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 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…

  • i still have wave invites

    i’ve still got google wave invites to give away. come get ’em while they’re hot.

  • I WAS FROZEN TODAY!

    awesome.  another reason i love gizmodo.

  • wordpress shortcodes kick ass (or: shortcodes, an affiliate marketer’s best friend)

    this one will make the internet marketing peeps smile… let’s say you have some kind of text or phrase that you use a lot.  it could be anything, but let’s — for the sake of argument, and for showing the full power of this code — assume that the text or phrase includes a link.…

  • “One Big Ass Mistake, America”

    One Big Ass Mistake America That’s what I saw gracing the back of an old Ford pickup truck as I took the cat to the vet on Thursday. it immediately made me think of a Saturday Night Live sketch from last week that we just saw the night before. my first thought in response to…

  • I’m giving away Google Wave invites!

    is google wave still relevant, or 2009’s biggest disappointment?  i’m still holding out for relevant, but i think it needs the kind of all-hands-in adoption that email has today.  but you’re sick of hearing the hype, right?  all these people talking and you still haven’t even seen what the damn thing looks like.  well you’re…

  • snow

    i hate snow

  • Free Desktop Wallpaper: Dehli, 4am

    This dark, noir wallpaper is currently adorning 3 monitors at Arcane Palette Central.  The dark theme is easy on the eyes, especially after a long day staring at white pixels.  It takes the classic smoky look and adds an interesting wallpaper texture, giving the feeling of sitting in a dark hookah bar, sipping a mango lassi. This…