So, cats. LOL? >_>
Did you ever have cats when you were young? No, my parents didn’t want fur all over the house.
Is that it? No, I have allergies too.
But you own cats now. Yep. A bunch.
How many? Five.
Holy hell! Five? Echo?
What types of cats? 3 black cats, 1 puker and a fat one.
Names? Ravyn, Eris, Naida, Chocolate, Willow
Why in that order? It’s like a food chain, with the fat one being at the bottom. Ravyn is the king bully, Eris is the wannabe bully, and the other three are just their victims.
Why is she on the bottom? I’d really rather not go there.

Blogs are scary places. But you don't have to be scared of me. :) I don't bite. My words may bite, but I don't actually bite... people. Anyway, if you're confused about where to start out on Avalonstar. Here's some help. The site is split up into many sections and as time goes on there may be more. You can check if I'm staying fit, or follow my pretty odd music tastes. But if you're really that interested in my writing, here are some of tags of topics I write about:

Theory • Standards • Timelines • Conferences

Or you can see what I recently wrote below. That's probably the easiest choice. ^_^

Last time on a*.

Blogging Visually

May.6th.2008 • 2:16AM 12 Comments

This is the story about a guy and confidence. Said guy lacks said confidence so he tries to go about ways to circumvent it. Honestly the post doesn’t make that much sense, but there’s no use in telling you the ending in the summary.

Confidence. I lack it.

In this case it’s confidence in my ability to write. My lack of confidence in everything else can be equated the metaphorical elephant in the room.

It’s quite the double-edged sword, blogging is. On one hand, I can talk in ways here that would get me slapped across the face. Not that I do, but I could. On the other hand, I seem to suck at the only language I know how to speak in. I have habits of writing really long run-on sentences and overuse commas, so much so that it starts ...

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Categories? So Web 1.0. Shit, I should shoot myself for using any term related to... wait a minute... you almost got me there. Anyway, topics seem to make a little more sense to me, so that's what I've called this folksonomishy sorting thing I'm using. As I catch up on blogging, this list will obviously expand. Right now it's puny and uneventful, but here for your searching pleasure:

Site of the moment.

Designing the News

Designing the News

April.13th.2008 • 1:07PM http://www.designingthenews.com/

It’s not every day you see a site and go, “I want those graphs to have my babies.” Alright, you probably never say things like that.

I happened to run into this site by complete accident and once I saw the pretty pictures I was immediately drawn to stay. The design itself isn’t why this site is being featured, it’s the graph work, the print work.

I have this odd affinity for graphs and visualizations. So much so that I wanted to start a blog on it. Where is it you ask? I’ll just defer the question for now.

I’ll leave it at that. But if you can take Illustrator, slow it to a crawl, and do that with it, my god you’re good.

Feel the need to comment on it yourself? Go ahead, I'm not stoppin' you. ;) »