September 2009
10 posts
Portmanteau
A portmanteau is used broadly to mean a blend of two (or more) words and their meanings into one. I make these all the time.
Site Redesign
Version 7 of caitlinwinner.com is live. Thanks to Tumblr for making themes so easy to create, and special thanks to Cuie&Co for their help with branding.
This is the fourth custom theme I’ve made for a Tumblr site and I finally have a good work flow. Since the CSS and HTML ultimately end up in the same file, and since images need to be hosted remotely I struggled in the past trying to...
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Entreprenuers
… could at least be celebrated for embodying an honoruably stubborn side of human nautre, one which in other areas causes us to get married wthout duress and behave as if death might be an avoidable condition. They [are] proof of the extent to which we ultimatley prefer excitement and disaster to boredom and safey.
Over the course of the nineteenth century, the dominant catalyst for that feeling of the sublime has ceased to be nature. We were now deep in the era of the technological sublime, when awe could most powerfully be invoked not by forests or icebergs but by supercomputers, rockets and particle accelerators. We were now almost exclusively amazed by ourselves.
-Alain de Botton