangs off the left of the page. This is an odd one, but I’ve been reliably informed that it’s the correct behaviour. To prevent this, just set a min-width on the body tag.
