Snow!

For the first time in about three years we are having a really nice snow and the temperatures are not supposed to change dramatically enough to mess with things. The above image is at ISO-800, so not a really great image, but I believe it shows the  gist of things Photography in the snow is […]

Problems with Emotions

The status page and the status module use an emotion list. I have played with the list a little in the past few days, trying to come up with emotions that work. The present list is way too lengthy (mostly obtained from http://www.mytherapistnc.org/emotions.htm). The list is also ineffective. At first glance it looks like it […]

How much do people want to know?

Back to the LiveCurt.net project concepts again. How much do people want to know about me and how do they want to know it? My status page is fairly basic information that is just putting stuff commonly available in one easy to access place, but LiveCurt is supposed to be more, it’s more than just […]

Birthdays

For the past few days it has seemed like my birthday has gone from being not even thought of to being a trigger to talk to me. Chris, my mother, Oscar and Jared (in order of query) have all asked what I have planned and what I want to do for my birthday. My honest […]

Strength of the Written Word

Upon replying to a blog post on a friend’s private blog, I questioned why I did it, and then I questioned why I blog. The answer seems to be simple, but also a little complicated. The simple of it is that if I were to verbally reply to that friend’s post, what I said may […]

A Few Thoughts On This Blog

As I mentioned in a previous post, there are things that do not get mentioned here, they are considered too “private” to share here, but yet I share them with people I know even less about than the primary target audience of this blog. I do not know a lot of people that do not […]

One-Thousand Blog Posts

As of this moment there are 1006 blog posts residing on my blog engine (Moveable Type) that I have written. I have made a total of 6 cross-posted posts in my blogging history, so this brings me to my present total of 1000 unique blog posts. Over 850 of those posts belong to this blog. […]

Being Yourself In Public

Last night after taking my Theories of Personality midterm, I began thinking about the Collectivist vs. Individualistic cultural theories. In the modern understanding of these theories, most societies on the North American continent are individualistic, meaning we seek to further ourselves more than our society as a whole. This theory also supports that people in […]

Staring At Nothing

I have been “working” on my personal portal for weeks now. Mostly that “work” has been staring at it and wondering what it is supposed to be. I have made no progress building the thing from scratch, just seems to be too abstract to tackle that way. The technical aspects of everything I want to […]

Happy Valentine’s Day

How many years have I written this post? Anyway, Happy St. Valentine’s Day to the special boy in my life 🙂 And to the rest of, may you find true love on this very commercial of holidays.