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31 October 2003 @ 3pm

halloween

Fuck, it’s Halloween, isn’t it?

Somewhere between sleep, commuting to work, and releasing a beta release of the product I’m working on, I was supposed to think up a witty costume, buy and/or create it, and wear it for everyone to point and laugh while I stress over said beta product.

Meanwhile, I’m working with a bunch of people dressed like Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, a couple of Crazy 88’s and an Asian guy dressed like Mister T. And of course, the foosball players.

Any attempts to try to be clever and witty at the last moment have pretty much backfired:

(The scene, a bunch of web developers, sitting in the cafeteria a couple of days ago.)

Web dev #1: Halloween is coming up, isn’t it?
Web dev #2: Yeah. Is anyone bringing a costume?
Web dev #3: I don’t think so. Hey, all the web developers should all dress up as something.
Ernie: Like a group costume? What are we gonna be, HTML tags?
Everyone else: …
Ernie: Ohmygod, we could be, like, Layered Semantic HTML markup. Like, I could wear an <H1> shirt, and someone could wear a </H1> and EVERYONE ELSE WOULD HAVE TO WALK BETWEEN US ALL DAY!! OHMYGOD, IT’S BRILLIANT!
Everyone else: …
Ernie: I gotta go.

Like anyone would have gone through with the plan, anyway. I mean, could you imagine if it did?

(The scene: Ernie is sitting in the middle of the Yahoo! cafeteria by himself wearing his <H1> shirt. By himself. Jerry Yang and David Filo ride by on Segways.)

Jerry: Oh, look. A depricated HTML tag.
David: Poor boy. He feels invalidated.
Jerry: Eeeew, was that a pun?
David: Fuck yeah, it was.
Ernie:

So instead, I sit here in my regular clothes, completely lacking in humor or originality — hey, like the past three months writing on this weblog! *sigh*

30 Comments

Posted by
ritchie
31 October 2003 @ 3pm

oh my god, deprecated h1 tag! thats hilarious. yay! first post!

Posted by
Web Dev #534
31 October 2003 @ 3pm

Ernie’s Quote:
“Somewhere between sleep, commuting to work, and releasing a beta release of the product I’m working on, I was supposed to think up a witty costume, buy and/or create it, and wear it for everyone to point and laugh while I stress over said beta product.”

It’s ok Ernie. You were already pointed and laughed at by Web Dev #MEANIE!

Posted by
filmgoerjuan
31 October 2003 @ 4pm

I wouldn’t worry about validating…you seem like the kind of person who triggers a browser to operate in “quirks” mode anyway

Posted by
Courtney
31 October 2003 @ 4pm

You could always go as a game show contestant.

Posted by
Charles
31 October 2003 @ 4pm

Um, Ernie, if you want everyone to go between you and your partner, wouldn’t you two have to wear <html> and </html>? And even then you’d miss any document type declarations.

Posted by
koopa
31 October 2003 @ 4pm

You are depricated HTML…. GOODBYE!

Posted by
dowingba
31 October 2003 @ 5pm

And a guy with “IE” written on his shirt would walk into the empty cafeteria and collapse immediately.

Posted by
Christine
31 October 2003 @ 7pm

This post is so funny! It’s sort of your Halloween costume, at least on the web!

I work at a surgery center — I dressed up as a Medical Board Police Officer.

Ha.ha.

Not in great taste, but a few laughs.

Posted by
lou
31 October 2003 @ 8pm

quite enjoyed reading your blog.. I transfered over to your EX wife’s beanies..Hilarius!!!! I was reading and laughing.. really funny stuff.. looks like you got some good mula out of it anyway heh?

anyway, its incredible how people cannot help but butt in(:taisha:) you said you didn’t know!!!! what else does she bloody want!
sorry this has nothing to do with your non-custom crisis..although I did find it amusing…

Posted by
:: jozjozjoz ::
1 November 2003 @ 1am

Ernie, you are just too hilarious. Layered Semantic HTML markup!

Posted by
Courtney
1 November 2003 @ 8am

Oh No Ernie! Lou thinks you’re straight!

Posted by
Donny O
1 November 2003 @ 9am

Lou certainly needs to go through Ernie’s blog archives.

Posted by
Courtney
1 November 2003 @ 10am

Or realize the sidebar is just links to random things and the titles don’t pertain to anything except for the link itself.

Posted by
tontamoo
1 November 2003 @ 2pm

You’re hilarious. Thoroughly enjoying your writings.

Posted by
Jason
2 November 2003 @ 12am

Maybe Lou thought Ernie was straight for Halloween.

Posted by
lou
2 November 2003 @ 12pm

lol courtney……with all those links up there on the right, I doubt anyone would think Ernie was straight…he could have been married?
were you Ernie?… I have no desire to go through the entire archive..lol

Posted by
eunae
2 November 2003 @ 5pm

too bad they cannot see the genius that is ernie.

Posted by
The Mighty Jimbo
2 November 2003 @ 10pm

i heard of a great geek costume the other day. go dressed as a waiter carrying a tray full of cobwebs.

ie: a webserver.

Posted by
Mary Ann
2 November 2003 @ 10pm

I have to admit, those dialogues were hilarious…

Posted by
Mary Ann
2 November 2003 @ 10pm

And that foosball costume is tight! 2 eProps! …Oh, wait…

Posted by
beaty
3 November 2003 @ 2am

LMAO! - Love the HTML costume crack - I work in a University, with an office right next to the Internet Computing Department…

Every day I have to walk past their labs with their dreadful puns about ‘JAVA’ for lab names…

E.G. - ‘The Grinder’, ‘Roasting Room’, ‘Expresso To Go’…And so on and so forth…

Why do geeks have to be their own worst stereotype?

…Break the mould guys! Strike out and go against the flow - GET A SENSE OF HUMOUR (that has a complete ban on having the characters ‘0′ and ‘1′ in the punchline!)…

Phew…Sorry! Rant over!

Posted by
VIncent
3 November 2003 @ 8am

I guess I should bring up the ‘Greatest Halloween Costume of All Time’ that I spent almost $250 on and took me 3 months to complete: The Monolith from 2001!

Basically, an overly elaborate 8×4x2 foam box, covered with black fabric, complete with little foam speaker mounts so I could play ‘Thus Spoke Zarathustra’ through my walkman.

By the time it was finished Halloween had passed and since I refused to throw it away julie and I ended up decorating it like a christmas tree because it took up half the living room. Oh well.

Posted by
Romy
3 November 2003 @ 12pm

I’ll be your </H1>?, man…

Posted by
myblog
4 November 2003 @ 10pm

hilarious… seriously i was cracking up.

Posted by
Fred
5 November 2003 @ 10am

Ernie…

Dude, that Idea of the tag ROCKED!!! I totally would have been there! See, I don’t have enough nerd friends to be able to do something like that. Oh, poor me… Shunned by nerds… It’s hard trying to hide intellect behind a cool facade…

And bro, you are TOTALLY original, and so is your blog. That’s what keeps me reading!

Posted by
james
7 November 2003 @ 1pm

I know I’ve been at work too long when I read your hilarious post, and the first thing that came into my head was “’s not a deprecated tag, is it?”

So sad.

Posted by
Charles
7 November 2003 @ 10pm

James, you’re not alone, that was my first thought, too. H1 deprecated? Well, it would make sense. You’d really want an H tag with a level attribute, right?

Posted by
Charles
7 November 2003 @ 10pm

No, no!!! You’d just need a SECTION tag with a caption attribute, and nest the sections to get the section levels.

Posted by
Charles
7 November 2003 @ 10pm

No, wait, there is a CAPTION tag, used with tables. So, let’s repurpose it:

<SECTION><CAPTION>What used to go between H1 tags</CAPTION>
<SECTION><CAPTION>What used to go between H2 tags</CAPTION>
Some text at the H2 level.
</SECTION>
<SECTION><CAPTION>What used to go between additional H2 tags</CAPTION>
Some text at the second H2 level.
</SECTION>
</SECTION>

How’s that?

Or is it time for me to go to bed?

Posted by
Bruce
12 November 2003 @ 8pm

I found this to be very funny! Sorry I came to it so late in the game.

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