Splash Moun­tain — © Copy­right 2012 by William Beem

The Blog Design

Wel­come to the new face of the blog. If you’re read­ing this when the post is new, then the site looks dif­fer­ent than it did last week. If you’re read­ing this from far in the future — please send word if you’re DAMNED DIRTY APES! Also, read­ers from the future should real­ize that I may have changed my design more than once by the time they got to this post, so they won’t really know what I’m talk­ing about today.

For those of you who are here today, I hope you like the changes. I just wanted to sim­plify things and get rid of that gar­ish red color. The side­bar is gone, but you can still access the same infor­ma­tion from the menu bar above or on the footer below. It’s all there. The new theme uses a 960 pixel design so it’s easy for folks to read on most devices, includ­ing tablets. Go ahead, try it on your iPad. There’s a sep­a­rate mobile tem­plate for phones by default. I’m also start­ing to upload slightly larger images. They still show as 900 pix­els on the dis­play, but you can click it to get a 1200 pixel pop-​up dis­play. As a reminder, all of my images are Cre­ative Com­mons. Feel free to use them as long as you give me credit and link back to this site.

Splash Moun­tain

Even though it’s been around for years, I finally had my first ride on Splash Moun­tain not long ago. To think that I avoided it because I didn’t want to get soaked. Turns out there really wasn’t that much water, even though it sprayed me in the face at the end. How­ever, I now have an entirely new rea­son to avoid it. That ride is one of the creepi­est things I’ve ever been through in my life. I’m still hav­ing night­mares from Song of the South.