December 14, 2007 at 1:32 am · Filed under Art Freak Culture
Every year, the townsfolk of Arkham decorate their yule trees with Flying Spaghetti Monsters and Cthuthlu. What you didn’t know that the Flying Spaghetti Monster and Cthulhu were part of Christmas!?!
Everyone should know the tale of the Great Arkham Christmas Tree Disappearance! Here it is as imparted to me by my great uncle Sir Colin Arbuthnot…
It was a cold and blistery morning in Arkham. The snow was almost gray and it whipped through the streets like angry ghosts blown by a wind so fierce it felt like the houses couldn’t stand much more. That morning every citizen in Arkham awoke to an emptiness where their joyful Christmas tree should have been. If it had just been one family’s tree it would have been sad, if their neighbor’s trees were gone too it would have been tragic, but it was not just one tree or a dozen trees, every single christmas tree in Arkham was missing—and that is enough to chill any man or woman to the bone!
Even more horrifying was what the town residents didn’t know. All the trees had been stolen in the middle of the night by members of an insane cult. The cult members snuck into every home in Arkham and hauled the trees to their secret lair. The trees and the joy they contained were set to be burned in a great bonfire in order to call forth their great god Cthulhu.
Then with the stars shining down, as the cultists began thier great rite, a great tentacled mass came swooping down from the Heavens. It was the Flying Spaghetti Monster! And he was here to save the day! The tentacles whipped out and snatched each and every evil cultist before they could run away. Pirates then came out of nowhere, chained the cultists in leg irons and carted them off.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster wasn’t done however for Arkham’s homes were still missing their trees. So with just the flick of a spaghetti tentacle, a tree materialized in every home in Arkham, and every tree was even bigger and more beautiful than before!
You too can decorate your yule tree like the townsfolk in Arkham! NifNaks makes Traditional wool Flying Spaghetti Monsters and Chuthlu Ornaments.
August 16, 2007 at 3:32 pm · Filed under Blogging about blogging
TUAW has posted about the iPhone/Gmail/IMAP email hybrid setup tutorial I created. And now the internet horde has come making my earlier site stats look laughable.
As all you new here may notice, I commit the number one sin of blogging by not focusing on any one topic. My interests are eclectic ranging from web design, neuroscience and psychology, online health care, art, cultural commentary, politics, and the artist freak scene here in San Francisco. If I had all the time in the world, I could probably produce enough content to support a blog about each of these topics.
Instead of spreading myself thin and risking blog abandonment, I write this one single blog and write detailed and researched posts about whatever is motivating me at the moment. Some of my favorite and well received posts include:
I hope you find the iPhone email tutorial useful. I don’t run ads here or have a donation button By request of one of my visitors, I’ve now added a PayPal Tip Jar to my blog over in the right hand sidebar under my photo. It did take me a bit of effort to figure all this out and write it up. And I’ve been busier then I expected answering everyone’s questions, so if you find this useful toss a couple bucks in so I can buy myself a drink or something!
Thanks!
Colin
p.s. You can also say thanks by sashaying over to my partner’s site, NifNaks, and checking out her adorable handmade wool dreads, wool critters, accessories — my favorite being the Flying Spaghetti Monster pin. Both her and I have poured a lot of time and love into NifNaks and would appreciate the company over there as well.
August 10, 2007 at 12:55 am · Filed under Design & Web Geekery
Been a bit dry here lately as I’ve been busy busy revamping NifNaks. My revision 2 design was cute but the navigation just wasn’t flexible enough. Also I had been struggling with a couple of issues with CubeCart, my ecommerce engine, for a while.
So I decided to take a leap and try revamping the entire backend with Joomla/Virtuemart. Thankfully this leap paid off in spades. It was still a lot of work, with a couple late late nights, but it all pulled together faster than I thought, and I gotta say I like the admin of Joomla way better than CubeCart. There were a couple struggles getting the credit card processing working and couple other things, but I got most of it fixed.
With just a little fanfare, I happily announce the…
It works, it’s got products, it accepts credit cards, and I’m happy with the design. Yay!
Still to do: transfer over all the old blog content and set up url redirects; help Nifer add more products; fix those little picayune things that still bother me aesthetically.
