From e7b8fb87c2a33fd73ef2fb5b9d6ea2a520c9b2d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neale Pickett Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 22:51:52 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Make haiku thing use blockquote, not pre --- css/default.css | 24 +++++------------ css/format.css | 21 ++++++++++++++- papers/joke-haiku.mdwn | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 3 files changed, 57 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-) diff --git a/css/default.css b/css/default.css index 1c76866..f20c08c 100644 --- a/css/default.css +++ b/css/default.css @@ -26,8 +26,6 @@ body>h1:first-child, td.main { } h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { - font-family: "URW Gothic L", sans-serif; - font-weight: normal; color: #fa6900; } @@ -58,10 +56,16 @@ img.face { } pre { - background: #ccc; + background: #e0e4cc; overflow-x: auto; } +blockquote { + background: #e0e4cc; + padding: 0.1em 1em; + border-radius: 0.4em; +} + #nav { padding: 0; text-align: center; @@ -73,17 +77,3 @@ pre { #nav li + li:before { content: " | "; } - -address { - clear: both; - font-size: small; -} - -address a { - margin: 0 2em; -} - -address a:before { - padding: 0.5em; -} - diff --git a/css/format.css b/css/format.css index 4d31781..c038b6b 100644 --- a/css/format.css +++ b/css/format.css @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +body { + font-family: "URW Palladio L", serif; +} + p, li, dd { text-align: justify; } @@ -12,6 +16,7 @@ h1 + p, h2 + p, h3 + p, h4 + p, h5 + p, h6 + p { h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 { font-family: "URW Gothic L", sans-serif; + font-weight: normal; } pre { @@ -26,4 +31,18 @@ pre { margin: 0.5em; font-size: small; border: solid black 1px; -} \ No newline at end of file +} + +address { + clear: both; + font-size: small; +} + +address a { + margin: 0 2em; +} + +address a:before { + padding: 0.5em; +} + diff --git a/papers/joke-haiku.mdwn b/papers/joke-haiku.mdwn index 8b20a30..371788e 100644 --- a/papers/joke-haiku.mdwn +++ b/papers/joke-haiku.mdwn @@ -81,16 +81,16 @@ wisdom. The problem is that it doesn't take a genius to come up with seventeen syllables about anything. For example: - Lame flying saucers - You can see the fishing line - What a bad movie. +> Lame flying saucers +> You can see the fishing line +> What a bad movie. It took me all of about ten seconds to write that. Here, I'll do another one: - Where's my other sock? - It disappeared in the wash - How did that happen? +> Where's my other sock? +> It disappeared in the wash +> How did that happen? I hardly feel that these two stupid poems mark me as being clever or witty in any way, yet I defy anyone to show that they're any less @@ -153,15 +153,15 @@ the remainder of the poem. Jennifer Jensen points to [a fine example of cutting](http://www.peavine.com/haiku/cuttingwords.html), from the 17th century haiku master Basho: - Kutabirete - yado karu koro ya - fuji no hana +> Kutabirete +> yado karu koro ya +> fuji no hana which in English is translated: - When worn out - And seeking an inn: - Wisteria flowers! +> When worn out +> And seeking an inn: +> Wisteria flowers! The cutting word above is the Japanese ya, which doesn't translate to English well; it more or less signals a break in thought, @@ -175,9 +175,9 @@ another. By comparison, joke haiku writers typically bull through to the end at maximum speed as though they're trying to get home before WWF Thursday Night Smackdown starts: - Cutting my toenails - I cut too deep and I bleed - all over the rug. +> Cutting my toenails +> I cut too deep and I bleed +> all over the rug. Ironically, the one rule to which every joke haiku does conform—seventeen syllables in three metrical units of five, seven, @@ -226,9 +226,9 @@ art form to pass it off as inspired quirkiness. Consider this example: - Milk after five months - in my refrigerator - tastes just horrible. +> Milk after five months +> in my refrigerator +> tastes just horrible. The point being made here is that sour milk tastes bad. Yet if I were to post it to a joke haiku bulletin board, or scribble it on a napkin @@ -259,15 +259,15 @@ shorn of its haiku form, its true banality emerges. Consider the example I posted above: - Milk after five months - in my refrigerator - tastes just horrible. +> Milk after five months +> in my refrigerator +> tastes just horrible. This poem is easily the equal of any number of joke haiku posted or e-mailed anywhere on the Internet. Yet look at what happens when I remove the line breaks: - Milk after five months in my refrigerator tastes just horrible. +> Milk after five months in my refrigerator tastes just horrible. What once might have elicited satisfied chuckles from joke haiku aficionados becomes an excruciatingly average observation that @@ -351,18 +351,18 @@ as a creative force. Consider this haiku about commuting: - Sitting in my car - I watch the time tick away - This traffic sure sucks. +> Sitting in my car +> I watch the time tick away +> This traffic sure sucks. Pedestrian and boring, it took all of ten seconds to write. To write a limerick on the same subject, one must work much harder: - Nothing's worse, there can be no dispute, - Than my everyday average commute. - In my car long I sit. - I just might throw a fit - If I can't find an alternate route. +> Nothing's worse, there can be no dispute, +> Than my everyday average commute. +> In my car long I sit. +> I just might throw a fit +> If I can't find an alternate route. Okay, so it's not the best limerick that's ever been written, but in a way that's exactly my point. This stuff's not easy to do. Do it well