here we are

The camera sits upon its tripod, the fire happily dances upon the grate, wine is imbibed, and the making of a video awaits only five questions and the composition, revision, and memorization of a script, then no less than five takes and the resulting compression and uploading of a file.

Two hours, minimum.

Nope, no girlfriends. Only two boyfriends, for that matter. I did make out with a girl once when I was 15 or 16, which effectively sealed the deal on the whole gay situation. While I could appreciate that she was extremely attractive¹ and she had this whole mallpunk bad-girl thing going on, there was just nothing going on downstairs.

I have wondered in the past what might have happened if I’d discovered the wonders of alcohol earlier in my life—since, as I discovered a few years later, with enough drinks in me I can get turned on by the wind. Who knows how close I may have come to being one of those pitiful virulent homophobes with one precious child, rattling around in a huge mcmansion, with a wife they can only touch when they’re stinking drunk.

Sekrit Projekt is a seeekrit. But I am flying out there to finally meet some wonderful folks who I have know for many years but somehow have never actually been in the same room with. We have other machinations at work, but I don’t think we’re talking about them yet, because it’s more fun that way. 

Yes, it is a bit of a beast these days, there are more images and externally-hosted javascript and so on than there previously was. Total size for each page of the dash is around a megabyte, which is slightly excessive. I’ve noticed a bit of a slow down in page loads here, too. But using Internet Explorer is also not really recommended. I can guarantee that the people making Tumblr don’t really care how the site works in Explorer, they all use Macs.