That One Guy
Thanks to Bob Laurence, I think I may have eliminated this page's dependence on tables altogether. This is important, as I'll be sharing my blog on international television tomorrow. Someone's asking “what it is” - and I'm aimin' to tell him. It's like I told another blogger-wannabe this afternoon: your personal and professional life will flourish if you do one. We were sipping soda water at a local cafe, pondering when the industry would crawl out of its slump. As we were talking, another dude walked into the place and said to me: “Aren't you the guy who broke that one old record player thingy?” Kinda. “One of our IT guys just sent the video to everyone at Sega; we've been laughing about it all day.” That clip has apparently gone viral. Great. I'm always going to be known as “that one guy,” completely replacing the world's memory of “that other guy.”
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23 Comments
Anonymous
January 14th, 2003
at 5:52pm
Very cool, hope you don't mind my testing your code;)
Anonymous
January 14th, 2003
at 6:02pm
That clip is still really funny. Good job on the template changes Chris. :)
Anonymous
January 14th, 2003
at 6:10pm
Love the template. :) So, what TV show is this that your blog will be featured on? I dont want to miss it. Is this Call for Help? I'd feel like a real fool for asking this if that is the case. ;) hehehe But otherwise, please share what show this is so we can catch it! :)
Anonymous
January 14th, 2003
at 6:50pm
The template works like it should on Mozilla now (o: Looks good. Can my comment be seen on national television?
Anonymous
January 14th, 2003
at 6:57pm
I've tested it on IE 6 and Mozilla on the PC. On the Mac on Safari, Mozilla (chimera and netscape also) plus IE. Nice.
Anonymous
January 14th, 2003
at 7:39pm
At least they'll remember who you are. Better than nothing.
Anonymous
January 14th, 2003
at 7:49pm
Looks better! I can still fix it for higher resolutions if you want. ;)
Anonymous
January 14th, 2003
at 8:48pm
yay! I was worried for a while, cos Chimera was just chewin' and spittin' up your blog before you made said changes.
Anonymous
January 14th, 2003
at 9:58pm
you know, if you'd like to have a great layout that wasn't dependent on tables, i recommend the following:
http://wannabegirl.org/css/
or
http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/
Anonymous
January 14th, 2003
at 10:30pm
Was that old phonograph really priceless ? I was just waiting for the old guy to say F*** , but he settled on S***. I wonder how much that accident cost him. I'm surprised Chris didn't start laughing immediately when this happened. I have no idea what your talking about here with the code and stuff but the new site looks cool. Later Peeps.
Anonymous
January 14th, 2003
at 11:17pm
Hey - I'm that “blogger wannabe”!! And now I've dropped the wannabe part - as of a couple of minutes ago (and past my bedtime), http://www.danrochman.com is alive! Thanks for that kick in the pants, Chris. Now I'm just gonna kick back and flourish…
Anonymous
January 15th, 2003
at 4:02am
wow, i didn't know when i made that clip during the help-a-thon, that it would go “viral”. Oh well, you guys did great overall in the show and i wish you all the best of luck in the future.
Anonymous
January 15th, 2003
at 7:23am
yaaay! your site looks wonderful in mozilla now! w00t!
Anonymous
January 15th, 2003
at 12:43pm
It's a great clip, I showed it to the other I.T. guys who work with me (New Zealand Parliament). :) Keep up all the cool work. :)
Anonymous
January 15th, 2003
at 1:16pm
That clip is being passed all around NEC now. I really feel bad for the guy, although he's far more famous now than he ever would have been before.
Anonymous
January 16th, 2003
at 9:28am
The way his hands were shaking, I almost want to say “Why wasn't he being more careful?” I dunno if it was being on live TV or not but you can tell he's very excited/nervous. And it shatters in his hands, not when it hits the ground, so I feel like he's only got himself to blame. Poor guy. I hope it wasn't the First Vinyl Cylinder Recording on loan from the Smithsonian or anything. Does anyone have more info about the object?
Anonymous
January 17th, 2003
at 1:09am
You can't be “That One Guy”, I'm That One Guy and I have been for years! :) I'm also an ex-Iowan Bay Area transplant… It beats shovelin' snow.
Anonymous
January 18th, 2003
at 2:27am
I can't get that video anymore. Sigh.
Anonymous
January 18th, 2003
at 5:01pm
Yeah because the jerks over at my webhosting site suspended my website for “using too much CPU power” and now won't give me my money back.
Anonymous
January 18th, 2003
at 9:27pm
Who are you again? That one guy? But I liked that other guy alot. He was cool.
Anonymous
January 20th, 2003
at 8:42am
“using too much CPU power”
Mwahahahaha! That is too funny. And that was the HOST?? OMG. You should sue them [if you could] for just being stupid! *LOL*
Anonymous
January 20th, 2003
at 8:46am
Does anybody have a current link to that clip? I didn't save it. :(
Anonymous
January 20th, 2003
at 4:46pm
Well the site is back up…temporarily, i'm trying to cancel that service and move to another host but they won't refund me. :-(