We Live To Serve
Published 21 years, 5 months pastYesterday, Jeffrey Zeldman was nice enough to point people toward meyerweb’s redesign, and also to say some kind words about yours truly that he’ll probably regret some day. I know I have already, because when goofy rendering errors were reported in IE6/Win, I kind of felt obligated to do something about them instead of just shrugging and saying, “Eh, not my problem.” Curse you, El Jefe! I shall be revenged!
Two days ago, I got an e-mail message that had me falling out of my chair, I was laughing so hard, and I simply can’t resist sharing it with you. I’ve edited the text a bit for clarity, and the name has been removed to protect—well, the guilty, really. In a legal sense, I mean.
I’ve spent some time reading and working with several CSS books…. and I have to tell you that Eric Meyer on CSS is the best…. if I want to know how to do something and refer to the pile of books near my left hand, it is the one that most easily produces the answer.
It has one other great advantage over all the others as well: it is by far the best book to roll a joint on. Shape, size, thickness, glossiness, flexibility, and color are all excellent and [far] ahead of the competition.
It’s amazing how a well designed book serves all purposes.
Well. Glad I could help out.
A day or two before that fascinating bit of e-mail arrived, I was standing in clothing store located in a brand-new shopping mall just recently built a couple of miles from our house, when the following lyrics came over the store speakers:
Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone? They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
…and I thought to myself, “Is someone trying to be ironic?”