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comix64my mom bought a copy of S. it looks fucking awesome!!! she said i could read it when she's done. i think it looks (i didn't skim the text, but i held it in my hands and glanced around at its little papers that're placed in the book) really cool, and the papers that're put in it (e.g. a newspaper clipping, a circular cipher, a small lined yellow card...) make it feel a lot more physical. its really nice. i have quite the backlog of novels, now, which is something i'm happy with. a lot to read. i'm still on Infinite Jest, which despite its length i've never felt any part overstayed its welcome, and i'm on around page 650 or so, so the biggest chunk of the thing's already been read.
speaking of literary backlogs, i told my dad i wanted to get into CSS so i could make some skeuomorphic/early '00s types of websites, as well as UX design. i was inspired by the Syndromatic website, which has kind of an overload of that style for what it is, but really goes all out on making it look good. the guy behind it is also working on a custom distro or KDE theme or something, which is also exactly the type of thing i want to get into. he has some custom web engine based off of Wix and SproutCore, which is how i found out about SproutCore, which looks pretty nice but also pretty archaic, which is the main issue w/ that type of design; every good example and usable version of anything that's styled like that is always old and outdated. but anyway, this guys' page is a spark of hope, since he's just getting started w/ his projects. i told my dad all of this, and he gave me like 5 books dedicated to design and a CSS tutorial book. cool! i have some inspirations in mind, but i don't know what kind of site i want to make. i already have a business card kind of site, and a public directory site, and both are kind of boring looking (in fact, both use pretty much identical CSS, which i didn't even write but actually stole from some closed-off tilde website), but i would prefer a fresh slate and a more concretely objective'd site. usually this would point directly to "make a portfolio" but i don't have any work to show off! the portfolio would only consist of the page itself, and, like, some amateur photography or something. i haven't really made any gifts to the world.
speaking of literary backlogs, i told my dad i wanted to get into CSS so i could make some skeuomorphic/early '00s types of websites, as well as UX design. i was inspired by the Syndromatic website, which has kind of an overload of that style for what it is, but really goes all out on making it look good. the guy behind it is also working on a custom distro or KDE theme or something, which is also exactly the type of thing i want to get into. he has some custom web engine based off of Wix and SproutCore, which is how i found out about SproutCore, which looks pretty nice but also pretty archaic, which is the main issue w/ that type of design; every good example and usable version of anything that's styled like that is always old and outdated. but anyway, this guys' page is a spark of hope, since he's just getting started w/ his projects. i told my dad all of this, and he gave me like 5 books dedicated to design and a CSS tutorial book. cool! i have some inspirations in mind, but i don't know what kind of site i want to make. i already have a business card kind of site, and a public directory site, and both are kind of boring looking (in fact, both use pretty much identical CSS, which i didn't even write but actually stole from some closed-off tilde website), but i would prefer a fresh slate and a more concretely objective'd site. usually this would point directly to "make a portfolio" but i don't have any work to show off! the portfolio would only consist of the page itself, and, like, some amateur photography or something. i haven't really made any gifts to the world.
