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Category: Personal

  • @: How to be Creative

    Found a great post: How to be Creative (via Steve Olsen)

  • Am I Entertained Yet?

    I don’t think it’s too controversial to suggest that one of the main problems with our society here in the US is that the population is far too well entertained to care much about politics. Yet for someone who is quick to level that judgement on everyone else, I sure have a hell of a…

  • Just Do It Anyways.

    Read this today, it’s connected to the way my point of view has been evolving lately. There’s also a nice bridge here between “the nature of things” part of it all and the “why are we in this predicament” view of society at large. I’d been thinking mostly about the first half recently: it’s in…

  • Moved several posts to Private

    I just moved a number of posts here to “private” status, just to make sure I don’t cause any stupid issues for myself. Pretty lame, but I’m shy anyhow so I hardly needed the excuse.

  • Theme editing

    The current theme, Gray gets Green by Fred Banuelos, started with this image up top, which is gorgeous: I hope it’s not too plagiarist to steal the idea and colors and rebuild it with my own imagery. I decided a Chicago skyline would give it a nice local touch, and this resulted: I think it…

  • Chef Jeff

    I’ve been cooking like never before during the year 2006. That’s a relative measurement, but I’ve also gone out for awesome brunch/breakfast more than any other year to date. Today I made that expense irrelevant by cooking up this masterpiece: Breakfast potatoes have always been one of my favorite dishes, due to growing up eating…

  • Hello world!

    I got WordPress going apparently, so I now have a respectable blogging engine. Now then for something to say …