I need to learn web design. Now.

And what, you ask, prompted this revelation?

Why, elementary, my dear friends. It was the realization that every site on Staten Island cultural/historical things has really, really, really shitty design. Gratuitous flash. Words that go over pictures (or under them). Browser-breaking pages. No information on how to volunteer, which, really, would've been appreciated, thank you.

I need to learn some basic code skills so I can go over to those various places and bash them over the head with my l337ness until they let me redesign their really badly designed pages. There's just no excuse for some of this...!

This all started because the other day, when I was at the children's museum (which badly needs some renovations in the best parts - anybody wanting to donate money to anything for my birthday would be reccommended to send it towards Snug Harbor, particularly the SICM), I heard a CD playing. It featured a song about John A. Noble, who apparently, aside from creating Snug Harbor, had quite an interesting life. He's the best-known artist you've never heard of, something like that :)

Anyway, it had a nice melody, and I was trying to find it online, but I couldn't. I'll have to just ask them at the desk next time I'm over there, probably tomorrow. While I was looking online, I found a host of other things which... my eyes will never recover.

Edit: In more prosaic errors, there is simply no excuse for answering a question like "How do I volunteer at Snug Harbor?" with the following:

Volunteer opportunities at Snug Harbor include:

* Gift ShopSales
* Site Tour Guides
* Special Events, Performance Ushers
* Administrative Office Work.
* Help serve your community in a friendly, arts-filled environment.

There's no information on how you get a job volunteering there, which, I think, was the pertinant part of the question. There are no clearly visible links saying "CLICK HERE TO VOLUNTEER!", either. As far as I know, you have to show up at Snug Harbor, wander around until you find a building, and ask at the desk. And since the buildings may not actually be part of Snug Harbor proper, you might end up having to repeat this procedure. Bad answer! Bad! No cookie!

Thoughts on polyjuice...

So, we know that polyjuice changes you more than just superficially - Crabbe and Goyle became girls (hee), Harry's eyesight improved....

Question: What happens if you polyjuice into the form of somebody who has a fatal form of, say, cancer, and you stay in that form for a while? Will the cancer progress in you and kill you? What if it was something like diabetes, and you didn't know? Could you die that way?

Question: What if *you* have cancer (or whatever)? Can you polyjuice into somebody else's shape, and just stay there forever? Would the disease come with you into this new form?

Question: If the polyjuiced person is sick when you take the sample, sick with something not part of the body, something contagious, can you pick up the disease while in their polyjuiced form, and spend an hour coughing? Can you get sick in your own form that way?

Question: What if you use an old sample to polyjuice? One from a decade ago? Would you polyjuice into the form the person was then?

Question: If that's so, couldn't that be used to extend your lifespan? You could polyjuice into your younger self, so long as you had enough samples, couldn't you?

Question: When the fakemoody polyjuiced into Moody, he lost a leg, which then regrew after the polyjuice potion wore off. What if he'd lost a limb while polyjuiced? Would that remain lost in his real form?