Here’s some art I made for a shirt art contest.

I googled “tentacles” in Google image search to get ideas.  Then I immediately modified my search query to “tentacles -porn.”  Oh Internet, don’t ever change.

When we moved in in May:

Now:

This stuff’s been there about a month and none of it’s dead yet.  I’m shocked.

Edited to add: I resized these after adding the text, and didn’t mean for one word to be bigger than the other.  Infuriating.

So I’m thinking about renting this house, which has lots of things our current residence does not – for example:

Trees!  Concrete instead of dirt!  Sunlight!

Grass!  Fences!  Heat that (probably) works!  A backyard instead of a wall o’ dirt!

A dishwasher!  Cabinets!  A countertop!  Some realtor’s purse!  Windows in the kitchen!

A basement!  Fireplace! (or a.k.a.) Alternate heat source if (when) the heat stops working!

And get this, internet … it’s got windows in it!

All this plus lots! of other stuff! that our current house doesn’t!

!!!!

This is officially the most pathetic targeted Facebook ad, topping the “Jonas Brothers Concert Experience” I saw a couple weeks ago (I was very disappointed when I found out that was a real thing, because it would have been a hilarious joke).

There are like 90 things wrong with this, but I’ll just address a couple.

ONE> “I love you enough to tattoo you on my facebook profile … but not my arm.”

TWO> Why is it underscored with those tribal tramp-stamp-esque lines?  … Is this a tramp stamp for your facebook?  If so, it should be advertised as such, which would be much more entertaining.

THREE> Facebook, please stop ad-targeting me based on my relationship status.  Not all married people have babies, want an album of their wedding photos, or love each other.  The word “zombies” is mentioned on my profile at least three times, but all my ads are about mortgages, baby care, and post-wedding crap.  Work with me here, okay?

Lazy blog lately.  Here’s a crop of something I made at lunch.  I don’t think it’s finished yet.

I’m trying to break the red/blue color mood I’ve been in lately.

While I was browsing my iPhoto library at work lookin’ for something else, I found a photo of me from about a year ago.  Okay, that’s not entirely accurate.  I opened and looked at the photo a total of three times before I realized I was even in it – Not because I was in the background, but because I didn’t recognize myself.

Check out this last year vs. five minutes ago comparison:

Oh man, that is unflattering.

I also don’t know what the neckless wonder 2008 me was thinking with that long-hair business.  Or the hair-clip business.  Also this is apparently National Post Terrible Photos of Myself on the Internet Month.

OH ALSO.

While trying to get a “now” picture of myself I discovered how to turn off the Apple Photobooth flash, something I complained about not long ago.  Apparently you can turn off the flash by holding the SHIFT key when pressing the photo button, and you can turn off the “3 … 2 … 1 … ” countdown by holding OPTION.

Allow me to demonstrate.

This is really something that should be in the menu of the program, Apple.  Despite my momentary frustration and your momentary out-of-character indifference to user interface, we can still be friends.  In fact, I might be open to being more than friends … if you’re into that kind of thing.  No?  Okay, well, friends then.  Yeah.

Here’s a before & after post, mostly for my own records.  I hate it when I read archives of blogs that say “how do you like the redesign?” and don’t provide screens.  I’m aiming for simplicity here, but I still like to see it evolve.

Before

After

I know if I can’t stand to scroll through the posts, nobody else can either.  I’m not very intense with stuff I design for myself.

I’m still concerned about the variable width, so if you can’t see the sidebar let me know.  I might feel more motivated to do something about it.