While I haven’t been writing a novel this month for the infamous NaNoWrimo, I have been working on a different and still very interesting (at least, to me) creative project. Astute readers may recall that I dabbled in the creating of a web comic about a year and a half ago. It was an exercise in many ideas, not the least of which was — simply — my interest in creating a web comic. But the effort itself was also very useful in allowing me the chance to burn some serious practice hours on a real project inside of a great little piece of vector graphic software, Inkscape. For those less techie folks who read this blog, I should explain: there are pretty much two [...]
For the entire month of June I’ve been writing a series of blog-a-day posts based on a set series of open-ended questions to myself. This is the LAST of those posts. It’s done! Huzzah! We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming… until next June. June 30th // Something You Want To Share We always seem to be trying to teach kids to share. It’s a mantra: Share! Why aren’t you sharing? You need to share! SHARE! And if they don’t share? Then we force them to share until they remember who is in charge. But then when we unavoidably turn into adults, sharing becomes almost like a bad word (unless it refers to cookies or other tasty carbohydrates) with all sorts of (yes) [...]
Something that I have been working on in the past year to assist in getting my mind around it — and thus assist my evangelizing — has been work on a sort-of broad information taxonomy. To some extent I know there has been work done on this in the past, but nothing I’ve been able to find tries in any concerted way to systematically and strategically break out the aspects of such a classification system and put measure to it, or at least not in a way that is useful to people in my type of job.
That might sound decidedly un-dad-ish, until one realizes that not only were we listening to kid’s music — you know, The Doodlebops, Disney, the Backyardigans, and various other random, upbeat and simplistic songs — but we were listening to kid’s music with the express purpose of compiling a playlist to burn onto a CD for my car. Because, yeah: when she’s in my car, and I’m toting her around somewhere, guess who is picking the tunes. One guess. I’ll give you a hint: it’s not me.
For the entire month of June I’m planning on writing a series of blog-a-day posts based on a set series of open-ended questions to myself. This is one of those posts. June 15th // Something You Are Craving (no further explanation required) A Coconut Macaroon | That Spicy Chili Chicken from the New Asian Village | A Cream Soda Slurpee | Wasabi Peas | Key Lime Sorbet in a Waffle Cone | A Classic Clubhouse Sandwich, Dagwood Style and with Extra Bacon | Fresh Garden Raspberries | A Butterhorn | An Over Easy Fried Egg on a Piece of Brown Toast with Butter | Ginger Beef | Spaghetti with Olive Oil and Fake-y Powdered Parmesan Cheese Sprinkled All Over It | Cream Cheese Icing on [...]
For the entire month of June I’m planning on writing a series of blog-a-day posts based on a set series of open-ended questions to myself. This is one of those posts. June 13th // Something You Are Reading I thought about getting all abstract again with this blog-a-day post, but decided that instead I would narrow my topic down resolutely into the concrete. The thing is that there is a postal strike accelerating into existence at the moment and though I mostly use the postal service for little more than to receive my routine collection of junk mail, there is still one requested thing that gets delivered… and where I’ll be feeling the pinch of reduced (or possibly suspended) mail delivery: magazines. Why? Because despite [...]
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