/photo/Ometepe | 30 Jun, 2004 | 3 comments

So, it’s been an inexplicably and gruelingly long process, but I have finished labeling, cropping, and HTML-ifying my photos from the island of Ometepe in Nicaragua. I shall leave the back-story of the trip a mystery to those who are not RL-beings, most of whom are probably well-acquainted with it. So, sit down, shut up, and, as if you were staring into the spectral, vicious eyes of the concept of a vacation slide show narrated by a logorrheic aunt, attempt to resist a blood-curdling yelp and a dash for the door.

It ought to be noted at this point that Wikipedia doesn’t have an article on Ometepe as of this writing, and it’s even unlabeled on the map of Nicaragua there. The frustrating thing is that, because of the nature of the wiki, I have no one to blame but myself.

Anyway, processing each individual image took a huge amount of time off and on since I returned from my trip in early April. Transforming the images into a gallery took about six or seven hours today and very heavy and mind-bending use of regular expressions. Absurdly over-deserved hails and thanks are due to TheCodingMonkeys for implementing regex search-and-replace into the latest version of SubEthaEdit. Despite the collaborative effort of SEE and myself, the gallery is quite ugly and definitely not standards-compliant so I’ve placed it on its own page, so as not to clutter the order that I like to believe blesses this blog.

You didn’t want statistics, but I’ll relate them to you anyway. Three hundred two photographs were imported from my camera and 214 remained after careful inspection. The index page itself weighs in at a hefty 74.6kB. The thumbnails on that page total 1.8MB and the 214 full-size images make up 29MB of data. This puts me 31MB over my storage limit of 50MB on my host, but they don’t seem to be too protective/attentive regarding quotas. We’ll see if they notice. On the off chance that they do, does anyone have a suggestion regarding a good place to host this blob of useless bytes?

With no further ado, I present to you an emotionally self-therapeutic but generally misanthropic overdose of media and information.

comments
» Re: Ometepe by Rob O on Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:40 (reply)
Wonderful pictures, thanks for devoting all the hard work for all of us to see the wonderful life of Ometepe.
» Re: Ometepe by Ben on Mon, 12 Jul 2004 00:28 (reply)
Thanks Adrain for posting pictures, I'm glad I got to see them. That house you stayed at looked pretty nice, at least by Tijuana standards. I may just have to go on this trip next year, despite my obvious lack of knowledge in the spanish department.
» Re: Re: Ometepe by Adrian Sampson on Mon, 12 Jul 2004 01:44 (reply)
It's true that it was a pretty nice house. There were much better houses in the larger towns, and one or two better in Urbaite (my town), but that was classy compared to a good many of them. Skadi's house, I think, had a completely dirt floor and much less solid-looking walls. Many other houses had floors, but the tile work seems a bit classy for the town. It may have had something to do with my mother's position as headmistress.