written 20 Oct 2008 in the late evening dusk
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I hear clips of McCain rallies, and when the people aren’t shouting absurd idiocies about Arabs or making threats on a Presidential Candidates life, I hear a lot of people cheering when McCain says that he doesn’t want to spread the wealth around.
Who the hell are these people who don’t want the wealth spread around?
Hasn’t it been long enough that the rich get richer while the poor stay dirt poor? Spread that wealth around, people, realize that you are not making enough to keep your money, you will be getting fucked by McCain’s policies, and you’ll only be helped by Obamas.
God America, you can be so sheepishly clueless sometimes.
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written 20 Oct 2008 while the sun tried, at least, rising
So I’ve spent the past 24 hours trying to upload video to Facebook. The first three times it failed. The last time it uploaded the entire video, a painstaking hour long process of hogging all of my bandwidth for some reason, and then:
We’re sorry, but Facebook video sucks. We uploaded your video, but right at the last second we lost it. Somehow, somewhere. Maybe you should boycott us.
Seriously, I’m pretty sure that was the error message.
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written 19 Oct 2008 over a light lunch
Maybe I’ll make a little series out of this, comparing the City of Bridges to the City of Live Music. Or this may be the last post in this vein, we’ll see. For clarification, the public transit system in Austin is called Capital Metro and the one in Pittsburgh is the Port Authority of Allegheny County.
Yesterday we took a few buses and while I wouldn’t call myself a Capital Metro-nado, we traveled far and had what I surmised was a pretty typical experience.
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written 17 Oct 2008 while the sun tried, at least, rising
As you probably may or probably may not know, I’m currently on the road, for awhile. Right now I’m staying in Austin, TX and I’m blown away by the biking infrastructure here. If you take a look at what this city has done and then compare it to our own beloved Pittsburgh, it’s both a little heartbreaking and equally inspiring.
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written 15 Oct 2008 well into the night
I do a lot of design work, you know, ’cause I’m a designer and all. I often need to display web pages within the context of a browser, and I typically use Safari to display those pages. Why? Because Safari is very minimalist, and allows my designs to show through, not a bunch of Fox-flavored bright blue windows or whatever.
Therefore, I’ve created templates to quicken my workflow, and I thought I’d share those templates with everyone. The following three Photoshop files are free for the downloading, here’s some more info:
- Safari Photoshop Template. A simple PSD template that includes different layers for just about all of the elements in a Safari browser.
- iPhone / iPod Touch Safari Browser Template. This PSD focuses on the mobile version of Safari, for those of you who might need to display your iPhone specific site designs. Includes default font sizes for this browser as well.
- Safari Vector Template. This is also a Photoshop file, but everything in the file is built using shapes and styles, so it’s completely scalable and vector based, for all of your large format display needs.
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written 12 Oct 2008 in the late evening dusk
Thank you, dearest readers, for your loyalty and humble fromage…however, as you may have noticed, I haven’t been posting quite as much lately. That means less political rants about the status of my local bus stop, less sacrastic attempts at dissecting the human psyche for the purpose of good times, and less writing long paragraphs about the beautiful subtle nature of that first day smelling Autumn.
Fear not, though, while I have been posting less frequently, I will not neglect my blogging duties (we all remember the blog scare of September 2005….). I have simply been writing over at tumblewagon.com, a website 100% dedicated to our life on the road.
Life on the road?
That’s right, my dearest family and I have taken up the full time RV lifestyle as of a couple of weeks ago. There are three of us, for those not “in the know”: Tristan, the rousty youth, Olivia, the sexy foreign lady, and myself, the guy who thinks he’s the most important one. We live in a 29′ RV that could probably fit into your living room, floorspace wise, and we’re traveling the North American continent, primarily that bit known as the USA.
We’ve got blogging, info on RV type stuff, and also photos, videos and a soon to come podcast. So please do enjoy, if you’d like!
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written 8 Oct 2008 in the earliest morning
For those of you who read the blog, and thank you very much by the way, but haven’t yet had the chance to listen to my podcast, simply and beautifully titled “ClickNathan the Podcast”, perhaps you don’t know what you’re missing, eh?
- 7 hilarious episodes (and one that’s only slightly hilarious) easily downloaded from or subscribed to in iTunes. You can also just listen to them right here on the site.
- Hard hitting facts such as made up stories about setting world records by wearing long hats and the plight of the modern elf in an all dwarf world.
- At least two accents per show. Usually more, just for you.
- Podcasts that are so free, they might even earn you money. If you listen to them while you work, for definites.
So please, stop wasting time rereading this post and just listen to the first episode already.
And if you’re still not convinced, take the word of Seliphie, who left the only (raving 5 star, I might add) review on iTunes:
This dude is awesome! This show makes me want to move to Pittsburgh.
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written 7 Oct 2008 in the earliest morning
Apparently there’s some type of election going on, and so the two people who are soon to be leader of the free world will talk it out over American flags and bald eagle logos tonight. I think I preferred it when kings would joust to the death for the amusement of everyone in Hollywood.
Anyway, I just wanted to mention, and this is bias, because like all intelligent people, I’m an Obama supporter over John McCain, but I noticed that when John McCain preaches to his choir, you hear a bunch of people booing; when Obama lords over his followers, they are all cheering.
Why is this? Obviously McCain’s supporters aren’t booing him, their fearless leader. They’re booing Obama. Meanwhile, Obama’s supporters are cheering him on.
The point? You don’t hear McCain supporters screaming and proclaiming their love of their candidate, only their disdain for the other candidate. When McCain gets a follower, he does so through slandering his opponent. Obama’s supporters do so because they believe in him.
I’ve never believed in anyone in Washington before now, and between the two choices, only one really does inspire hope vs. fear and hate.
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written 5 Oct 2008 either awfully late or awful early
A headlock is just a hug from a person you don’t like.
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written 2 Oct 2008 while the school buses headed home
I don’t get a chance to update my portfolio all that often, though I build a website or two every month on average. I suppose the upside to that is simply that I’m busy enough to not have the time to update my portfolio, even if I definitely have the content.
I’d like to mention a few really nifty sites that I’ve had the fortune of working on recently, though, including one for local produce, one aimed at making life easier for your local farmer, and another aimed at helping Pittsburghers get on their bikes and ride.
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