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Sorry folks, but I’m in the midst of a busy week, so posting may be lighter than usual. Sentential Links will return next week, while I’m at it. I’ll have some new stuff up here at some point, but for right now I just have a lot of projects that need attending to, plus some other stuff going on in the Musty Land of Real Life that will occupy some time. Bear with!
(And don’t forget to vote in the poll in the sidebar: What should I read next?)
A couple of weeks ago, this blog’s official Blogiversary came and went. I didn’t mark the occasion at the time, but this whole month has partly been for me about seven years in Blogistan (minus a three month holiday last year). That’s a lot of insightful content blather and drivel to produce and a lot of time to produce it in, and I’m gratified to find that I have any audience at all, even a small one. Thanks to one and all my readers! It’s been an interesting seven years, marked by politics and war and Star Wars movies and poetry and music and Tolkien and Spiderman and Berlioz and Rachmaninov and pizza and chicken wings and coconut cream pie…and always a long-haired goof in overalls sitting back and looking at it all with a fairly jaded eye. Or, maybe, not so jaded.
So how long can it go on? Who knows, really. As in all things, we’ll see. Excelsior!
(And don’t forget Ask Me Anything!, for which I will definitively cease taking queries after tomorrow.)
Today’s the end of Blogroll Amnesty Week, so if you have a blog I should link or know of one, drop it in comments here. (I have zero submissions as of yet. And I would point out that in the course of blogroll revisions over the last year or two, I may have made inadvertent deletions that weren’t intended, or blogs that might have been inactive and returned to active status. Let me know!)
And don’t forget about Ask Me Anything!. I’m taking queries there until Saturday.
I’m taking questions for Ask Me Anything! until Saturday the 14th, and submissions for additions to my blogroll in honor of Blogroll Amnesty Week until Wednesday the 11th. Any questions are welcome for the former, and any blogs are welcome for the latter! Leave submissions in the comments threads at the linked posts.
Well, as you all are reading this (theoretically), The Daughter and I are on the first of a series of flights which will bring us back to Buffalo. I’ve enjoyed seeing The Wife’s family again, albeit under terribly sad circumstances, but I’m ready to be home. The Wife is staying behind for an additional week to assist her father with the continued adoption of a new life, so I’ll be lonely for a few days. Sigh.
Anyway, for the rest of today, remember Blogroll Amnesty Week and Ask Me Anything!.
(Something for Thursday will return next week.)
So I posted the conclusion of “The Balance in the Blood”, my horror novelette about a Nazi doctor who conducts horrific experiments regarding vampirism on concentration camp inmates, and then I proceeded to surf the Interweb for a while, during which I came across this item about one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camp doctors, who was recently found to have died fifteen years ago. No real comment here, but it was a bit spooky.
According to Jon Swift, yesterday was the annual Blogroll Amnesty Day, which began as a day when big bloggers could give themselves permission to eliminate blogs at will from their blogrolls and feel no guilt over it, but ended up being a day when blogs should help out other blogs by adding them to their blogrolls. That’s what I’ll do, so if you have a blog you want blogrolled or know a blog I should blogroll, go ahead and suggest it here!
Don’t forget, gentle readers: being February, among this month’s festivities on Byzantium’s Shores is Ask Me Anything!
So, if there’s something you want to ask me, anything at all, go ahead and drop it in comments on the official Ask Me Anything! 2009 post. Or you can e-mail them, or do a Facebook message, or whatever. Anonymous questions are fine, just as long as they’re not insulting (i.e., “Why not stop blogging, you blowhard dumba$$?”).
UPDATE: Link fixed.
In comments to my “Men I admire” post, Roger asks how I made the photo montage of the men I cited. You can use this online tool to do the job (requires an account of some sort), but I just did it myself using Photofiltre. First I decided the size of the montage — in this case, four rows of five photos apiece. Then I figured on the size of each individual shot; I think I went with 250 px wide by 300 tall.
Figuring thusly, the montage in the end would be 1250 px wide by 1200 tall. I created a blank new image in Photofiltre with those dimensions and then I had to crop each individual image down to 250*300. Once I had a 250*300 headshot, I simply cut and paste it into the final montage and then moved it into position. Easy as pie! It takes a bit of time, but then, I enjoy creating montages.
My pictures are back, yay! I set things up to load graphics from each e-mail profile at a time, instead of loading all of the graphics from one profile at a time, so maybe I won’t have to re-jigger things after ten days. I’m still wanting to get some actual web hosting one of these days, but it’ll be mid-month before I can get to that, at the earliest. I am considering leaving the background water image off for good; anybody have any opinions thereof?