Archive for the ‘quickie’ Category

Minute Photographic

Earlier this week Gordon Ryan (who needs to do something about his naked-ass site) and I discussed daily photo blogs. A short search for a backend, and a few days later evilskull.com has been pressed back into service.

While I’ve got some template and .htaccess tweaking to do, the provided “Horizon” template suits my needs and [...]

A word about ska bands

In the last month I’ve been to two ska-punk shows with all-or-almost-all-cracker ska bands opening up, and one thing is abundantly clear to me:

There is a reason people say that white folks have no soul.

I’ve realized that generally these cracker bands play ska too fast, too clean, and too mechanically. They’re almost always lacking any [...]

Yule time soundtrack

My favorite thing about Christmas is that it’s perfectly (un)acceptable to crank The Vandals record “Oi to The World” all day at work.

When you want to mix it up a little, the No Doubt cover of “Oi to The World” will also suffice for a quick interlude.

Sad Cog

This makes me extra sad in light of the fact that Ozh just tore this down as “Do Not Want” in his history of the WordPress admin interface.

I didn’t mind that administration design at all, finding it much more usable than the one that existed before it. I’m told that nowadays that means I have [...]

Christopher Moore…

is a palette cleanser; I can grind through one of his novels in about 5 hours, it’s light on the mind, and doesn’t require much deep thought. It occasionally elicits a comfortable chuckle and doesn’t leave any sort of controversial aftertaste.

His work is the literary equivalent of a light flan or sorbet served between courses: [...]