The Cave

By Ty Carlson
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

I’m sure I’m not the only one.

It’s obvious that I am not the only person in the world that goes into a zone. You know the place. It’s where you go to get stuff done. To “take care of business” if you will. This zone can be a mental place or physical or a symbiotic combination of both. My physical location is our home’s second bedroom. Although cluttered and clashing the room is really quite relaxing. It holds junk, a bed, boxes and boxes of old memories, and in the north-east corner is my desk. It’s beautiful. The wife calls it my man-cave, and I have come to embrace that phrase and have even pushed for other men to be able to have a cave of their own. You know, for projects and stuff.

The mental location however is a bit more abstract. Sometimes it is difficult to control, and down right stubborn. Working from home has been the biggest enemy to reaching this place that I have encountered yet. There are a whole new set of distractions including but not limited to cats, dogs, rats, loud neighbors, gunshots, squealing tires, and wives that have the day off (I love my wife despite this). The only thing that I have ran across that will help battle these things is headphones and a good album to crank up.

Slowmotions

This talk all brings me to the point of this post. I ran across this album a little over a month ago. It was distributed by the creator/curator of Whiskerino (who also runs a very interesting and full-of-content blog that you should also check out) and coming from him I knew that I needed to check it out. Feel free to stream the entire thing here with the player below, or visit them to stream/download the entire thing for free on Bandcamp. If you love it you can even purchase a limited edition CD version. I can’t quit listening to it myself, and it has easily become my go to album when needing to buckle down and get things done.

Categories : Music
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Readernaut

By Ty Carlson
Monday, January 18th, 2010

In a somewhat desperate attempt to revitalize a desire to continually input intellectual literature to my life, I purchased two books today. Actual paper books too, not just my typical Amazon digital reader for my phone. There is just something special about actually opening a book and turning papes that seems to get lost in the shuffle of Kindle’s and Nook’s.

Vonnegut/CSS

My wife has in an avid reader, and loves nothing more that spending an afternoon walking through Barnes & Noble reading the summaries of every book in the store. It comes much harder for me however, and I have to be VERY interested in the read to be motivated enough to finish it. So for this purchase today I picked up something that I know will do the trick.

Vonnegut – Bluebeard

I’ve always been a fan of Vonnegut’s work. My first experience being Breakfast of Champions, a story of two lonely old men, one a Pontiac dealer and one a Pulp Science Fiction writer. I’m not going to lie, my main reason for choosing to read this next book by Vonnegut is in the name. Anything Beard related will intrigue me regardless of actual content (though I doubt this will be lacking whatsoever).

Nerdville

The second choice will bring light to the true nerd in me. CSS: The Missing Manual is a in-depth overview of the use of Cascading Style Sheets to style and create web pages. Despite using and writing in this language on a daily basis, I feel it always good to have a reference guide handy if needed. I’m planning on reading through this just to refresh and hopefully will pick up a few tricks along the way.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ll still most likely do a large amount of my reading via RSS feeds and my kindle for iPhone application, but I’d like to think my love for the things if the past will allow me to continue reading in the old paper book fashion.

Categories : Books, beards
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Blog?! You’re not a Blogger!

By Ty Carlson
Saturday, January 16th, 2010

I know that is what you are thinking.

And don’t worry, I’m not going to be one of those guys that gets a blog and then feels like he automatically has a platform to say whatever wants. A fellow beardo wrote a beautiful post on this recently, and I’d have to say I agree with him 110%.

Then why the heck do you have a blog then?

Well despite the inherent irony of posting a blog about how people feel they are owed attention, I would like to have a place to articulate thoughts. To process what is going on in my life. Blankenship said it best when he said that..

“Writing helps me process, and without the act of forming words and sentences and paragraphs, I’m often left with vagaries and half-formed approaches to topics rattling around in my head. If I can’t explain something in a form that makes sense (even to myself), then how can I truly say I understand it?”

Alright, that makes sense.

I knew you’d see it my way. But just to be completely forthright, I’ll go ahead and let you know that a lot of my posts might just end up being random links to things I’m enjoying (this may/may not include superfluous amounts of beard related paraphernalia).

Anything else I should know?

Nope.

Categories : beards
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