Wordpress, Dog Piss, LeBron. Not in that order

I had planned on a grand return to the blogosphere. Well, I am not in the blogosphere. I like to pretend I am though, so let's forget the facts for a second.

I had just tweeted that fact, and all I had left to do was walk the fucker (which is meaning my dog) and I would have had 1030 am CST and on to figure out what the hell I was going to write about.

Alas, the fucker pissed in a small corner in the 'den'. (I put it in quotes because it is really a mini-bedroom). So I spent the next hour cleaning up the mess. Oh yeah he shit too. I don't want to leave that out. He shat and piss-ed in the fucking den. Where I had my computer ready to blog. Fuck me.

Thankfully, I have had much experience cleaning up dog-shit and dog-piss. It is weird to be thankful for that, I know. The part I am referring to is that it is not a big ordeal that I couldn't handle. When you have dogs (and I am assuming kids) you get used to cleaning up stuff like that.  Vinegar and water baby. Also beer. Beer is for drinking, though. The vinegar-water shit is for the carpet.

Wordpress:

I occasionally get in over my head with projects and things. I call it keeping busy, but others call it bullshitting.

Whatever.

I bring it up because I am trying to re-design my company's website. It was (and is) a shitty little thing. So, in the course of redesigning the front page, I thought I'd get cute and implement a whole CMS to go along with it. One of the best and most useful sites on the webz is css-tricks.com. They talk a lot about Wordpress and how awesome it is for use as a CMS. So, I says to myself, I says, "Self, Let's do this shit." And so I did. Sorta.

Wordpress is challenging to design for. Especially for a n00b like me. Everything is generated dynamically and so your divs have to start on one php page, like header.php, and end in another, like footer.php. It is easy if you are trying to change things like the font color, or background pictures and shit like that. Not so easy if you are repositioning elements and other crap.

That said, I am wrapping my head around it. Having had a horrible wordpress version* of this site for a while and using the version you host on your own, I don't think I could free-host a wordpress version for long. That is the biggest difference for me between Blogger and WP.

*By the way that theme for ntmescan.wordpress.com is awesome-sauce. It changes color based on the pic. Again- awesome-sauce. 


I really like Blogger's Design section, too. It let's me mess around with stuff that is beyond my can-do-this-in-two-seconds skill set and still gives me the freedom to tweak it enough where I am not just using a template. WP's themes are awesome, but because of the aforementioned difficulty, they aren't always the most tweak-able. There are some that let you mess around with stuff in the admin screen, which is coolness. For example:  the Constructor Theme. You can always get stuff like this: Thematic, and turn it into this: Commune.  Sweetness.

Anyway, so I am doing that.

LeBron:

What a douche. It is hard for me to hate on the dude for doing what he wants. Shit, he was a Free Agent, right? Like most people, I say the biggest mistake was in the way he did it. If he would have let Cleveland know that he wasn't going to re-sign, and did the whole 1 hour Decision extravaganza to reveal where his next city, I would have been perfectly fine with it.

Will Leitch had a good read.

Adrian Wojnarowski had a bettter one.

One thing I have been telling my friends, and was mentioned in the Woj article, is that he seems so damn fake. It is weird. But not. "Taking my talents down to South Beach." ?!?! wtf. He stole a sportscenter line. Reminds me of the time he said that a "LeBron James team never gives up" or some shit. Weird. It is like seeing a kid that doesn't know you can drink water from the faucet, or that milk comes from cows, or that they deserve 116K dollar cars because they turned 16. It is sad because we made them that way.

The crazy thing is that LeBron is only slightly older than I am, and I cannot say with certainty that I would be any different. I grew up watching the same shit he did. I wanted to be Deion. I wanted to be A.I. The only thing that prevented my ego from doing the shit they did is my ridiculously inferior talent level.

Maybe I wouldn't be such an idiot. But then again, if no one was telling me that I was an asshole, what would there be to stop me?

Any way, fuck the Heat. Go Spurs.