Here’s what I have been doing all week—aside from work. I have been building my good friend Jayden Soroka’s film production company, 306 Productions a website. So take a look around. It’s based on Chris Pearson’s CopyBlogger theme. I had to make some modifications so that I could have the blog be a child page. Not only did I build this site, but 306 Productions has hired me to be their blogger! I am now a professional blogger!
What I Don’t Understand
Lately, I have been coming to grips with the things that I don’t understand. One of those things is design/anything visual. I suppose it’s not fair to say that don’t understand them. It just takes me a long time/tree ent. I think this blog looks pretty striking; however, you—my regular readers—know how many design incarnations this site went through before I got here.
I know what I like when I see it and through Weblog Collection Tools today (which I browse through everyday) I found a theme that is very, very tempting. I was not previously aware of this gentleman, Robert Ellis but I am glad to be now because he designed a beautiful, minimal theme called Modicus and I think I just might switch. It doesn’t have the bottom-block, but either I don’t need it/I could hack one in. Are you guys enjoying the current theme or is it time for a change? I vote change. I am just not sure I vote for the work invovled.
Back Here Again
Fiddlesticks! I am sad and grumpy again. Maybe I move with the moon and as times goes I move through different cycles—from happy to content to moderate to mediocre to miserable. Well I am miserable. I think I might just go and eat some worms—yum, yum. First, I am tired. I can’t seem to get a good night sleep. Second, I am low and so I listen to the one Radiohead song I have on my computer at work and I just feel lower. Then I listen to the Boss and he’s pretty low too. Seems like everyone might be low. Then I look outside and I go for a walk and it’s beautiful and I wonder how it is that I can feel so low when it’s so beautiful. Well, Matt Good said it best, except for the being high part, well it’s too late tonight / and i’m sure you’re right / so low for how high.
Oh Hey America, I Can’t Make it, Don’t Wait Up
Lately, as I invest myself more and more in the internet, I have become very interested in America. Specifically, I have been interested in San Francisco because it’s the centre of the internet—not literally. I have also think New York would be amazing and since Leah has dual citizenship it would be fairly easy to do. I have also been realizing, not in an attempt to define myself, but coming to terms with, how different Americans truly are. I just finished watching SiCKO, Michael Moore’s new film on health care.
Still Reading Vonnegut
I am starting to wonder if I am a Tree Ent. You know those trees from LOTR. Everything I do takes a long time. Well, I am still reading Kurt Vonnegut’s Deadeye Dick. I am not convinced that I will finish it soon. Here is a great quote:
[Eleanor Roosevelt] said that there would be a wonderful new world when the war was won. Everybody who needed food or medicine would get it, and people could say anything they wanted, and could choose any religion that appealed to them. Leaders wouldn’t dare to be unjust anymore, since all the other countries would gang up on them. For this reason, there could never be another Hitler. He would be squashed like a bug before he got very far.
Sorry Rwanda, Darfur and so many others…
Knowing Your Wife
Over the last—let’s just say—two years I have gotten to know Leah pretty well and vice versa. But, I learned something really interesting this weekend. There is a variety of things that I know about Leah through osmosis. Friday, after a looong week, we went for ice cream. She asked me, Do you know what my favourite ice cream flavour is? And I was thinking, crap, this is one of those prove my love moments and if I don’t know I am totally screwed. So I thought about it.