This morning I was awakened about 45 minutes early by the words “Good morning, home owner.” Â This is a phrase to strike terror into the hearts of even the most manly of men at 6:30 in the morning. Â It is a collection of words that says “something is wrong and it is going to be time consuming, expensive and irritating to fix.” Â It’s rather a convenient shorthand, expressing in six syllables what it would take many more to convey otherwise.
I follow the Church Marketing Lab on Twitter (I’m @dysleeper, if you are so inclined). Â They usually toss up a couple of interesting links a day and today’s was to Bittbox which is a tutorials and resources site for graphic designers. Â Right now, I’m either half or three-quarters of the graphic design team for our congregation so this is of interest to me.
One of the many, many packages of textures that caught my eye was smoke. Â I downloaded the images and mucked about with them for a while in the GIMP and this was the result:
Today I’ll be focusing on a band that I heard about via people from the Penny Arcade forums. Â They are a neat crew of people with very interesting musical tastes. Â If you’ve never been there, it’s probably wisest to wear a helmet.
