One of my personal traditions to get into the Thanksgiving mood is to watch Planes Trains and Automobiles. Although, I’ve seen this movie over a billion times and can recite it word for word…its still entertaining.
Cool thing is that I can stream it at work thanks to this handy dandy link: http://www.novamov.com/video/46igni5s1jt7l
See, this is what I was trying to say earlier in my Indiana Beach 2011 review.
Former workers protest Indiana Beach
Former workers protest Indiana Beach: wlfi.com
MONTICELLO, Ind. (WLFI) – It’s not exactly a silent protest, but former employees of Indiana Beach said they are taking a stand for those that still work and play at the park.
“It’s a sad state that the park is in right now and we want to make that aware to the guests,” said Protest organizer Darrell Price.
Price said he resigned from his job at Indiana Beach on Friday. He said he and other workers are concerned.
“There are possible unsafe conditions because of the way they treat their rides. They can not or will not get the parts to keep the rides open and safe properly,” said Price.
More here: http://www.wlfi.com/dpp/news/local/Former-workers-protest-Indiana-Beach
Brand new DJ Brow website launched!
Just spotted this on DJ Brow’s website:
DJ Brow will be appearing on Sikmixx Radio Friday night June 23rd from 8pm to 10pm.
Not only will DJ Brow be serving up the beats, but he will also be giving away a free website to one lucky viewer.
During the show, DJ Brow will announce a contest sponsored by BrowCo.com and more details and will be provided on how to win the free website.
You don’t want to miss out on this!
Stay tuned and keep it locked on SikmixxRadio.com!
DJ Profile website selling mixes, live video, bio and booking information.
After searching around for awhile, I couldn’t come by any code that I could use to create a clickable background image on a client’s website. What is a clickable background ad? Its really just a huge background image that sits behind all of your content that can be clicked. A good example is to check out any big gamer website or adcamo.com also has some good ones to show for examples.
Sounds easy right? I struggled with this for quite some time and finally figured it out! I even got it to work on a wordpress theme. The trick is using “position” and “z-index” mentions in your css area.
Anyway, your search is over if you are digging around for something that will work…it works, trust me. Who knows, maybe someday I will turn this into a clickable background image wordpress plugin.
Its free to use. I just would appreciate some credit or let me know where you use it. Here’s the code:
CSS CODE
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body
{
overflow: hidden;
}
.bglink
{
position: absolute;
z-index: -1;
top: 0px;
left: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
background: #fff url('http://www.psdgraphics.com/file/green-abstract-background.jpg') center center no-repeat;}
.content
{
position:absolute;
padding: 5px;
background-color:#fff;
color: #000;
width: 960px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
left: 0;
right: 0;
}
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HTML CODE
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<div><a href="http://www.google.com"></a></div><div>Webturd Content Will Goes Here<br>Test Content Webturd Goes Here<br>Test Content <a href="http://www.webturd.com">Webturd</a> Here<br>Test Brow Will Goes Here<br>Test Content <a href="http://www.test.com">Will</a> Goes Here<br>Test <a href="http://www.webturd.com">links work within the overlaying div</a>!<br>Test Content Will Goes Here<br></div>
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My family and I have been coming to Indiana Beach for many years now and each time around, it gets worse. Ever since the new ownership, it seems like the level of care has fizzled out. Our experience this past opening weekend of Indiana Beach 2011 had us reconsider any future visits.
Indiana Beach has been advertising new “multi-million dollar” attractions and improvements. Because of this, we were excited to see what was new with Indiana Beach. One attraction called “Adventure Point” that is supposed to include rock climbing walls and a zip line was nonexistent. What we got to enjoy were several removed rides, construction fences and unattractive muddy areas of nothing. They did have some “Pardon Our Dust” signs posted up but we just had a difficult time understanding why it looked like the project just started on opening day. Maybe sometime in September there will be something to view?
About half the rides were not working. The rides that were working were still covered with the same dust and rust that I recall seeing over 30 years ago when I was a kid. It amazes me to think that these things are still in safe operation. There’s also rumor that the Indiana Beach train derailed with people in it…yeah, scary and I guess that explains why the train wasn’t working and was hiding in a utility shed.
Not only did Indiana Beach look trashed but the employees matched the trend. A majority of the employees seemed to be distant, frustrated and unbathed. We just didn’t seem to get a very good impression from these people with the random glares and toothless frowns.
To add to this hillbilly melting pot, the visiting crowd has also let themselves go. Nothing but loud, poorly dressed, dirty people walking around graciously spreading their body odor into the air. A simple dress code would be nice to see from time to time. Is it not a place for families anymore?
Recently, Indiana Beach operates on a new “Cool Cash” program to where you have to drop your hard earned dollars onto a little card that resembles a credit card. The card has a bar code on it and it gets scanned for everything. Wether its your kid getting on a $2.50 kiddieland ride or playing a rigged skill game on the boardwalk, you have to scan the Cool Cash card. Although we avoided the “new and improved” bathrooms, I wouldn’t be surprised if we had to scan our cards to use a toilet. Reluctantly, we added some Indiana Beach Cool Cash to a card that we still had from last year and headed to the games. We attempted to play our first game of the 2011 Indiana Beach season and was quickly told that Cool Point system wasn’t working yet and they were accepting cash only. Seriously?!
Only about 45 minutes into the 2011 Indiana Beach visit, we’ve had enough. Why put money on a card that we can even use? It only seemed right that we got our cash back so that we could spend something and try to have some kind of fun before we left. We went to the nearest customer service booth where the oldest woman in the world worked accompanied by an ancient version of Jabba the Hutt. We explained the situation and were quickly told…NO REFUNDS. As we stood there in frustration, another fine employee walked in and proceeded to tell us the same thing without evening listening to our situation. He repetitively told us that he there were NO REFUNDS while looking down directly at the floor and avoiding any and all eye contact.
Being stubborn, we went on and tried to make the best of it. We tried to enjoy an ever delicious Elephant Ear with minimal places to sit since the decided to remove all the picnic tables. Because they seemed like the only thing good at the amusement park, we decided to get some to take home to other family members that were smart and stayed home. Surprisingly, the lady that operated the Elephant Ear stand explained that she did not charge us Cool Cash for the first Elephant Ear that we got and wanted to make up for it this time around. She took our Indiana Beach Cool Cash Card and drained it, then told us that we owed $5.00 plus change in cash. Seriously?! Having had a enough, we refused to pay anything more and hoped that she would realize that it was HER mistake. How were we supposed to know how our Cool Cash were doing if all you have to look at is a plastic card? After she fumbled around with numerous little beeps and buttons, she finally did cave in and we walked away in another wave of anger.
Can’t forget about the cotton candy. My daughter loves cotton candy and we noticed that the two elderly women finally fired up the machine in the cotton candy stand. For a long time, it looked like the stand was closed down and not taking orders. After waiting about 10-15 grueling minutes, my daughter finally got her bag of fluffed sugar. The ladies were nice, but they were very slow.
I’ve lived in the same town that Indiana Beach is located for a long time and have always enjoyed visiting. As a teenager, I was even employed at Indiana Beach for a few years. I grew up there. Not that I am struggling to hold on to past memories of Indiana Beach, but its a shame to see the park lose its appeal and nostalgia that it once had. The only thing that kept us there is our innocent 5 year old daughter that was oblivious to the crap that was going on. As I mentioned before, we left angry and don’t plan on going back any time soon.
Indiana Beach 2001 – Not clean. Nothing New. No warm cherry employees. No tickets to win. No fun prizes to win. No fun.
