Category: Spectre Collie
Pangrammer, or, Zeke Just Bought the Quietest Pixies CDs for His Family in West Virginia
A new time-wasting web toy for no good reason
Spooktober Recap and No-Theme November and Onwards
Saying goodbye to Spooktober until next year, and admitting what I really got out of it.
Test commencing
WordPress released their new free iPhone client today, and I’m trying it out with a photo of my desk. Initial observation: writing HTML on a cell phone is not fun. (But I’m pretty sure that’s not the point of the thing.)
Experimentation
Anybody who’s been reading this blog for a while knows two things: Every year or so, I try to redesign everything. It always ends up being a ridiculously laborious process and it always ends badly. I guess there’s also 3. I need to get out more. This most recent time, I decided I wanted to…
Week of Lies
In a two-weeks-late but no less well-intentioned gesture of appreciation to Kurt Vonnegut, I’m stealing an idea for another wildly popular (by me) theme week for this website. In the awesome book Galapagos (which is about natural selection), Vonnegut marked characters who were about to die with an asterisk after their name. Since I don’t…
Me gusta la semana del tema
The week of porn spam post titles was such an unprecedented success, I think I’ll keep up the theme weeks forever or until I get tired of it. This week is Stuff I Like Week. Or, if like me, you’ve taken one quarter of Spanish 101: La Semana de las cosas que me gusta. Believe…
Deep penetration
I got a pleasant surprise when I logged in to delete today’s bunch of comment spam. There was a new incoming link to this blog! It’s cool for two reasons: first, because I just got finished writing about my shallow epiphany about the wonders of the internets and hyperlinking and the glorious potential of sharing,…
