I grew bored with the theme I was using for mattuhrich.com so I decided to create a new one. And I find it easier to design a new theme than to create the crummy content that makes up this site. Since all the themes I’ve designed in the past use sans-serif fonts, I went with a serif font, specifically, good old Times New Roman. I was also weary of the standard site design of post text with a side-bar on the right or left. I realized that I rarely used the links on my site and other peoples site, so they could be banished to the bottom of the page. I’ll put a few important links under the heading along with the search box as I continue to develop the theme. Maybe I’ll use something like ClickHeat to see if visitors clink on the links at the bottom of the page a lot and move them if they do. I’d probably only be seeing my own clicks since I’m the only regular visitor to this site.
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So I have this weird fascination with the theme music from the original Super Mario Bros. I’m not really sure why. It’s deeply ingrained in my psyche and every time I hear it, it takes me back to earlier days. I remember vividly Christmas day of 1989 when my brother and I finally received our own Nintendo. We thought there were no more presents left and my mom said there was one more for my dad. When he opened it, it was a shiny new Nintendo. We went stark-raving nuts.
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I’m sitting here in my living room watching the NCAA tournament in glorious 1080i HD. I realized I was hearing something that I hadn’t heard in quite a while. One of the sounds of spring and summer where I live on Friday nights is the roar of dirt-track sprint cars coming from Williams Grove Speedway just a couple of miles away.
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