David Shanske

My day job is in training for an airline. I also develop Indieweb WordPress plugins so that others can take control of their online identity.

Did a lot of little changes to the plugins and theme that run my site as part of a bigger goal to move the main feed of my site off the main page. That included adding links to the various feeds, and fiddling with the h-card/bio. Curious what people think. I don’t think I’m done by a long shot, but it is a much cleaner site than before. I have a few more things planned.
I decided to work on my website theme for a bit.  In order to support it, today I shipped(with a minor bug, sorry), a new Indieweb plugin that adds the ability to add the rel-me links inside the h-card widget instead of by themselves. I’m now using it. In my theme, I added support for a dedicated h-card page. I’ll be turning it on on my site likely in future as I experiment with moving my feed off of my main page.

Parkeology Challenge November 2018

On Wednesday, November 28th, I participated in the Parkeology Challenge. It is a marathon of sorts where you try to ride every ride at Walt Disney World in a single day. That is 4 different parks, and 49 rides…although only 46 were in the challenge this week due long-term closures. You can only use things available to the average guest.

In order for the people who run Parkeology to certify the results, you have to provide a Twitter record of same. That was handled by one of my four teammates, but I kept a recording on my site of all of the locations I was in. This would be my timeline for the day. The pictures are backed up from the original challenge.

To see the individual posts, you can click here.

It was a day I can honestly say I will not soon forget.

Challengers Meetup at end of Night

Parkeology Challenge 2018 in Brief

“To all the awesome teams that ran the @Parkeology today we offer a huge congratulations! It was freezing, rides broke down, hours were lost and you still crushed it! Thanks, we look forward to seeing you again soon!” via Twitter.

A few facts

  •  The Park Operating Hours for the Day Determines Difficulty. Less than 18 hours is considered Expert.
  • The last completion of the challenge was August 18th, though there have been many attempts since.
  • Over 39,000 steps
  • Over 17 miles of walking
  • The numbers above are based on my phone. My watch actually has a higher number.
  • There were 10 teams competing that day. Only one other team had 4 people on it.
  • The range of completed rides were 11-42. The other 4 person team got 42.
  • 6 Teams Completed the 3 Parks We Did. It seems like a lot of people were looking to complete on that day, which is a rarity.