How does that GIF animate?

Wow, a sudden leap to question numero uno. Netscape 2.0+ supports this feature of GIF89a. There's Royal E. Frazier's everything you ever wanted to know about GIF89a on the WWW page, a Ziff-Davis article about it, and you can muck about with Alchemy Mindworks' GIF Construction Set for Windows. Lastly, for the nerds, there's the GIF89a spec.

What's in the cup?

It was a Diet Coke with ice. I never drink from a styrofoam cup, but we hadn't any cold drinks that day, it was very hot, and the only thing big enough to hold ice and enough drink was this big styrofoam cup. I don't know why someone took the picture.
 

You have strange reading habits

And it isn't even a question. My reading tastes change. At times I can't stand fiction. At times I can't stand anything more than 9 months old. At times I can't stand anything less than 60 years old. Sometimes I zip through several books a week; sometimes I go months without a book. Most of the time, I'll take anything good. By 1980 I'd read most of the stuff you're supposed to read - now I have to ferret out good stuff.

This FAQ became popular after the intro of my books page.
 

Don't you think it's a bit vain to have a zillion pictures in the temple?

Personally, I think it's nuts. It's also over a year old. See, back last July, we were trying to respond to the complaints about HTML's inability to do any sort of reasonable layout with inline images. So Eric Bina implemented the ALIGN tags, and we needed a test document or two (or fifty).

Anyway, some subset of {Chouck, Jamie, Lou} made the page, showing off the sorts of stuff you could do with the image align operators, the img scaling tags, etc. The next morning when I showed up, we all got a good laugh. The technical success was cool, and making fun of me is always fun for those guys.

So they decided to put this in place as my home page. As they report to me, I work for them and am therefore completely helpless. They did allow me a link to my real home page in the middle.

I have to admit I'm surprised they haven't replaced it with something more embarassing, but I guess I shouldn't complain. They still use that old image of my face for all sorts of first tests and random silly pages. Trust me: I see my face in the strangest places. It's really become a dependable joke.

So, I say:

Back to my home page.