Hi, I’m Chris

I make websites and things. Lately, I’ve been experimenting a lot with Large Language Models (colloquially known as AI) to test their capabilities and to help make my job and D&D Dungeon Mastering life easier. Feel free to click around to learn more about stuff I like to do and/or am working on.

  • Tiles: In the eyes of Children by *MacDoninri on deviantART

    Tiles: In the eyes of Children by *MacDoninri on deviantART

  • Jewel sings her own songs incognito in a karaoke bar

    This is about a week old, but I’m just getting to last week’s Digg Digest now… Undercover Karaoke with Jewel from Jewel

  • Jane Austen’s Fight Club

    This completely made my night.  Wish it was a real film. Hat tip to @allisonr via @SusanVLewis, but you can also read about it on @Mashable: “Jane Austen’s Fight Club” Fake Trailer Goes Viral [VIDEO]… It does raise an interesting question: the people who don’t think this is funny (or, alternately, bloody brilliant), are they unfamiliar with Fight…

  • Applying open source to gaming

    Applying open source to gaming

    I had an idea the other night that has stuck and won’t go away.  It’s a concept for a role playing game called The Long Con. It’s based, in part, on the BBC TV series Hustle, which is about a team of grifters who practice “the long con.”  Unlike short cons, your standard street cons,…

  • Striking Resemblance

    This Blogger template, Striking Resemblance, uses real cloth textures and objects to create a lovely backdrop to your blog. It’s a little bit antique, a little bit modern and completely full of charm. Striking Resemblance uses a rich palette of turqoise and fuschias to lend invitation to the luxurious knit and woven textures and uses… (read…

  • That Thesis Thing

    Update 7/22/2010: Thesis adopts the GPL! Over the last few days, the WordPress community has exploded into debate over one thing: Thesis and it’s restrictive, non-GPL-compliant license.  If you’re already familiar with the particulars of what Thesis is and what the debate is, you can skip the summary (to be honest, I’m sick of reading… (read…

  • Free Texture Pack: Nature Textures 2

    This is a texture pack of high-quality images of interesting nature textures.  This set continues where our last one left off, adding dirt, wood, vines and leaves to your arsenal. All our textures are released under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attributio…

  • Will it blend?

    That’s one of the questions we’ll be asking at Utah WordCamp 2010, and to help us answer that question (or even figure out what it means), we’ve invited Tom Dickson.  (Yes, that guy.)  The question: Does WordPress blend? Excited? Intrigued?  Curious?  Completely baffled?  Find out if WordPress blends by grabbing your tickets right now! In…

  • Middle Name: Danger

    Middle Name: Danger is the brother to Baby SweetTooth.  It’s got the same magazine-style layout and multiple widgetized sidebars with optional video embed and FeedBurner integration.  In fact, everything cool about Baby SweetTooth is there in Middle Name: Danger, the only difference is the boy colors vs. the pink and brown in SweetTooth.  Whereas Baby… (read…

  • Register for Utah WordCamp 2010 now!

    Tickets are now available for Utah WordCamp 2010.  Register for WordCamp Utah for only 20 bucks (plus Eventbrite fees) and spend the day with other bloggers, developers, geniuses, newbies and fanatics and help support the awesome WordPress community. You can also follow us on Twitter for news and updates.  We can’t wait to see you…