alles in ordnung.
TThe past month has seen me strapped to my lucite desk like a Korean scholar from ages past, bent over, topknot bobbing. I have been studying ways to make this site prettier and more functional. Along the way, a small word got itself lodged in my brain: “tekkaku”. Had I been watching too much hentai? No, not possible. “Tekkaku” means “accuracy, precision”. I sat with a cup of coffee, for weeks I sat there with it, reading about CASCADING STYLESHEETS, tekkaku. Learning about SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION, tekkaku. I want everything to be accurate, precise and beautiful. Somehow, it must be beautiful.
The internet is a sea of blogs — now almost all sites are built on blogging platforms. People like to be heard, people like to be seen. How to stand out in this sea? After all, I don’t even know how to swim. Everyone seems to want site traffic, favorable page rankings, even residual income derived from advertising placed in their sidebars. What do the Killer Concubines and the Meek want? I am happy to have a place for my ideas, and among life’s pleasures I know few better than that of a good conversation. A handed, chiral conversation with thoughtful people: that is what I want.
sea, sky, chair.
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self-portrait
This is a wordpress blog using the robust Thesis theme. I chose Thesis because it was built for designers and developers alike. Everything on this page is customisable, which cannot be said for other themes, and because of the custom files, my coding will survive any upgrades. The images employ a cool script call Highslide JS. Each image on this site is set to enlarge onlick, and the thumbnails can be controlled with the arrow keys. Go ahead, try it! Control is fun! The photos on this site were taken with a Canon EOS40D, 17-55mm lens (one day I may get fancier camera equipment…for now, it suits me fine). As I learn a bit more each day (about web design, css, php functions and things not-invented-yet), I hope to improve this site on a regular basis.
So now, here: Killer Concubines and the Meek Shall Inherit the Earth. And who better? Picture the young Cheng I Sao on deck, commanding her fleet of eighty-thousand pirates, cold air on her face. Picture Elisabeth the First, who married England and no man, standing, for days, in one place. Karen Carpenter blesses the Beasts and the Children, with that milky voice in her throat, and I sing along. I wish for an accurate, precise, and beautiful life. Somehow, it must be beautiful, tekkaku.
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