...1415 JAN: 91011

12: The Revision


  • 4:08 A.M.
    Sick of DnB

I always thought "chicken tenders" were a marketing invention, a completely made-up portion of chicken named to appeal to America's snacking fatasses. Little did I know one day I'd be making my very own oddly snack-shaped fried chicken tenders. See, when you debone a chicken breast, the meat comes apart into two big chunks: the actual breast, and a smaller, somewhat Argentina-shaped chunk called the "tender". These particular ones are destined to become "pupu tenders", using a sauce recipe developed by ancient chinese (Mom and friends). Right now they are looking so commercial that I'm wondering if maybe I'll be preparing something in the future and discover the McNugget.

I'm revising my web page, which is a healthy enough way to learn how to use the modern features inflicted upon the modern web developer. In particular, "CSS", which are an artifact of desktop publishing. They're not really HTML, but style sheets are such an integral part of other publishing forms that they somehow found their way here. Thanks a lot, other publishing forms. Style sheets are also sort of responsible for "XSL", with which we now have the power to print things out on whatever! Yay! (I have to say, this is one of the less exciting web technologies I've come across. Perhaps it gets thrillinger when I find out more.) As far as I can tell, XSL gives you the power to define a document's final output form, like you'd have in a typical WYSIWYG word processor, only much, much more difficult to use. Perhaps this just brings all web developers full circle, back into Kinkos where they started.
Copyright 2002 Andrew Denyes andr00@earthlink.net