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.

  • Free WordPress Theme: The Harbinger

    this theme is one that i ran on a fake news site that was part of a RPG erin and i were running over the summer based on a novel we were/are working on.  the name of the news site was The Harbinger and it specialized in reporting news relevant to the vampire/werewolf underworld.  the…

  • hunting for a new webhost

    for a long time i’ve been looking for a green hosting solution for all of our sites and the sites that we maintain.  with the wordpress 2.9 update, i discovered my blog suddenly had an out of memory error.  memory issues on 1and1 is something that have been known and blogged/posted about for a long time.…

  • Free Texture Pack: Lights 2

    Continuing the light texture pack we started last week, here’s the 2nd half of the light textures we shot. As with our other texture packs, all images are high resolution JPGs. You can click the thumbnails below for a resized version. All our textures are released under a Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution Share-Alike license. Click…

  • now a podcast…sort of

    with the latest s3quence mix, i finally fixed stuff up to officially podcast teh s3quence.  i had attempted it once before, but the enclosures were getting all messed up from my download permalinks, so that’s been cleared up thanks, in part, to spiral web consulting‘s podcasting plugin.  it’s not in the itunes store (they actually…

  • teh (anti)xmas s3quence

    teh (anti)xmas s3quence

    even scrooges occasionally listen to christmas music.  it’s just that our taste in christmas music is occasionally a bit twisted.  every year i make a playlist for the holidays.  here’s the latest incarnation with some of the staples that hang around year after year. 01 john lennon, happy christmas (war is over) 02 the pretenders,…

  • Bing!

    via YouTube – Ex-Microsoft employee remembers the last sound he heard at Microsoft: Bing!.

  • twitter hacked. this reminds me of the time…

    if you were wondering wtf happened to twitter last night (and, like me, you use a client as opposed to logging into the actual site, so rather than seeing the screen above, you just saw an API timeout error), twitter was hacked.  mashable’s got the digs here and here. now, sure, we should be up in arms…

  • Free Holiday Blogger Template: Let It Snow

    This cute holiday blogger template is called Let It Snow because it’s covered in snowflakes and because I have found myself singing that song waaay too many times around the house lately. It’s blue and white, a little bit scrapbook and a little bit gift wrap, and quite charming for the holidays, or just the…

  • Free Texture Pack: Lights

    Inspired by this Wired How-To guide on camera toss photos, and it being that time of year with the Christmas tree all decorated with lights, I thought it would be fun to experiment with the idea, and also make some cool textures for backgrounds for holiday cards or wallpapers.  Such is the story behind this…

  • Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax To Tour Together | Billboard.com

    Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax To Tour Together | Billboard.com. i have one thing to say about this (besides what i tweeted, which was repeating @mmmaiko‘s comment of um, isn’t this like 20 years late?) Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich is quoted saying: Who would have thought that more than 25 years after its inception, thrash metal’s…