#Colophon
Found Drama dot net is the personal weblog of Rob Friesel, Jr. — self-described alpha geek, St. Mary’s College graduate, and Vermont resident[1]. This site is a forum for his various ramblings, rants, reviews, reports, resuscitations, recitations, ruminations, revelations, and other randomizations. Frequent topics discussed on this site include technology and science, politics, film and literature, and the dreaded inescapable personal update.
About the Site
The author’s contributions to found_drama tend to constitute short articles that are more/less sound-bite-size thoughts on a given subject with a link out to other relevant and/or inciting material. The approximately incomplete list of subjects includes:
- Art: slugs on artistic things that catch the author’s eyeballs;
- Code: whether written or written about, programming/code-related items (be they JavaScript performance tunings, CSS fixations, or the arcane machinations of Java debugging);
- Cold War Nostalgia: when men were men, communists were evil, and Ronald Reagan was a super-intelligent cyborg sent from the future to lead us to victory;
- Comics: comics from around the web that strike the author as amusing or otherwise poignant and worth the mention;
- Dream: the author’s weird-ass dreams (unedited but not always fully remembered) — a dumping ground for that brain detritus;
- Film: haiku reviews, Top N lists, and other cinematic sundry;
- Linkdump: just links; typically fed in from Delicious.com;
- Literature: reviews, Top N lists, and other literary sundry;
- Mac: Apple/Mac speculations, hacks, and other errata;
- Memewatch: assorted web memes, lists, etc. — “Quizilla says: You Are Han Solo”;
- Personal: journaling, photos, letters home, and other miscellany to remember the author by;
- Politics: participating in the democratic experiment, one post at a time;
- Science: a critic’s take on new discoveries, a civilian’s view of what The Great It might mean;
- Search Haiku: haiku poems constructed from search terms that have led to this site;
- Sundry: a dumping ground of the amusing, thought-provoking, or otherwise memorable fare;
- Tech: reviews, speculation, and other thoughts on hardware, software, firmware, Bioware;
- Tunes: reviews, new tunes, Top N lists, and the occassional downloadable DJ mix or original tune;
- Vermont: photos and tales of the Green Mountain State;
- Writing: meditations on the writing process, articles about writing, writing tools, ruminations, and occassional postings of the author’s (creative) written work.
Comment Policy
Comments on individual posts are welcome and encouraged. The author enjoys getting feedback and tends to reply with “@” replies although he will make some responses privately and via email. Comments are filtered via Akismet to keep down the spam and further moderated to keep out the false negatives. Also, while the author will approve most comments[2], hostile or blatantly offensive comments will be removed. Occasionally, the author will clean up some spelling or grammar on your behalf[3].
Also, the author considers comments on individual posts to be part of the blog’s content and thus they fall under the Creative Commons licensing used here (see below). If you are sensitive about ownership of your comments, may we suggest that you post your replies elsewhere (e.g., your blog) and either drop a link in the comments or use the trackback feature to reciprocate the dialogue.
Details and Technicalities
First: yes, the name of this site is a reference to Infinite Jest. The author has a mild obsession with David Foster Wallace[4].
Authorial voice tends to be first-person personal on weblog entries but third-person seemed more appropriate here in the colophon.
The site is powered by WordPress and uses a custom skin we call “Ortho” (another Infinite Jest/DFW homage). The site is hosted by DreamHost. Photographs on this site are generally processed through iPhoto or Aperture; images are usually hosted here or else piped in from the author’s Flickr stream. Charts and graphics are otherwise generated via Excel or OmniGraffle or whatever else I could get my mitts on. Code modifications for the current incarnation of Ortho were made in Espresso[5] and uploaded using Cyberduck.
The author supports web standards such as XHTML but makes no claims that this site fully complies with those standards. (He does promise to close his <p> & <hr> tags though.) If you know what the previous statement means, then you’re probably doing just fine. If not, may I suggest you download, install, and run Chrome.
The views expressed on this site are those of the author alone; they may be shared by others but he has yet to be elected to represent anyone except himself.
All content posted here is protected under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License unless otherwise specified.
- Read more about Rob on the About the Author page. [↩]
- Opposing opinions are equally welcome as agreements; after all, what’s a dialogue without a little dissent? [↩]
- You’re welcome. [↩]
- The DFW obsession is nothing malignant though it is probably terminal. [↩]
- And TextWrangler, and Smultron before that. That said: I really ought to just suck it up and get TextMate. [↩]
