Sawn in half
I wasn't sure where to put this but it's just a fun little test, see the same image is on both sides, I just used the clip property to make it look sawn in half! Why? Well it seemed like a good idea at the time. The only problem is finding random filler text. But after messing around some more oh boy. So you're probably thinking yeah that's neat BUT what if the text was aligned with the edges of the images? And you'd be right, that would be super cool. BUT. FKN CSS. You have to use FLOAT to do that and so it'll align with the LEFT edge just fine BUT BUT the right image falls down. Oh and also anything content below will have the images floating on top of them.
Border image test
So yeah I'm looking at this wall of text but I need examples then explanation. I bounced off that a couple of times already! It's not as simple as the bathroom tile I was imagining. I mean back in 2005 we had to learn about slices but I abandoned that ancient stuff ages ago lol. But it's like messing around with spritesheets in Godot and such. Once I found the core components the basics are fairly simple. You can even resize like any image by setting border-image-width. However I can see it really depends on the image used. Also it turns out you can use this generator to help.
1979 title here
Ten years ago a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem and no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-team.
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Chocolate chip cookies
This is a basic recipe, just cut in half for bachelors.
- 1 1/3 cup of flour, about 10 ounces
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
Whisk all these together in one bowl. If you are prone to spilling salt, pour it into the spoon over the measuring cup you used for the flour, instead of the bowl!
- 3/4 cup brown sugar, about 4 ounces
- 1/2 cup of butter, or one stick (or can use Crisco)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 egg
I normally soften the butter in the microwave to help blend it in. (Also, a spare bowl or measuring cup to drop the egg into to inspect for shell pieces is handy.) Once all the wet is mixed well, start adding in the dry, until it gets consistent, and add in a cup of chocolate chips.
Variation I call Goth cookies: add 3 tablespoons of cocoa powder and a teaspoon of water to the wet, and substitute white chocolate chips.
Some people are patient enough to chill the dough in the fridge but I keep the flour in the freezer so it's chilly enough for me to be impatient.
This is enough to fill two baking sheets that are about ten by fifteen inches, which is what fills one rack of my oven. I tend to make them smallish so they are more bite sized but giant is good too. Bake 8-9 minutes at 350F (at least in my oven, vary as needed) and let cool a minute before sliding onto cooling rack (and eating all the bits that fall off)