David Hemphill

If I could clone myself...

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:37:12 -0500

This thought just occurred to me a moment ago, “What would I do if I could clone myself and somehow still mystically enjoy the experiences of my cloned self?”

My first thought would be to let my cloned self chase his wildest dreams. He might move to Nashville and become a huge rockstar/producer type, having his own recording studio and successful music career. In reality, that probably wouldn’t have been a great idea considering the recent events in Nashville, but let’s pretend the flood didn’t happen in my little fantasy world. He would love absorbing the diverse musical creativity of so many artists, and I imagine that would be a fulfilling and motivating existence for him (me).

What if I sent him down my original path? My teenage-self always dreamed of moving to California and living it up there with my brother-from-another-mother, Chris. Well, he wound up moving to Hawaii a few years later, so that would be super-sweet. I can imagine this cloned version of myself living the sweet life in lazy Hawaii, absorbing the surf and salt-water, writing ska/reggae/punk-rock tunes all day. This dream sounds like a happy-ending fairy tale, but it would inevitably turn sour as Chris wound up moving back to Missouri. I would hope that my artificial twin would stay, but he likes to have company and if he didn’t have a significant other (which I would hope would be a cloned version of my wife) he would have probably moved back too.

What other dream might a cloned version of me chase? What other path would he take? It’s something interesting to think about.

I saw this little beauty on Craigslist and was ogling it, when...

Fri, 21 May 2010 09:49:00 -0500

I saw this little beauty on Craigslist and was ogling it, when my worship pastor Aimee decided she wanted to fund the purchase of it. It was but a few moments later that I was headed to meet the guy and buy it.

I remember seeing these at the music store back in my half-stack-screamo-rock days and scoffing at them, ironically thinking I would never buy such a thing. I mean gee-whiz, there’s no tone knobs! How are you supposed to make that sound good? Yet, there I was, driving 45 miles to get one.

Well, I plugged it in. Wow. This thing sounds really good. It takes pedals well, and it sounds good with just a clean boost between it and my guitar. I’m a fan.

I don’t think there’s enough wattage for the type of gigs I’ll be playing—I’m thinking I’ll need more like 15 or 30 watts instead. So I’m still eyeing a Vox AC15 Custom, or possibly a Fender Blues Junior.

This is the amp that I’ve been dying to get, a Vox AC15C1....

Sun, 16 May 2010 19:28:00 -0500

This is the amp that I’ve been dying to get, a Vox AC15C1. I just saw the previous model on Craigslist (an AC15CC1) and this model has a better speaker, better switches, a better reverb (who uses that?) and more tonal possibilities than it’s older sibling. I’ll be holding out and will get that when the time comes.

That is, unless you feel like you need to finance this for me.

This is the state of my guitar rig. I’d like to get a...

Thu, 13 May 2010 20:16:09 -0500

This is the state of my guitar rig. I’d like to get a better overdrive in there to replace the Daddy-O. I’m pretty happy with the tone coming from this board though.

This is the fight before my latest, which I posted previously....

Wed, 12 May 2010 14:35:00 -0500

This is the fight before my latest, which I posted previously. Coleton’s a cool guy.

Here’s my fight from Saturday night (hey, that rhymes!)....

Tue, 04 May 2010 22:47:00 -0500

Here’s my fight from Saturday night (hey, that rhymes!). It’s short, but good.

Fixing Gmail's iPad interface weirdness for Macs

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 15:42:12 -0500

I don’t know why I care so much about this, except that it’s been fun wading through Google’s horrific code and using nth-child selectors. Wait, did I just say that was fun? What I meant to say is that it sucks, but I have a hard time admitting defeat.

So, suffice it to say, I’ve fixed one of the many bugs presented when using the Gmail iPad interface on a Mac.

One of the most annoying is that you can’t scroll the message listing. Not with your scrollball, not with a two-finger swipe on your trackpad, and not even with selecting the text in the view and dragging down (you know you’ve done it before). I’ll spare you the details, but basically:

Create a userstyle for the app with the URL pattern (it’s found in the Preferences area): *mail.google.com*
Copy-and-Paste this code into the userstyle box:
Create a userscript for the app and place this code into it to make it resize the window to iPad dimensions:
Hope Google doesn’t change any of their code and bork this.

Apart from that, I think I’m done tinkering with this project, and will just go get an iPad instead. Enjoy!

How to get Gmail's iPad interface as a Mac app

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:55:00 -0500

Prompted by some tweets by @mheerema and @samsoffes, I just used Fluid to create a site-specific browser that uses Google’s awesome new iPad-optimized interface for Gmail. It appears LifeHacker posted something similar just as I figured this out, but I like this better than using Firefox extensions.

To do this simply:

Download Fluid
Launch Fluid and create a site-specific browser for http://gmail.com and call it “Gmail”
Launch the newly-created application and in the menu bar go to Gmail > User Agent > Other
Input this user-agent: Mozilla/5.0(iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B314 Safari/531.21.10, then press “Okay”
Reload the view by pressing Command-R.
That’s it! You should have the beautiful new iPad optimized interface.

Hope you enjoy this!

Bonus: Download these icons and use them for your new Gmail app: http://csi.nfshost.com/goodies/

Need Help? Watch Sam do it: http://screenr.com/b0M

Hangin with wife today, and this is what we’re up to...

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:20:36 -0600

Hangin with wife today, and this is what we’re up to first.

On Church Words

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:31:25 -0600

On Church Words:

At Lebanon Family Church, we’re very careful to be accessible to new people when we present the gospel. We may only have a short time before we’ve lost the attention span of unbelievers, so we choose our words carefully to make sure the message is easily understandable and free from terminology that would confuse someone.

Mama would be proud.

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:09:17 -0600

Mama would be proud.

Video

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 22:02:00 -0600

elclinto: Been there…

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:25:57 -0600

elclinto:

Been there…

Get the Content

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 11:43:00 -0600

Here’s a quick thought. I equate having a client who insists you design with no content to asking you to play a guitar with no strings. You have the skills to play the guitar, but you don’t have an essential tool needed to do the job. How are you to be successful?

Insist on getting the content before you design so you can make those strings sing.

I can’t help but post this. This is the funniest Super...

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:20:34 -0600

I can’t help but post this. This is the funniest Super Bowl commercial for 2010 in my opinion.

Transformation

Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:34:00 -0600

I feel a transformation happening in my inner self. Lately, I’ve felt new urges to grow up and be a better provider, caretaker, and husband.

For instance, my 2009 Christmas list comprised of mostly of hand tools. There is no logic in this. I’m not an especially handy man. I don’t even work with my hands too often. However, I had been desiring the simple tools my Dad has—wrenches, screwdrivers, saws, squares, and a place to put them.

We just finished installing wood floors in our bedroom. I can’t wait to clean out the garage and make a work table. I want to build a dog house. I’d like to build a new desk for my office. Why would an Apple fanboy geek that works on websites and print work want to do this? I feel this is the result of doing what is called “Growing Up”.

I’ve been on a kick of being manly—whatever that means. Manliness is defined in different ways to different people. But I see my tastes changing—my clothes, my music, my home—everything. I believe it’s God preparing me for something bigger…

Change is life and change is good. Life is good.

My Wife Is Back

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:55:06 -0500

My wife is back and I’m extremely happy about that fact. It’s been two months of loneliness (minus weekends), fixing food just for myself, sleeping on the couch 3-4 times a week, and copious internet time. My hope is we can start fresh and get our lives back on track. Enjoying each other, watching movies, praying and studying, trips to Springfield, eating together, and walks are all things I’m looking forward to.

Should I Make a Portfolio Site?

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:26:45 -0500

I’m pondering putting together a proper portfolio site for the work I’ve done over the past few years. Working at a church, I’ve had the opportunity to be involved with a rebranding of the church, several branding projects for various ministries, and crap-tons of graphic design for everything imaginable. All that, and some pretty sweet websites, both in-house and for other projects.

I'm really getting tired of this no wife stuff.

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:20:00 -0500

You see, my bride has been off for the last month and a half during the week 45 miles away training for her new job at the social security office. This leaves me mostly alone on the weekdays. And that sucks.

That is all.

Video Room Painting

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:54:53 -0500

Nick painted our video room with actual chroma key green paint, so now we have this huge wall for doing green screen stuff. Sweet!

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