This Post Is About Web Design and Not Chik-Fil-A*

I changed things around. It was a matter of scalable convenience; the theme I was using was customized and I didn’t want to keep merging code or design or making sure stupid plugin x functioned whenever the theme had an update or a door was slammed in Kathmandu. Now I’m using the twentyeleven default theme from WordPress.

Shouldn’t a professional web designer want to be more attentive to his personal site? Eh, maybe. I’m designing 40+ hours a week. Whenever I log into here I don’t really want to perpetuate the work into my offtime. I just want to type way with some sensibility, without having to worryworryworry with tinkering the user experience all the time. Every time I hit the front page I cringed inside, thinking of all the things I wanted to do. I even had to stop myself from tweaking too much with this theme.

So enjoy this apparently Halloween-light color scheme. Punt a jack-o-lantern through the goalposts of life.

*Oh hey, since you brought it up…regardless of whatever I believe about marriage and politics**, the problem I had with the story arc was the support people showed for contemptible bureaucrats willing to use government force against Chik-Fil-A as property owners. Letting a government decide who or who can’t do business, for any reason, is letting another trickle of tyranny stream through the cracks. As far as I know, Chik-Fil-A’s exchanges are all voluntary—they do no use force against people to buy or not buy from them, or use force to accomplish anything else. If they did, through donating money for anti-gay legislation or the like, then they are just as contemptible as the politicians injecting themselves where they don’t belong and using force.

**The government should have zero to do with marriage, except perhaps as the arbiter of the terms of the marriage contract between the consenting parties.