To celebrate the fact that Ben sent me an email today, I hereby post a little bit of MST3K-related funny he sent me a while back…

Here, for your edutainment, is the canonical list of all the various nom de plumes given to the big dumb bodybuilder hero from the MST3K classic, “Mutiny In Space”. The canonical list was compiled by Constance Crain, who is not, repeat, *not* a fangirl of any kind at all whatsoever. Really.

Some of the first names are quasiduplicates of each other. Complain to the MST3K people. They wrote ’em. 🙂

Slab Hardcheese
Butch Deadlift
Bolt Bigflank
Splint Chesthair
Flint Ironstag
Bulk Vanderhuge
Thick McRunfast
Blast Hardcheese
Buff Drinklotz
Slab Hunk
Trunk Slamchest
Fist Rothbone
Stump Beefknob
Smash Lampjaw
Punch Rockgroin
Buck Plankchest
Stump Chunkman
Dirk Hardpec
Rip Steakface
Crud Bonemeal
Brick Hardmeat
Rip Slabcheek
Punch Sideiron
Gristle McThornbody
Slate Fistcrunch
Buff Hardback
Bob Johnson
Blast Thickneck
Crunch Buttsteak
Slab Squatthrust
Lump Beefbroth
A Big Brave Brick O’ Meat
Touch Rustrod
Beef Blastbody
Big McLargehuge
Smoke Manmuscle
Beat Muchbeef
Hank Blowfist
Roll Fizzlebeef
“Ol’ Chunkhead”

After a couple of days spent tinkering, breaking, unbreaking and tinkering some more, I can happily display the new journal-entry layout I’ve devised. What’s so great about it, you ask? The most important breakthrough is something you can’t even see: no longer is the layout of journal entries done by table code. The only table left is the calendar.

This is simply one more step along the path to a fully CSS-driven layout scheme. The page should also render just a little bit faster in most browsers. Not to mention that I just plain like the way this looks better than what I had before.

Pardon me while I bask in the dubious glory of my own accomplishments. Thank you.

Thanks once again to the creator of Monaural Jerk for showing me how to reverse-sort the journal entries. Now the newest additions will always be at the top of the page so you don’t have to scroll down to see if there’s anything new on a given day. Hooray!

I’ve also learned how to make the “synopsis” data appear. This means that all entries with synopses (which would be all of them, mind you) back to the beginning of the database will be shown with little parenthetical comments.

My next goal is to completely redesign how individual journal entries are displayed. Wish me luck. Send me cocoa.