Who Ordered the Veal Cutlet?

Greetings to the .2 people who see this. I haven't updated anything anywhere in a really long time -- mostly because I haven't felt like it. I think for about a year now I have felt a general internet malaise and haven't had much in the way of enthusiasm for updating my own corner of the many-cornered internet. A large portion of the malaise stemmed from the explosion of flickr and feeling that something fun and (relatively) quiet that I was fortunate enough to be a part of had spiraled out of control into something suddenly vast and a little bit psychologically frightening. I felt like Arthur Dent entering the factory floor of Magrathea and being instantly gobsmacked with the sheer bigness of the place; for the first time, I was confronted with the enormity of the internet community and wanted to just shut the door and hide.

Well, I *think* I am back. I plan on getting back into taking pictures of things and posting things and not feeling so generally disenfranchised. It's time for a fresh start.

I'm having to republish the blog here; I seem to have made modifications to the previous version that resulted in not being able to see any subsequent changes. And I'm not such a guru that I could tell what the hell I'd done to mess it up. So, since there wasn't all that much to it anyway, I've just moved everything over and updated. I'm not going to mess with the template too terribly much; and I chortle at my ambition (see below) to obtain my own domain name and get a "real" website set up. Ha! What was I thinking? Maybe someday, but not anytime soon. Anyway, I find this template visually pleasing for the time being and I'm going to focus more on there being... you know, actual content.

Clinical Trials Unsuccessful...

Originally posted several months ago, reposted here due to structural failure of previous incarnation of blog.

The photo attribution thingies aren't showing up -- I guess I need to brush up on my html to figure that one out. In the file for the post they are there... and yet so invisible...

UPDATE: Okay, now they're back but the formatting is all weird.

UPDATE II: Okay, now the formatting is back, but my picture border is gone. I give up for now.

Me... or not.

Originally posted several months ago, reposted here due to structural failure of previous incarnation of blog.

Sly
Originally uploaded by Affilare.
Copyright 2006.

I haven't uploaded any pictures of the Beast yet. (Because apparently I haven't uploaded any pictures since, oh, November? How utterly boring am I? Have I taken pictures? I think so....)

Anyway, I'm setting things up here and since I don't have a picture of the Beast to post, you get a picture of me. Sort of. I mean, yes, it is actually me, but I'm in my Halloween costume, so it's kind of not me. It actually doesn't really look anything like me, to be honest. I'm an evil blogging deceiver!

Post the First

Originally posted several months ago, reposted here due to structural failure of previous incarnation of blog.

Testing!

Yeah, this originally had more information in it, but, in a fit of revisionism, I've deleted it. It didn't seem to serve the whole purpose of "starting over."