Negative space
On a whim, about a month ago I signed up for “Drawing: The Human Figure” through the MSU Alumni Evening College. Tonight was the first session. It went better than I expected (i.e. I didn’t make a complete idiot of …
Pastor Dan
CUMMINGS, DANIEL SCOTT; age 48; died February 5, 2009, of complications from cancer. Dan was born September 16, 1960, in Athens, GA, to Bradley and Patricia Cummings and was the older of two children. Dan was a minister of the …
Dear Churches of America
Dear Churches of America, Dear Body of the Living Christ, My brothers and sisters, Change has come to America, and we the church had very little to do with it.
Ah, LSJ, How I Loathe Thee
There’s been a lot of hype about how the internet is killing newspapers. Armed with two recent headlines from the Lansing State Journal, I must ask: is this actually a bad thing? I mean, think of the rigorous standards leading …
Image Dump Yet Again
I’m learning! I created this image in Illustrator, using this tutorial as a guide. Not bad, considering it’s the first thing I’ve ever done in Illustrator, unless you count me using it to trace images to create my banners.
Image dump!
I spent maybe an hour creating this image to be a background for a powerpoint presentation. I’m kinda proud of how it turned out. It’s also interesting to realize just how comfortable I’m getting with photoshop.
Right, then.
I like Moby, and enjoy reading his blog except for when he’s being political, as he has been for the last, oh, nine months or so–he’s extremely liberal, to the extent of (and, in some ways, beyond) “OH EM GEE …
On Conferences
Last weekend I volunteered as a conference associate for Meaningful Play. In general, it was a positive experience for attendees–personally, I heard several rave reviews. And honestly, as one of the registration desk people, things could have gone a lot …
It’s not plagiarism, but…
I just saw a Facebook ad for “custom term papers” (not linked, but you can find 212,000 results by googling that term). Basically, you hand them your research and they churn out an actual report. And they’ll even write your …
Violence is still violence
From the Lansing State Journal: Man, 24, Shot Dead in South Lansing What gets me isn’t that there was yet another murder in Lansing, though of course that’s horrible, or even that, as always, the victim was “such a nice …