- factotum
- an employee who does all kinds of work
- jack of all trades
- polymath
- a person of wide-ranging knowledge or learning
- renaissance man
Theme
The site is envisioned as dark and light variations on a steampunk aesthetic. The dark theme should evoke a silver nitrate print, while the light theme should evoke an antiquarian book.
While I've tried my best to ensure it's lightweight, I've decided to pick custom fonts for now and deliver them. I may well switch to Georgia and call it a day.
What we talk about is wide open. This is important to me, but I have created this volume as "Industry" to focus on what I do for a living. Other volumes may follow later, perhaps "Community" or "Family". I don't anticipate "Faith" taking very long to write.
Self-promotion is historically a weak spot for me. The idea of a site wherein I tell you what I'm thinking revolted me for many years. It's a mouthpiece. It's the idea that whatever silly idea I've hatched up, you might be interested in hearing about it. The audacity.
It took a while to get over this, and I find that if I'm trying to help people who are reading, that makes it much easier. The other option, I suppose, is to treat it like a job. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I did use to write quite a bit of I'd like to think good stuff on short deadlines. When I wrote those pieces, I was trying to tell a story.
How this site is made
I've created too many blogs that went nowhere, so this time I tried very hard to find something quickly that satisfied my requirements. After finding nothing and writing my own---a sequence I repeated twice, I picked Zola.
At first I grabbed md