Chet Phillips is an illustrator who’s done a fantabulous series of digital tiki paintings. You can order them at his Etsy shop.

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wallaby slap

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scene from an incredible mile+ long graffiti wall in St. Louis, Missouri

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contemplation of the creation impossible with intact orbs. what concealed Gorgons are reflected in polished granite?

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Denver International Airport: home of grotesque gargoyles – and this, swelled with Progress’ channeled fury, fingers at risk.

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Some friends and I did a cyclocross race on saturday in the pouring rain. It was ridiculously muddy.

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I have to admit, I rarely, if ever, play online games (or computer games of any sort). But lately, I’ve been addicted to this game called Draw My Thing which is basically online, multiplayer Pictionary. It’s so much fun! It’s one of many games that’s part of i’m in like with you. I haven’t played any of the other games yet but I really like Draw My Thing. Sign up so we can play! :-)

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We had a fantastic live action demo of TikiTV last night at the reception party celebrating the launch of the Timothy Leary Video Collection. A lot of great people were asking about TikiTV, how it works, how to use it, how to get involved. This is the start of a good thing.

Add your TIKITV comments/questions below and we will hook you up!

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I just finished setting up the RanCH bLoG and am getting pretty good at setting up WordPress. Here are the steps I take after installing a new WordPress 2.7 blog:

1. Enable Archival-style permalinks. In settings -> permalinks choose “Day and name”.
2. Add a .htaccess file to make permalinks work. WordPress will try to do this for you when you enable permalinks, but might not be able to write to the root dir of your blog.
3. Disable “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” in settings -> discussion, so you don’t have to keep watching over your comments.
4. Enable the Akismet plugin, to block spam. You will have to create a free wordpress.com account to get an API key.
5. Install the reCAPTCHA plugin, to block more spam. You will need to create a free recaptcha.net account to get an API key.
6. Install a GPL-compatible theme.
7. Add sidebar widgets in appearance -> widgets. I always add the Recent Comments, Categories, Tag Cloud, and Search widgets.
8. Replace any boilerplate text in the theme. Hopefully this can be done by replacing the boilerplate area with a text widget, but you might have to update your theme’s php files.
9. Update the blogroll with links to your friends.
   

Maybe one of these days I will follow my own advice and update this blog to a modern theme.

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Hunter and I travelled from CA to D.C. to watch Obama’s Inauguration.
We stood in the very cold historic day for 5 hours (after 3 hours getting from VA to DC) but were THRILLED!
We watched from The Mall, at 12 Street, about 2/3 of the distance from The Capitol to the Washington Monument.

I made a 7 minute short video of our 70 hour trip 8-)

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