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: Advent

    This winter holiday blogger template is full of outdoor beauty and cheer with pine branches, red berries, pinecones and fluffy white snow as the background for your tales of happy holiday doings, whether they are sledding, shopping, baking, snowman creation, family meals, caroling, or all of it! Feel free to contact us if you’re interested in…

  • SoftBank is my new favorite company in the world

    how can you not love a company that not only has a talking dog, and an American woman screaming something aggressive and samurai-ly in Japanese, but also has Quentin Tarrantino doing some crazy ass shit? that not convince you?  maybe these two ads with brad pitt co-starring as a sumo wrestler’s personal assistant may help:…

  • teh TOTALLY 80s s3quence

    teh TOTALLY 80s s3quence

    music was a cornerstone of my childhood. i grew up with mtv and what i consider to be the height of radio — back when dj’s played good music that wasn’t dictated by record labels. some people think that 80s music sounds kitchy, dated, or lo-fi, but i say it’s all of these things that…

  • tickets, please

    as per usual, the kids have been sick.  so imagine my surprise last night when, rather than unhappy wailing, i suddenly heard rambunctious giggling and laughter from the other room the kids were exchanging tickets (puzzle pieces) for a chance to ride on the slide (large armchair) this was being done as a solo activity…

  • Arcane Palette Holiday Special

    We are happy to announce a limited time promotional offer to get into that holiday spirit of giving!  For one week only, we are extending our blog setup package that we’ve made available to attendees of the Author Teleseminars Spread Your Message program to everyone.  What better way to kick off the new year than…

  • the not-so-hidden value of netflix

    i’m pretty much completely in love with netflix. it started with some casual experimentation through a friend during college.  he had a netflix subscription and we’d often get triple features of obscure asian action flicks (digging deep in the early career of jet li with the once upon a time in china series — which i highly recommend,…

  • Free WordPress Plugin: Hello Ziggy

    so, you use WordPress.  and maybe you’ve turned on Hello Dolly.  but if you’re me (chances are, you’re not me, but we’ll pretend for the sake of argument that you’re enough like me to continue reading this statement and past this ridiculous parenthetical tangent), you don’t have Hello Dolly turned on because it’s obnoxious.  (no offense to…

  • planning a new attack on the design

    i’ve been thinking about hacking the site design again. now that i’ve got the lifestream set up and i’ve seen how it looks in use, i’m thinking of moving things around to make things feel a bit more cohesive and less random. maybe emphasize the “this is what i’m doing right this second” aspect of…

  • the quest for the perfect twitter client

    it won’t surprise anyone who visits this blog or knows anything about me that i’m a bit of a geek.  i mean that in the broadest sense of the term.  geek as in music geek — not only am i a music snob, but i was also a band geek, and, yes, i listen to bands…

  • Arcane Palette Roundup: Top 10 Posts from 2009

    We’re happy to provide content that people find interesting or useful. And lately, interesting or useful includes texture packs, blogger templates, and desktop wallpapers. We used a complex system of fake math incorporating pageviews and downloads to come up with this top 10 list of our most popular content: 10. Free Texture Pack: Beach With…