Archive for July, 2006



eefs.net

eefs is a good friend of mine who has, poor pet, been working on her house for what seems like forever.
She likes blue.

rosenquist generator

I thought about it and then I did it: all of the images in lost and found can now be seen, in modern-art, pop format, at my rosenquist generator.

eat the feeling

I thought the chemical symbol for love was pretty cool, so I figured I’d try to sell it.

Love cup
Love t-shirt
“Eat the feeling” t-shirt

pleasure principal

All of my relationships are platonic, they get that way after sex.
– Andrei Codrescu, Platonism, and why the world’s fucked up
There’s a certain misunderstanding that I think needs to be cleared up, and it’s got a lot to do with monkeys and sex. At first I thought it had more to do […]

tin drum

I’ve recently bought a scanner, and it seems that found art is all the rage these days, so here are a few of the flatter items from my tin box.

Some truly awful student poetry .
Proof of my hall story […]

are ya dancin’?

This is all because of Lynyrd Skynrd.
I was looking over a workmate’s huge collection of pirated MP3s and I noticed that there was no copy of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s freebird. I had recently witnessed an air guitar championship and the song was weighing on my mind. I asked the owner of the collection if […]

think of the children

what to do?
Was it a millionaire who said “imagine no possessions;”
a poor little schoolboy who said “we don’t need no lessons”– Elvis Costello.

Contrary to all expectations I’m successful enough to feed myself and I haven’t resorted to crime to do so, and so, after very little thought and not a small amount of booze, […]

Struts: avoiding some common problems

A lot of what I do is web-applications, and the framework for serving up these web-applications that I’ve chosen to work with has been tomcat and struts: tomcat serves up the pages; struts organizes and controls the flow of the web-app. This essay is about struts, and how to avoid some of the pitfalls that […]

Object-oriented languages are well known, and are part of every college CS syllabus: object-oriented programming is, however, as rare as the penny black. This is a short(-ish) essay on the subtleties of the paradigm that tend to be overlooked in the speedy twelve-week OO programming course that gets thrown at college students.
Object-oriented programming: rarer […]