Archive for the ‘General’ Category
The Lord Has a Will
Sunday, October 25th, 2009
I threw together a little (but melancholy) arrangement of one of my favorite devo songs, as I feel like I need a little discernment of God’s will at the moment:
A Useful Map
Friday, August 7th, 2009
In case you were wondering where one Massachusetts town begins and another ends in a sort of puzzle-piece like way, you can always consult this handy map!
Currently, town names sort of exist as blobs to me, and I’m sometimes surprised when I learn that I’m somehow in the actual city limits of Weymouth, when I thought the blob was over there somewhere. Towns just don’t stay in their blobs.
Consider Cambridge, where I work. The part of Cambridge everyone knows - the dense part with MIT and Harvard, is the east part along the river. But Cambridge actually extends out to the west, almost into suburbia. So even though I work at the end of the Red Line, I’m still, somehow, in Cambridge.
The “Golden Age” of Gaming?
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
While researching how exactly the Super Nintendo console generates sounds (essentially 8 instrument midi + reverb of some kind, I think), I happened upon the Wikipedia entry which stated (at the time I found it at least), that the SNES represented the “Golden Age” of video games. So, evidently, it’s not just me who thinks that. And Wikipedia never lies, right?
C-File 170 is Posted
Saturday, June 27th, 2009
In case you wanted to know, here’s C-File 170, written for my friends on the road, moving back to Texas, as I type.
Geoglyphs
Monday, June 8th, 2009
There’s something about enormous, ancient drawings etched into the surface of the earth that give me a wonderfully goose-bumpy eerie feeling. I wish I had seen the Nazca lines when I was in Peru, but that didn’t happen. I guess I’ll just have to watch YouTube videos about geoglyphs instead. Probably better anyway, since you can’t really see the glyphs from the ground. The “Atacama Giant” in Chile is probably the creepiest, although the Cerne Abbas giant in England gets my vote for the silliest (also - probably not ancient).
Amy Adams
Monday, May 25th, 2009
So here’s a weird coincidence - “Cousin Beth” in the episode of Buffy where Tara’s family comes back to get her is Amy Adams from Disney’s Enchanted. Just thought I’d share.
Welcome to Chris Guin Creations!
Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
So the first wave of my website redesign has now been instituted - the idea being to make the site easier to navigate (no flash), and a little more grown up. Also, I just really like changing the look every so often - the way some people like rearranging the furniture. (The presentation is more grown-up, there’s still plenty of goofy content.) narfscavern.com and creativelavatory.com still both point here, so old links don’t need to be updated, but now chrisguincreations.com is the official url.
I’ll be phasing in more old content shortly, and I’ve also been continuing work on both Tell Me a Beautiful Lie and RiftMaker, and should have things to post before too long.
Thanks to Nikky Wood for helping with the redesign (and to the Plotts and Williamses for their feedback).
Time for a Redesign
Thursday, March 12th, 2009
I think it’s about time I fixed up Narf’s Cavern to be something it can be for a long time. Narf’s Cavern reflects more my college sensibilities, running around England, etc. I’d like the website to be more adult, cleaner, easier to navigate, and brighter. I’m also tired of the tan.
Unfortunately, chrisguin.com is taken, but I’m looking for a cool domain name that will get at the heart of what this website is about - that being, whatever random things I want it to be about.
The current plan is for Reasonings and the Drawing Board to stay pretty much as they are, but with the new look. The C-File will also stay and have its look updated and simplified. The other categories will be condensed into a single Project category, where you can go to enjoy finished creative projects. There will be no Flash interface. Hopefully I will commit to updating things more frequently, because I often have things I want to write - I just seldom do.
If you have any ideas for a brighter color scheme (something light and airy?) or a cool domain name that isn’t taken, I’m eager to hear them.
Reasonings Open for Business
Friday, July 4th, 2008
I’ve started another blog called Reasonings, where I will be keeping my theological and political postings. The separation of themes is important, I believe, for keeping people who might be interested in only one thing or the other coming back. Check it out here.
Whoops
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
In my fumbling attempts to upgrade my WordPress installation to something with capabilities beyond directing additional spam into my email inbox, I have managed to erase my entire previous blog. Well - I actually have it stored in xml format on my desktop, but WordPress refuses to import any blog information larger than 2 MB. Heaven forfend.
So I am taking this opportunity to start fresh! The Drawing Board will be creative-project specific, and I will be creating another blog to handle religious/political thoughts, such as they are.