Check out the dazzling “Rotating Snakes” here. Then read about why we experience this illusion here.
Room 34 Online Store Now Open!
At long last, the Room 34 Online Store is open for business!
The main featured product is my CD of original music recorded from January to October 2003. I also have some t-shirts featuring the CD’s artwork, and some other random stuff you may find interesting… or not. But you’ll never know for sure unless you check it out!
Refresh the Page. Twice.
Although the tan-on-brown color scheme was… er… unique, and crisp to read on an LCD screen (which is all I own), I got tired of how smudgy and illegible it appeared on the ultra-X-treem high resolution CRT I use at work. (Uh… I mean… not that I… uh…)
So it was that I changed the color scheme of the site. But most browsers (at least Firefox, which is what I use) keep the CSS and image files cached more persistently than page content, so on first glance the pages here come off with the same circa 1978 color palette as before, just with a white page background instead of black.
If that’s what you’re seeing, for the love of Jehosephat* refresh the page now!
OK. Now I know what you’re seeing (at least if you’re using Firefox). This time around everything’s blue… except a little less than halfway across, the header graphic changes from blue to the old orange scheme. Ack! Refresh again!
Ah… that’s the stuff.
If it still looks like crap, maybe it’s your browser. You might need to actually clear the cache or something. Just don’t blame me. I already told you to use Firefox.
* Side note re: Jehosephat. What little I know about biblical King Jehosephat comes from hearing the phrase “jumpin’ Jehosephat” in passing, and the few minutes of Googling I did right after I posted this. (After all, I figured if I was enticing my reader [sic] with the love of Jehosephat as a reward for doing as I command, then perhaps I should know whether or not said love is desirable.)
From what I gather, King J. was a respectable fellow. For more on the matter, I direct you to the very Google search I myself undertook. But beware… as is often the case in life, that road is fraught with peril… and completely impertinent links. Seems the king himself is not exactly a hot topic around the virtual water cooler. Oh well… off you go!
It Just Got Even Cooler to Be a Retro Geek
This is supremely geeky and (not coincidentally) I love it!
http://www.wayoftherodent.com/gd101/bs_paperarcade.htm
What is it? Why, it’s a set of templates for you to make… well… I guess it’s kind of an arcade diorama… sort of… thing.
Whatever. It’s cool, dammit!
How Do You Pronounce It?
I usually try to avoid watching George W. Bush on TV. I have enough stress in my life. But I happened to catch a few moments of his speech last night, including that unbelievable… almost Shatneresque… panic-stricken pause in the middle of “Abu Ghraib.”
The Nation‘s Matt Bivens captures the moment far better than I ever could: