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So I decided I needed to get rid of the default wordpress theme and I started thinking about things that would be on my mind at any given time. We have flashbacks to my teenage years, movies, music, actors, and two of my favorite inventors. So let me explain my header image from left to right.
R. Buckminster Fuller: The Dymaxion Theory was my term paper for the gifted program in the 9th grade. I was the kid that could get by in just about any class without much effort. That was true in an average class but my lack of effort showed in that paper. I received a B on it but the teacher really hated giving me a B, she knew I didn’t put forth much effort. I loved to learn and create but writing papers was a hard sell for any of my teachers. I did learn quite a bit from my research about Richard Fuller’s inventions and that’s was all that mattered to me, I had no interest in writing about it, only learning, feed me.
Infinity RSb Speakers: As a teenager I was crazy about hifi stereo equipment. I used to hang around at the local Sound Advice store for hours every week. I loved the sound room where I could play with equipment I could never afford. I still remember their catchy ad tune on the radio “don’t think twice get sound advice”. I remember the radio stations in Miami where I grew up, Waxy-106 had oldies, SHE-103 played rock, and Y100 was pop. I even recall as a boy I would sneak a radio under my blanket at night and at midnight I would listen to a talk show called “Reality Ranch”. Oops, their I go drifting off, where was I? Oh yeah Infinity speakers, so I wanted the big boys the RS1 speakers I don’t remember the price tag in 1978 but probably more than my parents home. Obviously that wasn’t going to happen so my first pair of Infinity speakers was the RSb. Sometime after I was married I upgraded to the RS1.5 with those honkin’ 12 inch Watkins Woofers. I have a pair of RSa speakers in my home office but I still wish I had those Infinity RSb speakers.
The Duke: Marion Michael Morrison – John Wayne. When I was a boy I couldn’t get enough of John Wayne on the big screen. Big Jake, Hellfighters, Rio Lobo, The War Wagon, if youngsters are influenced by movies then you could do worse. John Wayne was an icon for courage and honor.
The Matrix: How can you not like an action/sci-fi that has a deep story? The greatest thing about The Matrix is that you can’t prove you aren’t in it, for real! So try to imagine this, you might be hooked up to the matrix and you imagined the movie to combat your suspicions that reality is not real. It’s like looking in a mirror with a mirror behind you, your head starts to hurt.
Heat: Al Pacino, Robert Dinero, and Val Kilmer in an action movie with the greatest shootout ever, how could I leave it out? “Don’t waste my…”
Blu-ray Logo: I admit I went with Beta rather than VHS and I got burned. Beta video and audio quality was superior to VHS and I was too young to understand that that doesn’t always matter. This time around I bet on HD-DVD, Blu-ray looked like it was lagging behind. HD-DVD appeared, in the beginning, to have better video quality, better interactive content, and they were regionless and had the ability to offer HD on one side and DVD on the other which looked like a great sales tactic. You could buy dual format HD disks and watch them before you bought an HD player. Well, Sony won this one and I wasn’t on board, I just can’t win. Well, I’m on board now and putting up the Blu-ray logo is my apology.
Clint Eastwood: I loved High Plains Drifter and even though Eastwood did that same character over and over for some time I just couldn’t get enough as a kid. In 1976 he stared in and directed the Outlaw Josie Wales and it was a new era with Eastwood the director. With an Indian sidekick and a little laughter here and there I was reminded of John Wayne’s Big Jake. I almost put a picture from Kelly’s Heroes in the header too and I still might because I couldn’t live without that movie in My collection either. Woof! Woof!
Dire Straits Alchemy: Life without Dire Straits would not be my life. Dire Straits music has played a big part since 1977 when I was 16. They set a new standard for lyrics and music that was hard to match and was a driving force in my never ending quest for great music. I chose the Alchemy album cover for it’s art, similar in style to my choice for Elton John.
Marantz 2238B: What a receiver, although it was out of my price range and I settled for the Pioneer SX-780 as a teenager I always wanted one. The looks were superior to the Pioneer and it had a midrange control too. Make no mistake the Pioneer SX-780 is a good receiver and I’m listening to one as I type this but we always dream of what we don’t have.
Honda TR-250: They sold me with the ads in the dirt bike magazines. When I was 16 I wanted this bike more than anything. I had to settle for a CB100 that I converted to a dirt bike but hey this is about dreams and memories.
Ferrari 308: The 308 GTB struck some nerve with me, it was eye candy with muscle. I had posters on my bedroom wall as well as centerfolds from hot rod magazines. There was something about a red Ferrari 308 that made my day. I was a fan of the Pantera which was similar but oh that Ferrari.
Pensa Custom Guitars: The way it looks and the way Mark Knopfler makes it “cry and sing” makes it a true object of beauty.
Captain Fantastic: Elton John was my music from 1970 – 1976. I love the raw stuff on Empty Sky, if you have only heard the hits from EJ then try the Album Empty Sky, you won’t regret it. Captain Fantastic is a journey through the early years of EJ and Bernie Taupin’s partnership and the lyrics are great. I chose the album cover for the artwork.
Nikola Tesla: If I could bring back any one man it would be Tesla. I’m not sure he was of this world but his ideas and inventions are still baffling scientists today. I chose his Wardenclyff Tower for the collage because it looks menacing and spectacular. I often wonder what Tesla marvels the government has locked away as top secret.
Well, that’s it, a quick look inside the mind of David Blizzard.
Well, I did it. I just dropped SubText for WordPress. I gave it a try and it does have potential but WordPress just has too much to offer to ignore it. My hat’s off to the WP team because there just is no competition from any DotNet and MS-SQL based blogging software. There could have been! Remember .TEXT? It somehow died and apparently spun off into Community Server. Then Microsoft handed over the reins for Community Server to Telligent and that was the end. It turned in to a huge commercial project with a lot of use restrictions and a high dollar price tag. You can read that story and why they forked .TEXT at the SubText Blog site.
Read my post about “Why WordPress on Windows“.