The Human Animal II
It is a commonly-held
opinion among guys that dogs are the opposite of women. I guess a
few reasons for this are that it's always easy to tell what dogs are thinking
about, dogs always want to be doing exactly what you're doing, and dogs
pee outside a lot. While in general it may be true that canines and
female humans are opposites, there are instances of canine behavior that
contradict this popular notion. For example, while dog-sitting my
roommate's dog last weekend, and I noticed that he expects to be put on
the leash and walked once a day. It doesn't matter how many times
you let him out back to run around, he still expects his walk. He's
doing the same stuff out back as he would do if I put him on a leash and
took him around the block, but he refuses to count going out back as his
walk. One could argue that the dog's tendency to value the walk not
by its practical effectiveness or even enjoyability, but by the amount
of time and attention devoted specifically to him constitutes often-overlooked
evidence of human female behavior in canines.
Two hours monkeying with JavaScript and all I got was
this tiny T-shirt.
I found a
java script that makes clickable images float around the browser window
and I got the idea that, by linking a randomly floating image to each of
the old items archived on this site, I could create a sort of lottery that
would make it fun for you the audience review old Watsoncrombie material.
I was going to have the floating images be water molecules, so it would
look like there were gas molecules in random motion contained within your
browser window. This was going to be called the Trash to Steam
Plant because there would have been a bunch of old, used material represented
as gaseous water. As a promotional stunt, the water molecules, depicted
as ball and stick in the "bent" molecular geometry, were going to
be wearing Watsoncrombie T-shirts. I considered that tiny t-shirts,
might be perceived as being a bit "cutesy", but, in the end, I decided
it would be worth it for the t-shirt buying frenzy that the stunt would
likely trigger.
I set up 52
floating molecules linked to 52 old items, but, even running from my local
hard drive, it was too much for the computer to keep track of all at once.
The molecules just slowly and jerkily shifted around like players in one
of those vibrating football games that you've heard about but were before
our time, and none of the links worked. If you have a 4.0 or higher
browser and a fast connection, you can click
here to see how it was supposed to work on a smaller scale.
Archive:
Weak in Review 05/24/00
Weak in Review 04/22/00
Weak in Review 04/09/00
Weak in Review 03/20/00
Weak in Review 02/07/00
Weak in Review 01/06/00
Weak in Review 12/20/99
Weak in Review 12/1/99
Weak in Review 11/4/99
Weak in Review 10/18/99
Weak in Review 10/05/99
Weak in Review 9/07/99
Weak in Review 8/03/99
Weak in Review 7/26/99
Weak in Review 7/12/99
Weak in Review 7/05/99
Weak in Review 6/20/99
Weak in Review 6/02/99
Weak in Review 5/19/99
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