a new look for fall
Tonight I decided to update Beyond Metamora to the latest version of WordPress and rearrange the site to look like a more conventional– well, more like a blog, basically.
It bums me out in one sense, but in other ways inspires me. I’m going to miss the homemade sharpie-marker design that I made in 2006, but I’m hitting a point where I need this site to be a more purely text-based & utility-rich medium. Maybe the next time I revamp the site I’ll figure out a way to combine the two styles and get my Sharpie warpaint back.
Right now, though, I just need a place to easily decompress some arbitrary text out of my brainpan. Lately the ideas have been piling up in my mind & on loose scraps scattered around my apartment without any easy place to put them. My main aim with this rebuild is to clear out the clutter and get more of those thoughts & schemes out into the light of day.
a late summer pseudosummary
It seems I’ve fallen into a once-monthly update schedule for this. That suits me fine.
How are things? Outstanding. Those of you who’ve known me for any length of time know that I’m running out of …
Projects for July
So I’m back from a week’s vacation. Had a wonderful time. Drank a lot of good beer, hugged a lot of fun people I hadn’t seen in months or years (or ever), ate a lot of too-rich food, climbed some amazing dunes, and …
Skype-me Friday
I am quite pleased tonight, all-over pleased, yes I am. For almost two years now, ever since I moved back to Bellingham, I’ve been WiFi freeloading on the networks of generous neighbors and local latte-slingers. The hipster ‘net. Tonight, I am back on the serious internet. The copper-wired, 7Mbps, streaming-video-in-HD big kids internet. …
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a summer brewing
Lots of interesting things happening. I keep saying I’m going to sit down one night and write a proper post, but it’s gotten to where there’s a half-dozen disparate things that I want to talk about all at once.
Maybe it’d be better to just upend the whole box and let you all fit the pieces together. …
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