Entries from October 2007
Art’s New Direction
Society as a whole, and art in particular, have gone through some major frame-of-reference changes over the last couple of millennia. Not to get into too much detail, our roots are in a premodern viewpoint, which basically takes the stance that the divine is directly responsible for everything that is currently unexplained. This proceeded, a [...]
The Refrigerator Incident
This weekend was one of those wonderful, extended weekends where everyone has Monday off. My wife and I therefore decided to host a cookout Monday here at our new home. Folks started showing up at about 2 in the afternoon, and stayed until about 2 in the morning. A wonderful day! When mealtime came, everyone [...]
My Favorite Website Platform
There are more websites than ever out there in the vast realm of the internet. Everyone seems to have a website, from the largest companies in the world to the smallest and most eccentric communities built around the weirdest interests you can imagine. Most websites are built for one purpose: to communicate information. Every other [...]
Freebie: Desktop Background
I did this in Photoshop at about 7:15 AM this Saturday. My wife loves it, and she suggested I put it up on the site for everyone to download and use as they see fit. This is currently the desktop background on my Mac, and as such it’s sized appropriately (1680×1050). If you want to [...]
Traffic Court
I’ve never been to traffic court before. However, I recently had the joy to be able to spend a large part of one of my days there. I got a ticket for an expired tag about a month ago (on a holiday, of course). Generally, I’ll just pay the ticket and be done with it, [...]
