Did a lot of little changes to the plugins and theme that run my site as part of a bigger goal to move the main feed of my site off the main page. That included adding links to the various feeds, and fiddling with the h-card/bio. Curious what people think. I don’t think I’m done by a long shot, but it is a much cleaner site than before. I have a few more things planned.
David Shanske
- Swords County Dublin
Put together a Youtube playlist of Chanukah music to listen. Keep adding to it.
I decided to work on my website theme for a bit. In order to support it, today I shipped(with a minor bug, sorry), a new Indieweb plugin that adds the ability to add the rel-me links inside the h-card widget instead of by themselves. I’m now using it. In my theme, I added support for a dedicated h-card page. I’ll be turning it on on my site likely in future as I experiment with moving my feed off of my main page.
Parkeology Challenge November 2018
On Wednesday, November 28th, I participated in the Parkeology Challenge. It is a marathon of sorts where you try to ride every ride at Walt Disney World in a single day. That is 4 different parks, and 49 rides…although only 46 were in the challenge this week due long-term closures. You can only use things available to the average guest.
In order for the people who run Parkeology to certify the results, you have to provide a Twitter record of same. That was handled by one of my four teammates, but I kept a recording on my site of all of the locations I was in. This would be my timeline for the day. The pictures are backed up from the original challenge.
To see the individual posts, you can click here.
In order for the people who run Parkeology to certify the results, you have to provide a Twitter record of same. That was handled by one of my four teammates, but I kept a recording on my site of all of the locations I was in. This would be my timeline for the day. The pictures are backed up from the original challenge.
To see the individual posts, you can click here.
- 5:45AM – Wake up
- 6:30AM – Leave hotel room
- 6:56AM – Transportation and Ticket Center
- 7:25AM – Arrive Magic Kingdom Park – Opening not till 7:45AM
- 7:55AM – Ride 1 Main Street Vehicles
- 8:51AM – Disney’s Animal Kingdom
- 9:13AM – Ride 2 Avatar Flight of Passage
- 10:19AM – Ride 3 Kilimanjaro Safari
- 10:58AM – Ride 4 Kali River Rapids
- 11:20AM – Ride 5 Na’vi River Journey
- 11:42AM – Ride 6 Primeval Whirl
- 12:09PM – Ride 7 Triceratops Spin
- 12:23PM – Ride 8 Dinosaur
- 12:55PM – Ride 9 Expedition Everest
- 1:31PM – Arrive Hollywood Studios
- 1:40PM – Ride 10 Toy Story Mania
- 2:12PM – Ride 11 Twilight Zone Tower of Terror
- 2:35PM – Ride 12 Rock ‘N’ Roller Coaster
- 3:11PM – Ride 13 Slinky Dog Dash
- 3:31PM – Ride 14 Star Tours
- 3:54PM – Ride 15 Alien Swirling Saucers
- 4:48PM – Return to the Transportation and Ticket Center
- 5:00PM – Ride 16 Walt Disney World Railroad
- 5:11PM – Ride 17 Splash Mountain
- 6:03PM – Arrive Epcot
- 6:10PM – Ride 18 Journey into Imagination with Figment
- 6:23PM – Ride 19 Living with the Land
- 6:46PM – Ride 20 Soarin’
- 7:13PM – Ride 21 The Seas with Nemo and Friends
- 7:30PM – Ride 22 Mission: Space
- 8:23PM – Ride 23 Gran Fiesta Tour
- 8:32PM – Ride 24 Frozen Ever After
- 8:54PM – Ride 25 Test Track
- 9:22PM – Ride 26 Spaceship Earth
- 10:09PM – Arrive back at Magic Kingdom
- 10:15PM – Ride 27 Magic Carpets of Aladdin
- 10:22PM – Ride 28 Pirates of the Carribbean
- 10:43PM – Ride 29 Haunted Mansion
- 10:59PM – Ride 30 Prince Charming Carousel
- 11:06PM – Ride 31 Mad Tea Party
- 11:11PM – Ride 32 Dumbo the Flying Elephant
- 11:18PM – Ride 33 The Barnstormer
- 11:27PM – Ride 34 Tomorrowland Speedway
- 11:40PM – Ride 35 Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin
- 11:52PM – Ride 36 Seven Dwarfs Mine Train
- 12:30PM – Meetup with the Other Teams
- 12:48AM – Ferry back to the Car
- 1:25AM – Arrive back at hotel
It was a day I can honestly say I will not soon forget.
Parkeology Challenge 2018 in Brief
“To all the awesome teams that ran the @Parkeology #parkeologychallenge today we offer a huge congratulations! It was freezing, rides broke down, hours were lost and you still crushed it! Thanks, we look forward to seeing you again soon!” via Twitter.
A few facts
- The Park Operating Hours for the Day Determines Difficulty. Less than 18 hours is considered Expert.
- The last completion of the challenge was August 18th, though there have been many attempts since.
- Over 39,000 steps
- Over 17 miles of walking
- The numbers above are based on my phone. My watch actually has a higher number.
- There were 10 teams competing that day. Only one other team had 4 people on it.
- The range of completed rides were 11-42. The other 4 person team got 42.
- 6 Teams Completed the 3 Parks We Did. It seems like a lot of people were looking to complete on that day, which is a rarity.
Enjoying a nice day off with no Black Friday drama. Wonder if anyone I know is braving the stores.
Testing to make sure I can post a photo through my new process. Can you identify the trolley?
I have streamlined my process for posting from the Indigenous for Android client to my site and syndicating to Twitter. More tweets coming.
In the latest episode of An Indieweb Podcast, Chris Aldrich and I get together to talk about what we’ve been up to since the last episode in September.
On September 13, 1964, Martin Luther King Jr, while visiting West Berlin, insisted on visiting East Berlin and delivered a sermon at a church there. The services were completely filled, even though his visit was on very short notice.