A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work

I just created volity_forums, which carries all new posts to the volity.net Web forums.

And it looks like someone else already created volity_schedule, which updates every time someone tacks a new item onto the volity.net game scheduler. (Or maybe I created it last fall and forgot.)

Considering the website done for now, after spending the afternoon rassling with unexpected (snort) MSIE stupidity; the browser apparently freaks out and spews nonsensical error messages (Server not found what) if you perform a server-side redirect from one URL scheme to another. People most often see this when they try to redirect from an http to an https URL, but I hit it when trying to throw people at URLs using our own volity scheme, which launches Gamut and sends you some spot in the Volityverse.

From what I can figure out via Google, this has been a known bug for years, and Microsoft's simply not ever felt like fixing it. Nice. Well, I caulked up the gaps with JavaScript and shall think upon it no more. (One side effect of my Volity work is that I am far more comfortable using JS as a what-ails-ya tool than I was a year ago, even though I've been dinking around on the Web for a decade now.)

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Swag for Origins came today. From cafepress we got two sizes of buttons; a few big "Ask Me About" buttons for ourselves and a lot of little logo-and-url buttons for you. They all look pretty cool.

From Zazzle we got our T-shirts, and.... eh. The white rocket/moon shirts that I have seen on dictator555 and daerr look great, but the printing process that Zazzle uses with their dark shirts isn't all that good, really. The images look somewhat translucent, with the white parts of the designs coming out especially muddy. On top of that, there's a thin ghostly halo around the designs; it could be antialiasing artifacts that I didn't catch, but they're only on one side so I dunno. The shirts will serve, but is disappointing, especially since the light shirts were so good. I may just remove the dark-shirt designs from the Zazzle store.

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I have managed to make it all the way to Origins Week without getting my driver's license renewed. I feel stupid about it, but not surprised; it's exactly the sort of thing I put off indefinitely because it is stupid and boring and unimportant. Until it is, suddenly. I don't know what happens when you present an expired license as photo ID at an airport. I guess I will find out, eh?

I have already used this dead one recently to buy beer and pick up a package so I don't know. (It's so old it's still from Maine!) I may go to the RMV on Monday or Tuesday if there's time. There may not be time. But even if I do, I will only get a cheesy temp license that day, so I likely won't bother anyway.

Best idea, based on Googling: see what Delta's policy about this is, and call and talk to someone about it if necessary. And show up with a folderful of alt docs. (I have no passport either.) And unfortunately we'll need to leave earlier in case none of that works and they make me go through extra security. Sorry, Andys...

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I will soon make my monthly funds transfer from savings to checking, and this will leave me with a savings account of $0. Yes! I am literally on my last month of personal fuel. Because of all the layers of thick cottony abstract thinking that lay between my mental mind and the serrated edge of reality, I am totally not worried about this. OK, I am also not worried because I have a cunning plan. Or anyway I hope to come up with one this weekend.

If things get hairy I can go for another month or three by kicking open the IRA CDs I bought before I wised up and invested in a stock index instead, but let's try to not go there.

It kinda stinks that I won't be able to buy anything at Origins, though.