Sun, Jan 22, 2012 – 21:00
A couple of my projects have gone live now! Snackstick.com, for which I set the design style, is live. Kerstin did all the implementation and a lot of the refining of the design, and we both worked on rewriting their copy text to be a little more marketing-oriented and a little less home-grown. I like [...]
Tue, Dec 27, 2011 – 17:21
It was lately Christmas, as you may have noticed. My parents are back from sabbatical in Eugene, Oregon, and we celebrated the holiday nicely together with delicious food and so on. I went to some nice parties for friends and coworkers, and we all went to the UU church’s Christmas Eve service, which was very [...]
Sun, Dec 11, 2011 – 20:34
I went up to New Hampshire over the weekend to visit my grandparents with my dad. We had a good time with them. My grandfather did some wandering though the forest with us, and we kept my grandmother company in her nice chair by the fireplace. It was quite a nice visit. They have a [...]
With the holiday season, I haven’t gotten around to writing about my activities in a timely manner. I had Thanksgiving with my best friend’s family and friends, which was a really fun time. We played some games, watched some football, and of course ate lots of delicious food. Accuraty also had a holiday LAN party, [...]
We got an assignment at work in October to make a new website for the Illinois Green Business Association, which went live just last week. I was excited to be assigned to this since I’m interested in working with more humanitarian projects through work, and since they’re young energetic professionals who were willing to listen [...]
Mon, Nov 21, 2011 – 20:03
For about a month now I’ve been playing this ASCII game called Dwarf Fortress. I realize that I’m late to the game, and most people have already tired of playing it. The game takes me back to the days of playing Oregon Trail on the public library computers in the 90s. Except with a worse [...]
Sat, Nov 12, 2011 – 20:06
Last night I went to see the opera Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart at Krannert. It was by the U of I school of opera (most of the performers seemed to be masters’ students), with a pit of what I assume were also U of I music students. I thought they all did [...]
A while ago I set up a WordPress theme for Peggy’s mom, Catherine Schmidt-Jones, who is working on a music Ph.D. As part of her degree she’s been continuing her music education outreach that she’s been doing on Connexions by running a blog, Opening Measures, as a forum to discuss issues in music and open [...]
Mon, Oct 31, 2011 – 17:22
More pictures from my photo trip with my dad, this time in black-and-white. We’ve both been trying to get better at the technique, I understand that it’s supposed to build your appreciation for contrasting brightnesses in your photography compositions. Seems appropriate for Halloween!
Sat, Oct 29, 2011 – 18:17
Some weeks ago, my dad and I took a trip out to Kaufmann Lake on a misty autumn morning, and wandered around with my camera. Here are some of the photos. We took a lot of blurry ones of spiderwebs covered in dew… I didn’t turn up the saturation on this one, it came out [...]
