That’s right folks. With the redesign comes not only new colors and a new header, but a new name (and domain name – take a look at the URL). And while I, for one, cannot doubt the absolute clarity that a title like Nathan’s Blog brought to this website, I also knew that it was, to put it bluntly, hideously boring.
This is less boring, hopefully.
Well, here’s a quick portrait of the crazy parrot herself. (At the moment deciding whether or not she really wants to trust that I haven’t booby-trapped the new perch I just installed.)
Well, at least he’s having fun, I guess.
Now that I think about it, he does seem to be into rather extreme sports, doesn’t he? I wonder what he’ll do next then…
Bungy jumping? Skydiving?
Maybe he and his good pal Renfield will go whaling…
Any ideas?
This is a sketch I did at the same time as the tree one. Well, okay, not at exactly the same time. I’m not that talented. Or that ambidextrous.
Anyway, I was planning on posting it right after the tree, but things kind of got a bit sidetracked. Anyway, you can expect another glance at the adventures of Oswold pretty soon. He’s probably a bit more interesting than a plant.
Well, this plant, at least.
Besides being the perfect title for a children’s book, this also demonstrates that the only somewhat-appropriately named flying dragons are not the only lizards capable of a gliding flight. Tokay geckos are also known to indulge in the sport from time to time.
To quote some famous person/diety: It is finished.
And by it, I mean the APU website redesign.
And by finished, I mean: Finished enough to launch but there’ll still be stuff to tweak for a while. We’re all glad to be past that milestone, though.
And by all that previous stuff, I mean: Take that, Biola. :)
Graduate school makes you remember how nice it is to not have homework. Well, not like I ever forgot, but we can at least say it’s a nice reminder. Or a not very nice reminder. Whatever.
Okay, so a while back I came up with this random image in my head, which, after a few iterations, became what you see above. I have to admit though, I didn’t really ever figure out what this particular barn owl might be doing with this specific wand.
So anyway, I thought this might be a good time to try a bit of reverse illustration, in which you get to give the “original” bit of story (a paragraph or two) in which the pictured event happens. I suppose you could think of it as concise fan fiction, but with less fawning over Sirius Black (or so one hopes).
And while we’re on the subject of wands, It’s interesting how precisely evil You-Know-Who’s looks. I wonder if Ollivander made one like that every once in a while just to keep from discriminating against certain types of wizards. I can just imagine Tom Riddle getting his wand…
Tom: Actually… er, I was wondering if I could take a look at your Artful Devilry™ and Brimming with Evilness™ collections…
Afterward, nobody was really sure how he’d managed to break into the tool shed, let alone come up with dynamite in the first place.