Wednesday, July 13, 2005
Job Woes
Okay, so I’m sitting here laying out a brochure and I have a problem: too much information, too few pages. If I extend to another page, I’ll have a page with barely any information on it at all, if I don’t, I’ll have a page that’s inconsistent with the rest of the layout.
I planned it carefully. I planned the typefaces, the sizes, the colors, the placement and size of the elements, and the amount of information that I have to place--and somewhere I screwed up. Not a lot, mind you, just enough to leave quite literally two lines dangling to a new page.
Argh. I am choking back the profanity right now.
While I regroup, I’m looking at RSong, going from the bottom up, and marveling at the inconsistency in style, topic, and seriousness on the site. You might go to Steve for his insightful commentary. You might go to Jeff for his biting wit and his insightful commentary. But you come here for my meandering voice (and apparent, mild mental instability).
There’s something kind of nice about that.
I mean, it goes from the Evil Genius post, a couple posts on the London terrorist bombings, my happiness at Brent J. Brent’s lengthy prison sentence, one-and-a-half sentences about how much I love Adobe InDesign , proper pronunciation of Sinn Fein, sleepiness, a word that I hate, Count Dante, 7 Seconds, “Gory, Gory, What a Hell of a Way to Die” (AKA, “Blood in the Risers"), The Bad News Bears, the gunblogger meeting, the question of armed rebellion, DC Comics, Mark Lanegan, and a couple of links.
And that’s just a few days of my messy head spilling out in pixels on the screen. The site moves in mysterious ways. Frivolous, frivolous, goofy, frivolous, obscure--hey, when is it okay to have an armed revolution, anyway--frivolous…
It leaves me wondering why y’all drop by. Not that I’m complaining, because there are some interesting conversations going on (specifically in the revolution and the gun rights posts).
So, thanks for continuing to come by. Thanks for occasionally linking. Thanks, most, for commenting and keeping it all interesting. And, uh, hey, sorry about the wandering path.

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"ResurrectionSong: Scenic Detour off the Information Superhighway”
I was thinking about a site redesign. You might have just given me the spark that I need.
Thanks, McGehee.
...now that you mention it, it makes me now wonder why I stop by.
It must be so I can deliver one-liners like that.
Don’t think of it as inconsitency, think of it as eclecticism.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m here for the free beer and hookers.
There are way, way too many one-note blogs in the world. This is not one of them. I like that.
I like the meandering paths in life, Z. Where else can I be called a loudmouth and it is a compliment?
Y’all say the nicest things.
Thanks, McGehee.
That’s what smart-ass friends are for.