#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. 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 roughly complete 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 shell scripts, fixations on CSS, Java debugging, or whatever).
- 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.
- Link Dump — just links; typically fed in from del.icio.us.
- Literature — reviews, Top N lists, and other literary sundry.
- Mac — often tied in with other tech or code posts; 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 sundry somethings to remember the author by.
- Politics — participating in the democratic process one post at a time.
- Science — thoughts on various scientific items stumbled across; 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 for miscellany of the amusing, thought-provoking, or otherwise variably 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 “@” comments although he will make some replies 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 comments1, hostile or blatantly offensive comments will be removed.
About the Author
Rob works in the tech industry and has a love/hate relationship with it. This largely explains why a big focus of this site is on tech/code. He’s interested in knowledge-share systems (e.g., blogs and wikis), open source software, web-based/distributed applications, and how XML fits into the mess. He also readily admits that he’s been seduced by the dark side of the Mac. (He’s a walking, talking web cliche!) He also tends to spend a lot of time talking about various Mac hacks and how technology has invaded our home-lives.
Science is another big subject around here because the author has been surrounded by it his entire life. The author’s father is a molecular biologist and his lovely wife and partner is a learning psychologist/neuroscientist. Needless to say, his eye tends to get caught on articles about evolution and genetics, psychology (both the “pop” and “real” kinds), the science of learning, and the brain. That being said, he will also muse on math, physics, chemistry, and the endangered species list. He tends to feel that “we civilians” have a responsibility to take an interest in science lest the PhDs of the world run amok in an orgy of unquestioned publication.
Rob also fancies himself a writer and aspiring novelist. From time to time, he will post bits of experimental pieces, essays on the writing process, links to thoughts from other authors, etc. He has several drafts of novels kicking around, is constantly working on one or more projects, and is dedicating a lot of energy to some promising short stories. You can’t find his writing anywhere except online unless you’re a St. Mary’s College student — in which case, he’s in the “St. Mary’s Collection”. The author has admitted to wanting to be a published author since he was about 5 years old and has been writing pretty much continuously since then. Unfortunately, it doesn’t pay the bills, so he’s been forced into a day job (see above).
The author also posts occassional DJ mixes and original compositions. As a DJ, he plays a mix of techno, house, and trance (not necessarily in that order); you may have heard him refer to his style as “deep tech sophisto”.
You can also find me on del.icio.us, Flickr, GoodReads and Twitter.
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 Wallace2.
Authorial voice tends to be first-person personal on weblog entries but third-person seemed more appropriate here.
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. Graphics on this site are generally processed through iPhoto and/or ImageWell (Photoshop 7 if we need some heavy lifting); they’re then usually hosted here or else added to the author’s Flickr stream. Code modifications are made in Smultron 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.)
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.
