Our first stop on the road trip was Sophia’s Dad’s house in Santa Fe, or rather, a little bit outside of town? We were completely exhausted, but managed to make it there in one piece, and then in the morning, we had just one of the best meals you can have anywhere: a breakfast burrito from The Pantry, in Santa Fe. Alice, a friend of Sohpie’s from elementary school, joined us, and we had an interesting discussion about the mediated realities we see online. Maybe you had to be there.
{insert cliche here about feeding bodies, feeding minds that I don’t have the energy for because it’s 2am}
Meow Wolf is an art installation, but it’s also a story told as a house and a music venue and tourist trap? and also really weird. Just bananas. If the gift shop stocked more XL stuff, I’d have at least one new hoodie, and probably a t-shirt, but oh well. If you get a chance, go. It’s worth an afternoon to get the experience. I’m actually also looking forward to revisiting to check out all the detail, which I’ll be doing next time I pass through. Just lavish amounts of attention paid to story and character of all these objects and rooms.
After Santa Fe, we got a good night’s sleep (which we needed, still really tired from the 18 hour day on the road the day before) and had a milk run getting into OKC the following evening.
not to bore you with technical details, but I’m putting this here so I can remember as much as anything else: Why am I wrapping all the images in headline (H1) tags?
funny story: Markdown, which is sort of a shorthand-HTML language, has what we in the business call “significant line breaks,” which means that when you press the enter key, it does stuff. It also makes assumptions about block elements versus inline elements that aren’t, like, 100% true, but that play into this. The long and the short of it is that if you have image tags all by their lonesome, Markdown assumes they need to be part of a block element, and wraps them in a <p> tag.
Now, this would be fine if I wanted my paragraphs and my pictures to have the same style, but I do not. Paragraphs should be narrow for readability, and pictures should be big, for the same reasons (also cf. Shelah Wilson, one of my college profs, “More is More”). So, a workaround that took me years to figure out, that you can have for free: wrap your images in H1 tags, like so: # [alt text](image url here). Headlines are block elements. H1 is one I almost never use, and I can avoid it and scale H2, H3, etc to fit my needs. So I’ll probably never style it.
So there: today’s tip in working around the limitations of Markdown.
