Ugly Puffer Fish

What the hell is Audible Silence?

Ξ July 30th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Rant |

This is the alarm console in our office building. What the hell is audible silence?

An Analysis of Sonnet 130, by William Shakespeare

Ξ July 21st, 2009 | → 1 Comments | ∇ Old School Papers |

Old School Papers Post Number 1

My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask’d, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.

Of William Shakespeare’s one hundred fifty-four sonnets, his one hundred thirtieth is one of the most intriguing to examine. Written sometime in the mid-1590s, it was published, along with the rest of his sonnets, in 1609. Shakespeare’s collection of sonnets are concerned with four characters: the speaker, a handsome young man, an older woman, and another poet who is a rival of the speaker. In Sonnet 130, the speaker describes the woman that he loves in extremely unflattering terms but claims that he truly loves her, which lends credibility to his claim because even though he does not find her attractive, he still declares his love for her. (more…)

Old School Posts; An Introduction.

Ξ July 21st, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Old School Papers |

Cleaning out hard drives to cram more music onto I stumbled on a cache of school work. I think I still have everything I have ever written from at least 1999. Most of it is terrible, like the following post, but I’m going to post it anyway. One reason is that some desperate undergrad might be able to steal it for a late night save (as long as your professor is useless), and secondly, I’ll give google and you something to look at.

I got a D40

Ξ July 14th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Creative |

Ok, not the greatest of the DSLRs… in fact I think it is the cheapest that Nikon offers, but these are unedited and look pretty good to me. I found this guy sitting outside of my house yesterday. If you know my, you can imagine this was a difficult experience.

Little Staring Frog

Terrifying Monster

Digital Labs Media

Ξ July 5th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Technology |

Ok, so we built a new company. Whatever, taxes get more and more complicated each time, but I still don’t think that anyone really does web design the right way. It’s one of those things that almost anyone could do if they had all the time in the world, or at least some tech know-how to get a content management system and a theme and put in all their text and pictures. Well in my experience, business owners don’t have enough time to work on things like writing their “About Us” page or getting a designer a whole bunch of “Products and Services” to go up on their site. Enter Digital Labs Media. DLM is a web design company in Tampa, FL, that will make all the content for you. Casey will come and take all the photos and interview your employees and scan the samples and whatever else you want up on the web. That stuff will all be crunched up and they’ll professionally write, edit and post your new and beautifully written copy to you now new and equally beautiful website. Check it out if you’re curious – it’s at http://digitallabsmedia.com – so much fun.