Pornographer probed

Headline that isn’t from The Onion but probably should be: Net Pornographer Probed.

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Vacation Observation #427: You know you have too much time on your hands when you start recognizing known contemporary actors in bit parts on bad TV programs. In the space of 24 hours, I recognized the actor who plays Meldrick on Homicide as the leader of the Lords of Hell in Adventures in Babysitting and caught Michael Dorn, Worf on Star Trek: TNG, as a cop on CHiPs.

Vacation Observation #285: You know you have too much time on your hands when you beat Super Marios 1, 2, and 3, all in the space of 24 hours.

The whitewater rafting was awesome. I’ll have some pictures of the trip up sometime in the near future. It’s good to be home, though. I have no idea what 9 days of laziness and goofing around is going to do to my work ethic. I guess I’ll find out tomorrow.

As I was walking home this evening, a little girl was riding her bike in the middle of the street. She still had the training wheels on as she wobbled and struggled to peddle. It reminded me of when I was little and how badly I wanted a bicycle but couldn’t get one. My parents wouldn’t let me have a bike until I was 12; my mom was too afraid I’d hurt myself. I’d pass the bike section in the store and just look, having given up asking my parents about it long ago. I eventually did get one after much pleading and begging. Amazingly, getting my driver’s license at 16 and the subsequent borrowing of the family car passed without incident.

Two recent movie viewings:

The Perfect Storm: Good overall, with some solid action and special effects. There were a few cheesy parts, which is to be expected with the typical Hollywood movie these days.

The Right Stuff: I really don’t know what to think of this one yet. I’ll probably have to see it again to formulate a solid opinion. It was very uneven in places, but I couldn’t quite figure out if that was by design or if it was just a bit of sloppy filmmaking.

Jason’s 4th of July wrap-up: made blueberry pie and potato salad, consumed world’s largest hot dog at a party, took lots of pictures (none of them digital), got a bit of sunburn, made a *really* bad joke involving patriotic pinwheels (one of the pinwheels fell down and I said there had been a death in the family), and heard, but did not see, some fireworks.

Went wine tasting yesterday. A curious experience, considering I don’t like wine all that much. The vineyard was beautiful, though.

Eye Candy from the Underground has some suggestions on where corporate Web site designers can look for some fresh ideas. It also breaks the indie/underground design sites down into 10 categories, including Paper Bag School and SuperTiny SimCity School. Keep in mind that this piece focuses solely on the visual aspect of design and completely ignores the 1000 other things that comprise design, something that is indicative of the indie/underground design scene in general.

Another Silkscreen sighting: the Herman Miller Store. Sweet! I wonder if they’re going to send me an Aeron chair for my effort… (thanks, Meg)

Over the past few months, I’ve noticed that I get email asking the same questions quite frequently. To that end, I’ve created a kottke.org FAQ with about 10 of the most commonly asked questions about me and this site. I want to incorporate the FAQ into the main nav, but I’m too lazy to make a new link for each of the three site designs I have. I need to figure out how I’m going to manage that sort of thing.