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Opening for MC Frontalot

b-knox — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 04:12:37 +0000

I’ll be honest, I first heard of MC Frontalot when he played Ann Arbor’s Top of the Park summer festival a couple years back. I missed The OneUps opening up, but even weirder was the house music between the acts was Battle of the Bits Winter Chip II compilation. Somehow the website I built was featured, it was Eli’s fault. That whole night was Eli’s fault. Eli who selected me to judge a grade school LEGO competition. Eli who I will prolly see tomorrow night.

Oh, yes, tomorrow night. I need to rehearse! ^__^;

This will be my 2nd time opening for Frontalot at the Pig. I think I only get this gig because I work there, but It also seems I’m a good fit. Let’s rock the paw out this mutha!!!!

$15 – All Ages
Doors at 8pm

Feculent Fecundation : Word Combo of 2010

b-knox — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 03:56:20 +0000

It’s day one of the new year. That’s “oh-one oh-one eleven” or “eleven eleven” as the kids say. As I sit here, resting my bones, thinking about going out for orange juice so I can make mimosas with my champaign parting favor from a long night of dragging full-grown-grossly-intoxicated men through various hallways amongst other things, I began to reflect on an alliteration that has made me smile for the past few moons.

So let us begin alphabetically . . .

Webster defined feculent both in 1913 and 1828 as Foul with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid. But in later years, the Mirriam-Webster simplified it to foul with impurities : fecal. This, of course, is the adjective form, the noun form being feculence.

Guess what word is next in most dictionaries?

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913 + 1828) defined fecund as Fruitful in children; prolific. Mirriam-Webster shows updated cultural influence - fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific : intellectually productive or inventive to a marked degree. Again, this is an adjective form. The noun form is fecundity, the verb form is fecundate, and then there’s the loose cannon : fecundation (which I thoroughly believe to be a proper adnoun). Now, I think before I can continue, I shall perish without such a momentous mimosa! I will adorn socks on the feets and straddle yon automobile for the procurement of squeezed fruitions from the phallic state of Florida. Here I go!

Yes! Can you feel that?!?! My free cheap champaign is gone, I got a third carton of $3 OJ left, and a commemorative desktop wallpaper too boot!

Detect an Empty Set in jQuery

b-knox — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:31:11 +0000

I spent over a half hour looking for the best solution to this. Personally, I blame the jQuery documentation. When reading over the jQuery core description it states, starting in version 1.4, that jQuery returns an empty set but offers no method to detect it. Ultimately, I found that .length is the way to go but I wanted to expound on all three methods I discovered.

count with javascript

function jQueryCount(obj) {
  var len = 0;
  for (var k in obj)
    len++;
  return len;
}

This was the first type of solution I found. Actually, I haven’t even tried it. I knew right off the bat there has to be a built in jQuery function so I kept digging…

.size()

if ($(‘ul li:visible’).size()==0) {
  /* do stuff here if no visible li elements exist */
}

Yes! After scouring the API documentation for 20 minutes I finally stumbled upon what I was looking for — .size() It returns a count of elements inside a jQuery object. If there are no elements in the object it returns zero.

But what’s this?!?! The comments on the entry say it’s a stupid function that should be deprecated. The page suggests something better…

.length

if ($(‘ul li:visible’).length==0) {
  /* do stuff here if no visible li elements exist */
}

.length works in a different way to get a similar answer. It seems to be “faster, and more consistent to JavaScript in general”. I hope this is helpful to someone in a similar situation! :D

Spring Forward

b-knox — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:30:54 +0000

I took this photo but I didn't remove the snow! :o

Birds and bees outside!??! The clock in my minivan displays the correct time now?!?! I lost an hour of sleep!??!? HOLY BAJEEEZUS!

Our Hero

b-knox — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:49:46 +0000

I got out of bed at 2pm; in the midst of great grogginess I checked Battle of the Bits for any activity and was heroically surprised! Strobe, a venerable BotBr, effortlessly coagulated a victoriously stunning viral video with a photo of myself from, liek, 6 years ago. I both laughed and scoffed like a junior high hermaphrodite at such the glorious wakeup surprise!

Watch it / Make your own here.

Hello World!

b-knox — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:58:41 +0000

OH! What do ya know? It’s time for da B-Knox to join the bloggosphere! It’s just another WordPress installation against the world. Still ironing out the kinks of the layout, dress to impress! :o

WordPress is new and so is my account at SoundCloud and so a merry “Hello World!” to you all. :D

baron knoxburry – energy box dub by Baron Knoxburry

This track was written last August but I share it now.