I took our Mac Plus into work today and set it up on my desk. It doesn't do anything useful, but it looks really cool. :-) I still need a SCSI cable before it will boot (off the 10 mb hard drive), since I don't have a System floppy.

This sour-looking fellow is Ernst D. Bunker, a character I created for a short-lived series of rumor-site-parody columns at StepWise. Wanted to keep him around and this is the only copy of him I have. For the curious, he was sketched and shaded on paper with pencil, then scanned and the color layed in behind in Photoshop with a semi-transparent color wash.

kevindevin.com In the Trenches - Tech Chat - 02-26-2005: >"My apologies for the sound quality it seems the more updates that Skype provides, the more functionality it breaks. It took us nearly an entire hour to get this Tech Chat going but we prevailed in the end!"

[8:40:41 PM] Kreg Steppe: Yea...that is it... BTW I tried one of those Bud Selects, have you had one?
[8:41:11 PM] Steve Ivy: huh uh. no budweiser will pass my lips
[8:41:31 PM] Steve Ivy: i only drink hoity toity beer

TulipGirl: Desk Exercises

I've got another SiteLight coming up, but I've determined not to release this one without an audio conversation. That means waiting a while longer, until my victim, er, guest and I can arrange a time to chat.

It's been a while since I've jumped on a bandwagon late, but I thought this t-shirt was really funny, so I ordered one this past week. For background, see this Boing Boing post, and this one too.

Why would Apple even want TiVo? | PVRblog. Certainly, it makes sense to my Mac-shaped 8-second-instant-replay-addled brain.

Oh, now STOP it! It's just not fair to make a guy's heart lurch like that.

Tonight the SiteLight shines on Bill Brown's Found On The Web. Bill is a good friend, and I'm glad to be able to share his particular obsession with you.

Seth seems to think that the first "flash photo" in this (strange, oddly compelling) flash movie looks like me! Was I caught unawares and given interet fame? :-) You decide:

Mark Vanderwettering has updated his site, Brainwagon.com, to WordPress 1.5. Look nice! Try his podcast sometime if you're into that.

Ok, now that I've gotten the hysterical hyperbole out of the way, this is what I mean: reading well-designed web sites in an RSS read does nothing to stimulate my creative juices. I realized this today after opening a post from StopDesign in Firefox and going "sooooo beautiful! I should look at Doug's site more often!" It was then that I realized that reading all my sites in |NetNewsWire|, efficient as it is, is robbing me of the creative kick in the pants I get from browsing and reading gorgeous, beautifully-crafted, web-standards-based websites.

[9:18:00 AM] Kreg Steppe: Between the time I talked to you last, and now, I re-installed linux on my laptop.
[9:18:18 AM] Steve Ivy: ha!
[9:18:20 AM] Steve Ivy: nicely done
[9:18:46 AM] Kreg Steppe: I love my mac, and this is the closest that I can get to it without having it.

So, I thought I'd do a short series on some of the sites I'm subscribed to. The first one I want to mention is Rands In Repose.

Once again, |Jodi| beat me to the punch... our dossier was successfully submitted to the National Adoption Center in Kyiv! Thanks to everyone who supported us during this frustrating and trying time! But God came through and we on our way to... more waiting. But this is the waiting we expected, as opposed to the waiting we didn't expect! :-)

Waterfront — City of Scottsdale

Forbes magazine Why Millions Say, Softly, God Bless America, by writer and historian Paul Johnson:

I've got a couple of posts in the works but my head has gone all fuzzy. I'm going to go do some house-straightening (I've decided that I cannot use the word house-cleaning to describe any house-work I do because the love of my life seems to always have to follow me, Doing It Right) then I'll come back and try to compose. One of the posts is the first in a series of "sites I read" posts that includes a micro-interview with Rands of Rands in Repose. Stay tuned.