Things may look a trifle odd around here for a few hours. Redecorating the place. New Years and all, doncha know. In the meantime, here’s a picture of a bunny.
[Update, 12:01 1/7/07; OK, I think that’s it. Feel free to try to break things and tell me whether anything seems odd. Leave comments here. Also leave comments here if you want to praise or pick nits with the design. This is a port of a WordPress theme called Ocean Mist, designed by Ed Merritt.
This is a test.
That “cave painting” — which is actually out in the bright desert sunshine in Nevada, and I should show you and the boyfriend the place sometime! — is the default Gravatar image.
Gravatar seems not to be accepting new images for a while, unfortunately. But I imagine they’ll be back up before too many weeks go by, so that people who decde they want their own can get one.
I like it.
Like the old one much better.
According to Faith Popcorn, we’re all going to be willing our avatars to our heirs. So keep that in mind when you’re picking out one.
Aaargh! No raven! WTF? Rapids and non-cave paintings. Adjust, adjust.
Is that the colour known as robin’s egg blue or some such?
Oh dear. I must lie down for a while.
*change is good. change is good. change is good*
Ooooooo…. How…blue! ;-)
By the way, the Koufaxes are open. I figured I’d tell you first, not to play favorite or anything.
Purty!
aw, sweet bunny! the new site looks good, although i’m pretty sure that isn’t your creek at the top.
faith popcorn obviously has not grilled my heirs on their views of inheriting avatars, should i ever get one.
aaaaaack, no, more change, no raven! I need an ice pack. But I’ll deal as long as you’re writing. thanks for being back.
OK, OK, I put a little methadone in the banner for the raven addicts.
A water theme?
....Really?
a little methadone in the banner for the raven addicts.
Fits the bill, I guess.
(mutters)
Although the other one was an action raven.
He has a nice glint in his eye
The look of madness. He’s a raven lunatic.
You’re banned, Rob.
Yes, I think the color needs to be a trifle more earthy, the blue and the waterfall is somewhat evangelical? Glad the raven is back.
Earthy!
His eye has all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming. Crabby old buggers, them raven-enablers.
As a hydrologist, I feel I must approve the watery theme. I have water (both liquid and frozen) on my desktop - Lake 12,280 a bit south of Mt. Goddard in August. However, as a Desert Rat (Rattus aridus?), I must say I liked the tan and brown better. I will adjust. Relevant (?) song lyrics from Hot Buttered Rum (a fine Bay Area-based high-altitude bluegrass band):
Desert Rat
I’ve taken great interest in the surface of things
I’m not looking for a deeper meaning than a lung full of wood-smoke
the feel of my sister’s hand in my hand
I was born in Tucson
and I got my ass kicked by the Viet Cong
I guess they were just getting along
I might have done the same in their shoes
the mountains gutted by strip mines
the deserts criss-crossed by power lines
they drown the canyon so the city can have fuel
but I can’t get away from the day to day
I can only sing of ordinary motion
snow melting, and moving towards the ocean
the powers that be won’t let me be
the powers that be won’t let me be
and the war and the mall and the sprawl are part of the same machine
and it’s no damn simple thing like a conspiracy
what’s a desert rat to do
when he’s shakin’ in his shoes?
when coyote’s on the loose
what’s a desert rat to do?
the altar was torn down
the machine defiled my sacred ground
so I stand above the desert sand
with a monkey wrench in my hand
I am not a patient man
I am not a patient man
I measure desert distance with beer cans
as I drive the valleys and I drive the crest
I feel a dangerous howl
living deep with in my chest
- Nat Keefe
thanks for the methadone - like the ravin’ raven and Fred, thanks for Desert Rat.
A water theme! No more desert flies on this blog, by golly.
Glad to see Raven up there.