Kickstarter/indiegogo for my new novel “Daytime Ghosts”

Update:
The kickstarter campaign ended, so now this is on indiegogo:

Daytime Ghosts by Steven Langston on indiegogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/daytime-ghosts-by-steven-langston/x/2618584#/

I had written the first chapter of “Daytime Ghosts” a while back and filed it away for a future project. Today, I decided to try to get the novel funded via kickstarter. I put the first chapter up to give an idea of what type of Daytime Ghosts would be haunting this book.

Here’s the link to the campaign:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/535190562/daytime-ghosts-by-steven-langston

Donate $1 for an ebook copy when it is complete!

MYOSlots – MakeYourOwnSlots – New Indiegogo Campaign!

MYOSlots - MakeYourOwnSlots

MYOSlots – MakeYourOwnSlots

I have been toying around with the idea of a mobile slot game that would allow you to insert your own images as the pictures on the reels. (Just because I would love to play a Spongebob-themed machine!) So, it blossumed into a full-on app design.
Of course, my first thought was to attempt to program this myself, and once I started, I realized that it would be a daunting task that would take me months to put together. So, since I have been on a crowdfunding… “kick”, I thought this might be a good idea to try there. I could then hire someone to build out the design and have enough to advertise.
Today (8/27/2015), I started the indiegogo campaign to get this underway.
MYOSlots on IndiegogoI went ahead and secured http://www.makeyourownslots.com and http://www.myoslots.com
The shortening of the name has led me to a catchy name, “MYOSlots”, pronounced My-O-Slots.

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Packed In A Trunk – Edith Lake Wilkinson

This HBO documentary about the life and art of Edith Lake Wilkinson initially got me to watch by saying that she was put into an insane asylum and never heard from again. As I have mentioned before, art from “insane people” is usually the best, so I was interested in seeing what kind of demons she was wrestling with. Within minutes, I had already figured out the demon.

She was a lesbian in the early 1900s.

Ok, so does that interest me enough to watch? They added in that she was put into an insane asylum, which I assumed was because she was gay. Turns out that there were some other factors. She spent 30 years in the asylum.

If I had watched this documentary without the psychic medium part, it would have been just another story. Supposedly, the medium was not given any information beforehand. What she revealed was the most amazing and revealing part of the whole documentary!

This is a feel-good documentary worth watching.

American artist. Edith Lake Wilkinson. ELW.

My New Venture: ByTheEndOfThisBook – A New Way To Learn A Foreign Language!

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A few weeks ago, I came up with the idea for learning a new language by reading a familiar book with words replaced/translated, sparsely at first, then, by the end of the book (hence the name of the website: http://bytheendofthisbook.com ), the text will all be in the new language. I started an example on the site using the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

When reading the book, you will be presented with a new word, highlighted and bold, and usually something that you can figure out within the context of the sentence, with the ability to click on it to see the original text. The next time the word is used, it will again be highlighted and bold. From that point on, the word will be bold. So, by the time you get to the end of the book, the text will be totally bold.

Here is an example:

ByTheEndOfThisBookLearnGerman_HsrryPotter_example

Once I started putting this together, I realized I would need money to hire someone to translate books and then, most importantly, licensing.

So I started a Kickstarter campaign to see if people saw the potential that I see in this. Here is the link:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/535190562/by-the-end-of-this-book

Check it out and see if you like!

Slick Slider Adaptiveheight Issue Solved

I was implementing slick slider on a page with 2 sliders and was attempting to get adaptiveheight to function, and it would not work for either one. I went through all the js files, trying to find a hard coded height and couldn’t. I started playing around with the CSS and voila! Found the offending item! This took care of the problem across every browser.

Here’s what you can try:

If you are using 2 sliders on the same page, the two sliders should have different class names. If you are having the adaptiveheight problem, note the class name of the offending item:

<div class="testimonialslider">
(insert slides here)
</div>

Open the slick.css file and find the .slick-slide style at line number 77-ish. The problem was the “height: 100%;” entry.

.slick-slide
{
    display: none;
    float: left;
    height: 100%;
    min-height: 1px;
}

Copy the entire style.

Paste the entire style below that one:

.slick-slide
{
    display: none;
    float: left;
    height: 100%;
    min-height: 1px;
}
.slick-slide
{
    display: none;
    float: left;
    height: 100%;
    min-height: 1px;
}

Add the .testimonialslider (whatever you named the slider) in front of the class name: (remember to put a period in front of the class name and a space after!)

.slick-slide
{
    display: none;
    float: left;
    height: 100%;
    min-height: 1px;
}
.testimonialslider .slick-slide
{
    display: none;
    float: left;
    height: 100%;
    min-height: 1px;
}

Change the height to:

.testimonialslider .slick-slide
{
    display: none;
    float: left;
    height: auto;
    min-height: 1px;
}

Save.

Done! If this worked for you, support me by visiting the advertiser above!

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Unknowingly Breaking The 4th Wall

I was watching The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack again and came across a comedic method that I had not defined nor noticed before. I will call it breaking the 4th wall unknowingly. Here’s what set off about 10 minutes of laughter for me.

K’nuckles was in drag and pretending to be the figurehead of a candy cruise ship. He had snuck away from his post to go to the candy buffet and he and Flapjack were fighting over some sweets. They rolled near the captain’s table where the captain was speaking with the benefactor of the ship. She said, “you must be very proud of this ship.” He replied that he was more proud of the figurehead and the camera cut to flapjack and knuckles frozen, listening to the conversation. The captain then said, let’s go see it NOW.

This, in itself was funny, but then, a short silent pause happened as the captain and the countess slowly walked to the door. She stopped and said quickly, “let’s run!”

The fourth wall was broken, but while remaining true to the scene. She supposedly didn’t know that k’nuckles and flapjack were there and would find it difficult to get to the figurehead before she could, but unknowingly made it even more difficult.

This made me howl!

Google Fi Wireless Cellular Service – Can’t Wait!

googlefilogoGoogle is coming out with it’s own cellular service and I can’t wait! I have been wanting the Nexus 6, anyway, and that is the only phone that is compatible with Google Fi. The great thing about their new service is that it actually uses T-Mobile AND Verizon’s towers to give you the best signal. And even better, if you are on a call and lose signal on one of those towers and the other is available, it switches over automatically so your call doesn’t get dropped. ANNNNNND here’s the other great feature- if you go into a WIFI zone, your call switches over to WIFI calling!

How much, you ask? $20 for the service, +$10 for each gigabyte of data you sign up for. And… if you don’t use that much data at the end of the month, they refund what you didn’t use! Does this sound like a dream?

Check it out here:

http://gfiauthority.com/