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Blog Action Day 2008 - Poverty


“No Car, No Problem”

Willamette Week | “No Car, No Problem” | August 6th, 2008.
Article from local (to me) paper, the Willamette Week, with an example of how families can live without an automobile given the use of single-day or hourly car rental services for far trips.
My only point of contention is that I have been a car-free cyclist [...]

HPLHS Prop Fonts

HPLHS Prop Fonts.
cthulhulives.org is giving away this amazing font pack to revive fonts used in the time of Lovecraft. Several are available for free, but the whole collection is only $20 (I’m getting mine ASAP). I’m not sure how good some of these will look if scaled to large sizes, but I already have found [...]

Impecunious

Impecunious. - link to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
I believe I have found an accurate descriptive word for my life. Poor, but not desperate. I don’t necessarily identify as poor, but I am often enough lacking “wealth” and living by my own resourcefulness that by other people’s standards I am likely seen as poor. Impecunious is often [...]

Why?

To what end? A recent meeting with a potential client pressed me into an interesting philosophical issue with web design. Should I create a site for somebody that does not need one? Who needs a website? Is quality of information my ward or am I simply a watchmaker (I cannot change time, I simply put [...]

simple

This is the launch of my new site. I believe in simplicity of design where content supersedes form.