I have come to the conclusion that all available wordpress plugins that use native WP galleries … suck. And I’ll have to roll my own at some point. Something that A) actually uses the description text and b) obeys max media resolution settings. Done something similar to that 2 or 3 times (using a modified slimbox.js) — just never for WP.
I was half-listening to Stargate SG-1 on hulu while working earlier and it occurred to me how useful their show title actually was. The name of the show itself, the name of the most prominent object in the show AND the whole overarching government program the main characters are involved with has the name stargate in it.
This presents the opportunity for a lead character to mention a stargate trifecta (consisting of alternate realty, alternate dimension and time travel), on one hand referring to events occurring in-story, while surreptitiously breaking the third wall and humorously referencing the series itself.
This is not something that could be done easily (or with any regularity) in properties such as Star Trek or Star Wars. For obvious reasons.
Strange it is that there does not seem to be (at least according to the search engines) a formalized type of art one might call “Deconstructionist Poetry”. By that I mean I was talking to someone (to be precise, my wife) about poetry and deconstructionism when I started wondering about the two.
You would think that after all this time has passed since it’s conception that people would by now be constructing poems which, of themselves originally, may have not had any real meaning, but were built with fertile imagery and cross-movement style sufficient enough that random passing readers would find some deep hidden meaning in them. That said meaning was not the foundation of the poem and only a shaped reflection of the readers own searchings being the point of course.
But there seems very little available in this regard.
Strange…
So I installed a new blog system today (while putting up a temporary forums for happy place games). Will import some old content as I have the time, and start mulling over new things as they occur to me….
This should be fun. Should have done this years ago.
(And FYI, yes, tennesseefolk.com is my domain. Basically the wife and I are using it to host various misc personal/community related items these days.)
I want one! Yes, I know. The 
are supposed to be children’s laptop, given out by the millions to kids around the world for education purposes, but I still want one. Or two.
They’re just so very cool.
I plugged Cynthia’s Wacom tablet into my mac and started scribbling a bit. They’re fun to play with once you get use to the pressure sensitivity. I’m thinking about making this the new logo for citizen j. Whadda think? :-)
I’m now going to talk about my fish… Some more. Hey. Come back. …
This is “Koo”. He’s a red Betta. His name comes from the classic Russian science fiction film http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kin-dza-dza!. (As to what the word “koo” actually means … well, that’s a long story. And it would rather much ruin the film if I just told you.)
His tank-mate (Scrubby) is a scared orange bottom feeder that mostly hides in his hollowed out coconut I gave him. (From which he stares at me with one eye day and night and day … and night … It gets creepy after a while.)
That was a strange photo of me (I said to myself) when I saw it. I look like I’m possessed … or have just seen Jesus or .. something.
(I’m actually just looking across the road up into a cave out front of our local artisans/hillbilly-potters.)
We stopped by to visit my cousin Bill Cannon while we were down in Florida earlier in the year. He’d just recently moved down there with his family after being up in Chicago (brr) for the last few years. Rarely see him these days.
We went out of our way (by several hundred miles) to try to catch the Pluto Express as it was launched from Kennedy. No luck though. Delays. Naturally of course, as these things will always happen, it finally got off the ground just about the time we pulled out on the road heading back to Tennessee. :)
