So I have an iPhone that I got as a hand-me-down earlier this year. I’m writing this post on the phone, using the Wordpress app. If this works well, I’ll be able to do some better liveblogging of my ride this Saturday than I was able to do last year.
If you can see a picture below, then I’ll be able to include those during the ride.
Posted by seaking on 09-24-2009 at 07:09 pm
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I’ve updated several pages on my website over the last few days, which included adding links to some webcomics that I hadn’t linked to before. I’ve also added links to these in the blog sidebar (over there on the left and scroll down a bit), but I thought it would be good to give them some explicit recommendations in an entry.
First up, I’ve had Shaenon Garrity’s comic Narbonic listed on my comics recommendation page for quite a while, but haven’t had her in the sidebar. She has several strips that she’s done online, som in collaboration with others. This seems like a good time to list her, as she has a new strip that started 2 weeks ago, called Skin Horse. I’d give a description of the strip here, but it’s a bit hard to categorize as yet. There’s certainly a sci-fi element, and it’s humorous like all her work, and this one is rather surreal so far as well.
Next, I had heard about Questionable Content for a while, but just started reading it about 4 months ago. It took about a month to get through the 1000 strips. Jeph Jacques (pronounced ‘jacks’) is the writer/artist, and he lives in Easthampton, an adjacent town to me. The strip is sort of romantic-comedy-slice-of-life-indie-music-fan type stuff, if that makes any sense.  It also seems to take place in a world just a little different from our own, as there exist little sentient robots known as AnthroPCs. The strip has well-written characters and is often really funny. The strip also spawns various T-shirt designs, which Jeph sells on the site.
Last, but not least, is Templar, Arizona.  Spike is the name of the artist, and she is wildly hilarious. This strips cracks me up to no end much of the time. The setting of the strip is a fictional city in a sort of alternate history Arizona. The rest of that world might resemble ours, but not so much Templar. This is another comic with excellent characters, whose personalities contrast with each other greatly, but where details of the city and backgrounds are very important as well (so don’t just pay attention to the people). I actually discovered Spike a few years ago when she had a different strip running on Girlamatic, and have been following Templar almost since it began. Besides her wonderful writing, I love her art style – lots of heavy lines and subtle sepia tones over grayscale.
Posted by seaking on 01-14-2008 at 10:01 pm
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Today, I updated the software for this blog and for Sad Libs to the newest Wordpress version. Doing this required deleting and replacing a lot of files on the server. I don’t think it will have much visible effect, but if you notice a bunch of old posts appearing on the RSS feed as if they were new, that’s the reason why.
No, you aren’t crazy.
Posted by seaking on 03-25-2007 at 08:03 pm
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My domain has been transferred to a new registrar and hosting provider. I actually posted with the same title as above before moving the blog to the new server, but apparently that post didn’t make it over. So the move wasn’t quite as transparent as I thought.
In any case, it seems to be all done now. Welcome to my new old site.  
Posted by seaking on 06-04-2006 at 06:06 am
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I was looking through the stats for my website today, and was amused to discover a couple of things.
First, one of the referring sites to my site was the blog of a somewhat famous person.
It turned out that, in comments about Mooney going to the midwest to speak, someone remarking on Michigan made a reference to using one’s hand as a map, and linked to this image, which I created a few years ago.
Second, I noticed that, among the top web searches that lead to hits on my site, some of the search phrases for a few months running were variations on “Michigan hand map.”
Third, though this might not be related to that image, for multiple months other referring sites were image searches.
I tried entering “Michigan hand map” on google image search, and I was hit #16. Strangely, if you do just “Michigan hand,” there seem to be more actual hands, but mine isn’t in there. At least, it isn’t in the first 200 hits.
Posted by seaking on 05-14-2006 at 08:05 pm
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Over the weekend I fixed some links, added some content, etc. Updates have been made to the comics, music, people, and resume pages on the site. There is also a new Sad Lib posted.
As for the blog feed, I’ve added an RSS 2.0 version for those who can’t read Atom (they’re both linked in the sidebar), and I’ve started publishing the full content of the posts in the feed, rather than the first paragraph or so, because links didn’t seem to be coming through. Hopefully they will from now on.
If anyone desires, say, an RSS 1.0 feed, let me know.
Posted by seaking on 09-12-2005 at 08:09 am
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Like my super-creative blog title? 
Welcome to my weblog. I decided to do this because I thought it would be fun, for one, and might be a good way to provide news about me and interesting links, etc. without having to send lots of e-mails to lots of friends and family members.
That said, I don’t know how often I’ll post here. It probably won’t be every day, but we shall see…
Posted by seaking on 08-25-2005 at 04:08 pm
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