I’m told it’s not polite to laugh at your own jokes, which I don’t get at all, so it’s good that I have a dry sense of humor and my jokes are seldom intended to invoke laughter. Seriously, if it’s funny you’re supposed to laugh, right? You don’t laugh if it’s not funny. So by this logic, if you’re not supposed to laugh at your own jokes, then any jokes you tell should be devoid of humor. But I am sorry, I have such a twisted, sarcastic, bitter, dry, cynical (and sometimes mean) view of the world that few people actually amuse me. I’m just lucky I happen to be one of them.

The above probably makes me sound like an asshole, but since my humor is most often directed at myself, I’m not trying to stand on any high ground. I don’t look down on the things I make fun of. In fact, to truly reveal something for what it is, you have to know it throughly, some part of you has to love what you mock (which is why my humor is self deprecating). If I’ve lost you, that’s OK. I don’t know what the hell I am saying either.

Just watch out for my upcoming one man show, “I am Christopher!” Ha! Not even I could be that far over the top (unlike some people). And you for sure won’t see nude photos of any of my private bits on these here interwebs (unlike some people). But I do know the longer I go on with this site the more of a parody it will become.

christopher.jorgensen.name is musings on things that amuse me, but the more I put out there, the crazier I think I will come off. Who has a site dedicated to them done by themselves? Oh, there are fansites aplenty, but as far as I know this is the only one about me. And I run it. I am my own biggest fan! The is an experiment in meta-journaling. It’s a joke no one’s going to get. Yes, it’s like the thousands of other sites out there documenting lives and thoughts, but unlike them, I know this is a really insipid idea. Point me to a journal or blog (if you must use that word) of any substance. Just one. Sure there are people recording valiant fights with disease. There are experts in various industries writing insightful sites and helpful articles. There are even a few journalists with journals that just entertain. But the personal sites, the ones about the person writing them, find me one of those that isn’t it’s own joke, a self-parody. You might be able to, but I doubt it. Another challenge is find me one that knows it is parody. I just may be a beautiful and unique snowflake.

Lost you again? Sorry, Fightclub reference. I can’t talk about it.

I think I pretty much have this site the way I want it to be. Sure there is tweaking to do. And I could probably spend another few weeks getting things even better, but it’s good enough for now. I have other sites I have been neglecting. I am moving onto my thisflapfirst site, which was originally my online journal. christopher.jorgensen.name (the site you are currently viewing, so I won’t link to it) has since taken on this function.

I intend thisflapfirst.com to be a showcase of the projects I work on with a simple commerce site to buy these things. Chapbooks, cards, bookmarks, masks, etc.

I will still post my thoughts here, but consider this site “feature frozen” until I get the other further along.

I decided to revisit this post, to update what there’s left to do, and to go over what all has been done. I know I’ve mentioned this a few times, but I really need the main page hammered out to near perfection before I worry about the other pages on this site. It’s getting closer. Each of the boxed side elements are almost all templated now, so if I want to make changes it will be much easier. I have also made some of them dynamic, so you get different content on each page load. This will reduce the number of page impressions certain things like ads and links to my digital chapbooks get, but it also makes the margins less cluttered. A good thing if you ask me.

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Seems like you can have a perfect pool or bowl of Cheerios and someone’s always got to come along and piss in it. Last night I get an email notification that someone had left comments on this site in my galleries, so I logged in to see what was said. I was left wondering why this person even bothered. The comments weren’t going to get to stay up there. I removed them and set the requirements for commenting to members only. I figure only my friends are going to care about pictures of my friends anyway.

A lot of sites I respect don’t allow comments, since the vast majority of them are poorly written and usually asinine. On my first journal I stopped writing because of the comments that were left by one unknown person. My second I decided to not even bother with them. Usually they are too difficult to monitor and keep spam free to be worth it.

I’m not going to say what was said, other than I am pretty sure I know who left it, and if this person had even the smallest amount of courage the email address would have been valid. As it is, I do have the IP of the computer used to leave the comment, and it wouldn’t be that hard to track this person down, but I’m not going to bother. I just may join those other sites that don’t allow comments.

It seems like every time I figure something out it causes me to need to figure out four more things. I figured out how to set up my galleries, now I am trying to figure out how to use the uploaded pictures in journal posts. I would also like to get a random thumbnail to display on this page, but when clicked takes you to the gallery it’s from. And now I have a gallery to style as well.

Yuck!

I am so wanting this site to just be done so I can move onto one of my others. Right now I keep coming back to this one to make a quick change. It sometimes takes me a whole evening for this change. There’s too much tweaking to do (and not the good kind).

I’m pretty sure no matter how much I work on this site, it will never be “done,” but I would like to have it be further along. I was looking over my to do post, and realizing I haven’t been updating it as often as I should. I’d managed to knock several things off the list without paying much attention. But on the other side, I haven’t been adding in the stuff I need to.

Oh well, as long as progress is being made.

I’ve been playing with a crappy little flip camera, but strangely it seems able to do everything I want it to do. I may actually buy one. That’s just one more thing to add into figuring out.