To round out the crazy trifecta, some big deadline moves in baseball this year too. Being a bit of a fair-weather fan, coupled with the braves injury laden bad luck season, I haven’t been following baseball this season. But some of the deadline trades have made major news. Tex to the Angels, Manny to the Dodgers.. and Griffey Jr. to the White Sox?! Man. That’s some star power moving around. Too bad my beloved Braves are 9 games out without a cleanup hitter. The 9 games out is part of the reasoning behind the Tex trade. Rebuild for next year. Get some pitchers that will actually be able to.. pitch. More info here, here, and here. Kotchman might pay bigger dividens at a smaller premium over the long haul for the Braves so we’ll see.
This post really represents everything America is all about: Wal-Mart, gluttony, and baseball. FSM bless America.
Anyway. Tag system is up, cats are gone. Nothing setup to display tags yet. Gonna go with a cloud and a menu system probably. Time will tell. I’ll have more time over the weekend to work on it. Anyway. Shalom.
Gustav Klimt was one of the prominent members of the Vienna Art Nouveau movement taking place in the early 20th century (this was painted in 1907). During this time period, also known as the fin de siecle, which literally means “end of the century” a whole new mentality and culture was being born in Europe. The prosperous and wealthy middle class dominated - they aspired to live the “good life” thus creating a culture of decadence and indulgence. They also had an intense preoccupation with sexual drives, powers and perversions. The country most closely linked with the fin de siecle was Austria, which is where Klimt was from.
Here, Klimt depicts a couple in an embrace; all that is visible of each is a segment of their heads. The rest of the image is shimmering, extravagant patterning; many believe that Klimt was inspired to create these gold patterns by his many trips to Venice and Ravenna, both famous for their mosaics. The patterning also has clear ties to the Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements. Furthermore, since this image is very sensuous it captures the decadence and all of the fin de siecle spirit.
Not only did Klimt shock the world with his extremely erotic paintings and sketches, he also broke records with the amount his paintings sold for. In November 2003, Klimt’s ‘Landhaus am Attersee’ sold for $29 million. However, a purchase made in June 2006 by Ronald Lauder for the Neue Galerie blew that price out of the water. He purchased Klimt’s Adele Bloch-Bauer I portrait for $135 million, which made it the highest reported price ever paid for a piece of art sold at a public auction.
When I say home, I suppose I just mean Georgia. Sleeping on my parents couch just doesn’t have that homey appeal. I’m just telling myself its short term (it is) until I get going at my new job (which I start tomorrow). I don’t know how many of my imaginary readers out there have ever lived.. transiently, or without a room or personal space, but take it from me, it’s a drag. This all boils down to: I’m homesick for a place that doesn’t exist. That sounds a little bizarre and existential but it’s truth. This is my home right now, but any personal possessions I have have to fit in a dresser drawer or messenger bag. Sigh.
/self-pity
Anyway, my Jersey jaunt was nice. We saw The Daily Show last Wednesday (link is to episode, listen for my laugh. it sounds like this: ha ha). I got some rays at the world’s most dangerous beach, Point Pleasant (link is to possibly real or not picture of the stupid-big waves there). I also spent about 942 hours in some form of transportation limbo (Planes, trains, and automobiles. Seriously. Delayed, canceled, and lost. Seriously.) But overall, a nice trip. I’ll take responsibility for the art of the week not being up last week, since I was distracting Maggie. Maybe. Regardless.
I start my new job tomorrow. Just training but yeah. Rambling is my cue to hit the door. I hope to get the menu redone and spiffed to look good across all browsers soon. I’m also planning on learning Flash for my new job, and maybe i can parlay some of that skill over to the yeroc. I’ve also added underline to links in posts, to make them stand out a bit more. I’ve upped the leading (or line-height) to hopefully make the posts more readable. Added meta tags o’plenty. That’s actually a lot of stuff. How about that.
Finally, there’s been a bit of buzz that I’m catching the tail end of, over the new search engine started by ex-google employees, Cuil.com (pronounced “cool”). It doesn’t seem that cool to me, but with the utter search engine dominance google has right now, I applaud any newcomer to the arena. It’s still new, buggy, and kinda stupid. But it’s also pretty, different, and very diamond-in-the-rough-y. But a pretty rough. Lots of buzz though. Kinda no results for yeroc.org. Weird. Even results for culi are.. mixed at best. Reaction here, here, and of course here.
Finally II, I’m going to be switching from categories to tags on the site. I get kind of rambley so it’s hard to throw any post under one heading. In this post alone, I’ve talked about a few different things that are very different. So look for old posts to be cleaned up, and all new posts to be tagged, not categorized.
Finally III, I wish I had a bigger readership, but I don’t really know how to achieve that. I don’t wanna be like, HEY, READ MY BLOG! Cause I know I usually don’t find other peoples personal blogs too interesting, unless they’re like some international jet setter (which I am not) or have some brilliant insight into interesting topics (Brilliant would be a stretch para mi.) I don’t know. I don’t think my grammar, writing, or proofreading skills are really that off the charts so I don’t want to put my self out there, and sound like an idiot. Some discourse would be nice, that’s all. I enjoy talking to no one I suppose; I’ve been doing it on here awhile now.
I’ve been in New Jersey since about 2 am Tuesday morning. I took the $94 dollar airtran really cheap fly overnight flight. I had a scheduled 3 hour layover in Atlanta, and then an extra hour and a half on the tarmac when Zeus or Poseidon or whoever scheduled a downpour. Then I made it to Jersey and my ride (who will remain anonymous but hasn’t done their art of the week yet) got lost for another hour and a half of travel time. So counting security and time in the air and everything, i spent about 10-11 hours in transit. Hooray for that.
But anyway, I leave the wonderful third state of our union, for the fourth tomorrow. Then I start my new job Monday. Super. Alright, I’m being pushed out the door so, shalom, see you soon Peach State!
From Zack Snyder, director of 300. Based on the graphic novel. Apparently this is screening during The Dark Knight previews, so I’m sure millions of people have seen this, including me, later today. The song is Smashing Pumpkins - The Beginning is the End is the Beginning but it seems a little slower than I remember it. Maybe it’s redone for the movie. Official snippit, then trailer below:
The official trailer that will be shown before The Dark Knight has been released thanks to Empire. A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” - which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the watchmen?
Interesting quiz from the folks at Pew: What’s your news IQ?
To test your knowledge of prominent people and major events in the news, we invite you to take our short quiz. Then see how you did in comparison with 1,003 randomly sampled adults asked the same questions in a recent national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center.
Well the sites been live awhile, that subject just sounds cool.
There are still bugs, see the known bugs page for more info. Or if you come across a bug, submit it there. Much appreciated. I’m pretty sure I’m going to have to redo the menu, because i suck with lists and that’s what the menu is built on so.. we’ll see. I just have a lot going on right now and I think the site is in good enough to be public and I don’t want it “under construction” forever so. Here it is. Enjoy?
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